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 […]

Every Tuesday, we get an expert to answer your financial problems or consumer disputes - you can WhatsApp us here or email moneyblog@sky.uk. Today's is...

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.

Christmas is coming, the GNOME is getting fat… please put a penny in the old red hat?

Ubuntu Summit  System76's POP!_OS is one of the more substantially modified Ubuntu based distros out there, and so it was something of a surprise to see the company's substantial presence at the Ubuntu Summit. And its stable release along with version 1.0 of its custom desktop, COSMIC, is imminent.…

Tim Richards said the likes of Netflix and Apple TV are complementary rather than damaging for the big screen.

Leading radiographers have raised concerns about the safety of high street baby scans, with reports of misdiagnoses and missed medical emergencies.

Ukraine first to deploy open source security platform to isolate incidents, stop lateral movement

Feature  It was a sunny morning in late April when a massive power outage suddenly rippled across Spain, Portugal, and parts of southwestern France, leaving tens of millions of people without electricity for hours.…

Nearly a quarter of Labour MPs say increasing taxes could enable to the government to lift the two-child benefit cap.

The Women's Football Show pundits Lindsay Johnson & Fern Whelan discuss former England goalkeeper Mary Earps's "negative" comments about Hannah Hampton and whether they should have been made publicly or not.

A train derailment in Cumbria is causing huge delays, with more expected in the coming days.

Former England manager Gareth Southgate says there is "more that unites us than separates us" amid a debate about flying the St George's flag.

We're sat in a silent, empty, cardiac treatment room - on the other side of the door, you can hear the bustle of the largest A&E and major trauma ward in Devon.

British teenager Bella May Culley, who was arrested in Georgia on drug smuggling charges earlier this year, was released from prison on Monday as part of a plea deal.

A pregnant British teenager has been released from jail in Georgia after being held on drug smuggling charges.

It’s been August since I shared What I’ve Been Listening To. My apologies for depriving you! And you know that I listen to audiobooks every single day: Work, home, car, walking, bedtime: I’m constantly listening to them.

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but astronomers may have found some for the very first time

Boffins say outsourcing your homework leaves you sounding less knowledgeable, short on facts

A study of how people use ChatGPT for research has confirmed something most of us learned the hard way in school: to be a subject matter expert, you've got to spend time swotting up.…

Officers and paramedics went to a property in Rogiet, Monmouthshire, on Sunday evening.

The transport secretary has ruled out installing airport-style security scanners in stations, following an alleged stabbing attack on a train on Saturday evening.

The actor and director's $400m lawsuit against his former co-star is formally ended by a US judge.

A mayor has been shot dead in front of dozens of people in Mexico during Day Of The Dead festivities.

But the actor adds that he has no regrets about calling for Biden to quit the US presidential race.

Jon Seager, VP of Engineering, talks exclusively to The Reg

Ubuntu Summit  The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation.…

The BBC will deliver comprehensive coverage of the Ashes, with ball-by-ball radio commentary, video highlights, text updates and analysis.

The persistent pollutants which build up in the environment have been linked to serious illnesses.

Taking belief in LLMs very literally indeed

Opinion  It's not been a year since his ouster as Intel's CEO, but Pat Gelsinger is firmly back on the tech leadership pony. He's done hardware with Intel, software with VMWare. This time, it's faithware.…

The quake struck near Mazar-e Sharif, one of Afghanistan's largest cities, in the early hours of Monday.

After a slow start to the group stage where rain was discussed just as much as the cricket, India's eventual World Cup success showed what is possible when given the platform.

Logitech's Alto Keys K98M mechanical keyboard is now available in North America after its initial launch in China and other select markets. The $149.99 Alto Keys K98M is an almost full-size 1800-layout keyboard, offering a slightly compact design that maintains a number pad. But what makes the K98M special for a mass-market Logitech board is […]

Authorities identify the remains handed over on Sunday, bringing to eight the number of hostages' bodies still to be found in Gaza.

The credit ratings agency says the change will give lenders a more complete view of borrower behaviour.

From three losses to flawless glory - India’s World Cup run was pure redemption and relentless resilience.

One SQL slip-up is survivable. Not learning from the first mess meant change

Who, Me?  Another Monday is upon us and The Register therefore presents a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It’s the reader-contributed confessional column in which you admit to making mistakes, and explain how you made it out alive afterwards.…

Paramedics have been sent to the scene of a rail derailment in Cumbria, which has affected rail services.

The launch of the latest edition of the Football Manager series will enhance visibility of the women's game, and could help unearth some unheralded female talents too.

In the same interview, the US president suggests Nicolás Maduro's days as the South American country's leader are numbered.

Viswashkumar Ramesh describes the pain and anguish he is enduring despite surviving the disaster.

Ryanair has reported a 42% rise in half-year profits on the back of a hike to fares.

The president pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the co-founder of the world's largest crypto exchange, in October.

Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk says Wayne Rooney blaming a lack of leadership for the Anfield side's recent poor form is "lazy criticism".

The Hollywood legend sat down with the BBC in an exclusive, yet candid, interview about his achievements as well as his regrets

The sole survivor of the Air India crash has told Sky News he has been "broken down" by the trauma.

The US ambassador to the UK has said Britain should carry out "more drilling and more production" in the North Sea.