rss: npr

  • Trump's ballroom fight sheds new light on an underground White House bunker
    The status of a decades-old bunker beneath the now-demolished East Wing is unclear, but the Trump administration has cited security concerns in its legal filings in favor of continuing construction.
  • Seville, Spain's Holy Week blends faith, tradition and spectacle
    Even as religious belief declines in Spain, the processions at Seville's Semana Santa — the Holy Week lead-up to Easter — draw crowds moved by music, tradition and powerful emotion.
  • A U.S. jet goes down over Iran, a U.S. official confirms
    A U.S. official said that one crew member had been rescued and U.S. forces continue to search for the second crew member.
  • The labor market springs back to life in March as employers add 178,000 jobs
    The U.S. job market perked up last month as employers added 178,000 jobs. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.3%, mainly because the number of people seeking work declined.
  • Trump budget seeks $1.5 trillion in defense spending alongside domestic program cuts
    In his annual budget, President Trump is asking Congress to boost defense spending to $1.5 trillion, the largest such request in decades.
  • China's Communist Party investigates ex-Xinjiang leader Ma Xingrui
    Ma Xingrui is a member of the party's Central Committee and served as party secretary of the Xinjiang region in China's northwest from 2021-2025.
  • Pam Bondi is out at DOJ. And, NASA's Artemis II has left Earth's orbit
    President Trump announced yesterday that Pam Bondi is out as Attorney General. And, NASA's Artemis II has left Earth's orbit and is heading toward the moon.
  • 2 U.S. planes are down and Iran hits Gulf refineries as the war wraps its 5th week
    An F-15 went down in Iran and a second Air Force plane crashed near the Strait of Hormuz as the war capped a week of intensified fighting.
  • Verdicts against Meta and Google may bring a new era of big tech accountability
    Advocates hope recent verdicts against social media platforms will build momentum for bigger changes in Silicon Valley.
  • After the release of the Epstein files, why have there been so few arrests?
    Legal experts tell NPR five possible reasons that, despite the accusations made against rich and powerful people in the files, the DOJ has made no additional arrests. The big one? Lack of evidence.


rss: bbc

  • Experts dispute US account of deadly Iran sports hall strike in Lamerd
    Six weapons experts have contested the US claim that video evidence suggests an Iranian missile could have hit the hall.
  • Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth
    The snap was taken aboard the Orion capsule by its commander, Reid Wiseman, as the crew head towards the Moon.
  • Boy, 14, shot dead in Woolwich named as three teens held
    A boy, 14, shot dead in south-east London is named as Eghosa Ogbebor, as three people are arrested.
  • M&S boss calls for more action on crime and abuse of staff
    Thinus Keeve's comments come days after an M&S store was targeted during disorder in south London.
  • Trump seeks $1.5tn for defence alongside domestic spending cuts
    The US president's new budget would cut non-defence spending by 10%, partly by slashing domestic programmes.
  • Raye tops album charts with This Music May Contain Hope
    It is Raye's second number one this year, after her hugely popular single Where The Hell Is My Husband.
  • Italy's famed Uffizi admits cyber-attack but denies security breach
    Hackers were reported to have infiltrated IT systems - but the gallery says its works are safe.
  • Funeral boss will pay for what he did, says baby's mum
    Jasmine Beverley's son was stillborn and his funeral was arranged by the now-disgraced Robert Bush.
  • France's Muslim gathering ban overturned by courts
    The Paris police department had argued that the four-day gathering was a security threat because it could be a target of terrorism.
  • Amputee's home burgled during bus-pass challenge from John O' Groats to Land's End
    Barry Mackleston is attempting to get from John O Groats to Land's End using just his bus pass.


rss: the register

  • NHS staff resist using Palantir software

    Staff reportedly cite ethics concerns, privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds much

    Palantir's software was brought in to help NHS England improve care and cut delays, but new reports suggest some staff are resisting using it over ethical, privacy, and trust concerns.…

  • When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot

    This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food

    Bork!Bork!Bork! It's one thing to bare your undercarriage in private. It's a whole other thing to do so on the side of a road, risking the possibility that passing drivers will question your Linux competence.…

  • Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled

    Discovered once last bug, and that briefcases can hold more beer than you might imagine

    On Call Y2k Easter means today is a holiday in much of the Reg-reading world, but that won't stop us from delivering another instalment of On Call – the reader contributed column that shares your tech support stories.…

  • 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.…



rss: ars technica

  • Netflix must refund customers for years of price hikes, Italian court rules
    Consumer group says it will sue if Netflix doesn't reduce current prices.
  • EV adoption in America: Who's winning, who's losing?
    Some OEMs saw double-digit growth in Q1, others saw double-digit declines.
  • OpenAI takes on another "side quest," buys tech-focused talk show TBPN
    OpenAI says program will remain in Los Angeles and will be editorially independent.
  • Four astronauts are now inexorably bound for the Moon
    “I don’t think we could be more pleased."
  • Perplexity's "Incognito Mode" is a "sham," lawsuit says
    Google, Meta, and Perplexity accused of sharing millions of chats to increase ad revenue.
  • 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
    GDDRHammer, GeForge and GPUBreach hammer GPU memory in ways that hijack the CPU.


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