The Home Secretary announces an overhaul of the asylum system, but will it work?
Under the plans, refugee status will become temporary and new capped "safe and legal routes" into the UK will be created.
Michael O'Neill says Northern Ireland enter March's World Cup play-offs with "a lot of optimism" after their 1-0 win over Luxembourg.
The home secretary has announced major changes to the UK's asylum system.
Google filed a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by anti-corporate diversity activist Robby Starbuck, who claimed Google’s AI falsely associated him with sexual assault allegations and a white nationalist. Starbuck’s claims against Google came after he filed a similar lawsuit against Meta, whose AI he claimed falsely asserted that he’d participated in the […]
When an insurer for FBI and CIA agents was sold to a Chinese entity, it led the US to tighten investment laws.
Editor’s note: Black Friday doesn’t officially take place until Friday, November 28th; however, if you want to shop ahead of time, we’ve rounded up the best early Black Friday deals you can already get. A foldable phone isn’t for the faint of heart. They’re generally heavier, pricier, and have less capable cameras than a standard slab-style phone. They’re […]
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's plan is unprecedented and marks an enormous change in policy, writes Dominic Casciani.
Current and former OpenAI employees have grown increasingly frustrated by the fact that the company hasn't allowed them to donate their equity to charity in years. But OpenAI has finally seemed to bow to pressure, sending out an email from the company's equity team stating that current and former employees with eligible shares will be […]
Former strikers Billy Dodds and James McFadden assess Scotland's chances of defeating Denmark in Tuesday's World Cup qualification showdown at Hampden Park.
The United Nations' Security Council has passed a US resolution which endorses Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza.
The home secretary has admitted the UK's illegal immigrant numbers are "too high" - but said Nigel Farage can "sod off" after he claimed she sounded like a Reform supporter.
Britain's Fabio Wardley is expected to be elevated to WBO heavyweight champion after Oleksandr Usyk decides to relinquish his title.
The Mission: Impossible star received the honorary prize after being nominated four times for an Academy Award.
Google debuted a new and improved AI weather model today that will be incorporated into popular products like Search, Gemini, and Pixel phones. The company’s AI-enhanced forecasts have proven themselves to be quite accurate so far. AI weather models have also been able to make predictions faster and more efficiently than conventional physics-based models. Until […]
England will beat Australia "quite comfortably" in the Ashes if captain Ben Stokes is fit enough to play all five Tests, says ex-batter Mark Ramprakash.
Aisuru botnet strikes again, bigger and badder
Azure was hit by the "largest-ever" cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft.…
Boxing expert Steve Bunce says Anthony Joshua was given an "offer he simply couldn't refuse" to fight Jake Paul.
Ready, aim, mire
Loose lips sink ships, the classic line goes. Information proliferation in the internet age has government auditors reiterating that loose tweets can sink fleets, and they're concerned that the Defense Department isn't doing enough to stop sensitive info from getting out there. …
Editor’s note: Black Friday doesn’t officially take place until Friday, November 28th; however, if you want to shop ahead of time, we’ve rounded up the best early Black Friday deals you can already get. Few brands are as synonymous with outdoor sports as Garmin. You’ll find these fitness trackers and smartwatches on dozens of wrists at any 5K, […]
ORCA benchmark trips up ChatGPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok 4, and DeepSeek V3.2
In the world of George Orwell's 1984, two and two make five. And large language models are not much better at math.…
The latest feature update for Google Calendar allows you to block off time for tasks and mark yourself as busy, all in one place, expanding the existing Tasks feature in Calendar. It’s something Workspace users have been specifically requesting and effectively allows tasks to function like meetings, including options to set (and adjust) a specific […]
Women's Super League referee Lisa Benn tells an employment tribunal she lost her role as an international official after complaining about a referee coach "manhandling" her.
People travelling to the United States for the football World Cup next year will be able to get interviews for visas more quickly, Donald Trump has announced.
