rss: npr

  • Yemen's Houthis claim attack on Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia, and other Middle East news
    Meanwhile, Iran has made new demands about the restart of negotiations and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and the Pentagon is pressing the U.S. defense industry to accelerate production of weapons.
  • Solar eclipse to occur next week. Here is what to know
    It will be visible in parts of the U.S. on Wednesday.
  • Tanker sailors still face danger in the Strait of Hormuz
    An agreement over the Strait of Hormuz is still far away. Tim Wilkins, who works for a tanker industry group, says the ships stuck around the waterway are in limbo, and transiting is still dangerous.
  • Ukraine mourns 'collector of souls' Oleksiy Yukov, killed recovering war dead
    Oleksiy Yukov spent two decades recovering the bodies of soldiers — including many Russians. He was killed during a recovery mission after stepping on a landmine.
  • K-pop's global wave inspires Chile's next pop stars
    K-pop conquered the world — now Chile's young creatives are remixing the movement and making it their own.
  • Opinion: Europe's summer of heat
    Europe is in another brutal heat wave. The summer's earlier record-breaking weather already damaged crops, sparked wildfires and led to increased deaths.
  • Switzerland is a neutral nation but has more nuclear bunkers than any country in the world
    Instead of scrapping its network of bomb shelters after the Cold War, Switzerland kept building them. The country has more than 370,000 nuclear bomb shelters. Some are now used to house migrants.
  • The Women's Professional Baseball League makes its historic debut
    The Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, the Boston Hunters and the San Francisco Firebells take the field in Springfield, Ill., as the Women's Pro Baseball League kicks off its inaugural season.
  • Federal funds can't be used to give test strips to drug users, raising overdose fears
    Drug addiction groups are reeling after Trump officials said federal grants cannot be used to hand out test strips to drug users. The strips help users check street drugs for dangerous adulterants.
  • Private prisons announce $1.4 billion in revenue as immigration detentions climb
    That revenue does not include net proceeds of $1.6 billion made by CoreCivic after the recent sale of four of their facilities to the Department of Homeland Security.


rss: bbc

  • Suspected crime boss Daniel Kinahan to be returned to Ireland in high-security operation
    The Irish Prison Service bought a bulletproof and bomb-proof van to transport the 49-year-old to court after his extradition from Dubai.
  • Andy Burnham to embark on cost of living tour through the UK
    No 10 says the prime minister's plans will "give people some room to breathe", but opposition figures accuse him of "hypocrisy".
  • Killed a month after his wedding - why PC Andrew Harper's story touched so many
    The early release of two of his killers has brought a case which still resonates with the public back into the spotlight.
  • Australia is the planet's extinction hotspot, but one animal offers a glimmer of hope
    The country is home to some of the world's most unique species - but it is losing them at an alarming rate.
  • Perez Hilton faces long recovery after reports he self-harmed during livestream
    The US blogger is in a "serious but stable" condition in hospital, according to his family.
  • Fifa criticises campaign to oust president Infantino
    Fifa strongly criticises what it calls a "concerted and ongoing effort" to "undermine" the organisation and its president Gianni Infantino.
  • Kellie Bright to leave EastEnders after 13 years
    The former Old Vic landlady Linda Carter is set to leave Walford.
  • Zendaya saw me on the red carpet and her jaw dropped - I'm still in shock
    TikTok creator Zainab Jiwa seems to be giving Hollywood A-listers on the red carpet a run for their money.
  • How weight-loss medication is changing relationships with alcohol
    Some people using weight-loss drugs say their cravings for alcohol disappeared or they felt nauseous when they drank.
  • Why eclipse chasers are crossing continents for solar spectacle: 'It's like the World Cup'
    For many, a total solar eclipse is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. But for a dedicated few, it's a deep passion.


rss: the register

  • Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
    Gen Xers who feel triggered by this should remember to unplug the network cable and call the cops
  • Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default
    Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools
  • South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact
    Before and after shots of Elon's ejecta snapped by Danuri
  • OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash
    Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI
  • Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks
    Calling all defenders
  • AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription
    Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms
  • Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI
    What, you didn't think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you?
  • Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power
    MAST Upgrade installation hit highest pressure ever achieved without the super-hot plasma destabilizing
  • N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands
    Attackers turned admin access into a route downstream, while N-able tells N-central customers to patch – again
  • ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses
    Cancer diagnostics breach spills personal and health info as extortion crew says healthcare giant ‘should’ve paid the ransom’


rss: ars technica

  • The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
    About 90 percent of the distance driven by Perseverance has been autonomous.
  • DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
    Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.
  • Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
    Copernicus Browser adds wildfire visualization amid record wildfire season.
  • Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500
    Six deaths reported among screwworm cases, one directly attributed to the flies.
  • Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment
    New Mexico judge orders $567M fund to help address youth mental health crisis.
  • The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon's shadow
    Fitted with telescopes, the plane did our longest imaging of the Sun's corona.
  • New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics
    19 new maps continue the story from MachineGames' other campaign additions.
  • DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report
    DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says.
  • OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
    Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
  • How snails engineer their slime
    Collagen and calcium work in tandem to achieve varying mechanical properties of different kinds of mucus.


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