Apple has shared a new intro sound and video that will accompany things you watch on the newly-renamed Apple TV streaming service. Apple rebranded Apple TV Plus to just Apple TV last month, and the previous intro prominently highlighted the plus, so it makes sense that Apple made a new version to accompany the updated […]

Your Party membership stands at 50,000, Sky News can reveal.

A force is investigating three other knife-related incidents in Peterborough over the weekend.

The UK has begun sharing quantum research with other members of the G7 and Australia, as the race to develop the new technology heats up.

Witnesses talk about what they saw on the train where a mass stabbing has taken place.

Amazon deal still dwarfed by $250B Azure commitment made as part of OpenAI's for-profit transformation

OpenAI has signed a seven-year, $38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services, adding another hyperscaler alongside Microsoft Azure for its growing AI compute needs. Where it's getting all this money was not disclosed.…

The technology secretary says O2's higher-than-expected price increase is "disappointing" given the cost of living.

The prime minister has commended the "heroic" driver and staff who were working on board a train when multiple people were stabbed on Saturday night.

A victim of the Cambridgeshire train stabbings has spoken of the injuries he suffered, as an investigation was launched into whether the suspect was involved in other incidents.

Accenture to poke around the beleaguered airline's IT infrastructure

Alaska Airlines has called in consultants to advise it on what went wrong during a late October IT meltdown that grounded flights and wreaked havoc for two days.…

Peter Mandelson was sacked in September due to his links with Jeffrey Epstein being exposed.

The spending will continue until ROI improves

Tech companies continue to sling crazy amounts of money at AI, with Microsoft announcing deals worth billions in Texas and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), while Google parent Alphabet is selling bonds in Europe to raise cash for more AI expansion.…

The ex-footballer goes on trial over social media posts about presenter Jeremy Vine and pundits Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward.

The seven-year agreement will see OpenAI gain access to Nvidia graphics processors to train its artificial intelligence models.

Old-school cargo heists reborn in the cyber age

Cybercriminals are increasingly orchestrating lucrative cargo thefts alongside organized crime groups (OCGs) in a modern-day resurgence of attacks on freight companies.…

New Ofsted inspections will go ahead as planned this month after the NAHT union's failed legal challenge.

More than 700 officers will be on duty for Aston Villa's Europa League match against Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday.

The Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), an anti-piracy organization representing Japanese IP holders like Studio Ghibli and Bandai Namco, released a letter last week asking OpenAI to stop using its members’ content to train Sora 2, as reported by Automaton. The letter states that “CODA considers that the act of replication during the machine learning […]

Coca-Cola is once again using generative AI to reimagine its classic Coke caravan holiday commercials, and in doing so, killing some of the festive joy you have for the brand. After receiving backlash for airing three AI-generated holiday commercials last year that featured gliding wheels and uncanny-looking faces, the company has doubled down with a […]

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander says there could be more facial recognition CCTV after a mass stabbing on a train.

England's Lucy Bronze is named in the Fifpro Women's World XI for the eighth straight year while Barcelona's Lamine Yamal becomes the youngest player in the Men's XI.

A gym instructor who called himself the "Anglo Jihadi" has been found guilty of planning a bomb and chemical attack on a major shopping centre.

Police horses, dogs and drones will be on patrol on Thursday as protesters plan demonstrations.

The Grammy-winning reggae singer says the storm was "very frightening, especially for my young kids".

Alzheimer's-related cognitive decline could be slowed by taking as few as 3000 steps a day, possibly due to the effects of regular exercise on brain health

Researchers point to risks in high-stakes applications as well as the potential to spread misinformation

Large language models often fail to distinguish between factual knowledge and personal belief, and are especially poor at recognizing when a belief is false.…

A member of the train staff remains in hospital in a critical but stable condition after Saturday's attack.

For Big Tech, a penny invested in AI is a penny earned… Maybe. After an indeterminate amount of time. Investors hope. On earnings calls last week, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta reported more than $350 billion this year on capital expenditures, or longer-tail investments in a company's future. All four told investors to expect the […]

Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have hinted at tax rises to come when the chancellor delivers the budget later this month.

The Reform UK leader rows back on his party's previous promise to deliver £90bn of tax cuts.

Avanti says it could be "a number of days" before normal service between Glasgow and London resumes.

A search is continuing in the Dolakha district for four other foreigners who are feared dead.

Counter-terrorism police want to see an increase in the mental health services for violence-fixated individuals, Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer has said.

The 19-year-old from Teesside, who was charged with drug trafficking, is eight months pregnant.

