The incarcerated former Silicon Valley star is advising her partner on a new health tech startup. Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors in her blood-testing company Theranos.

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Pakistan said most of the missiles were intercepted and that retaliatory strikes were underway. It's an escalation in a conflict triggered by a massacre last month that India blames on Pakistan.

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As the Department of Veterans Affairs tries to meet President Trump's goal of cutting 15% of staff, vets are concerned there won't be enough doctors and nurses.

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The agreement settles several claims Texas made against the search giant in 2022 related to geolocation, incognito searches and biometric data.

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As the Trump administration moves to quickly expand immigration detention space, a series of standoffs have emerged between city officials and the private prison companies.

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Michael Gonzales, the ambassador to Zambia, announced at an emotional press conference that the U.S. would cut $50 million in aid due to theft of medications.

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The likelihood that the newly elected pope has consumed a Chicago style hot dog is not zero. And that means something.

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President Trump fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, via email late Thursday night, the latest in a string of actions the president has taken to shape American cultural institutions.

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A federal judge in San Francisco issued a two-week restraining order temporarily blocking the Trump administration's sweeping overhaul of the federal government. Her order applies to 20 agencies.

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The Department of Agriculture is demanding sensitive data from states about more than 40 million food stamp recipients, as DOGE is amassing data for immigration enforcement.

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Scrutiny about the way the latest pope might run the Catholic Church started the moment he stepped on to the balcony.

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Axel Rudakubana was jailed for a minimum of 52 years in January over the murder of three girls.

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The UK ambassador to the US spoke to BBC Newsnight in his first broadcast interview since appointment.

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Adm Sir Ben Key was due to step down as First Sea Lord this summer, before an investigation started.

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is preparing to unveil an immigration white paper.

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Young buyers are saving hard, moving cities, and using government schemes to get on the housing ladder.

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Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers went from best pals to being at loggerheads in the aftermath.

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With just a week to go, here's our guide to the songs and artists taking part in Eurovision 2025.

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BBC West Investigations is given exclusive access to a police operation targeting men buying sex.

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Hollywood blockbusters such and World War Z and Spider-Man, were made closer to home than you think.

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AI phone home

Despite stiff export controls on the legitimate sale of AI accelerators to China, stemming the flow of gray market GPUs streaming into the Middle Kingdom remains a point of concern for American lawmakers.?

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DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom

The US government's National Science Foundation (NSF) is reportedly axing more than three dozen divisions, including its equity-in-STEM unit, while prepping staff layoffs and yanking over a billion dollars in recently awarded grants. The purge has already sparked legal action and congressional scrutiny.?

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US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has unveiled an ambitious plan to yank American air traffic control systems out of the 1960s - and he wants Congress to fund the whole project up front so it doesn't get derailed by political wind shifts.?

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And if it's your first time around, there's a whole new free book on FreePascal

Lazarus 4 is the latest version of the all-FOSS but Delphi-compatible IDE for the FreePascal compiler.?

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Weapons-grade fuel for fraud

Insight Partners, a mega venture capital firm with more than $90 billion in funds under management, fears network intruders got their hands on internal sensitive data about employees, portfolio companies, investors, and more.?

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NASA cancels solicitation to get a partner to launch, land, and operate the bot for free

NASA has quietly scrapped a plea for third parties to take its VIPER rover to the lunar surface.?

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Execs from AMD, Microsoft, and OpenAI tear into profit busting AI diffusion rules

Execs from several top US tech companies, including Microsoft, AMD, and OpenAI, slammed the Biden administration's export rules for AI chips and said that winning the AI race against China hinges on making it easier, not harder, to use American technology.?

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International Java sales operation and the prospects of audits per-employee license model make the move to open source irresistible

Experts are warning of an increase in Oracle Java audits - as the tech giant nears its year end - following a switch to a per-employee license model that could see costs grow by up to five times.?

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Linux giant finds Chinese environment to be perilous beneath pretty exterior

SUSE has kicked the Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) out of its community-driven Linux distro, openSUSE, and the reasons it gives for doing so are revealing.?

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This BS ends at some point, right?

Microsoft believes AI can hasten development of nuclear fusion as a practical energy source, which could in turn accelerate answers to the question of how to power AI.?

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TB is the deadliest infection in the world?but it doesn't often look like this.

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Carnegie Mellon "LegoGPT" system uses physics checks to ensure models don't collapse.

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Customers accuse Whoop of baiting and switching as it adjusts its business model.

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Google and the DOJ have had their say; now it's in the judge's hands.

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Linus Torvalds sees "zero real reason for anybody to waste one second" on them.

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Trump move also takes grants away from veterans and people with disabilities.

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One participant is reportedly facing criminal charges in juvenile court.

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Some victims lost everything to the Celsius Network's fraud.

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Prevost played Wordle and Words with Friends before leaving for the conclave.

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The UK is allowed to export 100,000 cars a year to the US at the lower rate.

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