During the speech last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lectured senior military officials on the "warrior ethos," focusing on fitness and grooming standards, and calling out "fat generals."

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A look at how cumbia found a second home in Mexico's "Little Colombia."

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The federal government is currently shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting services across the country.

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Uno de los géneros más escuchados en las Américas, los fotógrafos Karla Gachet e Iván Kashinsky documentan la cumbia en Colombia, México, Ecuador, Perú, Argentina y Estados Unidos.

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One of the most listened-to genres in the Americas, photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and the United States.

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They're framing it as a way to share data and messages about threats, emergency preparedness and public health policy at a time when the federal government isn't doing its job in public health.

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In a new cookbook, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty pays homage to the rich tapestry of cultures that have shaped Southern cuisine ? and keeps a gimlet eye on the region's complicated history.

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It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film.

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As the ceasefire began, Israel released more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages freed by Hamas. Amid the rubble in Gaza, families begin to find their way home.

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Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, attributes the Gaza deal in part to Trump's transactional nature and breaking of traditional diplomatic crockery.

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Deputy national security adviser concluded China was "highly capable and conduct large-scale espionage operations against the UK".

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Robert Bush denied 30 counts of preventing lawful burials but admitted fraud charges.

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BBC Verify investigates the damage done by two years of war, which could take $70bn and decades to repair.

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The chancellor also said she was considering further measures on public spending, in a bid to put the UK's finances on a firmer footing.

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The veteran actress blamed nerves for her releasing wind at a tense moment during the game.

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PPE Medpro was ordered to repay damages by 16:00 BST on Wednesday after breaching a Covid-19 contract.

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The Pentagon says Hegseth and other military leaders on board, who were travelling back from a Nato meeting, are safe.

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About 2,000 people are likely to be charged, meaning 400 trials could need to be held.

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Aren Pearson will spend at least 25 years in jail for stabbing Claire Leveque to death in Shetland in 2023.

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This will be the fourth consecutive winter of outages since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

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If you build it, they will come and expect the service to be free

OpenAI is losing about three times more money than it's earning, and 95 percent of those using ChatGPT, which generates roughly 70 percent of the company's recurring revenue, aren't paying a dime to help stem the losses.?

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Oh and the CPU is up to 15% faster for those that could care less about articifically intelligent Apple products and more about getting work done

Apple's fifth-generation of M-series silicon is starting to trickle out with the launch of the M5 MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pros this week.?

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Tokyo cries foul over Sora slop abusing 'irreplaceable treasures' of anime, manga - oh, and copyright law

OpenAI?s Sora 2 video generator has gone viral, particularly among users churning out anime that looks suspiciously like Studio Ghibli and other copyrighted works. Alarmed by the threat to one of its prized cultural exports, Japan has reportedly lodged a formal request that the American firm knock it off.?

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Big Tech and big money unite to back world?s biggest bit-barn buyout

The AI bubble just keeps getting bigger. A consortium featuring BlackRock, Microsoft, Nvidia, xAI, and MGX is buying Aligned Data Centers in a deal valuing the operator at around $40 billion, in what is reportedly the biggest datacenter acquisition to date.?

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Only 13% are AI-ready; the rest are bolting it on and hoping for ROI

Contrary to popular belief, you can't succeed in business (or AI) without really trying. Many orgs are jumping on the AI bandwagon without the infrastructure they need to make it work or track results, Cisco says. Most haven't even defined what they want their AI agents to do.?

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And they swiped a limited amount of customers' config data

Security shop F5 today said "highly sophisticated nation-state" hackers broke into its network and stole BIG-IP source code, undisclosed vulnerability details, and customer configuration data belonging to a "small percentage" of its users.?

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Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fix

Developers of VS Code extensions are leaking sensitive secrets left, right and center, according to researchers who worked with Microsoft to combat an issue that could have led to some nasty supply chain attacks.?

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Raymond Chen says the OS used green-screen overlays to fake video playback ? with curious side effects

Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has answered a lingering Windows question ? why did video screenshots keep playing in Paint??

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Beijing's self-reliance push and US export limits hit orders

Europe's tech darling ASML has warned Chinese demand for its chipmaking kit will plummet next year, as Beijing doubles down on home-grown alternatives in response to Uncle Sam's export restrictions and trade war shenanigans.?

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Downstream Linux projects line up behind the latest release

A month after Debian 13.1's release, some of the more visible downstream forks, including Raspberry Pi OS, have decided it's time to incorporate the latest version of the main OS into their builds.?

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Nikon Small World photomicrography contest is an annual reminder that science can be beautiful as well as informative.

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"We're trying to crawl, then walk, then run into our reuse strategy."

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Risks to BIG-IP users include supply-chain attacks, credential loss, and vulnerability exploits.

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Traumatized CDC has lost 33% of its workforce this year, union says.

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Tiny, fast model hits coding scores similar to GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.

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Gov. Newsom signs broadband billing law hated by the cable industry.

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But they're still unlikely to go on sale in the US.

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Veo 3.1 is coming to the Gemini app and the Flow filmmaking tool.

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Sam Altman claims new tools can detect mental distress while relaxing limits for adults.

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Leaks of the new tablet from a couple weeks ago appear to have been genuine.

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