rss: npr

  • Trump administration sues three states over attempts to regulate prediction markets
    The suits are the most ambitious effort to date that the Trump administration has gone to try to override state laws and set the rules for the fast-growing and increasingly divisive betting industry.
  • EPA flags microplastics, pharmaceuticals as contaminants in drinking water
    There is public concern about health risks from the chemicals, especially from the Make America Healthy Again movement. The agency's move doesn't in itself guarantee regulation.
  • Attorney General Pam Bondi out at DOJ
    Bondi's departure comes amid simmering frustration over her leadership and handling of the Epstein files. President Trump says Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will be acting attorney general.
  • Ziggy Stardust and Hacky Sack: What life was like the last time we went to the moon
    The Artemis II mission is the first time humans have headed to the moon since 1972. That year also marked the debut of The Godfather and the Egg McMuffin.
  • '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.
  • Hegseth ousts the Army chief of staff as the Iran war rages through Week 5
    U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked Army Chief of Staff Randy George to step down and retire, a U.S. official confirmed to NPR.
  • 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.


rss: bbc

  • Marmalade to be re-branded in post-Brexit food deal
    The breakfast favourite will be legally renamed when Britain aligns with new EU labelling rules.
  • Police offered support to tackle rising threats against MPs
    Reports of crimes against MPs have more than doubled since 2019, reaching almost 1,000 last year.
  • Trump removes US Attorney General Pam Bondi
    Bondi's time as America's top law enforcement officer was overshadowed by the justice department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
  • 'I haven't slept for days': Iranians describe mounting desperation after a month of war
    Ordinary people from various parts of Iran describe expanding strikes, economic pain and fear of repression.
  • 'Be serious... don't speak every day': Macron criticises Trump approach to Iran war
    The comments were an apparent jab at the US leader's sometimes contradictory stance on the US-Israeli war against Iran.
  • Crisis staff found 'unforgivable scene' at convicted undertaker's funeral home
    An international crisis team was drafted in after police raided Hull's Legacy funeral home.
  • Funeral fraudster who kept bodies and ashes was 'living beyond his means', ex-worker says
    Robert Bush conned the bereaved while living in luxury and enjoying foreign holidays.
  • Judge dismisses most of Blake Lively's claims in harassment lawsuit against Baldoni
    The judge left in place three allegations against Baldoni, meaning the civil trial will go ahead next month.
  • Prince William praises £20m milestone for Bowelbabe fund
    The Bowelbabe fund, set up by Dame Deborah James in 2022, helps to support Cancer Research UK.
  • BBC boss Tim Davie says it was 'very clear' Scott Mills had to go
    Outgoing BBC boss Davie says on his final day Scott Mills' sacking "was a real shock to the organisation".


rss: the register

  • AI models will deceive you to save their own kind

    Researchers find leading frontier models all exhibit peer preservation behavior

    Leading AI models will lie to preserve their own kind, according to researchers behind a study from the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI).…

  • Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4

    Now with a more permissive license, multi-modality, and support for more than 140 languages

    Google on Thursday unleashed a wave of new open-weights Gemma models optimized for agentic AI and coding, under a more permissive Apache 2.0 license aimed at winning over enterprises.…

  • Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images

    About that partnership...

    Microsoft on Thursday unveiled public preview versions of three home-baked machine learning models focused on speech recognition, speech synthesis, and image generation.…

  • US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks

    Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems

    A software toolkit built for DARPA to test and validate covert communication networks is now open source, and it could help orgs who want to experiment with new kinds of secure, anonymous communications tools. …

  • They thought they were downloading Claude Code source. They got a nasty dose of malware instead

    Source code with a side of Vidar stealer and GhostSocks

    Tens of thousands of people eagerly downloaded the leaked Claude Code source code this week, and some of those downloads came with a side of credential-stealing malware.…

  • Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important

    Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrong

    A recent surge of interest in Microsoft's Terms of Use for Copilot is a reminder that AI helpers are really just a bit of fun.…

  • IBM wants Arm software on its mainframes to better support AI

    Tie-up aims to widen Big Blue’s access to power-efficient compute

    IBM and Arm are working together on getting software developed for Arm chips to run on Big Blue's enterprise systems, with an eye on future AI and data-intensive workloads.…

  • Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

    Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners'

    European outfits Ionos and Nextcloud have launched Euro-Office, a fork of the OnlyOffice cloud-based productivity suite aimed at orgs with qualms around sovereignty, provoking an angry response from the original developer.…

  • Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'

    In space no one can hear you scream, at Microsoft

    Many a frustrated user has sworn they'll launch Microsoft Outlook into space, but NASA has actually done it – on a journey around the Moon, where it's now causing problems for astronauts.…

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

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

    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.…



rss: ars technica

  • SpaceX tries to convince FCC that Amazon put satellites into wrong altitude
    Amazon denies violation, says SpaceX caused conflict by lowering Starlink satellites.
  • Google Vids gets AI upgrade with Veo and Lyria models, directable AI avatars
    Google Vids brings together Google's most capable AI creation tools.
  • Male octopuses guided through mating by female hormones
    A receptor that's used to find prey is also activated by progesterone.
  • New fossil deposits show complex animal groups predating the Cambrian
    Collection of fossils includes Ediacaran, Cambrian species, suggesting a transition.
  • New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
    Both GDDRHammer and GeForge hammer GPU memory in ways that compromise the CPU.
  • Renewables dominate 2025's newly installed generating capacity
    And solar power accounted for about three quarters of the renewables.
  • Google announces Gemma 4 open AI models, switches to Apache 2.0 license
    Gemma 4 brings the first major update to Google's open models in a year.
  • This Ford is the quickest production car at the Nürburgring, ever
    Only three race cars have ever gone quicker around this famous track.
  • Anthropic says its leak-focused DMCA effort unintentionally hit legit GitHub forks
    But the effort to stop the spread of leaked Claude Code client code is an uphill battle.
  • Why is NASA bothering to go back to the Moon if we've already been there?
    NASA has struggled to deal with the widespread sentiment that NASA has “been there, done that."


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