Blue Origin, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, says it's stopping human spaceflights for at least two years. The move will allow it to "shift resources" to the company's lunar landing capabilities.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz about the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in his state.

Lila Iké's full-length debut album, Treasure Self Love, has been nominated for a Grammy. Iké spoke to All Things Considered about being one of the only women ever to receive a nomination for best reggae album.

The university said it had also modified hundreds of courses and cancelled six in efforts to eliminate teaching related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Sports officials say a Canadian coach manipulated the point system used by athletes to qualify for the Olympics. His move cost American sled racer Katie Uhlaender her trip to the Milan Cortina Games.

This mercury-containing compound, used as a vaccine preservative, is commonly used in lower-income countries — and deemed safe. The U.S. is now demanding that Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance stop using it.

O'Hara enjoyed a six-decade career in TV and films playing sometimes over-the-top, but endearing characters. "I loved playing cocky untalented people," she told Fresh Air in 1992.

Trump was not the only factor behind the agreements, but his shaking up of the global order is worrying friends and foes and driving them closer.

Alex Pretti's shooting death by federal agents in Minneapolis has prompted a DOJ civil rights probe. Renee Macklin Good's death by federal agents has not.

Amid Iran's deadly crackdown, three women share their stories of resistance, fear and an unyielding hope for freedom.

The emails were published by the US Department of Justice as part of a release running to three million pages.

Deng Majek is told by the mother of victim Rhiannon Whyte that she hopes he never sees the outside world.

António Guterres says the international body could run out of money by July due to members' unpaid fees.

England white-ball captain Harry Brook says other players were present when he was involved in an altercation with a nightclub bouncer.

Gold has fallen from recent highs but there are several reasons investors are still finding refuge in the precious metal.

Lemon says he was just doing his job as a journalist reporting on the protests at the church.

A judge dismisses two federal counts against the 27-year-old, but he still faces state murder charges.

She says raising the case of campaigner Jimmy Lai is more important than lifting sanctions against her.

Anthony Gilheaney hit four men on Shaftesbury Avenue, killing Aiden Chapman and injuring the others.

The full Moon in February is known as the Snow Moon.

Network access from China and side hustle as AI upstart CEO aroused suspicion

A former Google software engineer has been convicted of stealing AI hardware secrets from the company for the benefit of two China-based firms, one of which he founded. The second startup intended to use these secrets to market its technology to PRC-controlled organizations.…

Parent company Cognizant hit with multiple lawsuits

Thousands more Oregonians will soon receive data breach letters in the continued fallout from the TriZetto data breach, in which someone hacked the insurance verification provider and gained access to its healthcare provider customers across multiple US states.…

Fewer humans, more bots - just in time for filing season

Tax season 2026 could be an interesting one as the IRS seeks to replace the staff it sent to the unemployment line with AI. Bots could handle tasks ranging from reviewing an org's request for tax-exempt status to processing amended individual filings.…

The western US saw the most activity overall

Cloud storage firm Backblaze says that a sharp rise in AI-driven data traffic to neocloud operators may signal a shift from internet-style traffic patterns to large, high-bandwidth flows characteristic of large-scale model training and inference work.…

Big Red promises 'new era' as long-frustrated contributors weigh whether to believe it

Oracle is taking steps to "repair" its relationship with the MySQL community, according to sources, by moving "commercial-only" features into the database application's Community Edition and prioritizing developer needs.…

AI vision systems can be very literal readers

Indirect prompt injection occurs when a bot takes input data and interprets it as a command. We've seen this problem numerous times when AI bots were fed prompts via web pages or PDFs they read. Now, academics have shown that self-driving cars and autonomous drones will follow illicit instructions that have been written onto road signs.…

Analyst predicts massive spend on domestic AI stacks

Countries intent on digital sovereignty will need to invest at least 1 percent of their entire gross domestic product (GDP) into AI infrastructure by 2029, according to analyst biz Gartner.…

GPT-4o gets second death sentence after last year's reprieve, but this time barely anyone's bothered

OpenAI is sunsetting some of its ChatGPT models next month, a move it knows "will feel frustrating for some users."…

Stock management also important, says Mitchell Hashimoto

HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto took to X this week to unveil the secret of workplace success: stay off your phone, sweep the floor, and clean the machines after that.…

Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you

Opinion I'm an eighth-generation American, and let me tell you, I wouldn't trust my data, secrets, or services to a US company these days for love or money. Under our current government, we're simply not trustworthy.…

You won't be going on road trips, but a very cheap electric runabout is possible.

"We think that’s a really important mission, and something that we can do."

"We’re seeing remarkable growth year after year."

"Selfishly a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves."

With ACA tax credits gone, more people are turning to high-deductible plans.

The JUMPSEAT satellites loitered over the North Pole to spy on the Soviet Union.

Windows 11 clears a milestone as Windows 10 continues its slow fade.

Anthropic's latest paper on "user disempowerment" has some troubling findings.

Project Genie lets you generate new worlds 60 seconds at a time, but only if you pay for AI Ultra.

Comcast overhauled Internet plans to stop customer losses. It isn't working yet.