rss: npr

  • The iconic Arthur Read made his TV debut 30 years ago
    The animated series "Arthur" premiered on PBS Kids on Oct. 7, 1996.
  • Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison, dies at age 84
    ennis Hastert, whose political legacy as Congress' longest-serving Republican House speaker was later fouled by allegations that he had molested high school athletes during his prior career as a teacher and wrestling coach, has died, a coroner said Monday. He was 84.
  • Drones buzz overhead, troops hunker underground in Ukraine's hellish kill zone
    The front line in the Russia-Ukraine war stretches more than 700 miles and has barely moved in four years. Yet straddling this line is the kill zone, dominated by constantly evolving drone technology.
  • FBI arrests a woman accused of spying on Taiwan leader's family for China
    The FBI and U.S. prosecutors say Wanying Zhang, also know as Heather, surveilled the Taiwanese president's son and his family.
  • Imran Khan supporters march in Pakistan to demand his release after talks failed
    Talks between Khan's party and the government failed two days ago. Besides Khan's release, protesters demand his transfer to a hospital and family visits.
  • SCOTUS hears major climate change case. And, Brazil's presidential race goes to runoff
    The Supreme Court is set to hear a blockbuster climate change case that could affect more than just climate issues. And, Brazil's presidential race is too close to call.
  • FlyDubai attacker intended to crash plane into Tel Aviv airport, investigation finds
    The ongoing investigation has found the attacker intended to crash the plane into Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport, a person familiar with the matter but not authorized to speak publicly told NPR.
  • Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity
    The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.
  • Former Prince Andrew files legal action to quash warrants that led to residence searches
    A judicial spokesperson confirmed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had filed a claim with the High Court in London and a hearing would take place Thursday.
  • Spain's prime minister calls early elections as pressure mounts over housing crisis
    Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced early elections Monday after his government suffered a bruising legislative defeat last week on emergency measures related to the country's housing crisis.


rss: bbc

  • Trump says 'threat' led US to pull bombers from RAF Fairford
    The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday it had removed the B1 bombers from the base in England back to their home stations in America.
  • Author and former politician Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86
    His last book, Adam and Eve, is set to release this month.
  • King's funding for Andrew not to be used for legal action against police
    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is taking action over search warrants issued ahead of his arrest in February.
  • What we know about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's legal action against police
    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is taking legal action against Thames Valley Police over his arrest in February.
  • Teenager's hand blown off during confrontation between France school protesters and police
    The prefect of Pas-de-Calais says the 15-year-old's life is "not in danger" after the "very serious" incident.
  • Prisoner took his own life after terror order had 'substantial impact' on mental state, inquest finds
    Akhtar Uddin was jailed for breaching Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures in 2020.
  • British Museum boss 'sorry' for Bayeux Tapestry visitor issues
    Changes to how visitors see the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition were made after concerns over long queues and overcrowding.
  • Pentagon stops using Anthropic AI tools after blacklisting company, BBC told
    It labelled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" in February after the firm refused to remove safety guardrails from its tools.
  • Blue Planet and Gandhi composer George Fenton dies aged 76
    The musician received five Oscar nominations, and soundtracked dozens of memorable nature films.
  • US 'watching closely' after plague researcher dies in Russia
    Donald Trump says the US was looking "very strongly" at the case of a lab technician who died at a research centre in Siberia.


rss: the register

  • Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLs
    Like OpenClaw but with access control
  • Get rid of Apple's AI bloatware and reclaim 12 GB of storage with this open source tool
    Meet RemoveMacAI
  • FBI confirms 'multiple' arrests related to ShinyHunters hack
    Another few bite the dust
  • Windows 11 26H2 blighted by new audio issue
    AC-3 decoder drama also hits Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2
  • Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators
    Who said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute?
  • OpenAI to flood your eyeballs with visual ads
    Want to generate an image with ChatGPT? Then prepare for ads if you're in the US
  • Debian's latest kernel security update has 1,313 reasons to patch
    AI-assisted bug hunting adds to maintainers' workload, while broad CVE rules help explain the sprawling tally
  • The question you would ask HPE and NVIDIA if nobody was recording
    The Register’s data sovereignty dinner in Washington puts HPE’s and NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure leads at one table, off the record, on 29 October.
  • Musk follows Trump's lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand
    Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply
  • Games Workshop seeks IT leader to summon the legions in epic saga battling the forces of ERP
    Warhammer set in 40,000? Yes, ERP projects can seem to take that long


rss: ars technica

  • Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
    The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
  • Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel
    The entire field of optogenetics traces back to light-seeking algae.
  • Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps
    Russian attacks on Internet, phone services threaten Ukraine’s wartime economy.
  • F1 in Bahrain... in Malaysia: The race needed a software update to start
    A software bug waylaid half the field and required a race reboot.
  • Mass quarantine issued in Russia after unexplained death of plague researcher
    Unconfirmed reports have suggested there was a laboratory accident.
  • AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
    Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.
  • Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of "mechanical" switches
    Ars Technica's guide to new keyboard sensing technologies.
  • New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"
    Fresh analysis of First Dynasty mass burials finds signs of fatal blunt force trauma on 39 percent of skulls.
  • Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: A spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife
    Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners, Loki) narrates NatGeo's new documentary Africa: Earth's Wild Home.
  • All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.
    The IEA and climate negotiators want to set a target for shifting the economy to run on electricity.


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