rss: npr

  • Congress passes major housing bill. And, Mamdani-backed candidates sweep NYC primaries
    Congress has passed the largest housing affordability bill in decades. And all three candidates endorsed by New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani have won their primaries. 
  • In the Ebola epicenter, a gold-mining town reacts with fear, disbelief and grit
    NPR reports from Mongbwalu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The fight to contain the virus faces obstacles from lack of supplies to residents who doubt that the virus is real.
  • 4 ways to design a dreamy summer, according to a happiness expert
    Don't let the season fly by. Gretchen Rubin, host of the Happier podcast, shares exercises to help you get what you want out of summer. Fill out the printable worksheet and stick it on your fridge.
  • 5 years after the Surfside condo collapse, the toll of the tragedy remains
    Surfside, Florida, is marking five years since a beachfront condominium collapsed, killing 98 people. It was one of the largest structural failures in U.S. history.
  • Why are crisis pregnancy centers saying they can 'rule out' ectopic pregnancy?
    Under President Trump, more federal attention and support has gone towards anti-abortion Christian centers. A watchdog group says many of them mislead patients with promises to "rule out" ectopic pregnancies.
  • Appeals court allows Trump administration expanded use of speedy deportations
    A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to resume carrying out speedy deportations of undocumented migrants throughout the United States, not just near the border.
  • Archaeologists find huge Viking textile production site in Denmark
    Archaeologists have discovered a huge Viking Age textile production site in Denmark that dates back more than 1,000 years and underlines the sophistication of Viking society.
  • Mamdani's political gamble pays off as his endorsed candidates sweep their primaries
    All three progressive candidates backed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani — including two who took on Democratic incumbents — won their primaries in safe seats almost guaranteeing their election in November.
  • Supreme Court rules that prison guards can't be sued for shaving Rastafarian's head
    The Supreme Court ruled that a Louisiana prisoner whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved off by prison guards cannot sue the guards under a federal law to protect the religious rights of prisoners.
  • Tension builds between Trump and Senate Republicans, putting GOP agenda on the line
    Divides over what GOP priorities should be ahead of this fall's midterm elections are testing the relationship between President Trump and Senate Republicans.


rss: bbc

  • The UK's summers are getting hotter - but how prepared are we?
    Based on current trends parts of the UK are set to see 40C summers regularly within a couple of decades.
  • Police took eight minutes to find Henry Nowak's fatal stab wound
    The Southampton student died from his injuries, while handcuffed on the ground by Hampshire police officers
  • Ten years on, Brexit's economic impact is becoming clearer
    A decade ago, many economists argued the UK would sustain longer-term economic damage by leaving the EU. So what did happen?
  • Scotland on 'brink of history', fans say ahead of Brazil World Cup tie
    Scotland will play their final group stage match against Brazil later, with hopes of making it to the knock-out stages.
  • Burnham on course to be PM, but what would his No 10 operation look like?
    Burnham's top team starting to take shape as questions remain over his policies and priorities.
  • French woman allegedly held captive by husband for 12 years rescued in Pakistan
    Yasmina alleges she was held along with her five children, and they were all cut off from the outside world.
  • Bradford, Oldham and London first places to be looked at by grooming gang inquiry
    The inquiry says it will initially focus on Oldham, Bradford and Keighley, and London.
  • Sydney woman wakes from induced coma more than a week after shark attack
    Leah Stewart, 34, had one of her arms amputated after she was bitten while swimming at Coogee Beach.
  • Beach hut with no power or running water goes on sale for £200k
    Despite the seemingly-high price tag, the beach hut is expected to fetch lots of interest.
  • How to use windows, blinds and fans to keep your home cool
    Six simple things you can do to help keep your house cool when temperatures rise.


rss: the register

  • Database vendors pitch themselves as the cure for runaway AI costs
    Pinecone and Tiger Data say smarter data plumbing can cut token use and tame agentic workloads
  • Alpine Linux 3.24 scales new desktop heights with COSMIC
    Plus interesting news from the Xfce-on-Wayland project
  • Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia
    A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest
  • Explainer: Why your legacy storage is choking your expensive GPU
    THE REGISTER EXPLAINER: GPUs idle? Blame your outdated storage, not the silicon sprinters.
  • Germany went off the rails as wireless outage saw all trains cancelled
    Unexplained GSM-R failure at Deutsche Bahn caused confusion and delay
  • You have got to be KDDI-ng – Japanese telco exposes 14.2 million managed email credentials
    Five ISPs and plenty of users await their fate
  • Chinese supercomputer using local processors heads TOP500 list
    Use of Arm cores and Linux mean Beijing hasn’t broken away from the world
  • OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions
    Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost
  • Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker
    The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack
  • Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era
    Plus more blasts from the past: NetWare, FTP, and HTTP


rss: ars technica

  • White House drastically shortens deadline for dropping quantum-vulnerable crypto
    Order warns of national security risks if post-quantum cryptography isn't adopted in time.
  • US's climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit
    Climate.us has now restored everything taken down by the government.
  • Odd police video shows drone removing knife from motionless suspect
    Promo video comes as more US police departments fly drones as first responders.
  • Oracle’s 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments
    Oracle is spending billions on data center infrastructure to support AI.
  • A curious crossover: The Toyota C-HR review
    Although it's on the smaller side, this electric vehicle is not very chill.
  • ABC asks viewers to protest FCC attempt to "control who is allowed" on The View
    "The FCC wants to control who is allowed on the show," ABC ad tells viewers.
  • Early land animals skipped the tadpole phase
    Current amphibian development may not have been typical of early land vertebrates.
  • Trump may be mystery patient in odd case of 79yo getting experimental obesity drug
    White House spokesperson denied it was Trump only after story was published.
  • Everyone pays the price as patent holders on seeds stifle innovation
    The US is one of a handful of countries that allow patents on plant varieties.
  • Sony releases trailer for Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun
    Tonally, the trailer gives strong vibes akin to the director's 2016 feature Hunt for the Wilderpeople.


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