rss: npr

  • What to know about nationwide protests in India over voter list changes
    The campaign is led in part by India's "Cockroach" youth movement, which previously forced the education minister to resign.
  • Vietnamese police arrest 12 suspected of prowling city streets at night, snatching cats for meat
    State media cited investigators who said the network recruited people to ride motorcycles through neighborhoods at night, trapping up to 10 cats a night.
  • Ex-spy chief is arrested in Germany on suspicion of trading state secrets and treason
    A former head of Germany 's foreign intelligence service was arrested on suspicion that he had passed state secrets to a foreign intelligence service, the federal prosecutor's office said.
  • Dems have edge in midterms, poll shows. And, Paramount-Warner Bros. merger to close
    Polls are showing that Democrats have a clear advantage heading into the midterms, but that doesn't tell the whole story. And, today, a mega merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. is set to close.
  • A history of presidents naming things after themselves (It's short. They rarely do)
    While Trump pushes to get his name on the Kennedy Center and other public sites, history shows that sitting presidents have almost always avoided putting their brands on government assets.
  • What voters in 6 key states could tell us about the 2026 midterms
    Morning Edition is heading to Maine, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and Michigan to hear what voters say is shaping their choices ahead of the midterm elections.
  • Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for work on high-energy neutrinos from space
    The 82-year-old scientist, originally from Belgium, is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research into capturing neutrinos at the South Pole dates back to the 1980s.
  • Disney, ABC battle Trump's FCC in court over free speech protections
    President Trump has repeatedly called for Disney's ABC to fire late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, for mocking him. Trump has also routinely denounced ABC's The View, accusing it of being unfair.
  • Democrats' advantage is clear with less than a month to go in the midterm elections
    President Trump is facing low approval ratings, and voters are blaming him for rising costs. Republicans are likely to pay the price at the ballot box next month.
  • Wildfire smoke affects animals in unique ways. Scientists are trying to understand it
    The new field of "smoke ecology" examines how wildfire smoke perturbs wild places and animals — and what might be done to prevent its worst mayhem.


rss: bbc

  • Watch: At the scene of student protests on the streets of Lille
    The demonstrators are calling for better government investment in high schools.
  • British national arrested in connection with RAF Fairford incident
    It is the seventh arrest in connection to the incident near RAF Fairford last month.
  • Former German spy chief arrested for espionage and treason
    August Hanning is accused of obtaining classified information for a foreign power.
  • Tories pledge £10bn for British anti-missile defence system
    The Conservatives say their plan would protect the UK at a time when Nato allies have warned of Russian drone incursions.
  • Childminder who left 27 children alone in her home pleads guilty to neglect
    Amanda Mathewson, 55, pleaded guilty to neglect and abandoning children in her care at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.
  • Queen pays tribute to 'irrepressible' Jeffrey Archer
    Tthe bestselling author and former politician died on Monday at the age of 86.
  • One million UK people who have never smoked are now vaping
    Latest statistics also show, for the second year in a row, more over-16s vape than smoke.
  • 'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins physics Nobel
    Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space.
  • Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
    The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition.
  • Boats 'set for people smugglers' seized at UK airport for the first time
    The National Crime Agency says it is the first time the detection of small boat equipment has been made in air freight.


rss: the register

  • Zombie instructions on carefully constructed web pages could trick GitHub Copilot CLI into sharing secrets
    Run the CLI in autopilot mode and take your chances
  • Asos app delivers a data leak threat instead of fast fashion
    Rogue notification claims Snowflake instance compromised, but customer info theft remains unverified
  • Denmark's ID register spills more people's details than the country has residents
    Abuse of private firm's access exposed 8.8M records, including those of people who had died or moved abroad
  • Atos lands £350M beat keeping Met Police applications running
    Six-year deal covers management and security, with options to add cloud and digital workplace services
  • Legacy sign-on service comes back to bite school software provider Bromcom
    Intruders retrieved email addresses from superseded tech kept running for an internal system
  • KPMG tells staff facing the axe: Here's £100, now zip it
    Staff in AI, Cyber, SAP and Testing told the consultation is over, with notices due Friday
  • Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station
    No, this is not GRUB of the meatball variety
  • OpenAI rolls out weak sauce watermarking for AI text
    Compliance, we've heard of it
  • Scientists find planet made on new matter recipe, and it formed after a Red Giant ate a solar system
    Death of a star may not be game over for the inner solar system after all
  • Atlassian warns of critical file access flaw in its datacenter products
    Tells users ‘action required’ – but maybe don’t make that action a Jira ticket, because it has this bug


rss: ars technica

  • OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
    The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
  • Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey
    Users want to "reduce risk and avoid unnecessary disruption" while making changes.
  • MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of
    Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
  • Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap
    Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
  • Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage
    Prices of public records tracking cops' use of Flock go up as backlash swells.
  • Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
    The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
  • Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel
    The entire field of optogenetics traces back to light-seeking algae.
  • Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps
    Russian attacks on Internet, phone services threaten Ukraine’s wartime economy.
  • F1 in Bahrain... in Malaysia: The race needed a software update to start
    A software bug waylaid half the field and required a race reboot.
  • Mass quarantine issued in Russia after unexplained death of plague researcher
    Unconfirmed reports have suggested there was a laboratory accident.


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