WhatsApp has rolled out a dozen new features across chats, calls, and channels that make it easier to manage group conversations, alongside other general quality-of-life improvements. One of the more notable additions is a new “Online” indicator for groups, which displays how many participants are currently using the app in real time. This is one […]
Five of the individuals on board were a family of tourists from Spain and the sixth person was the pilot, officials say.
The head of the US military base in Greenland has been fired for criticising Washington's agenda for the Arctic island.
Liverpool manager Arne Slot says he is "very happy" that forward Mohamed Salah has signed a new two-year contract with the club.
Digg’s return to the modern internet is one step closer with the launch of an “early access” group called Groundbreakers. For a one-off $5 fee you can claim your username before someone else does and get a behind the scenes look at the new Digg as it comes together. Digg says that the $5 fee […]
Models get bulkier, burnier, and bank-breakier
AI continues to improve – at least according to benchmarks. But the promised benefits have largely yet to materialize while models are increasing in size and becoming more computationally demanding, and greenhouse gas emissions from AI training continue to rise.…
Chloe Qisha's 21st Century Cool Girl blew up after it was covered by US singer Kelly Clarkson.
Find out how to follow Sunday's Boat Race, who is competing, and who has won the most.
Tor Double #1 was originally published in October 1988. This volume marked the beginning of the official Tor Double series. The two stories included, Arthur C. Clarke’s Meeting with Medusa and Kim Stanley Robinson’s novella Green Mars complement each other, although by doing so, Green Mars also points out a weakness of Meeting with Medusa.
Tommy Robinson is challenging his sentence for contempt of court on compassionate grounds, claiming his segregation in prison means he can't "regulate his emotions".
The US military said it had lost confidence in Colonel Susannah Meyers' ability to lead.
The rapper was accused of repeatedly beating and assaulting a woman who said she was his assistant.
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are commonly found in the bodies of short-beaked common dolphins that get stranded on UK beaches, and are linked to the animals’ risk of infectious diseases
A mother who murdered her two young sons in the bath has been sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum term of more than 21 years.
Six people have been confirmed to have died following the crash near to the New Jersey side of the Hudson.
More than 1,000 women a year with advanced cancer could benefit from capivasertib which can slow the disease.
Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club’s thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva. Warning: spoilers ahead
OpenAI is giving ChatGPT a memory upgrade that allows it to recall old conversations that you didn’t ask it to save. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X that the chatbot can “now reference all your past conversations,” and that the update aligns with the company’s goal to develop “AI systems that get to know […]
Hang on, wasn't Capita already handling things like billing, etc? Ah, AgentSuite comes to the rescue
Scandal struck UK utility company Southern Water is extending a long-running managed services contract with Capita, everyone's favorite outsourcing badass, for up to five years at an estimated cost of £92.4 million ($121 million).…
The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on the science behind his creation
In this extract from the classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet Ringworld’s protagonist Louis Wu, as he travels a future Earth
And how they tried to destroy him.
The US actor, who was also in Grey's Anatomy, has the most common form of motor neurone disease.
Betty Brown's offer was increased from 30% to 60%, but still below what she claimed when her life was "destroyed" by scandal.
The defence secretary has said that 2025 is "the critical year" for Ukraine as he confirmed £450m in funding for a military support package.
Adam and Amy Harper meet through their mutual love of scuba diving.
State media is warning that people weighing less than 50kg (110lbs) may be "easily blown away".
A serial criminal who murdered a stranger after being refused a cigarette has been jailed for at least 16 years after being prosecuted under special double jeopardy laws.
The Big Garden Birdwatch survey recorded the lowest ever numbers of starlings this year.
The mother of a Palestinian killed in an IDF attack on emergency vehicles tells the BBC of her loss.
China has once again raised its tariff on US goods to match Trump’s, for what it says is the final time. China’s tariff is now set at 125 percent, as it warns that the US is on track to become an economic “joke.” In a statement from China’s Ministry of Finance, which we’ve translated using […]
Issues at the very top continue to worsen
The UK government's latest annual data breach survey shows the number of ransomware attacks on the isles is on the increase – and many techies are forced to constantly informally request company directors for defense spending because there's no security people on the board.…
A former ballerina who spent more than a year in a Russian jail for donating £40 to a charity supporting Ukraine has returned home to the US after being freed in a prisoner exchange.
Carwin Javie Molleja remembers "the screams" as the roof of the Dominican Republic nightclub collapsed, killing 218 people.
Mohamed Salah's decision to sign a new contract shows he and Liverpool cannot live without each other, says chief football writer Phil McNulty
Hundreds of barber shops and other cash-heavy businesses have been targeted in a three-week money laundering blitz.
