rss: npr

  • Minnesota immigration crackdown will end, border czar says. And, DHS funding to expire
    Border czar Tom Homan announced that the Trump administration will end the immigration crackdown in Minnesota. And, DHS funding is set to expire after lawmakers failed to advance a spending bill.
  • Britain's High Court says government illegally banned Pro-Palestinian group
    In its ruling, the court said an earlier decision to ban the Pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was "disproportionate."
  • On their way! 4 people on NASA Crew-12 mission launch to International Space Station
    The four are set to dock with the space station on Saturday, returning the orbital lab to its full complement of seven. NASA's last mission, Crew-11, left a month early due to an ill crew member.
  • Who will police Gaza, and how?
    Under President Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan, Arab countries and the European Union are supposed to train a new police force in the Gaza Strip. But U.S. plans have run into serious challenges.
  • Who is the 'Quad God' and what does he want? The quiz holds the answers you seek
    Plus: more Olympics, the Super Bowl and some monks.
  • RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
    In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
  • A bipartisan effort to save health subsidies failed. Will ICE reform be different?
    A bipartisan effort in Congress to restrain immigration enforcement tactics is flailing despite a Friday deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The pattern is increasingly familiar.
  • Oldest living married couple shares their love story
    For StoryCorps, a husband and wife, who are both more than 100 years old, talk about how they met and fell in love.
  • Goldman Sachs' top lawyer to resign after emails show close ties to Jeffrey Epstein
    Kathy Ruemmler, a former White House counsel to President Obama, says she will resign from Goldman Sachs after emails between her and Jeffrey Epstein showed a close relationship between the pair.
  • Trump pardons 5 former NFL players for crimes ranging from perjury to drug trafficking
    Those pardoned include ex-NFL players Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry and the late Billy Cannon.


rss: bbc

  • Men jailed over plot to attack Jewish community
    They were planning what police say could have been "the UK's deadliest terror attack".
  • Watch: How Andrew's BBC interview compares to what Epstein emails tell us now
    Following the latest release of the Epstein files, claims made by the then Prince Andrew in 2019 are under fresh scrutiny.
  • Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful but group remains proscribed for now
    Three judges rule against the Home Office in a massive blow to the government, but say the ban must remain until a further hearing.
  • Former SNP chief executive accused of embezzling £459,000 over 12-year period
    The former SNP chief executive is accused of illicitly purchasing items including luxury goods, jewellery, cosmetics, two cars and a motorhome.
  • Brother of Laos methanol victim says £135 fines 'an absolute joke'
    Ten people linked to six deaths at a hostel in Laos are given suspended sentences and fines.
  • Hello Kitty designer steps down after 46 years
    Yuko Yamaguchi oversaw the feline character's rise to to global icon status.
  • Tudor agrees deal to become Spurs' interim boss
    Igor Tudor agrees a deal to become Tottenham interim head coach until the end of the season.
  • Rubio warns Europe of new era in geopolitics before big Munich speech
    The US Secretary of State will address the first major transatlantic meeting since Donald Trump threatened to annex Greenland.
  • High Court dismisses challenge to single-sex toilet guidance
    Campaigners claimed the guidance for employers, such as hospitals, shops and restaurants, was "legally flawed" and "overly simplistic".
  • Medal hope Bankes 'lost' after quarter-final exit
    Charlotte Bankes hoped to "put on a better show" as her Olympic hoodoo continues with a quarter-final exit from the snowboard cross - in another missed medal chance for Team GB.


rss: the register

  • Broadband rollouts feel the burn from AI memory frenzy

    Prices for router and set-top boxes up nearly sevenfold, squeezing telcos and raising deployment costs

    Prices for memory used in routers and set-top boxes are surging nearly sevenfold thanks to AI, raising fresh fears that the industry's silicon binge could leave telcos scrambling to get customers online.…

  • Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown

    Rapid rollout into cyber-physical systems raises outage risk, Gartner warns

    The next blackout to plunge a G20 nation into chaos might not come courtesy of cybercriminals or bad weather, but from an AI system tripping over its own shoelaces.…

  • US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters

    Bitbarn nuke campus to be sited at Idaho National Laboratory

    Nuclear-powered datacenters in the US are moving closer as a consortium prepares to build proposed facilities for the Department of Energy (DoE) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).…

  • Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny

    Move comes against backdrop of disasterclass Super Bowl ad

    Ring has cut ties with Flock, citing resource constraints, mere months after the pair announced a partnership.…

  • Investors shove another $30B into the Anthropic money furnace

    $380B valuation for a company that's yet to turn a profit? Sure, why not

    The AI bubble continues to inflate with Anthropic's announcement of $30 billion in Series G funding at a $380 billion post-money valuation.…

  • Booster nozzle anomaly fails to stop ULA Vulcan Centaur reaching orbit

    Fiery mid-flight incident not enough to derail US Space Force mission

    United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur reached orbit on February 12 despite "a significant performance anomaly" that saw one of its four solid rocket boosters burn through its nozzle during ascent.…

  • ʎɹǝʌoɔǝᴚ sʍopuᴉM ʇɐ sǝʇɐuᴉɯɹǝʇ snq sᴉɥ┴

    One destination passengers were definitely not hoping to reach

    Bork!Bork!Bork! As if to demonstrate that whatever one operating system can do, Windows can do it better, bluer, and upside down, we present a bus stopping only at bork.…

  • MPs brand NS&I's £3B IT overhaul a 'full-spectrum disaster'

    Watchdog says savings bank botched tech revamp, warning taxpayers remain exposed after years of delays

    Britain's state-backed savings bank has been dragged over the coals by Parliament's spending watchdog, which has branded its long-running digital overhaul a £3 billion "full-spectrum disaster."…

  • Top Dutch telco Odido admits 6.2M customers caught in contact system caper

    Names, addresses, bank account numbers accessed – but biz insists passwords and call data untouched

    The Netherlands' largest mobile network operator (MNO) has admitted that a breach of its customer contact system may have affected around 6.2 million people.…

  • OK, so Anthropic's AI built a C compiler. That don't impress me much

    Fanboys think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Devs aren't nearly as won over

    Opinion I'm willing to be impressed by AI products, but Anthropic's AI‑built C compiler leaves me a bit cold. It's little more than a clever demo. It is not the moment when software engineering as we know it flips over and dies. Not even close.…



rss: ars technica

  • I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent
    These bots supposedly need a human body to accomplish great things in meatspace.
  • Rocket Report: Say cheerio to Orbex; China is getting good at booster landings
    "You absolutely have to have a plan to compete with SpaceX on price."
  • Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say
    Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem sued for coercing platforms into censoring ICE posts.
  • When Amazon badly needed a ride, Europe's Ariane 6 rocket delivered
    This was the first launch of the Ariane 64, the most powerful rocket in European space history.
  • OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips
    OpenAI's new GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.
  • Trump official overruled FDA scientists to reject Moderna's flu shot
    FDA's top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, is known for overruling scientists.
  • Spider-Noir teaser comes in colorized "True Hue" and black and white
    Nicolas Cage described his character as "70 percent Humphrey Bogart and 30 percent Bugs Bunny."
  • ULA's Vulcan rocket suffers another booster problem on the way to orbit
    Vulcan's Blue Origin-made BE-4 engines appear to have saved the rocket from failure.
  • EPA kills foundation of greenhouse gas regulations
    The agency is betting the the Supreme Court will reverse a prior ruling.
  • Trump FTC wants Apple News to promote more Fox News and Breitbart stories
    FTC claims Apple News suppresses conservatives, cites study by pro-Trump group.


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