Recent outages have revealed how vulnerable the internet is, but there seems to be no official plan in the event of a catastrophic failure. Meet the team of hackers who are ready to jump into action

The Chancellor refuses to rule out tax rises in Budget.

Dick Cheney's life reflected the paradox of power - how strength can protect a nation but also endanger its principles.

The government has announced it will cut GCSE exam time by up to three hours per student.

A mural of Trent Alexander-Arnold has been vandalised as the Real Madrid right-back prepares to face former club Liverpool on Tuesday.

Norges Bank Investment Management votes against excessive award, automaker's share price skids

Norway's sovereign wealth fund has opposed Tesla CEO Elon Musk's proposed $1 trillion share award, which the carmaker's board says is necessary to retain him.…

The defence case for Julia Wandelt and Karen Spragg has been set out at Leicester Crown Court.

A major review to unearth failures to tackle grooming gangs has found that potential human error led to some police investigations being dropped.

The boy, 14 and from London, took his parents to court after they sent him to school in Africa.

Headliner Nelly Furtado - who is owed more than £145,000 - is among 180 people and companies yet to be paid.

Nvidia boss Jensen Huang is to meet Technology Secretary Liz Kendall on Wednesday, Sky News understands.

Erling Haaland has played down comparison between himself and modern footballing greats Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo by saying "no-one" will get close to their goalscoring records.

Popular operating system much more sticky than Windows 7 was during its EOL

As the dust settles over the end of support for many versions of Windows 10, the operating system remains a significant presence in the Windows market.…

All-rounder Sean Williams will no longer be considered for selection after admitting to a drug addiction, Zimbabwe Cricket announces.

There are a couple of universal truths about the smart home. Yes, you will come to treat your robot vacuum like a member of the family, and no, you cannot escape the fact that there will always be one light that doesn't turn on even though there's simply no reason it won't. These are just […]

Check Point lifts lid on a quartet of Teams vulns that made it possible to fake the boss, forge messages, and quietly rewrite history

Microsoft Teams, one of the world's most widely used collaboration tools, contained serious, now-patched vulnerabilities that could have let attackers impersonate executives, rewrite chat history, and fake notifications or calls – all without users suspecting a thing.…

Expectations are low for the UN climate conference in Belém, Brazil, but the host’s pragmatic approach could help make progress on implementation

Amazon is using Alexa Plus to bring new AI capabilities to its Music streaming service. Starting today, customers in the Alexa Plus Early Access beta will be able to access the generative AI assistant within the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android, allowing users across all subscription tiers to request obscure information or complex […]

Gold bars and jewellery were among a haul worth nearly £2m seized at Manchester Airport.

Eaton and Vertiv splash cash as HPC infrastructure and AI factories run hot

Liquid cooling tech is hot. It's only Tuesday and already infrastructure specialists have forked out more than $10 billion on companies proffering tech that promises to help ease energy bills of datacenter operators.…

Mladen Zizovic, manager of Serbian top-flight side FK Radnicki 1923, dies after collapsing during a match.

AI companies know that children are the future - of their business model. The industry doesn't hide their attempts to hook the youth on their products through well-timed promotional offers, discounts, and referral programs. "Here to help you through finals," OpenAI said during a giveaway of ChatGPT Plus to college students. Students get free yearlong […]

England are drawn with Spain in their qualifying group for the 2027 Women's World Cup as Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland all learn their opponents.

Some 5.4 million adults use vapes daily or occasionally compared with 4.9 million using cigarettes, figures show.

France-based victims hit especially hard, while UK named most-targeted country generally

Researchers are seeing a "dramatic" increase in cybercrime involving physical violence across Europe, with at least 18 cases reported since the start of the year.…

An 11-year-old boy who died after being hit by a train at a level crossing was probably looking at a video on his phone at the time of the accident, investigators have said.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was found not guilty at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

A teenager whose parents left him in Ghana over concerns about gang violence in the UK should stay in the west African country until at least the end of his GCSEs, a High Court judge has ruled.

One in 10 children in the first year of primary school in England is obese. This is the highest figure on record outside of the pandemic, figures show.

How the New Year, King's Birthday, and other honours are decided and awarded.

Redmond uncovers SesameOp, a backdoor hiding its tracks by using OpenAI’s Assistants API as a command channel

Hackers have found a new use for OpenAI's Assistants API – not to write poems or code, but to secretly control malware.…

The Washington insider whose vast experience of American politics was crucial to the presidency of George W Bush and widely seen as the architect of the "war on terror.

