rss: npr

  • U.S. and Iran to hold a third round of nuclear talks in Geneva
    Iran and the United States prepared to meet Thursday in Geneva for nuclear negotiations, as America has gathered a fleet of aircraft and warships to the Middle East to pressure Tehran into a deal.
  • FIFA's Infantino confident Mexico can co-host World Cup despite cartel violence
    FIFA President Gianni Infantino says he has "complete confidence" in Mexico as a World Cup co-host despite days of cartel violence in the country that has left at least 70 people dead.
  • Decades after being blocked from the Little League World Series, a Black team is honored
    A Black little league team that got invited to the 1963 Little League World Series but never got to go because of segregation is finally getting recognition.
  • Supreme Court appears split in tax foreclosure case
    At issue is whether a county can seize homeowners' residence for unpaid property taxes and sell the house at auction for less than the homeowners would get if they put their home on the market themselves. 
  • Top House Dem wants Justice Department to explain missing Trump-related Epstein files
    After NPR reporting revealed dozens of pages of Epstein files related to President Trump appear to be missing from the public record, a top House Democrat wants to know why.
  • ICE won't be at polling places this year, a Trump DHS official promises
    In a call with top state voting officials, a Department of Homeland Security official stated unequivocally that immigration agents would not be patrolling polling places during this year's midterms.
  • Cuba says 4 killed in speedboat shooting were attempting to infiltrate the country
    Cuba says the 10 passengers on a boat that opened fire on its soldiers were armed Cubans living in the U.S. who were trying to infiltrate the island and unleash terrorism. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. is gathering its own information.
  • Tipped workers expect tax boon this year, but not a long-term fix
    In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Trump once again touted new tax benefits for tipped workers, who like many Americans are feeling the pinch of higher prices.
  • Surgeon general nominee Means questioned about vaccines, birth control and financial conflicts
    During a confirmation hearing, senators asked Dr. Casey Means about her current positions and her past statements on a range of public health issues.
  • Kalshi reveals insider trading case against editor for MrBeast
    With prediction markets booming, so have concerns about insider trading. Now, Kalshi has disclosed its first public actions against accounts suspected of trading on confidential information.


rss: bbc

  • Racism and staff shortages factors in 'failing' maternity care, report finds
    The interim report has identified problems "at every stage" of the maternity journey in England.
  • 'Fear is everywhere': BBC reports from Mexican city turned into war zone by drug cartel feud
    Culiacán in northern Mexico has seen a surge in violence as rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel battle for control.
  • Watch: BBC on streets of Mexican city gripped by deadly cartel violence
    BBC international correspondent Quentin Sommerville travelled to Culiacán in northern Sinaloa state following an explosion in violence.
  • This coastal idyll banned 'harmful' holiday lets. Eight years on, has it worked?
    A ban on new holiday homes sees more permanent residents but some say the policy harms tourism.
  • There's a solution for e-bike parking chaos - but it's not problem-free
    Introducing dedicated parking bays has not completely solved the issue.
  • Earth's heat to power 10,000 homes in renewable energy first for UK
    Water super-heated by rocks will also provide the UK's first domestic supply of the critical mineral lithium.
  • Shot in school uniform: BBC reveals police order led to Gen Z protest killings in Nepal
    New evidence reveals what happened when 19 people were shot dead in Kathmandu last September.
  • Gorton and Denton by-election polls open
    There are 11 candidates battling to become the next MP for Gorton and Denton in Greater Manchester.
  • Cuba says it shot dead four people on US-registered speedboat
    The passengers were Cuban nationals living in the US and intended to "carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes", the Cuban government says.
  • US and Iran to hold talks as pressure for nuclear deal builds
    The indirect negotiations are seen as a last-ditch effort to prevent a conflict, but the chances of a nuclear agreement are unclear.


rss: the register

  • AMD puts $250 million into Nutanix to get it building an AI stack for its GPUs

    Cloudy stack vendor says VMware refugees have started to arrive in large numbers, just in time to collide with supply chain woes

    AMD has struck another chips’n’stock deal, this time with software-defined datacenter player Nutanix.…

