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Evergrande was once China's biggest real estate firm, with a stock market valuation of more than $50bn.
Their relations remain warm just as those between their leaders seems decidedly chilly, Chris Mason writes.
Mercenaries recruited since at least 2020 for illegal migrant ‘pushbacks’ in Greece, BBC told
The families of Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau, who died at an end-of-term tea party, say the initial investigation was flawed.
Southport murder inquiry findings and Trump deletes Jesus-like AI image lead Tuesday's papers.
It is the couple's first visit to Australia since 2018 when they were working royals.
Crude prices jumped above $100 on Monday after talks failed between the two sides at the weekend.
The Philippine President challenged anyone questioning his fitness to join him in the gym.
Japan’s space exploration agency (JAXA) thinks a manufacturing process that didn’t properly take into account the qualities of an adhesive caused the December 2025 failure of a satellite launch using its locally developed H3 rocket.…
After a wave of defections to the Liberals from opposition parties, projected special election victories help solidify the Canadian PM's hold on power.
Lord George Robertson will use a speech to accuse "non-military experts in the Treasury" of "vandalism".
Sade, Phil Collins, Billy Idol and Joy Division/New Order are also among the recipients.
The Texas man, who also faces federal felony charges, allegedly had documents advocating for violence against AI executives.
Hours after posting a lengthy message critiquing the pontiff, the US president shared a Jesus-like image of himself that he has since deleted.
Stars like Emma Thompson and Ben Stiller signed an open letter against the deal, which Paramount said will ensure creators "have more avenues for their work, not fewer".
Artificial intelligence has achieved mass adoption faster than the personal computer or the internet, reaching 53 percent of the population in just three years. The number of harmful AI incidents has increased correspondingly. And both experts and laypeople believe the impact will be felt in two areas: Elections and relationships.…
The BBC spoke to people in Sydney to hear their thoughts on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s trip to Australia.
Footage shows staff injecting without gloves and reusing syringes, but the hospital boss refuses to acknowledge it is genuine.
The Lebanese government go into peace talks with limited influence over the group.
Some hospital trusts tell the BBC previous action has seen shorter waits, faster decisions and calmer corridors.
yesterday
Four women have accused Eric Swalwell, an ex-candidate for California governor, of misconduct ranging from sexual harassment to rape, which he denies.
BBC's Sarah Smith looks at how the president's most ardent supporters are reacting to his latest social media posts.
Crooks are exploiting four Microsoft vulnerabilities - one patched 14 years ago and another tied to ransomware activity - according to America's lead cyber-defense agency, which on Monday gave federal agencies two weeks to patch them.…
BBC Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega joins paramedics on duty in Nabatieh - a city that was once vibrant, but is now abandoned.
Legislation ratifying the agreement will not progress this parliamentary term due to a stand-off with the White House.
Begoña Gómez is accused of using her relationship with Pedro Sánchez to advance her private career.
Cloudflare is rebuilding Wrangler’s command-line tooling by adding commands for products and interfaces that still lack CLI support. And yes, AI agents are a big reason why.…
The PM condemns the US president's threat that a "whole civilisation" would die unless Iran agreed to end the war.
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Once the AI darling of programmers everywhere, Anthropic's Claude has been stumbling mightily, both in terms of cost and perceived quality. The service was down briefly on Monday with "a major outage," service trouble that only amplifies growing discontent from customers that even a bot can see.…
The Reform UK leader is a shareholder in British bitcoin company Stack and appeared in a promotional video.
ServiceNow's latest product announcements show how hardcore the company has become about embedding AI across its go-to-market strategy.…
Failing to appreciate the danger the killer posed led to "catastrophic consequences", an inquiry finds.
The vast majority did not believe Hezbollah or Iran had been severely weakened by weeks of Israeli and US attacks, according to the poll.
The US president insults the pope and depicts himself as Jesus
Inquiry finds Southport killer's family and authorities could have prevented attack.
Imagine getting asked to do something by a person in authority. An unknown malware slinger targeting open source software developers via Slack impersonated a real Linux Foundation official and used pages hosted on Google.com to steal developers' credentials and take over their systems.…
Anthropic last month reduced the TTL (time to live) for the Claude Code prompt cache from one hour to five minutes for many requests, but said this should not increase costs despite users reporting faster depleting quotas.…
Opinion For a sector at the heart of US economic growth, AI claims and counter-claims remain curiously hard to reconcile. Models are improving at the speed of light, AI firms claim, yet the message from the codeface remains that benefits are still more than balanced by the downsides.…
Oracle customers have been warned to watch for changes in support and pricing as Larry Ellison’s company makes huge datacenter spending commitments to support its AI ambitions.…
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ShinyHunters is back, this time pinning Rockstar Games to its leak site and claiming it didn't so much hack its way in as walk through a door someone else left wide open.…
The post came just hours after the president posted a lengthy message critical of Pope Leo.
