rss: npr

  • Palestinian officials hail local elections in a Gaza community and the West Bank
    Palestinian officials say local elections in Gaza and the West Bank mark a step toward a long-delayed presidential election. The Palestinian Authority hasn't held a presidential election in 21 years.
  • Monte Coleman, who won 3 Super Bowls as a Washington linebacker, dies at age 68
    The hard-nosed linebacker, who won three Super Bowls and later coached Arkansas-Pine Bluff, has died. UAPB and the Commanders announced his death Sunday. No cause of death was disclosed.
  • Alleged Colorado attacker's family released after nearly a year in detention
    A Texas judge ordered Hayam El Gamal and her five children released Thursday. Two days later, their lawyers say, ICE re-arrested and tried to deport them.
  • A fast-growing Georgia wildfire tops 31 square miles, with evacuations possible
    One of two large wildfires in southeastern Georgia continues to grow and now exceeds 31 square miles.
  • A chaotic White House Correspondents' Dinner, as told by NPR reporters in the room
    Top government officials were rushed out of the Washington Hilton after gunshots were heard at the dinner. NPR journalists describe hiding under tables and scrambling for information as the night unfolded.
  • What we know about Cole Allen, suspected White House Correspondents' dinner shooter
    The 31-year-old teacher and engineer from California sent an alleged message to family members saying that he wanted to target administration officials.
  • Photos: The aftermath of the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting
    A suspect has been arrested after firing shots at a security screening area at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night.
  • Details emerge of alleged shooter at White House correspondents' dinner
    The alleged gunman has been identified as Cole Allen, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
  • How China is responding to the stalling of talks between the U.S. and Iran
    NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Zongyuan Zoe Liu, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, about how China views the current crisis in the Middle East
  • World Press Photo Contest winners cast a lens on resilience, pain and bliss
    A selection of prize honorees from the 2026 World Press Photo Contest capture the pain of the past year — but also focus on moments of strength, determination and joy.


rss: bbc

  • King to revitalise US relationship, says UK ambassador as trip goes ahead
    The UK's ambassador to the US welcomes the state visit, at a difficult time for UK and US relations.
  • UK's biggest ever environmental pollution claim reaches High Court
    One of the UK's largest chicken producers and a water company accused of polluting three rivers including the River Wye
  • UK sees steepest decline in healthy life expectancy of rich nations
    Poor housing, obesity and the effects of deprivation have been suggested as underlying cause.
  • Arson arrest after fire at packed-out LGBT+ club
    An eyewitness says "thousands" of people were evacuated from the club.
  • 'I don't want the children to see how worried we are': UK family finances hit by Iran war
    British families tell BBC Panorama how the Iran war is affecting their monthly budgets.
  • Ukraine's drone commander has Russian oil, troops and morale in his sights
    In a rare interview, Commander Robert Brovdi shared how his unit accounts for a third of all targets destroyed on the battlefield.
  • Man arrested over attacks on Jewish community in London
    A 37-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.
  • Oil prices rise as US-Iran peace talks stall
    President Trump said on Saturday that the US had cancelled plans to send a team to Pakistan for negotiations.
  • Death toll in Colombia highway bus bomb attack rises to 20
    Political violence has escalated in Colombia ahead of next month's presidential election.
  • Murdered teen's mum dismayed as PM meets tech bosses first
    Brianna Ghey's mum says it's "equally important" he hears from bereaved families about online safety.


rss: the register

  • PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch

    There was only one ESC from sneaky screenshots and fake BSODs

    Who, Me? Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's Monday column that shares your stories of mistakes, occasional malice, and how you came out the other side.…

  • Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now

    Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos

    KETTLE If you needed further evidence that AI comes first in pretty much everything nowadays, look no further than this year's Google Cloud Next show, which happened last week.…

  • Tokenmaxxing isn't an AI strategy

    Before checking AI's price tag, see whether it fits

    What does AI cost? It's a simple question and an important one – the answer will determine the fate of companies and shape society. But it's also a question that can't be answered in a meaningful way without additional context.…

  • Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense

    The OS trying to upsell you subscriptions is more than just an annoyance

    opinion You’ve had your laptop for months, and you’ve always made sure it installed Microsoft updates. Then one day you boot up, and Windows 11 greets you with a confusing message: “You’re almost done setting up your PC.”…

  • AI's not going to kill open source code security

    Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way

    Opinion Cal.com has closed its commercial codebase, abandoning years of AGPL-3.0 licensing in a move that has alarmed the developer community that helped build it and sent ripples through the broader open source world.…

  • Ex-AWS legend explains what enterprises need to make AI actually work

    AI transformation is about people and organization, not technology

    Enterprise AI projects go off the rails when companies focus on the technology instead of the people.…

  • Crime crew impersonates help desk, abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data

    Coming in cold with custom Snow malware

    A previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics - Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation - is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.…

  • DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs

    Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1

    Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance to rival the best proprietary American LLMs. Perhaps more importantly, it claims to dramatically reduce inference costs and it extends support for Huawei's Ascend family of AI accelerators.…

  • Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps

    New LTS is here, with more tooling for GPGPU and AI workloads

    Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon," the latest LTS release from Canonical, arrives with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.0, and drops the Xorg option from Ubuntu Desktop while still running X11 applications through Xwayland.…

  • Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs

    What, you didn't expect autonomous military craft to stay in the sky forever?

    Drones: they're not just for the sky anymore. DARPA is seeking compact deep-ocean autonomous craft developed faster, smaller, and cheaper than today's full-ocean-depth AUV systems.…



rss: ars technica

  • Strange New Worlds S4 teaser strikes a more serious tone
    "I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate where wiser men would have left well enough alone."
  • Prime Video drops full trailer for Spider-Noir
    It's "a detective story, but the detective happens to also have spider powers.”—EP Chris Miller
  • New robotic control software avoids jamming their joints
    Software lets robots learn from each other even if they have different hardware.
  • Artemis II broke Fred Haise's distance record, but he is happy to pass it on
    "It wasn't a big deal. It just coincided with the fact that Moon was farther away from the Earth."
  • Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"
    Slack messages, interviews with current and former works paint picture of company in turmoil.
  • This is who's developing Golden Dome's orbital interceptors—if they're ever built
    "If boost-phase intercept from space is not affordable and scalable, we will not produce it."
  • Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic
    This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.
  • Europe—not US—first to authorize Moderna's combo mRNA flu-COVID vaccine
    Amid RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda, Moderna withdrew its FDA application last year.
  • FCC: Router ban includes portable hotspots, but not phones with hotspot features
    FCC defines consumer routers expansively, updates FAQ to include Wi-Fi hotspots.
  • Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.
    Hundreds of subdomains from dozens of universities have been hijacked by scammers.


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