rss: npr

  • Lindsey Vonn is set to ski the Olympic downhill race with a torn ACL. How?
    An ACL tear would keep almost any other athlete from competing -- but not Lindsey Vonn, the 41-year-old superstar skier who is determined to cap off an incredible comeback from retirement with one last shot at an Olympic medal.
  • The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here's how I came to love it
    The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week.
  • State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office
    The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.
  • DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE
    A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.
  • Trump promised a crypto revolution. So why is bitcoin crashing?
    Trump got elected promising to usher in a crypto revolution. More than a year later, bitcoin's price has come tumbling down. What happened?
  • Mariah Carey, coffee makers and other highlights from the Olympic opening ceremony
    NPR reporters at the Milan opening ceremony layered up and took notes.
  • California's largest children's hospital system ends gender-affirming care for youth
    Two hospitals in California are discontinuing hormone treatments for transgender youth, citing Trump administration pressures. In the past year, many hospitals and clinics have scaled back that care.
  • Japan's first female prime minister stakes her future on snap elections
    Japan's first female premier has called snap elections for Sunday. She seeks a mandate for what could be sweeping changes and possibly a lurch to the political right.
  • Trump's harsh immigration tactics are taking a political hit
    President Trump's popularity on one of his political strengths is in jeopardy.
  • A drop in CDC health alerts leaves doctors 'flying blind'
    Doctors and public health officials are concerned about the drop in health alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since President Trump returned for a second term.


rss: bbc

  • Brown says Mandelson scandal is 'serious' for Starmer but PM is 'man of integrity'
    Brown said Sir Keir might have been "too slow to do the right things" but backed him to "clean up the system".
  • MPs are shocked and angry at Mandelson - but they're furious with Starmer
    Many Labour insiders say Sir Keir may not be the man to take them to the next election, writes Laura Kuenssberg.
  • Trump says he 'didn't see' part of video with racist clip depicting Obamas as apes
    The US president says he "didn't make a mistake", adding he had only seen the beginning of the video before it was posted.
  • Where does air pollution go inside our bodies?
    BBC health correspondent James Gallagher gets his blood analysed to understand how air pollution is killing us.
  • Boy charged with GBH after teacher injured at school
    Police say the teacher sustained stab wounds but has now been discharged from hospital.
  • Minister used PR firm to investigate journalists' sources
    Cabinet office minister Josh Simons commissioned APCO Worldwide for the investigation in 2023.
  • Their parents are in disgrace - what now for Beatrice and Eugenie?
    The princesses will need to step out from their parents' shadow if they are to be an active part of the Royal Family.
  • Mandelson suggested holiday home for 'privacy' of Epstein 'guests'
    Former Labour Party peer tells sex offender he found "a great place to stay" with "privacy", a document suggests.
  • Epstein emails raise questions over role of Andrew's palace aide
    Emails suggest a trusted royal insider invited Epstein to a dinner at Windsor Castle in 2017.
  • Norway's crown princess apologises after pressure over Epstein friendship
    Mette-Marit says she is sorry to Norwegians for not realising what kind of person the late sex offender was.


rss: the register

  • Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines

    Half a million businesses face successive price hikes ahead of PTSN shutdown

    Openreach is warning British businesses that the old phone network shuts down in less than a year - with half a million commercial lines still unmigrated.…

  • AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs

    Marketing stunt backfires with creators

    The first rule of AI-generated job loss is you don't talk about AI-generated job loss ... if you're the company that caused it. Higgsfield.ai, a startup offering AI video creation tools, recently generated outrage when it claimed it had caused artists to hit the unemployment line.…

  • Let there be light! DARPA seeking physics-defying photonic computers to supercharge AI

    There’s about $35M up for grabs if your circuits can beat today’s limits

    It's no lightweight matter. DARPA is putting about $35 million in total funding on the table in the hope that it will spur researchers to work around fundamental physical constraints and build much larger-scale photonic circuits that do more of the computing with light, not electronics.…

  • Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP

    Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft eye $635B in infrastructure spend

    Four tech megacorps intend to collectively fork out roughly $635 billion this year on capex, much of it for datacenters and AI infrastructure – more than the entire output of Israel's economy and well beyond all global cloud infrastructure services revenue generated last year.…

  • Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on 3rd party

    Attackers may have snapped user locations and activity information, message warns

    Legacy image-sharing website Flickr suffered a data breach, according to customers emails seen by The Register.…

  • DDoS deluge: Brit biz battered as botnet blitzes break records

    UK leaps to sixth in global flood charts as mega-swarm unleashes 31.4 Tbps Yuletide pummeling

    Cloudflare says DDoS crews ended 2025 by pushing traffic floods to new extremes, while Britain made an unwelcome leap of 36 places to become the world's sixth-most targeted location.…

  • Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint

    Rhapsody in beige

    An enterprising engineer has evoked the spirit of Acorn's BBC Micro with a custom paintjob for a Raspberry Pi 500+ computer-in-a-keyboard and a natty set of replacement keycaps.…

  • Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer

    System worked as intended, but staff then kicked out innocent bystander

    A British supermarket says staff will undergo further training after a store manager ejected the wrong man when facial recognition technology triggered an alert.…

  • Microsoft starts the countdown for the end of Exchange Web Services

    Windows giant might try turning it off and on again to see who notices

    Microsoft has laid out a timeline for the disablement and shutdown of Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online.…

  • CISA orders federal agencies to rip out EOL edge kit before cybercrooks move in

    A year to replace end-of-support firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways

    America's federal agencies have been told to hunt down and rip out aging firewalls, routers, and other network gatekeepers before attackers use them as skeleton keys into government systems.…



rss: ars technica

  • Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler
    The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.
  • Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge
    Claims of penis injections in ski jumpers has fillers spewing into the news.
  • Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case
    Behold the most overwrought AI legal filings you will ever gaze upon.
  • Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets
    Incident is at least the third time the exchange has been targeted by thieves.
  • Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine
    Analysts expect Valve might be hit particularly hard by soaring RAM, storage prices.
  • COVID-19 cleared the skies but also supercharged methane emissions
    Less pollution meant lower amounts of a methane-destroying chemical.
  • Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars
    With Genie 3, Waymo wants to explore rare and even impossible driving conditions.
  • To reuse or not reuse—the eternal debate of New Glenn's second stage reignites
    A new job posting suggests the debate may be swinging back toward reusing GS2.
  • Driven: The 2026 Lamborghini Temerario raises the bar for supercars
    This V8 hybrid with more than 900 hp replaces the V10 Huracán.
  • New critique debunks claim that trees can sense a solar eclipse
    Controversial 2025 study "represents the encroachment of pseudoscience into the heart of biological research."


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