rss: npr

  • DOJ releases tranche of Epstein files, says it has met its legal obligations
    The Department of Justice on Friday released more than 3 million pages, more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images in its files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
  • 'Washington Post' journalists plea to Bezos: Don't gut our newsroom
    Members of the newspaper's union say they have been warned the company could cut as many as 300 jobs, although no announcement has been made.
  • Skier Lindsey Vonn's Winter Olympic comeback dream is in jeopardy after a crash
    Vonn was seen clutching her left knee after crashing in a race in Switzerland on Friday, the last before the Winter Olympics. Her comeback after retiring in 2019 was one of Team USA's biggest stories.
  • Feds arrest 4, including Don Lemon and Minnesota journalist over church protest
    Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards, his attorney, Abbe Lowell, said in a statement posted on social media.
  • 'ChatGPT saved my life.' How patients, and doctors, are using AI to make a diagnosis
    Hundreds of millions of people are turning to chatbots to help figure out what's wrong with them. Doctors say that's not always a bad thing. In fact, many are using it themselves.
  • Homan plans to pull agents from Minnesota. And, Senate strikes short-term funding deal
    Border czar Tom Homan has suggested possibly pulling some federal immigration agents out of Minnesota. And, Senate leaders struck a short-term funding deal to keep most of the government running.
  • Trump taps Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve
    Trump plans to nominate Kevin Warsh to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, when Jerome Powell's term expires in May. The president has been pushing the central bank to slash interest rates.
  • Are you on a high-deductible health plan? What do you wish you knew?
    People with ACA health insurance just saw prices surge and many switched to plans with high deductibles and health savings accounts. If that's you, what do you wish you knew about how your plan works?
  • U.S. life expectancy is going up. Think how many more news quizzes you can do!
    When the news gets too heavy, the quiz is forced to turn to pop culture questions — so there are a lot this week. Let's see how you do!
  • Kari Lake promotes Trump on Voice of America. Does that break the law?
    Critics say U.S. Agency for Global Media's Kari Lake risks making Voice of America sound like a propaganda outlet in her remarks on the air praising President Trump.


rss: bbc

  • Asylum seeker sentenced to at least 29 years for murdering hotel worker Rhiannon Whyte
    Deng Majek is told by the mother of victim Rhiannon Whyte that she hopes he never sees the outside world.
  • Former CNN host Don Lemon arrested after anti-ICE protests at Minnesota church
    Lemon says he was just doing his job as a journalist reporting on the protests at the church.
  • Fire halts Euston rail services to several cities across the UK
    There is major disruption on all rail services between Euston station and Watford Junction.
  • UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns
    António Guterres says the international body could run out of money by July due to members' unpaid fees.
  • Luigi Mangione will not face death penalty if convicted, judge rules
    A judge dismisses two federal counts against the 27-year-old, but he still faces state murder charges.
  • Djokovic & Alcaraz win five-set epics to reach Australian Open final
    Novak Djokovic will meet Carlos Alcaraz in the Australian Open final after both players maintain their respective bids for history by coming through five-set epics on an extraordinary day in Melbourne.
  • China lifts sanctions on MPs and peers, as Starmer says he hopes Xi will visit UK
    The prime minister says lifting of travel ban on six MPs and peers vindicates his approach to China, amid criticism.
  • Arrests made over supersized illegal rubbish dump
    The Environment Agency says the arrests are a "vital step" into the Kidlington dump investigation.
  • Driver jailed for life over deadly Christmas Day rampage in London's West End
    Anthony Gilheaney hit four men on Shaftesbury Avenue, killing Aiden Chapman and injuring the others.
  • Three reasons for the record rise in gold prices, and one why they are falling
    Gold has fallen from recent highs but there are several reasons investors are still finding refuge in the precious metal.


rss: the register

  • Backblaze says AI traffic and neoclouds could shape future networks

    The western US saw the most activity overall

    Cloud storage firm Backblaze says that a sharp rise in AI-driven data traffic to neocloud operators may signal a shift from internet-style traffic patterns to large, high-bandwidth flows characteristic of large-scale model training and inference work.…

