rss: npr

  • Iran fires on its Gulf neighbors, retaliating for U.S. strikes after a monthlong lull
    The six-month war has led to a spike in oil prices, roiled the global economy and posed increasing political problems for President Trump's Republican Party ahead of November midterm elections.
  • Greetings from the Royal Pavilion, a stunning reminder of India in southern England
    Looking up at this 18th century building, it became clear the British didn't only bring their architectural style to India. They also took some of India's style home.
  • Chevron to expand in Venezuela, days after the U.S. and Venezuela strike oil deal
    Chevron is the largest foreign oil operator in Venezuela. The deal will expand its footprint at a time of political and economic uncertainty for Venezuela.
  • Medical groups offer vaccine guidance to fill federal vacuum
    In the unprecedented absence of federal guidance, leading medical groups are issuing their own recommendations for who should get the COVID-19, flu and RSV immunizations.
  • New lawsuits claim OpenAI execs put image ahead of safety in Canadian mass shooting
    The suits say that recommendations to alert police about the alleged shooter were nixed by OpenAI's global affairs team, led by veteran political strategist Chris Lehane. OpenAI denies the claims.
  • Whatever happened to ... children infected with HIV due to failures in healthcare?
    For years, Pakistan has seen cases of children infected with HIV due to unsafe treatment in clinics and hospitals. A current outbreak numbers hundreds of cases. Why does this problem keep occurring?
  • India's prime minister is wooing the Gen Z while cracking down on them
    Over two months, protesters, most who appeared to be digitally-savvy GenZ, used social media to organize. Government's efforts to respond spotlight how the ruling party appears to be playing catch-up.
  • ICE says it now has enough body cameras. And, Congress averts shutdown before midterms
    Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it now has enough body cameras to equip all of its agents. And, Congress votes to fund the government, averting a government shutdown ahead of the midterms.
  • Israel bars U.S. citizens over criticism and ties to Palestinian activists, lawyers say
    Travelers from the U.S. and other nations are denied entry to Israel after interrogations about their links to Palestinians, plans to visit the occupied West Bank and opinions of Israel, lawyers say.
  • ICE detainee dies just hours after he was admitted into detention
    Lianyong Wei's death marks the 57th death of an immigrant detainee held in the care of the government since the start of President Trump's second term. Twenty-four of those have occurred since Jan. 1.


rss: bbc

  • Burnham's PMQs debut shows the challenge of delivering new style of politics
    Burnham's exchanges with Kemi Badenoch slipped into familiar territory of trading barbs, writes Alex Forsyth.
  • Farage tells BBC 'we live in a complainants' society' after questions over Reform funding
    The Reform UK leader said a "whole ecosystem" didn't want "new kids on the block succeeding".
  • Four in court over murder of baby stabbed to death
    Four people, aged between 19 and 38, appear in court charged with murdering the newborn.
  • Lucy Letby 'boyfriend' doctor named as court order lifted
    Dr Mark Deakin, a consultant at Alder Hey hospital, was described as Letby's "boyfriend" during her trial.
  • Rosenberg: Putin's veiled threat to UK part of Russia's campaign against West
    The Russian president wants to keep Britain guessing - and stressing - over Moscow's real intentions.
  • More than 900 killed in Gaza this year despite ceasefire, Hamas-run health ministry says
    The ministry says the total number of people killed in the Strip since 10 October is now more than 1,300, including 301 children.
  • London mayor says conviction for untaxed car was due to a scam
    City Hall officials say the Nissan Micra does not belong to the mayor or Transport for London.
  • King Charles, Macron and Burnham to preview Bayeux Tapestry display
    British and French leaders will be at the British Museum to see the exhibition of the historic Bayeux Tapestry.
  • Tiger Woods gets five-year driving ban after reckless driving plea
    The golfer will accept a five-year driving ban and $1,000 fine as part of a plea agreement.
  • Jurors return in Lindsay Clancy trial after judge asks them to break deadlock
    They resumed efforts on Wednesday to reach a verdict in the case of a mother charged with murder over her children's deaths.


rss: the register

  • NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science
    Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry
  • Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill
    Don't disable automatic updates if the pace is too much – that's what ESR is for
  • Legacy Lenovo login opens 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers
    Cloud storage biz severs old integration and urges victims to reset credentials
  • Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15
    Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas
  • Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest'
    Matt Clifford plans to keep role as ARIA chair while leading the LLM maker's dealings with governments outside North America
  • Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return
    Photonics startups like iPronics are raking in hundreds of millions in funding to make optical circuit switches faster, denser, and cheaper
  • Microsoft update disarms Outlook and Teams on Arm PCs
    Installing an AI gaming package offers relief while custom cursors suffer a separate reset
  • A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter
    The budget was minimal, FedEx was the bottleneck, and DNS was of course the source of trouble
  • London Tube closes the 5G gap with streets above
    Mobile signal below ground beats the citywide average, Ookla says
  • UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme
    Startups invited to tackle NHS, defense, compute, and agent security challenges while Whitehall's own adoption remains patchy


rss: ars technica

  • Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen and journalist in space, dies at 84
    He reported from space that only "fat" Japanese tree frogs enjoyed weightlessness.
  • The Army just used a 20-kilowatt laser to take out three drones
    The Army says its laser system can track and destroy hostile drones.
  • Is Russia's rival to Starlink failing? Here's what we know.
    At least three of the first 32 Rassvet satellites likely suffered outright failures, and more may be in trouble.
  • BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all
    What can we learn from a BGP hijacking that poisoned production software? Plenty.
  • Here's our first look—and drive—of the 2027 Range Rover Electric
    333 miles of real-world range with uncompromised comfort and off-road ability.
  • Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed
    "Black hole stars," making cookies from plastic, tiny sound-powered drones, and more.
  • A newborn and child reportedly died of measles; CDC isn't counting them
    Historically, state health departments determine cases and deaths, not the CDC.
  • New Android Drop adds remembered items in Find Hub, makes anti-nausea dots official
    New features are rolling out across the Android ecosystem starting today.
  • FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions
    FTC says firm replaces actual ad-auction results "with higher prices set by Amazon."
  • This is what a supercar was like a century ago
    When the average car could only do 40 mph, this Bentley could break 100.


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