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Three women have been refused bail when they appeared in courts charged with slavery and terrorism offenses after they arrived home from Syria with another 10 Australians who police say are linked to the Islamic State group. The four women and nine children h…

The MV Hondius is en route to the Canary Islands, where it will be allowed to dock for the first time since a hantavirus outbreak was confirmed on board.

The NCAA will expand its March Madness tournaments by eight teams each next season. It will add more early-round games in the first week without altering the overall format. The new 76-team brackets for men and women will feature 12 games involving 24 teams.

Plus, he reflects on Buck and Eddie's road trip and shares his hopes for Season 10.

Harvard students lost access to Canvas on Thursday afternoon after the cybercriminal group ShinyHunters listed the University among thousands of schools allegedly affected by a breach of Instructure, Canvas’ parent company.

Blake Lively is still pursuing attorney fees for having to defend against Justin Baldoni's defamation lawsuit.

Perplexity's Personal Computer brings AI agents to your Mac, and is now open to everyone.

Elon Musk's legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab's founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence.

Golden Globes explain its AI rules, saying that AI won't automatically disqualify a movie or show as long as humans are involved in production.

has reached the late stages of development for new AirPods with built-in cameras, a significant milestone for what will likely be its first wearable device designed for the artificial intelligence era.

Pesky pests can wreak havoc on plants by chewing leaves, boring into stems, and sucking sap from trees. Beyond the direct damage, they also spread harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungi that can infect and ultimately kill the crops. Every year, these destructiv…

Sound Transit officials on Thursday outlined how they plan to address a projected $34.5 billion funding shortfall over the next two decades.The funding gap coul

Ford has a new Carhartt-branded Super Duty pickup that includes unique visual upgrades like wheels, graphics, and grille. Here are all the details.

CoreWeave Inc raised the lower end of its annual capital expenditure forecast on Thursday, citing a rise in the prices ‌of components, sending the cloud...

“He who controls the data center, really does control the application of artificial intelligence right now.”

Shivon Zilis was an under-the-radar executive at Elon Musk’s companies and an OpenAI board member back in 2022. But she was hiding a major secret – Musk was the father of her twins born the year before.

Alaska Airlines is doubling down on California Wine Country with three new routes to Santa Rosa, while returning to Long Beach after a decade absence.

The automaker's latest three-row heralds impressive refinement while also unlocking a visceral soundtrack (sort of).

Prediction market startup Kalshi has raised a $1 billion Series F round led by Coatue.

Despite Spirit's demise, there will always be travelers looking for the most affordable flights possible.

Fund says preparations needed for ‘inevitable’ AI-enabled breaches of financial institutions’ cyber defences

The much-discussed mini-game for Resident Evil Requiem has just been made available as part of a new update for the game, which is revealed to be Leon Must Die Forever. Nintendo Switch 2 players can access it now. The mode can be unlocked after finishing the …

Anthropic has launched “dreaming” for AI agents, giving Claude new self-improving tools designed to boost enterprise automation, reliability, and scale.

One week after the Copy Fail vulnerability, a new Linux local privilege escalation bug has been made public

After its introduction on the web, AI Inbox is coming to Gmail for Android and iOS. In the navigation drawer, “AI Inbox” appears below...

It's nearly the end of the early access road for Path of Exile 2. We ask the director about launching this year and which features will, and won't, make it.

Bunta Sugawara, whose likeness is used in the upcoming prequel game Stranger than Heaven, died in 2014

Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it. You might not want to.

Microsoft, this is a welcome surprise.

Apple Notes is one of my most-used apps, and iOS 27 is rumored to add a powerful capability that I know will quickly become a go-to feature.

The developer of Firefox says it has "completely bought in" on AI-assisted bug discovery.

Valve’s Steam Controller sold out quickly when it went on sale on Monday, and the company is going to open a “reservations queue” on Friday at 1PM ET for anyone who missed that initial run.

Dearest Gentle Gamer: Netflix and EA are pleased to announce the release of the first-ever "Bridgerton"-"The Sims 4" collaboration.

OpenAI's chatbot has some weird linguistic tics in Chinese that are driving users crazy.

Forget robovacs — Yarbo’s bladed robots are an even bigger security nightmare.

iOS 26.5 is launching next week as Apple’s next iPhone software update, here are five new features coming with it.

Apple is making more MacBook Neos, but the RAM shortage could push it to remove the most affordable version of the Neo.

Meet four Swift Student Challenge winners who are creating innovative apps that leverage AI and focus on accessibility.

Google using AI to understand your fitness and health data, and then offer guidance? Who could have predicted that?!

The new-old Tyranid nightmare, as painted by the wider Warhammer community.

A new study reveals that simple body movements may help clean the brain.

Scientists have dropped recorders into an Amazon stream and captured predator behavior in a way never seen before.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted something that shouldn’t exist—at least not so early in the universe. A massive galaxy, formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang, appears to have no rotation at all, a trait usually seen…

Vitamin B12 may shape metabolism and aging more than previously understood.

This one telescope is enabling us to deduce not just the chemical and mineral compositions of distant worlds, but their terrain and features as well.

A full-scale mock-up of a crew cabin for a future industry lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis program now is operational for training and testing.

A 10-year effort to measure gravity, a fundamental force in the universe, has failed to come up with a conclusive answer.

A rare metal, nearly nonexistent in Earth's oceans at the time, turned out to be a key player in the survival of early life.

A missing submarine, unexplained findings, and a mystery beneath the ice. What did it reveal before it disappeared?

NASA's Pandora mission has delivered its first engineering images, signaling a promising future for exoplanet science and low-cost space missions.

Space debris is piling up, but two companies have found a way to turn the tide.

The existence of near-unkillable fungi makes future Mars rover missions more fraught.