Sales backstop deal? More like ... Sales? Back, stop! Deal!

Arizona electronics supplier Avnet has accused California semiconductor design firm Ampere Computing of going against its word and backing out of a server purchasing deal.…

Newcastle boss Eddie Howe thanks fans for their "messages and warm wishes" after the club announced he is recovering in hospital having being diagnosed with pneumonia.

A piece of golfing history is not all Rory McIlroy will receive for his triumph at Augusta National.

Puppies’ performance in cognitive tests at 3 to 7 months old can give a strong indication of their personalities and trainability as adults

Aston Villa boss Unai Emery says his players should view the second leg of their Champions League showdown with Paris St-Germain as a chance to write themselves into the club's history books.

The Star Wars strategy game announced in 2022 finally has a name: Zero Company, as EA revealed today. A website about the game describes it as a “single-player turn-based tactics game,” includes an image, and says that a “first look” will be shown at Star Wars Celebration Japan on April 19th. The game will be […]

Donald Trump has suggested "homegrown criminals" in the US could be deported to jails in El Salvador – saying the US attorney general is "studying the laws right now".

Watchdog wants to know whether EU posts were used without consent under GDPR

Elon Musk's social media outfit X is again under the regulatory microscope in Europe – this time for allegedly using EU users' public posts to train its Grok AI chatbot, possibly without the transparency or legal basis required under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).…

BBC Verify looks at what we know about the extent of Chinese investment in the UK economy.

Newcastle manager Eddie Howe is recovering in hospital from pneumonia and will miss two more games, the club has announced.

Meta has announced that it’s preparing to train AI on the data of EU users of its apps, including Facebook and Instagram. The company says that includes things like public posts, comments, and their chat history with Meta AI, but won’t include “private messages with friends and family.” It also only applies to those who […]

A 72-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy were seriously assaulted by masked assailants during a home invasion believed to be linked to an ongoing gang feud that has spread from Edinburgh to Glasgow.

The agency says it is seeing "attack after attack" and supply shortages following an Israeli strike on al-Ahli hospital.

Samsung has announced new versions of its rugged tablets and smartphones designed for use in environments where they’re going to get dirty, wet, and knocked around. Both the Galaxy XCover7 Pro and Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro feature improved battery life, but the tablet goes one step further with a “dual hot-swap” feature allowing the battery […]

Steve Bray is found not guilty of flouting a police ban after playing loud music outside Parliament.

Using smartphones, computers and the internet seems to slow cognitive decline in people aged over 50

Paapa Essiedu will portray Severus Snape, while Paul Whitehouse has been cast as Argus Filch.

We’ve now figured out how to culture chocolate in the lab. The breakthrough could help with spiralling cocoa costs, and may even lead to tastier treats with more nutritional value

The UK will announce a £120m aid package for Sudan at a conference in London to mark the two-year anniversary of the conflict in the African country.

After weeks of speculation, Warner Bros. Discovery has officially announced the first cast members who will appear in its upcoming Harry Potter TV adaptation. The casting confirmations, focused around some of the most notable adult characters from the Harry Potter novels, are one of the most reassuring signs of life for the wizarding world series […]

Watch as a young Rory McIlroy speaks to BBC Sport NI in 1998 about his ambition of turning pro and winning all of golf's major championships.

The investigation was launched last year following bets placed on the timing of the 2024 general election.

Vitor Pereira lives up to the "first the points, then the pints" flag that appears at Molineux.

An antibiotic that is commonly used for urinary tract infections effectively treated gonorrhoea, and may even work against drug-resistant cases

Nvidia has brought some of its chip production stateside. On Monday, Nvidia announced that it has started producing its Blackwell AI GPUs at TSMC’s plant in Phoenix, Arizona, while companies within the state package and test them. TSMC, or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., is the world’s biggest chipmaker and announced a $100 billion investment in […]

Houston, we have a funding problem

The US administration appears set to slash NASA's science budget with cuts to spending in the order of almost 50 percent, according to a draft of the White House's proposal.…

The flight, carrying celebrities like Katy Perry and Gayle King, reached a height of about 60 miles (96.6km) above Earth.

As easy as it has been for some people to downplay the covid-19 pandemic as part of putting it behind them, Ari Aster’s next feature looks like a sobering reminder of how bad things really were. Set in May of 2020, Eddington revolves around sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) […]

Officers recovered 53-year-old David Howard's body from under debris following the blast.

A Russian missile killed 34 people on Sunday in an attack that Trump described as "a mistake" and Germany called "a war crime".

John Mansfield, who was jailed in 2007 for killing a woman, was found dead at HMP Whitemoor.

It comes after Manchester Arena bomber Hashem Abedi seriously injured three prison officers.

