rss: npr

  • Epstein files fallout takes down elite figures in Europe, while U.S. reckoning is muted
    Unlike in Europe, officials in the U.S. with ties to Epstein have largely held their positions of power.
  • A London beat framed by colonial history
    NPR's Lauren Frayer arrived in London after years in India, and she's been covering Britain with the legacy of empire in view.
  • Four people on NASA'S Crew-12 arrive at the International Space Station
    The crew will spend the next eight months conducting experiments to prepare for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit.
  • American speedskater Jordan Stolz wins second Olympic gold with 500-meter race victory
    With the win, Stolz joins Eric Heiden as the only skaters to take gold in both the 500 and 1,000 at the same Olympics.
  • US military reports a series of airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria
    The U.S. military says the strikes were carried out in retaliation of the December ambush that killed two U.S. soldiers and one American civilian interpreter.
  • 5 European nations say Alexei Navalny was poisoned and blame the Kremlin
    In a joint statement, the foreign ministries of the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands say Navalny was poisoned by Russia with a lethal toxin derived from the skin of poison dart frogs.
  • Opinion: Disqualified but not forgotten
    A Ukrainian athlete was disqualified from competition this week by the International Olympic Committee because his helmet had images of other Ukrainian athletes killed in Russia's war on his country.
  • It's a dangerous complication of pregnancy -- but a new drug holds promise
    Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.
  • Meet the power couples of the 2026 Winter Games, from rivals to teammates
    Some of these power couples span multiple sports, while others compete in the same discipline — or even on the same team.











  • After a 2-decade ban, kites fill Lahore's skies during a Pakistani springtime festival
    People gathered on rooftops to enjoy flying kites for the first time in years, celebrating the spring festival of Basant. The activity had been banned due to injuries and deaths during past celebrations.


rss: bbc

  • Iran ready to discuss compromises to reach nuclear deal, minister tells BBC in Tehran
    Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran's deputy foreign minister, tells the BBC's Lyse Doucet that the ball was "in America's court to prove that they want to do a deal".
  • Obama addresses racist video shared by Trump depicting him as an ape
    The former US president didn't name Trump, but lamented the lack of "shame" and "decorum" among public officials.
  • Death of the sex drive - and the great debate over whether testosterone can help get it back
    Can boosting testosterone improve libido, or is much of the attention solely hype, profit, and placebo?
  • Labour think tank commissioned firm to investigate journalist
    Labour Together paid at least £30,000 to "investigate the sourcing, funding and origins" of a story about undeclared donations.
  • Could Manchester be a model for the UK to kickstart growth?
    With an annual growth rate of 3.1%, Manchester's economy has performed twice as well as that of the UK as a whole.
  • GB target skeleton team medal - Sunday's guide
    What's happening and who to look out for at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina.
  • GB women shock curling world champions Canada
    Great Britain's women curlers kickstart their campaign with a superb first victory of the 2026 Winter Olympics while GB's men also won but three British women missed out on skeleton medals.
  • From pizza delivery man to Winter Olympics hopeful
    A medallist with Team GB in 2014, bobsleigher Joel Fearon is preparing for his third Winter Olympics after coming out of retirement to compete for Jamaica.
  • The spectacular multimillion-euro heist nobody noticed
    How did the thieves know exactly where the vault was and why did no-one hear the drill? Was it an inside job?
  • What the Nigella Lawson effect will mean for the Great British Bake Off
    What joining Channel 4's famous tent could mean for the TV cook's career and the baking show.


rss: the register

  • Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows

    Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course

    Hands-on Run real Windows in an automatically managed virtual machine, and mix Windows apps in their own windows on your Linux desktop.…

  • How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them

    Just ask DeepSeek

    Two of the world's biggest AI companies, Google and OpenAI, both warned this week that competitors including China's DeepSeek are probing their models to steal the underlying reasoning, and then copy these capabilities in their own AI systems.…

  • Log files that describe the history of the internet are disappearing. A new project hopes to save them

