Buy now, pay later offers consumers speed and flexibility, but its operational and regulatory demands are exposing weaknesses across modern retail tech stacks.

Beijing’s military launched a massive simulated blockade of Taiwan, sending a warning to the independent island after the U.S. approved an $11 billion arms sale.

When the partnership was unveiled in September the UK government said it would "shape the futures of millions of people".

The firm’s chief security officer said North Koreans tried to apply for remote working IT jobs using stolen or fake identities.

Hospitals, nursing homes and other medical facilities are struggling to gain ground on a drug-resistant and deadly fungus that has infected at least 7,000 people in 2025, according to tracking by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Since Zack Polanski took over as leader, the party has doubled its membership and its four MPs want to take on Reform’s anger and build community spirit“Someone has to be out there making the narrative for social security. Someone has to fight the corrosive attitudes to people on benefits,” says Siâ…

“She is an intelligent and responsible individual.”

More screen time among children and teens is linked to higher risks of heart and metabolic problems, particularly when combined with insufficient sleep. Danish researchers discovered a measurable rise in cardiometabolic risk scores and a metabolic “fingerprint” in frequent screen users. Experts say …

One Battle After Another, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, and It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley are just a few of the movies you should be watching on HBO Max this month.

As families hunt for the perfect gift this holiday season, soaring prices are dampening some of the holiday magic. New analysis from Groundwork Collaborative, The Century Foundation, and AFT finds that many of this season’s most popular holiday gifts are significantly more expensive under President …

From superheroes to myths and legends, humans are fascinated by creatures whose appearance helps them move through the water with stealth. From shape shifters to massive predators, all ocean creatures have abilities that help them navigate the open seas. Meet five incredible see-through animals you …

Nickel mining at a UNESCO site, sunshine in Paris, and green reconstruction in Ukraine, here are a few highlights of Greenpeace work around the world over the past week.

Relationship between the Gulf’s heavyweights has developed into open confrontation

Also in today’s newsletter: 200,000 European banking jobs at risk, and Paramount’s Warner Bros bid

The influential video game developer died after his car crashed and caught fire on a highway in Los Angeles.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pausing all child care payments to Minnesota, amid a sweeping federal probe into allegations of fraud within the state’s social services programs.  Citing a video released Friday by independent journalist Nick Shirley detailing his investigation i…

In 2014 the Malaysian Airlines jet vanished over the Indian Ocean. Now the team that located Shackleton’s Endurance is looking again with the latest undersea robotsSearch for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 expected to resume on TuesdayMore than a decade after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went miss…

Several start-ups are betting on mushrooms to break down materials that defeat traditional recycling

The capital has recently become the most expensive city in Spain per square metre — and change is happening fast. Some are questioning if its identity is in jeopardy

Smartwatches are cool and all, but have you considered wearable neurotech?

Vast amounts of valuable research data remain unused, trapped in labs or lost to time. Frontiers aims to change that with FAIR² Data Management, a groundbreaking AI-driven system that makes datasets reusable, verifiable, and citable. By uniting curation, compliance, peer review, and interactive visu…

Mikroe introduced CAN-LIN SBC Click, a new Click board designed to streamline the development of embedded systems. This compact board enables engineers to quickly move from proof-of-concept to prototyping and software development, significantly accelerating project timelines. CAN-LIN SBC Click enabl…

EE Times goes inside Texas Instruments' new SM1 fab at Sherman, Texas, at the official opening this month.
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Since January, Donald Trump has fundamentally reshaped U.S. foreign assistance, ostensibly to align with his “America First” foreign policy. The administration has effectively eliminated Washington’s main development agency—the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)—terminated so…

As the release of Kubernetes v1.35 approaches, the Kubernetes project continues to evolve. Features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced to improve the project's overall health. This blog post outlines planned changes for the v1.35 release that the release team believes you should be aware of to …

Configuration is one of those things in Kubernetes that seems small until it's not. Configuration is at the heart of every Kubernetes workload.
A missing quote, a wrong API version or a misplaced YAML indent can ruin your entire deploy.
This blog brings together tried-and-tested configuration best p…

In Kubernetes v1.35, the ability to specify an external Job controller (through .spec.managedBy) graduates to General Availability.
This feature allows external controllers to take full responsibility for Job reconciliation, unlocking powerful scheduling patterns like multi-cluster dispatching with …

This release marks a major step: more than 6 years after its initial conception,
the In-Place Pod Resize feature (also known as In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling), first introduced as
alpha in Kubernetes v1.27, and graduated to beta in Kubernetes v1.33, is now stable (GA) in Kubernetes
1.35!
This gradua…

The past 12 months has seen a number of significant milestones in digital government. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 government IT stories of 2025

A transatlantic row between the UK and the Trump administration erupted after the UK attempted to force Apple to break its advanced encryption. That was just one of a series of stories reporting on the tension between state surveillance and privacy this year

An interview with Ryan Jones about Flighty, my favorite iOS app, and how the App Store has evolved over the last 15 years.

2025 has been yet another year marked by some serious climate emergencies worldwide. It was not surprising when the UN declared 2025 the third-hottest year on record in 176 years of record-keeping.

The tiny backpack you see fitted on this American Oystercatcher is a solar-powered GPS/GSM transmitter. It weighs around 10 grams (less than 3% of this bird’s total body weight) and is fitted to...

One Russian official called the outage “a break from the endless viewing of unnecessary videos” and urged citizens to deliver holiday greetings in person.

Each chapter of exile has been followed by another.