"We were blessed to have her," said her daughter, actress Laura Dern. The two acted together in many films and the HBO show Enlightened.

A judge in Colorado has rejected a plea deal for a funeral home owner accused of storing nearly 190 decomposing bodies in a bug-infested building, after relatives of the deceased argued the proposed 15 to 20-year sentence was far too lenient.

Rogues committed extortion while working for infosec firms

A ransomware negotiator and an incident response manager at two separate cybersecurity firms have been indicted for allegedly carrying out ransomware attacks of their own against multiple US companies.…

While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day, many great iPad deals are available outside of those times. The day-to-day discounts come and go like changing winds, so there’s often some amount to be saved, particularly on Apple’s most affordable iPad, the iPad Mini, and the […]

Still available via API, the developer-facing AI isn't even really designed to answer general-purpose questions

If Google's Gemma were an employee, it might be facing HR right now. The company yanked the model from AI Studio after it allegedly invented criminal accusations about a US senator and a conservative activist. However, it seems like the aggrieved parties went out of their way to get the offending output.…

Sir Keir Starmer says AI will improve public services, put money in your pocket, create jobs and improve your children's future.

Last month, General Motors added its name to the growing list of automakers who are pursuing a novel type of partially automated technology called "eyes-off driving." What they didn't do, though, is provide a thorough description of how they'll take responsibility when something goes wrong. Not to be confused with the type of "eyes-off" distracted […]

Guns N' Roses will also top the bill at the rock and metal festival, with dozens of other acts to appear.

Gary O'Neil pulls out of the running to become Wolves manager after coming close to a shock return.

Zohran Mamdani calls himself "Donald Trump's worst nightmare". They are the words of a man living the dream.

Last year's winner scored a $65M funding round on a $300M valuation

Cloud and AI security startups have two weeks to apply for a program that fast-tracks access to investors and mentors from Amazon Web Services, CrowdStrike, and Nvidia.…

And what does new polling tell us about how US voters see Trump?

Apple has launched its App Store on the web, offering a central hub where you can browse through different categories of apps across all of the company’s devices, as spotted earlier by MacRumors and 9to5Mac. Now, when you navigate to apps.apple.com, you’ll see the revamped interface instead of a webpage that just contains information about […]

Gaming laptops come in various shapes and sizes, though many of the heavy hitters remain thick and beefy machines that maximize cooling to get the most out of their powerful chips. Most are awash in RGB lighting and edgy designs geared toward capital-G Gamers, but there are also thinner, lighter options that are more portable […]

Former England goalkeeper Mary Earps tells BBC Sport she did not write her autobiography to "tear anyone down" and feels reaction to it has been "distorted".

A person claiming to be one of the University of Pennsylvania hackers says that about "1.2 million lines of data" will be kept private for the group to sell before it is made public. The group also plans to make other documents public. In comments to The Verge, the hacker or hackers distanced themselves from […]

England back row Ben Earl says he trusts Steve Borthwick if the head coach decides to deploy him as a starting centre.

Strangulation pornography will be banned following a review which found such images have helped to establish it as a sexual norm.

Stephen Crean was among those injured in a knife attack on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday evening.

Euro 2028 co-hosts England face playing one group match and a possible last-16 game away from Wembley.

BBC Verify uses witness statements and video evidence to piece together a timeline of a devastating stabbing.

With everything from the next Knives Out movie to the final season of Stranger Things on the way, there’s going to be a ton of great stuff to stream in the coming weeks. And if you want to watch it all in glorious 4K resolution, Google’s TV Streamer (4K) is a great streaming device that’s […]

Apple has shared a new intro sound and video that will accompany things you watch on the newly-renamed Apple TV streaming service. Apple rebranded Apple TV Plus to just Apple TV last month, and the previous intro prominently highlighted the plus, so it makes sense that Apple made a new version to accompany the updated […]

Your Party membership stands at 50,000, Sky News can reveal.

A force is investigating three other knife-related incidents in Peterborough over the weekend.

The UK has begun sharing quantum research with other members of the G7 and Australia, as the race to develop the new technology heats up.

Witnesses talk about what they saw on the train where a mass stabbing has taken place.

Amazon deal still dwarfed by $250B Azure commitment made as part of OpenAI's for-profit transformation

OpenAI has signed a seven-year, $38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services, adding another hyperscaler alongside Microsoft Azure for its growing AI compute needs. Where it's getting all this money was not disclosed.…

The technology secretary says O2's higher-than-expected price increase is "disappointing" given the cost of living.

The prime minister has commended the "heroic" driver and staff who were working on board a train when multiple people were stabbed on Saturday night.

A victim of the Cambridgeshire train stabbings has spoken of the injuries he suffered, as an investigation was launched into whether the suspect was involved in other incidents.

Accenture to poke around the beleaguered airline's IT infrastructure

Alaska Airlines has called in consultants to advise it on what went wrong during a late October IT meltdown that grounded flights and wreaked havoc for two days.…

Peter Mandelson was sacked in September due to his links with Jeffrey Epstein being exposed.