    The Internet History Initiative wants future historians to have a chance to understand how human progress and technical progress align

    APRICOT 2026 For almost 30 years, the PingER project at the USA’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used ping thousands of time each day to measure the time a packet of data required to make a round trip between two nodes on the internet.…

  • Amazon-backed X-Energy gets green light for mini reactor fuel production

    Startup expects to complete construction of its first fuel plant later this year

    Amazon inched closer to its atomic datacenter dream on Friday after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensed its small modular reactor partner X-energy to make nuclear fuel for advanced reactors at a facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.…

  • ServiceNow can't seem to keep its wallet closed, snaps up small AI analytics company

    News of the deal came about two weeks after CEO Bill McDermott swore off any “large scale” M&A this year. A spokesperson called this deal a “tuck in.”

    Despite its CEO's insistence that it wasn't doing any "large scale" deals soon, ServiceNow has acquired yet another company. This time, the software firm has scooped up Pyramid Analytics, an Israeli corporation with data science and preparation expertise. The goal is to build additional context and semantics into its software stack.…

  • Anthropic wants comp-sci students to vibe code their way through college

    By partnering with CodePath, AI biz aims to modernize how people learn to program

    Can using AI teach you to code more quickly than traditional methods? Anthropic certainly thinks so. The AI outfit has partnered with computer science education org CodePath to get Claude and Claude Code into the hands of students, a time-tested strategy for seeding product interest and building brand loyalty.…

  • Oxide plans new rack attack, packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM

    Oxide says AMD’s Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works

    Remember that giant green rack-sized blade server Oxide Computer showed off a couple of years back? Well, the startup is still at it, having raked in $200 million in Series-C funding this week as it prepares to bring a bevy of new hardware to market with updated processing power, memory, and networking.…

  • Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024

    As if admins haven't had enough to do this week

    Ignore patches at your own risk. According to Uncle Sam, a SQL injection flaw in Microsoft Configuration Manager patched in October 2024 is now being actively exploited, exposing unpatched businesses and government agencies to attack.…

  • Trump's Genesis Mission gets its first set of 26 sure-to-succeed objectives

    DoE bets AI can speed fusion, unlock decades of nuclear data, and probe fundamental physics

    The Trump administration has outlined the first 26 goals for its project to inject AI into the government's scientific research, and everything from securing critical minerals to discovering a unified theory of physics is on the table. …

  • AMD climbs in desktop and server CPUs while Intel battles supply squeeze

    Q4 figures reveal shifting market share across PCs and cloud infrastructure

    Intel continues to lose market share to rival AMD across server, desktop, and mobile processors, and this has been noticeable in PCs thanks to supply constraints on Chipzilla's processors.…



rss: ars technica

  • NASA has a new problem to fix before the next Artemis II countdown test
    "We observed materially lower leak rates compared to prior observations during WDR-1."
  • A Valentine's Day homage to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Ang Lee's gorgeous 2000 masterpiece has awe-inspiring martial arts stunts and a tragic love story for the ages.
  • Astronomers are filling in the blanks of the Kuiper Belt
    Next-generation telescopes are mapping this outer frontier.
  • WHO slams US-funded newborn vaccine trial as "unethical"
    CDC awarded $1.6 million for study birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.
  • Aided by AI, California beach town broadens hunt for bike lane blockers
    Hayden AI's cameras will scan for violations from 7 city vehicles.
  • Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones
    Verizon unlocks have 35-day waiting period after paying off device plan online.
  • Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage
    “This is definitely not about dogs,” senator says, urging a pause on Ring face scans.
  • The first Android 17 beta is now available on Pixel devices
    Don't expect big changes yet.
  • $1.8 million MST3K Kickstarter brings in (almost) everyone from the old show
    MST3K's 2010s revival looked forward; this one is emphatically looking backward.
  • Tiny, 45 base long RNA can make copies of itself
    Self-copying RNAs may have been a key stop along the pathway to life.


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