For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality.

President Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve goes before a Senate committee today — but Kevin Warsh's confirmation could be held up by forces that are outside his control.

Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

Taken together, these four features can create a trancelike state that can keep us stuck on social media apps or video games for hours. Children are particularly vulnerable.

A man standing atop one of the historic Teotihuacan pyramids opened fire on tourists Monday, killing one Canadian and leaving at least 13 people, authorities said.

Cuba's government confirmed that it had recently met with U.S. officials on the island as tensions between the two sides remain high over the U.S. energy blockade of the Caribbean country.

The approval clears a final set of hurdles for Japan's postwar arms sales and facilitate its future sale of weapons such as a next-generation fighter jet and combat drones.

Live election results: Get the latest on Virginia's special election on redistricting.

The Onion says it has a new deal to take over conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars media company. If approved, the satirical news website could turn Infowars into a parody of itself.

The 65-year-old Cook will turn over CEO duties to Apple's head of hardware products, John Ternus, in September. Cook will remain with the company as executive chairman.

Sir Olly Robbins has defended his actions amid a row over the vetting of the former US ambassador.

The drop has been largely driven by a rise in the number of people not actively seeking work.

One petrol retailer says he is experiencing about five drive-offs a week at each forecourt, costing him thousands.

The "landmark" legislation aims to stop anyone born after 1 January 2009 from taking up smoking to create a smoke-free generation.

The items, which she says are "part of my history", disappeared after her slot with Sabrina Carpenter.

A bottle containing a type of accelerant was thrown through the window of the synagogue.

Baroness Karren Brady steps down as vice-chair of Premier League side West Ham after 16 years.

The new proposal would involve the publication licensing Alex Jones's company, which faces liquidation.

People have to climb down 15 stone steps to reach it the redeveloped bridal path - and cross stiles.

Dozens of midwifery, physiotherapy and nursing students contact BBC over fears they won't get jobs.

No facial recognition privacy intrusions either! Well, maybe a little

London's Metropolitan Police is trialing new retail technology to help curtail the city's pervasive shoplifting problem… and it doesn't rely on live facial recognition (LFR).…

90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there's paperwork

Ministers are moving to turn England's patchwork of school phone bans into law, after peers backed fresh changes to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill in a Monday vote.…

Spoiler: There's no magic value. Just a timer, some kernel calls, and too much coffee

Windows has always had a built-in portal to the very recent past: Task Manager's CPU usage meter.…

Fake emails already doing the rounds as ransomware crew boasts about what it allegedly stole

UK enterprise software consultancy The Adaptavist Group is investigating a security breach after an intruder logged in with stolen credentials, while a ransomware crew claims it grabbed far more than the company is currently admitting.…

Admins are tired of taking photos, so this enables secure on-site unattended enrolment

Japanese industrial giant Panasonic has created a new form of QR code it says will only work on designated devices and environments.…

And China is loving it

Iranian media is claiming that the US used backdoors and/or botnets to disable networking equipment during the current war, and Chinese state media is dining out on the allegations.…

Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess

The NASA Office of Inspector General, the aerospace agency’s auditor, fears that work on next-generation spacesuits won’t finish in time to use them for the planned Artemis III Moon landing mission in 2028.…

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Microsoft's GitHub has stopped accepting new Copilot individual subscriptions while the code hosting biz figures out how it can meet its service commitments without breaking the bank.…

A lesson in how not to respond to vulnerability reports

UPDATED Vibe-coding platform Lovable is pooh-poohing a researcher’s finding that anyone could open a free account on the service and read other users' sensitive info, including credentials, chat history, and source code. However, the company’s story keeps changing: First it attributed the publicly exposed info to "intentional behavior" and "unclear documentation," then threw bug-bounty service HackerOne under the bus.…

The struggles continue for Fermi America's 17 GW bit barn ambitions

It’s been a weekend filled with dizzying changes in the boardroom at datacenter wannabe Fermi America as it hopes eventually to expand its West Texas campus to about 17 gigawatts of behind-the-meter generation capacity.…

Problems with the ground system would have "put current GPS military and civilian capabilities at risk."

Cook will be executive chairman, but will no longer run the company day to day.

Experts point out a series of flaws, including small size and no control group.

Importers can now request refunds, two months after Trump's Supreme Court loss.

Energy management and speed differentials are the problems of the day.

A humanoid robot's record half-marathon run shows China's speed in robotics.

AI tracks account for a small fraction of Deezer streams, and most are demonetized for fraud.

The future war film, from the director of Moon, is adapted from 2000 AD's comic series.

Kea parrot missing his upper beak "has rewritten what disability means for behaviorally complex species."

Cyberdefenses could be exposed faster than fixes could be deployed.