Apple’s 4K streaming device rarely goes on sale, but right now it’s available for its lowest price to date at Costco.com. Now through October 31st, Costco members can buy the third-gen Apple TV 4K online with an expanded 128GB of storage for just $119.99 ($30 off). If you’re not already a member, you can still […]

Tiphaine Auzière was testifying in the trial of ten people accused of cyber-bullying her mother, the French first lady.

By appearing more human, it evades detection

A new Android malware strain, Herodotus, steals credentials, logs keystrokes, streams victims' screens, and hijacks input - but with a twist: it mimics human typing by adding random delays between keystrokes to evade behavioral fraud detection systems.…

Ukraine's president confirms Russian soldiers have taken up position inside the town of Pokrovsk.

John Ashby, 32, is charged with one count of rape and sexual assault after an attack in Walsall.

This morning, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-0 to let itself retroactively ban gadgets and radio components that it previously approved for entry into the United States, if the company that makes them is deemed a national security risk. Officially, it's a way to close loopholes and protect US networks from backdoors in Chinese […]

Robotaxi fever is back, baby! After a bunch of automaker-led autonomous driving projects shut down amid concerns over safety and costs, car companies are expressing a renewed interest in self-driving cars, and robotaxis specifically. Stellantis, which oversees brands like Jeep, Ram, Dodge, and Chrysler, announced today a “new collaboration” with a diverse range of firms, […]

Super League is heading for a "train crash" if it does not find ways to grow its revenue, the head of Australia's NRL has warned.

Lucid says it will eventually sell “privately owned” autonomous vehicles with the help of Nvidia’s artificial intelligence technology. The company is the latest to declare its intention to sell Level 4 autonomous vehicles to its customers, despite a range of theoretical and logistical challenges standing in the way. Lucid’s autonomous vehicles — which do not exist […]

The government's decision to slash foreign aid will lead to unrest, further crises and threaten UK security, a group of cross-party MPs has warned.

Though there’s still a new Doctor Who spinoff making its way to Disney Plus, Disney’s production partnership with the BBC has come to an end. The BBC announced today that after two seasons of Doctor Who starring Ncuti Gatwa in the titular role, Disney will no longer be a co-producer on the sci-fi series. In […]

A child has died following a "hazardous materials incident" in east London.

Oppo has announced the international launch of its Find X9 and Find X9 Pro flagships, and both phones are going on sale in the UK and Europe. Best of all, unlike some other Chinese phones, there’s been no reduction in battery capacity for the global release, making these two of the longest lasting phones in […]

Singer Chris Brown will be allowed to return to the United States as he awaits trial for an alleged bottle attack at a London nightclub in 2023.

Melissa's 185 mph winds at landfall means it could eclipse all storms the island has experienced before.

'Electrons are the new oil,' ChatGPT maker claims, demanding 100 GW per year

OpenAI wants the Trump administration to build 100 gigawatts of additional electricity generation capacity per annum to avoid the US being overtaken by China in the AI arms race.…

A man who stabbed an 11-year-old girl in a random attack in Leicester Square will no longer face trial for attempted murder.

BBC Sport Scotland's chief sportswriter Tom English breaks down the public statements of Dermot Desmond and Brendan Rodgers to try to get to the bottom of the claims and counter-claims at Celtic.

The BBC says it remains "fully committed" to the sci-fi show after ending its partnership with Disney+.

Employers who hire illegal workers could face up to five years in prison as figures reveal more than 11,000 raids have been carried out on takeaways, beauty salons and car washes in the past year.

Nothing is more frustrating than buying a new pair of headphones, an OLED TV, or a laptop just to find out that you could have gotten it for a lot cheaper somewhere else. That’s why, in order to keep customers happy and prevent them from shopping elsewhere, many retailers offer price-matching policies in which they […]

The UN says there are credible reports of "summary executions" in el-Fasher.

Sky News has exclusively challenged Lord Peter Mandelson over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Scratch Grokipedia and Wikipedia bleeds

What do you do if you're the richest man on Earth and don't like Wikipedia? Start your own imitation encyclopedia, call it Grokipedia, lift a bunch of pages from the site, and let AI fill in the rest. Obviously, that's a recipe for success.…

Gap between vendor promises and business results set to trigger market correction, research firm predicts

ai-pocalypse  Bubble, meet pin. Large organizations are set to defer a quarter of planned AI spending from next year until 2027, forcing a market correction.…

Attention, Straw Hats — Netflix’s surprisingly great One Piece adaptation finally has a season 2 premiere date. Netflix announced today that its take on One Piece is set to return on March 10th, 2026 with 8 new episodes that will follow Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy) and the rest of his Straw Hat Pirates as […]

Israel accuses Hamas of a "clear violation" of the ceasefire deal after tests showed the remains belonged to a person whose body was previously returned.

After being announced last week, the BrickBoy kit that turns Lego’s buildable Game Boy model into a functional handheld through emulation has finally launched on Kickstarter, but its pricing could be a serious deterrent. Three versions of the BrickBoy are being offered with the cheapest option being the Essential Kit that can only play Game […]

PayPal announced today that you’ll be able to use its wallet to make purchases directly through ChatGPT beginning sometime in 2026. The recently-added Instant Checkout feature in ChatGPT will have an option to pay with PayPal, using the same interface you already see when checking out with PayPal through other services. You’ll have access to […]

Where to put asylum seekers has become one of the fiercest topics of political debate since last year's general election.

Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his military to immediately carry out "powerful" strikes in Gaza.

Blasts have been reported in Gaza after Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his military to carry out "powerful" air strikes.

GitHub is giving developers access to third-party AI coding agents with the launch of a new “Agent HQ.” Instead of just using GitHub Copilot, developers will get to try OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Jules, xAI, and Cognition’s Devin within GitHub in the coming months. Developers with a GitHub Copilot subscription will be able to […]

More countries are prioritizing national security over scientific discovery

Why can't we all just get along... for the good of science? New research suggests countries prioritizing national security over the greater good are hindering global research and economic development.…

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing where they come from and how they changed history

Black Friday is one month away, but MSI didn’t wait to drop the price of its 27-inch Mag 271QP X28 QD-OLED gaming monitor. You can get it for an all-time low price of $519.99 ($130 off) from MSI with the promo code 272QPW40. The display has a 2K (2560 x 1440) resolution, 280Hz refresh rate, and […]

Fourteen people have died after the US launched its latest attacks on boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean, which it says were transporting illegal drugs to the country.

Julia Wandelt, charged with stalking the McCanns, tried to present the pair with a DNA report, a court is told.

Housing asylum seekers in hotels has cost billions, while they have also become a focal point for protests.

Local authorities say the cost of providing school transport is becoming "financially unsustainable".

EA announced today that Battlefield Redsec, the free-to-play battle royale that the company says is “built on Battlefield’s iconic DNA,” is available now. Here’s how EA describes the mode in a press release: As part of this free-to-play package, players can jump into Battlefield’s biggest map ever Fort Lyndon, and experience an explosive new take […]

Set-piece goals have been the story of the Premier League this season. BBC Sport examines their increasing importance.

CISPE says post-VMware conduct raises fresh antitrust concerns

Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) has issued its third European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) report, praising Microsoft's licensing concessions while accusing Broadcom of worsening anti-competitive practices.…

The monster hurricane pummelling Jamaica is powered by abnormal sea surface temperatures in the Caribbean, which were made at least 500 times more likely by global warming

The monster hurricane pummelling Jamaica is powered by abnormal sea surface temperatures in the Caribbean, which were made at least 500 times more likely by global warming

Razer is announcing a new Huntsman V3 Pro 8kHz keyboard for esports-level competition and speed-obsessed PC gamers. The newest version of Razer’s top-end wired keyboard supports 8,000Hz polling (both upstream and downstream), and it’s got new analog optical switches designed to minimize interference and prioritize speed. Razer claims it put a big emphasis on typing […]

Good luck to the 1,000 enterprise guinea pigs on the initial preview

Anthropic has opened a waitlist for Claude for Excel, promising spreadsheet devotees that its LLM will be able to understand their entire workbook.…

A UK government minister blocked Scotland's bottle return scheme in order to give the SNP a "black eye", a court has been told.

Eleven people have been killed after a plane carrying tourists to a Kenyan safari reserve crashed.

When Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it was open to the possibility of a sale, the entertainment giant was careful to mention that it has already received multiple unsolicited offers "for both the entire company and Warner Bros." We knew about WBD's plan to split back into two corporate entities, and that the company had […]

Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales, best known for playing hotel manager Sybil Fawlty, has died aged 93.

Noyb says New York-based facial recognition biz flouted GDPR orders and kept scraping anyway

Privacy advocates at Noyb filed a criminal complaint against Clearview AI for scraping social media users' faces without consent to train its AI algorithms.…

The pregnant 19-year-old faces drugs charges in Georgia and is back in court on Monday.

The family of a pregnant British teenager, arrested in Georgia earlier this year on drug smuggling charges, have paid £138,000 in a bid to dramatically reduce her sentence.

George Ford starts at fly-half and Tommy Freeman at centre for England's opening autumn Test against Australia on Saturday.

Concern over the glare from brighter headlamps is prompting the government to review vehicle design.

With Meta's new range of smart glasses, Mark Zuckerberg is pitching a vision of the future that sci-fi authors have been warning about for decades - one where privacy is truly dead, and everyone is recording everyone else at all times. This in itself is nothing new. Introduced at the company's recent Meta Connect event, […]

From natural disasters to stray bullets and exams, it's been a shaky quarter for the world's connectivity

Cloudflare's latest internet disruptions report reads like a global disaster log, with exam-related shutdowns, natural calamities, stray bullets, and even a Starlink software failure all taking chunks out of global connectivity.…

Extremists who are stripped of their British citizenship will face increased hurdles to regaining their status on appeal as a new law comes into force.

James Anderson, England's leading Test wicket-taker of all time, receives a knighthood for services to cricket.

OpenAI’s controversial for-profit restructuring is finally complete, along with a new deal with Microsoft. The company’s for-profit arm is now a public benefit corporation, dubbed OpenAI Group PBC. The nonprofit is now called the OpenAI Foundation and “holds equity in the for-profit currently valued at approximately $130 billion” — it will begin with a $25 […]

From Ashes humiliation to a World Cup semi-final in eight months - how have Nat Sciver-Brunt and Charlotte Edwards revived England?

Did you know you should be replacing your surge protectors every three to five years to avoid them becoming a potential fire risk? If you’re now on the hunt for replacements, Govee’s new Smart Plug Outlet Extender packs a decent amount of functionality into a solution that won’t be taking up floor space under your […]

Adobe has kicked off its annual Max design conference, where it’ll be giving us a first glimpse at the latest updates coming to its Creative Cloud apps and Firefly AI models. The creative software giant is launching new generative AI tools that make digital voiceovers and custom soundtracks for videos, and adding AI assistants to […]

If you know how to set it up, it can almost seem like your phone can read your mind. The minute you walk out of the office, a text gets automatically fired off letting your spouse know exactly when you'll be home. When you start reading a book, your phone immediately shuts off notifications. When […]

After long insisting that it will release its first trifold phone this year, Samsung has gotten one step closer by showing off a version of the hardware at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, being held this week in Korea. No-one’s allowed to touch it though (let alone fold it), and Samsung is staying coy […]

Nearly half of young people say their mental health affects their attendance at school or college, according to a report by the charity Mind.

Zillow is trying to make it easier to share listings by putting a messaging feature directly in its app. Instead of sharing a link to your dream home over a text message, Zillow says you can invite a friend, family member, or significant other to chat from the app’s inbox. From there, both you and […]

The first transfer of the so-called NZYQ cohort to the tiny Pacific island marks the start of a A$2.5bn agreement between Australia and Nauru.

A 32-year-old man has been charged over a "racially aggravated" rape in Walsall.

Agentic features open the door to data exfiltration or worse

Feature  With great power comes great vulnerability. Several new AI browsers, including OpenAI's Atlas, offer the ability to take actions on the user's behalf, such as opening web pages or even shopping. But these added capabilities create new attack vectors, particularly prompt injection.…

The company says the opportunities provided by AI means it needs to be "organised more leanly."

Hospital bosses at the centre of a legal row over allowing a transgender member of staff to use the female changing rooms feared they could be portrayed as a "bullying trust", a nurse told an employment tribunal.

Senate Democrats are urging the Federal Communications Commission to enforce a rule that would lower the price of prison phone and video calls. In a letter to FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), among others, criticize the agency’s efforts to “effectively gut” a final […]

Rachel Reeves is unlikely to raise the basic rates of income tax and national insurance in order to avoid breaking a promise to protect "working people" in the budget.

Former England cricketer James Anderson has been knighted at Windsor Castle.

A new generative AI experience is coming to Adobe’s cloud-based Express design platform, enabling you to transform projects by vaguely describing what changes to make. Adobe describes the “AI Assistant in Adobe Express” launching in public beta today as a conversational creative agent that “empowers people of every skill level” to quickly create visual content, […]

Kensington has announced a new version of its Expert Mouse wireless trackball with a major facelift and some new functionality. The Expert Mouse TB800 EQ features a slimmer design than its predecessor with a new built-in wrist rest making it look more like the sleeker SlimBlade Pro that Kensington launched in 2022. But the svelter […]

Insta360 debuted its new X5 360-degree action camera just six months ago, but it turns out that the company still has plans for its predecessor. Today, it announced the Insta360 X4 Air, which is a lighter, smaller, and more affordable alternative to the $549.99 X5 that still offers 8K recording capabilities, but starting at $399.99. […]

As Adobe builds AI assistants into each of its applications, the company is also building an AI agent on its Firefly platform to act as a centralized creative director for social media campaigns. Project Moonlight’s chatbot integrates with Adobe’s creative software apps and pulls from your existing social media channels to brainstorm and edit content […]

Adobe is giving filmmakers new generative AI audio tools that can quickly add thematically appropriate backing tracks and narration to videos. Generate Soundtrack and Generate Speech are being introduced to a redesigned Adobe Firefly AI app, while Adobe is also developing a new web-based video production tool that combines multiple AI features with a simple […]

Adobe has kicked off its annual Max event, giving us a first look at new and upcoming generative AI tools launching for the company’s Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom Creative Cloud apps. These include updates to Photoshop’s Generative Fill feature that aim to give creators more control over adding, removing or modifying content, and tools […]

Research submitted to Parliament details deaths, raids, and mental trauma linked to 2022 relocation leak

Research submitted to the UK Parliament has revealed explicit threats to life and the deaths of family members and colleagues directly linked to the Ministry of Defence's 2022 Afghan relocation scheme data breach.…

Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Hamas of a "clear violation" of the Gaza ceasefire deal by releasing remains of a hostage already recovered by troops nearly two years ago.

Royal Lodge, and the optics of Prince Andrew living in it, has been a problem for a long time, but never has the attention been this intense.

Amazon is planning to axe around 14,000 corporate jobs. The mass layoffs were expected as part of the company’s cost-cutting drive, but are smaller than the 30,000 job losses previous reports had indicated.   Beth Galetti, a senior executive at the e-commerce giant, broke the news to employees in a message on Tuesday. “The reductions we’re […]

Layoffs are part of an efficiency drive, not a sign of struggle, says HR exec

Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs, blaming the accelerating impact of artificial intelligence for changing how the company operates – and how many people it needs.…

Ten Europeans and a local pilot have died after the plane crashed while flying to a game park.

The UN's review of national climate plans shows the world is well off track to limit warming

Irish president Michael D Higgins has spent a second night in hospital as he receives treatment for an infection.

The versatile actress, who has died aged 93, will be best remembered for her portrayal of Sybil Fawlty.

The star has been on "a rollercoaster journey" after her work was stolen along with her car last year.

Ad and cloud biz rubbishes claims that 183 million accounts broken into

Panic spread faster than a phishing email on Tuesday after claims of a massive Gmail breach hit the headlines – but Google says it's all nonsense.…

Martin O'Neill says he had to "pull myself off the floor" when he was asked to take interim charge of Celtic following Brendan Rodgers' exit.

For Shelley Mclean, every night is a sleepless one, just to keep her 11-year-old daughter alive.

The red carpet was rolled out for Trump by Japan's Sanae Takaichi, who has only been prime minister since last week.

A man has been charged with murder following the death of a "much-loved" pensioner the day after he was burgled at home.

Fake views from Moscow's pet media outlets appear in about one in five responses

Popular chatbots powered by large language models cited links to Russian state-attributed sources in up to a quarter of answers about the war in Ukraine, raising fresh questions over whether AI risks undermining efforts to enforce sanctions on Moscow-backed media.…

A judge has ruled that the man charged with killing US activist Charlie Kirk must be physically restrained in court due to security concerns but can wear his regular clothes.

A man on trial accused of shooting dead Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has admitted to his murder.