The Federal Aviation Administration continues to face an air traffic controller shortage, and it's hoping that a new demographic of potential applicants can fill the ranks: Video gamers. …
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Linus Torvalds has released version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.…
The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner explains how the US blockade of Iranian ports will work.
The US president accuses Leo of being "weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy".
Britain is set to buy interceptors from a homegrown startup to counter Iranian Shahed-style attack drones, equipping both its own armed forces and allies in the Persian Gulf region.…
The three defendants continue to face a charge of criminal damage.
Only a few vessels have crossed the strait since the US-Iran ceasefire deal, according to BBC Verify analysis.
Why spill blood when you can share whisky?
When we use the word today, we probably don't use it in conjunction with crawling parasites.
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In a world full of wars, contracting economic conditions, and exploding RAM costs, there's one piece of good news. NASA's Artemis II mission has been an unqualified success, having carried four astronauts farther from Earth than any humans before them.…
Measuring acceleration due to gravity at the site, researchers found it was a surprising 9.7639 meters per second squared.
Donald Trump says that the US is going to start blockading the Strait of Hormuz. What does this mean in practice?
Diezani Alison-Madueke is accused of living “a life of luxury” in the UK at properties paid for and refurbished by industry figures.
A school in the area is shut after the incident, which police believe was targeted.
Looking at a very distant galaxy, astronomers think they may have observed some of the first stars in the universe.
There's plenty to see in the night sky, and you don’t even need a telescope!
The US military has the capability to mount a blockade of vessels moving in and out of the Gulf. The question is: to what end?
Tests for several infections have so far come back negative, with the WHO supporting the local investigation.
Helium may be one of the most underestimated resources when it comes to our international dependence.
Copilot is on its way out of Notepad, but a return to the basic text editor is not on the cards.…
Rosie Slater is also handed a 12-month community order after making £4,000 from fraudulent sales.
Rolls-Royce has said the project will create 8,000 jobs across Britain.
Jordan Herring, 22, is jailed for five years following the attack in November 2022.
Trump sued the newspaper and its owners including Rupert Murdoch in a Florida federal court last summer and asked for at least $10b (£7.4bn) in damages.
Booking.com is warning customers that their reservation details may have been exposed to unknown attackers, in the latest reminder that the travel giant still can't quite keep a lid on the data flowing through its platform.…
We still don't know which human species made or used Acheulean tools.
Microsoft is giving the Windows Insider program another makeover in the hope of making it less baffling.…
It’s almost like the most powerful health official in the world jumped to conclusions without looking at the evidence.
Inquiry Chair Sir Adrian Fulford said the Southport attack could have been prevented if authorities and the killer's parents had acted more quickly.
Thomas Partey, 32, pleads not guilty to two new allegations of rape at Southwark Crown Court.
Experts say noble false widow spiders could be to blame for an increase in bites being treated in hospital.
A federal spending watchdog has found the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) faced "challenges" in understanding the correct number of licenses it should hold for the top five vendors in its $985 million annual software expenditure.…
Snowflake is betting that the biggest bottleneck to building more and better AI agents isn't the models themselves but whether the data those agents depend on is clean, accessible, and governed, Snowflake’s director of product management James Rowland-Jones told The Register.…
Airlines warn of further disruption due to the introduction of a new EU digital border control system.
With 144m daily users, the gaming company is extending its tech to introduce two age‑specific accounts.
Keir Starmer's approach has provoked anger from the Conservatives and Reform UK.
Batten down the hatches, it's a big one.
Many critics say the third season of the hit HBO drama doesn't live up to its previous heights.
The singer, who died at the age of 92, will be cremated with full state honours on Monday.
The conflict in the Middle East could raise the cost of petrol, household energy bills and even food.
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Adobe has released a fix for an Acrobat and Reader zero-day that attackers had been exploiting for months.…
The incident marks the second time the games giant has been hacked by young, English-speaking hackers.
New guidelines suggest we might be doing more harm than good to our feathered friends.
Basic-Fit, Europe's largest gym chain, has confirmed data including the bank details of around a million customers was stolen from its systems.…
Virologists are learning more about this rare but deadly pathogen.
Sir Keir Starmer is planning a law which will mean that the UK government can adopt EU single market rules, without them being voted on in Parliament.
After his performance, the former Migos rapper was described by his mum as a "miracle walking".
Viktor Orbán's 16 years in power is over, defeated by a 45-year-old ex-party insider who convinced a majority of Hungarians to oust him.
UK minesweepers and anti-drone capabilities will continue operating in the region, as pressure ramps up to reopen the key shipping route.
