rss: npr

  • Southwest flood damage estimates are hundreds of millions for New Mexico alone
    Intense rainstorms linked to a very active El Niño-driven Pacific hurricane season have left thousands of people in the Four Corners states displaced.
  • Israel's election has a high turnout, lifting opposition hopes of beating Netanyahu
    Israelis voted in their highest numbers in decades in a tense national election on Tuesday to decide whether to stick with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right coalition or change course.
  • The Ebola outbreak is breaking records -- and just marked a grim milestone
    The current outbreak, first identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has now counted 10,000 patients and has spread with great speed. How can it be stopped?
  • A judge halted D.C. golf course renovations. Trump says they'll still start next month
    A federal judge has barred the government from clearing more trees or making other alterations to D.C.'s East Potomac Park without proper notice. Trump says his administration will appeal.
  • Bolsonaro's party accepts Brazil election defeat, but he refuses to concede
    Brazil's opposition party accepts President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's election victory, but Flávio Bolsonaro won't concede, while President Trump calls the vote "rigged" without offering evidence.
  • Discursive Verses: Jay-Z, the Super Bowl and playing with house money
    NPR Music culture critic and reporter Rodney Carmichael ruminates on the latest in rap culture. This week: Is the rap mogul's self-selection a crowning achievement or a final affront?
  • A 'Green Army' is out to thwart El Niño flooding
    In Nairobi, a city prone to floods, workers in the "Green Army" are making preparations to prevent disaster when El Niño arrives.
  • Democrats have a midterm edge, poll shows. And, Israelis vote in high-stakes election
    Democrats are still holding a slight edge with Election Day a week away, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. And, Israelis are casting their votes in an election that could change leadership.
  • How Aldi is pushing down grocery prices
    The German-owned chain's low prices are winning over shoppers — and pushing competitors to respond.
  • Polymarket has investigated 'dozens' of election-related cases
    The prediction market has hired a former FBI official to make sure political insiders don't use the platform for profit from confidential election information. 


rss: bbc

  • Chris Mason: Budget needs to go some way towards delivering PM's promises
    Support on the cost of living, and in particular energy bills, as well as announcments on devolution will be central to John Healey's first Budget.
  • Minimum wage set to rise but 18-20 year-olds will not get bigger increase
    Chancellor John Healey will reveal the new pay rates in the Budget, and has also announced measures to help households with the cost of living.
  • Two in court over alleged Iran-linked plot at RAF Fairford
    Mohmed Abdulkarim and Nouman Essghir, both 24, appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
  • King to acknowledge 'suffering of the past' as Caribbean tour begins
    The King is on a nine-day tour that will take him to three countries, including the Bahamas, Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda.
  • Men abused woman after her husband drugged and advertised her online, court told
    Four men stand trial after the woman's ex-husband has pleaded guilty to drugging and raping her.
  • Landline switchover could cut people off in emergency, minister warned
    Plans to switch to digital landlines by January could leave remote areas of the UK vulnerable, MPs say.
  • Ceasefire extended across Ukraine's Kherson region, officials say
    The truce was originally planned for the stranded residents of Oleshky, and Russia and Ukraine say no breaches have been reported.
  • Norway and Finland leaders hold rare call with Putin
    An end to the conflict in Ukraine "will not be achieved through silence," Finland's President Alexander Stubb said.
  • Dutch zookeeper dies after being mauled by leopard
    The woman began her career at the park when she was 17 and had worked there on-and-off for four decades.
  • Trump vs Obama - which president has the star power to get out the vote?
    The BBC's Sarah Smith followed Trump and Obama as both parties hope their biggest names can drive midterm turnout.


rss: the register

  • Big Red gets cozy with Google to offer TPUs to AI customers
    Oracle plans to add those chips alongside new Nvidia hardware and OpenAI services as businesses await AI payoffs
  • Anthropic now lets Claude users jump out of plane without parachute
    Meet CLAUDE_CODE_EVEN_MORE_DANGEROUSLY_SKIP_PERMISSIONS
  • AI 'hacker' finds 4 severe bugs in popular industrial control software in under 4 hours
    One critical, three high-severity EPICS bugs could disrupt research experiments
  • Apple takes powerful M6 chip to the MacBook Pro, iMac
    6th-gen M-series silicon promises more cores, faster memory, a fatter NPU, and better connectivity, now in more form factors
  • EU privacy advocates accuse US data annotation firm of snooping on contractors
    Noyb files five complaints in four member states over alleged tracking of workers on Scale AI's Outlier platform
  • ZacOS 9 and Mavernix: Two classic Apple desktops find their Wayland to Linux
    Classic Platinum or lickable Mavericks-era Aqua – it's your choice
  • Day 2 of canceled classes at University of New Mexico after Health Sciences Center cyberattack
    University hospitals once again accepting patients after initial ambulance diversion, but recovery to continue in phases
  • Take it on the chin SatNad: Microsoft chief exec's pay slips 6% in record year
    Revenue up, operating profit up, 30 million paid Copilot seats locked in, 88 DCs added, $43.8 billion returned to shareholders
  • CISA confirms PHP2Shell under attack as researchers clock successful exploits
    Both critical PHP flaws land on the agency’s exploited list as infosec pros confirm hackers are getting working shells
  • A whopping 3% of boardroom execs spy productivity and costs savings from AI
    A load more are spending more than they expected and forecast to shell out even more in 2027


rss: ars technica

  • Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth
    Critical flaw in EDK2 allows attackers to execute code early in the boot process.
  • Google begins certifying Registered App Stores for Android, but not in the US
    Easier app installs are coming to third-party stores, pending Google's stamp of approval.
  • Vibe genes? Natural(ish) language comes to protein, genome design software
    You can apparently now tell AI tools what sort of protein you want them to make.
  • Warner Bros. drops final trailer for Dune: Part Three
    "After years of combat, I've become the oppressor Chani had sworn to fight."
  • Ford simplifies using your EV as a home battery with the $30K Fathom
    The Fathom pickup won’t need a wall-mounted inverter to output 10 kW to your house.
  • DeepMind unveils Genie 4 world model promising more realistic physics and humans
    Genie 4 will roll out to developers and Google AI Ultra subscribers soon.
  • From cheap tool to premium subscription: When a beloved app's price skyrockets
    Huge price hikes force loyal users to reconsider their favorite apps.
  • Apple iPhone Duo review: Two screens, two experiences, two thousand dollars
    I respect Apple's first crack at a foldable phone, but I'm not sure I like it.
  • Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing, Apple says only a "small number" are affected
    Apple's "precision-engineered" hinge is apparently damaging some iPhone Duo screens.
  • Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup
    University of Sheffield researchers figured out how to re-create the 1,600-year-old glass recipe.


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