Vladimir Putin has visited Kursk for the first time since his troops ejected Ukrainian forces from the Russian city.

Vladimir Putin has visited Kursk for the first time since his troops ejected Ukrainian forces from the Russian city.

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Marks and Spencer (M&S) has warned investors it is facing a £300m hit to trading profits as a result of last month's ransomware attack.

The winners of Wednesday's Europa League final between Manchester United and Tottenham will be the lowest league finishers ever to win a major European trophy. BBC Sport examines their seasons, motives and stats.

A pest control expert says the huge numbers of rats on the quay in Derry are enjoying near perfect conditions.

A new wax figure of the Princess of Wales has been unveiled at Madame Tussauds London.

Unravelling the case of a US fugitive who claimed to be the victim of mistaken identity after being traced in Glasgow.

Teenagers say it is easy to get hold of the products, which experts warn can be highly addictive.

As Bruno Fernandes leads Man Utd out against Tottenham in the Europa League final, BBC Sport look at his journey - including almost signing for Spurs.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy's rare condemnation of Israel's bombing of Gaza dominates Tuesday's papers.

Simone White's family say young people need to know the dangers of drinking bootleg alcohol abroad.

A record 67,000 square kilometres of primary rainforest was lost from the tropics in 2024, with global warming and El Niño contributing to a massive jump in fire-driven damage

A powerful film told through the eyes of young protesters fighting back against racism

A door was thrown in a skip while other items were not properly packaged, fire investigators claim.

The pace of inflation surged last month to an annual rate of 3.5%, its highest level in more than a year, according to official figures which pointed to hikes to essential household bills.

Tropical forests provide a buffer against climate change, but disappeared faster than ever recorded last year.

Argues the world needs China’s AI researchers working on his chips so the rest of us benefit

Computex  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said the USA’s ban on exports of his company’s most powerful accelerators to China is “precisely the wrong policy” and “a failure”.…

RDNA 4 makes workstation debut with 32GB R9700

Computex  AMD aims to extend its lead over Intel in the high-end desktop (HEDT) and workstation arenas with its 9000-series Threadripper workstation CPUs teased at Computex this week.…

AMD is officially announcing its Radeon RX 9060 XT GPU at Computex today. Like the number implies, this graphics card will challenge Nvidia’s recently released RTX 5060, with AMD offering models with 8GB or 16GB of VRAM. AMD is following Nvidia’s controversial choice to ship a modern GPU with just 8GB of VRAM in the […]

Government commissioners have been accused of "sabotaging" negotiations to end the long-running bin strike in Birmingham.

Scientists say the new method can diagnose the exact type of tumour within hours, rather than weeks.

Nothing like insecure code in security suites

The "ongoing exploitation" of two Ivanti bugs has now extended beyond on-premises environments and hit customers' cloud instances, according to security shop Wiz.…

The government wants universities to check the safety of halls and reach out to families after a death.

The former head of GCHQ has told Sky News that the long-term consequences of Israel's military offensive in Gaza will extend to "Europe and beyond".

The enigmatic crustacean Alicella gigantea is the world’s largest amphipod, but like all deep-sea creatures it hasn’t proved easy to find

The enigmatic crustacean Alicella gigantea is the world’s largest amphipod, but like all deep-sea creatures it hasn’t proved easy to find

Choc Fac brings gen mods to Android, Chrome, pretty much everywhere else

Google IO  Google technical folk laid out a menu of geeky delights on Tuesday at Google I/O, in the hope that software developers will pay to build upon the Chocolate Factory's platforms and services.…

Foreign Secretary David Lammy summons the Israeli ambassador and suspends talks on a trade deal.

The South African president will try to reset relations with the US in a high-stakes White House meeting on Wednesday.

Pep Guardiola has said he will quit as Manchester City manager unless he is given a smaller squad next season.

Baby Niveen was evacuated to Jordan for medical treatment, but has now been sent back to Gaza.

The new option in its marquee search engine comes as the firm is facing competition from AI firms.

Three people have died after severe thunderstorms caused flooding in the Var region of southeastern France, according to reports.

Kevin de Bruyne bid an emotional send-off from Etihad Stadium for the final time on Tuesday night - and the moment even brought Pep Guardiola to tears.

After every round of Premier League matches this season, Troy Deeney gives us his team of the week. Do you agree with his choices?

Fortnite is once again available on the iOS App Store in the US, according to Epic Games. You can get it from the App Store here. Epic says it has returned to the Epic Games Store and AltStore as well. Apple kicked Fortnite off the App Store nearly five years ago after Epic Games added […]

The creator of the hit political satire The Thick of It has revealed which scene in the series cabinet ministers have confessed to experiencing in real life.

Victoria had been receiving specialist care at the Highland Wildlife Park since late last year.