Opinion You want to know who's even sicker of President Donald Trump than American liberals? European governments and companies who are realizing that putting all their eggs in one US basket was a stupid move.…
IFL
Its a bird eat bird world.
Security chiefs will not be able to block spies from giving evidence to future public inquiries.
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NHS England is spending £46,000 on "benchmarking" as it gears up for what looks like the next round of negotiations behind one of the UK public sector's biggest software deals.…
The failure of negotiations at the weekend has raised concerns that the global energy crisis will deepen.
It's no-man's land. Literally.
Schools are being told to cut down on sugary desserts, and provide more vegetables and whole grains.
European leaders share Hungarians' joy over the ousting of Vladimir Putin's EU ally, writes the BBC's Europe editor.
The singer voluntarily checks herself into a treatment facility, three weeks before her court date.
France’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) will drop Windows desktops, and adopt Linux instead.…
Who, Me? The best part of the working day is lunchtime, but The Register tries to start Mondays in a pleasant fashion by bringing you a new installment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your mistakes and detail your escapes.…
Helen could never have imagined a virus she may have had for years would leave her with brain damage.
Sandy Peters broke her nose, cheekbones and teeth when she was crashed into by a Forest e-bike rider.
Asia In Brief China’s National Data Administration last Friday published its action plan for AI in education which calls for upskilling of the nation’s citizens to ensure they can put the technology to work.…
Top Democratic allies intensified pressure on him to exit the gubernatorial race.
Péter Magyar's historic win offers peace for a country exhausted by the tensions of Viktor Orbán's rule, Nick Thorpe reports from Budapest.
Six people were killed and ten injured after a man went on a stabbing rampage in an Australian mall.
Rajini Vaidyanathan broadcasts from outside Hungary's parliament as crowds hear about the prime minister's concession.
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FEATURE Spring has sprung and that means another wave of open weights AI models from the likes of Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Nvidia. But this time feels a bit different.…
Nine million voters have been dropped from rolls in West Bengal, raising concerns over exclusion and fairness.
A woman who wed a romance conman says victims receive abuse on social media "blaming" them.
Moerdijk has been earmarked for removal, to make way for a vast electricity substation.
Starmer ruling out the UK's role in the US blockade of Iran's ports and Hungary electing a new leader lead Monday's papers.
Kettle Anthropic dropped a doozy on us this week with the launch of Mythos, an AI model it says is able to find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities with a shocking level of ability. …
Leo XIV wants the world's attention on a continent vital to the Church's future, an aide says.
Across 5,200 km of Canada's Arctic, some 1,300 members of Canada's military spent two winter months on a mission to meet the challenges of a changing north.
The government had previously announced opening hour extensions in England and Wales for some knockout matches - but has now widened the eligibility.
Despite strides in feminism, why do teen girls still seem to view themselves through the lens of boys?
2026-04-12
The conflict is now a test of wills - Iran’s capacity to absorb strikes versus Trump’s tolerance for the war's costs.
The allegations, which he denies, have upended his bid to be California's next governor.
Claims made by leaders of six political parties who took part in a TV debate for the 2026 Holyrood election campaign are checked.
It was a difficult mission, negotiating on behalf of a president whose messaging on the war has been mixed from the start.
The 50th Oliviers at the Royal Albert Hall provided some memorable conversations away from the ceremony.
Red Hat appears to have fired its entire engineering team in China, which it no longer thinks is a country it needs to prioritize. Most of the team will move to India.…
The beloved bear's stage show won seven prizes including best new musical and three acting prizes.
The SNP leader made the claim in the BBC's televised debate ahead of next month's Scottish election.
'A truly historic moment': Hungarian opposition wins election landslide
The 19-year-old woman killed in the attack is understood to be Jamie-Lea Biscoe.
The Nigerian Air Force has not addressed reports it struck a village market while targeting militants.
Jeremy Kimmel at The Amelia Scott says the town has been shaped by centuries of royal connections.
ITN, which is also named as a respondent to Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije' case, said it is "denied in full".
Stage stars posed for pictures ahead of a night of celebration for UK theatre at the Royal Albert Hall.
Her infectious voice got fans dancing and singing, becoming the soundtrack for generations of Indians.
"We're taking it one step at a time," Declan Holmes said, as his 66-year-old father recovers in hospital.
About 100 people missed their flights because of border control queues at Milan's Linate airport.
A property company owned by the Reform UK deputy leader failed to pay £91,000 in tax on dividends, according to the Sunday Times.
The bus, believed to be operated by Ember, left the road on Sunday morning north of Aviemore.
The star spent much of the gig singing along to YouTube videos of early hits like Baby and Never say Never.
Campbell Scott's body was found in a pineapple sack about 60 miles from Nairobi where he was attending a conference in February last year.