Memory safety trumps retro computing: Alpha, PA-RISC, m68k, SH4 face the chop in 2026

Debian's APT package manager will have a "hard requirement" on Rust from May 2026. This move may make some rather big waves.…

Thousands who fled a key frontline city in Sudan's war as it fell to paramilitaries were targeted in killing fields around it by the group, after the military's top brass secured their own safe passage.

A rickshaw driver who stole £31,000 worth of fine wine and champagne from upmarket restaurants has been spared jail after returning some of the stolen goods.

Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications for other glaciers and the rate of sea level rise

A new study suggests that changes to Hektoria Glacier are unprecedented - but not all scientists agree.

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the rules themselves are flawed

Scunthorpe United footballer Jonathan Gjoshe, 22 and Nottingham Forest fan Stephen Crean were stabbed.

Rescue teams are trying to free a worker buried under rubble in Rome after a medieval tower collapsed during renovation work.

If you haven’t upgraded your Apple Watch in years (or haven’t tried one at all) the Apple Watch SE 3 (40mm GPS) offers the best bang for your buck, and the Starlight color is down to a new all-time low of $199.99 ($50 off) at Amazon. Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song was impressed with how […]

Waymo said it plans on launching commercial robotaxi services in three new cities: San Diego, Las Vegas, and Detroit. The announcement comes after the company said it would begin rapidly scaling to bring its fully driverless technology to more people on a faster timeline. Waymo didn’t say exactly when it plans on opening up its […]

OpenAI has struck a $38 billion deal with Amazon Web Services that will give the AI giant access to “hundreds of thousands” of Nvidia GPUs to power its AI models. The seven-year partnership comes as Microsoft continues to loosen its grip on OpenAI, dropping its status as its exclusive cloud provider and losing the first […]

Maj Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned on Friday, admitting leaking a video allegedly showing abuse of a Palestinian detainee.

Help me, HOBI-WAN, you're my only hope for lunch

The European Space Agency (ESA) has coined a tortured acronym for its project to feed astronauts on long-duration missions: HOBI-WAN (Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria In Weightlessness As a source of Nutrition).…

How the Buffalo Bills beat the Kansas City Chiefs, plus the best performers, games and talking points from week nine in the NFL.

Today, I’m talking with David Risher, who is the CEO of Lyft. I’ll just say from the jump: I think you’ll like this one, since David is refreshingly direct and doesn’t pull a lot of punches. He has on the board of Lyft for years, but he only stepped in as CEO just a couple […]

Jonathan Gjoshe "sustained non-life-threatening injuries as a result of the attack", the club says.

A jury has been given legal directions as a trial at Leicester Crown Court enters its fifth week.

The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) is to consult members on the "possibility of moving to industrial action" after its bid to bring a legal challenge against Ofsted was thrown out.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says donors could have walked away following the party's worst ever election defeat.

Nigel Farage has said Reform UK could cut the minimum wage for young people, saying there is "an argument" that it is currently "too high".

An ex-Labour councillor has appeared in court charged with blackmail after an investigation into an alleged Westminster honeytrap.

The country's Defence Minister Theo Francken said it looked like an espionage operation, but he wanted to be "cautious" about speculating.

A football agent is arrested after allegedly threatening a Premier League footballer with a gun.

Oh the irony: IEEE survey of senior techies finds demand for devs skills falling in AI-related roles

Demand for software development skills in AI-related roles is set to fall next year as agentic AI accelerates across business markets, according to an IEEE industry survey.…

Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche is frustrated after Casemiro's goal from a corner is allowed to stand, but VAR will not be changing to include them in its remit.

There are now over 10,000 satellites in orbit, more than at any point in history, and this growing number is starting to reveal how solar storms could disrupt internet mega constellations like SpaceX's Starlink

For Mike Hill and Guillermo del Toro, it all started with Frankenstein. Years ago, Hill - a sculptor and special effects artist - was exhibiting his works at a convention in Burbank. Del Toro saw some of Hill's monstrous creations on display and was so impressed that he decided to get in touch, tracking down […]

A 32-year-old man has appeared in court charged with 11 counts of attempted murder after a mass stabbing on a train and another attack hours earlier - as it emerged a professional footballer is among the injured.

Donald Trump has warned the US military "could be" deployed to Nigeria or carry out air strikes to stop what he called the killing of large numbers of Christians.

But question marks remain over the tech’s biases

London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) says the hundreds of live facial recognition (LFR) deployments across the Capital last year led to 962 arrests, according to a new report on the controversial tech's use.…

Anyone born on or after 1 January 2007 will be banned from using, buying or selling tobacco products in the archipelago.