The tech industry trade group NetChoice is suing Virginia over a new law that will restrict minors from using social media for more than one hour per day. The lawsuit, filed on Monday, asks the court to block the law over claims it violates the First Amendment by putting “unlawful barriers on how and when […]
Republic of Ireland striker Troy Parrott tells BBC Sport's Sami Mokbel about his stellar goalscoring week and "tears of joy".
Scores of Palestinian prisoners have died in custody since the start of the war in Gaza, according to a human rights group which claims prisoners are being denied medical care and are the victims of systematic and brutal violence.
A new study pinpoints the deadly thresholds of plastic ingestion for marine life.
A 12,000-year-old clay sculpture found in Israel depicts a goose on the back of a woman, and archaeologists suggest it may be a depiction of an animistic mythological scene
Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold, but analysis of an exceptionally preserved specimen contradicts that
Traveling during the holidays can be chaotic and loud, but a quality pair of over-ear headphones can provide much-needed peace and quiet on your journey. Fortunately, you can currently snag Bose’s QuietComfort Headphones on sale at Amazon for an all-time low of $169.99 ($180 off) in select colors. That’s more than 50 percent off the […]
BBC Sport explores Jude Bellingham and Thomas Tuchel's latest dispute and what it means moving forward.
Claims he reported the attack in January after fraudsters tried to scam him
A security researcher says Coinbase knew about a December 2024 security breach during which miscreants bribed its support staff into handing over almost 70,000 customers' details at least four months before it disclosed the data theft.…
President Volodymyr Zelensky hails a "historic" deal aimed at boosting Ukraine's defences against deadly Russian air attacks.
Unite say the staff are not crossing picket lines, due to intimidation at the council's refuse section.
On December 11th, 2010, Jeffrey Epstein was fretting about what came up if you Googled him. By this time Epstein had already pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution with a child and was a registered sex offender, and just a few days earlier he had been photographed in Central Park taking a stroll with Prince Andrew. […]
Donald Trump has urged House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein Files.
EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year
SC25 Europe has officially entered exascale orbit. On Monday, EuroHPC's Jupiter supercomputer became the fourth such machine on the Top500 list of publicly known systems to exceed a million-trillion floating point operations a second in the time-honored High-Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark.…
Are you a red wine drinker? A high spender? Or perhaps you're a slow eater, the sort who takes up a restaurant's table for longer than they'd like. You might not even know - but OpenTable does. Those are just a few of the notes that the reservation platform has started serving up to some […]
Documenting code can be dull, but explaining the source code of a complex project is hard for AI to get right
Google has previewed Code Wiki, an AI project that aims to document code in a repository and keep it up to date by regenerating the content after every code change.…
What we know so far about Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's proposed reforms.
The French-made role-playing game gets a record 12 nominations in total, including Game of the Year.
Some sellers were found to be luring viewers to their personal pages on adult platforms such as OnlyFans.
Was Italy coach Genaro Gattuso making a fair point on places for Europe at the World Cup? Or was it just sour grapes?
Editor’s note: Black Friday doesn’t officially take place until Friday, November 28th; however, if you want to shop ahead of time, we’ve rounded up the best early Black Friday deals you can already get. Any ebook reader will let you cram a Beauty and the Beast-sized library’s worth of books in your pocket, but so will your phone. […]
Was it all just a cunning plan?
Vendor leans on Nvidia tie-up so hard you can hear the GPUs squeak
SC25 Dell continues to push itself as a one-stop shop for enterprise AI infrastructure with a wave of products and services, including updates to servers, storage, and software to expand its offerings.…
Authorities say the blast happened on a line leading to the border with Ukraine.
Four US citizens tried it, and the DoJ just secured guilty pleas from all of 'em
It sounds like easy money. North Koreans pay you to use your identity so they can get jobs working for American companies in IT. However, if you go this route, the US Department of Justice promises to catch up with you eventually.…
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced controversial plans for the UK to embrace a "Denmark-style" asylum system, aimed at making Britain less attractive to illegal immigrants and making deportations easier.