The world’s largest aircraft, called WindRunner, is being designed to carry huge wind turbine blades – but the US military is looking into its own applications for the proposed plane

The news that he has "aggressive" prostate cancer has some medics asking why it was not detected sooner.

Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking trial heard testimony from the mother of Cassie Ventura as well as a male exotic dancer.

The May 18th issue of the Chicago Sun-Times features dozens of pages of recommended summer activities: new trends, outdoor activities, and books to read. But some of the recommendations point to fake, AI-generated books, and other articles quote and cite people that don’t appear to exist. Alongside actual books like Call Me By Your Name […]

Has Labour got the right strategy to tackle Reform UK?

Google is adding its Gemini AI assistant to Chrome, the company announced at Google I/O on Tuesday.  Initially, Gemini will be able to “clarify complex information on any webpage you’re reading or summarize information,” according to a blog post from Google Labs and Gemini VP Josh Woodward. Google envisions that Gemini in Chrome will later […]

Here in sunny Mountain View, California, I am sequestered in a teeny tiny box. Outside, there's a long line of tech journalists, and we are all here for one thing: to try out Project Moohan and Google's Android XR smart glasses prototypes. (The Project Mariner booth is maybe 10 feet away and remarkably empty.) While […]

The decision has been condemned by trans rights advocates and by gender critical activists.

Google has announced it’s rolling out the colorful new Android 16 interface for beta testers as reported by 9to5Google. The QPR1 beta includes the company’s Material 3 Expressive design language revealed officially last week and includes new visuals for the launcher, notifications, lock screen, and a very Apple-inspired quick settings page. QPRs, or quarterly platform […]

Pagasa is barely big enough for a plane to land, but it stands tall against an armada of Chinese ships.

The mother of Cassie Ventura has told a court she felt "physically sick" when her daughter told her Sean "Diddy" Combs had threatened to "release two explicit sex tapes" after discovering his long-time girlfriend was dating someone else.

Donald Trump has announced the concept for his Golden Dome missile defence system – which includes plans for the US put weapons in space for the first time.

It is not necessary to have held a Mastercard to make a claim following ruling which

Search? That's now artificial intelligence, too

Google IO  Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and its Google subsidiary, opened the 17th annual Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday, evangelizing the transformational power of artificial intelligence, as he did last year and the year before that.…

The US secretary of state calls for Syria's transitional authorities to be supported to prevent their "potential collapse".

A medical student who lost all four limbs due to sepsis has called on people to get the meningitis vaccine to help prevent them going through a similar ordeal.

The PM sounded genuinely angry at Israel's aid blockade and expanded Gaza offensive, writes diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams.

Editions is the name of a new game publishing label launched by Lost in Cult, the same company known for making gorgeous books about video games, like Outer Wilds: Design Works. The new label’s aim is to preserve indie games, including some that haven’t been released on physical media before, and to celebrate their artistic […]

Southampton identify Lens manager Will Still as their leading candidate for the vacant position at St Mary's Stadium.

The Trump administration is working to limit access to covid booster shots by creating more regulatory hoops for companies developing vaccines for “healthy persons.” The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it’s only prioritizing covid vaccine approvals for adults older than 65 and others over the age of 6 months who have at least one […]

Ruben Amorim is not under pressure at Manchester United, but thinks his team may be looked at "in a different way" if they beat Tottenham in Bilbao on Wednesday.

At least three people have died in the flooding which swept across southern France.

Israel agreed on Sunday to lift an 11-week aid blockade on the Gaza Strip, where experts have warned of a looming famine.

Republican defense of states' rights doesn't apply to curtailing LLMs, apparently

State attorneys general and activists are sounding the alarm over a provision of President Trump's budget proposal, which passed out of committee over the weekend and is headed to the House for a potential vote that would strip states of the ability to regulate AI. …

Thames Water has "withdrawn" plans to pay senior bosses bonuses linked to the company securing a £3bn emergency loan, the environment secretary has said.

Google just wrapped up its big keynote at I/O 2025. As expected, the keynote was chock-full of AI-related announcements, ranging from updates across Google’s image and video generation models, to new features in Search and Gmail. But there were some surprises too, like a new AI filmmaking app and an update to Project Starline. If […]

A boy, 17, and girl, 16, plead guilty to killing the animals found in a field on 3 May.

Sterling Williams is accused of helping 10 inmates escape the Orleans Parish Jail on Friday.

A British doctor working in Gaza has urged world leaders to "stop talking and do something" as he described how people are starving and the "massive extent of destruction".

For now the Holy See says the idea of even hosting talks is more a hope than a concrete plan.

Joel Le Scouarnec, who has been on trial since February, has admitted to sexually abusing hundreds of patients.

Diana Johnson MP, who has campaigned with victims, tells BBC slow progress is "disappointing".