Diamonds formed in Earth’s lower mantle contain tiny flecks of minerals that are helping us understand the inner workings of our planet
South American governing body Conmebol proposes expanding the 2030 World Cup to 64 teams.
Sysadmin sent on road trip that required a lot of time doing nothing
On Call Some working weeks are full of achievements, and others miserably unproductive. Here at The Register, we always make sure that if nothing else we produce a fresh instalment of On Call, the column that recounts readers' tales of delivering top-notch tech support.…
Veteran cabinet minister Michael Gove has been awarded a peerage in Rishi Sunak's resignation honours list.
Mohamed Salah is excited Liverpool "have a chance to win other trophies" as he signs a fresh two-year contract.
Three people have already appeared in court charged over damage caused to the golf course.
India accuses Tahawwur Rana of playing a role in the deadly 2008 attacks that killed 166 people.
A new alternative for those pondering what to do when vSphere 7.x goes end of life in October
VMware has revealed another big upgrade is on the way, this time for its vSphere Foundation suite.…
The Doctor Who star will appear in a new play which examines the rivalry between Marlowe and Shakespeare.
The family of one of three teenagers killed when a car and a bus collided in west London have said they are "completely devastated" by his death.
Often dubbed "Scotland's Chernobyl", only a handful of residents remain in Clune Park in Port Glasgow.
The number of people choosing to live in vans across Bristol is up from 150 in 2020 to 680 in 2025.
A first phase of demolition is about to start on the derelict Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow
Thousands of scams linked to fraudulent QR codes have been reported since 2019, the BBC finds.
Along with Celine Dion and Elton John - plus some good music too
The Brian-Eno-composed sound played by Windows 95 when booted has been added to the US Library of Congress’s list of nationally significant recordings.…
The president made a partial reversal this week - here's a look at where it leaves five of his key ambitions.
The Duke of Sussex's trip to Ukraine and further reaction to Donald Trump's tariffs feature on Friday's front pages.
Under-audit political squad also said to be drafting invoices for Uncle Sam
In February, Elon's Musketeers at President Trump's cost-trimming DOGE operation turned up at the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which regulates the kinds of self-driving cars the billionaire wants to build.…
'Wolf of Wall Street' Jordan Belfort has told Sky News there's "no way" Donald Trump is guilty of insider trading or market manipulation.
A groundbreaking new cancer treatment, hailed by patients as "game-changing", will be available via the NHS from today.
It’s been a while since we’ve had the chance to bring you a brand-new convention offering, and in 2025 we’re bringing you two. First up is one of the biggest celebrations of all things spooky, creepy, and downright chilling heading to Chicago for the first time this May.
The former first lady says people were wrong to make assumptions that the couple were getting a divorce.
The cast of Alex Garland's film Warfare on how a tough bootcamp taught them to play a US army unit.
Students, staff, and parents alike are traumatised by what has happened and the destruction that surrounds them.
Former policy boss claims Facebook cared little about national security as it chased the mighty Yuan
Facebook's former director of global public policy told a Senate committee that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was willing to do almost anything to get the social network into China - including, she alleged, offering up Americans' data.…
President Javier Milei has made sweeping cuts to public services since he took office 16 months ago.
Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure
Cloud Next Google on Wednesday announced Firebase Studio, a product pitched as "a cloud-based agentic development environment" – in other words, a browser-based coding workspace that includes AI to help developers to prototype and build apps without writing every line of code themselves.…
Microsoft is starting to gradually roll out a preview of Recall, its feature that captures screenshots of what you do on a Copilot Plus PC to find again later, to Windows Insiders, according to a blog post published Thursday. This new rollout could indicate that Microsoft is finally getting close to launching Recall more widely. […]
England's Justin Rose leads the Masters after threatening to break the Augusta course record on an opening day where Rory McIlroy fades after a fast start.
Reigning champion Scottie Scheffler features in the best shots from day one at the Masters at Augusta.
A unique study is tracking the development of hundreds of babies whose parents have also been studied since birth.
A tattoo belonging to a man from Derbyshire has appeared in a US government document used to identify members of Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang, despite the man having no connection to the group.
Cocoa prices are soaring so new chocolate firms are looking at an alternative ingredient.
One year ago, Cassius Walker-Hunt was working at Port Talbot's steel plant.
A company started by "two blokes in a Cardiff garage" is about to launch a game-changing space factory that could start a new industrial revolution.
With £99 a month to live off Aida has turned to a food bank.