Parisians can win burial spots in the world-famous cemeteries of Père-Lachaise, Montparnasse and Montmartre as part of a monument restoration scheme.

In 2010, when Microsoft unveiled the Kinect, it pitched the camera as a revolutionary new gaming device. Swing an imaginary lightsaber and that would be translated onscreen. Throw a football and it would be caught on your TV. Fifteen years later, we know the Kinect as an expensive failure. Microsoft overestimated the demand for playing […]

Democrat Zohran Mamdani - who described himself as "Trump's worst nightmare" - is set to become New York's next mayor, Sky's US partner network NBC News projects.

Former England captain David Beckham received a knighthood at Windsor Castle for his services to football and British society.

ABF explores spinning off Primark chain from food brands as UK shoppers cut back on fashion purchases

Plans for investing in AI and service transformation held up as treasury pulls plug, NAO finds

Police forces in England and Wales spend around 97 percent of their £2 billion ($2.6 billion) annual technology budget on maintaining legacy systems, an official report has found.…

Former US vice president Dick Cheney has died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family has said.

The chancellor's pitch: the Budget will be painful, due to the actions of others, but it will be worth it, to tackle debt, help public services and promote growth.

Microsoft accidentally tells supported users that they aren't

Microsoft says a broken update left some Windows 10 users staring at an out-of-support message despite having an activated Extended Security Updates (ESU) license or a version of Windows 10 that is still officially supported.…

It is more than half a century since a chancellor chose to put up the basic rate of income tax.

The Switch 2’s popularity has exceeded even Nintendo’s anticipations, with the company raising its sales forecast for the console by more than 25 percent. In its latest earnings release, covering April 1st to September 30th, Nintendo now predicts that it’ll sell 19 million Switch 2 units by March 2026, compared to its previous forecast of […]

Becks, Goldenballs and now officially Sir David - football star David Beckham has received his knighthood from the King.

At least 26 people have died after Typhoon Kalmaegi unleashed heavy rains and floods across the central Philippines, trapping people on their roofs and submerging cars.

Building a working quantum internet would require overcoming a host of technical challenges, but researchers who have built one of the most advanced quantum networks to date say they think it is possible

The "extraordinary bravery" of the LNER worker who intervened during the train mass stabbing attack on Saturday has been hailed by his company.

Captain Ben Stokes extends his England central contract through to the end of the next home Ashes series in 2027.

How to build a trillion-dollar industry: Step 1, invest in your customers. Step 2, sell them stuff

Feature  In late 2025, a series of multi-billion-dollar deals in the artificial intelligence sector is causing déjà vu among industry veterans. Money, computer chips, and cloud credits are rotating in a closed loop among a handful of companies: Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Oracle, AMD, CoreWeave, xAI, and a few others. This has fueled a trillion-dollar AI boom or bubble built on intertwined investments and contracts.…

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns.

To understand why Rachel Reeves stood up at 8am in Downing Street in an unprecedented news conference to foreshadow the budget, you need to understand the depth of the problems facing the chancellor.

Possession and publication of such material will be a criminal offence, under amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill.

The find shows that the technology was passed down through thousands of generations.

A distant black hole has been caught releasing the brightest flare ever, which is the result of it ripping apart and devouring an enormous star

Enamel does not naturally regenerate, which can lead to painful cavities, but a gel that harnesses some of the properties of saliva could restore the hard, shiny layer to teeth

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is considering both tax rises and spending cuts in the 26 November Budget.

Hundreds of victims have called on the government to launch a public inquiry into a pregnancy drug linked to cancer.

Opinion polls suggest left-wing candidate Zohran Mamdani is ahead of former state governor Andrew Cuomo for Tuesday’s race.

Government spending watchdog eviscerates penny wise, pound foolish approach

Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is being criticized for undermining its F-35 stealth fighter program through years of short-term budget decisions that have increased long-term costs and left the fleet understrength and undercapable.…

World number one Aryna Sabalenka will face Nick Kyrgios in a 'Battle of the Sexes' exhibition match in Dubai later this year.

A French climber has said she was "lucky" to survive an avalanche in which her husband died, as rescue teams work to recover the bodies of seven people killed in the Himalayas on Monday morning.

At the start of 2025, Victoria Mboko was ranked outside of the world's top 300. Now the teenager has cracked the top 20 after winning another WTA title.

Passengers are being told not to travel north of Preston as work on the line continues.

Shankar, a 29-year-old male elephant, died in September after spending much of his life in isolation.

The man was trapped for several hours after part of the Torre dei Conti, on the edge of the Roman Forum, gave way.

