Trump's 4D game of chess has left China in check - and now there is an anxious wait to find out how this unfolds
A strike by hundreds of Birmingham refuse workers has seen rubbish piled high on streets.
The analysis shows Israeli troops fired 100 shots during the attack which killed 15 people.
Manchester United legend Eric Cantona says co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe is "destroying" the club.
Over a weekend in April each year, the InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall Township, New Jersey host the Vintage Computer Festival East, which welcomes hundreds of attendees to a former army base to check out a bunch of vintage hardware — not only on display, but also currently in working order. “ That’s one […]
As Mohamed Salah looks set to sign a new contract at Liverpool, it appears Virgil van Dijk is also close to a new deal.
England head coach John Mitchell makes three changes to his starting XV to face Ireland in Cork in the Women's Six Nations on Saturday with World Cup-winning number eight Alex Matthews returning.
Today, I’m talking to Rohit Chopra. He was the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) until the end of January, when President Donald Trump fired him and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) began trying to dismantle the agency. The CFPB has been around for just under 15 years now. Congress created […]
Rebekah Vardy has lost an appeal after claiming Coleen Rooney's lawyers "deliberately" understated some of their client's costs during the "Wagatha Christie" libel case.
After a bit of a brief, unexpected delay due to a component issue, the Google Pixel 9A is here — and it was worth the wait. Allison Johnson’s review of the midrange phone just went live today, and the 9A seems like the ideal phone for those who want many of the same perks found […]
Hyperion ships another patch, which is nice
Belgian software house Hyperion Entertainment has released Update 3 for AmigaOS 3.2, the version of the classic operating system it launched in 2021. The update targets Amigas with 680x0 processors, including systems enhanced with PiStorm accelerator boards.…
Her directorial debut will be shown at the festival, as will the Wes Anderson movie she stars in.
Details of the case against Tate brought by four UK women are seen for the first time by BBC News.
“Live from London, it’s Saturday Night” is a phrase you’re going to start hearing on a weekly basis next year. Variety reports that Sky Studios is working on a British adaptation of NBC’s long-running Saturday Night Live sketch series. Like its American counterpart and previous international riffs on the series, Saturday Night Live UK will […]
The UK is set for yet more sunshine on Friday, with some parts seeing highs of up to 23C - almost 10C higher than average for this time of the year.
A machine controlled by AI that sprays bears with the chilli pepper chemical capsaicin could reduce dangerous confrontations with people
Around 2009, Dweezil Zappa ran into a space problem. He was busy touring the US, performing some songs written by his father, Frank. Recreating those signature “peculiar sounds,†as Zappa calls them, required lugging around a massive rig — roughly the size of two large refrigerators — held together by more than 200 connections and […]
Five people are arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and conspiracy to cause criminal damage, police say.
The foundation model supports real-time bi-directional speech
Amazon has introduced a foundation model that claims to grasp not just what you're saying, but how you're saying it - tone, hesitation, and more.…
Russian-American Ksenia Karelina was released by Moscow in return for the freeing of Russian-German Arthur Petrov.
Allison Johnson is the smartphone reviewer for The Verge, along with, as she says, “a bit of telecom on the side, which means I am a professional phone user.” She came to The Verge from DPReview, where she covered digital cameras and smartphone cameras. That looks like a cozy space. Where in your home is […]
The latest US-Russia prisoner swap is a further sign of the thawing relations between Moscow and Washington, but I think it's also an indication of how slow things are moving.
Grand National runner Celebre D'Allen dies from an infection that developed post-race, a post-mortem determines.
The deal to unite the two Italian brands has an estimated value of $1.36bn (£1.06bn).
British captain Anne Keothavong says the lack of top-20 players at Billie Jean King Cup qualifying is "a tennis problem, not a player problem".
Angela Rayner has called for an end to the "misery and disruption" caused by Birmingham's bin strikes and urged union staff to accept a pay deal.
The United Kingdom is preparing to respond to the series of tariffs President Donald Trump has introduced since taking office. New taxes on everything from pure-bred horses to bourbon are on the table, but the Labour government seems more interested in a conciliatory approach, and it’s considering sacrificing a popular tax on American tech companies […]
The Evangelical Christian has long been a fervent supporter of Israel.
License to freak out? El Reg Reader recommends reverting to pen, paper, pub
breaking Readers have flooded our mailboxes with reports that Microsoft 365 Family licensing has fallen over this morning, so those of you who provide tech support to relatives or those using the office suite for a small business, consider yourself warned.…
Oliver James MacCormack was convicted on 40 counts spanning seven years from 2015 to 2022.
