rss: npr

  • Melania Trump shares the spotlight with a robot at an education and technology event
    The robot accompanied the first lady to the White House East Room for the final day of a summit she had convened with counterparts from around the world through her Fostering the Future Together global initiative.
  • UN calls for reparations to remedy the 'historical wrongs' of trafficking enslaved Africans
    The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans "the gravest crime against humanity" and calling for reparations.
  • War with Iran disrupts fertilizer exports as U.S. farmers prepare for planting season
    Gulf states are major fertilizer producers, and the war with Iran has triggered a 25% price hike just as struggling U.S. farmers are planting corn.
  • OpenAI's Sora app may be going away, but its legacy will be the spread of AI video slop
    Barely six months after its launch, OpenAI is ending an app that could generate AI video at the click of a button.
  • Doctors worry about FDA scrutiny of RSV shots to protect babies
    The antibody shots are about 80% effective at preventing babies from ending up in intensive care because of RSV. The drugmakers behind them maintain they're safe.
  • Travelers are facing the longest TSA wait times in history
    Wait times are exceeding four hours at some major airports, leading TSA officers to call out at rates of 40 to 50%, according to TSA Deputy Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill.
  • Greetings from Turkey's border with Iran, where Iranians let loose on the dance floor
    Iranians escaping hardship and war are shaking it off to Persian, Arabic and Turkish tunes in this disco in eastern Turkey.
  • Jury finds Meta and Google negligent in social media harms trial
    The jury ordered the companies to pay $6 million in damages over defective design. The landmark verdict may influence the outcome of 2,000 other pending lawsuits.
  • For the first time in more than 1,400 years, Church of England gets a woman leader
    A new archbishop of Canterbury has been installed in a historic ceremony. Sarah Mullally is the 106th person to hold the job, and the first woman.
  • Savannah Guthrie's first interview since mother Nancy vanished: 'I imagine her terror'
    Nearly two months after Nancy Guthrie disappeared, her daughter Savannah discusses the toll on her family in an emotional interview with her Today show colleague Hoda Kotb.


rss: bbc

  • Is Trump any closer to an Iran exit strategy?
    The White House insists the president is dictating events, but even some Republicans are frustrated by mixed messaging about his war aims.
  • Meta and YouTube found liable in landmark social media addiction trial
    A woman has been awarded $6m in a verdict that could have implications for hundreds of other cases in the US.
  • Chris Mason: How will the UK respond to US court verdict on social media?
    Will the decision of a Los Angeles jury have an impact on the UK government as it considers potential future regulations on social media, writes the BBC's political editor.
  • National Savings and Investments bank set to pay millions to customers in compensation
    The government-backed bank has been accused of a series of errors, including not paying bereaved families money that was rightfully theirs.
  • British forces preparing to board Russian shadow fleet ships in UK waters
    The move will "starve Putin's war machine", Starmer says as he arrives in Finland for a military summit.
  • Prepare for turbulence - how a prolonged Middle East conflict could reshape how we fly
    The Gulf's hub airports made long-distance travel cheaper - but now their future looks unclear.
  • Harry Potter TV show trailer: Everything we know so far
    The HBO reboot, which is due in 2027, is a spin-off from the original books and the film franchise.
  • 'I have no recollection of anything' - Epstein survivor says she was drugged and raped
    A survivor of Epstein's abuses spoke publicly for the first time to BBC Newsnight about her experience of being raped and drugged by the sex offender.
  • Parents should monitor children '24/7' on Roblox, says developer
    Roblox said safety was a top priority and it had advanced safeguards in place to keep users safe.
  • Singer Duffy to share sex assault ordeal in documentary
    Disney+ says it has been given "unprecedented access" to the singer in her first major interview in 15 years.


rss: the register

  • Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda

    CarStation/PlayMobile won’t hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA

    Sony and Honda have broken up, meaning their joint vision to deliver a revolutionary electric vehicle won’t happen.…

  • Indian government probes CCTV espionage operation linked to Pakistan

    Police found cameras pointing at infrastructure

    Indian authorities have reportedly ordered an audit of the nation’s CCTV cameras, after police uncovered what they claim was a Pakistan-backed surveillance operation.…

  • Datacenter batteries are selling out years in advance, because AI, says Panasonic

    Shifting production from automotive to compute and working on supercapacitors as another way to protect workloads

    Major memory makers have already sold all the kit they can make this year, creating shortages and price increases. Datacenter infrastructure buyers may soon face the same issues when trying to get their hands on backup batteries.…

  • GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

    As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out

    Microsoft's GitHub next month plans to begin using customer interaction data – "specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context" – to train its AI models.…

  • AI supply chain attacks don’t even require malware…just post poisoned documentation

    A proof-of-concept attack on Context Hub suggests there's not much content santization

    A new service that helps coding agents stay up to date on their API calls could be dialing in a massive supply chain vulnerability.…

  • Scammers have virtual smartphones on speed dial for fraud

    They cleverly mimic most traits of a real phone

    Smartphones have fast become the basis of our digital identities, securing payment systems and bank accounts. Now virtual devices that pretend to be real handsets have become a key tool for financial scammers, according to one company. …

  • Jen Easterly, cybersecurity's 'relentless optimist,' hopes feds come back to RSAC next year

    Ex-CISA boss also says no reason to panic about AI and security

    RSAC 2026 "Everybody feels massive FOMO if they don't get to RSAC," Jen Easterly says.…

  • Only Trump can decide when cyberwar turns into real war

    Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC…

    rsac 2026 There's a theoretical red line with cyber warfare. Cross it, and the US will respond with a physical attack like missile strikes. And that line "is whatever the President says it is," according to former NSA boss retired General Paul Nakasone.…

  • Meta cuts about 700 jobs as it shifts spending to AI

    Forget the metaverse

    Meta has begun laying off employees as it focuses more of its cash on building out datacenters, training its own large language models, and recruiting talent for AI.…

  • Oracle: AI agents can reason, decide and act - liability question remains

    Fusion Agentic Applications promise autonomous enterprise decisions. Gartner urges caution

    Oracle says it's building a suite of AI agents into its cloud-based enterprise applications, claiming they can make and execute decisions autonmomously within business processes. But analysts are urging caution given unresolved questions around data integration and liability.…



rss: ars technica

  • BRINC's new police drone uses Starlink, carries Narcan, chases vehicles at 60mph
    Company calls Guardian the "most capable 911 response drone ever.”
  • Here is NASA's plan for nuking Gateway and sending it to Mars
    Only one US-built nuclear reactor has ever flown in space, and that was more than 60 years ago.
  • Reddit will require "fishy" accounts to verify they are run by a human
    AI-generated content is still acceptable for now.
  • We got an audience with the "Lunar Viceroy" to talk how NASA will build a Moon base
    "It has been clear that we all need to be focused on one thing, not 10 things."
  • Meta, YouTube must pay $3M to woman who got hooked on apps as a child
    Meta emerges as the biggest loser as second child safety trial verdict hits.
  • Nintendo is raising prices of Switch 2 game cartridges starting in May
    The first physical game affected will cost $10 more than a digital copy.
  • Supreme Court rejects Sony's attempt to kick music pirates off the Internet
    Sony's 1984 Betamax win helps Cox beat Sony in important online piracy case.
  • Google's TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x
    TurboQuant makes AI models more efficient but doesn't reduce output quality like other methods.
  • Antibiotic resistance among germs swells during droughts, study suggests
    Study links two crises: Climate change and antibiotic-resistant infections.
  • Trump staffs science and technology panel with non-scientists
    Appointee list is in keeping with the administration's hostility toward science.


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