rss: npr

  • Exclusive: Meet the inaugural winner of Fat Marmot Week
    Dawn was crowned fattest marmot by popular vote.
  • Are you sure that Kimmel clip was real? Late-night AI deepfakes are spreading online
    While social media is rife with AI celebrity deepfakes, videos featuring late night TV hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart are are easier to create than other kinds of deepfakes and potentially more disruptive.
  • NASA has successfully launched its newest space telescope
    The tour-bus-sized telescope aims to unravel cosmic mysteries and identify more than 100,000 planets beyond our solar system.
  • How a comic book store got swept into the tariff storm
    Tariffs continue to rile all kinds of American businesses more than a year after Trump unveiled his first set of tariffs — including a comic book store owner in Ohio.
  • From Appalachia to Africa: Why Dolly Parton was beloved across the continent
    Dolly Parton's songs traveled far beyond Nashville. Across Africa, musicians embraced her stories of hardship, heartbreak and humble beginnings — and made them their own.
  • Nepal warns of possible fresh flooding as communities grapple with devastation
    Authorities in Nepal warned of possible fresh flooding on Sunday and urged residents in flood-affected districts to remain on high alert after water levels rose in the Bhotekoshi River.
  • Medicare's pilot GLP-1 discount program has a catch. Some sick patients don't qualify
    Medicare launched a pilot program that could streamline the process to get GLP-1s, with some seniors paying just $50 a month. But many people with the most serious illnesses won't get that discount.
  • Trump administration deports relative of Afghans who helped US military to Central African Republic
    His family in Afghanistan had received threats from the Taliban because of the work performed by his brothers in support of the U.S. military.
  • AI chatbots may be better than search engines in guarding against foreign propaganda
    In a test, popular AI chatbots mostly debunked falsehoods spread by other countries and avoided uncritically spreading falsehoods better than search engines. AI summaries above search results fared worse.
  • Icelanders vote 'no' to talks aimed at joining the EU in close referendum
    The vote against the EU led by 52.8 percent with nearly all votes counted, according to RÚV, Iceland's broadcaster.


rss: bbc

  • PC Harper's killers to stay in jail as PM announces changes to early release scheme
    Andy Burnham tells BBC Breakfast anyone convicted of manslaughter will be excluded from the early release scheme in the Sentencing Act.
  • Burnham gets the early prison release changes he wanted - but at what cost?
    The prime minister says he will keep hundreds more criminals behind bars but doing so requires complex changes.
  • British woman killed in stabbing at German railway station
    A 27-year-old German man was arrested immediately after the incident in Rosenheim, Bavaria.
  • Church names pastor killed by falling sign at Christian festival
    Robert Guanco, 41, was a pastor at Jesus the Living Water Church in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
  • Iceland votes against restarting talks on joining EU
    Broadcaster RUV reports that 52.8% of voters rejected the government's proposal to resume talks.
  • China censors videos showing deadly flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border
    Footage of the flash floods have become almost impossible to find on China’s heavily censored internet.
  • 97-year-old woman rescued after Nepali floods looked like 'a warrior'
    A 97-year-old woman, Guna Maya Bohara, survived the flash floods and was rescued using an excavator.
  • Footage of Tibet floods isn't being shown in China - and we know little about victims there
    Some of the most dramatic footage from the deadly flash flooding is hidden from public view in China.
  • What we know about the 33 British nationals missing in Nepal
    Among those reported missing after deadly floods are a 13-year-old girl and 14-year-old boy.
  • We all share a 15-acre Georgian mansion for the price of a two-bed house
    Co-housing residents live in a Grade II listed mansion for the same price as a two-bed house.


rss: the register

  • Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
    Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats
  • AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting
    A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's
  • Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems
    Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle
  • Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range
    At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads
  • Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website
    More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi
  • German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters
    How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?
  • AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system?
    Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense
  • LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI
    It looks a bit clunky, but it does the job – and on your own computer
  • Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted
    Tree huggers aim to end blanket critical infrastructure status for bit barns and ensure environmental standards are met
  • US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies
    The IT specialist began contacting a foreign government within days of being assigned to the DIA’s Insider Threat Division


rss: ars technica

  • Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
    The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.
  • I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.
    Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.
  • Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name
    Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," judges rule.
  • Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August
    Cancellations have accelerated.
  • "RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate": Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster
    RFK Jr. went to Samoa to spread vaccine fears. The measles outbreak after killed 83.
  • Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge
    Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.
  • Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced
    "It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal."
  • Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent
    Annual Apple TV subscriptions get the biggest bump.
  • Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day
    James Cameron's 1991 sci-fi blockbuster returns to theaters this weekend for its 35th anniversary.
  • Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording
    Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.


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