Chile peppers are a traditional part of Indian cuisine — and a key crop for women farmers. They say it's too demanding for men. "In spite of the challenges," says one, "we've found freedom."

After Iran again closed the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump said the U.S. is returning to Pakistan for negotiations, but threatened to strike Iranian infrastructure if a deal isn't reached soon.

Real estate investment trusts are landlords for thousands of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospitals. Some select the managers and keep close watch but deny blame for bad care.

Exactly two months after the Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs, the U.S. government has set Monday as the day when some companies can begin requesting refunds.

A special day can be tinged with sorrow when your partner has dementia. But then he found the perfect gift.

With school choice programs ascendant not just in Iowa but across the U.S., Cedar Rapids offers a preview of who wins and who loses when education meets the free market.

This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission has failed, but to keep it alive a little longer.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says the launches happened on Sunday morning from the North's eastern Sinpo area.

The Mariana is a 145-foot dry cargo vessel registered in the U.S. It suffered engine failure Wednesday as a massive typhoon bore down on Saipan and nearby islands.

A life jacket worn by a passenger on the RMS Titanic has sold at auction for 670,000 pounds, which is more than $900,000.

The warning comes after a north-west London synagogue was hit by an arson attack overnight.

The prime minister says he only learned of security concerns around the ex-US ambassador earlier this week.

The Sussexes' four-day tour of Australia appears to have fallen flat with some.

Robots competed in a half marathon race in Beijing on Sunday, with the winning machine leaving its human rivals for dust.

The incident took place in central London in the early hours, leaving a woman in a critical condition.

Jesy Nelson offers a £10,000 reward for the recovery of her car, which had medical equipment inside.

Serhiy and Iryna married 40 years ago, unaware a nuclear reactor had exploded less than 3 miles away.

Abi has had very mixed results when asking a chatbot for guidance about her health issues.

Scams have exploded over the last few years. Can countries and companies come together to turn the tables on the scammers?

Montenegro and Albania are among the places rising in popularity for Britons seeking a holiday away from tourist traps.

Passing the buck, and the blame, down the road shows lack of AI companies' maturity

OPINION AI vendors: "You need to use AI to fight AI threats (and do everything else in your corporate IT environment)." Also AI vendors: "That's not a security flaw; it's working as intended."…

Non profit loses several staffers including its executive director

Ruby Central, a nonprofit that supports the Ruby programming language ecosystem, in is "real financial jeopardy," according to a missive from its board members.…

Agent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when needed

Not only is hardware memory scarce these days, but context memory, the conversational data exchanged with AI models, can be an issue too.…

From August 17, the outfit will collect customer metadata by default unless you pay for the top tier

Unless a customer pays for the most expensive enterprise license, or the law forbids it, Atlassian is going to collect their data to train its AI models. And you can't fully opt out.…

Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes

Intel brought a few more chips home from Taiwan this week, with a new round of budget-oriented Core Series 3 processors fabbed right in the US-of-A.…

The bar for creating visual assets has been lowered to the ability to converse with a model

Anthropic is known for its industry-leading Claude Code that writes programs, but why stop there? The company, on Friday, introduced a research preview service called Claude Design that creates visual assets, potentially putting some folks out of work.…

Bug hiding in plain sight for over a decade lands on KEV list

CISA is sounding the alarm on a newly-exploited Apache ActiveMQ bug, ordering federal agencies to patch within two weeks as attackers circle a flaw that's been quietly lurking for more than a decade.…

Or, how public information and a €5 tracker exposed an avoidable opsec lapse

Militaries around the world spend countless hours training, developing policies, and implementing best operational security practices, so imagine the size of the egg on the face of the Dutch navy when journalists managed to track one of its warships for less than the cost of some hagelslag and a coffee.…

We hear Sweden is lovely place for workloads to visit

Microsoft Azure capacity woes are back, and worse than ever, judging by the complaints of UK users.…

Starts new one on boot loops

More than a year after giving administrators an unwelcome surprise with a security update that turned out to be a Windows Server 2025 upgrade, Microsoft has marked the incident as "resolved."…

The laser was used to study the physics of stellar interiors and fusion energy, among other things.

The sharks might also be the most physiologically vulnerable to warming waters.

Grinex says needed hacking resources "available exclusively to ... unfriendly states."

Probation for man who used stolen logins and posted private info on social media.

She's well qualified but will need to navigate RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda.

Is $20,000–$25,000 a sweet spot for secondhand electric cars? We think so.

Data centers face construction delays and energy bottleneck as resistance grows.

The two newest Fire Sticks block apps from outside of Amazon's store.

"The world that was, doesn't exist. It's just us, trying to hold onto what was."

"I've been thinking about reentry for three straight years."