rss: npr

  • Tensions rise in two ceasefires in the Middle East. And, the Navy secretary ousted
    Tensions are rising in the Middle East as shaky ceasefire agreements between the U.S., Israel and Iran, and Lebanon and Israel, are tested. And, the Secretary of the Navy is out of the role.
  • U.S. seizes another oil tanker as peace talks with Iran still in limbo
    The seizure comes after President Trump told Fox News Wednesday that there was "no time pressure" on the ceasefire with Iran, which he has extended indefinitely.
  • Two startlingly different views on long-awaited data on America's anti-HIV efforts
    After a year without data, the State Department released figures on PEPFAR, the program launched by George W. Bush and credited with saving millions of lives. How did Trump's aid cuts affect it?
  • Sycophantic AI flatters and suggests you are not to blame
    The AI models and chatbots that we interact with tend to affirm our feelings and viewpoints — more so than people do, with potentially worrisome consequences.
  • How TikTok is driving American expats to Southeast Asia
    Americans who moved to Vietnam and Thailand say their lives are now lower-stress and lower-cost. But glamorous videos on TikTok don't tell the whole story.
  • Democrats dominate midterm fundraising, but Republicans have a huge cash advantage
    The latest campaign finance reports show Democratic enthusiasm in key House and Senate races, but national Republican groups have far more in the bank to potentially spend down the road.
  • Senate GOP is kickstarting budget reconciliation to fund ICE. Here's how that works
    After a historic partial shutdown of Homeland Security, congressional Republicans are looking to a budgetary tool that could enable them to fund immigration enforcement agencies without Democratic support.
  • World Press Photo announces Photo of the Year 2026
    The executive director of World Press Photo said this image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies.
  • Trump administration flies 10-year-old back from Cuba amid custody fight
    President Trump's Department of Justice sent a plane this week to Cuba to return a 10-year-old from Utah who is at the center of a custody fight involving the child's gender identity.
  • Chemical leak at a W.Va. plant kills 2 people, sends 30 more to hospitals, officials say
    The leak occurred at the Catalyst Refiners plant, a silver recovery business. An emergency management official says workers were preparing to shut down at least part of the facility when the leak occurred, causing a chemical gas reaction.


rss: bbc

  • High Street mini-marts selling cocaine, cannabis and prescription drugs, BBC secret filming reveals
    Across the UK, shopfronts are being exploited by criminal gangs pushing illegal drugs, experts say.
  • Lyse Doucet: In Tehran, money is short and a return to war looms over daily life
    The BBC's Lyse Doucet reports from Iran, where the buzz of busy shopping streets masks deep uncertainty over the country's future.
  • Riot police to deploy on French beaches under new deal to stop illegal Channel migrant crossings
    The three-year agreement will see at least 50 riot-trained police officers drafted in to tackle violence and “hostile crowds”.
  • Senior manager who worked at Lucy Letby's hospital arrested
    The arrest was made as part of a wider investigation into leadership at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
  • Lebanon accuses Israel of targeting journalist killed in air strike
    Lebanon's prime minister accused Israel of war crimes after IDF attacks on Red Cross vehicles also stopped rescuers from reaching the site.
  • Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge
    Evie and her mother were enjoying a day trip to south Wales when they came across the amphibian.
  • Prince Louis holiday photo released to mark eighth birthday
    The portrait was taken by photographer Matt Porteous in Cornwall earlier this month.
  • The furious debate over building houses on golf courses
    Are golf courses the right places to build housing, or are they simply a soft target?
  • No Fifa plans for Iran-Italy swap at World Cup
    Fifa stands by comments made last week by president Gianni Infantino in which he said that "the Iranian team is coming, for sure".
  • Watch: BBC goes undercover at mini-mart selling drugs
    BBC UK editor Ed Thomas confronts a shopkeeper secretly filmed selling cannabis and cocaine to one of our researchers.


rss: the register

  • Hybrid clouds have two attack surfaces and you’re not paying enough attention to either

