rss: npr

  • Instagram head Adam Mosseri testifies in defense of Meta in child safety trial
    The social media giant is being sued by four states who allege it designed Facebook and Instagram to hook kids — and lied to the public about the risks.
  • South Carolina U.S. senate runoff election will test Trump's endorsement
    The primary runoff in South Carolina between Sen. Darline Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman is another test of President Trump's influence. He's backing Darline, sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham.
  • Dolly Parton, one of country music's most singular performers, has died at age 80
    The artist was a star performer in country music and went on to become one of the genre's most recognizable and universally adored ambassadors to broader popular culture.
  • DHS acknowledges the noncitizen numbers it touted on voter rolls were inflated
    The Trump administration claimed to have found 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls in four states. But the agency's communications with states since then indicate that data was preliminary.
  • Canada hits back at the U.S. with tariffs as the countries' trade fight escalates
    The measures come after President Trump imposed 50% tariffs on many Canadian goods and threatened more after trade talks broke down on Friday.
  • 'Forget about going back': 9 years on, Rohingya crisis enters dangerous phase
    The world largely moved on from the Rohingya crisis. But the exodus has not stopped, aid is shrinking and a generation of refugees is growing up with little prospect of going home.
  • Several states will decide voter ID ballot measures this year
    Voters in at least six states will soon decide ballot measures related to voter ID — the largest number of voter ID measures in a single year. The tally includes three prominent swing states.
  • Trump calls leaders to isolate Iran. And, SCOTUS backs Trump for now on mail-in voting
    President Trump is calling on world leaders to join his economic war against Iran. And, the Supreme Court is backing the president for now on his order to restrict mail-in voting.
  • How the AIDS crisis helped create a multibillion-dollar death-speculation market
    Investors will buy your life insurance policy today — and collect the payout when you die.
  • Can Trump's economic war against Iran do what airstrikes and negotiations couldn't?
    What a new round of U.S. sanctions could mean after nearly six months of war with Iran — and years of economic pressure on the country.


rss: bbc

  • Dolly Parton: The life of an iconic country singer
    Iconic country musician Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, the singer's team announced on social media.
  • Father's house rammed before son died in A66 crash
    The house belonging to Cole Worthy's father is significantly damaged and its windows are smashed.
  • CIA chief travels to Moscow for unannounced talks, US media reports
    Flight tracking data confirms an American military aircraft travelled to Russia from the US via Latvia on Tuesday.
  • Canada announces 'dollar-for-dollar' retaliatory tariffs on US as high as 50%
    The latest escalation in an ongoing trade war between the US and Canada will see new levies on goods from steel to furniture, fresh tuna and makeup.
  • Man dies in crash after police pursuit
    Two women are also hurt and one remains in hospital in critical condition.
  • Trump says all mines cleared from Strait of Hormuz
    Iran has closed the vital waterway since the beginning of the conflict causing wild fluctuations in oil prices worldwide.
  • Spanish government says sorry to people of Ceuta for migrant crisis
    Several thousand migrants remain in the enclave after a mass crossing from Morocco in late July.
  • Who does Iran trade with and what could Trump's 'economic D-Day' mean?
    Iran is no stranger to US sanctions and has developed deep economic ties with several countries.
  • Yellow weather warnings issued as thunderstorms and flooding forecast
    The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning as heavy showers and thunderstorms are forecast to move northwards across the UK on Wednesday.
  • Andrew Tate exaggerates and did not own supercars in photos, his lawyers say
    Prosecutors argue Tate and his brother Tristan are a flight risk and should not be released on bail.


rss: the register

  • Intel's 256-core Xeon 7 CPUs are a Diamond in the rough
    Delayed, flawed, yet still beautiful
  • Apple defies memory shortage with new Mac minis
    The cost of memory makes this an expensive ML meal
  • Claude and Cowork now share what they know about you
    Shared memory is live, with no option to separate it between services, Anthropic tells us; Claude Code stays apart for now
  • McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI'
    Fasten your seatbelt and empty that bladder: AI investment is rising, but reported enterprise earnings impact remains stubbornly flat
  • EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters
    State and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits
  • You could've applied all 1,449 Oracle patches and still been hit by this attack
    Attackers now ready to exploit how things work, rather than just break them, says Oracle support expert
  • Microsoft warns that transitioning Excel workbooks to new Exchange connectors might not be smooth sailing
    Current Exchange connector is retiring - and new ones won't work if you don't upgrade
  • Slop factory bans Russians for using slop factory to create slop
    OpenAI wants you to thank it for keeping a permanent record of all your discussions with its bots
  • US convicts ex-Philips engineer for exposing X-ray secrets to competitor
    Dutch electronics giant saw right through ex-engineer’s plot, albeit over a year after it all unravelled
  • OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip looks like it'll be an inference beast
    128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin


rss: ars technica

  • The world's busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now
    SpaceX aims to launch Starship from Florida by the end of the year. 2027 seems more likely.
  • World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames
    Record-breaking robot races are less substantial than household chore challenges.
  • Preserving glow-in-the-dark art and fashion for future generations
    Understanding unique photochemistry of such materials will help in conservation, storage, and exhibition.
  • Google's anti-nausea Motion Assist dots finally rolling out on Android
    It's currently only appearing on Pixels running Android 17.
  • Two unvaccinated people die from measles in Pennsylvania, officials confirm
    "[P]eople are not familiar with this disease and don’t fully understand the potential severity."
  • SpaceX intends to invest up to $100 billion in massive Louisiana spaceport
    "This will be a project like no other."
  • Lab supply companies have been selling antibodies using manipulated images
    Image changes that would get a paper retracted are widespread among suppliers.
  • New bootloader lets you take the "Meta" out of the original Meta Quest
    Privilege escalation attack grants "full control" and freedom from Meta's servers/apps.
  • AI won’t replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs
    A pioneering AI scientist once predicted computers would replace human radiologists. They haven't.
  • Apple's new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development
    Folks have been daisy-chaining Macs for AI—this refresh keeps that in mind.


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