rss: npr

  • Goldman Sachs' top lawyer to resign after emails show close ties to Jeffrey Epstein
    Kathy Ruemmler, a former White House counsel to President Obama, says she will resign from Goldman Sachs after emails between her and Jeffrey Epstein showed a close relationship between the pair.
  • Trump pardons 5 former NFL players for crimes ranging from perjury to drug trafficking
    Those pardoned include ex-NFL players Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry and the late Billy Cannon.
  • Judge blocks Trump admin from rescinding health grants to Democratic-led states
    The ruling temporarily blocks the Trump Administration from cutting $600 million in public health grants that had already been allocated to four Democratic-led states.
  • Bangladesh National Party claims victory in first election since student uprising
  • This year's Olympic medals are generating chatter — for their defects and price
    A bunch of athletes reported their medals detaching from their ribbon, causing dents and in one case, breaking in half. In response, the Olympics organizing committee is re-checking all the medals.
  • Israel accuses two of using military secrets to place Polymarket bets
    The Tel Aviv indictment is the first publicly known instance of people being accused of leveraging military secrets to place bets on the popular prediction market.
  • Report finds children with mental health diagnoses often incarcerated instead of getting treatment
    Dozens of juvenile detention centers in 25 states reported holding children weeks or months as they awaited space at long-term psychiatric treatment facilities, according to a new survey.

  • What will the cities of tomorrow look like? These middle schoolers have thoughts
    At the Illinois gathering of the Future City competition, 16 middle school teams presented their concepts for cutting-edge cities.
  • What the data tells us about kidnapped people — and how Nancy Guthrie is an outlier
    Nancy Guthrie is among the thousands of people who go missing in the U.S. each year. But experts describe her case as "strange," with many unique details, from her age to her celebrity daughter.
  • Chloe Kim's protégé foiled her Olympic three-peat dreams. She's celebrating anyway
    Korea's Gaon Choi, 17, rebounded from a hard fall to win gold — and end her role model's historic bid for three in a row in the Winter Olympic halfpipe.


rss: bbc

  • Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
    The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.
  • 'My husband stole £600k for sex and antiques' - medication side effects tearing families apart
    Side effects of a common Parkinson’s medications had devastating consequences on one family, BBC hears.
  • The science of soulmates: Is there someone out there exactly right for you?
    For many, the idea of soulmates still shapes how love is understood.
  • BBC catfishes romance scammer who was back on dating app days after jail release
    An undercover reporter catches a serial fraudster back on a dating app days after leaving jail.
  • Swimming in the Thames? The new places that could become official bathing spots
    The government says the plans would increase the number of England's official bathing sites to 464.
  • 'Everyone knows somebody affected' - small Canadian town united in grief after mass shooting
    The shooting in British Columbia has been met with shock and sadness, with residents saying nearly everyone has been impacted in some way.
  • Rise in half-term holiday bookings after rainy January
    Rain plus the political environment is creating a "powerful psychological need for escape", travel agents say.
  • Iran fortifies underground complex near nuclear site, satellite images show
    The activity comes at a time of heightened tensions as talks between Iranian and US officials continue over Iran's nuclear programme.
  • Can a pulse of electricity to the brain make us less selfish?
    Scientists have discovered how to make people less selfish - slightly and temporarily - by stimulating two areas of the brain.
  • Choi, 17, denies Kim historic third halfpipe gold
    Seventeen-year-old Choi Ga-on denies American great Chloe Kim snowboarding history as she brushes off an early fall to win Winter Olympic halfpipe gold.


rss: the register

  • Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats

    Years later, he read about his antagonist doing time for murder

    On Call Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells your tech support tales.…

  • Multistakeholder internet governance can be messy. APNIC wants it that way

    Regional internet registry that serves half of humanity wants more perspectives in more languages

    APRICOT 2026 When members of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre got their chance to grill its leaders at yesterday’s annual general meeting, they didn’t hold back.…

  • Samsung says it's first to ship HBM4, a day after Micron revealed its own sales

    This bodes well for Nvidia getting Vera Rubin out the door next quarter as planned

    Samsung and Micron say they’ve started shipping HBM4 memory, the faster and denser RAM needed to power the next generation of AI acceleration hardware.…

  • Cloudflare turns websites into faster food for AI agents

    Why serve up tough HTML when you can offer tasty Markdown?

    Cloudflare has turned its attention from erecting bot barriers to dangling bot bait.…

  • AI to make call center agents 'superheroes,' not unemployed, says industry CEO

    Gartner says using AI to fix customer gripes could cost more than using humans by 2030

    ai-pocalypse AI will not replace the people in the call center, but it will rejigger the software stack to make agents more capable of solving customer issues without the need to swivel-chair into multiple systems or escalate complaints, said Vasili Triant, CEO of UJET.…

  • 30+ Chrome extensions disguised as AI chatbots steal users' API keys, emails, other sensitive data

    Are you a good bot or a bad bot?

    More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions installed by at least 260,000 users purport to be helpful AI assistants, but they steal users' API keys, email messages, and other personal data. Even worse: many of these are still available on the Chrome Web Store as of this writing.…

  • OpenAI dishes out its first model on a plate of Cerebras silicon

    GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark may be a mouthfull, but it's certainly fast at 1,000 Tok/s running on Nvidia rival's CS3 accelerators

    Nvidia and AMD can take a seat. On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first model that will run on Cerebras Systems' dinner-place-sized AI accelerators, which feature some of the world's fastest on-chip memory.…

  • Waymo launching China-made van that won't fail in rain, snow, or gloom of night

    And hey, maybe the overseas remote operators senators fret about won’t be needed quite so often

    Waymo is rolling out its sixth-generation autonomous driving system, saying it's designed to avoid a repeat of past weather-related snafus. It's also causing controversy by putting the new kit on vehicles built by a Chinese automaker. …

  • AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request

    Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way

    Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library Matplotlib, rejected an AI bot's code submission, citing a requirement that contributions come from people. But that bot wasn't done with him.…

  • Who's the bossware? Ransomware slingers like employee monitoring tools, too

    As if snooping on your workers wasn't bad enough

    Your supervisor may like using employee monitoring apps to keep tabs on you, but crims like the snooping software even more. Threat actors are now using legit bossware to blend into corporate networks and attempt ransomware deployment.…



rss: ars technica

  • When Amazon badly needed a ride, Europe's Ariane 6 rocket delivered
    This was the first launch of the Ariane 64, the most powerful rocket in European space history.
  • OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips
    OpenAI's new GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.
  • Trump official overruled FDA scientists to reject Moderna's flu shot
    FDA's top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, is known for overruling scientists.
  • Spider-Noir teaser comes in colorized "True Hue" and black and white
    Nicolas Cage described his character as "70 percent Humphrey Bogart and 30 percent Bugs Bunny."
  • ULA's Vulcan rocket suffers another booster problem on the way to orbit
    Vulcan's Blue Origin-made BE-4 engines appear to have saved the rocket from failure.
  • EPA kills foundation of greenhouse gas regulations
    The agency is betting the the Supreme Court will reverse a prior ruling.
  • Trump FTC wants Apple News to promote more Fox News and Breitbart stories
    FTC claims Apple News suppresses conservatives, cites study by pro-Trump group.
  • DIY PC maker Framework has needed monthly price hikes to navigate the RAM shortage
    And Framework expects things to get worse before they get better.
  • It took two years, but Google released a YouTube app on Vision Pro
    App arrives months after Google requested takedowns of third-party options.
  • Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says
    Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.


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