rss: npr

  • Switzerland is a neutral nation but has more nuclear bunkers than any country in the world
    Instead of scrapping its network of bomb shelters after the Cold War, Switzerland kept building them. The country has more than 370,000 nuclear bomb shelters. Some are now used to house migrants.
  • The Women's Professional Baseball League makes its historic debut
    The Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, the Boston Hunters and the San Francisco Firebells take the field in Springfield, Ill., as the Women's Pro Baseball League kicks off its inaugural season.
  • Private prisons announce $1.4 billion in revenue as immigration detentions climb
    That revenue does not include net proceeds of $1.6 billion made by CoreCivic after the recent sale of four of their facilities to the Department of Homeland Security.
  • Federal funds can't be used to give test strips to drug users, raising overdose fears
    Drug addiction groups are reeling after Trump officials said federal grants cannot be used to hand out test strips to drug users. The strips help users check street drugs for dangerous adulterants.
  • Data centers are a political issue crossing party lines, driving voters to candidates
    Wisconsin Democratic candidate for governor Francesca Hong called for a moratorium on data centers. So did Ohio Republican governor hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, as data centers begin to dominate campaigns.
  • Senate votes to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general
    The Senate confirmed Blanche by a 50-49 vote early Saturday morning, elevating President Trump's former personal lawyer to head the Justice Department.
  • Women in Maine may choose the victor in this year's Senate race
    The race between Susan Collins and Troy Jackson is one of the nation's most high-profile Senate contests this year -- and may ultimately be decided by an especially powerful voting bloc: Maine women.
  • Trump renews push to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook
    Trump is once again threatening to fire Cook over unproven allegations of mortgage fraud after an earlier effort to remove Cook was struck down by the Supreme Court.
  • Another court blocks White House ballroom work, teeing up a Supreme Court review
    A federal appeals court says above-ground construction cannot continue without approval from Congress, siding with historic preservation advocates.
  • Monty Roberts, who trained horses through trust, dies at 91
    The internationally acclaimed horseman defied the conventional method of breaking horses and developed his own gentler approach — based on horses' non-verbal language. Roberts spoke with Fresh Air in 1997.


rss: bbc

  • Widdecombe police reopen investigation into incident at Farage's home, BBC understands
    Counter-terror police investigating the ex-MP's death say they are looking into an "attempted burglary" last year.
  • Infantino denies claims Uefa paid off alleged 'lover' when he was general secretary
    Gianni Infantino's alleged lover was given a severance payment over the affair by Uefa while he was its general secretary, according to a Daily Telegraph investigation.
  • Chasing a ghost: how BBC tracked a fugitive spy chief after months-long hunt
    How we tracked down "The Spider" who was once one of the most-feared men in Syria.
  • Spain imposes border controls against Italy as row over Ceuta migrant influx intensifies
    Italy introduced border controls following an influx of about 78,000 migrants from Morocco into the neighbouring Spanish exclave of Ceuta.
  • Hunter Biden tells BBC his pardon was 'not good' for America or his father's legacy
    In a wide-ranging BBC interview, the former president's son denied having any interest in running for office and said his father's cancer has spread.
  • Police officers investigated over handling of sex offender who murdered two women
    Simon Levy was a serial sex offender who was being monitored by police when he killed two women.
  • Fifth heatwave of the year likely next week as temperatures could hit 35C
    As temperatures start to rise again over the weekend, many parts of England and Wales will enter into the fifth heatwave of the year, as Simon King explains
  • I went for a full body MOT and the results came as a shock
    The private body scan industry is booming, but is it doing more harm than good?
  • He's been frozen on Everest for 30 years, now 'Green Boots' may finally be coming home
    For decades, an Indian man's lime shoes have been a grim trail marker for many climbing the world's highest peak.
  • Digital cameras and wired earphones are back and 'a bit more real'
    We're surrounded by more advanced tech in 2026, so why are young people going back to basics?


rss: the register

  • South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact
    Before and after shots of Elon's ejecta snapped by Danuri
  • OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash
    Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI
  • Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks
    Calling all defenders
  • AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription
    Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms
  • Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI
    What, you didn't think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you?
  • Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power
    MAST Upgrade installation hit highest pressure ever achieved without the super-hot plasma destabilizing
  • N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands
    Attackers turned admin access into a route downstream, while N-able tells N-central customers to patch – again
  • ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses
    Cancer diagnostics breach spills personal and health info as extortion crew says healthcare giant ‘should’ve paid the ransom’
  • MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
    Timer interrupts reopen branch predictor poisoning window, with a working Zen 2 exploit to prove it
  • Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder
    Investigation into whether staff improperly accessed Minnie Merriman’s file after she was named for the first time this week


rss: ars technica

  • Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
    Copernicus Browser adds wildfire visualization amid record wildfire season.
  • Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500
    Six deaths reported among screwworm cases, one directly attributed to the flies.
  • Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment
    New Mexico judge orders $567M fund to help address youth mental health crisis.
  • The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon's shadow
    Fitted with telescopes, the plane did our longest imaging of the Sun's corona.
  • New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics
    19 new maps continue the story from MachineGames' other campaign additions.
  • DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report
    DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says.
  • OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
    Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
  • How snails engineer their slime
    Collagen and calcium work in tandem to achieve varying mechanical properties of different kinds of mucus.
  • Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says
    There's no evidence the truck will be a cheap EV truck, but what if it were?
  • Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism
    Trump determined to link life-saving shots to autism, despite science and political risk.


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