rss: npr

  • A federal judge dismisses the DOJ's effort to get voter data from California
    The Trump administration has been dealt its first legal setback in its unprecedented effort to consolidate voter data traditionally held by states.
  • Behind the front lines of the legal battle against Trump's National Guard deployments
    As President Trump began a pattern of deploying the National Guard to democratic-led cities, several Democratic attorneys general and their staffs worked to coordinate their fight against the deployments – and, ultimately, they won.
  • Trump health care plan doesn't help people facing skyrocketing ACA premiums
    President Trump announced a plan that addresses drug costs and health savings accounts, but not the health insurance premium spikes that millions of Americans are facing.
  • Verizon just had a big outage. Here's what we know
    Verizon says a software problem caused the glitch and it is conducting a postmortem, but experts say outages are "a fact of life" these days.
  • Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act (again). What is it?
    As protests grow over violent ICE enforcement actions in Minneapolis, the president said he could invoke a centuries-old law that would give him sweeping powers to deploy the military in U.S. cities.
  • There's an internet blackout in Iran. How are videos and images getting out?
    Starlink is illegal in Iran, but people are still using the satellite internet service to get around the government's internet shutdown.
  • Iran's protests appear increasingly smothered after a deadly crackdown
    The nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy appear increasingly smothered a week after authorities shut the country off from the world and escalated a bloody crackdown.
  • Julian Barnes says he's enjoying himself, but that 'Departure(s)' is his last book
    Part memoir and part fiction, Barnes' hybrid novel publishes the day after his 80th birthday. He's been living with a rare form of blood cancer for six years.
  • 24 hours of chaos as mental health grants are slashed then restored
    For 24 hours, it was unclear which mental health and addiction programs would survive and who would still have jobs when the dust settled.
  • This country taxes menstrual pads as luxury goods. She's aiming to end the tax
    Bushra Mahnoor remembers the shame she felt when she had her period as a teen and did not have the supplies she needed. Today she leads a campaign to lower prices for pads in Pakistan.


rss: bbc

  • Jenrick defects to Reform UK after being sacked by Tories
    The former minister says the Conservatives "broke Britain", as Nigel Farage welcomes him to his party.
  • 'We'd been on high alert' - How Jenrick's dramatic defection unfolded
    The secret discussions, bombshell leak and sacking which led to Robert Jenrick defecting to the Reform party.
  • Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner presents her medal to Trump
    Trump thanked Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, calling it "a wonderful gesture of mutual respect".
  • Iran authorities demanding large sums for return of protesters' bodies, BBC told
    Multiple sources have told BBC Persian that security forces will not release bodies unless relatives hand over money.
  • Swiss bar employee who reportedly held sparkler unaware of dangers, family says
    Cyane Panine, 24, died in the Crans Montana fire that is believed to have started when sparklers attached to champagne bottles set foam on the ceiling alight.
  • The landscape beneath Antarctica's icy surface revealed in unprecedented detail
    Scientists believe the map could shed light on how Antarctica's vast ice sheet will respond to climate change.
  • Serial rail fare evader faces jail over 112 unpaid tickets
    Charles Brohiri pleaded guilty to travelling without buying a ticket a total of 112 times.
  • Israel moves Yellow Line deeper into Gaza, satellite images show
    Israel placed and later moved control markers in three areas, with placed deeper inside Gaza than maps suggested.
  • Actor Timothy Busfield charged with sexually abusing boys on set of TV series
    The actor starred in the West Wing TV series and is also known for the baseball film Field of Dreams.
  • Hospitals with unsafe concrete expected to miss rebuild deadline
    Seven hospitals with Raac that were prioritised last year are not expected to be completed on time - some not until 2032/33.


rss: the register

  • OpenAI invests in brain-interface biz co-founded by CEO Sam Altman

    Merge Labs envisions controlling devices using your brain - without implanting hardware in your body

    OpenAI, having invested heavily in artificial intelligence, is placing a side bet on organic intelligence.…

  • Cisco finally fixes max-severity bug under active attack for weeks

    This is a threat to security - and to the weekend for some unlucky netadmins

    Cisco finally delivered a fix for a maximum-severity bug in AsyncOS that has been under attack for at least a month.…

  • Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon

    You might call it a RISC-V/NVLink Fusion ... or a bad day for UALink

    RISC-V champion SiFive has joined a growing number of chip companies by throwing its weight behind Nvidia's proprietary NVLink Fusion interconnect tech, a move that casts doubt on the viability of rival interconnect tech UALink.…

  • Over half of AI projects are shelved due to complex infrastructure

    The answer seems to be educating the enterprise workforce, and creating smarter use cases

    More than half of AI projects have been delayed or canceled within the last two years citing complexities with AI infrastructure, according to a research report commissioned by DDN, a data optimization company in partnership with Google Cloud and Cognizant.…

  • Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies

    What's next for Venezuela? Click on the file and see

    What policy wonk wouldn't want to click on an attachment promising to unveil US plans for Venezuela? Chinese cyberspies used just such a lure to target US government agencies and policy-related organizations in a phishing campaign that began just days after an American military operation captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.…

  • Flipping one bit leaves AMD CPUs open to VM vuln

    Fix landed in July, but OEM firmware updates are required

    If you use virtual machines, there's reason to feel less-than-Zen about AMD's CPUs. Computer scientists affiliated with the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany have found a vulnerability in AMD CPUs that exposes secrets in its secure virtualization environment.…

  • Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red

    Investors upset that company failed to inform them might need to take out even more debt.

    Datacenters don't come cheap. Oracle debt bond holders are suing the tech giant, because they say that the company didn't tell them it would need to borrow even more money after its original sale, making their purchases less valuable.…

  • Contagious Claude Code bug Anthropic ignored promptly spreads to Cowork

    Office workers without AI experience warned to watch for prompt injection attacks - good luck with that

    Anthropic's tendency to wave off prompt-injection risks is rearing its head in the company's new Cowork productivity AI, which suffers from a Files API exfiltration attack chain first disclosed last October and acknowledged but not fixed by Anthropic.…

  • OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras’ AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal

    SRAM-heavy compute architecture promises real-time agents, extended reasoning capabilities to bolster Altman's valuation

    OpenAI says it will deploy 750 megawatts worth of Nvidia competitor Cerebras' dinner-plate sized accelerators through 2028 to bolster its inference services.…

  • Apple, Google pulled into Grok controversy as campaigners demand app store takedown

    The chatbot's challenges no longer just Elon Musk’s problem, as campaigners call on tech giants to step in

    The ongoing Grok fiasco has claimed two more unwilling participants, as campaigners demand Apple and Google boot X and its AI sidekick out of their app stores, because of the Elon Musk-owned AI's tendency to produce illicit images of real people.…



rss: ars technica

  • “I am very annoyed”: Pharma execs blast RFK Jr.’s attack on vaccines
    Pharma execs had avoided conflict with Trump admin, but now join doctors in rebukes.
  • Why I’m withholding certainty that “precise” US cyber-op disrupted Venezuelan electricity
    NYT says US hackers were able to turn off power and then quickly turn it back on.
  • Star Trek: Starfleet Academy tries something different, and I don’t hate it
    An interesting new take on Trek includes some characters you already know.
  • NASA’s first medical evacuation from space ends with on-target splashdown
    This is the first time NASA has called an early end to a space mission for medical reasons.
  • Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal
    Spotify claims the higher fees will help "benefit artists."
  • ChatGPT wrote “Goodnight Moon” suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself
    ChatGPT used a man's favorite children's book to romanticize his suicide.
  • Six months later, Trump Mobile still hasn’t delivered preordered phones
    Lawmakers seek FTC investigation, but Trump has taken control of the agency.
  • Are people avoiding iOS 26 because of Liquid Glass? It’s complicated.
    Liquid Glass is controversial, but adoption rates aren't as low as they seem.
  • Many Bluetooth devices with Google Fast Pair vulnerable to “WhisperPair” hack
    Even Google's own earbuds are vulnerable to the Fast Pair hack.
  • Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch
    Developers say "this was not something we wanted" as they purge open source project.


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