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Senate GOP leaders’ push to split up President-elect Donald Trump’s fiscal priorities into two filibuster-proof budget packages has a bigger tactical disadvantage for House Republicans than commonly understood: They’d likely have to vote on two budget resolutions, never an easy task even with bigger majorities. A budget resolution is always…

The social media giant will now allow users to question the mental health of LGBTQ people and compare minorities to diseases. Meta is stripping its platforms of hate speech protections in the days leading up to Donald Trump's inauguration. Credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev / Contributor / AFP via Getty Images Rights…

Honor is gearing up for its Magic 7 lineup release with the launch of the first phone, the Magic 7 Lite. With an insane battery capacity and AI-focused features, the Magic 7 Lite acts as a precursor for what’s to come. Honor is positioning the Magic 7 Lite as one…

Multimodality, hardware, and coding are among the most prominent artificial intelligence trends shaping the latter half of 2024. The first two areas may be familiar to many, given the strides made by various industry players. However, AI coding—virtually unheard of last year—has swiftly gained traction, emerging as a new narrative…

On Call The biggest days of the festive season may be behind us, but demand for tech support never stops. That's why each Friday, even this one, The Register shares stories of fixers forced to help flummoxed fools in On Call – the reader-contributed column that celebrates your successes. This…

Dubbed Archaeocursor asiaticus, the newly-discovered species is the earliest-diverging ornithischian dinosaur yet discovered in Asia, according to a team of paleontologists from China. Archaeocursor asiaticus. Image credit: Yao et al., doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111641. Archaeocursor asiaticus lived in what is now southwestern China during the Early Jurassic, some 193 million years ago.…

A new gene editing tool that helps cellular machinery skip parts of genes responsible for diseases has been applied to reduce the formation of amyloid-beta plaque precursors in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign report. The application in live mice shows the improved…

Politics With criminal networks shifting to domestic production of fentanyl and other opioids, the focus at Canada’s borders has now shifted to the chemicals used to make the deadly drugs. Since 2019, criminal networks have shifted from importing opioids to manufacturing them in Canada Darren Major · CBC News ·…

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has instructed its members across the country to return to work following the conclusion of its two-week strike. Recall that the academic union embarked on the industrial action to serve as a warning and precursor to an indefinite strike. However, in a statement…

Politics DOGE is not the first effort to take government inefficiency in hand. The more things change, the more things seem the same. Facing a struggling economy and weary electorate following his 1980 landslide victory over incumbent president Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan touted “Morning in America.” The new president indicated…