rss: npr

  • A fast-growing Georgia wildfire tops 31 square miles, with evacuations possible
    One of two large wildfires in southeastern Georgia continues to grow and now exceeds 31 square miles.
  • A chaotic White House Correspondents' Dinner, as told by NPR reporters in the room
    Top government officials were rushed out of the Washington Hilton after gunshots were heard at the dinner. NPR journalists describe hiding under tables and scrambling for information as the night unfolded.
  • What we know about Cole Allen, suspected White House Correspondents' dinner shooter
    The 31-year-old teacher and engineer from California sent an alleged message to family members saying that he wanted to target administration officials.
  • Photos: The aftermath of the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting
    A suspect has been arrested after firing shots at a security screening area at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night.
  • Details emerge of alleged shooter at White House correspondents' dinner
    The alleged gunman has been identified as Cole Allen, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
  • How China is responding to the stalling of talks between the U.S. and Iran
    NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Zongyuan Zoe Liu, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, about how China views the current crisis in the Middle East
  • World Press Photo Contest winners cast a lens on resilience, pain and bliss
    A selection of prize honorees from the 2026 World Press Photo Contest capture the pain of the past year — but also focus on moments of strength, determination and joy.
  • Trump doubts shooter motivated by Iran war as peace talks on hold
    A shooting incident at the White House Correspondent's Dinner took focus away from the war in Iran, as Iran's foreign minister planned to return to Islamabad, the site of previous peace talks.
  • Kenya's Sabastian Sawe is first person to run sub-2-hour marathon to win in London
    In a huge moment in sports history, Sabastian Sawe smashed the men's world record by 65 seconds in winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday.
  • King Charles U.S. visit comes at tense moment in transatlantic relationship
    King Charles and Queen Camilla arrive Monday for a four day U.S. state visit. Some hope the royal touch can heal the transatlantic rift that's emerged under Trump.


rss: bbc

  • Trump and officials 'likely' targets of press dinner shooting suspect, authorities believe
    The suspect is expected to be charged with assault of a federal officer and using a firearm during a crime of violence, officials have said.
  • Suspected gunman identified as 31-year-old Californian
    The man arrested at the event attended by President Trump has been named in US media as Cole Tomas Allen from California.
  • King's US visit will go ahead as planned, Buckingham Palace says
    The decision was made "after discussions on both sides of the Atlantic through the day", the Palace says.
  • UK's biggest ever environmental pollution claim reaches High Court
    One of the UK's largest chicken producers and a water company accused of polluting three rivers including the River Wye
  • Israeli strikes kill 14 in Lebanon amid ongoing ceasefire
    The US announced three days ago that the ceasefire was extended by three weeks after talks.
  • Mali defence minister killed as country hit by wave of rebel attacks
    A wave of coordinated attacks by jihadist militants and separatists has spread through the country.
  • Sabastian Sawe breaks two-hour barrier to make history at London Marathon
    Sabastian Sawe makes history at the London Marathon as the first person to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race.
  • Arson arrest after fire at packed-out LGBT+ club
    An eyewitness says "thousands" of people were evacuated from the club.
  • Car bomb explosion at police station treated as attempted murder
    The police believe the attack may have been carried out by the dissident republican group known as the New IRA.
  • O'Sullivan-Higgins match set for thrilling finish
    The World Championship last-16 tie between Ronnie O'Sullivan and John Higgins is set for a dramatic end after the Scot closed the deficit to two frames.


rss: the register

  • Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now

    Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos

    KETTLE If you needed further evidence that AI comes first in pretty much everything nowadays, look no further than this year's Google Cloud Next show, which happened last week.…

  • Tokenmaxxing isn't an AI strategy

    Before checking AI's price tag, see whether it fits

    What does AI cost? It's a simple question and an important one – the answer will determine the fate of companies and shape society. But it's also a question that can't be answered in a meaningful way without additional context.…

  • Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense

    The OS trying to upsell you subscriptions is more than just an annoyance

    opinion You’ve had your laptop for months, and you’ve always made sure it installed Microsoft updates. Then one day you boot up, and Windows 11 greets you with a confusing message: “You’re almost done setting up your PC.”…

  • AI's not going to kill open source code security

    Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way

    Opinion Cal.com has closed its commercial codebase, abandoning years of AGPL-3.0 licensing in a move that has alarmed the developer community that helped build it and sent ripples through the broader open source world.…

  • Ex-AWS legend explains what enterprises need to make AI actually work

    AI transformation is about people and organization, not technology

    Enterprise AI projects go off the rails when companies focus on the technology instead of the people.…

  • Crime crew impersonates help desk, abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data

    Coming in cold with custom Snow malware

    A previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics - Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation - is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.…

  • DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs

    Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1

    Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance to rival the best proprietary American LLMs. Perhaps more importantly, it claims to dramatically reduce inference costs and it extends support for Huawei's Ascend family of AI accelerators.…

  • Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps

    New LTS is here, with more tooling for GPGPU and AI workloads

    Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon," the latest LTS release from Canonical, arrives with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.0, and drops the Xorg option from Ubuntu Desktop while still running X11 applications through Xwayland.…

  • Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs

    What, you didn't expect autonomous military craft to stay in the sky forever?

    Drones: they're not just for the sky anymore. DARPA is seeking compact deep-ocean autonomous craft developed faster, smaller, and cheaper than today's full-ocean-depth AUV systems.…

  • US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit

    Silicon often from US, but the kit from APAC and elsewhere

    America's telco regulator has clarified its ban on foreign-made routers also includes mobile hotspots and domestic routers that use a 5G cellular connection to the internet.…



rss: ars technica

  • Strange New Worlds S4 teaser strikes a more serious tone
    "I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate where wiser men would have left well enough alone."
  • Prime Video drops full trailer for Spider-Noir
    It's "a detective story, but the detective happens to also have spider powers.”—EP Chris Miller
  • New robotic control software avoids jamming their joints
    Software lets robots learn from each other even if they have different hardware.
  • Artemis II broke Fred Haise's distance record, but he is happy to pass it on
    "It wasn't a big deal. It just coincided with the fact that Moon was farther away from the Earth."
  • Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"
    Slack messages, interviews with current and former works paint picture of company in turmoil.
  • This is who's developing Golden Dome's orbital interceptors—if they're ever built
    "If boost-phase intercept from space is not affordable and scalable, we will not produce it."
  • Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic
    This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.
  • Europe—not US—first to authorize Moderna's combo mRNA flu-COVID vaccine
    Amid RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda, Moderna withdrew its FDA application last year.
  • FCC: Router ban includes portable hotspots, but not phones with hotspot features
    FCC defines consumer routers expansively, updates FAQ to include Wi-Fi hotspots.
  • Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.
    Hundreds of subdomains from dozens of universities have been hijacked by scammers.


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