President Trump said a U.S. delegation will head to Pakistan to resume talks to end the war with Iran, but Tehran expressed reluctance after the U.S. seized one of its cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

"We women are the land guardians and keepers," says Theonila Roka Matbob of Papua New Guinea, recognized for her efforts to repair the environmental and social harms caused by a copper and gold mine.

U.S. forces seized an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. And, an online government portal for processing tariff refunds launches today.

Contradictory election mailers, conflicting TV ads and vague wording on the ballot have Virginia voters saying that the campaigns on either side of the redistricting vote are muddying the waters.

A new art exhibit in Phoenix features some of the world's prickliest plants. It could also help save them.

The Trump administration asserts that a nearly 50-year-old law requiring the preservation of presidential records is unconstitutional. Historians warn important papers could be destroyed.

A new English-only driving test rule in Florida is fueling a surge in strategy lessons for Spanish speakers where they learn to figure out the questions without having to take English language courses.

The American Academy of Neurology issued guidance on using wearable data devices, like smartwatches or an Oura Ring, to track key health metrics that can help flag serious conditions.

Anger over the data center boom has spilled into politics with voters unseating local politicians who support them. It's become an issue hard to ignore in the midterm elections.

Trump announces planned Iran war peace talks, Tehran signals it may boycott negotiations amid ongoing U.S. naval pressure, businesses can now apply for Trump tariff refunds.

Japan's meteorological agency warns another, stronger earthquake may hit in the next week,

British Jews have described to BBC Panorama how they are experiencing a rise in antisemitism.

A DNA and legal project has identified the fathers of 20 children born near a military base in Kenya.

Three boys and five girls, aged between three to 11, were killed in the shooting on Sunday, officials say.

Woman says she was left feeling shaken and believes the chain needs to do more to improve security.

New European border rules have caused delays at airports across the continent, affecting flights.

Mitch Winehouse accused two friends of profiting from items sold at auctions in the United States.

The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

A bottle containing a type of accelerant was thrown at the synagogue in Harrow, north-west London.

Wilson has been accused of defaming the star of her film The Deb over an incident involving a bath in Bondi.

Out-of-band or out of control?

Microsoft has pushed out an out-of-band update to address the restart loop that hit some Windows Server devices after its April update.…

Bit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say experts

UK AI datacenter capacity could migrate away from London as power shortages, planning constraints and reduced reliance on low-latency connections to financial firms make other locations more attractive.…

Companies get to keep IP developed for government projects

The UK government is opening £80 million in AI procurement talks with tech firms, drawing on its £500 million sovereign capability fund.…

Workstations that made distant desktops feel local is headed for a slow shutdown

HP is quietly pulling the plug on its Teradici-derived remote desktop business, shelving HP Anyware and its zero client hardware barely a few years after betting big on the tech as the backbone of its hybrid work push.…

Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket nailed the landing this weekend, but failed at the crucial part of delivering a satellite to a usable orbit.…

£330M deal leaves service with no ownership of software built to connect trusts to the platform

The UK government is considering ending Palantir's involvement in a central NHS data platform after coming under fire from MPs, unions, and campaigners.…

Committee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy use

MPs are probing whether radically different, low-energy chip designs can stop AI from turning the UK's power grid into a bottleneck.…

We've been here before. This time, we may not get out

Opinion Fans of the creative arts often find out where creators gather to talk among themselves, then sneak in to eavesdrop on what those masters of the art talk about. Golden insights, daring concepts, cutting-edge thinking? Not a bit. Gossip, if you're lucky. Travel miseries, if you're not. Mostly, they talk about money.…

Blames outfit called Context.ai, which reckons an agentic OAuth tangle caused the incident

Vercel, the company that created the open source Next.js web development framework, has a data leak that led to compromise of some customer credentials, and blamed an outfit called Context.ai for the mess.…

You can't fix what you can't see – especially when your workspace is a maelstrom

Who, Me? Welcome to yet another Monday, and therefore to this week's edition of Who, Me? For those unfamiliar, it's The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace messes, and how you tried to clean them up without dirtying your career prospects.…

How does HEVC implementation really work these days?

Blue Origin's reused first stage hit its targets, but New Glenn's upper stage did not.

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.