Rachel Reeves has refused to rule out breaking her manifesto pledge not to raise certain taxes, as she lays the groundwork ahead of the budget later this month.

Sir Alan Bates has reached a seven-figure deal to settle his claim over the Post Office Horizon scandal, more than 20 years after he began campaigning over what turned into one of Britain's biggest miscarriages of justice.

Bayern Munich are the only unbeaten team across Europe's top five leagues, but how has Vincent Kompany turned them into a formidable force?

Kate Clanchy was accused of using racist descriptions of children in her book.

Tommy Robinson has been found not guilty of a terror offence after refusing to give police access to his phone when they stopped him at the Channel Tunnel last year.

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

From the "soul of the team" to an "absolute warrior", here are the Premier League's 20 key players, as chosen by our fan writers.

Experience leads company boss to decide 'I cannot rely on having a Google account for production use cases'

The founder of a service that manages SSL certificates says Google Cloud has suspended his account three times, without good reason, and recommended not using the G-Cloud for serious workloads.…

American actress and Wild at Heart star Diane Ladd has died aged 89.

Trent Alexander-Arnold returns to Liverpool for the first time since moving to Real Madrid on Tuesday, when he will discover if absence has made Anfield hearts grow fonder.

South Korea's president laughed, so perhaps it was funny? Unlike China's censorship and snooping

Chinese president Xi Jinping has joked that smartphones from Xiaomi might include backdoors.…

Australia seamer Ryan Harris needed a second chance at being a professional cricketer, but when it came he formed one of the Ashes most clinical partnerships with Mitchell Johnson.

Jan Sears says the passengers were told to run as fast and as far away as they could from the station.

Alain Berset, Council of Europe secretary general, said human rights laws may need to "change or adapt".

Police probing other knife-related incidents and the chancellor flagging "tough decisions" in a pre-Budget speech leads the papers.

Jamie Melham becomes only the second female jockey to win Australia's most famous horse race.

Superapp company that chased Uber away built its own model to do the job right

Proprietary large language models are bad at interpreting Asian languages, according to Singaporean super-app company Grab, which has built its own model instead.…

55 cuffed last week after court ruled sting operation was legal

Australian police last week made 55 arrests using evidence gathered with a backdoored messaging app that authorities distributed in the criminal community.…

Prince William has talked about the need for more good leaders, as well as putting on a display of his less serious side, on the first day of his tour to Brazil.

'Unified Edge' designed so even retail workers can replace a server

Cisco entered the server market in 2009 because the company thought incumbent vendors weren’t satisfying customers. On Monday, the networking giant entered the edge infrastructure market for the same reason.…

If you want your First Amendment rights, make money the Palantir way

Palantir CEO Alex Karp used his quarterly shareholder letter to take aim at critics after the company beat Q3 2025 earnings estimates.…

Demand for weight-loss drugs has soared in India, home to millions with obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo will either lead a breakaway state or seek to take control of the whole country, Sudanese say.

Kardashian plays a divorce lawyer in drama All's Fair but is more keen on criminal law in real life.

Campaigners say IVF treatment should be less stigmatised in the workplace and come with legal entitlements to time off

Four rival carnivore families battle it out for rule over a remarkable river valley in Zambia.

But some people said borrowing from their nearest and dearest had affected those relationships.

Sunderland captain Granit Xhaka was called the signing of the season - and then came his biggest contribution so far with his strike against Everton.

After every round of Premier League matches this season, Troy Deeney gives us his team of the week. Do you agree with his choices?

A smart lock is an easy solution to some common problems. Locked yourself out? Need to let a friend in to water the plants? Your latchkey kid lost their key? Hands are full, and it’s raining cats and dogs? A smart lock solves all of these problems and more. One of the best smart home […]

With 10 games gone in the Premier League season, BBC Sport looks at what history tells us we can read into the table.

Even AI has doubts about the claim that '80% of ransomware attacks are AI-driven'

Do 80 percent of ransomware attacks really come from AI? MIT Sloan has now withdrawn a working paper that made that eyebrow-raising claim after criticism from security researcher Kevin Beaumont.…

Granit Xhaka scores his first Sunderland goal as the Black Cats come from behind to draw with Everton and move up to fourth place in the Premier League.

Sensitive research into alleged human rights abuses is alleged to have been shut down by Chinese agents.

OpenAI says ChatGPT’s behavior “remains unchanged” after reports across social media falsely claimed that new s updates to its usage policy prevent the chatbot from offering legal and medical advice. Karan Singhal, OpenAI’s head of health AI, writes on X that the claims are “not true.”  “ChatGPT has never been a substitute for professional advice, […]