rss: npr

  • 'Sopranos' actor Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters and tough guys, dead at 80
    Vincent Pastore appeared in movies dating back to the 1980s and had roles in big movies including "Goodfellas" and "Awakenings," both in 1990.
  • Avalanche in Pakistan kills famed mountaineer Nirmal Purja and his fellow climbers
    A mountaineering team with climbers from around the world, including the U.S., was attempting to climb one of the tallest peaks on earth.
  • Overnight Russian barrage kills nine in Kyiv, as air defense struggle with U.S. continues
    Ballistic missiles tore into five districts of the Ukrainian capital before dawn Saturday. President Trump is now walking back a promised boost to Ukraine's missile defense systems.
  • Spain's Pedro Sánchez was a hero of migrants. After Ceuta, he faces his biggest challenge
    The pro-immigration leader is facing backlash at home and abroad after roughly 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave.
  • Opinion: Remembering Margo Howard
    Margo Howard had a lot of life experience and used it to offer advice for years as "Dear Prudence" for Slate. She died this week at the age of 86.
  • How these slum dwellers went from one-room shacks to beautiful new apartments
    It's a bold new experiment and it's already won a prize. Residents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building.
  • FDA weighs a new kind of flu shot based on technology RFK Jr. has questioned
    The FDA is poised to render a decision on Moderna's mRNA-based flu shot, which could be the first of its kind to market. The decision is expected to reverberate throughout the biotech industry.
  • Lebanese who fled the Israeli invasion visit to see what's left
    Residents of the ancient town of Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon have endured wars in the past, but the latest conflict with Israel is testing the limits of their endurance.
  • More than 25,000 children lose previous legal protections, as federal contract ends
    Thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children are set to lose legal representation. The federal contract that pays for legal access expired Friday.
  • Death toll in Spain border crisis reaches 67 as tens of thousands cross back in to Morocco
    The death toll in Spain's Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67. They included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.


rss: bbc

  • EU calls emergency meeting to discuss Ceuta migrant crossings
    There have been tense exchanges between Spain and other EU states over the influx of migrants into the enclave of Ceuta.
  • A bruising 24 hours - what next for Fifa and under-pressure Infantino?
    The pressure is building on Gianni Infantino. Can he survive as Fifa president?
  • Young guns for hire - the teenage hitmen recruited to kill across Europe
    The Foxtrot Network is thought to be responsible for about 35 murders in Europe, and uses violence-as-a-service tactics.
  • Emotional Kerr delivers moment Glasgow 2026 has waited for with men's mile gold
    There were no pacers and no wave lights. This was a Saturday night scrap - Glasgow rules - and Josh Kerr wasn't going to let anyone beat him in that fight.
  • Three killed after bomb detonated at Moscow restaurant, state media say
    Security officials said a woman tried to enter the restaurant with explosives but was stopped by a security guard.
  • Tourist plane crashes in Peru, killing 13
    The small plane was flying over the Nazca Lines ​archaeological site when it crashed, according to local reports.
  • Does Love Island UK need to pull the US version for a chat?
    Fans, commentators and an ex-Islander reflect on what the dating series could do to draw in more viewers again.
  • I had a vasectomy in my 20s after the trauma of my sons' births
    As the number of young men having vasectomies rises, BBC News spoke to two about why they chose to have the snip.
  • How Spain's migrant crisis created a political storm - whipped up by social media
    The Ceuta crossings have shaken Europe politically, exposing divisions over the sensitive issue of migration, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford writes.
  • Solitude as a new aspirational lifestyle: 'We are not lonely'
    A growing number of what the internet has dubbed "loneliness influencers" are spotlighting solo living without children or friends - and it's spurring debate.


rss: the register

  • Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in
    Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key
  • A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it
    88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip
  • Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing
    Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating
  • Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer
    Persistent sessions could be just the beginning
  • The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters
    Hopefully the company secures houses better than it locks down SaaS systems
  • US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data
    History suggests this was not wise
  • Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder
    Whoever wins, we lose
  • Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar
    A nice little summer job for someone
  • Charities remain locked out of CAF Bank online accounts
    A week into shutdown, 14,000 customers still have no restoration date and some are struggling to pay staff
  • NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin
    Engineers make progress in stabilizing mission but push back the rendezvous date


rss: ars technica

  • Here's how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA's Swift mission
    "We believe that a capture of Swift, an attempted capture of Swift, is very much in the cards."
  • Review: Yes, we're still arguing about Nolan's The Odyssey
    Christopher Nolan's impressionistic remix of Homer's epic poem finds the man behind the myth.
  • As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
    Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google.
  • After noise complaints, judge orders Waymo to stop overnight charging in Santa Monica
    Autonomous vehicle giant disturbs residents' sleep.
  • Defcon's new badge is a security key you can see inside
    A removable chip lets hackers inspect their badge—and keep using it after Defcon.
  • How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source
    Tracking smells in turbulent air takes a keen sense of direction and sharp memory.
  • Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA
    Some group with no modern descendants contributed a lot to our genomes.
  • Doctors took a look at man's painful shoulder—they found the joint was missing
    The term "Milwaukee Shoulder Syndrome" was coined in 1981, based on cases in four women.
  • Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification
    Someone in Cuba or Iran can keep installing APKs with no new restrictions, but devs will suffer.
  • Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive
    Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.


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