Vibe coding works. I wish it didn't. But it does, well enough. And barring some revolution that overturns the new world disorder, machine learning cannot be undone.…
And what stopped an agreement?
A current six-day strike in England is set to end at 06:59 on Monday.
A 27-year-old man is due to appear in court on Monday charged with Finbar Sullivan's murder.
The world waits for Trump's verdict after the talks failed to yield a deal, writes the BBC's Lyse Doucet.
Most polls favour Péter Magyar, who fronts a grassroots party, but PM Viktor Orbán has been in a defiant mood.
A woman in her 20s was followed after leaving a nightclub and raped outside Epsom Methodist Church.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his nation's forces would respond "symmetrically" to Russian attacks.
The health secretary says the UK - which is not involved in the talks - wants to see a deal that ends Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Event organisers said it would show the "resistance" to the ban on the group was "stronger than ever".
Easter festivities are muted in Kharkiv as Ukrainians expect fighting to flare up again after a weekend truce.
In recent years Scotland has struck out on a different path to the rest of the UK when it comes to income tax and social security.
A BBC Disclosure investigation has uncovered significant questions about what happened at the hotel where Charmain died.
A university student in the US is in data limbo after Apple removed a character from its Czech keyboard, preventing him from entering his iPhone passcode.…
The Lionesses’ journey to their historic victory in the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025.
The incident occurred at a "tourist event attended by many young people", Haiti's prime minister says.
The BBC's Europe Editor Katya Adler reports from Prime Minister Victor Orbán's home town of Felscút.
The US vice-president made the announcement after 21 hours of negotiations in Islamabad, Pakistan.
BBC Radio 5 Live's Matt Chorley talks to voters in England, Scotland and Wales to get the real story on May's elections.
The birds could be reintroduced as early as next year following a £1m injection from the government.
The public inquiry was set up following a knife attack which led to the deaths of three young girls.
BBC Science Editor Rebecca Morelle reflects on how it felt to watch history being made.
The cast of the Balamory reboot coming soon to our screens say it's a 'love letter to the original' children's TV hit.
Misinformation about contraception has been spreading on social media, alongside the "very real frustrations" of women complaining about side effects.
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"Slopaganda" is too weak a term to capture how powerful this "highly sophisticated" content is, one expert says.
The UK government believes the rise of China's car industry could be good for UK consumers and industry.
2026-04-11
Some of the UK papers today follow Sir Keir Starmer shelving his Chagos Islands deal, and the historic Iran-US peace talks in Pakistan.
The four astronauts flew around the Moon in a nine-day voyage that took them further from Earth than any humans in history.
Hundreds of forecourts have run out of petrol and diesel due to the protests involving slow-moving convoys
Police fatally shot the assailant after he ignored at least 20 demands to drop the weapon, said NYPD.
It’s a historic day.
The festival in California was also forced to cancel a set by DJ Anyma on Friday because of strong winds.
FEATURE Salesforce CEO and chief “SaaSquatch” Mark Benioff boasted about the wins his company's ITSM product had last quarter in the terms a proud dad uses to talk about the art work his kids taped to the refrigerator.…
A man, 37, is arrested in relation to the incident and remains in custody, police say.
Four people in a minibus were also taken to hospital, Leicestershire Police say.
UK government officials say they are not entirely abandoning the agreement but have run out of time.
The 66-year-old broadcaster is "responding well to treatment", his employer GB News said in a statement.
Finbar Sullivan, 21, was fatally stabbed at Primrose Hill in north London.
A man is charged over the deaths of two men and two women who drowned trying to cross the Channel on Thursday.
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FEATURE Two supply chain attacks in March infected open source tools with malware and used this access to steal secrets from tens of thousands – if not more – organizations. We won't know the full blast radius for months.…
BBC Middle East Correspondent Hugo Bachega hears from people affected by this week's attacks.
All the biggest science news stories of the week.
Is hikikomori, a phenomenon in Japan where people isolate themselves from society, spreading to other parts of the world?
The colors of spacesuits changed significantly over the years before NASA settled on orange.
The Artemis crew gave President Trump a short explanation, but there’s a bit more to it.
The trade body for European airports said if the Strait of Hormuz did not open in the next three weeks, there could be shortages.
After a brief spell of unusually warm weather this week, the weekend brings an April weather reset with a return to lower temperatures and showers in the forecast.
Vaccines were offered to thousands of people who may have been exposed, including university students and school pupils in the area.
Allan working alongside Sir David Attenborough on BBC documentaries including The Blue Planet, Planet Earth and frozen Planet.
Hungary's government has discovered the hard way that the biggest threat to national security might just be its own password choices.…
Four astronauts splashed down in the Pacific after a nine-day voyage that took them further from Earth than any humans.
Planet Labs says it is restricting coverage of Iran and parts of the Middle East indefinitely.
