Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement.

House Republicans are seeking testimony as part of their investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Clintons say they've already provided in writing what little they know.

Federal officials say a company that operates hundreds of landing pages for AI answers is running an operation that has duped thousands of users, who were unable to stop costly monthly charges.

As immigration enforcement actions have ramped up in Minnesota, people of faith have been at the forefront of the response to ICE detentions and the killing of Renee Macklin Good by a federal agent.

To date, 27 states have enacted laws barring transgender participation in sports.

Adams announced in May that he was dying of metastatic prostate cancer. Thousands of newspapers carried his strip satirizing office culture from the '90s until a controversy in 2023.

There is broad support for the protests among Israeli officials, but Palestinians say they hope the Iranian regime stays in place and the protests die down soon.

The EPA won't consider the economic costs of harms to human health, at least for now. Legal and health experts are concerned that the change could make it easier for the agency to roll back rules.

Minnesota officials sued the Trump administration over unconstitutional ICE conduct. And, SCOTUS hears two cases on whether states can bar transgender athletes from women's sports.

Wildfires last January destroyed communities around Los Angeles. Homeowners say recovery has been slowed by fights with insurers to get their claims paid.

A US-based rights group says it confirmed the death toll from a crackdown by authorities, as the US president urges Iranians to keep demonstrating.

The regime's opponents will hope for more pressure to accelerate the process, writes the BBC's international editor.

Oscar Murphy has an aggressive form of the blood cancer and is the first to get CAR-T therapy in the UK.

There will still be digital checks on those starting a new job, but people will not need to hold a digital ID.

The government dropping the digital ID scheme's mandatory element is another climbdown for Downing Street, writes the BBC's political editor.

Jon Venables, 10 when he killed James Bulger in 1993, failed in a previous bid for parole in 2023.

The scheme will be delivered in phases, starting with upgrades to lines between Leeds, York, Bradford and Sheffield.

The UK government said the Marinera was being supplied with food and water before continuing its journey.

The new body is part of the White House's 20-point plan to end the war between Israel and Hamas.

The BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler hears from Greenlanders, whose island is embroiled in a geopolitical storm.

America first, for sales and access to foundries

The Trump administration will only allow exports of Nvidia and AMD GPUs to China if local buyers can get all the kit they want.…

Chromium commit adds support for image decoder after the Big G ditched it a few years back

Google has added support for the JPEG XL (JXL) image format to the open source Chromium code base, reversing a decision in 2022 to drop the technology.…

First Patch Tuesday of 2026 goes big

Microsoft and Uncle Sam have warned that a Windows bug disclosed today is already under attack.…

Could be back to 2016 levels

The rising cost of memory due to shortages is likely to persist into late 2027, driving higher device prices and lackluster configurations for PCs, tablets, and phones, IDC research manager Jitesh Ubrani told The Register.…

The open-source libraries were created by Salesforce, Nvidia, and Apple with a Swiss group

Vulnerabilities in popular AI and ML Python libraries used in Hugging Face models with tens of millions of downloads allow remote attackers to hide malicious code in metadata. The code then executes automatically when a file containing the poisoned metadata is loaded.…

Just be careful not to entrust the AI model with your sensitive data

Anthropic on Monday announced the research preview of Claude Cowork, a tool for automating office work that comes with the now familiar recitation of machine learning risks.…

Step 1: Ask for deposit. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Build Moon hotel empire

Everest has been turned into a run-of-the-mill tourist attraction. Space tourism is over now that any celebrity can blast off into orbit. Next up: a hotel on the Moon, now taking reservations for only about six years from now, if you're willing to make a small deposit.…

Great news for AMD and Nvidia, less so for cash-strapped consumers

Memory makers just can't churn out their DRAM fast enough. On the heels of an AI-driven shortage, SK Hynix on Tuesday announced a new 19 trillion Korean won (about $13 billion) advanced packaging and test facility in South Korea that could offer some relief - just not for consumer products like laptops and phones.…

US House backs bill to regulate remote access to export-controlled chips

Chinese companies may be unable to import the best US GPUs, but they have found a workaround: renting access to that hardware via cloud services. Now, the US House of Representatives is moving to bring that loophole under the export-control law.…

Forrester models slow, structural shift rather than sudden employment collapse

AI-pocalypse AI and automation could wipe out 6.1 percent of jobs in the US by 2030 – equating to 10.4 million fewer positions that are held by humans today.…

Here's what we know about the first BMW EV to wear a proper M badge.

“General interest in AI PCs has been wavering for a while ..."

VoidLink includes an unusually broad and advanced array of capabilities.

DHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics.

The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.

US defense secretary announces plans for integration despite recent controversies.

Company responds to community concerns over electricity bills and water use.

Google has also added the updated Veo tools to YouTube creator tools.

Iran shut off Internet as it cracks down on protests; even Starlink has problems.

New language criticizes “uncertainties” in longstanding EPA practice.