rss: npr

  • 'Stay Alive,' about daily life in Nazi Berlin, shows how easy it is to just go along
    Historian Ian Buruma chronicles the lives of ordinary Berliners — including his own father — during World War II. Stay Alive is about the past, but has powerful lessons for the present.
  • Trump makes case for Iran war. And, SCOTUS leans toward upholding birthright citizenship
    President Trump addressed the nation last night, making his case for war with Iran. And, the Supreme Court majority seemed inclined to rule against the Trump administration on birthright citizenship.
  • Iran continues strikes across the Persian Gulf despite Trump's warning
    Iran continued to target Gulf countries with ballistic missiles and drones Thursday as the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad issued a security alert warning of attacks by Iran-backed militias.
  • As hoops betting spikes, it's New Hampshire and other states vs. prediction markets
    In New Hampshire and states with legalized sports gambling, wagering helps fund government services. But now competitors like Kalshi and Polymarket are getting a cut of the action.
  • Have Trump's tariffs worked? This is where things stand a year after 'Liberation Day'
    It has been a year since President Trump announced double-digit tariffs on imports from around the world. So far, those levies have not produced the economic boom the president promised.
  • Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it
    Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.
  • In a thunderous launch, Artemis II astronauts leave Earth. Here's what's next
    NASA's Artemis II crew has successfully launched on a mission that will take it around the moon and back to Earth. Here's what to expect over their roughly 10-day journey.
  • Morning news brief
    Trump says war in Iran is 'nearing completion' in national address, Iranian officials react to President Trump's speech on Iran war, SCOTUS hears arguments on birthright citizenship.
  • Pakistan is playing intermediary in the Iran war, a role it has played before
    Pakistan has emerged as a key intermediary in the U.S-Israel war with Iran. It played this role before, during a high-stakes moment in diplomatic history.
  • U.S. lifts sanctions on Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez
    The newly announced sanctions relief is the latest U.S. recognition of Rodríguez as a legitimate authority in Venezuela ever since the U.S. military captured her predecessor, Nicolás Maduro.


rss: bbc

  • Funeral director who kept bodies for months admits 30 counts of preventing unlawful burial
    Robert Bush pleads guilty to charges relating to Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull.
  • We thought we'd buried my grandma, but her body was still at the funeral home
    Families of the dead tell of the agony caused by "horror show" funeral director Robert Bush.
  • Artemis II is in orbit - what happens next?
    What are the mission's four astronauts doing and when will they go to the Moon?
  • Storm Dave set to batter UK with gales and blizzards over Easter weekend
    Damage and travel disruption are likely in the north of the UK with a Met Office named storm expected to sweep through on Saturday.
  • Fifa is charging up to $10,990 for World Cup final tickets in first open sale
    The first open sale of tickets for the 2026 World Cup showed Fifa is charging up to $10,990 (£8,333) to be at the final.
  • Iranian Nobel laureate suffered suspected heart attack in prison, family says
    Narges Mohammadi's brother says he fears her life is in imminent danger and she needs to be transferred to a hospital.
  • Man dies in Athens storm as Saharan dust shrouds Crete
    A man dies in flooding near Athens as rain lashes several regions in Greece, while a Saharan dust storm enveloped Crete.
  • Watch: Macron calls Trump's remarks on his marriage 'inelegant'
    French President Emmanuel Macron has said Donald Trump's comments about his marriage were "neither elegant nor up to standard".
  • UK says Iran holding world economy 'hostage' with Hormuz attacks
    Yvette Cooper is chairing a virtual summit looking at ways to get energy exports moving through the shipping lane.
  • BBC sacked Scott Mills after learning alleged victim in police investigation was under 16
    It comes as Mills released a statement saying he had "fully cooperated and responded" with the police investigation in 2018.


rss: the register

  • Salesforce is looking to Slackbot to help it solve the SaaSpocalypse puzzle

    The chatbot will be a doorway to the company's other services

    Opinion Salesforce has begun to position Slack, its business collaboration platform, as the interface through which users can access and act on data in enterprise applications from rival vendors.…

  • Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript

    Name is a joke but the project is real, said main engineer

    The world's most popular CMS has been remade with the help of AI. Cloudflare has released EmDash version 0.1, described as a rebuild of the WordPress CMS (content management system) but using TypeScript rather than PHP. …

  • Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed

    Patch Tuesday often gets blamed when a reboot merely exposes damage already done, according to Chen

    It's not me, it's you. Five words that signify the end of a relationship with a toxic partner, or an ill-timed riposte to users tired of broken Microsoft updates.…

  • Want to be the IT Crowd for the BBC? An £800M contract beckons

    Supplier will need to look after networks, email, tech support, tools and more – plus find cost savings

    The BBC is looking for a supplier to provide IT for all its workforce and help automate parts of the corporation through a contract apparently named after a dog.…

  • AI search is atomizing our information, warns government digital designer

    We must design expecting much of what we publish will be reinterpreted by 'systems we don't control'

    Those who rely on artificial intelligence to summarize official material may get a misleadingly narrow or incomplete version of it, a senior designer for the UK government has warned.…

  • Artemis II blasts off on first crewed lunar mission since Apollo

    And of course the Orion toilet malfunctioned

    Toilet trouble, telemetry problems, and an issue with the flight termination system have not marred the Artemis II mission to the Moon, which launched yesterday.…

  • SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support

    And other handy tools that could save your data in a crisis

    The latest update to the handy SystemRescue is here with a new kernel. There's also a new GParted Live, and some other handy utilities.…

  • The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom

    Connected devices can leave an otherwise secure network vulnerable

    Pwned Welcome to Pwned, The Register's new column, where we highlight the worst infosec own goals so you can, hopefully, protect against them. Caffeine is an essential tool for most IT defenders, so, on balance, we're sure it has protected against a lot more exploits than it has caused. But in this case, the desire for everyone's favorite stimulant led to a massive breach.…

  • AI recruiting biz Mercor says it was 'one of thousands' hit in LiteLLM supply-chain attack

    First public downstream victim, but won't be the last

    AI hiring startup Mercor confirmed it was "one of thousands of companies" affected by the LiteLLM supply-chain attack as the fallout from the Trivy compromise continues to spread.…

  • Google's TurboQuant saves memory, but won't save us from DRAM-pricing hell

    Chocolate Factory’s compression tech clears the way to cheaper AI inference, not more affordable memory

    When Google unveiled TurboQuant, an AI data compression technology that promises to slash the amount of memory required to serve models, many hoped it would help with a memory shortage that has seen prices triple since last year. Not so much.…



rss: ars technica

  • Tesla sales grew by 6% in Q1, but company has an overproduction problem
    Between January and March, Tesla built 50,000 more cars than it could sell.
  • Amazon is trying to buy Globalstar to compete with SpaceX's Starlink
    Amazon wants in on the low-Earth orbit Internet action.
  • Artemis II, NASA's boldest mission in generations, launches crew to the Moon
    Liftoff of Artemis II with four astronauts occurred at 6:35 pm EDT (22:35 UTC) on Wednesday.
  • Nvidia rolls out its fix for PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times
    Microsoft, Intel are also working on their own solutions for the issue.
  • Here's what that Claude Code source leak reveals about Anthropic's plans
    A persistent agent, stealth "Undercover" mode, and... a virtual assistant named Buddy?
  • Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed
    Sperm gets lost in space; raccoons solve puzzles; the physics of folding a crepe; and more.
  • Did Nazis escape on a UFO? Dev who asked the question just built the official White House app.
    Did you know that Ohio is a hotbed of UFO activity?
  • Musk loves Grok’s “roasts.” Swiss official sues in attempt to neuter them.
    Swiss finance minister filed a criminal complaint over Grok's "defamation."
  • SpaceX finally files for IPO, targets $1.75 trillion valuation
    Confidential SEC submission sets up largest IPO in history.
  • Trump defunding of NPR and PBS blocked by judge, but damage is already done
    Judge invalidates Trump executive order, but Congress also cut off all funding.


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