rss: npr

  • Inside Linda McMahon's effort to dismantle the Department of Education
    A former pro-wrestling executive, McMahon is now the education secretary Trump tasked with abolishing the agency. New Yorker writer Zach Helfand explains how her WWE experience led her to this role.
  • Iranians are leaving the country just to access the internet
    Iran has cut off its access to the global internet. To find an internet connection, some Iranians are traveling across the border with Turkey — even just to make video calls and then go back home.
  • Gene therapy for a rare type of deafness shows lasting results
    Researchers say a gene therapy allowed deaf children and adults as old as 32 to hear for the first time. The benefits have persisted for more than two years for some patients.
  • Family influencers make the lifestyle look good. But kids pay the price, new book says
    What does it mean to monetize your offspring? To turn their childhood into content? In Like, Follow, Subscribe Fortesa Latifi explores what drives parents to become family influencers.
  • Greetings from an Islamabad park, a peaceful vantage point in an uncertain world
    The park, near the venue where inconclusive Iran-U.S. peace talks took place this month, provides respite to those who visit it.
  • Restrictions on obesity drug coverage force patients to pivot
    Twelve million people lost coverage for Zepbound over the last year. The same number of people lost coverage for Wegovy, according to an analysis by GoodRx, a drug discount website.
  • Ships attacked in Strait of Hormuz. And, VA voters approve redistricting effort
    Two ships came under attack in the Strait of Hormuz, hours after Trump extended the ceasefire with Iran. And, Virginia voters approved a measure allowing Democrats to redraw the congressional map.
  • Iran attacks ships in Hormuz Strait as the U.S. continues its blockade amid ceasefire
    Three vessels came under fire in the Strait of Hormuz, after the U.S. and Iran failed to meet in Pakistan for talks to end the war and as President Trump extended the ceasefire but kept the blockade.
  • RFK Jr. is on a congressional hearing blitz, after a long absence from Capitol Hill
    Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. caps off seven budget hearings in as many days, the first time he has testified before Congress since September.
  • Trump administration delays rule aimed at improving disability access in schools
    Schools, colleges and other public institutions originally had until this week to make online content accessible to people with disabilities. Now, the Justice Department has delayed that deadline.


rss: bbc

  • Starmer admits No 10 asked about job for aide Matthew Doyle
    The prime minister was questioned at PMQs about allegations that Downing Street had asked about a diplomat role for the then-communications chief.
  • PM's ex-chief of staff to give evidence on Mandelson vetting
    The prime minister's former chief of staff will face questions about his role in the appointment of Lord Mandelson.
  • Husband cleared of manslaughter over wife's suicide
    Christopher Trybus is found not guilty of the manslaughter of Tarryn Baird after a five-week trial.
  • Black children eight times more likely to be strip searched by police, report says
    A new report says while the number of strip searches has decreased, ethnic disparities in their use persist.
  • Lufthansa cuts 20,000 summer flights as fuel prices surge
    The airline is the latest to cut flights as the US-Israel war with Iran sends jet fuel prices soaring.
  • 'Superstar' runners praised for helping exhausted man finish marathon
    Two runners go viral for helping carry exhausted man over the finish line.
  • Trump family's crypto firm sued over alleged 'extortion'
    Billionaire investor Justin Sun is suing the family's World Liberty crypto venture after spending $45m on its tokens.
  • Supreme Court rejects bid to revoke adoption of sisters
    The children, now 18 and 19, supported their adoptive mother's application to the court.
  • Car finance compensation scheme faces challenge and delay
    The move could further delay payouts to millions of drivers who were mis-sold motor finance.
  • Monkeys learn to eat soil to cope with junk food
    Soil helps monkeys' stomachs settle after calorie-rich snacks from tourists, research suggests.


rss: the register

  • Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive

    Still here, still changing, still relevant, still your best choice

    If you're stuck without access to tech support – say, half way to the Moon – then you're better off with a single install of Thunderbird than any number of Outlooks.…

  • You can now run WSL on Windows 95, in case you're crazy, too

    'I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time,' says dev behind unholy abomination

    The Windows Subsystem for Linux is an invaluable tool, but anyone wanting to run it on a Windows 9x system would find themselves out of luck until now.…

  • NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ

    Good news for future missions as initial findings agree with agency's design decision

    Initial reports have confirmed NASA's assessment that the Orion heat shield kept the Artemis II crew safe during re-entry.…

  • Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad

    Observability biz bets on business analytics wedge as Loki put on long-overdue diet

    Grafana is offering its AI assistant for free to open source and on-prem users — though on stage at its Barcelona user conference this week, CEO Raj Dutt joked they shouldn't use it too much.…

  • Right to repair champ Framework punts modular 13in laptop with Core Ultra Series 3

    Latest hardware sports dock for graphic card, power sipping battery

    Framework, maker of modular and repairable laptops, has spruced its line-up with a completely redesigned 13-inch model sporting the latest Intel CPUs, new components for its 16-inch system, and a dock that lets users add devices like a desktop graphics card.…

  • Google claims to have all the answers for enterprise AI agent sprawl

    As biz agentic bot-wrangling intensifies, company says AI orchestration, security and infrastructure tools on the way

    Google Cloud Next Google has overhauled its enterprise AI strategy in the wake of the agentic push across the biz landscape, rebranding and expanding its Vertex AI developer platform into what it now calls the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.…

  • Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies

    Along with a bunch of new services to make sure those same agents don't cause chaos

    Google Cloud chief operating officer Francis deSouza has summed up his company's security strategy du jour as follows: "You need to use AI to fight AI."…

  • Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win

    x86 gets the boot as Google pairs up its TPUs with some Arm-based Axion cores

    Google unveiled two new in-house AI accelerators at its annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday: one designed to speed up training and another aimed at driving down model serving costs.…

  • France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records

    Gov admits 'incident' as forum sellers boast of fresh haul covering up to a third of the population

    France's National Agency for "Secure" Documents is explaining a potential data spill just as crooks online claim they've nicked a third of the country's ID information.…

  • Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges

    Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws

    London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has survived a legal challenge that attempted to curb its rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) technology across the capital.…



rss: ars technica

  • Physicists think they've solved the muon mystery
    Results dash hopes for a fifth force but provide very precise proof of Standard Model and QFT.
  • New court ruling blocks many of the government's anti-renewable policies
    Added layers of review singling out renewable energy have little legal basis.
  • Indian med student rakes in thousands with AI-generated MAGA hottie
    "Emily Hart" is a young, AI-created conservative woman who likes to take off her clothes.
  • As EV batteries improve, ChargePoint debuts 600 kW fast charger
    The new design is cheaper and will even fit in convenience store parking lots.
  • Our favorite gear at Sea Otter Classic wasn't the bikes—it was the accessories
    A Bluetooth suction-cup rack and a palm-sized tow rope were among our most practical finds.
  • Investors lost billions on Trump’s memecoin. Another gala won’t fix that.
    If Dems take Congress, Trump may face reckoning for “pay-to-play” memecoin galas.
  • Pentagon wants $54B for drones, more than most nations’ military budgets
    The proposed Pentagon drone investment rivals Ukraine’s entire military budget.
  • Mozilla: Anthropic's Mythos found 271 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 150
    CTO says new AI model is "every bit as capable" as world's best security researchers.
  • Supreme Court arguments make it clear that FCC fines are "nonbinding"
    FCC tells Supreme Court its fines are nonbinding unless a jury upholds penalty.
  • Silo S3 teaser hints at the wasteland's origins
    "Before we can know how it will all end, we need to understand how it all began."


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