The U.S. fertility rate continued its slide to historic levels, due to plunging teen pregnancies and far more women delaying motherhood into their 30s and 40s.

The priciest concessions at the Masters, beer and wine, cost just $6 each. The Georgia golf tournament prides itself on a simple and affordable menu, even as ticket prices continue to climb.

People sell wild animals for food and for traditional medicine — legally and illegally. A study looks at the risks of spillover diseases from those pangolins, giant rats and other exotic critters.

The Artemis II astronauts don't have a lot of space to exercise. That's why they've got the flywheel — a small device that can be used for strength and cardio workouts.

Mary Fariba Afsari's book, Labor, is a portrait of reproductive healthcare in post-Dobbs America. Her book also is about her Iranian heritage and her grandmother's death from an illegal abortion.

The U.S. government long saw giving international aid as a way to build goodwill throughout the world. Did it work? And what does the reducing of foreign aid mean for that effort now?

Attacks persist across the Middle East despite the two-week ceasefire deal between the U.S. and Iran. And, Bill Gates is set to testify in the investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

President Trump said that any peace deal would not allow nuclear enrichment in Iran, and would need to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, as conflicting messages surface over the terms of the ceasefire.

Yes, higher crude oil prices mean a multibillion-dollar cash infusion to the oil industry. But volatility is bad for business, and sustained high prices come with very serious drawbacks.

If you chose a cheaper health plan, you may be stuck with some hefty medical bills until you meet your deductible. Here's how to get the most out of your plan and health savings account.

The first lady has denied any connection to Jeffrey Epstein in a surprise statement, and called on Congress to hear from victims.

Defence Secretary John Healey says there is "no evidence" of any damage to UK infrastructure in the Atlantic.

An "opportunistic" thief is jailed for stealing a handbag from a pub that happened to contain a £2.2m Fabergé egg.

One of the biggest mysteries in publishing is solved, as The Housemaid writer reveals her real name.

The victim's mother was "shocked, bewildered and angry" after finding messages from Carlo Tritta.

Motoring groups have warned drivers not to expect a significant drop in costs soon.

The project was part of a package of tech investment promising the UK could become an AI superpower.

The charity says many of the animals found at the home in January were in a poor condition with "matted and crusted coats" that required treatment.

The move means owners of Kindles released before 2013 will be unable to download new e-books.

The British perfume designer and Zara are being sued by Estée Lauder over a collaboration.

Custom ASIC biz now running at a $1B annual pace for Intel

Google will continue to work with Intel, buying SmartNICs for its public cloud rather than blazing its own trail as AWS has done with its Nitro NICs.…

Cops bust latest scam, return $12m to bilked victims

US, UK, and Canadian law enforcement Thursday said that they disrupted a $45 million global cryptocurrency scam, freezing $12 million in stolen funds and identifying more than 20,000 cryptocurrency wallet addresses linked to fraud victims across 30 countries.…

C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle home

It's going to be hard holding back our tears. The C-suite lieutenants at Amazon didn’t exactly get the bumper payday that many El Reg readers would expect, particularly compared with prior years.…

Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered

AI agents should not be secret agents, at least in corporate environments. But when companies deploy software automations, they don't always have visibility into what their roboscripts are actually doing.…

Possible link to Mr. Raccoon's claimed Adobe break-in

A new extortion crew has targeted “several dozen high-value” corporations through phishing and helpdesk social-engineering, according to Google.…

FTC lawsuit lingers, while encouraging signs point to Iowa bill succeeding too

Agriculture manufacturing giant John Deere has agreed to a proposed $99 million settlement following a class action lawsuit in Illinois.…

ACM salutes Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia with $250K prize

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded its annual Prize in Computing to Matei Zaharia for his work developing open source data and analytics software, including the widely used Apache Spark analytics engine.…

Arm support is on the agenda, too, because AI is going to run on everything

Exclusive Nutanix plans to support KubeVirt to allow its customers to run both containers and VMs on the edge.…

UK and US customers stuck waiting after fleet management SaaS vendor took affected environments offline

A cybersecurity incident has knocked FleetWave into a "major outage" across the UK and US after Chevin Fleet Solutions pulled parts of its SaaS platform offline and left customers scrambling for answers.…

Sam Altman's datacenter dreams hit a wall of watts and wonkery, cooling Britain's AI ambitions

OpenAI is pausing its planned Stargate datacenter project in the UK just months after announcing it, citing the regulatory environment and cost of energy as reasons for putting it on hold.…

"I'm actually getting chills right now just thinking about it. My palms are sweating."

Appeals court denies Anthropic's emergency motion for a stay.

Yet another automaker cancels an EV for gasoline SUVs in America.

Officer created over 3,000 "deepfake" images.

Ohio man used more than 100 AI tools to make fake nudes of women and minors.

Study found shots cut urgent care and hospitalization by about 50% in healthy adults.

After the pivot to humanoid robots and AI, does Tesla want to be a car company again?

A World War II-era policy is stopping old coal plants from closing.

"I think the biggest value here is the PR. I mean, it's getting the public excited."

The unprecedented proposal would give the Trump admin access to doctors' notes.