rss: npr

  • Nigeria confirms an Ebola case in Abuja as a woman arriving from Uganda tests positive
    Nigeria is the latest country to report an Ebola case as the outbreak spreads across the region. Kenya confirmed its first case earlier this month and has since recorded nine infections.
  • Vanessa Kerry is the new WHO envoy for health resilience. What's on her to-do list?
    A respected figure in the world of global health, Dr. Kerry takes on a new responsibility. She says it's challenging but not "daunting."
  • DOJ charges 28 with voting crimes. And, TikTok ignored staff's child safety concerns
    The Justice Department has charged 28 people in California with voting crimes as Election Day nears. And, TikTok staff raised child safety concerns with executives, who failed to act, court records show.
  • What if an AI bubble bursts — and that accelerates AI job losses?
    Research on past recessions suggests downturns can accelerate automation. That raises the specter of a double whammy for workers.
  • Can the new federal voucher program help public schools? Democrats are torn
    The new scholarship tax credit program could help public school families pay for some educational services, but advocates worry it could do more harm than good.
  • TikTok staff raised child safety alarms. Court records show executives failed to act
    The warnings surfaced in a trove of unreported court records. "I have been fighting about fixing this for months with people who didn't think the harms are severe enough," wrote one executive.
  • Why these 5 everyday items fluctuate in price at the grocery store
    Here's what's behind the fluctuating costs of everyday grocery items such as ground beef, eggs and chocolate chip cookies.
  • Morning news brief
    Trump presses to find an end to the war in Ukraine while courting Russia, campaigning reaches fever pitch with Election Day two weeks away, DOJ charges 28 people in California with voting crimes.
  • Rays will face Brewers in World Series to produce a first-time champion
    The Rays will face the NL champion Milwaukee Brewers in the first matchup in which both teams are seeking their first World Series title since 1980.
  • Alberta voters reject a move toward independence in referendum backing Canadian unity
    Voters in Canada's oil-rich Alberta province overwhelmingly backed remaining in Canada, with early referendum results Tuesday delivering a boost to Prime Minister Carney's push for national unity.


rss: bbc

  • Two men re-arrested on suspicion of assisting Iran intelligence after RAF Fairford incident
    The head of UK Counter Terrorism Policing said they consider Iranian state involvement "highly likely".
  • Zelensky says US intelligence sharing 'works now' after talks with Trump envoy in Oslo
    Ukraine had accused the US of withholding key intelligence - a claim rejected as "scandalous" by Washington.
  • Government failings allowed Covid 'to spread like wildfire' in care homes, inquiry finds
    The sixth report from Covid inquiry criticises the lack of PPE and the way patients were discharged from hospital.
  • BBC Three, BBC Scotland and Radio 4 Extra broadcast channels to close
    The closures are announced as the corporation continues to try to save £500m over two years.
  • King praises Strait of Hormuz peace efforts at glittering banquet
    The Sultan of Oman, leader of a Middle Eastern strategic partner, is welcomed to Windsor for a state visit.
  • Elon Musk says Tesla-SpaceX merger would be a 'good idea'
    Musk says special committees within both companies have been formed to consider a possible mega-merger.
  • Schools should recognise antisemitism as distinct form of harm, review says
    The government is expected to accept all 27 recommendations made in the review by ex-Ofsted boss, Sir David Bell.
  • Woman says she 'couldn't speak or breathe' during alleged rape by Russell Brand
    The entertainer denies three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault and one of indecent assault.
  • UK government to make Jackdaw gas field announcement
    The long-awaited decision about the controversial North Sea field is expected on Wednesday morning.
  • Audit regulator looking into Manchester City accounting
    No formal investigation has started, but the regulator is making inquiries into the case.


rss: the register

  • Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure
    And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model
  • Palo Alto's firewall OS has been under attack from multiple ransomware groups since June
    Unit 42 investigates network compromises across numerous industries
  • Swamped curl maintainers take low-level flaws public to survive vulnerability 'avalanche'
    From October 26, only high and critical cases stay private as project seeks help sharing the workload
  • OneDrive loses bunch of Copilot shortcuts in File Explorer clear-out
    Microsoft keeps 'Ask Copilot' as dedicated actions disappear between mid-November and early December
  • openEuler brings China's enterprise Linux ambitions to the desktop
    CentOS roots give way to homegrown containers, AI tools, and a workstation edition we took for a spin
  • How going dual-native means VM/container co-existence and sovereign security in the AI era
    SPONSORED FEATURE: Nutanix says running VMs and containers within the same operating environment shouldn’t be a brake on AI ambitions
  • Enterprises blow nearly a third of software budgets on upgrades they never asked for
    Keeping vendors happy is costing businesses millions, even when everything was working fine in the first place
  • HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon
    Mystery silicon and mirrored SSDs set to touch down before year's end
  • 'Password1' and a forgotten test account land Welsh outfits in hot water
    ICO reprimands Ogi Networks and Data Cymru after ransomware breach exposes info of 3,300 people, mostly children
  • Google Cloud says a 'power event' caused today's outage
    Fells London zone, taking banks, parcel firm and property sites with it – and recovery is 'tentatively' due by 1300 UTC


rss: ars technica

  • JustWatch, which tackles streaming fragmentation, launches own streaming service
    A lifetime ad-free subscription is available.
  • Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash
    Meta changes AI scraping policy but won’t add language respecting robots.txt.
  • Gemini's Personal Intelligence is coming to cars
    It's probably time to audit your Gemini settings.
  • OpenBSD 8.0 arrives with security record still intact
    OpenBSD 8.0 lands with Intel Arc support, ARM64 hibernation, and 64-vCPU guests
  • The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
    Intermediate certs allow anyone to mint web credentials for any Internet server.
  • TP-Link tries to appease Trump admin with pledge to assemble routers in US
    TP-Link can't sell latest routers in US despite rivals getting FCC approvals.
  • Does anyone actually want to win the medium-lift race in the United States?
    Ars Technica is here to help with a guide to the medium-lift space race.
  • Ukraine’s drone rescue of wounded soldier puts much touted idea into practice
    Ukraine’s latest drone innovation may boost bleak odds of evacuating casualties.
  • Quantum error correction goes well beyond breakeven
    A demo of error-corrected qubits shows big reductions in errors as they grow.
  • Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs
    Meta argues nobody “decided” to pirate books to train AI.


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