Police have released CCTV footage which they believe shows a fugitive father-of-three and one of his children, almost four years after they disappeared into the New Zealand wilderness.

700 meters under a mountain, a 20,000-tonne detector and a giant sphere await elusive particles

More than a decade after construction began, China has commenced operation of what it claims is the world’s most sensitive neutrino detector.…

Wright was charged over a 2022 helicopter crash in remote crocodile territory, which killed his friend.

The US scraps its de-minimis exemption, meaning no more duty-free entry of small parcels to the US.

The overnight attacks destroyed a block of flats and also caused damage to the EU's delegation offices.

Coco Gauff credits superstar gymnast Simone Biles for helping bring a "bit of calm" as she finds a way to reach the US Open third round.

Jessie J has been forced to rearrange or cancel all upcoming tour dates as she will be having a second operation as part of her treatment for breast cancer.

DJ Admin, real name Rick Jansen, is the man tasked with keeping Max Verstappen’s ‘Orange Army’ entertained during the Dutch Grand Prix.

Naomi Osaka says Jelena Ostapenko's comments to Taylor Townsend about her having "no class" and "no education" was "one of the worst things you could say to a black tennis player".

Wayne Rooney recalls when Paul Scholes phoned him while he was watching Coronation Street to entice him to join Manchester United.

Former captain Katy Daley-Mclean says tournament favourites England are "massively aware" of how life-changing success at the Women's Rugby World Cup could be.

A fan says the way they and headliners Fontaines DC 'challenge the establishment' adds to their appeal.

The man dubbed "Britain’s most hated boss" for his controversial policy of sacking hundreds of seafarers and replacing them with cheaper agency staff is to quit.

Nine staff members at Berrow Wood have been convicted of abuse, and new allegations have been made.

Generations campaigned for mains power in the Upper Coquet valley and now, at last, they have it.

Lawyers for Dr Susan Monarez say only the president can remove her from her job running the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Supports several Chinese chips and GPUs – and of course it has AI inside

China’s KylinSoft has delivered a major update to its flagship Linux, which Beijing hailed as a great leap forward for the nation’s ambition to develop operating systems that match and exceed the capabilities of western products.…

Former prime minister David Cameron once described himself as a "modern, compassionate Conservative".

Police believe the CCTV footage shows Tom Phillips and his child breaking into a store.

Britain's Jacob Fearnley is surprised by "constant background noise" as third seed Alexander Zverev makes his greater experience count at the US Open.

The two children killed in the shooting have been identified as Fletcher Merkel, eight, and Harper Moyski, 10.

Chickenpox vaccinations for children and frustration over the chancellor's tax policies lead Friday's papers.

Harper Moyski, 10, and Fletcher Merkel, 8, were praying when they were gunned down at school on Wednesday.

"It's an invasion," Dinah Bentley tells me, standing next to a cardboard cut-out of Nigel Farage.

The three powers trigger a process which could restore sanctions in 30 days, calling Iran's nuclear programme a threat to peace and security.

New footage has revealed that two more strikes were carried out on hospital by Israel than initially reported.

Scientists are decoding the DNA of Britain’s ancient oaks to crack the secrets of their superpowers.

The BBC has found an international network of content creators profiting from AI generated posts on Facebook.

Plus millions of other people across 80+ countries

China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrusion into telecommunications networks, according to a top FBI cyber official.…

There is frenzy, fascination and even a little bit of FOMO as Koreans revel in the K-pop hit.

Critics fear a new law in Texas will prove discriminatory - but officials say it it vital to combat "adversaries".

They use AI more but also check it more

For those who thought AI vibe coding was just for the youngsters, newly published research shows that developers with over 10 years of experience are more than twice as likely to do it.…

Surgery, not antibiotics, might be the best way to treat chronic rhinosinusitis, a condition that leaves people with a permanently blocked or runny nose and a reduced sense of smell

BBC Scotland looks at a hard week on the continent as all four representatives fall short.

Actor Benedict Cumberbatch says he's shocked at how "fragile" he still is - despite years in the spotlight and success in the industry.

Donald Trump has cancelled a loophole from today that had allowed consumers and businesses to be spared duties for sending low-value goods to the United States.

We're back. From Monday, MPs will stream under the portcullis back into the Commons chamber. But this is far from a straightforward autumn, with dangers for all the leaders lurking everywhere.

Assisted dying would place added pressure on NHS, hospice and social care capacity, creating a "substantial task" for the healthcare system, especially as demand rises, according to a health thinktank.