The creators of the Flipper Zero, a sort of electronic Swiss army knife for communicating with other devices, have come up with another tool that’s designed to boost productivity and reduce distractions. The Busy Bar is a customizable app-connected pixelated display that lets others know when you need to be left alone to focus, but […]
The A-series Pixels have been very good over the past few years. And in the Pixel 9A, Google has taken a good midrange phone and made it great. It’s $499, which feels just right for what you get in the 9A. Spend a bit more for the Pixel 9, and you’ll get some upgrades like […]
Former FIA chief executive officer Natalie Robyn says motorsport's governing body has "serious ongoing structural challenges".
A British version of long-running US sketch show Saturday Night Live (SNL) will be coming to Sky next year.
Along with a new season of Black Mirror, Netflix might have just released its most interesting licensed game today. Season 7 of the sc-fi anthology includes an episode called “Plaything,” in which a genius coder in the ‘90s — the same one from the interactive “Bandersnatch” episode — creates a new game that’s a little […]
Black Mirror started out as a grim, dark, and nihilistic exploration of near-future tech. But with the tragic romance of “San Junipero†in season 3, the anthology slowly started to shift its priorities. Early on, everything was bad: the technology and the people. And the former was used to show how awful the latter was, […]
Chelsea midfielder Moises Caicedo has his Audi RS Q8 car seized by police after he was suspected of driving without a valid licence.
Oppo’s new Find X8 Ultra is the latest entrant in the ongoing competition between Oppo, Xiaomi, and Vivo to produce the world’s best camera phone. But unlike its rivals, Oppo has decided that bigger might not be better. Let’s be clear: the Find X8 Ultra isn’t a small phone by any means, with a 6.82-inch […]
If you think it is pensions, investments and jobs that matter most in all this, think again.
The band also released a single, Spike Island, described as a sequel to Sorted for E's and Whizz.
The 22-year-old Ipswich striker has a £30m relegation release clause and will likely leave Portman Road in the summer - but to where?
Sources say Cabinet Office chief Pat McFadden wants to "lead by example" on civil service reform.
It is the biggest lender so far to offer cheaper deals as the Bank of England is forecast to make more interest rate cuts this year.
The US president says he wants to "take care of my beautiful hair" as he eases water flow rules.
Six people have been arrested after 300 litres of blood-red dye was dumped into a pond outside the US embassy in London in protest against America's sale of arms to Israel.
A newly discovered settlement in the north-western Nile delta was built by the Egyptian New Kingdom perhaps 3500 years ago and included a temple dedicated to pharaoh Ramesses II
'There are challenges' but staff recruitment and retention isn't one of them
Interview Civo shifted its workforce to a four-day working week and while it hasn't changed productivity much at the cloud biz, it has helped attract "new talent" and retain existing staff, CEO Mark Boost says.…
More than a thousand jobs are being axed at a key government department in a move officials say will help deliver cost savings of over £100m over the three years.
A man has appeared in court accused of pushing a woman off a Glasgow railway platform into the path of an oncoming train.
A man’s recent attempt to use an AI-generated avatar in his legal appeal made an immediate impression on a New York courtroom, but probably not the one he was hoping for. Jerome Dewald — a 74-year-old that The Register notes is behind a startup that says it’s “revolutionizing legal self-representation with AI” — was chewed […]
Elected councillors must "do what they need to do" to serve the people, Kemi Badenoch said after she suggested Reform and the Tories could form alliances at a local level.
China says it will cut the number of US films that are imported into the country in retaliation against the latest wave of tariff increases imposed by the Trump administration. A statement issued by the Chinese Film Administration (CFA) on Thursday, which we’ve translated using Google, said that the decision to increase tariffs against China […]
Chelsea footballer Moises Caicedo has had his £160,000 car seized by police after he was suspected of driving without a valid licence.
Scammers are already cashing in with fake invoices for import costs
World War Fee As the trade war between America and China escalates, some infosec and policy experts fear Beijing will strike back in cyberspace.…
Solvej Balle's newly translated speculative novel, On the Calculation of Volume (parts I and II), examines the numbing effects of time through the old trope of being stuck in a single day. It is an effective meditation
A Hungarian official has suggested the country's first cases of foot-and-mouth disease in more than 50 years could have come from a "biological attack".
The pair are locked in a further battle over how much Rebekah Vardy should pay in legal costs.
The nursing course in Wales's capital could continue, despite the threat of major budget cuts at the city's university.
Practical matters like being 1 of most expensive energy regions in Europe focuses minds at AI Energy Council meeting
The UK government's AI Energy Council held its first meeting this week, in an attempt to square the circle of its AI ambitions with the state of the country's power infrastructure and having the most expensive energy in Europe.…
President Trump has made a series of claims about how the US faces "unfair trade" as he justifies his sweeping tariffs on imports from other countries.
Screenings of the original 1977 Star Wars theatrical release have been rare over recent decades.
