rss: npr

  • United Nations leaders bemoan global turmoil as the General Assembly turns 80
    On Saturday, the UNGA celebrated its 80th birthday in London. Speakers including U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres addressed global uncertainty during the second term of President Trump.
  • Parts of Florida receive rare snowfall as freezing temperatures linger
    Snow has fallen in Florida for the second year in a row.
  • European leaders warn Trump's Greenland tariffs threaten 'dangerous downward spiral'
    In a joint statement, leaders of eight countries said they stand in "full solidarity" with Denmark and Greenland. Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen added: "Europe will not be blackmailed."
  • Syrian government announces a ceasefire with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces
    Syria's new leaders, since toppling Bashar Assad in December 2024, have struggled to assert their full authority over the war-torn country.
  • U.S. military troops on standby for possible deployment to Minnesota
    The move comes after President Trump again threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to control ongoing protests over the immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream ... about health care
    A doctor from Nigeria tells what Martin Luther King Jr. taught him about health, Justice and inequality.
  • Venezuela: Maduro's enforcer Cabello still central to power
    The ousting of Venezuela's president raised hopes of change — but the politician now controlling the streets shows how little has really shifted.
  • Amid ICE clashes, New Hampshire bishop urges clergy to prepare their wills
    The Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire told priests protesting ICE to get their wills and affairs in order. Some praise the bishop, while other priests say they never signed up to be martyrs.
  • New York Giants hire John Harbaugh as coach after identifying him as their top choice
    Harbaugh joins the Giants 11 days after he was fired by the Baltimore Ravens. The Super Bowl champion is now tasked with turning around a beleaguered franchise.
  • US launches new retaliatory strike in Syria, killing leader tied to deadly Islamic State ambush
    A third round of retaliatory strikes by the U.S. in Syria has resulted in the death of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader, said U.S. Central Command.


rss: bbc

  • Starmer holds phone call with Trump over Greenland tariff threat
    The conversation follows the US president vowing a 10% levy on the UK and others opposing his annexation of the Danish territory.
  • Andrew Rosindell quits Tories and defects to Reform UK
    His defection comes days after former shadow justice minister Robert Jenrick joined Reform.
  • Five dead after high-speed trains collide in Spain
    At least five people are dead and dozens more injured after the derailment near the city of Cordoba.
  • Government pulls Hillsborough Law amendment after backlash
    It was facing a potential rebellion by some Labour MPs over how the law would apply to security services.
  • BBC demands tighter vetting after Apprentice candidate's offensive social media posts
    A contestant due to appear on the forthcoming series is found to have previously posted offensive messages on social media.
  • Israel pushes back on Trump's picks for executives on Gaza 'Board of Peace'
    Israel says it is unhappy it was not consulted, and Palestinians have also been critical.
  • Syria agrees ceasefire with Kurdish-led forces after two weeks of clashes
    President Ahmed al-Sharaa said the deal would allow the Syrian state to reassert control over most areas.
  • Mum thanks strangers who rescued nine-month-old baby from burning car
    Wesley Beynon and Marc Willding are hailed heroes after pulling baby Lilah from the flames.
  • More than 60 Labour MPs urge PM to ban social media for under-16s
    The MPs says the UK "risks being left behind" if it does not adopt a ban similar to one in Australia.
  • Fears Iran's internet shutdown could lead to 'extreme digital isolation'
    Internet monitor FilterWatch warns that authorities are trying to cut the country off from international connectivity.


rss: the register

  • Nvidia leans on emulation to squeeze more HPC oomph from AI chips in race against AMD

    AMD researchers argue that, while algorithms like the Ozaki scheme merit investigation, they're still not ready for prime time.

    Double precision floating point computation (aka FP64) is what keeps modern aircraft in the sky, rockets going up, vaccines effective, and, yes, nuclear weapons operational. But rather than building dedicated chips that process this essential data type in hardware, Nvidia is leaning on emulation to increase performance for HPC and scientific computing applications, an area where AMD has had the lead in recent generations.…

  • Not hot on bots, project names and shames AI-created open source software

    'OpenSlopware' briefly flowers, fades, falls – but fortunately was forked, fast

    The splendidly-named "OpenSlopware" was, for a short time, a list of open source projects using LLM bots. Due to harassment, it's gone, but forks of it live on.…

  • Fast Pair, loose security: Bluetooth accessories open to silent hijack

    Sloppy implementation of Google spec leaves 'hundreds of millions' of devices vulnerable

    Hundreds of millions of wireless earbuds, headphones, and speakers are vulnerable to silent hijacking due to a flaw in Google's Fast Pair system that allows attackers to seize control without the owner ever touching the pairing button.…

  • S Twatter: When text-to-speech goes down the drain

    Rinse of the machines: A cautionary tale about relying on robots

    Bork!Bork!Bork! UK water company Severn Trent learned an unfortunate lesson about text-to-speech systems when a robocall to customers went hilariously wrong.…

  • Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors

    Gotta pay for those datacenter buildouts somehow

    OpenAI's budget ChatGPT Go subscription tier has migrated to the US, soon to be accompanied by advertising. The company's free tier will be similarly afflicted.…

  • Trump wants big tech to pay for big beautiful power plants

    It just needs PJM Interconnection, one of the US's biggest grid operators, to green light the auction

    The Trump administration says it wants big tech companies to take more accountability for the power their datacenters consume in an effort to shield voters from higher power bills at home.…

  • Experiment suggests AI chatbot would save insurance agents a whopping 3 minutes a day

    Does that kind of time saving actually pay for itself?

    Researchers at Dakota State University, in partnership with regional insurance carrier Safety Insurance, devised an experimental chatbot called "Axlerod" to assist independent insurance agents. Whether that assistance was substantial is up for some debate.…

  • Micron breaks ground on humungous NY DRAM fab after beating bats and tree huggers

    Chipmaker claims the four-fab site could expand US-based DRAM production by a factor of 12

    Micron broke snowy winter ground in New York on Friday to begin building a chip fab that promises to bring up to 50,000 jobs and much-needed computer memory production to US shores, as the AI boom continues to push memory prices up.…

  • Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

    Microsoft claims it's a Secure Launch bug

    We're not saying Copilot has become sentient and decided it doesn't want to lose consciousness. But if it did, it would create Microsoft's January Patch Tuesday update, which has made it so that some PCs flat-out refuse to shut down or hibernate, no matter how many times you try.…

  • Windows Backup adds second-chance restore at sign-in

    First sign-in restore aims to cut rebuilds when users skip setup options

    Microsoft has quietly tweaked Windows Backup for Organizations to include restore at first sign-in.…



rss: ars technica

  • Ocean damage nearly doubles the cost of climate change
    Ignoring the blue economy has left a multi-trillion-dollar blind spot in climate finance.
  • Meta’s layoffs leave Supernatural fitness users in mourning
    Supernatural has had its staff cut and won’t receive any more content updates.
  • Managers on alert for “launch fever” as pressure builds for NASA’s Moon mission
    "I’ve got one job, and it’s the safe return of Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy."
  • Rackspace customers grapple with “devastating” email hosting price hike
    Reseller says Rackspace plans to charge it 706 percent more.
  • Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark
    The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.
  • Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply
    WorldCat operator hopes default judgment will convince web hosts to take action.
  • This may be the grossest eye pic ever—but the cause is what’s truly horrifying
    Hypervirulent germ nearly destroys man, invading brain and blowing out an eye.
  • OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions
    Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.
  • Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours
    Windows laggards still using the vulnerable hashing function: Your days are numbered.
  • RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives
    GPU makers may prioritize more profitable models; large SSDs are harder to find.


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