The spending will continue until ROI improves

Tech companies continue to sling crazy amounts of money at AI, with Microsoft announcing deals worth billions in Texas and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), while Google parent Alphabet is selling bonds in Europe to raise cash for more AI expansion.…

The ex-footballer goes on trial over social media posts about presenter Jeremy Vine and pundits Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward.

The seven-year agreement will see OpenAI gain access to Nvidia graphics processors to train its artificial intelligence models.

Old-school cargo heists reborn in the cyber age

Cybercriminals are increasingly orchestrating lucrative cargo thefts alongside organized crime groups (OCGs) in a modern-day resurgence of attacks on freight companies.…

New Ofsted inspections will go ahead as planned this month after the NAHT union's failed legal challenge.

More than 700 officers will be on duty for Aston Villa's Europa League match against Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday.

The Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), an anti-piracy organization representing Japanese IP holders like Studio Ghibli and Bandai Namco, released a letter last week asking OpenAI to stop using its members’ content to train Sora 2, as reported by Automaton. The letter states that “CODA considers that the act of replication during the machine learning […]

Coca-Cola is once again using generative AI to reimagine its classic Coke caravan holiday commercials, and in doing so, killing some of the festive joy you have for the brand. After receiving backlash for airing three AI-generated holiday commercials last year that featured gliding wheels and uncanny-looking faces, the company has doubled down with a […]

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander says there could be more facial recognition CCTV after a mass stabbing on a train.

England's Lucy Bronze is named in the Fifpro Women's World XI for the eighth straight year while Barcelona's Lamine Yamal becomes the youngest player in the Men's XI.

A gym instructor who called himself the "Anglo Jihadi" has been found guilty of planning a bomb and chemical attack on a major shopping centre.

Police horses, dogs and drones will be on patrol on Thursday as protesters plan demonstrations.

The Grammy-winning reggae singer says the storm was "very frightening, especially for my young kids".

Alzheimer's-related cognitive decline could be slowed by taking as few as 3000 steps a day, possibly due to the effects of regular exercise on brain health

Researchers point to risks in high-stakes applications as well as the potential to spread misinformation

Large language models often fail to distinguish between factual knowledge and personal belief, and are especially poor at recognizing when a belief is false.…

A member of the train staff remains in hospital in a critical but stable condition after Saturday's attack.

For Big Tech, a penny invested in AI is a penny earned… Maybe. After an indeterminate amount of time. Investors hope. On earnings calls last week, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta reported more than $350 billion this year on capital expenditures, or longer-tail investments in a company's future. All four told investors to expect the […]

Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have hinted at tax rises to come when the chancellor delivers the budget later this month.

The Reform UK leader rows back on his party's previous promise to deliver £90bn of tax cuts.

Avanti says it could be "a number of days" before normal service between Glasgow and London resumes.

A search is continuing in the Dolakha district for four other foreigners who are feared dead.

Counter-terrorism police want to see an increase in the mental health services for violence-fixated individuals, Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer has said.

The 19-year-old from Teesside, who was charged with drug trafficking, is eight months pregnant.

Memory safety trumps retro computing: Alpha, PA-RISC, m68k, SH4 face the chop in 2026

Debian's APT package manager will have a "hard requirement" on Rust from May 2026. This move may make some rather big waves.…

Thousands who fled a key frontline city in Sudan's war as it fell to paramilitaries were targeted in killing fields around it by the group, after the military's top brass secured their own safe passage.

A rickshaw driver who stole £31,000 worth of fine wine and champagne from upmarket restaurants has been spared jail after returning some of the stolen goods.

Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications for other glaciers and the rate of sea level rise

A new study suggests that changes to Hektoria Glacier are unprecedented - but not all scientists agree.

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the rules themselves are flawed

Scunthorpe United footballer Jonathan Gjoshe, 22 and Nottingham Forest fan Stephen Crean were stabbed.

Rescue teams are trying to free a worker buried under rubble in Rome after a medieval tower collapsed during renovation work.

If you haven’t upgraded your Apple Watch in years (or haven’t tried one at all) the Apple Watch SE 3 (40mm GPS) offers the best bang for your buck, and the Starlight color is down to a new all-time low of $199.99 ($50 off) at Amazon. Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song was impressed with how […]

Waymo said it plans on launching commercial robotaxi services in three new cities: San Diego, Las Vegas, and Detroit. The announcement comes after the company said it would begin rapidly scaling to bring its fully driverless technology to more people on a faster timeline. Waymo didn’t say exactly when it plans on opening up its […]

OpenAI has struck a $38 billion deal with Amazon Web Services that will give the AI giant access to “hundreds of thousands” of Nvidia GPUs to power its AI models. The seven-year partnership comes as Microsoft continues to loosen its grip on OpenAI, dropping its status as its exclusive cloud provider and losing the first […]

Maj Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned on Friday, admitting leaking a video allegedly showing abuse of a Palestinian detainee.

