rss: npr

  • Pentagon orders troops from 82nd Airborne Division to deploy to Middle East
    Nearly a month into the war with Iran, the Trump administration is keeping its options open: it says it is pursuing diplomatic solutions with Iran, while ordering thousands of paratroopers to deploy in the Middle East.
  • They gave her business a lifeline, then froze all her money
    A murky corner of the financial world is now the fastest-growing source of funding for small businesses. One state, Connecticut, had given these lenders unusual power. That may be about to change.
  • Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant
    Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.
  • Are you sure you know what 'gaslighting' is?
    Therapists say we're overusing the word. Here's what it actually means — and what the Ingrid Bergman film that helped birth the word can teach us about it.
  • How Trump's Iran war objectives have shifted over time
    Here is a reminder of some of what he has said - and where the US is now.
  • A shelter village provides a bridge to permanent housing
    Shelter villages offer temporary and private places for the unhoused to sleep and store belongings. One of the newest, The Bridge, opened recently in central Illinois.
  • OpenAI pulls the plug on Sora, the viral AI video app that sparked deepfake concerns
    OpenAI said Tuesday that it was "saying goodbye to the Sora app" and that it would share more soon about how to preserve what users already created on the app.
  • Rubio plans travel to France to sell Iran war to skeptical G7 allies
    Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to France this week to try to sell America's skeptical Group of Seven allies on the Iran war that has sent global fuel prices soaring.
  • Judge says government's Anthropic ban looks like punishment
    Tech company Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI system, is suing the Trump administration over the government labeling it a "supply chain risk."
  • An air traffic controller was juggling extra roles during the LaGuardia plane crash
    The National Transportation Safety Board said it has concerns about air traffic controllers who work the midnight shift taking on extra work in an airspace as busy as LaGuardia's.


rss: bbc

  • Two men arrested over Jewish charity ambulance arson attacks
    Four Hatzola ambulances were set ablaze in Golders Green, London, in the early hours of Monday.
  • Hospital waited two days before raising alarm about meningitis outbreak, BBC learns
    Experts say the wait was indefensible and possibly delayed identification of the outbreak.
  • 'He liked the fear in our eyes,' Epstein survivors tell BBC
    In an interview with BBC Newsnight, five women abused by the disgraced financier describe the impact of their shared ordeal.
  • 'I hugged armed man to stop him bombing hospital'
    Nathan Newby, who used kindness to persuade the "lone-wolf terrorist" to abandon his plan, is being awarded the George Medal.
  • Ex-justice minister admits possessing crystal meth and cannabis
    Crispin Blunt was found with GBL, a sedative, cannabis and crystal meth at his Surrey home.
  • Playful lynx snatches top prize in photo competition
    A young lynx caught mid play has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award 2026.
  • UK inflation rate stays at 3% before Iran war hits oil prices
    The speed of price rises in the UK has stayed the same, according to data which was collected before the US-Israel war with Iran began.
  • NHS dentistry is rotting. Will the plan to fix it work?
    As patients struggle to find NHS dentists, Labour has a plan but not everybody is convinced it will work
  • First female Archbishop of Canterbury to be enthroned
    The Prince and Princess of Wales will be part of the congregation at Canterbury Cathedral - alongside nurses and carers, reflecting the new archbishop's past career.
  • Everyday life in Asia being upended by effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz
    Asia relies heavily on oil and gas from the Gulf, and shortages and higher prices are starting to bite.


rss: the register

  • Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access

    A handful thrive, most scrape by as companies make billions off their code

    Opinion Time and again, I see people begging for companies with deep pockets to fund open source projects. I mean, after all, they've made billions from this code. You'd think they could support the code's creators and maintainers. It would be only fair, right?…

  • YouTuber lands on Moon using a ZX Spectrum. Conditions apply

    BASIC and bit-banging used to guide a simulated lander down to a virtual lunar touchdown

    Could Sinclair's 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum land a spacecraft on the Moon? YouTuber Scott Manley decided to find out, and the answer is… kind of.…

  • Nothing screams casual career pivot like joining the UK Ministry of Defence for a cool £162K

    AI and quantum on to-do list for Chief Digital Technology Officer in charge of £140.7M budget. Fancy it?

    The UK's Ministry of Defence is looking for a new Chief Digital Technology Officer (CDTO) to take responsibility for a budget of £140.7 million ($188 million) and 400 staff.…

  • Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs

    Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google

    End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware’s virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the world’s enterprise hardware fleet – and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft.…

  • Apple pushes Maps ads in free training-wheels business bundle

    Apple Business combines corporate device management offerings and a way to buy ads

    Apple has simplified its business services by combining and rebranding them, and is giving away the reformulated enterprise offering for free.…

  • Alibaba delivers RISC-V server chip optimized to run China’s top AI models

    Claims its set performance records but looks to be years behind western fare

    Alibaba has revealed a new server chip that it says is the most powerful processor ever to use the RISC-V instruction set.…

  • HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops to make them either more useful at work, or a bit creepy

    'HP IQ' can chat, share files, and record and summarize meetings

    You’ve heard the call of Apple Intelligence, jumped for joy over Google Gemini, and cuddled up with Microsoft Copilot. Now, get ready for HP IQ, a local AI and collaboration application HP Inc. hopes will make its business laptops stand apart.…

  • AI-pilled Arm CEO teases mystery products that will turn it into a money machine

    Breaking free of its IP licensing shackles

    Arm CEO Rene Haas took an ice-cold sip of the AI Kool-Aid during a keynote speech at the company’s annual conference on Tuesday, teasing a future product that he thinks will pump the British chip designer's total addressable market (TAM) to $1 trillion by the end of the decade.…

  • EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom

    Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government

    interview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.…

  • 1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack

    Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects

    RSAC 2026 Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like Lapsus$.…



rss: ars technica

  • How chemists turned bourbon waste into supercapacitors
    Hydrothermal carbonization can directly convert sloppy stillage into hard or activated carbon.
  • "The last straw"—RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally angrily quits CDC panel after spat
    Robert Malone quit a vaccine panel, blaming an HHS spokesperson for "trashing" him.
  • Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
    Too much hardware was allowed to disconnect right at the edge of normal conditions.
  • Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
    Walmart wants to connect what people stream "directly with retail interaction."
  • Mozilla dev's "Stack Overflow for agents" targets a key weakness in coding AI
    There are major problems to be solved before it can be adopted, though.
  • OpenAI announces plans to shut down its Sora video generator
    Move comes amid a reported plan to refocus on business and productivity use cases.
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation to swap leaders as AI, ICE fights escalate
    Public interest in government tech abuses is peaking. EFF's new leader plans to build on that.
  • FCC imposes sweeping ban on foreign-made routers, affecting all new models
    Trump admin to decide which router makers get exemptions from FCC import ban.
  • Apple releases iOS, iPadOS, macOS 26.4 with a long list of medium-size tweaks
    The 26.4 updates are more significant than the last few updates have been.
  • NASA kills lunar space station to focus on ambitious Moon base
    "Everyone wants to be on the surface."


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