Four astronauts. One historic mission. Venturing further from Earth than ever before.
She has now placed herself squarely into the Epstein story and at odds with the administration, which wants to end the investigation.
The new arch, if approved, would be taller than the US Capitol building and the Lincoln Memorial.
For years, rumours swirled about who could be behind the bodies that washed up on the shores of Gilgo Beach.
News of the Duke of Sussex being sued for defamation by a charity he co-founded dominates several of Saturday's front pages.
Glastonbury is having a fallow year but there are huge line-ups at many other festivals this year - and something different if you fancy that too.
As the US vice-president leads peace talks with Iran, he must balance warring factions, a demanding boss and his own political future.
The four crew members of the Artemis II are back on Earth after their 10-day mission to the Moon.
The mission was almost flawless but there are considerable obstacles ahead before a Moon landing.
The astronauts will have medical checks and will be reunited with their families.
As Péter Magyar's opposition movement leads in the polls, tens of thousands of anti-Orbán supporters fill Heroes' Square in Budapest.
Face-to-face talks would mark the highest-level engagement between Iran and the US since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Some think it's a severe case of eczema. Others say it's a condition called TSW. But doctors are stuck in a dilemma.
Researchers say more speech and interaction around children can aid the development of young brains.
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Students and graduates have described their shock at being told they were not eligible for the loans they received.
While the world is gripped by an energy crisis, Britain is facing another key driver of higher costs.
2026-04-10
The Irish military will be deployed to move vehicles "blocking critical infrastructure".
San Francisco police have arrested a 20-year-old suspect.
Lebanon will only take part in talks with Israel if a ceasefire is already in place, a senior official tells the BBC.
His criticism of four conservative commentators who have spoken out against the Iran war highlights the tension in his base.
The vehicle fell from a height of 10m near the San Sebastián de La Gomera, according to Spanish news outlet El Mundo.
Prince Harry left the charity last year in an acrimonious dispute over how Sentebale was being managed.
A new government ad campaign is trying to persuade gamers to apply for air safety roles.
The disintegration of the pair's friendship has benefits - and the PM is getting steadily more comfortable at taking advantage.
Tanker firms are being advised not to pay Iran any levies in return for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
Peace talks between the US and Iran are due to begin in Pakistan on Saturday.
Charlie Cano was filmed during an undercover Panorama investigation at Charing Cross police station.
BET inhibitors work well on paper, and in the lab, but not so much in humans. There are hopes that could soon change.
The killing came as ex-security chiefs warned "government sponsored Jewish terrorism" was out of control.
The once close-knit community of Ngogo chimpanzees have been at loggerheads for the last eight years.
Firefox-maker Mozilla is calling out Microsoft after Redmond said it would scale back some Copilot features in Windows, arguing the rollback shows the company pushed AI too far without enough regard for user choice.…
IFL
After they stopped, the tombs continued to be used by other populations who moved in from the south.
Could it be a super El Niño in 2026?
The results further demystify the processes involved in free will, suggesting that our brains go through a complex evidence weighing process regardless of the decisions we make.
The road to Atlantis? Not quite, but it's still pretty cool.
Scientists document transformative results for a woman with three serious autoimmune disorders in a new case report.
Scientists have suggested a few reasons why mammals can't regenerate lost limbs, but what if the seeds of this ability still lie dormant, ready to be awoken by the absence of a very familiar molecule?
Lord Peter Mandelson is set to be fined for public urination but the council cannot find an address.
The King and Queen's state visit to the US faces more questions about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Using over 30 years of observations, scientists have described for the first time how this "exceedingly rare" split arose.
The case was the first prosecution of its kind in Scotland, in that Lee Milne was responsible for killing his wife even though she jumped to her death.
Finally, some good news.
The Global Electronics Association (GEA) warns that the US ban on foreign-made network routers is impractical because few are made domestically, leaving consumers with little choice and delaying access to next-gen products, just as Wi-Fi 7 adoption should be ramping up.…
The Facebook owner recently lost a landmark social media addiction trial in California
The EU's much-delayed Entry/Exit System will change the way UK passengers travel to 29 countries.
A Workday-based HR platform rollout at Minnesota State universities and colleges likely left more than a thousand faculty and staff with payroll errors.…
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Two men and two women, whose identities have not yet been released, died when they tried to board a water taxi off the coast of Saint Etienne au Mont, near Calais.
The 61-year-old denies threatening physical violence and plying his wife with drugs to force her into having sex with strangers.
Racegoers put their spring trends on show on one of the best days for fashion at Aintree.
The by-election was called after the Cliftonville division's serving councillor was jailed for coercive behaviour.
Two dogs seized from the same address have been put down, police say.
