All about consolidation as mission mouthpieces archived in pursuit of 'improving the experience'

NASA is shutting down many of its social media accounts, including those dedicated to the Voyager mission and the Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers.…

At least 49 people have been killed in the floods, including several children who were on a bus.

The messaging app says the UK government's demands over data access could set a "dangerous precedent."

A brain-computer interface has enabled a man with paralysis to have real-time conversations, without the usual delay in speech

From geoengineering to anti-methane cow vaccines and green aviation fuel, meet the former nuclear physicist deciding which climate change technologies hold the most promise

Interpol coordinates operation, nabs 32 across Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Nauru

Thirty-two people across Asia have been arrested over their suspected involvement with infostealer malware in the latest international collaboration against global cybercrime.…

The most recent presentation of Apple's WWDC event has come and gone, during which Apple introduced the developer beta of the newly renamed iOS 26 - which is accessible to everyone, non-developers included, for free. If you want to try out an early version of the new OS, we've got directions on how to install […]

Seven men have been found guilty of using two teenage girls as "sex slaves" in Rochdale.

David Moyes, 62, was appointed OBE by avid football fan Prince William at Windsor Castle.

The eighth hole at the US Open at Oakmont this week - the longest par three in major championship history - has been described as "silly" and "ridiculous".

Though Steven Universe‘s time on Cartoon Network has come and gone, Amazon is stepping in to keep the story going. During a Cartoon Network Studios and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe panel at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival, Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar announced that Amazon is moving forward with a new spinoff series focused on side […]

Higher prices for some items were offset by declines in other areas, such as petrol, airfares and clothing.

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a tilted orbit around the sun, letting it take some unusual pictures

"This is absurd." That's all Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, recalls thinking when she first heard about the proposed moratorium on state AI regulation tucked into President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" - the same funding bill that had Trump and Elon Musk recently trading barbs online. According to the bill's […]

Capcom had an interesting showing at Summer Game Fest with three titles that will carry the developer into 2026 and beyond: Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Resident Evil Requiem, and Pragmata. I got hands-on previews with both Requiem and Pragmata, and a hands-off presentation for Onimusha. Across the three games, I saw a mix of […]

Tusk called the vote after his political camp narrowly lost the recent presidential election.

Spending limits for government departments are being outlined by the chancellor. This is how it affects you.

The UK government has agreed a post-Brexit deal on Gibraltar, unpicking another issue it's negotiations with the bloc.

President Donald Trump says he has reached a deal with China that will ensure the US receives rare earth materials, keeps tariffs at a total of 55 percent, and allows American universities to keep accepting Chinese students. Trump announced the news of the agreement on Truth Social, which he says is still “subject to final […]

It is not yet known why a 21-year-old Austrian man committed a shooting that left 10 people dead.

Maria Eftimova's death after she fell from Tryfan was accidental, a coroner rules.

England are looking to defend their title at the 2025 Women's Euros.

One of the police officers who carried out the search tells a hearing it should not have happened.

I am an excellent home cook, if I do say so myself. I regularly produce restaurant-quality dishes from my smart kitchen. But I have two favorite dishes I've never mastered at home: pizza and burgers. Yes, I can make them, but do they taste as good as my local burger or pizza joint? Nope. Naturally, […]

South Africa's Marco Jansen juggles the ball before successfully completing the catch at slip to dismiss Australia's Steve Smith for 66 runs on day one of the ICC Test Championship final at Lord's.

The first teaser for season 3 of Apple TV Plus’ Foundation hinted at some of the changes coming with the series’ massive timeskip. But the show’s latest trailer really hammers how much wilder this story is about to get. Though Foundation‘s third season jumps 152 years into the future and picks up at a time […]

It's still smoking, but help is on hand

A tug has reached the Morning Midas, six days after a presumed battery fire broke out, causing the crew to abandon ship.…

Dia, the new browser from The Browser Company, is almost nothing like the company's last product. That app, Arc, was a total rethink of how browsers work: it moved tabs to the side and combined them with bookmarks, it offered endless ways to organize all your stuff, and it had lots of ideas about how […]

Never before seen pictures will help scientists learn how the Sun's activity changes from stormy to quiet periods

With tech giants like Google developing ways for AI models to communicate and work together, there are fears that smaller players could get left behind in the rush to unleash AI agents on the internet

For the last few years, Will Murray has been writing new novels featuring The Spider under the Wild Adventures of The Spider line from Altus Press through the Adventures in Bronze website. At present, he has done four novels, and I finally got the first three novels.