Microsoft has fired two more employees who participated in recent protests against the company’s contracts with the Israeli military and government. The two employees, Nisreen Jaradat and Julius Shan, were fired “in connection” with demonstrations that saw protesters set up encampments at Microsoft’s headquarters, according to Hossam Nasr, an organizer with the No Azure for […]

Rohingya refugees tell the BBC they were flown from Delhi and forced into the sea off the coast of Myanmar.

Microsoft AI honcho insists partnership with Sam Altman's brainbox behemoth is alive and well

Microsoft has introduced two home-grown machine learning models, potentially complicating negotiations with its current favored model supplier, OpenAI.…

Netflix’s Jay Kelly sees the actor portray an ageing movie star, drawing parallels with his own life.

Jannik Sinner says he still has room for improvement despite extending his winning run at hard-court Grand Slams to 23 matches as he reaches the US Open third round.

Great Britain's Georgia Hunter Bell, Dina Asher-Smith and Max Burgin impress at the Diamond League Final before next month's World Championships in Tokyo.

Social media platforms will soon have to exclude children under 16 in Australia, but there are doubts over how age verification tools will work – and whether this is the right approach to deal with online harms

Crystal Palace will be one of the favourites to win the Conference League. BBC Sport looks at who or what could stand in their way.

Migrants living inside an Essex hotel are due to be removed from it by 12 September.

My brain hurts a lot

Claude creator Anthropic has given customers using its Free, Pro, and Max plans one month to prevent the engine from storing their chats for five years by default and using them for training.…

An eight-year-old boy killed in the US Catholic school shooting has been named - as his father branded the attacker a "coward".

The families of two children killed in the US Catholic school shooting have said their "hearts are broken" and branded the attacker a "coward".

Microsoft’s AI division announced its first homegrown AI models on Thursday: MAI-Voice-1 AI and MAI-1-preview. The company says its new MAI-Voice-1 speech model can generate a minute’s worth of audio in under one second on just one GPU, while MAI-1-preview “offers a glimpse of future offerings inside Copilot.” Microsoft already uses MA1-Voice-1 to power a […]

But private cloud contender sees upside in its modernization mission

Donald Trump's DOGE cost-cutting unit has made it harder to do business with the US federal government, according to private cloud contender Nutanix.…

A vaccine against chickenpox will be rolled out on the NHS in England for the first time next year.

The Nottingham Post describes the ban as "concerning" and "unprecedented".

Nor is its Arm port

When VMware delivered its Cloud Foundation 9 suite in June, it marked the end of a two-year push to integrate its compute, storage, and networking products. What’s next for the Broadcom business unit? At the VMware Explore conference this week, The Register sniffed out a few other items on its to-do list.…

Newcastle United are closing in on the signing of Germany striker Nick Woltemade in a move that could have a knock-on effect on Liverpool's pursuit of Alexander Isak.

Our drones are OK, but those other drones?

The US Department of Homeland Security has revealed plans to spend more than $100 million on systems designed to take out hostile drones.  …

Japanese officials have released an AI-generated video showing a simulation of Mount Fuji violently erupting to raise awareness about a potential disaster.

Audrey Werro finishes first in the women's 800m at Diamond League Zurich, claiming a national record as Britain's Georgia Hunter Bell claims second with a personal best.

Web browsing belongs to the people, not the bots

Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Norway-based browser maker Vivaldi, believes the tech industry's efforts to automate web browsing using generative AI models have gone too far.…

US Fed Governor sues President Trump over his attempt to fire her.

$6.4M VerifTools marketplace offline

The FBI and Dutch police today said that they seized two domains and a blog tied to VerifTools, an international criminal marketplace that sold identity documents for as little as $9.…

California's governor has been imitating the president online.

California's governor has been imitating the president online.

'The homeland is no longer secure,' says Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency leader

The Pentagon outfit responsible for preventing foriegn agents from infiltrating defense agencies says the US isn't doing a very good job of preventing state secrets from falling into Chinese hands.…

Google is phasing out its Preferred Care extended warranty plan for the Pixel Care Plus program. Pricing between the two is pretty similar. You’ll still pay $8 per-month, or $159 for a two-year plan on a Pixel 9. For a Pixel 10 Pro Fold, that jumps up to $339 for two years, or $18 per-month, […]

Officials confirm that the Florida facility may soon be empty following a court ruling to shutter the complex.

Only a few Android phones will be able to support the service

Users of Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy phones could soon find themselves able to make voice calls via a satellite connection, if Skylo Technologies can get all its ducks in a row.…

On Thursday, Xbox announced it’s widely rolling out cross-device play history. With the new update, even if you’re on a different Xbox console, Ally handheld, or PC, your recently played game list will remain the same, so you can jump right back in where you left off. The change, which first started testing with Insiders […]

How much attention did you pay to what happened in the world over the past seven days?