  • Microsoft ‘cooperating’ with Japanese antitrust probe

    It looks like the same cloudy software licenses that offend Europe may be in play - along with a cute little monster

    Microsoft is “fully cooperating” with a probe by Japan’s Fair Trade Commission, which wants to know if the software giant has violated the nation’s anti-monopoly laws.…

  • Salesforce CEO 'SaaSquatch' Benioff says his company will monster the SaaSpocalypse

    Selling so many agents they've cooked up a way to measure what they do

    Even by the somewhat offbeat standards of the Salesforce Ohana, the CRM giant just delivered a strange earnings announcement.…

  • Nvidia hasn't made a cent in China lately - and might not need to given $120 billion profit

    GPU giant sees yet more growth coming soon, most of it in the datacenter

    Nearly three months after the Trump administration allowed Nvidia to sell its H200 accelerator in China, the GPU giant is still waiting for Beijing to allow them in and for any revenue to materialize.…

  • Claude collaboration tools left the door wide open to remote code execution

    Anthropic fixed the flaws - but the AI-enabled attack surfaces remain

    Security vulnerabilities in Claude Code could have allowed attackers to remotely execute code on users' machines and steal API keys by injecting malicious configurations into repositories, and then waiting for a developer to clone and open an untrustworthy project.…

  • LLMs killed the privacy star, we can't rewind, we've gone too far

    You'll find these days that there's no hiding place

    Add privacy to the list of potential casualties caused by the proliferation of AI, because researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) can be used to deanonymize internet users – even those who use pseudonyms – more efficiently than human sleuths.…

  • AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios

    Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all had different personalities and reasoning tactics, but the endgame was the same

    Today's hottest bots have yet to learn that, when it comes to global thermonuclear war, the only way to win is not to play. So please don't hand them the codes. …

  • Google catches Beijing spies using Sheets to spread espionage across 4 continents

    UNC2814 historically targets governments and telcos

    A China-linked crew found a unique formula for attacking telcos and government orgs across the Americas, Asia, and Africa in its latest round of intrusions. Google's threat intelligence, along with unnamed industry partners, disrupted the gang, which used the Chocolate Factory's own spreadsheet tools as part of its exploits.…

  • Hide from Meta's spyglasses with this new Android app

    Academic urges users not to harass those suspected of snooping with (sp)eyewear

    Worried that someone wearing Meta's snooping spyware goggles could be creeping up on you? Android users now have access to an app that can warn them if someone is wearing such smart glasses in their vicinity by using Bluetooth.…

  • AMD challenges Intel with an 84-core Epyc processor aimed at telcos, edge

    Chips are likely Zen 5's last hurrah before Venice makes its debut later this year

    AMD's edgiest Epyc chips are officially getting a Zen 5 refresh with the introduction of its 8005-series processors codenamed Sorano.…



rss: ars technica

  • Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit
    Even twisting an ex-employee's text to favor xAI's reading fails to sway judge.
  • The Galaxy S26 is faster, more expensive, and even more chock-full of AI
    Samsung's Galaxy S26 series is available for preorder today and ships on March 11.
  • Judge doesn't trust DOJ with search of devices seized from Wash. Post reporter
    Court to search devices itself instead of letting government have full access.
  • Could a vaccine prevent dementia? Shingles shot data only getting stronger.
    Latest data hints that benefits seen so far could be underestimates.
  • 2026 Lexus RZ 550e review: Likable, but it needs improvement
    It's not very efficient, and the synthetic gearshifts aren't great, but I liked it?
  • RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
    RAM represented about 15 to 18 percent of PC costs last quarter, HP said.
  • Trump's MAHA influencer pick for surgeon general goes before Senate
    Casey Means holds no active medical license and promotes alternative medicine.
  • Pete Hegseth tells Anthropic to fall in line with DoD desires, or else
    CEO was summoned to Washington after trying to limit military use of its technology.
  • Boozy chimps fail urine test, confirm hotly debated theory
    Spare a thought for the intrepid graduate students who spent last summer in Africa collecting chimp urine.
  • WBD says Paramount’s new higher offer could be “superior” to Netflix's
    WBD's board is still reviewing the offer.


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