rss: npr

  • The labor market springs back to life in March as employers add 178,000 jobs
    The U.S. job market perked up last month as employers added 178,000 jobs. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.3%, mainly because the number of people seeking work declined.
  • Trump calls for a major increase in defense spending alongside cuts in domestic spending
    In his annual budget, President Trump is asking Congress to boost defense spending to $1.5 trillion, the largest such request in decades.
  • China's Communist Party investigates ex-Xinjiang leader Ma Xingrui
    Ma Xingrui is a member of the party's Central Committee and served as party secretary of the Xinjiang region in China's northwest from 2021-2025.
  • Pam Bondi is out at DOJ. And, NASA's Artemis II has left Earth's orbit
    President Trump announced yesterday that Pam Bondi is out as Attorney General. And, NASA's Artemis II has left Earth's orbit and is heading toward the moon.
  • Iran hits Gulf refineries as Trump warns U.S. will attack Iranian bridges, power plants
    Iran said one of the longest bridges linking Tehran to the city of Karaj was destroyed overnight, while Iranian missiles and drones hit Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.
  • Verdicts against Meta and Google may bring a new era of big tech accountability
    Advocates hope recent verdicts against social media platforms will build momentum for bigger changes in Silicon Valley.
  • After the release of the Epstein files, why have there been so few arrests?
    Legal experts tell NPR five possible reasons that, despite the accusations made against rich and powerful people in the files, the DOJ have made no additional arrests. The big one? Lack of evidence.
  • Big tech's next move is to put data centers in space. Can it work?
    In orbit, power is free. But everything else is expensive.
  • NASA's Artemis II has left Earth's orbit, and 4 astronauts now head to the moon
    With the last major firing of its engine, the Artemis II spacecraft is now on a path that will take it around the moon and back.
  • Takeaways from Trump's tough week, as war and gas prices take a toll
    President Trump faces mounting political pressure on multiple fronts, particularly when it comes to his handling of the war and the consequences it's having on the economy.


rss: bbc

  • Experts dispute US account of deadly Iran sports hall strike in Lamerd
    Six weapons experts have contested the US claim that video evidence suggests an Iranian missile could have hit the hall.
  • Watch: Artemis II's journey so far... in 85 seconds
    The crew will not land on the Moon on this current mission, though Nasa is preparing for a potential lunar landing by 2028.
  • Funeral boss will pay for what he did, says baby's mum
    Jasmine Beverley's son was stillborn and his funeral was arranged by the now-disgraced Robert Bush.
  • M&S boss calls for more action on crime and abuse of staff
    Thinus Keeve's comments come days after an M&S store was targeted during disorder in south London.
  • France's Muslim gathering ban overturned by courts
    The Paris police department had argued that the four-day gathering was a security threat because it could be a target of terrorism.
  • No positive drug tests during Winter Olympics, for first time in 28 years
    For the first time in 28 years, no athlete has been found to have taken a banned substance at an Olympics - so far.
  • Boy, 14, shot dead and teens arrested for murder
    Two teenagers and one man are arrested after a boy, 14, was shot dead in Woolwich on Thursday.
  • Trump removes US Attorney General Pam Bondi
    Bondi's time as top US law enforcement officer was overshadowed by her handling of the Epstein files.
  • Major Euston rail disruption across Easter weekend
    West Coast Main Line services will not run to London Euston station for six days from Good Friday.
  • Marmalades may need to be relabelled under post-Brexit food deal
    The breakfast favourite will be legally renamed when Britain aligns with new EU labelling rules.


rss: the register

  • When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot

    This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food

    Bork!Bork!Bork! It's one thing to bare your undercarriage in private. It's a whole other thing to do so on the side of a road, risking the possibility that passing drivers will question your Linux competence.…

  • Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled

    Discovered once last bug, and that briefcases can hold more beer than you might imagine

    On Call Y2k Easter means today is a holiday in much of the Reg-reading world, but that won't stop us from delivering another instalment of On Call – the reader contributed column that shares your tech support stories.…

  • AI models will deceive you to save their own kind

    Researchers find leading frontier models all exhibit peer preservation behavior

    Leading AI models will lie to preserve their own kind, according to researchers behind a study from the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI).…

  • Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4

    Now with a more permissive license, multi-modality, and support for more than 140 languages

    Google on Thursday unleashed a wave of new open-weights Gemma models optimized for agentic AI and coding, under a more permissive Apache 2.0 license aimed at winning over enterprises.…

  • Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images

    About that partnership...

    Microsoft on Thursday unveiled public preview versions of three home-baked machine learning models focused on speech recognition, speech synthesis, and image generation.…

  • US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks

    Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems

    A software toolkit built for DARPA to test and validate covert communication networks is now open source, and it could help orgs who want to experiment with new kinds of secure, anonymous communications tools. …

  • They thought they were downloading Claude Code source. They got a nasty dose of malware instead

    Source code with a side of Vidar stealer and GhostSocks

    Tens of thousands of people eagerly downloaded the leaked Claude Code source code this week, and some of those downloads came with a side of credential-stealing malware.…

  • Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important

    Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrong

    A recent surge of interest in Microsoft's Terms of Use for Copilot is a reminder that AI helpers are really just a bit of fun.…

  • IBM wants Arm software on its mainframes to better support AI

    Tie-up aims to widen Big Blue’s access to power-efficient compute

    IBM and Arm are working together on getting software developed for Arm chips to run on Big Blue's enterprise systems, with an eye on future AI and data-intensive workloads.…

  • Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

    Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners'

    European outfits Ionos and Nextcloud have launched Euro-Office, a fork of the OnlyOffice cloud-based productivity suite aimed at orgs with qualms around sovereignty, provoking an angry response from the original developer.…



rss: ars technica

  • OpenAI takes on another "side quest," buys tech-focused talk show TBPN
    OpenAI says program will remain in Los Angeles and will be editorially independent.
  • Four astronauts are now inexorably bound for the Moon
    “I don’t think we could be more pleased."
  • Perplexity's "Incognito Mode" is a "sham," lawsuit says
    Google, Meta, and Perplexity accused of sharing millions of chats to increase ad revenue.
  • SpaceX tries to convince FCC that Amazon put satellites into wrong altitude
    Amazon denies violation, says SpaceX caused conflict by lowering Starlink satellites.
  • Google Vids gets AI upgrade with Veo and Lyria models, directable AI avatars
    Google Vids brings together Google's most capable AI creation tools.
  • Male octopuses guided through mating by female hormones
    A receptor that's used to find prey is also activated by progesterone.
  • New fossil deposits show complex animal groups predating the Cambrian
    Collection of fossils includes Ediacaran, Cambrian species, suggesting a transition.
  • New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
    Both GDDRHammer and GeForge hammer GPU memory in ways that compromise the CPU.
  • Renewables dominate 2025's newly installed generating capacity
    And solar power accounted for about three quarters of the renewables.
  • Google announces Gemma 4 open AI models, switches to Apache 2.0 license
    Gemma 4 brings the first major update to Google's open models in a year.


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