A paper in JAMA Internal Medicine adds to the growing scientific evidence that medication abortion pills would be safe to sell over-the-counter at the pharmacy. But political opposition means that possibility may not happen anytime soon.

Bannon spent four months in prison after defying a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

Trump threatened to bomb Iran's power plants and bridges unless it opens the Strait of Hormuz. And, NASA's Artemis II crew prepares to make its closest approach to the moon.

Iran's top officials pushed back against President Trump's deadline to open the Strait of Hormuz, striking a defiant tone as the warring sides traded missile attacks.

A provision in the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make Rosa María Carranza and an estimated 100,000 other lawfully present immigrant seniors ineligible. Her once secure retirement is in question.

Higher education is especially reliant on computers and phones, but accessibility for people with disabilities has often been forgotten. A new federal rule could change that.

A reactivation of the virus that causes chickenpox, the illness can be miserable. Here's what to know about early warning signs, long-term symptoms and some surprising news about the vaccine.

Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy Guthrie, has not been seen since returning home from a family dinner the evening of Jan. 31.

President Trump says Iran has until Tuesday night to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Trump is in a tight corner politically as he ramps up Iran war messaging, Artemis II crew readies for lunar flyby.

At its closest point, the crew of Artemis II will loop about 4,000 miles from the lunar surface late Monday. The astronauts will also venture farther into space than any previous human mission.

As the astronauts pass behind the Moon they will experience a moment of silence and solitude as communication with the Earth is blocked.

Families on some benefits with three or more children will get an average rise of £4,100 a year.

The strike comes at the end of the bank holiday weekend and NHS managers fear demand could be "challenging".

Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her home in Tucson, Arizona, in what authorities believe was an abduction.

Jewish groups and MPs call for the controversial rapper to be prevented from appearing at the London festival.

Dorset Police said the event drew about 2,000 people and more than 100 vehicles.

Natasha Blackmore, 36, met students outside of school and told them of relationships and drunken nights.

Northern Ireland becomes first part of UK to bring in legal entitlement for parents affected by miscarriage at any stage of a pregnancy to have paid leave.

Charities say families are facing financial worries as changes to disability benefits come into effect.

Relatives say it has taken months, and in some cases years, to get back money owed by a care home operator.

After a year of patchwork, maintainers look ready to start retiring 486-class CPUs

It's taken nearly a full version number to get the pieces in order, but the long-awaited end of 486 chip support in the Linux kernel appears to be nigh with Linux 7.1's release later this year. …

Glue and paper wouldn't have cared about discoverability

Bork!Bork!Bork! Today's entry in the pantheon of public whoopsies is not so much Windows falling over as someone sticking a network connection where it possibly doesn't belong.…

It's not just machines that need proper HVAC

Who, Me? The world is rapidly becoming a more uncertain place, but The Register tries to offer readers one small point of certainty by always delivering a fresh Monday morning instalment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your errors and elucidate your escapes.…

Pay no attention to that code behind the curtain, says Anthropic as it scrambles to defend its IPO

Kettle When it comes to circling up for this week's Kettle, what is there to discuss but Anthropic's accidental release of Claude Code's source code?…

True-crime tales of criminals making fools of themselves

interview Cybercrime crews have become almost mystical entities, with security vendors assigning them names like Wizard Spider and Velvet Tempest.…

Vendors tout the potential, but responsibility remains unclear

"You can't blame it on the box," says the boss of a UK financial regulator. What about the people who sold you the box? Good luck with that, says a global tech analyst.…

The GPU king's move to optical scale-up was inevitable

If you thought Nvidia's GB200 rack systems were big, CEO Jensen Huang is just getting started. At GTC last month, the world's most valuable company revealed plans to use photonic interconnects to pack more than a thousand GPUs into a single mammoth system by 2028.…

Agents to check the work of the agents

All Things AI AI is easy to use, but not quite as easy as just barking "Alexa! Make me an e-commerce site." And, no, adding "DON'T HALLUCINATE" to the instruction loop won't help.…

The cloud service's woes reflect a crisis made worse by AI – under-investment in people

In 2024, federal cybersecurity evaluators reportedly dismissed Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) as garbage, although they used a more colorful term. To understand why, it helps to consider the history of the underlying Azure infrastructure.…

Bonsai 8B model is competitive with other 8B models but 14x smaller and 5x more energy efficient

PrismML, an AI venture out of Caltech, has released a 1-bit large language model that outperforms weightier models, with the expectation that it will improve AI efficiency and viability on mobile devices, among other applications.…

The market for new cars has slumped as Americans look for deals on used EVs.

"Don't expect hi-res video."

Director Christopher Nolan's breakout film explores themes of the nature of memory and personal identity.

Quizlet flashcards seem to include sensitive information about gate security at CBP locations.

"I think the fixation on the toilet is kind of human nature."

A state bill is a glimpse of how corporations are limiting people's ability to make their own fixes and upgrades.

Congress will likely reject the White House's NASA cuts, just as it did last year.

Ice Age hunter-gatherers "were intentionally relying on random outcomes in repeatable, rule-based ways."

The cabin was colder on Thursday, but the crew has been able to adjust the temperature.

Some banks "agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot," NYT reports.