Critical minerals, cryptocurrency, and CIA co-operation - how Asim Munir, Trump’s “favourite field marshal”, may have pulled off the diplomatic coup of the century.
El Niño is expected to develop later this year, but how strong will it be and what will this mean for the weather in the UK and around the world?
The astronauts are expected to splash down in the early evening off the coast of California.
Dutch police have warned that dozens of women and girls were coerced into degrading sexual acts on camera in several countries.
Speaking during a three-day visit to the Middle East, the prime minister says the current ceasefire is "fragile".
The bold and sensual fashion house has been struggling with debt amidst a slowdown in global luxury spending.
Breanna Olson said the tech was able to re-establish the expression and connection her ALS had eroded.
Visitors to the CPUID website were briefly exposed to malware this week after attackers hijacked part of its backend, turning trusted download links into a delivery mechanism for something far less welcome.…
Amazon's board of directors is urging shareholders to reject a proposal that would have the megacorp disclose more information on the impact of datacenters on its climate commitments.…
Most UK business leaders will keep AI at the top of their spending priorities, with 65 percent planning to maintain investment whether they see immediate measurable returns or not.…
Researchers monitored participants' brain activity to understand how expert echolocators are able to perceive the location of objects through sound alone.
Vladimir Putin announced the truce, which will last from Saturday afternoon on 11 April through Easter Sunday.
Opinion Anthropic describes Project Glasswing as a coalition of tech giants committing $100 million in AI resources to hunt down and fix long-hidden vulnerabilities in critical open source software that it's finding with its new Mythos AI program. Or as The Reg put it, "an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities."…
A Tourette's campaigner involuntarily shouted a racial slur while two black actors were on stage.
The UK government is seeking views on radiofrequency jammers as it prepares legislation to ban the controversial devices.…
The London singer shaped the music for the first two series but has since said he is "done" with it.
Dilshad Shamo and Ali Khdir are sentenced for the smuggling of 100 migrants a week for two years.
One of the world's most active volcanoes has been erupting on and off since December 2024.
For centuries, this extinct horse-like animal was believed to be a distinct species, but it turns out to be closely related to modern zebra.
And his purge of top generals at the Pentagon
And can the Democrats win them back?
The growing questions from Republicans on how Trump is running the country
The growing questions from Republicans on how Trump is running the country
And can the Democrats win them back?
The extra funding is for police in London and Manchester to protect religious sites from hate crime.
The government-owned company that runs the UK's most important nuclear site has begun plans to replace its legacy SAP ERP – mainstream support for which ends in 2027 – via a £33 million award to the German vendor, without competition.…
Astronauts in space have been jamming to Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club, but how does it all happen?
The first lady has denied any connection to Jeffrey Epstein in a surprise statement, and called on Congress to hear from victims.
Fewer than three-tenths of those required to sign up for quarterly software-based Making Tax Digital (MTD) reporting for the latest tax year that started this month have done so, according to HM Revenue & Customs.…
L/Cpl Ryan Rudd was not reported missing until two weeks after he was last seen in Selby.
Cheng Li-wun is the Kuomintang's first sitting leader to visit China in a decade.
On Call Welcome to another edition of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your stories of tech support incidents that crossed a line.…
Importers are in line for tariff refunds. But whether everyone who paid the for the tariffs will get money back is a trickier question.
The prime minister says "shocks" like the conflict in Iran are becoming more frequent.
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Thursday delivered his annual letter to shareholders and it’s full of interesting news about the cloud and e-tail giant.…
The Byatt family say parts of the Upper Coquet valley road are falling into the river.
Lord Bath reflects on the 60th anniversary of Longleat, first opened in 1966.
Sylvie Baker says she can look for studio space after the US star's purchase gave her more exposure.
Pearl's mother Carole suffered a bleed on the brain at their home in Croydon last summer.
Chloe and George Gardner were driven to their ceremony by a stranger passing by.
A scientist says the discovery by seven-year-old Nina Evans could possibly come from a mammoth.
Universal basic income is an idea that hasn’t gained much traction, but South Korea on Thursday implemented a universal basic mobile data access scheme.…
The Artemis crew will return to Earth on 10 April after a 10-day mission that took them around the Moon.
US First Lady Melania Trump is splashed across several of the papers, after she made a surprise White House address on Thursday.
The platforms have grown in popularity, with some users making bets on global events.
The US president accused Iran of "doing a very poor job" with the waterway as Israel and Lebanon to begin peace talks.
The UK's largest bird charity has issued new guidance advising people to stop using feeders to help wildlife thrive.
The scheme, to fast-track cases and to cut the court backlog, is being expanded in England and Wales.
The Bronx-born rapper's global hit Planet Rock is credited with shaping hip-hop in the 1980s.