Google users can now describe their next trip to its AI Mode in search and select the option to “Create with Canvas,” which will build out an itinerary in a side panel complete with data on flights and hotels. The document it puts together can lay out potential plans, with suggestions based on the user’s […]
Netgear announced its latest mobile hotspot today, the Nighthawk 5G M7, which will be available in January, along with a new mobile app and an eSIM marketplace where you can purchase local SIM cards for more than 140 countries. The M7 comes unlocked for $499.99, making it a more affordable alternative to the unlocked version […]
A couple unlawfully arrested over complaints about their child's school say police have paid them damages.
An investigation has been launched into the death of an offshore worker on a drilling rig in the North Sea.
If you’re a film enthusiast or, better yet, a fan of Criterion’s Closet Picks videos, then you’ll want to know about the half-off sale on the Criterion Collection’s DVDs now in progress at Barnes & Noble. The sale, which will last until December 7th, includes, according to the site, “contemporary and classic films from around […]
MPs and bereaved families have launched a new campaign urging the government to re-think its position on introducing Graduated Driving Licences.
More children will face deportation under Labour's plan to crack down on asylum seekers, the Home Office has announced.
The former prime minister was tried by a special tribunal after 1,400 died during a crackdown on unrest in 2024.
The UK's flagship aircraft carrier is ready for war after deploying across the world in a demonstration to Vladimir Putin of NATO's "hard power", the defence secretary has said.
Whether you have a Steam Deck handheld, or an Asus ROG Ally (the older, non-Xbox version), you might be considering an upgrade to its internal storage. I'm not talking about microSD cards, which are convenient, but slow. I'm talking about M.2 2230-size SSDs that are significantly faster at reading and writing data. If so, Prime […]
Less than two years ago, TikTok was a crisis situation on Capitol Hill. The chair of the House Select Committee on China called it "digital fentanyl" that brainwashes young Americans into supporting Hamas. A former national security adviser said letting TikTok remain in the US under its Chinese owner "would be akin to allowing Soviet […]
Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least one species gets workers to do the dirty work for them through a kind of chemical subterfuge
The discovery that fat is a communicative organ with a role in everything from bone health to mood is forcing a rethink of how we view our bodies
Our pick of week 11 in the NFL looks at Denver's Super Bowl prospects, Kansas' chances of missing the play-offs and why the Eagles' defence is so good.
The Strictly runner-up says he began taking steroids because he was unhappy with his body.
Law enforcement agency’s referral blitz hit gaming platforms hard, surfacing thousands of extremist URLs
Europol's Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) says a November 13 operation across gaming and "gaming-adjacent" services led its partners to report thousands of URLs hosting terrorist and hate-fueled material, including 5,408 links to jihadist content, 1,070 pushing violent right-wing extremist or terrorist propaganda, and 105 tied to racist or xenophobic groups.…
"We have nothing to hide," the US president writes - a reversal after previously resisting publishing the documents.
Bleed kits, commonly used by paramedics and in hostile environments like war zones, are being distributed across schools in Sheffield today.
The UK's foreign secretary backed her American counterpart in playing down reports that Britain has stopped sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean.
Rubbish will continue rotting in the streets of Birmingham for months, union chiefs have warned, after more workers voted to join industrial action.
Microsoft claims it listens to feedback while complaints mount over everyday usability
Rather than enjoying some downtime at the weekend, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri made the classic mistake of reading the replies to his post about the operating system's "agentic" future.…
Named after titan who stole fire from the gods and was punished for eternity... Amazon warehouse staff know the feeling
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is returning to the CEO seat – though not at his best-known creation.…
Now I move on to the fourth volume in the chronological reprinting of Semi Dual stories from Steeger Books. I am holding off on the three Semi Dual serials they reprinted that appeared toward the end of the series.