A man sacked from working in a warehouse after being accused of impersonating Michael Jackson was unfairly dismissed, an employment tribunal has found.

Sir Ed Davey has written to King Charles to explain why he believes he has to refuse his invite to a state banquet for Donald Trump.

The Puma Gen-E and e-Tourneo Courier are two Ford models drivers can purchase under the government scheme.

A British couple detained in Iran have been "suddenly whisked" to a courtroom in the country's capital, Tehran, their family have said.

Both Liverpool and Manchester City will face 15-time winners Real Madrid in the league phase of the Champions League.

Media multitool taps Vulkan for GPU encoding, adds VVC support, and dusts off some ancient formats

FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan – and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition.…

Look, I sympathize. When General Motors said it would adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) for its electric vehicles back in 2023, we knew this meant adapters. But we never could have imagined how many adapters we would get. Today, GM announced three additional adapters to help EV owners charge at home or in […]

The creativity at Manchester United these days is finding ways of sinking to new lows.

"I need to be better, I need to be healed and this is the right decision to make," she tells fans.

Production on Star Wars: Starfighter officially began today, and Lucasfilm has finally confirmed the other actors who will be bringing the film to life alongside Ryan Gosling. Lucasfilm announced today that Star Wars: Starfighters has added Flynn Gray, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, and Amy Adams to its […]

Also, not one but two new models of the classic 1200

The new native 68K AmigaOS web browser leans on the machines' underlying emulation system to offer modern facilities on a retro OS.…

The rebate allays fears of a 170% price rise but patients are warned the cost of the drug will still jump.

Several countries now offer at-home vaginal swabs to detect HPV status in place of traditional cervical cancer screening, but urine tests seem to work just as well

EA is promising Battlefield 6 will offer “the best PC experience in the history of the franchise,” including 4K resolution, 21:9 and 32:9 ultrawide monitors, HDR, uncapped framerates, both PS5 and Xbox gamepad support on PC, the ability to create and browse servers, streamer and incognito modes, and more — but it won’t require powerful […]

After all those raised hopes of peace, the second-worst night of air attacks on Ukraine since the war began.

Eczema can be very distressing for children – and now it seems that its roots may at least partly lie in their mothers experiencing high levels of stress during pregnancy

Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim is understood to retain the support of the club ownership despite last night's shock Carabao Cup defeat at League Two Grimsby.

James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, abused a position of trust, police say.

Fubo is launching a new Sports plan on September 2nd that costs $55.99 per month and comes with over 20 live sports and news-focused channels, including the ESPN and Fox Sports channels, as well as local stations owned by ABC, CBS, and Fox. Where available, this package includes coverage for network TV-broadcast pro and college […]

Think BYOC will solve all your sovereignty and privacy worries? You might be missing the point

INTERVIEW  Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is a concept gaining traction as companies seek ways to resolve sovereignty and privacy issues, but its implementation can vary widely depending on interpretation.…

A big draw of Kobo e-readers has always been Pocket integration. But, when Mozilla announced in late May that it was shutting down the read-it-later app in July, the Kobo community was left in a bit of a lurch. To the company’s credit, in late July, it announced that it would be replacing Pocket with […]

Investigations have been launched following the footage posted to Instagram - which has since been deleted.

So I heard you want to play Kirby on hard mode: tough bosses, tricky platforming, complicated puzzles, hidden collectibles, and maybe even punishments for failing. The Star-Crossed World expansion in Kirby and the Forgotten Land's Switch 2 edition certainly introduces new challenges. There's pressure from time constraints and consecutive platforming sequences, multistep puzzles, and bosses […]

Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts and coding sessions, unless users choose to opt out. It's also extending its data retention policy to five years - again, for users that don't choose to opt out. All users will have to make a decision by September 28th. For […]

Lindsay and Craig Foreman were taken into custody in January while on a motorcycle world tour.

The mayor of Minneapolis has called for a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons after a deadly school shooting.

Microsoft is making a big change to how Word for Windows saves documents. The word processing app will soon automatically save new documents to the cloud, instead of Word users having to enable AutoSave and cloud storage options. “We are modernizing the way files are created and stored in Word for Windows,” says Raul Munoz, […]

The tour will include five dates in London - the only shows currently announced outside North America.

A woman has told a court that she did not flee from her home following an alleged rape attack in fear her "son might not have a mother right now".

Because not every bot wants to live inside Microsoft's walled garden

Google and code editor company Zed Industries have introduced the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) as a standard way for AI agents to integrate with an IDE, with the idea that this will prevent developers getting locked into VS Code.…