Microsoft has told its channel partners to get ready for a 20 percent price cut for Windows 365 cloud PCs, effective May 1st.…
Fuel costs have already soared, flights and mortgages are also rising - and food could soon do the same.
Large language models can be very persuasive, and researchers say that's a problem when they’re used to create advertising.…
Both sides have reason to end the war but share no common ground.
2026-04-09
The rise in energy prices has hit Asia particularly hard as many nations are heavily reliant on Gulf oil.
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper will call for shipping in the Strait of Hormuz to be toll-free and unhindered.
The Irish military will be deployed to move vehicles "blocking critical infrastructure".
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A new extortion crew has targeted “several dozen high-value” corporations through phishing and helpdesk social-engineering, according to Google.…
The Orion spacecraft is scheduled to bring the Artemis II crew back to Earth on 10 April.
Police remain at the scene in Dormanstown, where one dog was destroyed earlier.
The project was part of a package of tech investment promising the UK could become an AI superpower.
Crude prices plunged on Wednesday after a deal was announced that includes the opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Celebrity superfans and travel expert Alfie Watts join Tyler West to discuss the episode!
Trump has given priority to Afrikaners, a white minority group he says is being persecuted. South Africa has objected to his characterisation.
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If you need AI agents to do a lot of ongoing tasks for your business, Anthropic has a new answer for you. The Claude maker has introduced Managed Agents, a service to help organizations create and deploy cloud-hosted knowledge work automations.…
How much attention did you pay to what happened in the world over the past seven days?
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.…
She tells reporters at the White House that any claims linking the two "need to end today".
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.…
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.…
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.…
An "opportunistic" thief is jailed for stealing a handbag from a pub that happened to contain a £2.2m Fabergé egg.
Israel says Lebanon is not included in the ceasefire the US agreed to halt the war with Iran.
Defence Secretary John Healey says there is "no evidence" of any damage to UK infrastructure in the Atlantic.
I've spent over a decade telling anyone who'd listen that S3 is not a filesystem, which in retrospect was a really weird way to start some conversations. So when AWS launched S3 Files on Tuesday – which lets you mount an S3 bucket as an NFS share – I did what any reasonable person would do: I spun up an EC2 instance and started trying to break it.…
Agriculture manufacturing giant John Deere has agreed to a proposed $99 million settlement following a class action lawsuit in Illinois.…
Carlo Tritta, now aged 19, encouraged the teenage girl to send sexually explicit images of herself.
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.…
The BBC has been able to obtain testimony from parents and those trying to help children deal with the distress that comes with war.
Exclusive Nutanix plans to support KubeVirt to allow its customers to run both containers and VMs on the edge.…
The British perfume designer and Zara are being sued by Estée Lauder over a collaboration.
The most short-lived species have the best chance of evolving their way out of this mess, and that’s not us.
Hold onto your butts: strange things are brewing in the Western Pacific.
Just because we have satellites now doesn’t mean we know everything about the world.
It's a hot-button issue.
The animals were probably eaten before being made into tools.
Ever fallen down a meme rabbit hole and accidentally solved a decades-long engineering problem?
The event may have played a role in the downfall of several ancient civilizations, including the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia.
This study is filled with incredible discoveries and mysterious floating things.
Nancy Pexton, 69, denies murdering her sister Jennifer Abbott Dauward and stealing her Rolex.
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.…
Presidential hopeful Jordan Bardella was pictured on a Corsican beach with Princess Maria Carolina Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
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.…
Jeremy Hansen received a call from the prime minister as Canada's first astronaut to travel into deep space as part of the Artemis II mission.
Hackers have been quietly exploiting what appears to be a zero-day in Adobe Acrobat Reader for months, using booby-trapped PDFs to profile targets and decide who's worth fully compromising.…
The victim's mother was "shocked, bewildered and angry" after finding messages from Carlo Tritta.
The proposed new rule would end decades of mandatory self-registration for Selective Service in the US.
On July 9, 1962, the night sky in Hawaii glowed with an eerie light from afar.
Microsoft says that it will work on how it communicates with developers after two leading open source figures were suddenly locked out of their accounts, leaving them unable to sign updates.…
The K-Pop band are battered by the elements as they launch their marathon world tour in Goyang.
The cameraman and photographer won eight Emmy Awards for his work on acclaimed series like Blue Planet alongside Sir David Attenborough.
Rescue efforts remain under way after the incident off the coast of northern France, local media is reporting.
Quantum computing exists in a sort of superposition with regard to cryptography – it's both a pending threat and a technology of no immediate consequence for decryption.…
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Apple Intelligence, the personal AI system integrated into newer Macs, iPhones, and other iThings, can be hijacked using prompt injection, forcing the model into producing an attacker-controlled result and putting millions of users at risk, researchers have shown.…
America's war with Iran is jacking up the pressure on computing markets already struggling with memory shortages and component cost inflation, meaning buyers should brace themselves for even higher prices this year.…
Party leader Zack Polanski accuses Labour of failing to build enough social and affordable homes.
