rss: npr

  • Takeaways from Trump's primetime speech. And, at least 2 dead in major Texas flooding
    President Trump gave a primetime speech raising claims of voting vulnerabilities but offered no new evidence. And, at least 2 people have died in major flooding in Texas.
  • Photos: When the World Cup came to town
    NPR member station photographers captured images of World Cup watch parties outside stadium gates, on street corners and in public parks and squares as the World Cup became, for a brief period, a part of local life.
  • U.S. strikes bridges in Iran, Tehran targets U.S. bases in the Gulf
    The U.S. and Iran expanded their targets in the latest round of strikes on Friday, as fighting over the control of the Strait of Hormuz reignites fears of an all-out war.
  • 'Superworms' help scientists with a vexing task: Cleaning animal specimens
    The larvae of a beetle native to South and Central America, the critters are the perfect solution to sticky problem: How to prepare an animal skeleton for scientific use.
  • Trump's team says 'no children' died from USAID cuts. Consider these 3 cases
    Both Marco Rubio and Elon Musk, who led the effort to sunset the foreign aid agency, have said that no deaths have been linked to the cutting of its funding. These parents tell a different story.
  • What will the Pentagon begin screening 'war fighters' for? The quiz knows
    Plus: Jurassic Park, U.K. politics, conspiracy theories, Pete Hegseth and numismatics.
  • Federal Reserve looks for 'secret sauce' behind a successful Wisconsin tool maker
    Business is booming for Snap-on, a Wisconsin company that has made tools for professional mechanics for more than a century. It recently got a fact-finding visit from the head of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank.
  • Republican campaigns see immigration as a winning issue for midterms
    Republicans are spending more money and running more ads on immigration than Democrats are ahead of the November midterm elections, according to an NPR analysis of advertisement data.
  • Kalshi says it's not a sportsbook even as World Cup bets surge
    The betting site Kalshi emerged as a dominant sports betting platform during the World Cup. But the company avoids billions of dollars in taxes by insisting it is not a sports gambling operator.
  • For one father and son, Alaskan blanket toss is a family tradition
    A father and son discuss an old Alaskan whaling tradition known as the blanket toss.


rss: bbc

  • Five headaches Andy Burnham will have to deal with as PM
    From defence spending to housing - the next UK leader has a series of challenges to deal with.
  • China hits out at British Steel nationalisation
    The UK government said taking the firm into public hands would safeguard "a vital national capability".
  • The financial winners and losers from the World Cup
    Big bucks are being made from the 2026 tournament off the field, but who is raking in the most, and who is losing out?
  • Iran accuses US of hitting civilian infrastructure
    The US military says its attacks were intended to "further degrade Iranian military capabilities".
  • Longest dry spell in 30 years for parts of England as heatwave hits two-week mark
    All UK nations have experienced recent heatwave conditions but in southern England, the heatwave has now continued for 14 days
  • Boy attacked by zoo crocodile has had seven operations and is smiling again, say parents
    The three-year-old's parents say the boy is making progress after seven operations in a month.
  • Trump alleges China meddled in 2020 election and questions voting security ahead of midterms
    China said Trump's claims were fabricated and US Democrats said he was paving the way to undermine November's elections.
  • Fans invited to line streets for Bonnie Tyler's funeral
    Bonnie Tyler's coffin will be brought to her Mumbles home, with fans invited to "pay their respects".
  • Catfished student gets £10k after photos used for fake dating profiles
    Elha Mai Weston posed as the teenager to strike up romantic conversations on social media.
  • Wildfire still burning across four miles as helicopter waterbombs Cairngorms
    Firefighters are still on the scene and an area commander says there are "adequate resources" to deal with the incident.


rss: the register

  • SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit
    Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort
  • Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester
    Brussels may spend billions on semiconductor fabs, but tech sovereignty remains firmly in American and Chinese hands
  • Ransomware curdles production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy biz
    No use crying over spilled milk when US plants can't bottle it in the first place
  • Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN
    A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages
  • Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge
    Continuity support required after £336 million replacement deal delayed by more than a year
  • How Gartner can help turn your AI vision into business reality
    SPONSORED POST: Feeling stuck with your AI application projects? Gartner has the solution
  • Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem
    We're not Li-ion, user thought mobile phone batteries died every few days
  • NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage
    Telstra skipped a patch, didn’t record changes, had no idea it was an accident waiting to happen
  • South Korea making its own security-centric AI model
    Adapting existing local LLM project for security and sovereignty purposes and hopes to one day match Mythos
  • Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief
    Two US lawmakers push tighter curbs on chipmakers from the Middle Kingdom


rss: ars technica

  • SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start
    "Now offloading propellant. Next launch attempt hopefully in a few days."
  • Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing
    Both nominees flailed in their own unique ways as senators sought answers.
  • HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
    Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.
  • T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines
    T-Mobile to restore free lines lost during plan migration, but price hikes remain.
  • It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
    Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.
  • xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.
    Elon Musk's xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.
  • Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory
    Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.
  • Trump teleprompter aide made $100,000 betting on what Trump would say, reports say
    If only someone could have predicted it.
  • 2026 Toyota RAV4 plug-in: Big battery means daily drives are all-electric
    Toyota's everyday small SUV should rarely require trips to the gas station.
  • Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices
    The social-engineering technique has primarily been a tool of financially motivated criminals.


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