Nintendo introduced a new hardware button to the Switch 2 specifically for chatting with your friends, and it's undoubtedly my favorite feature on the console. Instead of using a smartphone app like the original Switch, Switch 2 users can open up a communications channel at any time with the "C" button and chat with friends, […]

For several months, my Slack avatar was a screenshot of my incredibly cursed Vision Pro persona. My virtual avatar's head was cocked back, cackling into the pixelated void, her hair one solid unmoving block. It wasn't good - but it also wasn't the end of the world. Everyone else's Persona looked just as horrible, and […]

The billionaire says his posts went "too far".

The chancellor has pledged the "largest settlement in real terms since devolution" for Scotland as part of the UK government's spending review.

Each Premiership team is restricted on what they can spend on wages. How do those in charge check big-money owners aren't making secret payments to get round the cap?

A bee interrupts Katie Boulter and Emma Radacanu's second round doubles match at Queen's.

Police say a number of homes and businesses were attacked as violence erupted again on Tuesday night.

With 1 MW racks and prefab bit barns, the heat is on

GTC Paris  Schneider Electric and Nvidia are jointly developing cooling, management, and control systems for AI datacenters in support of the EU's AI action plan, with Schneider detailing support for racks with 1 MW loads.…

Last Friday, as an early Father’s Day gift, my wife arranged for us to spend the afternoon at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, which is hosting a wonderful new exhibition dedicated to the memory and achievement of a great American artist.

Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson is out of Sunday's Stockholm Diamond League after suffering a setback in her recovery from a hamstring problem.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered her Spending Review, setting out budgets for government departments.

As Australia and South Africa contest the World Test Championship final, BBC Sport addresses the longer format’s future financial viability.

Ibrahima Seck had been on his way to play football with his friends and brothers, a court hears.

About 150 people attend a gathering in Bordesley, with more to be held across Birmingham.

Day-to-day spending on the NHS will increase by £29bn a year, Rachel Reeves has announced as she accepted voters are yet to feel an improvement under Labour.

Agentless contact center 'not yet technically feasible, nor operationally desirable'

Good news for consumers frustrated by wading through pools of AI treacle in search of customer service - businesses are reportedly turning back to human agents "amid AI integration challenges."…

Huawei has just announced the Chinese launch of its Pura 80 flagship phones, and the Ultra comes with a clever trick: a “switchable” dual-lens telephoto camera that allows two different lenses to share the same sensor. You can see both lenses side-by-side in the largest of the three camera rings on the 80 Ultra’s rear, […]

Lightning, hail, gusty winds and flash flooding are likely to affect parts of the UK over the next few days

We may already have had our first-ever encounter with dark matter, according to researchers who say a mysteriously high-energy particle detected in 2023 is not a neutrino after all, but something far stranger

HP has become the first company to preview hardware built with Google Beam, the 3D video communication technology formerly known as Project Starline. It’s launching the HP Dimension, a device that features a 65-inch light field display with six high-speed cameras inside the bezel to create “a true-to-life” 3D video of your caller. Google first […]

A farewell letter and video have been discovered at the home of a 21-year-old gunman who killed 10 people in a school shooting in Austria, as the nation observed a minute's silence on Wednesday.

The regiment travels to its birthplace of Berwick to mark the anniversary.

Her grandson says her family decided to put up the money after watching the Mel Gibson film Ransom.

Nintendo was expecting the Switch 2 would be just as successful as the original, and it’s already become the fastest-selling game console of all time after a strong launch. Nintendo revealed today that it has sold more than 3.5 million Switch 2 units in the console’s first four days, surpassing records for any of Nintendo’s […]

Rachel Reeves is setting out her spending review in the House of Commons.  

Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks

Euro chip designer SiPearl has released a reference server design featuring its Rhea1 processor, the chip that powers Jupiter, Europe's most powerful supercomputer.…

Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, has discussed the government's move to seize control of British Steel with his Chinese counterpart for the first time.

Mojahed Kourkouri was accused of killing of a boy during the protests - even though the boy's family blamed security forces.

For the first time in more than 30 years, tanks will roll through the capital of the United States.

£14.2B Sizewell C among the investments along side Small Modular Reactors

The UK has bet big on nuclear power — both big and small — following a series of warnings about energy capacity and supply for datacenter investments.…

Amazon is making it easier for sellers to quickly create generative AI ads on its platform, sometimes with just a single click. Amazon Ad’s Video Generator, a free advertising tool introduced in beta last year, now has some new tricks and is generally available for sellers in the US to create “photorealistic video assets” in […]

Kagiso Rabada dismisses Usman Khawaja for a duck before taking the wicket of Cameron Green to leave Australia on 16-2 on day one of the ICC World Test Championship final at Lord's.

