rss: npr

  • U.S. military kills 6 in strike on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific
    Sunday's attack brought the death toll to at least 157 people since the Trump administration began targeting alleged drug-smuggling vessels, in early September.
  • Video appears to show U.S. cruise missile striking Iranian school compound
    The seven-second video was released by Iranian state media and directly contradicts statements made by President Trump, who said Iran was responsible for the strike.
  • Crude oil rockets past $100 as markets lose hope for a quick resolution in Iran
    Brent crude reached its highest price since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Gasoline prices in the U.S. are expected to continue to rise.
  • Country Joe McDonald, anti-war singer who electrified Woodstock, dies at 84
    Country Joe and the Fish's best-known song, "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag," captured the growing anti-war sentiment of the Vietnam era.
  • Georgia's special election to fill vacated House seat
    Voters in Northwest Georgia are choosing who should replace former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene as voting closes in a special election Tuesday. In a crowded race, the weight of Trump's endorsement will be tested.
  • OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns about Pentagon AI deal
    A senior member of OpenAI's robotics team said guardrails around certain AI uses were not sufficiently defined before OpenAI announced an agreement with the Pentagon.
  • Trump says he won't sign bills until Congress overhauls voting
    President Trump is pushing the Senate to abandon the filibuster and pass SAVE American Act, a bill top Democrat calls 'Jim Crow 2.0'
  • Photos: Scenes from Jesse Jackson's homegoing services
    Thousands showed up in Chicago over the weekend to pay respects to the civil rights leader, who died last month at the age of 84.
  • Five key takeaways from an annual briefing by China's foreign minister
    Speaking at a political gathering in Beijing, China's foreign minister Wang Yi outlined his country's positions on the war in Iran and general relations with America.
  • Police investigate an explosion outside the U.S. Embassy in Oslo
    Norwegian police are investigating an explosion outside the U.S. Embassy in Oslo early Sunday, officials said.


rss: bbc

  • Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader?
    Many expect the 56-year-old, who has largely kept a low profile, to continue his father's hardline policies.
  • Oil prices surge above $110 and shares slide over Iran war
    Major disruption to energy supplies threatens to push up prices for consumers and businesses around the world.
  • 'Night turned into day': Iranians tell of strikes on oil depots
    Fuel depots were hit in Tehran and Karaj overnight, with videos showing huge fires and plumes of smoke in multiple locations.
  • In maps: Nine days of strikes across the Middle East
    Israel has continued strikes across Iran and Lebanon and the Iranian regime has carried out more attacks, as the war continues for a ninth day.
  • 'Mind boggles' at doubts over legality of Iran war, Israeli president says
    Isaac Herzog says Israel is acting out of "self-defence" on behalf of Israel, the wider region and Europe.
  • Huge fire at Glasgow Central Station prompts evacuations as building collapses
    The fire is understood to have started in a vape shop on Union Street on Sunday afternoon, with the building collapsing several hours later.
  • Watch: Fire crews fight blaze near Glasgow Central Station
    The dome of a neighbouring building has collapsed as ScotRail says no trains will operate in or out of the station on Monday.
  • Starmer and Trump speak for first time since president's Iran criticism
    The phone call comes after a week in which Donald Trump repeatedly expressed frustration at Keir Starmer's stance on Iran.
  • New images could be key to solving mystery of body in wetsuit
    Detectives hope the new facial reconstruction images will end an 18-month mystery.
  • Rihanna's Beverly Hills home hit by gunfire, police say
    A suspect was arrested after the shooting on Sunday afternoon, Los Angeles officers say.


rss: the register

  • NASA’s asteroid defence mission slowed targets by 1.7 inches per hour

    You gotta start somewhere, and in this case astroboffins would have been nowhere without help from intrepid volunteers

    NASA has published new analysis of its 2022 planetary defense test that suggests the mission slowed down the target asteroids, albeit infinitesimally.…

  • Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought

    Cyber is no longer the hush-hush thing it used to be, as team Trump invades Iran with hackers taking the lead

    Kettle Unlike previous military conflicts, the cyber domain has been front and center since the Trump administration invaded Iran, upending the traditionally quiet role played by hackers in military conflicts.…

  • Beijing warns of more chip supply worries after Nexperia China claims it was cut off from SAP

    PLUS: Indonesia joins kids social media ban; China frets about AI job impacts; India’s PC market fails to launch, again; And more

    China’s Ministry of Commerce has warned of further disruption to the global semiconductor supply chain after Dutch chipmaker Nexperia cut access to some of its systems for Chinese staff.…

  • FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools

    PLUS: Europol takes down two crime gangs; LastPass users phished (again); Crooks increase crypto hauls; And more

    Infosec In Brief The FBI is investigating a breach of its systems which reportedly affected systems related to wiretapping and surveillance.…

  • AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work

    Crims 'will do what gets them their objective easiest and fastest,' Microsoft threat intel boss tells The Reg

    interview AI agents allow cybercriminals and nation-state hackers to outsource the "janitorial-type work" needed to plan and carry out cyberattacks, according to Sherrod DeGrippo, Microsoft's GM of global threat intelligence. North Korea is taking advantage.…

  • Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom

    What hath science wrought?

    A clump of living human brain cells wired into a silicon chip has answered the internet's most important computing question: yes, it can run Doom.…

  • Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics

    Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits

    feature By now you've probably heard AI datacenters called factories. It's an apt description: power goes in and tokens come out.…

  • Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services

    'There's a naive techno-utopianism in Whitehall'

    Brits are worried that AI will dehumanize public services, leading to less human contact and oversight as well as job losses, according to people questioned by pollster Ipsos.…

  • 60 years since humanity first touched the surface of another planet

    Remembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus

    It is 60 years since humanity first got up close and personal with another planet, with the impact of the Soviet Union's Venera 3.…

  • Oracle and OpenAI's Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids

    Meta supposedly considering untapped capacity in deal brokered by Nvidia

    OpenAI and compute partner Oracle have reportedly abandoned a planned expansion of their flagship Stargate datacenter, after negotiations were stalled by financing and Sam Altman's apparent fear of commitment.…



rss: ars technica

  • Jessica Jones joins the fray in Daredevil: Born Again trailer
    "I'm gonna take this city back."
  • Tiny, long-armed dinosaur leads to rethink of dinosaur miniaturization
    Small size seems to have come before a change in diet for a tiny dinosaur lineage.
  • Hunting for elusive "ghost elephants"
    Werner Herzog directed this evocative NatGeo documentary of an ornithologist's quest to find a new species.
  • A unicorn-like Spinosaurus found in the Sahara
    A unique head spike and fish-eating jaws help make sense of these dinosaurs.
  • From Iran to Ukraine, everyone's trying to hack security cameras
    Research shows apparent Iranian state hackers trying to hijack consumer-grade cameras.
  • Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead
    The Exploration Upper Stage did not in any way get NASA closer to landing on the Moon.
  • Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases
    Planet wants to prevent "adversarial actors" from using images for "Battle Damage Assessment" purposes.
  • Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons
    Fishing crews face horrifying burns from dredging the dumped chemical weapons.
  • Google's new command-line tool can plug OpenClaw into your Workspace data
    This could make it easier to use multiple Workspace APIs, but it's not yet an official Google product.
  • Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances
    The long, strange trip of a large assembly of advanced iOS exploits.


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