rss: npr

  • OpenAI caught Russians and Iranians using ChatGPT for influence campaigns
    The company says Russian operatives used its AI chatbot to update their bosses, shedding light on influence campaigns previously not attributed to Russia.
  • The long-deployed USS Lincoln returns home to San Diego Bay
    The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier has returned home after a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea supporting the Iran war. The extended deployment drew attention following reports of crew stress and supply shortages.
  • Suicide is up among Black Americans. We need to talk about it.
    NPR's Michel Martin hosted a panel conversation about mental health and suicide in the Black community, exploring a difficult subject in deeply personal conversations.
  • The long-deployed USS Lincoln is returning home to San Diego
    The USS Abraham Lincoln is returning home to San Diego Thursday after supporting the Iran war during a record long deployment of 265 uninterrupted days at sea that included reports of deteriorating conditions among its crew.
  • New U.S. indictment charges former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with torture
    U.S. authorities added new torture charges to their case against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, ramping up pressure on the ousted authoritarian leader already fighting drug trafficking allegations.
  • 4 people on NASA's Crew-12 mission return to Earth after 8 months in space
    Four people — two NASA astronauts, one from the European Space Agency and a Russian cosmonaut — spent nearly eight months at the space station, conducting spacewalks, science experiments and research.
  • White House correspondent April Ryan reflects on reporting while under attack
    Ryan has spent decades pressing presidents for answers. She talks about access, power, race and how asking questions put her in President Trump's crosshairs. Her new book is Notes on a Blacklash.
  • South Korea to recall its ambassador to Ukraine over North Korean POW dispute
    The South Korean announcement on Thursday came days after its President Lee Jae Myung threatened unspecified punitive steps if Ukraine refuses to apologize over the revelation.
  • South Korea test-flies its first domestically developed hypersonic weapon
    The test follows North Korea's recent hypersonic missile test. Tensions between the Koreas have increased after land mine explosions injured three South Korean soldiers near the border. North Korea denies responsibility.
  • Isaias intensifies to hurricane. And, judge orders Pike execution evidence preserved
    People in the Gulf are preparing for bad weather this weekend after Isaias intensified into a hurricane. And, a judge has ordered Christa Pike's failed execution evidence be preserved.


rss: bbc

  • ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says government review
    The review, which focuses on younger people, warned there was a risk society was moving from an era of under-diagnosis to over-diagnosis.
  • Polanski failed to show leadership over Zionism motion, ex-Green leader says
    Caroline Lucas tells the BBC Zack Polanski should have taken part in a vote on a motion declaring Zionism a form of racism.
  • Warrants used to search Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's homes were unlawful, court says
    A criminal investigation into the former prince continues and police have retained material seized from his homes.
  • Suspect linked to Monaco bomb attack on millionaire breaks silence to BBC
    Vitalii Zhykovych gives his own account of the attempted assassination of Ukrainian-born businessman Vadym Yermolayev.
  • Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
    "We'll make sure that people are able to watch it," the US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday.
  • Emotions run high at the round table as Celebrity Traitors banish two players
    Viewers watched to see whether Richard E Grant could save himself at the first round table of the series.
  • Mark Zuckerberg has an image problem - so why is Meta's business booming?
    A new film paints the Meta founder as a villain. But the tech firm seems immune to bad publicity, writes our North America tech correspondent.
  • 'Add me to WhatsApp' scam calls to be investigated
    The UK's data watchdog is investigating a spike in complaints about "robo calls" that appear to lead to a recruitment scam.
  • Two Latvian men arrested on suspicion of trespass at RAF base in Cambridgeshire
    Police say they apprehended two Latvian men at about 02:00 BST while they were inside the perimeter.
  • Russian strike on buses kills at least 30, say officials, as deadly attacks on Ukraine surge
    Ukraine accused Russia of targeting two crowded vehicles in the front line city of Kramatorsk to kill as many civilians as possible.


rss: the register

  • US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide
    Infecting devices from 2021 until the FBI stepped in
  • Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance
    Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers
  • There can be only one: Google Cloud casts Gemini as your enterprise AI hero
    The Chocolate Factory proposes a single universal agent for work
  • NASA taps DoE to help it build nuclear space reactors
    Space agency claims steady progress on lunar reactor plans, but offers little evidence to back it up
  • High-severity Nvidia bug could crash GPU monitoring on exposed servers
    The GPU giant released a fix for the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-47483
  • TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B deal
    Advanced packaging tech is essential to the domestic production of high-performance semiconductors used in AI datacenters
  • Gremlin now uses AI to break distributed systems faster
    If there's one thing AI can do well, it's failing more quickly than the average SRE
  • Shai-Hulud worm makes jump to AI infrastructure with Tensorlake compromise
    Credential-stealing malware detected within minutes of npm release, but impact remains unknown
  • Money trail backs leaked chats from extortion crew that walks into US law firms
    Researchers corroborate parts of Silent Ransom Group dump detailing crypto payouts, cash brokers, and recruitment
  • Too many quantum startups, too little money to keep them alive
    Gartner predicts more than half will fold by 2030, even as businesses begin testing the technology's usefulness


rss: ars technica

  • R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing
    Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering" and founded two successful software companies.
  • Let's Encrypt cuts certificate lifetimes to 64 days starting February 2027
    Free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes reduce to 64 days in February.
  • Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches
    Mass surveillance gets stupider.
  • RFK Jr. unveils sweeping federal initiative to find evidence of vaccine injuries
    "[T]he Trump-RFK Jr anti-vax agenda keeps getting more corrupt and dangerous."
  • An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light
    Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light.
  • Amazon's new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever
    Amazon killed its app store, so Google Play it is.
  • Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year
    "If this was easy, everybody else would be doing it."
  • Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign
    Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.
  • Nvidia's big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots
    Full-stack safety solution for physical AI is being used by robotics companies.
  • A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she's a Kalshi lobbyist
    Sen. Blanche Lincoln wrote law that let US ban sports-event contracts. She lobbies for the other side now.


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