Keegan Bradley faces an unenviable task as he makes the final call on whether to include himself as a playing-captain in the US Ryder Cup team, writes Iain Carter.
A shooting has been reported at a Minneapolis Catholic school, the Minnesota governor and authorities have said.
Two children, aged eight and 10, have been killed in a shooting during mass at a school in Minneapolis.
Holly New created a custom outfit for singer NØELLE to wear during an immersive show.
Can science reveal the secrets of mysterious objects seen in our skies?
Suspects this was Beijing-backed Typhoon and/or Panda crew targeting diplomats in Asia
Google has warned customers of a suspected state-backed attack after observing a web traffic hijacking campaign.…
Justyna Czoska, Wojtek Kowalkowski and pilot Simon Hewitt died in the crash on the Isle of Wight.
Some 96 trucks were driven on China's Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in a test ahead of the scheduled opening next month.
The time capsule was buried in 1991 to mark the laying of the foundation stone at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The US president's steep 50% tariffs on India have kicked in, sending Narendra Modi's government into firefighting mode.
Thousands of consumers been targeted by fraudsters impersonating the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Guinness World Records (GWR) is celebrating its 70th anniversary by highlighting unclaimed titles you might fancy going for.
It is the latest in a series of chart-topping achievements by the animated musical.
An initial Israeli military report says the attack targeted a "Hamas camera" and identified "gaps" for further investigation.
SpaceX has successfully launched its biggest ever rocket, named Starship, from Texas after a year of mishaps.
The Starship rocket is critical to the company's hopes of one day carrying people to the Moon and Mars.
The conspiracy theorist once tried to arrest a magistrate and prosecute the state premier for treason.
Elon Musk's giant rocket, earmarked for use in a 2027 mission to the Moon, has had multiple catastrophic failures in previous launches.
Nigel Farage will be accused of wanting to "take Britain backwards" by vowing to scrap trade agreements between the UK and EU, as the government seeks a permanent deal to cut checks on food and drink.
Microsoft president Brad Smith hosted an impromptu press conference on Tuesday afternoon, just hours after protesters gained access to a building at the company’s headquarters and held a sit-in demonstration inside his office. Seated on the edge of his desk, in the office that had been occupied by protesters earlier that day, Smith addressed a […]
Reform UK's plan to deport 600,000 migrants and the engagement of Taylor Swift to Travis Kelce leads Wednesday's papers.
A comparison of the thylacine’s genome to other marsupials has revealed that the creatures lost genetic diversity long before humans and dingoes arrived in Australia
The photo taken by Bidyut Kalita, is among several highly commended in this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
'They have to give us magnets'
world war fee The Chinese lockdown on rare-earth minerals has drawn the ire of President Trump, who is threatening crushing tariffs if the Middle Kingdom doesn't cough up more rare earths.…
In an exclusive interview with BBC Persian, a prisoner describes what happened when Israeli missiles tore through Iran's most notorious jail.
Funeral director Amie Upton is now barred from NHS maternity wards, the BBC reveals.
AI am inevitable, AI firm argues
Anthropic is now offering a research preview of Claude for Chrome, a browser extension that enables the firm's machine learning model to automate web browsing.…
The mother of a baby whose stomach and bowel "moved into her chest" has hailed new research aimed at treating her daughter's rare condition.
Residents in Washington's Columbia Heights neighbourhood say there has been a surge in immigration arrests since President Trump's crime crackdown started.
Sheffield Wednesday are showing a "togetherness" despite supporter protests against the club's owner as the Owls stunned Leeds in the Carabao Cup.
The government's stake in the computer chip maker is not without precedent, but it puts Trump at odds with some conservatives.
West Ham boss Graham Potter admits the Hammers are "in pain" but calls for unity after captain Jarrod Bowen has to apologise for trying to confront fans.
The BBC has been granted access to an area where scientists are battling to save the rare snub-nosed monkey
It will even draw legs and arms not in the source material
Google has updated its Gemini AI image generation tool with a build that caused a stir after it was released under the code name Nano Bananas.…
How were Celtic stunned in Kazakhstan by Kairat Almaty to miss Champions League bid?
Oh, look, a use case for OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b model
ESET malware researchers Anton Cherepanov and Peter Strycek have discovered what they describe as the "first known AI-powered ransomware," which they named PromptLock. …
Claims emerged that a company that he worked for helped him write questions to government in June.
BBC Verify analyses footage from the attack and its aftermath to piece together the timeline of events and what it reveals.
Microsoft has temporarily locked down a building at its headquarters after protesters managed to get inside the office of the company's president. Current and former Microsoft workers held a sit-in protest inside Brad Smith's office in Building 34, demanding that the company cut ties with the Israeli government. The protesters live streamed themselves on Twitch […]
The central bank governor says the US president "has no authority to do so" in defiance of Trump's escalatory move against the Fed.
From hardware security chips and trusted execution pipelines to open source Root of Trust modules
Hot Chips Microsoft is one of the biggest names in cybersecurity, but it has a less-than-stellar track record in the department. Given its reputation, Redmond can't afford to mess around when it comes to securing its cloud customers' data and workloads.…
British pair Sonay Kartal and Katie Boulter are knocked out in the US Open first round as conditions heat up in New York.