British warship and aircraft deployed to deter Russian submarine action.
Human light emission is not changing in the same way everywhere and the trends are far from smooth.
The move means owners of Kindles released before 2013 will be unable to download new e-books.
Key US objectives at the start of the war were to stop Iran getting a nuclear weapon and degrading its arsenal.
Fewer than 300 of the gold "Una and the Lion" coins were produced, with one found in a Bangor estate.
Julia Liuson, president of Microsoft's developer division (DevDiv), will resign at the end of June, though she will continue in an advisory role.…
There has been a growing debate around the repayment terms of Plan 2 student loans in England.
Iran's deputy foreign minister says Israeli strikes on Lebanon are a 'grave violation' of the deal.
Jay Bayliss is unfit to face criminal proceedings but successfully reapplied for his driving licence.
The charity said many of the animals found at the home in January were in a poor condition with "matted and crusted coats" that required treatment.
The Israeli military claims Mohammed Wishah was a "Hamas terrorist" - which the Qatar-based network has previously denied.
UK-listed oil and gas outfit Zephyr Energy plc has admitted a cyber incident siphoned off roughly £700,000 after a single payment to a contractor was quietly redirected to an attacker-controlled account.…
The development is an unusual consequence of Northern Ireland's strict licensing laws.
Lynette Hooker fell overboard from a small boat and was swept out to sea by strong currents, her husband told authorities.
Rhun ap Iorwerth said a Plaid government would cut waiting times, help with childcare costs and grow economy.
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is recruiting three directors general to lead aspects of the UK government's digital work, all on pay in excess of the prime minister's salary.…
Capita has limited the online functionality of its Civil Service Pensions Scheme (CSPS) member portal after confirming an "issue" briefly exposed the personal data of public sector workers.…
The 42-year-old gold miner was standing in waist-high water when rescuers found him in a flooded tunnel.
One of the biggest mysteries in publishing is solved, as The Housemaid writer reveals her real name.
Christopher Sullivan pays tribute to his son, filmmaking student Finbar Sullivan, who was killed.
The British government is spending £15 million over the next three years to improve crime mapping in England and Wales, partly to allow more targeted policing of knife crime.…
The Civil Guard said the Lyons' organisation in Spain has been taken apart, with 14 arrests in four countries and 20 others under investigation.
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Every breath you take, every move you make, you should thank Captorhinus aguti.
The Microsoft and ValueLicensing legal tussle will enter an appeals phase this month, attracting the attention of a multibillion-pound class action against the Windows giant.…
Despite a ceasefire, the Iran war will continue to affect farmers' costs and therefore food prices.
Ben Roberts-Smith's case is not only unprecedented for Australia but "extraordinary" for the globe too, historians say.
From the ancient Greeks and Egyptian pharaohs like Tutankhamun, to European royal families whose inbreeding shaped entire dynasties, humans have a long history of keeping marriage “in the family.” But why did attitudes shift so dramatically in the West? And what does modern genetic science actually tell us about the risks?
PWNED Welcome back to Pwned, the column where we share war stories from IT soldiers who shot themselves – or watched someone else shoot themselves – in the foot. Today's tale shows that even when you're setting up something as simple as fitness gear, there's no excuse for leaving security credentials lying around.…
At least 182 people were killed and 890 others wounded, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
The four astronauts said they were returning to Earth with "so many more pictures, so many more stories".
Faith Harrison survived a seven-hour heart attack at the age of 22.
He lives in his home among huge objects including a giant pencil, clothes peg and a 13-amp plug.
The papers on Thursday focus on the aftermath of the two-week ceasefire deal agreed between the US, Israel and Iran.
The BBC’s Science Editor Rebecca Morelle has spoken to the Artemis II crew ahead of their likely splashdown on Saturday.
It boils down to a single, loaded question: Is BTS straying from K-pop in trying to woo the world?
US exhibition squad, the Harlem Globetrotters, met the pontiff in the Vatican, helping him to spin a basketball on the tip of his finger.
The semiconductor researcher was found dead after “hostile questioning” by US law enforcement.
The lifelong outdoors advocate and former president of retailer REI returned to Everest decades later with his son.
The US President says Nato "wasn't there when we needed them" during the Iran war.
Those affected have been told their courses were never eligible for maintenance or childcare loans
Nearly two years after extolling the virtues of open source AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is singing a different tune. …
From fashion diplomacy in the US to a transparent raincoat, the late Queen's style was a powerful formula.
Traci Quinn, who was jailed for a drugs offence, has transformed herself and set up a successful firm.
