Ryland Headley, who was 34 when he raped and strangled Louisa Dunne, was told he will die in prison.

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells form could tell us something about the chances of life elsewhere

Kernel 6.16 may be the last with the new disk format

The geek titans are clashing once again, and Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has warned: "I think we'll be parting ways" as of kernel 6.17.…

"If people get out, there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons."

A total of £53.5m of prize money is up for grabs at Wimbledon this year, up 7% from 2024's competition when it was £50m.

The 18 year olds will join males in a lottery that could require them undergo a period of service.

A 92-year-old man has been sentenced to life with a minimum term of 20 years in prison for the rape and murder of an elderly widow nearly 60 years ago.

Study finds emotional support from chatbots is more readily accepted if participants don't know it's an AI

A study of AI chat sessions has shown people tend to have more empathy with a chatbot if they think it is human.…

From Austin Taylor to Nadia Afifi, there is lots to look forward to in the sci-fi out this month - including a novel which might be our culture editor Alison Flood's pick of the year so far

The major internet architecture provider Cloudflare will now block known AI web crawlers by default to prevent them from “accessing content without permission or compensation,” according to an announcement on Tuesday. With the change, Cloudflare will start asking new domain owners whether they want to allow AI scrapers, and will even let some publishers implement […]

Three members of the senior leadership team at the hospital where Lucy Letby used to work have been arrested.

A Welsh language school in London threatened with closure after Wales's government said it was removing financial support has secured funding to stay open for another year - but doubts remain around its future.

Bills for homes using a typical amount of gas and electricity will drop by £11 a month.

The silly mistakes to the flagrant failures

They say that success breeds complacency, and complacency leads to failure. For cybercriminals, taking too many shortcuts when it comes to opsec delivers a little more than that. …

Thailand's prime minister has been suspended after a leaked phone call with a senior Cambodian politician caused outrage.

Heathrow Airport is sounding out candidates to take over from Lord Deighton, its long-serving chairman.

A man has suffered a serious head injury after a sword went through the visor of his armour during a battle re-enactment in East Sussex.

Tinder is trialing mandatory facial recognition security features in the US to verify profiles and crack down on impersonation and fake accounts. New users in California are now required to provide a biometric “Face Check” scan to confirm their face matches their profile photos for the dating service, Axios reported on Monday. The Face Check […]

Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been suspended as the constitutional court considers a petition for her removal.

The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.

The leader of a cult-like evangelical church group abused his position to sexually assault a "staggering number of women from his congregation," a court has heard.

Sir Keir Starmer's controversial welfare bill has passed its first hurdle in the Commons despite a sizeable rebellion from his MPs.

Sir Keir Starmer's controversial welfare bill has passed its first hurdle in the Commons despite a sizeable rebellion from his MPs.

Users tired of being 'yanked around' as end of support looms

Microsoft's latest attempts to ease the transition to Windows 11 for Windows 10 users "don't go far enough," according to privacy campaigners that worry about the prospect of millions of PCs going to landfill.…

Around 14 million people could die across the world over the next five years because of cuts to the US Agency for International Development (USAID), researchers have warned.

Campaigners say the UK's system has been "overlooked for years", and investing in it is a "no-brainer".

The chief rabbi has described the BBC's response to anti-IDF chanting at Glastonbury as "belated and mishandled" - after the culture secretary claimed there is a "problem of leadership" at the national broadcaster.

Ministers hope a partial U-turn will win over Labour rebels when MPs vote on welfare changes later.

BBC Sport F1 correspondent Andrew Benson answers your latest questions before the British Grand Prix.

Refrigerators and game consoles are the worst, but Apple, surprisingly, rates well

A year after the Right to Repair laws passed in California and Minnesota, many product makers still aren't doing much to help consumers fix the gear they bought.…

Nearly 40 Labour MPs have signalled they are still prepared to vote against Sir Keir Starmer's welfare cuts, despite the prime minister offering significant concessions to avoid a damaging rebellion.

A hiker who filmed the infestation told local media the bugs at Gyeyangsan mountain were like a "thick carpet".

Saudi Arabia have spent billions in bidding to become a world football force - and in beating Manchester City at the Club World Cup, "climbed Mount Everest without oxygen" according to their manager.

Gemma Grainger will take on the biggest challenge of her career when she leads Norway into the Euros. BBC Sport has been talking to the only English head coach at the tournament.

Makes the usual complaints about control and cost, adds argument Apple's practices harm privacy

Secure comms biz Proton has joined a lawsuit that alleges Apple’s anticompetitive ways are harming developers, consumers, and privacy.…

A major component within household energy bills is set to rise sharply from next year as part of efforts to maintain energy security during the transition to green power.