Just because temperatures are dropping and the days are getting shorter doesn’t mean it’s time to hibernate. Fall is a perfect time to get outside, and it’s also a great opportunity to save on gadgets and gear designed for the outdoors. To celebrate the unofficial end of summer, REI is offering up to 30 percent […]
Anthropic has settled a class action lawsuit with a group of US authors who accused the AI startup of copyright infringement. In a legal filing on Tuesday, Anthropic says it has negotiated a “proposed class settlement,” allowing it to skip a trial that would have determined how much the company owes for allegedly training its […]
More than 700 people have been arrested for allegedly showing support for the proscribed group.
Nuclear fusion is on the upswing, as more companies pile into the space to achieve what’s often described as the Holy Grail of clean energy, according to an updated map from the Clean Air Task Force (CATF). Nuclear fusion aims to replicate the way the Sun produces light and heat, generating a tremendous amount of […]
Somehow, Red Notice was once the most-viewed movie Netflix had ever released, but the streamer announced today that the honor now belongs to KPop Demon Hunters. Following its initial debut back in June, the Sony-produced animated musical quickly became a cultural phenomenon whose songs have been sitting pretty at the top of the Billboard charts […]
Machine-learning models are automating away some entry-level roles
Researchers with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab say that workers between the ages of 22 and 25 in occupations most exposed to AI, like software developers, have seen a 13 percent relative decline in employment compared to other occupations.…
Nadav is tired, frustrated and haunted, yet he smiles when we meet. For 690 days, he has been waiting for the world to change, and he's still waiting, and hoping.
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter about the collision between Big Tech and Washington (last week of summer edition). If you enjoy this, consider subscribing to get this newsletter weekly and everything The Verge has to offer. Ever since the US Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. FEC that corporations had the right […]
Remember that cost-cutting group once led by Elon Musk? Federal employees are still dealing with it
A Social Security Administration employee has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that Donald Trump's DOGE cost-cutting unit has put the records of every single American at risk by duplicating an agency database in an unauthorized cloud environment. …
A hospital in Gaza that was hit in an Israeli strike, killing 20 people including five journalists, has rejected the Israeli military's claim it struck the facility because it was targeting what it believed was a Hamas surveillance camera as well as people identified as militants.
Nigel Farage has said he would take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if Reform win the next election.
'Many dozens' targeted in ongoing campaign, CheckPoint researcher tells The Reg
Cybercriminals are targeting critical US manufacturers and supply-chain companies, looking to steal sensitive IP and other data while deploying ransomware. Their attack involves a novel twist on phishing — and a photo of White House butlers. …
Justyna Czoska, Wojtek Kowalkowski and Simon Hewitt died in the crash on the Isle of Wight.
Trump says he will sack a US central bank governor. Why does the independence of the Fed matter?
The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations has condemned Israel's attack on Nasser Hospital as "a premeditated strike on medics and journalists".
The rare sailback houndshark, which has an unusually large dorsal fin, was first described by scientists in 1973. That was the last record of its existence, until now
The company's founder gave a wide-ranging interview about its rise and fall.
The world's most famous celebrity couple got engaged, and the first place the news broke was on Instagram. By now, it's not much of a surprise that pop star Taylor Swift and football player Travis Kelce opted to announce their engagement on the platform on Tuesday - if it's good enough for Beyoncé, it's good […]
Today, Framework announced the second-gen Framework Laptop 16 with two industry firsts: the first Nvidia graphics card upgrade you can perform at home in just a couple minutes, and the first complete 240W laptop charging solution over a USB-C cable. But the company’s also revealing some intriguing upgrades that didn’t quite make the cut — […]
Expands VMware Cloud Foundation with AI freebie, new security and storage bits
Broadcom has opened its VMware Explore conference in a defiant tone, declaring it now offers a superior user experience compared to public clouds.…
The US president re-instated federal capital punishment in January, calling it 'the ultimate deterrent'
Manchester Originals' James Anderson takes his first Hundred wicket by removing Northern Superchargers' Dawid Malan at Headingley.
More than 60 people have been charged with showing support for Palestine Action, the Metropolitan Police has said.
Portrait of a Lady seen in house near Buenos Aires, more than 80 years after it was looted from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam.
An elderly man who had recently been released from prison after serving a sentence for sexual offences was found dead outside his home after a "brutal and sustained" attack, police have said.
World number two Iga Swiatek gets her bid for a second US Open title off to a winning start with a comfortable straight-set victory over Colombia's Emiliana Arango.
Sixteen-year-old sensation Rio Ngumoha is the talk of English football after his last-minute winner for Liverpool, but why did he leave Chelsea?
Based on the 1951 Convention on Refugees, anyone who has a well-founded fear of persecution can claim asylum in the UK, be that based on their race, religion, nationality, sexuality or other reason. They must be in the UK to do so.
The Die Hard star's partner also says she hopes to advocate for fellow carers in her new book.