Due to the fluctuating tariff situation, a lot of people are seriously mulling over tech purchases they might otherwise be content to put off for a while. And it makes sense. While I don’t endorse panic buying, your reasons for buying now are more justified because prices may increase. In light of that instability, it’s […]

The former striker was "desperately unwell" when admitted to hospital in Manchester, an inquest hears.

Joel is a troubled guy. Throughout the first Last of Us game (and subsequent TV adaptation on HBO, where he’s played by Pedro Pascal), he sees and does a lot of things he’d rather forget. He certainly doesn’t seem to want to talk about them much. Which is why it’s nice to see that, in […]

Safeguard hold finally lifted as Microsoft realizes animated backgrounds aren't the end of the world

The day before the release of Windows 11 24H2, Microsoft slapped a compatibility hold on devices using wallpaper customization applications. More than six months later, it is gradually removing the safeguard hold.…

The pace of wage rises has slowed and came in lower than expected, official figures show.

A long-running strike by bin workers, that has left rubbish piling up on Birmingham's streets, will continue after union members "overwhelmingly rejected" the city council's offer in a fresh ballot.

Today, I’m talking with Vlad Tenev, the cofounder and CEO of Robinhood, which is one of the most well-known consumer finance apps in the world. It started as a way to open up stock trading, but the company’s ambitions have grown over time — and they’re getting even bigger.  Just a day before Tenev and […]

The government says office-based military experts will help because of the "public health risk".

The six women, including pop star Katy Perry, took off from Texas on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket.

Investment delays are inevitable as uncertainty clouds US trade policy, warns investment bank

World War Fee  Trump administration tariffs are leaving the IT industry in "limbo", with CIOs hitting the pause button on new projects as they're unsure whether budgets set today will be disrupted by taxes tomorrow.…

The UK may be on track to see its worst year for wildfires, according to latest figures.

Red Bull motorsport adviser Helmut Marko says he has "great concern" about Max Verstappen's future with the team.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has launched pop singer / songwriter Katy Perry into space, along with five other women: former NASA scientists Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen, journalist Gayle King, journalist and Bezos fiancée Lauren Sánchez, and film producer Kerianne Flynn. Their flight, called NS-31, launched aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket as its launch […]

In The Last of Us Part II, it takes a long time before players understand just who Abby is. A new character introduced as both an antagonist and protagonist, Abby is locked in a violent game of revenge with Ellie, but her reasoning and history don’t become clear until around midway through the game, when […]

An emergency law has handed control of the UK's only remaining plant making virgin steel to the government.

Katy Perry has blasted off to space along with five other women in the first all-female space crew in over sixty years. 

Tiger Woods was among the first to congratulate Rory McIlroy on winning the Masters, welcoming him to an exclusive club of men's players to have won golf's Grand Slam.

Residents enlist health professionals and lawyers after suffering from mouldy and damp homes for years.

Lime, the largest bike- and scooter-sharing company in the world, announced that it has struck a deal with Redwood Materials to recycle its lithium-ion batteries.  Lime says its e-bike and e-scooter batteries typically last 500 charge cycles, or between five and seven years. Once those batteries reach their end of life, Lime will ship them […]

Chipolo has announced a new Bluetooth tracker called the Pop, featuring the same bright color options as its Chipolo One but with support for both Apple’s Find My and Google’s Find My Device networks. The Chipolo Pop also has a much larger Bluetooth range than the company’s current lineup of trackers and features improved water […]

April 24th will be the 10th anniversary of the day the first Apple Watch shipped to customers. A decade is a major milestone in the gadget world, but you won’t see a lot of anniversary-themed fanfare to mark the occasion. Instead, Apple is dubbing the 24th as Global Close Your Rings Day — and it […]

'Tropical nights' might sound like a beach-side party, or a refreshing cocktail, but the reality is less entertaining.

Prisoners housed in separation centres have been stopped from using kitchens following an attack by the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber, Sky News understands.

Bangladeshi authorities issued the arrest warrant over allegations of corruption, which the British MP denies.

Miyazaki, copyright protection and the 'insult to life itself' of AI images

Opinion  Many people are having fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with OpenAI's ChatGPT. I see it as copy-and-paste intellectual property stealing on an industrial level.…

Scientists have used gene editing to produce artificial electrical synapses in mice, where they can be targeted to make the animals more sociable or reduce their risk of OCD-like symptoms

An inmate has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a convicted killer at a high-security prison.

Royal McBee's desk-sized deskside early computer was the stuff of legend

In these days of multi-gig OSes, we cast our eyes back to something both much bigger and much smaller.…

A quadcopter buzzed overhead, blaring the voice of an Israeli official. It directed aid workers to a mound of sand on the eastern side of the road.

MIT graduate Karenna Groff, who was named Woman of the Year by the NCAA in 2022, was among the victims.

A man in his 50s died in the explosion that saw dozens of people evacuated from their homes.

From corner chicken to Rory Delap 2.0, BBC Sport explores some ideas for where football tactics could go next.