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling astronomers

The Google smart glasses era is back, sort of. Today, Google and Xreal announced a strategic partnership for a new Android XR device called Project Aura at the Google I/O developer conference. This is officially the second Android XR device since the platform was launched last December. The first is Samsung’s Project Moohan, but that’s […]

Google’s second era of smart glasses is off to a chic start. At its I/O developer conference today, Google announced that it’ll be partnering with Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker to create smart glasses that people will actually want to wear. The partnership hints that Google is taking style a lot more seriously this […]

Google wants to make it easier to create AI-generated videos, and it has a new tool to do it. It’s called Flow, and Google is announcing it alongside its new Veo 3 video generation model, more controls for its Veo 2 model, and a new image generation model, Imagen 4.  With Flow, you can use […]

Google is going to let Chrome’s password manager automatically change your password when it detects one that is weak, the company announced at its Google I/O conference. “When Chrome detects a compromised password during sign-in, Google Password Manager prompts the user with an option to fix it automatically,” according to a blog post. “On supported […]

Google is taking its virtual try-on feature to a new level. Instead of seeing what a piece of clothing might look like on a wide range of models, it’s now testing a feature that lets you upload a photo of yourself to see how it might look on you. The new feature is rolling out […]

Google is launching a new version of its image generation model, called Imagen 4, and the company says that it offers “stunning quality” and “superior typography.” “Our latest Imagen model combines speed with precision to create stunning images,” Eli Collins, VP of product at Google Deepmind, says in a blog post. “Imagen 4 has remarkable […]

Since its original launch at Google I/O 2024, Project Astra has become a testing ground for Google's AI assistant ambitions. The multimodal, all-seeing bot is not a consumer product, really, and it won't soon be available to anyone outside of a small group of testers. What Astra represents instead is a collection of Google's biggest, […]

There's a new tab in Google Search. You might have seen it recently. It's called AI Mode, and it brings a Gemini- or ChatGPT-style chatbot right into your web search experience. You can use it to find links, but also to quickly surface information, ask follow-up questions, or ask Google's AI models to synthesize things […]

Asked if he had any regrets about his political activities, Musk said: "I did what needed to be done."

Novak Djokovic says he "couldn't get more" out of his partnership with Andy Murray but is in no rush to find a new coach as the French Open approaches.

Israel says its reopened access for a limited number of aid trucks into Gaza, after blocking supplies from entering the territory for the last 11 weeks. BBC Verify has been looking into the latest strikes and aid situation in Gaza.

Dr Rose has been describing life at Nassar Hospital in Gazan city of Khan Younis.

UK suspends Israel trade talks and summons ambassador over “intolerable” Gaza offensive

Mix Master Mike will spin up Nutanix, VMware, and Red Hat on the same beastly cluster

Dell has created a private cloud that isn't actually a private cloud – but will let users create private clouds built on software stacks from VMware, Nutanix, and Red Hat.…

It is unclear whether UK travellers can avoid long queues this summer and use e-gates at European airports.

An emotional Ange Postecoglou angrily refuted suggestion he is a "clown" in a combative news conference on the eve of Tottenham's Europa League final against Manchester United.

A court will decide whether the firm should be wound up on Wednesday

The University of Michigan has announced that its Zettawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort pulse laser System (ZEUS) produced 2 petawatts, or 2 quadrillion watts of power during its first experiment. That’s more than “100 times the global electricity power output,” according to the university, but don’t expect it to be harnessed to recreate the Death Star. Those intensely […]

Creative Cloud Pro arrives with more AI, higher prices, and a familiar feeling of déjà vu

New generative AI products mean new higher prices for individual Adobe Creative Cloud customers, unless they downgrade to a version with fewer features.…

Everton condemn the "threatening, racist, and misogynistic" abuse aimed towards the wife of Dominic Calvert-Lewin.

The UK has suspended trade talks with Israel, in protest at what David Lammy called the "intolerable" conditions in Gaza, which he said would leave the population at risk of starvation.

We’re back at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California, for Google I/O. This year, we’re not expecting much hardware, but we’re naturally expecting a lot of AI news. The pressure is on to prove that ChatGPT won’t make Google Search obsolete, and that Google has what it takes for Gemini to become a household […]

Over the next decade, a wave of solar and wind projects will sweep across the UK to meet both net zero goals and growing energy demand from data centres and AI.

Fender has released a free new recording app called Fender Studio that seems pretty powerful. The app, available on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux, supports multitrack recording and offers a host of effects that emulate guitar pedals and several of the company’s iconic amplifiers over the years.  Some of the simulated amps include a […]

The daytime show will be cut by half an hour as

Good afterevenmorn! Well, I’m talking boycotts again, as there is a lot of it going around. And they are absolutely kicking up all kinds of dust. This is great – making your voice heard with the only thing these companies seem to understand; their bottom lines.

Lucy Connolly called for migrant hotels to be "set on fire" on the day of the Southport attacks.

A family of burglars who raided the home of Premier League footballer Alexander Isak have been jailed.