British and Irish Lions captain Maro Itoje says rugby is "what I do, not who I am". Outside of the arena, he is driven by faith, charity, politics and art.

Fears that DDR4 has hit the end of the road and the return of tariffs may be to blame

Spot prices for DRAM have doubled in the last week, perhaps due to…

The RSPCA says reports of cruelty towards animals usually peak in the summer months.

Oasis fans share tales of how chance meetings, shared confidence and iconic music shaped them.

BBC spoke to investigators who look back on their role in solving the Sarah Payne murder inquiry.

The call from some of the world's top aid organisations and charities comes after reports of soldiers killing hundreds of of Palestinians at aid sites.

The House of Commons will vote on welfare cuts bill this evening as some MPs call for further changes.

America recently extended tech export bans specifically to stop Beijing building this sort of thing

China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University last week flew a hypersonic craft and claimed the test achieved some world-first feats.…

Clashes broke out outside the Istanbul office of the satirical magazine LeMan.

A girl who fell overboard on a Disney cruise ship has been rescued from the water - along with her father who jumped in after.

A man has been charged with 70 offences, which police allege relate to eight children.

Elon Musk has stepped up his attacks on Donald Trump's sweeping tax and spending bill - weeks after a spectacular fallout between the world's richest man and the US president.

Relatives of one victim posted on Facebook that the state had failed them by allowing a plea deal.

Parliament is to vote on the welfare bill amid reports of a backbench rebellion and Wimbledon heats up.

The man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death has agreed to plead guilty to the murders, in a move that would spare him from the death penalty.

As we pulled back the hospital curtain, he was hunched over and clearly in pain.

Could it be an AI model builder? A Chinese e-tailer? Perhaps a TikTok mass migration

Oracle has landed a mystery customer that will add more than $30 billion to the database giant's annual revenues, more than doubling the size of its current cloud business.…

More than 140 people are killed or seriously injured in tailgating incidents in England each year, according to research.

The suspect deliberately lit a fire to lure first responders to a mountainous area near Coeur d'Alene.

Two transgender officers say they fear their military careers are over due to Trump’s ban on trans service members.

Valve has added a new performance monitor to Steam that can help you understand why a game may or may not be running smoothly. Not only does it break out a game’s overall frame rate, it can tell you how many of those frames were generated by techniques  like Nvidia’s DLSS or AMD’s FSR, according […]

AT&T believes its network wasn’t at fault for a conference call where President Donald Trump accused the company of being “totally unable to make their equipment work properly.” Instead, AT&T is blaming an unnamed “conference call platform.”  Earlier on Monday, President Donald Trump complained on Truth Social about apparent issues with AT&T’s network during a […]

Obstacles include difficulty booking appointments and too few jab reminders, say child health experts.

The most powerful public health official in the US is reviled by some medics - but even some of his critics accept that he is bringing drive to healthcare areas that have long been neglected

Eggs and embryos from people with polycystic ovary syndrome have altered patterns of so-called epigenetic tags, which could explain how the condition is inherited

The show's themes of unemployment and inequality are all too relatable for Korean viewers.

World number 33 Yulia Putintseva raises security concerns about a spectator during her first-round match at Wimbledon, asking for them to be ejected.

Resulting in two indictments, one arrest, and 137 laptops seized

The US Department of Justice has announced a major disruption of multiple North Korean fake IT worker scams.…

Fluminense goalkeeper Fabio has helped his side into the Club World Cup quarter-final as he eyes Peter Shilton's appearance world record.

There are no bad iPads. That’s the best news about Apple’s tablet lineup: 15 years after Steve Jobs first debuted the device, the iPad is the best tablet on the market, and it’s not particularly close. Apple’s App Store is enormous and filled with great apps, Apple’s performance and battery life are consistently excellent, and […]

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. And while they’re far less fragile than when they first debuted, foldables are still susceptible to the kind of damage a regular smartphone can shrug off. You really don’t want any dust […]

A couple have told the BBC about considering getting married after believing they had won a small fortune.

This was not the peace-loving, welcome-to-all vibe that Glastonbury tries to project, writes Katie Razzall.

It could just be the new 'proficient with MS Word'

ai-pocalypse  For job seekers wondering which AI skills to bone up on, the answer appears to be simple based on a look at the past year of employment data: Just learn to use it. …

The Uttar Pradesh government says 37 people were killed in the Kumbh Mela crush, but the BBC has verified at least 82 deaths.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be meeting Donald Trump next Monday, according to US officials.

The announcement has come alongside the annual publication of royal finances.