Help me, HOBI-WAN, you're my only hope for lunch

The European Space Agency (ESA) has coined a tortured acronym for its project to feed astronauts on long-duration missions: HOBI-WAN (Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria In Weightlessness As a source of Nutrition).…

Will Murray recently came out with his third book on The Shadow: Knight of Darkness: The Legend of The Shadow. This follows his prior books on The Shadow: Master of Mystery: The Rise of The Shadow and Dark Avenger: The Strange Saga of The Shadow .All these come from Odyssey Publications.

How the Buffalo Bills beat the Kansas City Chiefs, plus the best performers, games and talking points from week nine in the NFL.

Today, I’m talking with David Risher, who is the CEO of Lyft. I’ll just say from the jump: I think you’ll like this one, since David is refreshingly direct and doesn’t pull a lot of punches. He has on the board of Lyft for years, but he only stepped in as CEO just a couple […]

Jonathan Gjoshe "sustained non-life-threatening injuries as a result of the attack", the club says.

A jury has been given legal directions as a trial at Leicester Crown Court enters its fifth week.

The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) is to consult members on the "possibility of moving to industrial action" after its bid to bring a legal challenge against Ofsted was thrown out.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says donors could have walked away following the party's worst ever election defeat.

Nigel Farage has said Reform UK could cut the minimum wage for young people, saying there is "an argument" that it is currently "too high".

An ex-Labour councillor has appeared in court charged with blackmail after an investigation into an alleged Westminster honeytrap.

The country's Defence Minister Theo Francken said it looked like an espionage operation, but he wanted to be "cautious" about speculating.

A football agent is arrested after allegedly threatening a Premier League footballer with a gun.

Oh the irony: IEEE survey of senior techies finds demand for devs skills falling in AI-related roles

Demand for software development skills in AI-related roles is set to fall next year as agentic AI accelerates across business markets, according to an IEEE industry survey.…

Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche is frustrated after Casemiro's goal from a corner is allowed to stand, but VAR will not be changing to include them in its remit.

There are now over 10,000 satellites in orbit, more than at any point in history, and this growing number is starting to reveal how solar storms could disrupt internet mega constellations like SpaceX's Starlink

For Mike Hill and Guillermo del Toro, it all started with Frankenstein. Years ago, Hill - a sculptor and special effects artist - was exhibiting his works at a convention in Burbank. Del Toro saw some of Hill's monstrous creations on display and was so impressed that he decided to get in touch, tracking down […]

A 32-year-old man has appeared in court charged with 11 counts of attempted murder after a mass stabbing on a train and another attack hours earlier - as it emerged a professional footballer is among the injured.

Donald Trump has warned the US military "could be" deployed to Nigeria or carry out air strikes to stop what he called the killing of large numbers of Christians.

But question marks remain over the tech’s biases

London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) says the hundreds of live facial recognition (LFR) deployments across the Capital last year led to 962 arrests, according to a new report on the controversial tech's use.…

Anyone born on or after 1 January 2007 will be banned from using, buying or selling tobacco products in the archipelago.

The Redmagic 11 Pro is the first phone (outside of a OnePlus concept design, at least) to feature true liquid cooling, and it’s launching worldwide later this month — including the US, though you won’t be able to buy it direct from any carriers. We’ve seen plenty of phones launch with vapor chambers and call it […]

Australia coach Joe Schmidt says he was "disappointed, rather than distracted" by England reportedly flagging concerns over the Wallabies' tactics to the referee.

Kemi Badenoch joins Newscast after 1 year as Conservative Party leader.

Former Wolves boss Gary O'Neil is in talks over a return to the club as manager following the sacking of Vitor Pereira.

All over the world people are ageing more rapidly and succumbing to diseases that typically affected the elderly. But there are ways to turn back the clock on your biological age

Hearts' Lawrence Shankland is recalled to the Scotland squad for the World Cup qualifiers against Greece and Denmark this month.

The professional dancer said the surgery was not to treat a new cancer diagnosis.

Google says it has pulled AI model Gemma from its AI Studio platform after a Republican senator complained the model, designed for developers, “fabricated serious criminal allegations” about her.  In a post on X, Google’s official news account said the company had “seen reports of non-developers trying to use Gemma in AI Studio and ask […]

Does Discord need some stars for when Management is watching?

The maker of the Grand Theft Auto game series, Rockstar Games, has fired more than 30 coders and graphic designers in an act described by the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) as "the most blatant and ruthless act of union busting in the history of the games industry."…

Israel's former top military lawyer has been arrested after admitting leaking a video of soldiers allegedly abusing a Palestinian prisoner.

A year after flash floods killed 229 people in the Valencia region, Carlos Mazón acknowledged "mistakes" were made.

Erin Patterson is serving a life sentence for killing three relatives with a toxic mushroom meal.