Canada claps back at Trump's efforts to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a giant billboard reading: "Lake Ontario — Now and Always." But tech giant Google has said it is renaming the lake for U.S. users, as President Trump demanded.
Exclusive: Meet the inaugural winner of Fat Marmot Week
Dawn was crowned fattest marmot by popular vote.
Are you sure that Kimmel clip was real? Late-night AI deepfakes are spreading online
While social media is rife with AI celebrity deepfakes, videos featuring late night TV hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart are are easier to create than other kinds of deepfakes and potentially more disruptive.
'A glorious dawn launch': NASA's newest space telescope has left the Earth
The tour-bus-sized telescope aims to unravel cosmic mysteries and identify more than 100,000 planets beyond our solar system.
How a comic book store got swept into the tariff storm
Tariffs continue to rile all kinds of American businesses more than a year after Trump unveiled his first set of tariffs — including a comic book store owner in Ohio.
From Appalachia to Africa: Why Dolly Parton was beloved across the continent
Dolly Parton's songs traveled far beyond Nashville. Across Africa, musicians embraced her stories of hardship, heartbreak and humble beginnings — and made them their own.
Nepal warns of possible fresh flooding as communities grapple with devastation
Authorities in Nepal warned of possible fresh flooding on Sunday and urged residents in flood-affected districts to remain on high alert after water levels rose in the Bhotekoshi River.
Medicare's pilot GLP-1 discount program has a catch. Some sick patients don't qualify
Medicare launched a pilot program that could streamline the process to get GLP-1s, with some seniors paying just $50 a month. But many people with the most serious illnesses won't get that discount.
Trump administration deports relative of Afghans who helped US military to Central African Republic
His family in Afghanistan had received threats from the Taliban because of the work performed by his brothers in support of the U.S. military.
We tested how AI chatbots would handle foreign propaganda. They did surprisingly well
In a test, popular AI chatbots mostly debunked falsehoods spread by other countries and avoided uncritically spreading falsehoods better than search engines. AI summaries above search results fared worse.
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PC Harper's killers to stay in jail as PM announces changes to early release scheme
Andy Burnham tells BBC Breakfast anyone convicted of manslaughter will be excluded from the early release scheme in the Sentencing Act.
Police release one of two men arrested over fatal house fire
Police continue to question a 23-year-old man over the fire in which a girl, 7, and her aunt died.
British woman killed in stabbing at German railway station
A 27-year-old German man was arrested immediately after the incident in Rosenheim, Bavaria.
Church names pastor killed by falling sign at Christian festival
Robert Guanco, 41, was a pastor at Jesus the Living Water Church in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
Burnham gets the early prison release changes he wanted - but at what cost?
The prime minister says he will keep hundreds more criminals behind bars but doing so requires complex changes.
We all share a 15-acre Georgian mansion for the price of a two-bed house
Co-housing residents live in a Grade II listed mansion for the same price as a two-bed house.
I was told I was unworthy to be a mother, then they stole my baby
Marion McMillan was one of about 250,000 women who were forced to have their babies adopted between 1949 and 1976.
They fell in love - then had to check they weren't brother and sister
A French couple - both conceived by sperm donors - wanted children. But with home DNA tests illegal, how could they be sure they were not related?
Six ways parents could make the return to school a little easier
Parenting experts give their top tips on how to make sure back-to-school runs as smoothly as possible.
Iceland votes against restarting EU membership talks
Broadcaster RUV reports that 52.8% of voters rejected the government's proposal to resume accession talks.
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Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats
AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's
Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems
Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range
At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads
Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website
More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi
German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters
How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system?
Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense
LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI
It looks a bit clunky, but it does the job – and on your own computer
Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted
Tree huggers aim to end blanket critical infrastructure status for bit barns and ensure environmental standards are met
US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies
The IT specialist began contacting a foreign government within days of being assigned to the DIA’s Insider Threat Division
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Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.
I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.
Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.
Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name