The House has approved a three year extension of the surveillance program known as FISA Section 702. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it faces a difficult path to final passage.

TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives and positives. A new test is more accurate and takes less than half an hour.

The Pentagon says that the cost of the war with Iran is estimated to be some $25 billion. Defense officials were appearing on the Hill for budget discussions.

The Pentagon estimates the war has cost $25 billion over the past two months. In congressional testimony, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not say when the war might end.

The map drawn by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis boosts President Trump's effort to reshape voting before the midterm elections. The GOP likely holds a slight edge over Democrats in redistricting now.

In his second day on the stand in the trial he launched against OpenAI, Elon Musk said the AI start-up he'd helped found had strayed from its charitable mission.

New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert says EPA chief Lee Zeldin has rescinded regulations, cut or eliminated departments and terminated the jobs of many scientists. Trump calls Zeldin "our secret weapon."

A grand jury charged Comey with threatening Trump's life through his since-deleted 2025 post of seashells forming "8647." Trump is the 47th president, and the term "86" has a few possible meanings.

The UAE says it will leave OPEC, amid tensions with Saudi Arabia and the chaos of the Iran war.

The court, in a 6-3 decision along partisan lines, ruled that Louisiana's 2024 election map, which created a second majority-Black congressional district, was "an unconstitutional racial gerrymander."

Two Jewish men were been stabbed in Golders Green, north London, as the Metropolitan Police formally declared it a terrorist incident.

King Charles and Queen Camilla on their state visit to the US visit the memorial in New York.

Prosecutors argue Cole Tomas Allen should remain in custody until trial on a charge of attempted assassination of President Donald Trump.

It comes after legislation to remove their right to sit in the upper chamber passed last month.

The star said he broke his leg, hip, pelvis and a "bunch of ribs" at the CogX convention in 2023.

The final operation to save the whale is being closely followed, after the failure of earlier attempts.

Prosecutors say a 2025 seashell photo posted by the former FBI director was a call for violence against Trump.

Up to 500 officers are involved in three raids at Crewe's Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light group.

James Holder tells a court it was "very evident" a woman who accused him of rape wanted to have sex.

Matthew Pennycook rejects criticism the government is dragging its feet on leasehold reform.

ORNL says portable detector kit can separate real GPS signals from fake ones even at equal strength

GPS spoofing, which sends fake satellite-like signals, and GPS jamming, which drowns receivers in noise, are increasingly serious problems. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have created what they say is the most effective system yet for detecting GPS interference, which could help blunt such attacks.…

Second try's a charm?

Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that attackers are exploiting a zero-click Windows flaw that can expose sensitive information on vulnerable systems.…

Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security

Microsoft has warned users still clinging to legacy TLS versions that the end is nigh for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on POP3 and IMAP4 connections to Exchange Online.…

Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info

Databricks cannot shake a class action lawsuit targeting its LLM, which several book authors contend was created with a database that contained pirated versions of some of their copyrighted books – and about 196,000 titles in all.…

New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too

Fedora Linux 44 has arrived – in multiple formats and for several CPU families, including some new container formats and storage options.…

Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk about

The first quarter of 2026 saw a surge in severe and prolonged internet disruptions, from government shutdowns to power outages to the occasional mystery incident.…

There is no 6 Nimmt! champion, but a $12 domain registration and one Wikipedia edit convinced several bots there was

Unlike search engines that let you judge competing sources, search-backed AI chatbots can turn shaky web material into confident answers. Case in point: A security engineer convinced several bots that he was the reigning world champion of a popular German card game, even though no such championship exists.…

Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman delivered some potentially good news at a Senate hearing this week, as well as some slightly odd news: in an environment of constrained budgets, the space agency was somehow finding resources to contest the decision to relegate Pluto from planet status.…

GrassMarlin leaks sensitive information, provided your targeting phishing skills are sharp enough

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning anyone who uses GrassMarlin, a tool developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), about a new vulnerability that attackers can use to snoop on sensitive information.…

Eleven up, ten down

On Tuesday in San Francisco at an event called "What's Next with AWS," CEO Matt Garman took the stage to announce that AWS is (for what, depending on how you count, is the seventh, eighth, or ninth time) moving up the stack and entering the applications business.…

Broadcast license renewals are "all but automatic" due to 1996 change in US law.

Directions also include system instructions to act like "you have a vivid inner life."

Most are keeping their subscriptions after signing up, too, research firm says.

FTX fraudster came out as Republican, then tried to claim Biden's DOJ targeted him.

Uninsurable war damage is forcing tech companies to rethink Middle East plans.

Motorola's foldable lineup is bigger and more spendy than ever.

Framework charges nearly double for the 12GB version of the mobile RTX 5070.

Study authors say courts should reconsider rulings in light of this new evidence.

Manufacturers backed effort to repeal the law but ultimately failed.

The object will be traveling at 2.43 km a second, or 5,400 mph, upon impact.