rss: npr

  • UN chief visits Haiti, where a new 'gang-suppression force' will be deployed
    U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres's visit to Port-au-Prince comes as gang violence persists. According to U.N. data, 2,300 people have been killed in Haiti this year, with another 100 kidnapped.
  • U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat kills 1, leaves 2 survivors
    The U.S. military attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, killing one man and leaving two survivors. This brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes to at least 208.
  • Rain along Gulf Coast could become the first named storm of Atlantic hurricane season
    The National Hurricane Center in Miami says the system is expected to bring intense rain to southern states including Texas and Louisiana this week.
  • Haitian immigrants ask Supreme Court to toss case in light of new evidence
    The lawyers argue that the court does not have a full record of how the Trump administration decided to end temporary protective status for Haitians in the U.S.
  • Georgia results: Collins will face Sen. Ossoff; Trump's pick loses governor runoff
    In an upset, Georgia Republican voters rejected President Trump's preferred nominee for the competitive open governor's race. They also picked Rep. Mike Collins to face Sen. Jon Ossoff.
  • Iraqi soccer fans celebrate end of 40-year World Cup drought
    The Iraq national men's team hasn't played a World Cup in 40 years; a drought that ends Tuesday night, to the excitement of soccer fans in Dearborn, Michigan, home to a large Iraqi diaspora.
  • In Albania, anger grows against the government for supporting a Kushner-linked luxury resort
    Albania's government has given preliminary approval to plans for the luxury resort along a stretch of coastline, prompting daily protests and legal challenges by environmental groups.
  • Trump further guts Education Dept. by shifting oversight of special ed, civil rights
    The moves to the federal departments of Health and Human Services and Justice, respectively, would further dismantle an agency that President Donald Trump has vowed to close.
  • 'The Lost Founder' profiles a brilliant lawyer who helped craft the Constitution
    Jesse Wegman's book tells the story of James Wilson, a largely forgotten founding father who lived a colorful life and died as a Supreme Court justice on the run from the law and creditors.
  • Live with a partner? You may be sharing more microbes than you think
    A large study finds you may share about a quarter of your oral and gut microbes with the people you live with. Should you worry? We asked the experts.


rss: bbc

  • PM sends Burnham and Labour warning over leadership contest
    Sir Keir Starmer urges Andy Burnham and the party not to focus on a leadership contest after the Makerfield by-election.
  • 'It was surreal': British couple describe having warning shots fired near them by Russian warship
    The retired couple tell BBC Newsnight they tried to show the warship they had changed course in the English Channel before the shots were fired.
  • 'It's very Bond': Fashion experts on the England squad's off-pitch look
    What experts make of the men's team's official off-duty fashion as they prepare for their first World Cup match.
  • Jeremy Clarkson reveals cancer diagnosis on farming show
    The former Top Gear presenter did not clarify what type of cancer he had been diagnosed with.
  • Social media has risks but has given us opportunities too, teen influencers say
    Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the ban will give children more time, security and freedom to grow up. But how do under-16s feel?
  • Watch: Why is Trump furious with Netanyahu over strikes on Lebanon?
    The BBC's Tom Bateman looks at the US president's reaction to what he called "vicious" strikes.
  • Group planned to attack White House UFC event using snipers and drones, FBI says
    In newly unsealed court filings, the government says the group allegedly expressed grievances about corruption, the Epstein files, and data centres.
  • Cadbury chocolate-owner Mondelez defends staying in Russia
    Mondelez boss Dirk Van de Put says it was the "right decision" to remain after the war with Ukraine.
  • Briton on around-the-world walk since 1998 refused access to Channel Tunnel for final leg
    Karl Bushby says he is prepared to swim the channel in order to complete his 28-year journey.
  • England will not adapt style despite USA heat, Tuchel says
    Thomas Tuchel says he is "not ready to adapt" England's playing style at the World Cup despite the heat - as it would "give up" the team's strengths.


rss: the register

  • Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace
    Fear and even grief are natural reactions to machines that do your job. The next reactions – acceptance and innovation – are more useful
  • Cyberattack sees crops kept in the ground
    Bitter harvest for Australia's Mackay Sugar, attacked in peak cane crushing season
  • AMD's Mext buy shows how AI could solve the RAM shortage it created
    Running low on memory, can't afford more? The House of Zen's latest acquisition puts an AI spin on flash-based memory expansion
  • The new Siri makes one of Apple's most convenient OS features a cumbersome mess
    Goodbye, useful Spotlight; hello force-fed Apple intelligence bloatware that feels distressingly like Google AI Overviews
  • Python dev saved from disaster by intuition...and AI
    I'm sorry, Dave. I can't install that repo that will totally hose your system.
  • Intel-born networking tech resurfaces as InfiniBand alternative for DoE supers
    Omni-Path lights up Lawrence Livermore system at 400 Gbps
  • AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job
    The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is
  • Three critical Fortinet sandbox bugs splattered by unknown attackers
    All have patches, so make sure you upgrade to a fixed version
  • Commodore gets into the phone biz with Sailfish-powered retro 'Callback'
    Ships sans email, web, or socials, but with plenty of beige plastic
  • There's no such thing as an agentic CPU
    AI agents are a general-purpose workload no different from any other


rss: ars technica

  • Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines
    NAACP lawsuit says xAI uses gas turbines without permits for Grok data center.
  • Year of free HPE software a “step in the correct direction” in VMware rivalry
    Partner tells Ars that HPE should be giving out more free VM Essentials licenses.
  • Cockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomes
    Transferring genes across species doesn't just happen in microbes.
  • Among the large new rockets Amazon was counting on, only Europe has delivered
    "As for Arianespace, they have definitely stepped up."
  • Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK
    Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.
  • US approval of Paramount/Warner Bros. deal surprised DOJ lawyers, report says
    Trump admin green-lighting $111B deal "reeks of corruption," Sen. Warren says.
  • Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress
    Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.
  • Android 17 starts hitting Pixel phones and watches today
    Pixels will get their OTA in the coming weeks, but don't expect monumental changes.
  • Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges
    Legal victories have dampened the Trump admin’s efforts to halt wind and solar power.
  • SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion
    Separately, neither could compete. Now they hope they can.


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