Sir Keir Starmer needs to reassure the public more over tariffs - and tell them Donald Trump is wrong, Harriet Harman has said.
Tickets are now on sale for the latest Electoral Dysfunction podcast live show.
Andre Onana was at fault for both Lyon's goals in his side's 2-2 draw in the Europa League on Thursday.
News of the US president's plan to halt higher-band taxes came as a surprise on Wednesday, but was it part of a plan?
Bluesky is updating its app to version 1.100, and the update includes a more comprehensive search page and new chat reactions. The search page is now known as “Explore,†where you can find trending topics, suggested accounts, and starter packs to jump-start stuff for you to follow on the app. This new Explore page still […]
I’ve long lost the ability to keep track of whatever’s happening in the Amiga community, and personally I tend to just focus on tracking MorphOS and AROS as best I can. The remnants of the real AmigaOS, and especially who owns, maintains, and develops which version, are mired in legal battles and ownership limbo, and since I can think of about a trillion things I’d rather do than keep track of the interpersonal drama by reading various Amiga forums, I honestly didn’t even realise there’s been a development in the Hyperion Entertainment situation.
Nathan Aspinall delights his home crowd in Manchester as he claimed his first nightly win of the year to move into the Premier League play-off places.
After years of stuntwork largely being overlooked by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Oscars are about to add a new category. Today, the Academy announced that it intends to start giving out Oscar statues for stunt design starting with films released in 2027 for the awards ceremony’s 100th anniversary. “Since the […]
Well, this you certainly don’t see every day. This is a “rough draft” of SDL2 for MacOS 9, using CodeWarrior Pro 6 and 7. Enough was done to get it building in CW, and the start of a “macosclassic” video driver was created.
England's Justin Rose makes consecutive birdies on holes 15 and 16 to extend his lead in the first round at the Masters at Augusta.
The White House also confirmed that the tariffs on China would reach 145% due to a pre-existing 20% levy on fentanyl
There are local elections to 24 of England's 317 councils and mayoral authorities on 1 May.
The BBC follows raids on hundreds of High Street businesses suspected of money laundering.
The Duke of Sussex visits an orthopaedic clinic in the western city of Lviv.
Razer has finally launched its platform for streaming PC games to mobile devices at their native screen resolutions, aspect ratios, and refresh rates. Razer PC Remote Play is now available for download on the App Store and Google Play and is compatible with Windows, Apple, and Android mobile devices running at least Windows 11, iOS […]
LLM query caching also lands soon
The return of Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo has borne fruit in the form of a new data type - vector sets - for the widely used cache-turned-multi-model database.…
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) fired about 30 members of the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in February, and many of them were part of a department that assesses the risks of self-driving cars, according to the Financial Times. One worker laid off from the NHTSA’s so-called “office of vehicle automation […]
Garmin has announced a new addition to its Varia line of safety and visibility accessories for cyclists. The Varia Vue is the first to pair a bright headlight with a front-facing 4K camera designed to automatically record incidents and save the footage locally or send it to the cloud through a smartphone. It’s available now […]
Billionaire 'tried every tool available to harm' us, says super lab, and it wants a judge to end 'harassment'
OpenAI has countersued co-founder Elon Musk, accusing him of unlawful and unfair tactics to derail its restructuring plans and demanding a judge hold him liable for damage allegedly inflicted on the AI super-lab.…
A helicopter has crashed in the Hudson River near Manhattan, the New York Police Department has said.
Investigators say they are "looking into" reports a large flock of birds was seen before a deadly helicopter crash in New York City.
The Deputy Prime Minister says striking Birmingham bin workers should accept an improved offer.
If you were hoping to cop a OnePlus Watch 3, you can finally buy one starting today. The problem is it’s no longer the $329.99 price that was originally intended when OnePlus announced the device a few months ago. It’s now $499, a $170 or roughly 52 percent markup. The price hike was spotted by […]
The three teenagers have been named by police as 17-year-old Star Tomkins, 18-year-old Harley Woods and 17-year-old Jimmy Savory
A lightning strike at a school playground has injured five students, leaving one unconscious, according to local media.
Vampire Survivors is finally launching cross-saves today, but they won’t be available on PlayStation to start and have a “very slim” chance of coming to the platform because of a “legal issue.” “Last month, we told everyone that cross-save would be available on PlayStation 4 / 5, PC, Xbox, Android and iOS alongside our next […]
Wider hips may make childbirth easier, but increase the risk of other health issues
A fossil jawbone found by fishers in the Taiwan Strait has extended the known range of ancient Denisovan people thousands of kilometres to the east
