A man claiming to be an FBI agent showed up to a federal jail in New York City on Wednesday night and told officers he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione, authorities said.

President said he plans to announce new Federal Reserve chair choice Friday, after criticizing incumbent Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates more aggressively.

President Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion, accusing them of failing to prevent a leak of his tax information to news outlets.

A spending agreement under consideration in the Senate would temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security while lawmakers negotiate provisions to rein in federal immigration agents.

Destin Conrad went from teen social media star to a musician touring the world on some of its biggest stages. In 2025, he put out both an R&B and jazz album and earned his first Grammy nomination.

The crossover hits stacking Grammy nods this year have little in common with the culture that birthed them — but they're winning the chart game.

Federal officials have a plan that could curb billions of dollars in overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans. But will they follow through on it?

Tom Homan, who took over leadership of the surge in Minneapolis, says he is working on a plan to reduce the force of federal agents in the Twin Cities.

Senate Democrats say they have a deal on the table to separate DHS funding from a package of five other appropriations bills. Once those bills are passed, they will have to once again be approved by the House.

Women in India were told they couldn't be paid for their eggs. The result: a black market for eggs from women in need of money to survive.

The US president's comments come as Sir Keir Starmer arrives in Shanghai on the third day of his visit to China.

Sir Keir Starmer's visit to China brought agreements on visas, services, healthcare, green tech and finance.

The officers are to face a court martial over the handling of the case of teenage soldier Jaysley Beck.

The Environment Agency says the arrests are a "vital step" into the Kidlington dump investigation.

Det Insp Joe Davenport says the killer attacked his victims in Birmingham for "violence sake".

Last year, there was a 15% annual increase in the operations and surgeons want more research.

Archaeological finds from the planned HS2 train line have been shown exclusively to the BBC.

The government has confirmed the discount for six million low-income households will continue for the rest of the decade.

The US fought IS with the Kurds for years. Now, Donald Trump is siding with Syria's new leader.

12-year-old Vivaan Sharma was one of 94 patients harmed by surgeon Yaser Jabbar

£1.3B over budget and four years late, bank searches for a way to not to bust new timetable and funding pot

A British state-owned bank is reconfiguring its modernization project, including considering reducing connections with legacy systems, as it tries to claw back schedule and budget overruns that are far beyond early plans.…

60-minute SLA was effectively useless and the contractor admitted it

On Call Welcome to another instalment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of weird and wonderful tech support jobs.…

Tools, agents, UI, and e-commerce - of course each one needs its own set of competing protocols

MCP, A2A, ACP, or UTCP? It seems like every other day, orgs add yet another AI protocol to the agentic alphabet soup, making it all the more confusing. Below, we'll share what all these abbreviations actually mean and share why they are important for the future of AI.…

BellSoft survey finds 48% prefer pre‑hardened images over managing vulnerabilities themselves

Java developers still struggle to secure containers, with nearly half (48 percent) saying they'd rather delegate security to providers of hardened containers than worry about making their own container security decisions.…

The call is coming from inside the house

opinion Maybe everything is all about timing, like the time (this week) America's lead cyber-defense agency sounded the alarm on insider threats after it came to light that its senior official uploaded sensitive documents to ChatGPT.…

To what end? Who knows? Tesla isn't even using them in its own factories yet

Elon Musk's car company is getting ready to be Skynet. Tesla, facing an 11 percent decline in automotive revenue in Q4 2025, has committed to $20 billion in capex spending this year on manufacturing and compute infrastructure. The goal: build lots of humanoid robots.…

A Labs prototype turns prompts into short, explorable 3D worlds

Google has put the video gaming industry on notice with the rollout of Project Genie, an experimental AI world-model prototype that generates explorable 3D environments from text or image prompts.…

'We're letting thousands of interns run around in our production environment'

Corporate use of AI agents in 2026 looks like the Wild West, with bots running amok and no one quite knowing what to do about it - especially when it comes to managing and securing their identities.…

The 129 year old chemical company uses Palantir-rival C3's AI as its software of choice.

ai-pocalypse The jury is still out when it comes to determining how much job loss AI is causing. However, we now have another case study. Dow Chemical blames AI automation for its plans to cut 4,500 jobs, about 12.5 percent of its work force.…

Reduce emissions? Screw that - we have money to lose and memes to generate

Fossil fuel-fired power plant development is roaring back to life in the US thanks to the AI datacenter boom, with data from 2025 suggesting we're reaching the point where the renewable energy transition - and efforts to ease carbon emissions - may well be doomed.…

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.

Texas sues Delaware nurse practitioner shipping out hundreds of abortion pills each month.

Social density increases likelihood of sticking with a location. Environmental factors had little influence.

Settlement comes more than 6 years after Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn's ordeal began.

New "Prism" workspace launches just as studies show AI-assisted papers are flooding journals with diminished quality.