The US author and orator on leaf blowers and Labubus, the weirdest thing she has done for love and struggling with contemporary novels

From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election

There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

FSG LLC’s preliminary rating explains how a data center and selective eyesight create a perfectly legal accounting miracle.

Swedish publisher's association Utgivarna has filed a police report in Sweden against Facebook and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg.The reason is fake ads ...

EPA warns of unhealthy air in parts of California and Oregon as residents urged to stay indoors as PM2.5 pollution rises.

Windows 11 now preloads File Explorer to speed up launch times, but our tests show the fix only goes so far to speed-up the launch.

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison.

Former minister says ditching plan for day-one protection against unfair dismissal ‘definitely is a manifesto breach’ Keir Starmer is facing backbench anger after ministers abandoned plans to give workers day-one protection against unfair dismissal, a U-turn that breaches the Labour manifesto. MPs including a former minister who spearheaded the employment rights bill with the former deputy leader Angela Rayner have voiced concerns over the climbdown announced by the government. Continue reading...

The independence of UK courts and public confidence in the legal system could be the victims of David Lammy’s plan for justice on the cheap, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Far-right minister defends killing of two men in Jenin, saying ‘terrorists must die’ Video of an Israeli military raid in Jenin shows soldiers summarily executing two Palestinians they had detained seconds earlier. The shooting on Thursday evening, which was also witnessed by journalists close to the scene, is under justice ministry review, but has already been defended by Israel’s far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who declared: “terrorists must die”. Continue reading...

Mighty Hoopla and Olly Alexander team up for a Trans Mission: an all-star solidarity concert for the trans community at OVO Arena Wembley

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.

Big Tech promises come with huge energy demands and social risks

Academic researchers built an inexpensive device that beats the chipmakers' confidential computing protections for memory encryption.

Tech News News: OpenAI denies responsibility for a teen's suicide, claiming he misused ChatGPT. The company's defense argues the 16-year-old's actions, not the AI, ca

The co-founder of OpenAI explains why AI’s reliance on bigger models and more compute has stalled progress and why new ideas, human-like generalization, and integrated value functions are now…

Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined An eight-year-old girl left destitute in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa has been barred from coming to the UK to join her parents. The Guardian reported on the case of Lati-Yana Stephanie Brown after the hurricane. Her mother, Kerrian Bigby, a carer, moved from Jamaica to be with Lati-Yana’s British father, Jerome Hardy, a telecommunications worker, in April 2023, leaving their daughter to be cared for by her grandmother. Continue reading...

This breakthrough lays a solid foundation for the commercial development of flexible silicon-based tandem cells in lightweight/flexible high-power photovoltaic applications.

The staff cuts come after the company posted a loss-making third quarter, despite reporting a 50 per cent jump in AI-related revenue.

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0 arrives with a fully redesigned interface, a new setup wizard, and smoother OS customization across all platforms.