Judge says label is 'misleading'
A German court has told Apple to stop advertising its Watches as being carbon-neutral, ruling that this was misleading and could not fly under the country's competition law.…
More than six million new cancer cases could be diagnosed in England between now and 2040, according to leading charities.
Taylor Swift has announced she is getting married to her NFL star boyfriend Travis Kelce.
Embracer Group-owned CRKD recently launched a backpack, the $99.99 Vortex 1.0. During a recent vacation, I swapped it in place of my go-to for the past eight or so years, the 20-liter Peak Design Everyday backpack, which CRKD has thoroughly cribbed the look of. However, the Vortex has handheld gaming pockets, which helps it stand […]
The GSA is letting AI chatbot makers jump the FedRAMP queue
The US government wants more AI chatbots in fed employees' hands, and its push to do so means that tech companies keen to provide other services will have to get in line behind the LLM makers.…
Administrators can get patches installed via Intune before the first login
From next month, Windows administrators will be able to inflict Microsoft's quality updates on users via the Out of Box Experience (OOBE) by default.…
Netanyahu said it was a "tragic mishap" but did little to address the apparent "double-tap" nature of the attack, which killed 20 people including journalists and health workers.
Labour's ideal way of combating Nigel Farage is by fixing the asylum system and stopping small boats - but the party's strategy is also changing.
If you want a dissection of whether the £10bn cost of Reform UK's new deportation policy is an underestimate, the analysis that follows is going to disappoint.
The party outlines its plans to detain and deport all migrants who arrive in the UK on small boats.
Dish's parent company, EchoStar, is selling a broad swath of its 5G spectrum licenses to AT&T for $23 billion. Under the deal, the Dish-owned Boost Mobile will primarily operate using AT&T's growing network - a move that marks "the end of the road for the fourth carrier," says Roger Entner, founder and lead analyst at […]
Former Australia coach and opener Justin Langer says England may lack the killer instinct needed to win the upcoming Ashes series.
Apple has announced the date of its next big event: September 9th, 2024, at 1PM ET / 10AM PT. The event, which has the tagline “Awe dropping,” will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park. This is where we expect to hear more about the iPhone 17 lineup, which rumors (and at […]
New research tapping into decades-old concepts is challenging the notion that the only way to treat cancer is to kill every last cancer cell. Instead, scientists suggest, we could try a little persuasion
More than three years after revealing “pre-pre-pre-alpha” footage of its new Skate title, EA has finally announced that the free-to-play live service game will be launching for everyone in early access on September 16th. The game takes place in the city of “San Vansterdam,” where you can cruise around to find places to pull off […]
Google is putting AI-powered language learning tools into its Translate app. The new feature, rolling out now in beta, can create customized language lessons based on your skill level and your purpose for picking up a new language, such as vacationing in another country. For now, Google Translate can only help English speakers practice Spanish […]
Officials at the City of Edinburgh Council have identified two sites for a potential new safer drug consumption room.
Criminals already abusing its latest zero-days
Citrix has pushed out fixes for three fresh NetScaler holes – and yes, they've already been used in the wild before the vendor got around to patching.…
The French government also says it is suing the platform over the death of Raphaël Graven, also known as Jean Pormanove.
Timer fail blamed for probe going quiet as Venus looms
The European Space Agency (ESA) is breathing easier after communications with Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) were restored – the spacecraft is currently barreling toward Venus for a gravity-assist flyby on August 31.…
Hadush Kebatu, an asylum seeker staying at The Bell Hotel in Epping, denies five charges against him.
The Dyson 360 Vis Nav is one of the most powerful robot vacuums out there. In fact, its 65 air watts of suction makes it the best option for carpets (even high pile) that we’ve tested yet. And, right now it’s half off at $499 at Amazon, Target, and directly from Dyson. The robovac’s long, […]
Great Britain's Ben Turner produces a stunning sprint finish to claim his first ever Grand Tour stage win at the Vuelta a Espana.
A 16-year-old has been convicted in Germany for supporting a foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Austria last year.
Tesla rejected a $60 million settlement in the wrongful death case that ended up costing the company $243 million in punitive and compensatory damages, Reuters reported today, citing newly filed legal documents. The proposal stemmed from a lawsuit filed by the families of the victims in a 2019 crash in which a Tesla Model S […]
Framework CEO Nirav Patel said he would deliver "the holy grail for gamers" with the Framework Laptop 16. In 2023, he suggested it'd be the first consumer notebook to fulfil the promise of modular, upgradable graphics cards like a desktop PC. We at The Verge were skeptical, because the last time we heard someone tell […]
Four and a quarter years ago, I told you how a USB-C cable could someday power all but the beefiest gaming laptops. Now, Framework is finally fulfilling the promise of 240 watts through a USB plug. Today, it’s opening preorders for the first standards-compliant 240W USB-C PD power adapter ever sold by a computer company. […]
Some TikTok users have reported seeing a troubling product in the last few days: T-shirts for sale on TikTok Shop that are an antisemitic parody of the Jaws movie poster. In the image printed on the shirts, the shark has been transformed into a human nose, the swimmer at the surface of the water is […]
A Strictly Come Dancing star has been arrested on suspicion of rape.