An AI analysis finds that since the 1970s, speeches by US Congress members have shifted to favour language such as “fake news” and “mislead” over words such as “science” and “statistics”
ChargePoint is ready to speed things up. On Thursday, the EV charging company revealed new AC Level 2 EV chargers that it says effectively double the speed of typical Level 2 chargers. The new architecture also supports bidirectional charging, so owners can use their EVs to power their home or business if the need arises. […]
The Prince of Wales says it was a "big deal" for him to take his son Prince George to Paris to watch Aston Villa face Paris St-Germain in the Champions League quarter-finals.
Shailyn Peña is one of many whose loved ones are missing after the roof collapsed in Santo Domingo.
Dame Rachel de Souza says most schools restrict phone use and children are racking up screen time at home.
Government plans to boost efficiency with IT need to get people onside
UK health professionals remain "skeptical" about electronic patient records, despite the NHS in England achieving more than 90 percent coverage.…
Counter-terrorism police investigating a fire at a DHL warehouse in Birmingham have arrested a man on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service.
It follows Beijing's denial that many of its citizens are involved in the conflict.
This month’s security updates for Windows 11 create a new empty folder on drive C. It is called “inetpub,” and it does not contain any extra folders or files. Its properties window shows 0 bytes in size and that it was created by the system itself.
FIA deputy president for sport Robert Reid resigns over a "fundamental breakdown in governance standards' within the governing body.
IBM today announced the IBM z17, the next generation of the company’s iconic mainframe, fully engineered with AI capabilities across hardware, software, and systems operations. Powered by the new IBM Telum II processor, IBM z17 expands the system’s capabilities beyond transactional AI capabilities to enable new workloads.
Ballerina Ksenia Karelina - jailed in Russia after giving £40 to a charity supporting Ukraine - has been released as part of a prisoner swap deal with the US.
A table showing all the new US tariffs announced by President Trump on Wednesday
The director of hit BBC period drama Wolf Hall says the government "needs to have enough guts to stand up to the bully in the White House" to protect the future of public service broadcasting.
Andrew Tate pointed a gun at a woman's face and told her to do as he said, according to court documents seen by Sky News.
Officials teased more details to come later this year
Following the 2024 takedown of several major malware operations under Operation Endgame, law enforcement has continued its crackdown into 2025, detaining five individuals linked to the Smokeloader botnet.…
A CMS committee report warns of the need to safeguard "culturally distinct British productions".
Every Thursday our Money team interviews top chefs from around the UK, hearing about their cheap food hacks and views on the industry. Today we chat to Callum Graham, head chef at Bohemia, the only Michelin-starred restaurant in Jersey.
Paddy Pimblett tells BBC Sport how fatherhood has "changed him" before his lightweight showdown with Michael Chandler at UFC 314 in Miami, Florida on Saturday.
Could a head lice infestation have led to the unravelling of a child rape gang that inflicted unspeakable horror?
Amanda Serrano accuses Katie Taylor of backing out of a promise to fight 12 three-minute rounds at a surprisingly fiery news conference in New York.
"Liberation Day" just gave way to Capitulation Day.
The prime minister says he wants to ensure every community has specialist neighbourhood officers.
Llama 4 Scout is just the right size to ingest a lifetime of Facebook and Insta posts
In the last twelve months generative AI has transformed from a helpful and cheeky tool into something more worrying.…
Would he have resisted the temptation to make money for his family?
A man and a woman face charges over the death of a man shot through a window of his house.
Ex-England bowler and BBC cricket presenter Isa Guha says her former captain Charlotte Edwards will not duck difficult calls as England head coach.
The home secretary has denied the government is watering down its response to tackling child grooming gangs.
The government will fund any further local inquiries into the grooming gangs scandal that are deemed necessary, Sir Keir Starmer has said.
The government will fund any further local inquiries into the grooming gangs scandal that are deemed necessary, Sir Keir Starmer has said.
The King meets the Pope despite a planned state visit being postponed due to the pontiff's ill health.
TL;DR: Move along, still nothing to see here - an idea that leaves infosec pros aghast
Oracle's letter to customers about an intrusion into part of its public cloud empire - while insisting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was untouched - has sparked a mix of ridicule and outrage in the infosec community.…
He has been Wrexham's leading scorer for the past three seasons but now cannot find a way into Phil Parkinson's promotion-chasing squad.
Laura Johnson says she never got the chance to sample the cake on her wedding day.
Profits at Tesco have increased by hundreds of millions in the year it announced 400 job losses and criticised the cost of additional taxes on employers.
The comedian says he is at the tip "more regularly than most" to offload dirty nappies and wipes.
Two couples who got married together on the same day in 1955 in Orkney celebrate their Platinum anniversaries.
Molly Harbron, 26, lost her left leg in April 2020 after medics failed to assess her case properly.
The ex-England striker is "past the point of asking nicely" for people to treat women with respect.