The foreign secretary will meet Spanish and Brussels counterparts later to try and finalise a deal.

A heat-health alert and yellow weather warning for thunderstorms has been issued for different parts of the UK.

As the first light breaks across a quiet beach near Dunkirk, a human tide begins to move.

On your marks, get set... bork!

Microsoft has set a new record with June's security update for the time between release and an admission of borkage.…

An innovative device extracted a small glassful of water from the air of Death Valley desert over one day

4Chan, an online forum notorious for its extreme content, is being investigated by UK officials over its failure to comply with new internet safety rules. 

Manager Thomas Tuchel says England should not panic after defeat by Senegal, but some former players have questioned the playing style and team spirit.

There is a poorly understood but plausible chance winter temperatures could one day plummet in the UK even as global temperatures soar.

"Multiple" small boats have been intercepted in the English Channel by the Border Force for the first time this month.

Samsung’s latest smart fridges now support multi-voice recognition powered by the company’s Bixby assistant, which can be used to bring up personalized information on the built-in smart displays based upon which member of a household is speaking. Voice identification in smart home tech is nothing new, but with no successful Samsung-branded smart speaker line of […]

There's a fight for control going on inside the cockpits of many modern cars. Enable all the active safety systems in a Tesla, and it'll do most of the steering for you. But if it makes an errant turn or meanders a little too far this way or that in the lane (and trust me, […]

How much wishful thinking has entered the pipeline will come to light in 2027

Opinion  Today, the UK chief finance minister is set to detail government spending for the next three years and capital budgets for the next four. As the first multi-year spending review since 2021, it is a big deal.…

It comes a week after the country elected a new president, who vowed to improve Korean relations.

Homes and vehicles were targeted as protesters clashed with police on a second night of violence.

​​​​​​​The San Jose was lost for centuries, its £16bn treasure trove of gold and emeralds swallowed up by the Caribbean Sea. Not any more.

At least 25 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli gunfire at a US-backed humanitarian aid site in Gaza, according to health officials.

This month's full Moon could be the lowest until 2043.

In the absence of detail, all we can do is read between the lines of what may or may not have been agreed in the London talks between the US and China.

Model Context Protocol has many fine uses, but then it hinted at becoming a Von Neumann machine

Column  Generative AI is changing so rapidly, it’s hard to stay up to date, so I generally avoid the newest shiny thing until it becomes unavoidable.…

It is nearly 150 days since Donald Trump took office for the second time, promising peace in the Middle East and Ukraine.

A new treaty to govern international waters is "tantalisingly close" after countries - including Britain - promised to sign it into law.

Manchester City confirm the signing of AC Milan midfielder Tijjani Reijnders for an initial fee of £46.5m.

Six people have been arrested after disorder broke out for a second night across Northern Ireland, with 17 officers injured.

Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside

Lenovo has pulled a couple of European supercomputer wins out of the bag, one using Intel chips for Imperial College London and an AMD-based system for the European Institute of Oncology.…

Elon Musk has said he "regrets" some of his posts about Donald Trump, saying they "went too far".

Donald Trump has responded after Elon Musk said some of his recent social media posts about the US president "went too far".

Logitech has announced a new keyboard case for iPad Pro and iPad Air models that lets you remove and position its keyboard exactly where you need it. It’s not an entirely new idea for the company — its Combo Touch case also lets you detach the keyboard — but the new Flip Folio’s keyboard has […]

Thousands gather in near silence in Graz after the deadliest gun attack in the country's recent history.

The botnet’s still alive and evolving

Badbox 2.0, the botnet that infected millions of smart TV boxes and connected devices before private security researchers and law enforcement partially disrupted its infrastructure, is readying for a third round of fraud and digital attacks, according to one of the threat hunters who uncovered the original scheme.…

Real Madrid forward Vinicus Jr hands Carlo Ancelotti his first victory as Brazil manager as five-time winners book 2026 World Cup spot.

Khaby Lame, the world's most popular TikTok personality, has left the US after being detained by federal agents.

The government is being urged to ban "No Ball Game" signs and tackle the "addictive grip" of smartphones following a report into childhood play.

Three boys - two aged 14 and a 16-year-old - have been charged with murder over the death of a 14-year-old who was stabbed in Manchester.

The review will reveal the choices the government has made about where to allocate cash over the next three years.

Wednesday's newspaper front pages largely focus on the chancellor's Spending Review.

Three years after Moose Wala's murder, the BBC investigates how he found himself an enemy of a feared gang.

Lando Norris tells BBC Sport why being "a great team-mate" helps keep the harmony within McLaren and discusses the challenge of racing against Max Verstappen.