rss: npr

  • Thailand counts votes in early election with 3 main parties vying for power
    Vote counting was underway in Thailand's early general election on Sunday, seen as a three-way race among competing visions of progressive, populist and old-fashioned patronage politics.
  • US ski star Lindsey Vonn crashes in Olympic downhill race
    In an explosive crash near the top of the downhill course in Cortina, Vonn landed a jump perpendicular to the slope and tumbled to a stop shortly below.
  • For many U.S. Olympic athletes, Italy feels like home turf
    Many spent their careers training on the mountains they'll be competing on at the Winter Games. Lindsey Vonn wanted to stage a comeback on these slopes and Jessie Diggins won her first World Cup there.
  • Immigrant whose skull was broken in 8 places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
    Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account.
  • What we know about the massive sewage leak in the Potomac River
    A collapsed sewer line, about 8 miles from the White House, pumped 368 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of wastewater into the Potomac. Repairs could take longer than previously expected.
  • Pentagon says it's cutting ties with 'woke' Harvard, ending military training
    Amid an ongoing standoff between Harvard and the White House, the Defense Department said it plans to cut ties with the Ivy League — ending military training, fellowships and certificate programs.
  • 'Washington Post' CEO resigns after going AWOL during massive job cuts
    Washington Post chief executive and publisher Will Lewis has resigned just days after the newspaper announced massive layoffs.
  • One week since Nancy Guthrie was last seen, here's what we know
    Nancy Guthrie was last seen a week ago. In the days since, investigators have launched a frantic search to return the 84-year-old home.
  • After the Fall: How Olympic figure skaters soar after stumbling on the ice
    Olympic figure skating is often seems to take athletes to the very edge of perfection, but even the greatest stumble and fall. How do they pull themselves together again on the biggest world stage? Toughness, poise and practice.
  • Opinion: Alternate endings for modern attention spans
    Some film professors are bemoaning the shortcuts students take to avoid watching assigned movies: some don't know what happens at the end. NPR's Scott Simon offers his own synopses.


rss: bbc

  • Foreign Office to review Mandelson's US ambassador pay-off
    No 10 sources have called for Mandelson to return the money or give it to a charity that supports victims.
  • US news anchor Savannah Guthrie says 'we will pay' in plea for mother's return
    "We received your message," the US news anchor says in the latest video plea for the return of her mother Nancy Guthrie, 84, who is believed to be abducted.
  • My car was stolen. Here are six important things I learned
    Keyless thefts are on the rise and car crime is increasingly organised and high-tech.
  • Why Prince William's Saudi Arabia visit is a diplomatic maze
    The Prince of Wales has been on many official visits - but few places are as sensitive or controversial as Saudi Arabia.
  • Dozens of flood warnings in England after days of non-stop rain
    Rain has fallen in south-west England and south Wales every day of 2026 so far, the Met Office said.
  • Three suspects in Russian general shooting named, including alleged gunman
    The suspects include the alleged gunman, Lyubomir Korba, whom Russia says fled to the UAE after the attack.
  • Vonn crashes in Olympic downhill after ACL injury
    Lindsey Vonn crashes in the women's downhill competition at the Winter Olympics nine days after rupturing her left anterior cruciate ligament.
  • Team GB cannot wear new skeleton helmets after they were ruled wrong shape
    The British skeleton team - among Team GB's best hopes for medals at the Winter Olympics - will not be able to wear their new helmets after the Court of Arbitration for Sport said they do not comply with the sport's rules around shape.
  • GB's medal hope Brookes starts campaign - Sunday's guide
    What's happening and who to look out for at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina.
  • Fried chicken is booming in Britain - and fish and chips is losing out
    Crunch by crunch, US-style fried chicken shops are on the rise on British High Streets, fuelled by an internet craze.


rss: the register

  • Machine learning could yield faster, cheaper lithium-ion battery development

    Researchers claim model can cut years from testing cycles

    Scientists have developed a machine learning method that could dramatically slash the cost and energy required to develop new lithium-ion batteries that the modern world is becoming increasingly reliant.…

  • Whether they are building agents or folding proteins, LLMs need a friend

    AI pioneer Vishal Sikka warns to never trust an LLM that runs alone

    interview Don't trust; verify. According to AI researcher Vishal Sikka, LLMs alone are limited by computational boundaries and will start to hallucinate when they push those boundaries. One solution? Companion bots that check their work.…

  • Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

    Research shows productivity and judgment peak decades after graduation

    A growing body of research continues to show that older workers are generally more productive than younger employees.…

  • 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.…



rss: ars technica

  • Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds
    The Environmental Protection Agency has drastically pulled back on holding polluters accountable.
  • 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.


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