rss: npr

  • After the Supreme Court's ruling on tariffs, companies line up for refunds
    The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Trump's tariffs. But the justices left a $133 billion question unanswered: What's going to happen to the money the government has already collected?
  • In Berlin, there are movies, there's politics and there's talk about it all
    Buzz around whether the city's film festival would take a stance on the war in Gaza has dominated conversation in recent days.
  • Alex Ferreira wins 10th gold medal for Team USA, matching America's highest total in Winter Olympics
    Freeskier Alex Ferreira clinches a tenth gold medal for the U.S. in these Games, tying the U.S.'s all-time record for gold medals in a Winter Olympics.
  • Trump calls SCOTUS tariffs decision 'deeply disappointing' and lays out path forward
    President Trump claimed the justices opposing his position were acting because of partisanship, though three of those ruling against his tariffs were appointed by Republican presidents.
  • After dominant 6-2 win, the U.S. will face Canada for Olympic men's hockey gold
    In the semifinal, Slovakia had few answers for the American onslaught. Now, the U.S. men will meet Canada for a chance to win the team's first Olympic hockey gold since the "Miracle on Ice" back in 1980.
  • NASA eyes March 6 to launch 4 astronauts to the moon on Artemis II mission
    The four astronauts heading to the moon for the lunar fly-by are the first humans to venture there since 1972. The ten-day mission will travel more than 600,000 miles.
  • On pins and needles: Why Olympians pass the time knitting
    A number of Olympic athletes have turned to knitting during the heat of the Games, including Ben Ogden, who this week became the most decorated American male Olympic cross-country skier.
  • U.K. considers cutting ex-Prince Andrew from line of succession over his Epstein ties
    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the British former prince, is being investigated on suspicion of misconduct in having shared confidential trade information with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
  • 7 key things to know about Trump's tariffs after the Supreme Court decision
    The Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Trump overstepped his authority in ordering tariffs on nearly everything the U.S. imports. Here's some economic context to understand that decision.
  • Facing a mental health crisis, an NJ school pulled a beloved novel from English class
    Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was removed from an English class at the public school. PEN America says it's part of a trend of scrubbing literature dealing with uncomfortable topics.


rss: bbc

  • Trump brings in new 10% tariff as Supreme Court rejects his global import taxes
    The Supreme Court decision striking down some of Trump's most sweeping tariffs injects new uncertainty into global trade.
  • Government considers removing Andrew from royal line of succession
    The former Duke of York is eighth in line to the throne meaning he remains eligible to be King.
  • Andrew and King Charles: A personal battle of royal brothers
    The problems facing the monarchy over Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor are also a family problem between brothers.
  • Killing of nationalist student leaves French far left in deep trouble as elections loom
    Far-left militants are suspected of being behind Quentin Deranque's death and the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon is being widely condemned.
  • Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media
    Deepfakes showing grim taxpayer-funded waterparks have gone viral and drawn some racist responses.
  • In the army now: Pictures that show how ordinary Ukrainians have been shaped by war
    Six Ukrainian men and women in uniform reveal how Russia's invasion in 2022 has changed them.
  • The best looks at London Fashion Week 2026
    There are 90 designers showing this year, with organisers hoping it's the biggest fashion week yet.
  • Met asks Andrew's protection officers what they saw or heard in Epstein inquiry
    Officers will continue searching Andrew's former Windsor home until Monday, the BBC understands.
  • What happens next for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor?
    The former prince was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office and taken to a Norfolk police station for questioning on Thursday 19 February.
  • A tip-off and 'more luck than judgement': The story behind Andrew car snap
    After the former prince's arrest, Reuters photographer Phil Noble began a six-hour drive to Norfolk.


rss: the register

  • Ofcom's grumble-o-meter lights up for EE, TalkTalk, Vodafone

    Q3 figures show the trio drawing the most broadband complaints per 100,000 customers

    The UK's telecoms regulator has named and shamed the companies it receives the most customer complaints about, with certain brands cropping up more than others.…

  • SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping

    'The DMCA was not designed to create walled gardens for tech giants'

    SerpApi, a Texas-based web scraping company, has asked a California court to dismiss Google's claim that that it bypassed digital locks to gather copyrighted content in Google Search results.…

  • The idea of using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense

    The micro-computer maker’s shares surged this week after an X post tied the AI agent to Pi demand

    opinion Beloved British single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi has achieved meme stock stardom, as its share price surged 90 percent over the course of a couple of days earlier this week. It's settled since, but it’s still up more than 30 percent on the week.…

  • PayPal app code error leaked personal info and a 'few' unauthorized transactions

    About 100 customers affected

    PayPal has notified about 100 customers that their personal information was exposed online during a code change gone awry, and in a few of these cases, people saw unauthorized transactions on their accounts.…

  • Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs

    Legal language change aims to make longstanding policy clear

    Anthropic this week revised its legal terms to clarify its policy forbidding the use of third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions, as the AI biz attempts to shore up its revenue model.…

  • AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos

    4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack

    Someone compromised open source AI coding assistant Cline CLI's npm package earlier this week in an odd supply chain attack that secretly installed OpenClaw on developers' machines without their knowledge. …

  • SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists

    Good news: Team shows re-entry pollution can be measured. Bad news: There may be more of it coming

    The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that burned up over Europe last year left a massive lithium plume in its wake, say a group of scientists. They warn the disaster is likely a sign of things to come as Earth's atmosphere continues to become a heavily trafficked superhighway to space. …

  • Cerebras plans humongous AI supercomputer in India backed by UAE

    Up to 8 exaFLOPS of super sparse AI compute

    Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems' dinner plate-sized accelerators will power a new supercomputing cluster in India capable of 8 exaFLOPS of AI compute.…

  • ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data

    What happens in Vegas…

    Las Vegas hotel and casino giant Wynn Resorts appears to be the latest victim of data-grabbing and extortion gang ShinyHunters.…

  • Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS

    Bezos-corp blames user error for outage, 'specifically misconfigured access controls'

    In a cautionary tale of agentic AI, AWS reportedly suffered service outages caused by its own AI coding tools in December - though the company insists the downtime was ultimately due to human error.…



rss: ars technica

  • After fueling test, optimism grows for March launch of Artemis II to the Moon
    “We’re now targeting March 6 as our earliest launch attempt ... there is still pending work."
  • Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer steps down after 38 years with company
    Microsoft CoreAI exec Asha Sharma will take over in surprise executive shake-up.
  • MAHA moms threaten to turn this car around as RFK Jr. flips on pesticide
    MAHA members call movement a "sham" after Kennedy supports glyphosate order.
  • Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK
    Persona confirmed all age-check data from Discord's UK test was deleted.
  • FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance
    Brendan Carr wants "patriotic" shows for Trump's yearlong America 250 celebration.
  • Meta's flagship metaverse service leaves VR behind
    The company asserts it will continue to make VR headsets, though.
  • Controversial NIH director now in charge of CDC, too, in RFK Jr. shake-up
    The unusual dual role has renewed criticism of Bhattacharya's lack of leadership.
  • Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
    If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
  • Why Final Fantasy is now targeting PC as its "lead platform"
    Director says PC is the "foundation" when targeting "high-end environments first."
  • "Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans
    The revised age may help make sense of 2-million-year-old stone tools elsewhere in China.


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