  • Oracle seeks to build bridges with MySQL developers

    Big Red promises 'new era' as long-frustrated contributors weigh whether to believe it

    Oracle is taking steps to "repair" its relationship with the MySQL community, according to sources, by moving "commercial-only" features into the database application's Community Edition and prioritizing developer needs.…

  • Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

    AI vision systems can be very literal readers

    Indirect prompt injection occurs when a bot takes input data and interprets it as a command. We've seen this problem numerous times when AI bots were fed prompts via web pages or PDFs they read. Now, academics have shown that self-driving cars and autonomous drones will follow illicit instructions that have been written onto road signs.…

  • Want digital sovereignty? That'll be 1% of your GDP into AI infrastructure please

    Analyst predicts massive spend on domestic AI stacks

    Countries intent on digital sovereignty will need to invest at least 1 percent of their entire gross domestic product (GDP) into AI infrastructure by 2029, according to analyst biz Gartner.…

  • OpenAI gives ChatGPT models the chop – two weeks' notice, take it or leave it

    GPT-4o gets second death sentence after last year's reprieve, but this time barely anyone's bothered

    OpenAI is sunsetting some of its ChatGPT models next month, a move it knows "will feel frustrating for some users."…

  • Phones down, brooms up: HashiCorp co-founder lectures business hopefuls

    Stock management also important, says Mitchell Hashimoto

    HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto took to X this week to unveil the secret of workplace success: stay off your phone, sweep the floor, and clean the machines after that.…

  • Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

    Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you

    Opinion I'm an eighth-generation American, and let me tell you, I wouldn't trust my data, secrets, or services to a US company these days for love or money. Under our current government, we're simply not trustworthy.…

  • Mechanical mutts make it official: Now full-time at Sellafield's hot zones

    Spot's new cleanup gig involves gamma rays, alpha particles, and considerably less PPE than fleshy colleagues

    Bark!Bark!Bark! Sellafield Ltd is to use Boston Dynamics' Spot robot dogs in "routine, business-as-usual operations" amid the ongoing cleanup and decommissioning of the notorious UK nuclear site.…

  • NS&I's IT car crash considers cutting legacy links to stop the bleeding

    £1.3B over budget and four years late, bank searches for a way to not to bust new timetable and funding pot

    A British state-owned bank is reconfiguring its modernization project, including considering reducing connections with legacy systems, as it tries to claw back schedule and budget overruns that are far beyond early plans.…

  • In-house techies fixed faults before outsourced help even noticed they'd happened

    60-minute SLA was effectively useless and the contractor admitted it

    On Call Welcome to another instalment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of weird and wonderful tech support jobs.…



rss: ars technica

  • How far does $5,000 go when you want an electric car?
    You won't be going on road trips, but a very cheap electric runabout is possible.
  • NASA faces a crucial choice on a Mars spacecraft—and it must decide soon
    "We think that’s a really important mission, and something that we can do."
  • Rocket Report: How a 5-ton satellite fell off a booster; will SpaceX and xAI merge?
    "We’re seeing remarkable growth year after year."
  • Inside Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device ever
    "Selfishly a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves."
  • Having that high-deductible health plan might kill you, literally
    With ACA tax credits gone, more people are turning to high-deductible plans.
  • US spy satellite agency declassifies high-flying Cold War listening post
    The JUMPSEAT satellites loitered over the North Pole to spy on the Soviet Union.
  • People complaining about Windows 11 hasn't stopped it from hitting 1 billion users
    Windows 11 clears a milestone as Windows 10 continues its slow fade.
  • How often do AI chatbots lead users down a harmful path?
    Anthropic's latest paper on "user disempowerment" has some troubling findings.
  • Google Project Genie lets you create interactive worlds from a photo or prompt
    Project Genie lets you generate new worlds 60 seconds at a time, but only if you pay for AI Ultra.
  • Comcast keeps losing customers despite price guarantee and unlimited data
    Comcast overhauled Internet plans to stop customer losses. It isn't working yet.


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