rss: npr

  • U.S. ambassador calls settler siege of Palestinian homes a 'horrific act of terror'
    The U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee condemned the actions of Jewish settlers who are besieging the home of an American Palestinian family in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
  • These swing voters in Nevada say they are not dismissing socialist candidates
    In online focus groups, 10 of 12 Biden-to-Trump voters said they wouldn't automatically think negatively of a politician who identifies with socialism.
  • Sailors and their families have lives on pause, uncertain if they'll return to Mideast
    Sailors and family members who were evacuated from U.S. bases in the Middle East months ago are waiting for the military to figure out what will happen to the lives they left behind.
  • Morning news brief
    Primary results reveal divide among Democratic Party, new inflation report could give the Fed more time to bring inflation under control, rescues teams race to find survivors of Colombia earthquake.
  • New indictment alleges Nick Reiner was lying in wait before killing his parents
    A grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on murder charges in the killings of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, and adds the allegation that he was lying in wait before attacking them.
  • Millions crowd cities to see Spain's first total solar eclipse in over a century
    As the sky darkened, gradually at first and then quickly, people broke into applause and cheered. It was the Spain's first total solar eclipse in more than a century.
  • 3 men set for lethal injection on same day in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma
    Three men in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are scheduled for lethal injection Thursday in a rare convergence of executions on the same day in the U.S.
  • Photos: See the best photos from the solar eclipse
    Millions of people in Europe stepped outside this evening to watch a spectacular sunset with a solar eclipse. The path of totality passed through portions of Greenland, Iceland and Spain,
  • ICE plans to outfit officers with electric shock gloves
    The company that makes the gloves, Compliant Technologies, says they're a nonlethal tool to make individuals compliant during arrests.
  • Trump sued over service selling faster access to Truth Social posts
    The federal lawsuit alleges that the service from the president's media company violates the Constitution. Meanwhile, Trump Media executives say they have signed up more than 10 customers.


rss: bbc

  • Met chief accepts mistakes made over Simon Levy but defends investigation into murders
    Critics - including Labour MP Jess Phillips - have accused the Met of overlooking the first murder carried out by Levy.
  • Once-in-a-generation solar eclipse wows millions in UK and Europe
    More than 95% of the Sun was covered by the Moon in Cornwall, while parts of Spain experienced the magic of a total eclipse.
  • Watch: Moment 'surreal' solar eclipse witnessed in UK and Europe
    More than 90% of the Sun was covered by the Moon in the UK, while a full eclipse was visible in Spain and Iceland.
  • UK defends seizing shadow fleet tanker after Putin threat
    The UK government says it is "disrupting and deterring shadow fleet vessels" in accordance with the law.
  • Travis Kelce shares first details from his wedding to Taylor Swift: 'Best night of my life'
    In the comments, Kelce called Swift his "wife" for first time and said it was a "childhood dream" to wed at Madison Square Garden.
  • UK economy grows but experts warn of challenging months ahead
    Hot weather and the men's football World Cup boosted the economy but the Iran war may weigh on growth
  • More troops to be sent to West Bank village besieged by Israeli settlers
    Two Palestinian families in the village of Qusra say they have been trapped in their homes, with water and power cut off, since Sunday.
  • Leading doctor rebukes NHS chiefs over transplant failings
    NHS Blood and Transplant's medical director says waiting lists for organ operations are unfair but leaders are not solving the issue.
  • Trump says White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to leave post
    Leavitt will depart from her role to spend time with her young children and family, the president says.
  • Polls open in Clacton by-election
    Voters will choose between 34 candidates - the most to stand in any British parliamentary election.


rss: the register

  • Everything is better with pickles... except Windows
    Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad
  • Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results
    Developer spotted hostname and credential string lurking in autocomplete
  • Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit
    CEO says buyers are moving fast and shuffling budgets to replace old boxen
  • Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53B hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads
    Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term
  • Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find
    Attackers could extract data, even working from inside a guest VM
  • OpenAI ad service can bill customers for up to one day after they pause campaigns
    ChatGPT Ads, I wish I knew how to quit you
  • Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous
    And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there
  • 'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency
    Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm
  • Deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's Tailscale outages
    Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset took six months of hunting and development of a new logging tool to identify
  • Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare
    Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure


rss: ars technica

  • Toddler's tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors
    Boy's unusual symptoms could help identify the next case sooner.
  • The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
    “ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
  • Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
    The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
  • Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.
    “It’s the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature.”
  • Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
    Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."
  • Trump sued over "brazen" scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month
    With Truth API, Trump is "selling priority access to news he himself generates."
  • US boosts drone surveillance as flesh-eating screwworms spread in Texas
    Hundreds of Homeland Security drones retasked to survey wildlife and livestock.
  • Two hydrogen-burning engines powered this car to a new land speed record
    JCB has invested heavily in hydrogen to power its diggers and other machinery.
  • US tries to override New York gambling laws, orders Kalshi to keep operating
    Trump admin claims New York suing Kalshi created "market emergency."
  • Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books
    AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.


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