rss: npr

  • How deep-rooted medical bias creates deadly consequences for addiction patients
    Addiction treatments are safe, effective — and rarely offered to patients. That's because many doctors and nurses still view people with alcohol or drug addiction with suspicion and hostility.
  • Celebrity culture is one thing. For TMZ, Congress is the new 'reality show'
    TMZ is trading Hollywood gossip for Capitol Hill scoops with a new D.C. bureau, launched in April. The online tabloid's two-man crew has brought an unconventional reporting style to the Congress beat.
  • Gianni Infantino gets internal support at crisis meeting to remain as FIFA president
    FIFA said Wednesday it had apologized for errors made over Gianni Infantino's failed plan to sell stakes in the World Cup and that senior staff in attendance at a crisis meeting in Morocco "reaffirmed their full support" for his presidency.
  • Morning news brief
    Iran says it's close to a deal with Oman over navigation on the Strait of Hormuz, a look at the challenges both candidates for Michigan's U.S. Senate seat will face, Trump touts U.S. economy in Vegas.
  • Senate committee set to vote on whether to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress
    Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security Committee want to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress after he refused to answer their questions about the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Drone with explosives found at German airport, official sees 'new quality' of threat
    Regional police and prosecutors said an airport employee discovered a drone near the airport's south runway with "an unknown explosive device," and the object was examined by police
  • Ousted Bangladeshi leader vows to return from exile despite facing a death sentence
    Hasina's speech marked the second anniversary of her ouster. She fled Bangladesh by helicopter following nearly two months of protests in 2024 that left nearly 1,400 people dead, according to the United Nations.
  • Small Texas law firm set to receive $150M to represent unaccompanied migrant children
    The firm, Houston-based Burke Law Group has only two attorneys who specialize in immigration and asylum cases. Two of its founders have ties to the Trump administration.
  • Dr. Erica Schwartz confirmed as CDC director, filling a leadership vacuum
    Schwartz takes command of a public health agency that has lost thousands of employees, amid layoffs, resignations and leadership turmoil.
  • How Trump made an estimated $2.2 billion during the first year of his second term
    New York Times reporter Eric Lipton discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigations into Trump's conflicts of interest and whether he's exploiting the power of the presidency for self-enrichment.


rss: bbc

  • Young women tell BBC of rape, assault and harassment at Army training college for teenagers
    They say the incidents happened at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate when they were aged 17.
  • Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row resigns
    Prof Jason Arday said he had "concluded that the only way to bring this chapter to an end is to step away".
  • Majority of England's rivers and lakes fail new environmental review
    A comprehensive assessment of England's waterways is the first in six years and shows little improvement.
  • Meredith Kercher's sister criticises Amanda Knox's Edinburgh comedy show
    Stephanie Kercher asks Amanda Knox to think about Meredith's family ahead of staging a show in Edinburgh.
  • Families' anger at jailed funeral boss's apology letter
    Robert Bush issues an open letter of apology to families affected by the Hull funeral scandal.
  • Car washes and vape shops can still sponsor skilled foreign workers despite visa changes
    The rules were tightened in July 2025 to restrict the scheme mostly to graduate-level employees who would be earning at least £41,700.
  • Walk-in mental health centres to open in banks and libraries across England
    Government plans network of nearly 200 specialist services to help those facing mental health crises.
  • Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company
    Meta is the latest company to disclose an AI agent breach, raising cyber-security concerns.
  • Why playing your phone out loud in public might become the new normal
    Playing music or videos out loud on your phone is bemoaned by many - but in the future, it might not seem so outlandish
  • Michelin-star restaurant regains top hygiene score after previous one-star inspection
    Ynyshir got a one-star food hygiene rating from inspectors but has since been restored to five stars.


rss: the register

  • Windows 10 LTSC 2021 has five months before security updates cost extra
    ESU meter starts running in January, unless you're on the IoT edition
  • Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen
    Another week, another firm explaining why one of its models reached somewhere it wasn't supposed to
  • News Corp labels some AI companies 'crass kleptomaniacs'
    Pay it for content, like OpenAI and Meta, to become 'principled' and 'honorable'
  • Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time
    It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound
  • HPE extends validity of quoted hardware prices, possibly for months
    Suggests Big Green knows its component prices will remain steady
  • Chinese router vendor denies its firmware contains backdoors – but pauses downloads to fix security issues anyway
    It’s just a remote maintenance function, says Zbtlink
  • Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro
    VMware competitor aiming for the AI datacenter
  • OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack
    It started with an 'impossible task' and led to AI deciding it needed to act as a collective intelligence
  • Meta wants to get inside your terminal with its new coding agent
    Muse Code showcases Muse Spark's fresh software engineering chops
  • An off-grid AI sounds like a great survival assistant, but is better left to roleplaying the zombie apocalypse
    Would you rather play Russian roulette with an LLM or put your health and safety in the hands of a professional


rss: ars technica

  • Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
    Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.
  • Schwartz confirmed as CDC director after bungling confirmation hearing
    Schwartz is well-qualified for the role, but crashed and burned in Senate hearing.
  • Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project
    Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.
  • Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com
    Reddit says the beloved site is used for some "bad behavior."
  • Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch
    "Slop" isn't the only problem.
  • SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
    SpaceX won't build large cell towers but plans small base stations across US.
  • This Atlantic hurricane season is looking like a dud, but there will be a price to pay
    "The models are forecasting something outside the envelope of anything we have ever observed."
  • Google's AI shake-up: DeepMind's Hassabis steps aside, senior scientists depart
    Google's AI brain drain continues.
  • Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day reminds us that superhero movies can be good
    It's as much about grounded characters and well-timed emotional beats as CGI-filled action extravaganzas.
  • Weeks into explosive diarrhea outbreak, sluggish CDC plans response team
    Reports of cases began in June, and the national tally is now nearing 23,000.


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