rss: npr

  • Will even one of the U.N.'s 17 'sustainable development goals' be met by 2030?
    The 17 goals agreed upon by world leaders are incredibly ambitious. Are we even close to achieving any of them? If we don't, is the project a failure?
  • Judge says Trump can't demolish Kennedy Center. And, lawsuits target voter intimidation
    A federal judge ruled yesterday that President Trump cannot tear down the Kennedy Center without a 30-day notice. And, recent lawsuits seek to keep armed federal officers away from polling sites.
  • Ms. Rachel has entered her album era, and she is so happy about it
    Ms. Rachel has conquered YouTube, Netflix and the toy aisle. Now she's making an album, with real instruments, big feelings and her littlest listeners in mind.
  • Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway chairman
    Warren Buffett is stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway after serving in the role for more than 50 years. His son, Howard, will become Berkshire Hathaway's new chairman
  • South Africa 'feels like a prison' for women amid spate of femicides
    South Africa has some of the highest rates of violence against women in the world, and a spate of killings of nine women in the same area in recent weeks has led to renewed outrage.
  • True or false: Trump's name is now on the Kennedy Center. The quiz has the answer
    The world made it to another Friday without an AI apocalypse, so here's the quiz! See you next week … maybe.
  • Could trees developed with gene-editing technology protect Florida's citrus industry?
    A bacterial infection is wiping out Florida's citrus trees. Growers hope a rootstock developed with gene-editing technology could keep the disease at bay.
  • Republican 'cavalry' arrives with a Trump-backed $150 million ad blitz in key races
    To counter a difficult political environment, two Trump-aligned super PACs have reserved more than $150 million in ads — primarily in deep red House and Senate races that have now become competitive.
  • A DHS email raises new questions about the Trump administration's election plans
    A heavily redacted email from last year, reported first by NPR, reveals that DHS personnel shared a list of jurisdictions that offer election materials in non-English languages. It's unclear why.
  • How Google is drafting AI chatbot laws around the country
    As states push to regulate chatbots, tech companies are trying to write safety rules in ways that exempt some of their key products.


rss: bbc

  • 'I'm telling the truth': Earl Spencer defends Diana book claims about Charles in BBC interview
    Exclusive: Princess Diana's brother tells the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that "we'll forget her soon enough" were "exactly" the words used by the then-Prince of Wales.
  • Watch: Diana's brother says Charles 'went ballistic' in phone call after her death
    Earl Spencer spoke exclusively with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg about claims he has made in a new book.
  • MI5 accepts it gave evidence based on lies in neo-Nazi spy case
    It is the first time MI5 has confirmed the BBC's revelation that it gave evidence based on lies in court while defending the violent informant.
  • Flight chaos caused by software defect in space of a millisecond, report says
    The failure led to more than 2,000 flights being cancelled and hundreds of thousands of passengers affected.
  • Teen who piloted Channel boat with 165 migrants jailed
    Chan Mathok Atak has been sentenced to two years and three months in prison after piloting the boat.
  • Brother didn't match description of 'Putney pusher', suspect's sisters tell BBC
    Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Nicholas Brandram's sisters accused the Metropolitan Police of being "negligent and reckless".
  • 'Get in' - woman joins police chase by giving officer a lift in Nissan Micra
    The suspect reverse-rammed a police car and crashed into parked cars while trying to escape.
  • Tenko and Coronation Street actress Stephanie Cole dies aged 84
    She was best known for playing Dr Beatrice Mason in the 1980s BBC wartime TV drama Tenko.
  • Watch: Sixth batch of UFO files includes orbs from 1952
    The footage was filmed by a US Navy officer who reported the group of bright airborne objects to the Air Force's UFO investigation programme.
  • Russian hybrid attacks against Europe intensifying, says Macron
    The French president says he has tasked the government with protecting critical infrastructure and defence industry sites.


rss: the register

  • FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B
    AI, fake uniforms, and mock government offices help crooks sell the con
  • Admins, you've been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge's IE Mode
    Legacy web apps have guaranteed shelter only through 2029, and Redmond warns modernization can take years
  • KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal
    Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user
  • Microsoft fixes the fix that broke Excel paste – partly
    Hotfix covers only Excel 2016 and may still come unstuck around conditional formatting
  • The ideal database for AI agents doesn't exist yet, says Percona CEO
    Iterative workloads caught vendors off guard, but requirements for a clean-slate solution remain unclear
  • Former Labour deputy Tom Watson joins Palantir as £330M NHS deal nears break point
    US spy-tech firm insists its new UK senior vice president is there to 'build things, not to open doors'
  • KPMG tech cuts come with a severance sum some staff call insulting
    AI, Cyber, SAP and Testing teams caught in latest reshaping of Big Four consultancy's Advisory arm
  • British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky
    Surveillance and training drone systems will come through three UK suppliers, though some are built overseas
  • Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up
    Whitehall changes a 'big mistake' as anything going in with Business department gets squeezed
  • Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill
    When wires and wireless mix, the combination can be electric


rss: ars technica

  • Meet the winner of Nikon's Small World in Motion video contest
    Ning Xu of Tsinghua University captured tiny cilia beating in airways of a child with rare respiratory disorder.
  • Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI
    Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.
  • Rocket Report: China wants a Raptor 3 engine; SpaceX set for big Starship test
    “I can tell you SpaceX has already gone captive."
  • RFK Jr. names 8 new members to influential preventive medicine task force
    The USPSTF sets insurance coverage for preventive services, like colonoscopies.
  • Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets
    Scaleout deploys decentralized AI-driven learning to military bases and drones.
  • Google announces new experimental "CC" AI agent for families
    Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.
  • Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
    Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
  • Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites
    Bill would help rightsholders obtain court orders to block foreign piracy sites.
  • LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
    SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.
  • IV drips used for "detoxification" actually filled with toxins; dozens poisoned
    The IV drips included glutathione, which was not made to be injected.


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