Apple is considering enlisting the help of OpenAI or Anthropic to power its AI-upgraded Siri, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. As Apple continues to struggle with the development of an upgraded “LLM Siri,” it reportedly asked OpenAI and Anthropic to create versions of their large-language models to test on the company’s private […]

AI models change their medical recommendations when people ask them questions that include colourful language, typos, odd formatting and even gender-neutral pronouns

Sir Keir Starmer continues to face the threat of a major rebellion during a key vote on welfare reforms later - despite making last-minute concessions to disgruntled Labour MPs.

The court has rejected a challenge brought by human rights groups.

Katie Boulter and Sonay Kartal both produces impressive victories at either end of a record-breaking day for British players at Wimbledon.

Ask a model to guess a number from 1 to 50 and it's likely to answer 27

Asked to guess a number between 1 and 50, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4, Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash, and Meta's Llama 4 all provided the same answer: 27.…

Extreme weather during the Club World Cup in the United States this summer means Fifa should think about playing the men's World Cup final at 9am next year, according to an expert.

Some players have said the calls are too quiet. Others say they miss the tradition. How has the first day of electronic line-calling gone at Wimbledon?

Finding a Nintendo Switch 2 hasn’t been easy since its launch on June 5th, with sporadic availability over the past few weeks at various retailers. Luckily, if you’ve missed chances to pick one up, Best Buy will have more stock at its retail stores across the US starting tomorrow, July 1st. The Verge has reached […]

A glass screen protector is one of a few "set it and forget it" purchases that every Switch 2 owner should make, along with buying a microSD Express card and a protective case for the console. In fact, it should be a priority to stick one onto the console's screen as soon as possible to […]

Queen Elizabeth II's favourite form of transport, the royal train, has reached the end of the line and is set to be decommissioned.

Everything you need to know about day two at Wimbledon as British number one Jack Draper and seven-time champion Novak Djokovic begin their campaigns.

Researchers have documented orcas seemingly gifting rays, seals and fish to scientists and divers, which could suggest they have theory of mind and engage in altruism – even across species

Researchers have documented orcas seemingly gifting rays, seals and fish to scientists and divers, which could suggest they have theory of mind and engage in altruism – even across species

The US Department of Justice notched an initial win in its antitrust case against Apple today, with a federal judge rejecting Apple’s attempt to dismiss the lawsuit outright. The government’s allegations are “sufficient to demonstrate Apple’s specific intent to monopolize the smartphone and performance smartphone market,“ Judge Julien Neals wrote in an opinion on Monday. […]

Someday, my prince will come

Google has agreed to purchase 200 megawatts of fusion energy from Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). That's assuming, of course, the Massachusetts-based startup can actually get the miniaturized sun to make more power than it consumes, something even the Chocolate Factory admits is a bit of a "moonshot."…

Since it launched in November 2023, you could catch everything from rocket launches to documentaries about space on the NASA Plus streaming service. Starting this Summer, NASA Plus’ live programming will also be available on Netflix, and continue to be ad-free. NASA Plus’ live programming also includes “astronaut spacewalks, mission coverage, and breathtaking live views […]

A gunman suspected of having started a fire to "ambush" firefighters in Idaho and kill them has been named as Wess Val Roley.

In a memo to Meta staff, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company’s new “Meta Superintelligence Labs” group that will head up its AI work, Bloomberg reports. Former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta as part of a multibillion dollar deal earlier this month, will head up the group as the company’s chief AI […]

The IDF said instructions had been issued to forces after "lessons learned".

The government was forced into concessions on its welfare plan following a backlash among its own MPs.

In a letter to Harvard, the Trump administration threatens the university with "loss of all federal financial resources".

The government has won a long-running legal challenge about its decision to continue allowing the sale of spare parts for F-35 fighter jets to Israel, while suspending other arms licences over concerns about international humanitarian law in Gaza.

A summer camping trip is the perfect excuse to stop staring at screens, but it doesn’t mean you need to go completely off the grid. Jackery’s Explorer 1000 Power Station V2 lets you charge your gadgets and have more fun while you’re camping. For instance, you can plug in a projector, speakers, or a space […]

Microsoft will soon no longer let you use its Authenticator app to store or autofill passwords. Starting in July, you won’t be able to autofill saved passwords using Authenticator, and you’ll have to use Microsoft Edge or another password management solution instead. Microsoft also plans on deleting your saved payment information in Authenticator this July […]

Don't leave the door open to disgruntled workers

A judge has sentenced a disgruntled IT worker to more than seven months in prison after he wreaked havoc on his employer's network following his suspension, according to West Yorkshire Police.…