House passes Pentagon funding bill and a blueprint to unlock new dollars for Iran war
Republicans passed more than $1 trillion for the Pentagon alongside a budget blueprint to fund the war with Iran and implement provisions of President Trump's election overhaul bill.
In South Dakota, public media endures a year after federal funding was wiped out
We check in on one state public broadcasting network a year after President Trump signed a law ending federal funding of public media.
Trump administration signs commercial nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia
The agreement gives American companies priority access to nuclear reactors and fuel to Saudi Arabia. It's expected to last decades and be worth billions of dollars.
African countries are facing rising rates of cancer. What's being done about it?
Cancer diagnoses are on the rise in sub-Saharan Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean regions, but care lags behind.
What to know about Ukraine's military shakeup
After a week of nationwide protests over the direction of Ukraine's military strategy in the ongoing war with Russia, the Ukrainian military has a new commander, Mykhailo Drapatyi. Here's what to know.
A strange transmissible cancer is spreading through the catfish in this lake
For more than a decade, there's been something fishy going on in a lake that straddles Vermont and the province of Quebec. It involves cancer, a kind of catfish, and — possibly — clues about how tumors metastasize.
In pursuit of 'Instagram face,' are we losing the imperfections that make us human?
Plastic surgery is becoming so normalized and undetectable, it's changing our relationship to reality. The New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino considers how beauty standards have dovetailed with AI.
People are watching the Reflecting Pool like reality TV. What does that say about us?
It's not just watching paint dry. The twists and turns of the Reflecting Pool repairs, originally a two-week project, have kept bloggers and viewers busy all summer.
Independent autopsy 'inconclusive' on cause of death for 18-year-old Nolan Wells in Mississippi
An independent autopsy of the body of Nolan Wells shows that the cause of death is undetermined pending an investigation, according to attorney Ben Crump.
Greetings from Jerusalem, whose holy sites host some of the oldest colonies of nesting swifts
The scythe-winged birds have nested in the cracks of the Western Wall and other holy sites in Jerusalem for thousands of years.
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US signs landmark nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia
The US Department of Energy says the "peaceful" co-operation agreement will give US firms "great access" to the Saudi nuclear energy programme.
Houthis claim attack on oil tankers as US launches more strikes on Iran
The Houthi attacks would be the first in the Red Sea since the Iran-backed group announced a "maritime embargo" against Saudi Arabia.
PC Harper's widow criticises early prisoner release plan as Burnham to review scheme
Lissie Harper says the possible early release of prisoners is "deplorable", after reports that two of PC Harper's killers could be freed early.
Hope for thousands of MS patients as 'life-changing' drug now on NHS in England
Fampridine boosts nerve signals to make it easier to walk, with up to 5,000 eligible.
Rain to return this weekend as parts of UK on brink of drought
Following weeks of mainly dry weather, we can welcome some rain this weekend, but it is not going to be that much, as Chris Fawkes explains.
Glasgow set to welcome the world for scaled back Commonwealth Games
Athletes from 74 countries and territories will compete for 215 gold medals over 10 days of competition.
Most sewage spills in England may be illegal, new research suggests
The new analysis from a prominent water campaigner emerged after secret court documents were leaked.
Most bus fares in England to be capped at £2 from January
The government says the policy will "help with the cost of living and give people the breathing space they need"
Ukrainian drones hit Russian online giant retailer Wildberries for second time
Logistics hubs belonging to Wildberries in the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions were struck overnight.
Airport drop-off fees up by a third - here are the priciest
The cost of parking closest to the terminal just for a few minutes has hit £10 at two of the UK's busiest airports.
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Google is hoarding TPUs to chase artificial general intelligence
Yet the Chocolate Factory is also buying more third-party compute capacity to handle demand for the G-Cloud
OpenAI scored an own goal with HuggingFace attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning
Closed models with guardrails can still cause harm, but may also not be able to fix problems they caused
Google Cloud is killing it
It's Alphabet's fastest-growing business and now makes up more than a fifth of the juggernaut's revenue and operating profit
Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display
ScreenWall's creator tells El Reg he doesn't want those obsolete devices going to waste
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow
As Trump dismantles the US-led world order, what the rest of the world really needs is sovereign apps and datacenters, argues 'enshittification' coiner
Fresh off AI layoffs, Block now wants to whack Slack with agent-human collab tool
Because what could be more appealing to humans than sharing virtual space with AI?
Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days
Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports
Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter
Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy
Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor
A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted
Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own
xAI's sidebar agent promises analysis and financial models – for a price
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Sales were up at Tesla but so were costs and spending
Q2 2026 was profitable, but barely.
Microsoft brings original Xbox backward compatibility to Windows PCs
First four compatible titles can be run with an 11-year-old graphics card.
ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over
FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard.
Clayface trailer leans into the body horror
"The people I trusted betrayed me. The justice system failed me."
Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers
Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.
Next Space Force chief throws cold water on the idea of space privateers
It turns out some of Benjamin Franklin's opinions from 240 years ago are still relevant today.
OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
"This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents," Hugging Face CEO says.
What happens when you try to chop a photon in half?
A mirror that moves mid-photon could release a shower of new photons.
Samsung unveils new Galaxy Z8 foldables and Galaxy Watches, available August 7
Samsung's new foldables are slimmer, faster, and more expensive.
Unlimited AI tokens aren't unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply
Troops received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens.