Kyle Steyn starts in place of Duhan van der Merwe and Zander Fagerson is not included as Scotland aim for a first win against New Zealand on Saturday.

After teasing its development last year, Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley has now launched BeeBot: an AI-powered social app for iPhones that talks to you about what’s happening nearby. In his blog announcement, Crowley says BeeBot behaves like a “personalized radio DJ” that provides location-based audio updates through your headphones, telling you about what friends are […]

A prisoner released by mistake earlier this week has handed himself in, while the hunt continues for a foreign sex offender also freed in error.

Intune is where the party's at, even if admins might prefer the Configuration Manager kitchen

Microsoft has officially confirmed that Configuration Manager will transition to an annual release cadence, with Intune as the primary focus for innovation.…

Ireland captain Caelan Doris is named in the starting XV for Saturday's autumn international against Japan in Dublin.

Huawei is the latest phone manufacturer to release a thin phone: the Mate 70 Air. That’s our third Air for the year — after the iPhone and ZTE’s Nubia Air — to only two Edges, suggesting Apple’s influence still reigns supreme over Samsung’s. At 6.6mm thick, the Mate 70 Air isn’t quite as slim as […]

The actress and close friend Emma Stone are set to co-produce the film, centered on the diva puppet.

Spies, not crooks, were behind digital heist – damage stopped at the backups, says US cybersec biz

SonicWall has blamed an unnamed, state-sponsored collective for the September break-in that saw cybercriminals rifle through a cache of firewall configuration backups.…

Perhaps it's not surprising that, the day after Guy Fawkes night, the Bank of England held off from lighting any economic fireworks at Threadneedle Street on Thursday.

The BBC understands there have been "conversations" within government about the possibility of a new levy on EVs.

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has said the harassment she suffered when a drunk man groped her in the street is an assault on all women.

The show was uploaded a day early by streaming service Crave in Canada, with hundreds able to watch.

Untapped underground energy could have potentially huge implications for Cardiff's 124,000 homes.

This year's Bonfire Night was the mildest ever recorded.

Countless cars have received military-grade marketing over the years, their performances likened to some form of ordnance or another. Saab was notorious for leaning on its aeronautical origins, and it's hard to imagine what kind of state Jeep would be in today without literally parading its olive drab roots at every opportunity. But not since […]

Ikea announced 21 new Matter-over-Thread devices that can “connect with a wider range of devices and platforms, making it easier for customers to build a smart home across different brands.” The collection includes both entirely new products and updates to existing offerings introducing new functionality and features. The new collection was teased by Ikea’s David […]

On Thursday, Tesla shareholders will vote on whether to grant Elon Musk an enormous pay package, the largest ever awarded to a chief executive by orders of magnitude, or risk him leaving the company in a huff. If this sounds weirdly familiar, it's because the same thing unfolded nearly a year ago. At the 2024 […]

Ikea just announced a bunch of super cheap, colorful Matter-over-Thread devices that will work with any platform, and it feels like Christmas came early for the smart home. The 21 new products include a line of smart bulbs starting at just £4 and two new remote controls that start at just £3 (US pricing is […]

This year will likely be the second or third warmest ever on record globally, as an "unprecedented streak" of high temperatures persist, UN scientists have warned as climate talks get under way in Brazil.

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) in the US has sent Meta a cease-and-desist letter over its use of "PG-13" when referring to content moderation on Instagram.

Three hyperscale sheds to double capacity near Heathrow

Colt Data Centre Services has secured approval to invest £2.5 billion ($3.3 billion) in three hyperscale data centers at its Hayes Digital Park campus in west London.…

A hotel chain using some rooms to house migrants has been ranked the worst in the UK by a new survey.

Vulnerable urged to come forward for flu jab quickly as virus has come early this year.

One of the two prisoners mistakenly freed from HMP Wandsworth has handed himself in.

Accidental prisoner releases represent a "significant operational failure" but there is "no silver bullet" to improve safety, the government has been warned.

Miss Mexico, Fatima Bosch, said Nawat Itsaragrisil was 'not respectful' at a pre-pageant ceremony on Tuesday

Stolen creds let miscreants waltz into 17K employees' chats, spilling info on staff and partners

Japanese media behemoth Nikkei has admitted to a data breach after miscreants slipped into its internal Slack workspace, exposing the personal details of more than 17,000 employees and business partners.…

Joshua Mollel, a 21-year-old agriculture student, was killed at Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attack on Israel.

Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers

Cloud vendors’ commercial models poorly serve scientists, forcing them to struggle for value amid tightening budgets, according to research.…

Winners include a project for making the Atlantic Forest financially viable and a global ocean treaty initiative.

Tinder is testing an AI-powered “Chemistry” feature that learns about your interests and personality by analyzing your camera roll. In its latest earnings report, the dating app’s parent company, Match Group, described it as an interactive matching feature that’s designed to combat “swipe fatigue” by surfacing fewer, more compatible matches. Chemistry requires the user’s permission […]

The highest number of people on record were referred to the UK's anti-extremism scheme in the year to March - with a 37% rise in right-wing extremism concerns, the latest data shows.

The race to mine battery minerals from the ocean floor would create a new stream of waste that could rob sea life of a critical food source, according to new research published today in the journal Nature Communications. That could have far-reaching effects across the ocean, potentially reaching larger fish like tuna that people depend […]

London mayor Sadiq Khan gives advice to the mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani

London mayor Sadiq Khan gives advice to the mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani

Elon Musk could be on track for a $1trn (£761bn) pay package - if Tesla meets a series of extremely ambitious targets over the next 10 years.

Flight capacity will be cut by up to 10% across the country as air traffic controllers report fatigue, Sean Duffy says.

Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services

The UK's House of Lords UK Engagement with Space Committee has published a scathing report, "The Space Economy: Act Now or Lose Out," declaring that the 2021 National Space Strategy has "failed to turn its ambitions into reality."…

Donald Trump says thousands of Christians are being killed in Nigeria - where has he got the numbers from?

Many plants including cocoa, coffee and avocado cannot be gene-edited but a technique involving grafting could change that, opening the door to more productive and nutritious varieties

The two-child benefit cap: To scrap or not to scrap?

'Pirates' firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades have boarded a tanker off the coast of Somalia on Thursday, according to reports.

US soldiers in Germany may not receive their November pay and have been given food bank advice as a government shutdown entered a record 37th day.

The identity of a skeleton buried under a Budapest convent has been confirmed as Béla of Macsó, a Hungarian royal murdered in a 13th-century power struggle, and archaeologists have pieced together how the attack unfolded

Kalmaegi left the Philippines on Thursday morning and is currently moving toward central Vietnam.

With half of the NFL season in the books we look at what we learned from the first nine weeks, who the biggest surprises and disappointments are and how the play-off picture is shaping up

Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship

China has matched the European Space Agency’s feat of taking a snapshot of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from a Mars orbiter.…

The reaction to the Scottish government's wide-ranging new laws show the divided opinions on the issue.

Former Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino says he is "missing" the Premier League and would like to return in the future.

Think you can work out where's hotter and colder than you today? Find out by playing our game

Canon is announcing the EOS R6 Mark III camera, its latest jack-of-all-trades full-frame mirrorless model for both stills and video. The new camera has a 32.5-megapixel sensor, improved autofocus, up to 7K video recording, and a new dual-card arrangement with a faster CFexpress Type B slot. It’s set to launch November 25th and will sell […]

Floods have swept through towns, killing at least 85 people and leaving 75 others missing.

The fate of the remaining five lions at Kamo Wildlife Sanctuary is still unclear, after the park's closure.

A local council said the repairs to the bright blue sculpture would be 'significant'.

The Philippines has declared a state of emergency after a typhoon left at least 114 dead and 127 missing.

Awkward, seeing as they’re close partners

Qualcomm and Arm have offered differing predictions regarding the market for inferencing silicon.…

President Trump promised to bring down inflation. One year on from his victory, BBC Verify revisits some of his claims.

If you're getting a pattern of milder, recurring headaches here are four things you can do to help manage it.

It is widely accepted that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, but now researchers say our measurements of the mysterious force driving that may be wrong and that the universe began to slow 1.5 billion years ago – but other scientists disagree

The palliative care nurse was convicted of the murder of 10 patients, and the attempted murder of 27 others.

With the finale only hours away, test your knowledge of the highs and lows of the latest series.

The art of making an app by describing it to artificial intelligence (AI) tops 10 new terms on the shortlist.

A new study has found certain corals are more resilient in warmer waters, giving hope to the world-famous reef.

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. At 8PM on election night in New York City, I arrived at an unmarked office building in the Meatpacking District. Inside, a few dozen young Kalshi employees moved between […]

English clubs appear to be bossing things in Europe as, for the second time in this season's Champions League, five sides from the Premier League won in a single round of fixtures.

Expensive, noisy and eight years late, but the British Army finally has a new armoured fighting vehicle that troops could deploy to Ukraine in the event of any peace deal.

Aviation analysts say the disaster, which left 12 people dead, may have been caused by engine failure

Rode has announced a new version of the Rodecaster Video portable production console it launched just over a year ago, but the Rodecaster Video S isn’t a replacement. The Rodecaster Video S offers similar functionality to the original, including switching and mixing multiple video and audio sources and replacing blue or green screens, but with […]

The mistaken release of two prisoners from Wandsworth Prison and Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York lead Thursday's papers.

Even offers refunds if users sign up for AI they don’t want

Microsoft Australia has apologized to users of its M365 suite after regulators accused it of steering them towards pricey bundles that include its Copilot AI service.…

Prince William has praised environmental innovators as the "world's true action heroes", describing them as the role models we need "in these uncertain times" at his Earthshot awards in Rio.

The highly-complex technology is increasingly being tipped to transform computing.

As an image makeover, I suppose it was instant.

A BBC investigation finds that a host of areas in England are closing waiting lists and others are rationing care.

Phil Foden will have a close eye on Friday's England squad announcement following his fine form for Manchester City this season, including a double against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League.

If you logged into your Movies Anywhere account in the past few days, you might have noticed some titles missing from your library, specifically content purchased on Google Play and YouTube. As of October 31st, movies from either platform are no longer available on Movies Anywhere.  The change was announced on a brief help page […]

Some clever networking hacks open the door

AI search provider Perplexity's research wing has developed a new set of software optimizations that allows for trillion parameter or large models to run efficiently across older, cheaper hardware using a variety of existing network technologies, including Amazon's proprietary Elastic Fabric Adapter.…

In the 2023 remarks from the King he said AI was "no less important than the discovery of electricity" but warned the risks must be tackled.

It comes just weeks after migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu was also released from prison by mistake.

Don't be led by what appears to be obvious.

The Blues narrowly avoided a historically embarrassing defeat in a 2-2 draw at Qarabag where manager Enzo Maresca's rotation was questioned.

At least 11 people are dead and others wounded after UPS flight 2976 burst into flames and hit buildings during take-off.

Degraded performance and possible dependency problems across AZs

Microsoft has warned of a “thermal event” impacting Azure users in its West Europe region, and perhaps elsewhere.…

Apple recently launched its latest fleet of smartwatches, including the Apple Watch Series 11, the SE 3, and the Ultra 3. Each wearable offers something a little different (their prices indicate their breadth of features). A new generation of watches means we probably won’t see big price drops soon, but we’re officially beginning our watch […]

Two men were released from HMP Wandsworth in error in the past week, with police hunts under way.

If the court rules against Trump's tariffs, it could force the US to refund some of the billions it has collected.

Maccabi Tel Aviv chief executive Jack Angelides calls for a separation between football and politics after away fans were banned from Thursday's Europa League game at Aston Villa.

Police are preparing for a surge in crime if the Labour government's plans to overhaul prison sentences go ahead - with hundreds of thousands more offences expected in a year.

Flaming tar barrels light up the streets of Ottery St Mary on Bonfire Night.

The online shopping giant opened its first physical shop in the world - in a Parisian department store.

Video of the incident, which was live streamed, has been shared widely on the internet.

Gemini can now draw from your emails and documents while performing “deep research” queries. Google’s announcement blog called this “one of our most-requested features” for Gemini Deep Research, which is an agentic feature styled specifically for creating research reports rather than just answering questions. The chatbot starts by creating a multi-step research plan, then it […]

Dan Burn scores a brilliant curling header from a set piece to give Newcastle United an early lead against Athletic Club.

Phil Foden scores a "brilliant" goal to put Manchester City in the lead against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League at the Etihad Stadium.

Teenager Lamine Yamal scores a "sensational" goal in a "moment of pure individual brilliance" for Barcelona against Club Brugge in the Champions League.

The BBC's Ed Thomas confronted Kardos Mateen, who is at the centre of an illegal worker network.

Calling himself "the accountant", the fixer told undercover reporters how he could “confuse” immigration enforcement.

In her latest column, Anita Asante looks at how we react to role models not conforming in women's football and the fallout from Mary Earps' book.

Kyle Bevan, 33, was found dead at HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire on Wednesday, prompting a police inquiry.

Elon Musk is already the world's richest man, but today he could take a giant step towards becoming the world's first trillionaire.