rss: npr

  • Iran picks new leader. And, Trump won't sign bills until Congress overhauls voting
    Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei as its new supreme leader. And, President Trump says he will not sign any more bills until Congress overhauls voting.
  • Chimps' taste for fermented fruit hints at origins of human love of alcohol
    Scientists analyzed the urine of wild chimpanzees who'd feasted on fallen fruit to see how much alcohol they consumed from the fermented sugars.
  • Iran attacks Israel and Gulf states after naming a new supreme leader on Day 10 of war
    The price of crude oil briefly neared $120 a barrel Monday as Iran named Mojtaba Khamenei the supreme leader and then launched new attacks at Israel and Gulf states.
  • World shares tumble as Iran war pushes crude prices over $110 a barrel
    World shares tumbled on Monday, with Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index plunging more than 5%, after oil prices spiked at nearly $120 a barrel.
  • Come along with some geese as they migrate back from their southern winter havens
    Geese's iconic "V" formations and trademark squawks can be seen and heard overhead as they go back and forth to the south through the year. But what does it take for such a long trip?
  • The next redistricting battle might be who is counted in state legislative districts
    A Republican push to alter the census may lead to a radical shift in redistricting for state legislatures — drawing districts that don't take into account children and non-U.S. citizen adults.
  • Millions more people are in the path of rising seas than previously thought
    Oceans are rising as the climate changes, threatening coastal cities. A new study shows that much more of the world's population is vulnerable than earlier predictions had estimated.
  • Kids' willpower is no match for fast food and screens. Try this instead
    For decades, parents were told to help children build willpower like a muscle, to resist things like junk food and too much time on their screens. But new research suggests a better strategy.
  • Israel needs weeks to destroy Iran's military, defense official says
    A senior Israeli defense official tells NPR that Israel needs three more weeks to accomplish its goal of decimating Iran's military forces.
  • 12 years on, renewed hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight comes up empty
    Twelve years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with 239 people aboard, a deep-sea search has so far failed to locate the missing aircraft, as families pressed for the effort to continue.


rss: bbc

  • Watch: Why the Iran war is pushing up oil prices
    As turmoil continues in the Middle East, the price of crude oil rose to more than $100 a barrel on Monday.
  • In maps: Ten days of strikes across the Middle East
    Israel has continued strikes across Iran and Lebanon and the Iranian regime has carried out more attacks, as the war continues for a tenth day.
  • Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader?
    Many expect the 56-year-old, who has largely kept a low profile, to continue his father's hardline policies.
  • Watch: Ukrainian anti-drone 'bullet' that could help defend Gulf
    The BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent, James Landale, is in Ukraine to see the latest anti-drone technology the country has to offer.
  • Australia urged to protect Iranian football team after Asian Cup elimination
    Concern has grown for team after one critic called them 'wartime traitors' for failing to salute during the Iranian anthem.
  • G7 nations to hold emergency meeting on oil as stock markets sink
    Chancellor Rachel Reeves will join talks amid reports that oil reserves could be released to lower prices.
  • 'Night turned into day': Iranians tell of strikes on oil depots
    Fuel depots were hit in Tehran and Karaj overnight, with videos showing huge fires and plumes of smoke in multiple locations.
  • Passer-by tried to tackle vape shop blaze that led to inferno
    Lamin Kongira told BBC Scotland News he had been walking past when a shopkeeper ran out saying "fire, fire".
  • Call off King's US visit over Iran, urge Lib Dems
    The party says the planned trip should be scrapped after Donald Trump's criticism of the UK's response to the war.
  • NHS England pauses new prescriptions of cross-sex hormones for under-18s
    The health service said young people who already receive the drugs will continue to do so.


rss: the register

  • Russian cybercrims phish their way into officials' Signal and WhatsApp accounts

    Dutch spies flag large-scale campaign to hijack secure messaging accounts

    Russian-linked hackers are trying to break into the Signal and WhatsApp accounts of government officials, journalists, and military personnel globally – not by cracking encryption, but by simply tricking people into handing over the keys.…

  • NASA abandons delayed SLS upper stage for ULA's Centaur V instead

    Vulcan rocket hardware drafted in amid Artemis reshuffle but still no word on lander

    NASA has selected United Launch Alliance's Centaur V upper stage for the Artemis missions that aim to return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972.…

  • Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns

    This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at risk

    AI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II code from 40 years ago as an example.…

  • Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters

    UK government slams comments as 'sickening and irresponsible'

    Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is once again under investigation after it began posting explicit and derogatory remarks about historic football disasters when prompted by users on X.…

  • Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is

    Atomic clocks will tell you when your Waymo is late

    The British government is to pour £180 million into ensuring the UK keeps up with the times.…

  • UK government's Shared Services Strategy is entering the danger zone

    Gargantuan ERP and HR overhaul has committed around £1.7B and affects nearly half a million public workers

    Opinion On the eve of its fifth birthday, the UK's Shared Services Strategy for Government got a couple of presents. With around £1.7 billion already committed to tech suppliers and a 2028 deadline looming, the 450,000 civil servants and military personnel set to depend on these systems might wonder what was in store.…

  • Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat

    Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks

    Britain's Royal Navy is urgently seeking a ship-based counter-drone system and recent world events likely explain why.…

  • Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract

    Ignorance really was the way to achieve bliss

    Who, Me? Welcome to another working week, and another installment of "Who, Me?" – a weekly reader-contributed column that unearths your errors and reveals how you rebounded afterwards.…

  • Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds

    Tech-adjacent Dyson, Epson, and Whoop also have a crack

    World War Fee Tech companies have started suing the US government to seek repayment of tariffs that the Supreme Court recently declared unconstitutional.…

  • NASA’s asteroid defence mission slowed targets by 1.7 inches per hour

    You gotta start somewhere, and in this case astroboffins would have been nowhere without help from intrepid volunteers

    NASA has published new analysis of its 2022 planetary defense test that suggests the mission slowed down the target asteroids, albeit infinitesimally.…



rss: ars technica

  • “It doesn't feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US
    Stories of border issues lead to pervasive travel fears across the worldwide industry.
  • Jessica Jones joins the fray in Daredevil: Born Again trailer
    "I'm gonna take this city back."
  • Tiny, long-armed dinosaur leads to rethink of dinosaur miniaturization
    Small size seems to have come before a change in diet for a tiny dinosaur lineage.
  • Hunting for elusive "ghost elephants"
    Werner Herzog directed this evocative NatGeo documentary of an ornithologist's quest to find a new species.
  • A unicorn-like Spinosaurus found in the Sahara
    A unique head spike and fish-eating jaws help make sense of these dinosaurs.
  • From Iran to Ukraine, everyone's trying to hack security cameras
    Research shows apparent Iranian state hackers trying to hijack consumer-grade cameras.
  • Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead
    The Exploration Upper Stage did not in any way get NASA closer to landing on the Moon.
  • Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases
    Planet wants to prevent "adversarial actors" from using images for "Battle Damage Assessment" purposes.
  • Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons
    Fishing crews face horrifying burns from dredging the dumped chemical weapons.
  • Google's new command-line tool can plug OpenClaw into your Workspace data
    This could make it easier to use multiple Workspace APIs, but it's not yet an official Google product.


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