    Windows Admin Center flaws mean on-prem can attack cloud, and vice-versa

    Black Hat Asia Israeli researchers found a series of flaws in Microsoft's Windows Admin Center (WAC) and suggest this shows hybrid cloud management tools are a two-way attack surface that users don't spend enough time worrying about.…

  • Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet

    EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own silicon

    Elon Musk used Tesla's latest earnings call to reveal plans to build AI chips on Intel's not-yet-finished 14A process – a bet on silicon that doesn't exist.…

  • AI bats away ping-pong challenge as rise of the machines continues

    Sony project claims a significant breakthrough with applications in task requiring speed and accuracy

    Rise of the Machines The ancient games of chess and Go are now mere staging posts in the journey toward robots demonstrating their superior performance to humans - the machines can now beat us fleshbags at ping-pong.…

  • If malware via monitor cables is a matter of national security, this might be the gadget for you

    Orgs can now buy UK cyber agency engineered commercial gadget, but details are slim

    GCHQ's cyber arm has entered the hardware game with its first device designed to prevent cyberattacks on display devices.…

  • Google Meet or Google Mute? Even CEOs get borked sometimes

    Video conferencing has tripped us all up. Now cloud chief Thomas Kurian gets his turn

    Bork!Bork!Bork! The curse of Bork is no respecter of status or class. It does not differentiate between a high-flying executive and a lowly worker. And so it was that Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian came unstuck due to some all-too-familiar video-conferencing struggles.…

  • Sharing isn’t caring if it’s an admin password

    Keeping it simple for the developers can lead to very complex headaches later

    PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we celebrate the people who’ve taught us how not to secure a server. If you’ve ever tied your own shoelaces together, then tripped over them, or attempted to dive into a swimming pool but hit your head on the diving board, we’ll be talking about your cyber equivalent.…

  • Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it

    Whitehall content teams play whack-a-mole with zombie pages as Google hoovers up the lot

    AI overviews from the likes of Google are serving up false summaries of UK government information by drawing on stale GOV.UK pages, according to content designers at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).…

  • Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date

    NCSC passes judgment: passkeys pass muster, passwords fail

    The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has officially endorsed passkeys as the default authentication standard, marking the first time the agency has told consumers to move away from passwords entirely.…

  • Kubernetes explains the release that kills Ingress NGINX with Japanese poetry and art

    Release team sets new standard for release notes by linking between Version 1.36 and classic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa

    Kubernetes issued a new release called “Haru” on Wednesday, and the release notes and logo might be more interesting than the software.…

  • Another npm supply chain worm is tearing through dev environments

    Plus, the payload references 'TeamPCP/LiteLLM method'

    Yet another npm supply-chain attack is worming its way through compromised packages, stealing secrets and sensitive data as it moves through developers' environments, and it shares significant overlap with the open source infections attributed to TeamPCP last month.…



rss: ars technica

  • Crypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz, falsely promising safe passage
    Ship attacked by Iran after possibly falling for safe passage crypto scam.
  • Tesla reports Q1 2026 earnings: Still profitable
    Car sales are up, battery sales and emissions credits are down.
  • Our newsroom AI policy
    How Ars Technica uses, and doesn't use, generative AI.
  • Lawsuit: Nintendo is getting tariff refunds—its customers should get them instead
    Lawsuit demands Nintendo pass Trump tariff refunds on to its customers.
  • RFK Jr. won't back CDC director on vaccines as agency scraps positive data
    Kennedy's tesimony sets up another clash over vaccines with next CDC director.
  • You want your Moon landings in HD? So does NASA—here's how it's happening.
    "You just push this button, and in three hours, you're counting photons."
  • Microsoft issues emergency update for macOS and Linux ASP.NET threat
    When authentication fails, things can go very, very wrong.
  • Anthropic tested removing Claude Code from the Pro plan
    Untenable demand has Anthropic exploring new approaches to rationing its service.
  • Coyote vs. Acme is finally getting released—with a killer trailer
    What was Warner Bros. even thinking, shelving this film for so many years?
  • Google unveils two new TPUs designed for the "agentic era"
    Google's new generation of Tensor AI chips is actually two chips, one for inference and one for training.


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