The Redmagic 11 Pro is the first phone (outside of a OnePlus concept design, at least) to feature true liquid cooling, and it’s launching worldwide later this month — including the US, though you won’t be able to buy it direct from any carriers. We’ve seen plenty of phones launch with vapor chambers and call it […]

Australia coach Joe Schmidt says he was "disappointed, rather than distracted" by England reportedly flagging concerns over the Wallabies' tactics to the referee.

Kemi Badenoch joins Newscast after 1 year as Conservative Party leader.

Former Wolves boss Gary O'Neil is in talks over a return to the club as manager following the sacking of Vitor Pereira.

All over the world people are ageing more rapidly and succumbing to diseases that typically affected the elderly. But there are ways to turn back the clock on your biological age

Hearts' Lawrence Shankland is recalled to the Scotland squad for the World Cup qualifiers against Greece and Denmark this month.

The professional dancer said the surgery was not to treat a new cancer diagnosis.

Google says it has pulled AI model Gemma from its AI Studio platform after a Republican senator complained the model, designed for developers, “fabricated serious criminal allegations” about her.  In a post on X, Google’s official news account said the company had “seen reports of non-developers trying to use Gemma in AI Studio and ask […]

Does Discord need some stars for when Management is watching?

The maker of the Grand Theft Auto game series, Rockstar Games, has fired more than 30 coders and graphic designers in an act described by the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) as "the most blatant and ruthless act of union busting in the history of the games industry."…

Israel's former top military lawyer has been arrested after admitting leaking a video of soldiers allegedly abusing a Palestinian prisoner.

A year after flash floods killed 229 people in the Valencia region, Carlos Mazón acknowledged "mistakes" were made.

Erin Patterson is serving a life sentence for killing three relatives with a toxic mushroom meal.

Christmas is coming, the GNOME is getting fat… please put a penny in the old red hat?

Ubuntu Summit  System76's POP!_OS is one of the more substantially modified Ubuntu based distros out there, and so it was something of a surprise to see the company's substantial presence at the Ubuntu Summit. And its stable release along with version 1.0 of its custom desktop, COSMIC, is imminent.…

Tim Richards said the likes of Netflix and Apple TV are complementary rather than damaging for the big screen.

Leading radiographers have raised concerns about the safety of high street baby scans, with reports of misdiagnoses and missed medical emergencies.

Ukraine first to deploy open source security platform to isolate incidents, stop lateral movement

Feature  It was a sunny morning in late April when a massive power outage suddenly rippled across Spain, Portugal, and parts of southwestern France, leaving tens of millions of people without electricity for hours.…

Nearly a quarter of Labour MPs say increasing taxes could enable to the government to lift the two-child benefit cap.

The Women's Football Show pundits Lindsay Johnson & Fern Whelan discuss former England goalkeeper Mary Earps's "negative" comments about Hannah Hampton and whether they should have been made publicly or not.

A train derailment in Cumbria is causing huge delays, with more expected in the coming days.

Former England manager Gareth Southgate says there is "more that unites us than separates us" amid a debate about flying the St George's flag.

We're sat in a silent, empty, cardiac treatment room - on the other side of the door, you can hear the bustle of the largest A&E and major trauma ward in Devon.

British teenager Bella May Culley, who was arrested in Georgia on drug smuggling charges earlier this year, was released from prison on Monday as part of a plea deal.

A pregnant British teenager has been released from jail in Georgia after being held on drug smuggling charges.

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but astronomers may have found some for the very first time

Boffins say outsourcing your homework leaves you sounding less knowledgeable, short on facts

A study of how people use ChatGPT for research has confirmed something most of us learned the hard way in school: to be a subject matter expert, you've got to spend time swotting up.…

Officers and paramedics went to a property in Rogiet, Monmouthshire, on Sunday evening.

The transport secretary has ruled out installing airport-style security scanners in stations, following an alleged stabbing attack on a train on Saturday evening.

The actor and director's $400m lawsuit against his former co-star is formally ended by a US judge.

A mayor has been shot dead in front of dozens of people in Mexico during Day Of The Dead festivities.

But the actor adds that he has no regrets about calling for Biden to quit the US presidential race.

Jon Seager, VP of Engineering, talks exclusively to The Reg

Ubuntu Summit  The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation.…

The BBC will deliver comprehensive coverage of the Ashes, with ball-by-ball radio commentary, video highlights, text updates and analysis.

The persistent pollutants which build up in the environment have been linked to serious illnesses.

Taking belief in LLMs very literally indeed

Opinion  It's not been a year since his ouster as Intel's CEO, but Pat Gelsinger is firmly back on the tech leadership pony. He's done hardware with Intel, software with VMWare. This time, it's faithware.…

The quake struck near Mazar-e Sharif, one of Afghanistan's largest cities, in the early hours of Monday.