A new study looks at an unexpected force that helped played a critical role in shaping the lives of ancient humans.

Tensions are rising in the Middle East as shaky ceasefire agreements between the U.S., Israel and Iran, and Lebanon and Israel, are tested. And, the Secretary of the Navy is out of the role.

President Trump says he ordered the Navy to "shoot and kill any boat" putting mines in the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S. ramps up minesweeping there.

After a year without data, the State Department released figures on PEPFAR, the program launched by George W. Bush and credited with saving millions of lives. How did Trump's aid cuts affect it?

President Trump has extended the ceasefire, but Iran says it's not enough if the naval blockade is still in place.

The AI models and chatbots that we interact with tend to affirm our feelings and viewpoints — more so than people do, with potentially worrisome consequences.

Americans who moved to Vietnam and Thailand say their lives are now lower-stress and lower-cost. But glamorous videos on TikTok don't tell the whole story.

The latest campaign finance reports show Democratic enthusiasm in key House and Senate races, but national Republican groups have far more in the bank to potentially spend down the road.

A budget plan with a $70 billion expected price tag for immigration enforcement advanced after an overnight session. It now heads to the House of Representatives.

The executive director of World Press Photo said the image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies.

In a phone interview with the BBC's North America editor, the president discussed next week's visit and his relationship with the UK PM.

It follows a BBC investigation that found High Street mini-marts were selling drugs in some West Midlands towns.

A judge says Adam Hall took away the futures of his victims, including boys aged 15 and 17.

The government said medical data was affected but no personally identifiable information had been made available.

The 51-year-old, who is originally from Bolton, currently presents the teatime show on Radio 2.

The approval came as Donald Trump is to attend a dinner with billionaire Paramount backers the Ellisons.

The men, who are all asylum seekers, had denied targeting the woman in the early hours of October 4.

Football Focus is to end after 52 years, BBC Sport announces.

The footage was filmed by photographer Matt Porteous in Cornwall earlier this month.

Sam, who was heading home from school when he got his diagnosis, says Hall's jailing is a relief.

Also rolls out agentic Copilot in Excel and PowerPoint, letting 21st century Clippy lend a... hand

Microsoft is giving Copilot the power to stop suggesting edits and start making them.…

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Datadog has added GPU monitoring to its observability stack, giving AI-hungry organizations more insight into exactly what's happening on their most expensive silicon.…

Storage vendor predicts current crunch will outlast COVID disruptions

The supply crunch gripping the storage market has pushed Everpure – the artist formerly known as Pure Storage – to reassure customers it won't make things worse.…

Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is ready for launch ahead of schedule despite repeated attempts by both Donald Trump's first and second administrations to cut funding.…

Wins $300M deal over Salesforce, IBM because of 'integration with existing USDA systems,' among other things

Palantir has won a $300 million contract from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support the National Farm Security Action Plan (NFSAP) and modernize how USDA delivers services to America's farmers.…

Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gear

The chip shortage is spreading to power and management controller silicon, threatening server shipments as vendors prioritize capacity for higher-margin AI server products.…

World's largest biomedical dataset lifted and shifted on Chinese mega marketplace

Updated Details of volunteers of UK-based Biobank, which describes itself as the custodian of the world's most comprehensive biomedical dataset, are for sale on Chinese ecommerce site Alibaba.…

Windows Admin Center flaws mean on-prem can attack cloud, and vice-versa

Black Hat Asia Israeli researchers found a series of flaws in Microsoft's Windows Admin Center (WAC) and suggest this shows hybrid cloud management tools are a two-way attack surface that users don't spend enough time worrying about.…

EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own silicon

Elon Musk used Tesla's latest earnings call to reveal plans to build AI chips on Intel's not-yet-finished 14A process – a bet on silicon that doesn't exist.…

Sony project claims a significant breakthrough with applications in task requiring speed and accuracy

Rise of the Machines The ancient games of chess and Go are now mere staging posts in the journey toward robots demonstrating their superior performance to humans - the machines can now beat us fleshbags at ping-pong.…

The 2027 7 Series is available as an EV, with an inline-six, or an inline-six PHEV.

Plants from OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Microsoft could emit more than 129M tons annually.

Ship attacked by Iran after possibly falling for safe passage crypto scam.

Car sales are up, battery sales and emissions credits are down.

How Ars Technica uses, and doesn't use, generative AI.

Lawsuit demands Nintendo pass Trump tariff refunds on to its customers.

Kennedy's tesimony sets up another clash over vaccines with next CDC director.

"You just push this button, and in three hours, you're counting photons."

When authentication fails, things can go very, very wrong.

Untenable demand has Anthropic exploring new approaches to rationing its service.