Readiness metrics have flatlined since 2023, with most sectors slipping backward as teams fumble crisis drills
Teams that think they're ready for a major cyber incident are scoring barely 22 percent accuracy and taking more than a day to contain simulated attacks, according to new data out Monday.…
Holiday shopping on a budget can feel constricting, especially if you've been invited to a white elephant or need a last-minute stocking stuffer. The good news is that, with this guide, you can leave that stress behind. Whether you're aiming for something practical or fun, we've found plenty of great gifts for under $25 - […]
Today I’m talking with Jamie Siminoff, founder of Ring, the video doorbell and security company. Jamie actually wouldn’t let me call him the CEO. He says his title is and always has been chief inventor, so obviously, we talked about that a little bit. Jamie just published a book about his experiences launching and leading […]
The head teacher tells parents references to demons can feel "deeply uncomfortable" to Christians.
Satellite images reveal how a grassy field in Oxfordshire was transformed into an illegal waste site in just a few months.
Disruption left customers unable to track support cases, upgrades, or patching work
SAP has apologized for the recent outage of its SAP for Me portal, a cloud-based tool that gives users a view of their SAP functions, metrics, and service. But the downtime has opened up some reliability questions.…
Hello, my friends. Have you been feeling too sane lately? Have I got something for you! It is a company called CoreWeave. You may not have heard of it because it's not doing the consumer-facing part of AI. It's a data center company, the kind people talk about when they say they want to invest […]
Boxer Anthony Joshua is set to mark his comeback to the ring with a surprise heavyweight bout against Jake Paul in Miami.
Boxer Anthony Joshua is set to mark his comeback to the ring with a surprise heavyweight bout against Jake Paul in Miami.
Female genital mutilation (FGM) survivors in the UK have been told they have to wait for "more research into the effectiveness" of reconstruction surgery, forcing many to fund their own travel and treatment abroad.
Vital supplies are due to start flowing from the Balkans as energy infrastructure faces sustained Russian attack.
Joseph O'Connor, from Liverpool, hacked more than 130 accounts in July 2020 to promote a Bitcoin scam.
A few months after announcing its big name change, MSNBC is getting a new domain featuring its new name: ms.now. It features essentially the same layout as the old MSNBC website, but with a fresh coat of paint, including the new MS NOW flag logo — the old MSNBC peacock is gone. The new website […]
A new statue celebrating the character was unveiled in London's Leicester Square on Monday.
Ford will be the next automaker to allow its vehicles to be featured on Amazon’s new online car buying site. Starting today, customers can browse, finance, and purchase certified pre-owned Ford vehicles online through Amazon Autos, with in-person pickup at a local Ford dealership. Ford is the second brand name, after Hyundai, to list its […]
BBC Sport assesses what fighting YouTuber Jake Paul will do for Anthony Joshua's career and legacy.
BBC Scotland examines Scotland's World Cup troubles as their campaign reaches its conclusion on Tuesday.
Gunmen have abducted 25 girls from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria, according to police.
YouTuber Jake Paul will fight ex-world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua in a professional bout in December.
A Reform UK-run council has been criticised for wasting money after repainting road markings outside a school which closed nine years ago.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a letter of intent with France to obtain 100 Rafale fighter jets as he seeks to bolster the country's long-term air defence capacity against Russia.
Euro 2025 winners England will host world champions Spain at Wembley in April for a 2027 Women's World Cup qualifier.
Regulator reports suggest telco was extorted, but company remains coy as to whether it paid
French telco Eurofiber says cybercriminals swiped company data during an attack last week that also affected some internal systems.…
Cold health alerts have been issued for large parts of the UK from midday on Monday until Saturday morning.
Partnership with UK-based 'AI upskilling platform' aims to boost software's usage
Palantir is working with "AI upskilling platform" Multiverse to provide an apprenticeship program specific to its Federated Data Platform (FDP), the NHS analytics system being run under a controversial contract.…
What we can learn from applying the CIA's techniques to Gill's treachery
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