James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist remarks that made him an outcast.

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At one food pantry in Boston, the spike in demand means there's now a two-week wait for some to receive food, stressing needy families as well as pantry staff.

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The FAA is cutting 10% of air traffic at 40 of the nation's busiest airports, canceling hundreds of flights and creating uncertainty for many more passengers. Here's what to do if you're one of them.

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The Atlas browser can act as your "agent" online, doing tasks like shopping or booking tickets. But that gives it access to a lot of personal information.

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Airlines are canceling hundreds of flights to comply with the FAA's order. But there are still questions about the plan, which the agency says will keep the skies safe during the government shutdown.

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Indonesian authorities said they have identified a 17-year-old boy as the suspected perpetrator of an attack that shook a mosque at a high school during Friday prayers in Jakarta.

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America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine.

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The FAA plans to reduce air traffic by 10% at busy airports. And, a federal judge orders the Trump administration to fully restore SNAP food benefits by today, which it plans to appeal.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched an unprecedented review of routine shots given to kids, alarming public health experts.

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Here are a bunch of questions about politics and one about bears.

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Brahim Kaddour-Cherif was one of two men let out in error from the prison within a week.

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Trump has recently increased pressure on US allies to curb their spending on Russian oil.

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Julia Wandelt began "telling anyone who would listen" she was the missing child in June 2022.

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The Nobel Prize winner felt ostracised by the scientific community over his comments on race and intelligence.

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Robert James Purkiss faces extradition over allegations he murdered Agnes Manjiru.

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The former footballer directed posts on X towards Jeremy Vine and pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko.

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Chris Hinchliff says his focus remains on contributing to "Labour's historic mission".

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While he has a penchant for cars and jets, the world's richest person reportedly lives a relatively modest life.

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Sgt Lawrence Hume was filmed calling for a Charing Cross police station detainee to be beaten up.

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Your Party officials accuse Zarah Sultana of withholding funds despite publicly agreeing to transfer the money.

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'Precision espionage campaign' began months before the flaw was fixed

A previously unknown Android spyware family called LANDFALL exploited a zero-day in Samsung Galaxy devices for nearly a year, installing surveillance code capable of recording calls, tracking locations, and harvesting photos and logs before Samsung finally patched it in April.?

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Study finds many tests don't measure the right things

AI companies regularly tout their models' performance on benchmark tests as a sign of technological and intellectual superiority. But those results, widely used in marketing, may not be meaningful.?

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Xi and Trump haven't gotten to discuss the chips, though they were supposed to

Nvidia's latest generation of Blackwell accelerators won't be available in China anytime soon, according to CEO Jensen Huang, who said there were no "active discussions" about selling the coveted chips to the Middle Kingdom.?

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It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C

A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece of middle-aged media and rewind it back to the 1970s to get the data off.?

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Netherlands court still overseeing governance at the chipmaker

Tensions between China and the Netherlands over the state of chipmaker Nexperia have begun to ease, but the battle for company control doesn't appear to be entirely resolved yet. ?

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Even with more info, web giant says agent can't be trusted to keep you healthy, wealthy, and wise

Google's Gemini Deep Research tool can now reach deep into Gmail, Drive, and Chat to obtain data that might be useful for answering research questions.?

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Multi-year wait for destruction comes to an end for mystery attackers

Security experts have helped remove malicious NuGet packages planted in 2023 that were designed to destroy systems years in advance, with some payloads not due to hit until the latter part of this decade.?

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MIT researchers offer cure for illegible software

A pair of MIT researchers have detailed a proposed new model for software that would help both humans and AI code generators alike create better and more transparent applications. No more vibing!?

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Behold the one trillion dollar man

Tesla is awarding its CEO Elon Musk a package worth a possible $1 trillion, however, it relies in part on a dramatic increase in the value of the electric vehicle manufacturer.?

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Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.

Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has waded into the argument over where Microsoft has gone wrong with Windows, suggesting that perhaps the OS needs a hardcore mode to offset some of its fluffier edges.?

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New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.

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Targeted attack could steal all of a phone's data and activate camera or mic.

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"The FAA is concerned with the system's ability to maintain the current volume of operations."

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The end of HBO Max is "certainly plausible."

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Tucows subpoenaed in criminal probe for info on ?customer behind archive.today."

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It's unclear how much savings the deal provides or how many people will benefit.

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ChatGPT leaks seem to confirm OpenAI scrapes Google, expert says.

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Vampire Survivors-esque battler sets itself apart with great weapons, unique graphics.

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The automaker says it has plenty of electric F-150 pickups in inventory, though.

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This technological tradition lasted longer than Homo sapiens have even been a species.

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