rss: npr

  • U.S. lifts blockade on Iranian ports as 60-day clock for a final deal starts ticking
    The U.S. is allowing ships to enter and exit Iranian ports and coastal areas as the countries move to a new phase of negotiations over the next 60 days.
  • Student loan borrowers will get an interest rate cut if they sign up for auto pay
    The Trump administration wants to jumpstart student loan repayment, with federal student loan debt approaching $2 trillion.
  • Read the full text of Trump's preliminary U.S.-Iran agreement to end the war
    Here is the text of the memorandum of understanding that was signed Wednesday by President Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, as well as Pakistan's prime minister.
  • Ukraine hits a Moscow oil refinery and other sites in a large-scale drone attack
    Ukraine launched a wave of drone attacks on Russia early Thursday — one of the largest attacks on Russia's capital since the Kremlin ordered the invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago.
  • You're probably using too many skin care products. Here are the 3 essentials
    We asked half a dozen skin care experts: Which products do you really need to keep your skin healthy and attractive? Here's what they said.
  • These 3 brothers lost their parents to AIDS. Now they struggle to make it on their own
    Three brothers say their mother and father died after losing access to their HIV medications. Now the boys are figuring out how to navigate life.
  • Supreme Court sides with a marijuana user who was barred from owning guns
    The court ruled that the law used to prosecute a marijuana user violated his Second Amendment right to bear arms and is unconstitutionally vague.
  • Embedded: "We Keep Us Safe" from NPR, KUOW and The Seattle Times
    In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, known as CHOP. Less than a week later, he was shot and killed there. The case remains unsolved.
  • Report: Russia's nuclear-powered 'Skyfall' missile is dirty and dangerous
    MIT researchers think they've worked out exactly how Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile flies. "It's almost certainly a terrible idea," one analyst said. "But it's not an impossible idea."
  • Trump signs agreement with Iran. And, the president's approval hits record lows
    Trump signed a preliminary agreement with Iran yesterday to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz. And, the president's approval rating has hit a record low, according to a new NPR poll.


rss: bbc

  • Man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after boy injured in crocodile enclosure
    A three-year-old boy was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital with critical injuries and is in a stable condition, Cambridgeshire Police said.
  • US lifts naval blockade as Iran's supreme leader says Trump made deal 'out of desperation'
    Iran's supreme leader says he disagrees with the deal and Donald Trump signed it "out of desperation".
  • Bowen: US-Iran deal raises inescapable question of what the war was for
    While the human cost is clear, the Iranian regime has not just survived the war, it has been empowered.
  • Teacher who murdered adopted baby son Preston Davey given whole life prison sentence
    Preston Davey died after months of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of Jamie Varley.
  • Hegseth renews Nato criticism and says US will review presence in Europe
    The US defence secretary's move follows a US decision to scale back its commitments to a high readiness force within the alliance.
  • Foreign Office drops 'do not travel' advice for Dubai, but calls situation unpredictable
    Thousands of Brits were left stranded in the Middle East when the US-Iran war broke out in early 2026.
  • Tuchel's national anthem complaints lead to Fifa moving photographers
    England head coach Thomas Tuchel has won a battle with Fifa to get photographers moved away from the bench during the national anthems.
  • Moscow residents complain of black rain after largest Ukrainian attack hits oil refinery
    A refinery and a shopping centre burned after almost 200 Ukrainian drones struck an area to the south-east of the Russian capital.
  • Vulnerable patients' lives made 'miserable' by abuse, Muckamore inquiry finds
    The long-awaited final report is expected to reveal the extent of the mistreatment of patients at the hospital.
  • Interest rates held as Bank warns of impact of high energy prices
    The Bank last cut interest rates in December but upheaval in the Middle East has stalled any further reductions.


rss: the register

  • 2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud
    You might say the system packs two kilapixels of compute
  • Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light'
    The underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention
  • Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck
    Ed's note to Corey: Blink once if you're safe, twice if you're in danger
  • Citrix now lets you run virtual desktops like a cost-conscious private equityeer
    Soaring PC prices make alternatives to hardware refreshes interesting
  • Canonical reveals Myna, its local speech-to-text app
    Bird-branded AI will ride on Stonking Stingray
  • NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit
    Aeolus mission promises better Martian weather models, assuming Relativity Space can get its Terran R off the ground
  • ZTE and China Telecom Guangdong advance cross‑vendor IP network simulation pilots, paving the way for intelligent network operations
    PARTNER CONTENT: Leveraging >95% digital twin fidelity and multi-vendor collaboration to eliminate network change risks and achieve zero-error O&M
  • The AI tipping point: where enterprise AI runs at scale
    PARTNER CONTENT: AI's cloud journey homeward bound: enterprises prefer private clouds for scaling AI workloads.
  • Google told researcher 'Nice catch!' Then denied bug bounty for flaw it still hasn't fixed
    EXCLUSIVE 'Working as intended' for the win … again
  • Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave
    Hybrid systems could bring efficiency gains at the edge, but conventional infrastructure isn't going anywhere fast


rss: ars technica

  • NASA asks Northrop Grumman to stop working on lunar HALO module
    "We are reassigning most affected employees across existing opportunities and programs."
  • Android verification is coming: Google confirms timeline and supported app stores
    A new system service will roll out this month ahead of big changes starting in September.
  • Apple patches high-severity eavesdropping vulnerability in Beats Studio Buds
    The vulnerability, disclosed 12 months ago, affects multiple manufacturers.
  • After Senate vote, Trump admin backs off plans to kill ocean monitoring
    It's unclear whether the system is currently intact.
  • Before SpaceX IPO, investors in China secretly acquired stakes
    One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors.
  • Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry
    Biggest AI firms will likely recoil at Bernie Sanders' AI wealth fund.
  • Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago
    We can't blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore.
  • The first long-duration resident of the ISS, a cosmonaut, has died
    Two expeditions, two spacewalks, 322 days in space.
  • Hulk, Punisher join Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer
    Peter Parker to Bruce Banner: "I didn't know you could get that big."
  • Second carcass-eating fly species cleared by FDA for maggot wound therapy
    Maggot therapy lacks robust data, but it has fans and a fail-safe "bacon therapy."


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