President Trump says Chinese-made electronics are simply moving to a different levy "bucket".

The White Lotus star said a sketch that impersonated her using prosthetic teeth "punched down" on her.

A Holocaust survivor has said it is “up to us to guard against” a repetition of the Second World War atrocity 80 years after the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated.

Analysts say the bubble won't burst, but it is possible, admits world's largest colo provider

Interview  Those who ignore history are destined to repeat mistakes of the past and, with signs of an inflating bit barn spending bubble, comparisons are being made with the infamous dotcom bust a quarter of a century ago.…

A fugitive jeweller wanted over an alleged $1.8bn fraud case has been arrested in Belgium.

A British father and son have reportedly drowned after they were swept out to sea off the coast of a popular Australian tourist town.

The digital, disc-free edition of Sony's console has increased by roughly £70 since it first went on sale.

Samsung has, by all accounts, halted the rollout of its long-awaited One UI 7 update following the discovery of a bug that prevented some Galaxy S24 owners from unlocking their phones.  The pause was first reported by leaker and tipster Ice Universe, who said that a “serious bug” had been found. While the complaints seem to […]

Iga Swiatek is "set for a mammoth few months" with a lot of points to defend in the clay-court season - it's your Second Serve tennis briefing.

A teenager has been accused of killing his parents so he could "obtain the financial means" to assassinate Donald Trump and overthrow the US government, according to an FBI warrant.

UK holds onto oversight by a whisker, but it's utterly barefaced on the other side of the pond

Opinion  The UK government's attempts to worm into Apple's core end-to-end encryption were set back last week when the country's Home Office failed in its bid to keep them secret on national security grounds.…

The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood has called a sketch making fun of her teeth "mean and unfunny".

John Swinney has awarded his ministers a near £20,000 wage rise but has turned down the pay bump himself to avoid the perception he is "benefiting" from his own decisions.

Rishi Sunak's closest parliamentary aide when he was prime minister has been charged along with 14 others with election betting offences.

Brit retailer says troubled breakup with tech platform of former US owner nearing conclusion

Two of the top team behind Asda's £1 billion ($1.31 billion) tech divorce from US retail giant Walmart — which has seen a number of setbacks — are departing the company.…

Sony has raised the price of most of its PlayStation 5 console hardware in the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand by 10-15 percent, blaming “a challenging economic environment.” With rising US import costs thanks to tariffs likely a contributing factor, an equivalent price rise in the US is probably on the way. Sony manufactures […]

Police have found "no evidence of criminality" following an investigation into alleged inappropriate messages sent by the former leader of the City of Edinburgh Council.

One person in Zamzam described things as "extremely catastrophic" after three days of assaults.

The policing response was "entirely appropriate" given the violence and criminality, a report finds.

The tour company whose sightseeing helicopter crashed in New York - leaving six people dead - is shutting down operations immediately, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has said.

Asaad al-Nassasra has been missing since Israeli troops killed 15 other emergency workers in south Gaza three weeks ago.

If this techie had been older and slower, this never would have happened

Who, Me?  Returning to work on Monday often imparts a rude shock, which is why The Register opens the week with a new instalment of Who, Me? It’s the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your worst moments at work and explain how you survived them.…

BBC Sport NI's Stephen Watson speaks to Masters champion Rory McIlroy after his dramatic play-off win at Augusta National to complete the career Grand Slam.

The men were found by a rescue helicopter, as was an Australian who is being treated in hospital.

Former minister Tulip Siddiq said there is "no evidence" she has done anything wrong after Bangladesh issued a warrant for her arrest.

Ecuador has re-elected Daniel Noboa as president - a conservative millionaire with a controversial no-holds-barred approach to tackling gang crime.

Home Labs and bare bones test rigs matter and Broadcom’s back in the game

VMware has resumed offering a free hypervisor.…

A former top college football player has died along with members of her family in a private plane crash in New York state.

PLUS: Chinese robodogs include backdoor; OpenAI helps spammer; A Dutch data disaster; And more!

Infosec In Brief  Fortinet last week admitted that attackers have found new ways to exploit three flaws it thought it had fixed last year.…

It tells the story of the rebellious, unofficial side that competed in the 1971 Women's World Cup.

The distinguished Peruvian author won the Nobel Prize and courted controversy most of his life.

PLUS: India's new electronics subsidies; Philippines unplugs a mobile carrier; Alibaba Cloud expands

Asia In Brief  Chinese officials admitted to directing cyberattacks on US infrastructure at a meeting with their American counterparts, according to The Wall Street Journal.…

The sitting president's challenger in the closely fought race, Luisa González, has claimed fraud without producing evidence.

After a series of devastating near misses, a calm and patient Rory McIlroy finally finds a winning formula at the Masters.

His parents captured the moment on home video.

Many of Monday's front pages cover the government's "race against time" to keep British Steel's furnaces burning.