The four astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis II mission are about to plunge through the atmosphere toward Earth, after a successful visit to the moon.

The four astronauts on NASA's Artemis II lunar mission are set to return to Earth Friday evening. The crew is wrapping up a journey around the moon with a planned splashdown off San Diego, Calif.

The first lady made a public statement on Thursday saying she was not friends with Epstein, and calling for further action in Congress. Survivors of the late sex offender's abuse differ on her proposal.

Officials in Minnesota have sued the Trump administration, saying federal officials are withholding evidence in the killings of U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Macklin Good by immigration agents in Minneapolis, as well as the non-fatal shooting of a Venezuelan man.

The movie, now streaming on Netflix, defied current trends in Indian cinema to tell the true story of a friendship between a Muslim and a Hindu Dalit. Martin Scorsese was secretly involved.

Hungary votes Sunday in a pivotal test of Viktor Orbán's "illiberal democracy," as challenger Péter Magyar taps voter frustration, with stakes for Europe, NATO and the U.S.

A paper in JAMA Psychiatry says mental health providers should ask if patients are using artificial intelligence chatbots, just as they would ask patients about sleep habits and substance use.

Consumer prices in March were up 3.3% from a year ago, the biggest annual increase in nearly two years. Higher gasoline prices tied to the war with Iran accounted for much of the surge.

Vice President Vance is heading to Pakistan to lead a U.S. team in talks aimed at ending the war in Iran. And, Artemis II is set to return to Earth today.

Xi Jinping and the KMT's Cheng Li-wun agreed to pursue peace, but Taiwan's ruling party worries it will enable Beijing to undermine its democracy.

The astronauts will have medical checks and will be reunited with their families.

The mission was almost flawless but there are considerable obstacles ahead before a Moon landing.

Face-to-face talks would mark the highest-level engagement between Iran and the US since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

UK government officials say they are not entirely abandoning the agreement but have run out of time.

The vehicle fell from a height of 10m near the San Sebastián de La Gomera, according to Spanish news outlet El Mundo.

Prince Harry left the charity last year in an acrimonious dispute over how Sentebale was being managed.

She has now placed herself squarely into the Epstein story and at odds with the administration, which wants to end the investigation.

As Péter Magyar's opposition movement leads in the polls, tens of thousands of anti-Orbán supporters fill Heroes' Square in Budapest.

Two dogs seized from the same address have been destroyed, police say.

L/Cpl Ryan Rudd was not reported missing until two weeks after he was last seen in Selby.

With access to great data comes great responsibility

Snowflake is betting that the biggest bottleneck to building more and better AI agents isn't the models themselves but whether the data those agents depend on is clean, accessible, and governed, Snowflake’s director of product management James Rowland-Jones told The Register.…

Crew went farther from Earth than any humans we know about, now they’re coming back!

In a world wracked by wars, beset by difficult economic conditions, and struggling with exploding RAM costs, there's one piece of good news. NASA's Artemis II mission has been an unqualified success, having carried four astronauts farther from Earth than any humans before them.…

Hundreds of layoffs, but this smells of geopolitics, not downsizing

Red Hat appears to have fired its entire engineering team in China, which it no longer thinks is a country it needs to prioritize. Most of the team will move to India.…

Firefox maker warns old web tactics are now shaping AI at the expense of user choice

Firefox-maker Mozilla is calling out Microsoft after Redmond said it would scale back some Copilot features in Windows, arguing the rollback shows the company pushed AI too far without enough regard for user choice.…

Trade group warns onshoring demands will leave Americans stuck with older gear

The Global Electronics Association (GEA) warns that the US ban on foreign-made network routers is impractical because few are made domestically, leaving consumers with little choice and delaying access to next-gen products, just as Wi-Fi 7 adoption should be ramping up.…

Six-hour breach turned trusted links into a coin toss between legit tools and credential stealers

Visitors to the CPUID website were briefly exposed to malware this week after attackers hijacked part of its backend, turning trusted download links into a delivery mechanism for something far less welcome.…

Investors urged to reject proposal for more disclosure on whether AWS expansion risks climate goals

Amazon's board of directors is urging shareholders to reject a proposal that would have the megacorp disclose more information on the impact of datacenters on its climate commitments.…

Forget about investment value! Call it a 'strategic enabler for enterprise‑wide transformation,' says KPMG

Most UK business leaders will keep AI at the top of their spending priorities, with 65 percent planning to maintain investment whether they see immediate measurable returns or not.…

Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilities

Opinion Anthropic describes Project Glasswing as a coalition of tech giants committing $100 million in AI resources to hunt down and fix long-hidden vulnerabilities in critical open source software that it's finding with its new Mythos AI program. Or as The Reg put it, "an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities."…

Four-week call for evidence intended to help shape laws aimed at devices linked to crime

The UK government is seeking views on radiofrequency jammers as it prepares legislation to ban the controversial devices.…

"The work ahead is greater than the work behind us."

"I can't imagine a better crew that just completed a perfect mission right now."

Plaintiffs say transcription tool processed confidential chats offsite.

A now-vanished plate under North America may open the crust below Yellowstone.

Algorithms, not drivers, are deciding how hard to accelerate, and that's no good.

Trump admin reportedly gets grand jury involved in attempt to identify Redditor.

Windows Insider builds remain confusing, but they should be more predictable.

Dense drops of oobleck with high shear rates spread out like a liquid before stiffening into a solid.

An individual plan now cost $15.99 per month, and the free tier comes with buggy ads.

Supposed “first octopus” was something else entirely.