rss: npr

  • Pope Leo has lung cancer, the Vatican announces after surgery
    Pope Leo XIV had surgery on Tuesday to remove a cancerous growth in his lung, the Vatican announced.
  • What an economics Nobel Prize winner knows about pricing
    NPR's Ailsa Chang chats with Michael Woodford of Columbia University, who was one of two Americans awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.
  • Bipartisan group of senators call on Trump to rescind Russian diesel deal
    Six Democratic and six Republican senators wrote a letter calling on President Trump to withdraw from his recent deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
  • A judge blocks the government's tree-clearing spree at a municipal D.C. golf course
    Locals and preservationists have long opposed Trump's plan to redevelop a municipal D.C. golf course. That legal fight escalated after the government cleared hundreds of trees on short notice.
  • Cornell University bans frat parties, vows to address 'disturbing' campus culture
    In a letter, Cornell's president apologized for what happened to the student who alleges she was raped by several men at a fraternity house in 2024 and promised 'meaningful action.'
  • The Trump administration warns Ukraine it could cut off intel, Zelenskyy tells NPR
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sat down for an interview with NPR at a time of renewed tensions with the White House.
  • Writer Yiyun Li lost both of her sons. When words fell short, she turned to music
    Li won a Pulitzer for her memoir about the suicides of her two sons. In her new novel, Music Against the Night, she writes about two young prodigies in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • Government spent millions on Trump ads. And, federal agents raid Ilhan Omar's home
    The government is using millions of taxpayers' dollars on pro-Trump ads, even after the president said this would not happen. And, federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's D.C. home.
  • Pakistan imposes emergency rule in former prime minister's stronghold
    Pakistan has imposed emergency rule in the province governed by the political party of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan.
  • What ice cream has to do with this year's Nobel Prize in economics
    Prices can get sticky. That helps explain why recessions hurt so much — and what policymakers can do about them.


rss: bbc

  • Family pays tribute to 'warm and engaging' man killed in tiger attack
    William Chapman was attacked by the tiger after he entered its pen at Yorkshire Wildlife Park.
  • One stolen every four minutes - inside the police battle against vehicle thieves
    Officers tell the BBC they are overstretched and struggling to keep up with sophisticated criminals.
  • Watch: BBC joins police on front line against car theft
    Investigations reporter NJ Convery has been out on a nighttime hunt for vehicle thieves.
  • Pope diagnosed with lung cancer but had successful surgery, Vatican says
    Pope Leo had successful surgery to remove a lower lobe of his right lung, the Vatican said.
  • Russian strikes hit key power plant in Kyiv, Zelensky says
    The Ukrainian president says the ballistic missile strikes came with "no early warning from our partners".
  • Saudi man charged with planting 'sophisticated' recording device in OpenAI office
    Prosecutors say the device, wrapped in toilet paper, was found inserted in a USB port on the back of a TV in an executive conference room.
  • World's oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey
    Archaeologists say the wreck is up to 4,700 years old, dating to the Early Bronze Age.
  • Gales and heavy rain to impact UK as yellow wind warning issued
    The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for wind in north-west Scotland on Wednesday with 70mph gusts possible, as Ben Rich explains.
  • Royal Mail losing 400 postal workers a week, says union
    The CWU says more posties are leaving since a new delivery system was brought in, that it claims is not working in hundreds of offices.
  • Zelensky and Burnham to meet in Downing Street
    The prime minister is calling for partners to step up support for Ukraine following Trump's criticism of Zelensky.


rss: the register

  • Ransomware gets personal: 'We-know-where-you-are kind of stuff'
    37% of ransomware attacks involve psychological or physical threats, global survey found
  • Anthropic reinvents source control as Claude floods the world with code
    When continuous integration gits you down, there's always an AI-tuned monorepo
  • CISA director touts private partnerships after agency killed many
    Nick Andersen wants to work with private industry on security, but the Trump admin has taken an axe to such efforts.
  • OpenAI's dot assistant burned 300K+ tokens in a day without a single prompt
    Geordie's tests recorded 155 activity traces and multiple subagents after dot was given read-only permissions
  • Apple unleashes a swarm of Mac Minions to share GPU resources for large AI tasks
    The company unites resources from disparate macOS devices
  • Claude submitted fake murder tip to Philly police during summertime testing
    Anthropic took more than two months to alert cops
  • Anthropic conjures another threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse
    Self-replicating AI botnets could become feasible on IoT hardware within months, claims the Claude maker, if smaller models get smarter
  • Cheap Chinese and open source LLMs could trigger trillion-dollar AI infrastructure 'reset'
    Jefferies wonders if LLMs will ever be profitable during the 'ongoing collapse in token pricing'
  • Microsoft celebrates end of Office 2021 LTSC with MS 365 outage
    So how's that cloud migration working out for German and UK users?
  • NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS
    Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations


rss: ars technica

  • Martin Shkreli livestreamed himself violating lifetime pharma ban, FTC says
    "I can always find a couple of biotech stocks to smoke," Shkreli said in a livestream.
  • ESA targets Anbernic emulation handhelds as "superfake" piracy enablers
    But third-party sellers, not Anbernic, are the ones routinely selling ROM-filled SD cards.
  • Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware
    Topgolf and VMware "ran deep" before the migration.
  • Trump commercial railing against his enemies kept airing after court blocked it
    US attorney apologized to court, said government has stopped running Trump ads.
  • Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech
    Disney may acquire tech from one of the first chatbot makers linked to child suicide.
  • Skydance’s Discovery+ prices increase by up to 20 percent
    The higher prices are said to be unrelated to the Skydance merger.
  • The Paris Auto Show is full of interesting cars Americans can’t have
    Small EVs and efficient people carriers update familiar names for the modern age.
  • Google wants to host your personal vibe-coded apps in the Play Store
    Google plans to help turn those personal AI-generated apps into wide releases.
  • Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay
    Developers will get 50 percent discounted API rates through November.
  • Apple’s first smart display is the 7-inch HomeView for $299
    It can recognize up to six users with its camera.


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