rss: npr

  • Drones buzz overhead, troops hunker underground in Ukraine's hellish Kill Zone
    The frontline in the Russia-Ukraine war stretches more than 700 miles and has barely moved in four years. Yet straddling this line is the Kill Zone, dominated by constantly evolving drone technology.
  • FBI arrests a woman accused of spying on Taiwan leader's family for China
    The FBI and U.S. prosecutors say Wanying Zhang, also know as Heather, surveilled the Taiwanese president's son and his family.
  • Imran Khan supporters march in Pakistan to demand his release after talks failed
    Talks between Khan's party and the government failed two days ago. Besides Khan's release, protesters demand his transfer to a hospital and family visits.
  • SCOTUS hears major climate change case. And, Brazil's presidential race goes to runoff
    The Supreme Court is set to hear a blockbuster climate change case that could affect more than just climate issues. And, Brazil's presidential race is too close to call.
  • FlyDubai attacker intended to crash plane into Tel Aviv airport, ongoing investigation finds
    The investigation has found the attacker intended to crash the plane into Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport, a person familiar with the matter not authorized to speak publicly told NPR.
  • Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity
    The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.
  • Former Prince Andrew files legal action to quash warrants that led to residence searches
    A judicial spokesperson confirmed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had filed a claim with the High Court in London and a hearing would take place Thursday.
  • Spain's prime minister calls early elections as pressure mounts over housing crisis
    Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced early elections Monday after his government suffered a bruising legislative defeat last week on emergency measures related to the country's housing crisis.
  • Republicans and Democrats find a unifying target: Pharmacy benefit managers
    Republicans and Democrats, both patients and politicians, seem united in their disdain for the healthcare companies known as pharmacy benefit managers. Tennessee and Arkansas are regulating them now.
  • Super El Niño is here. What's so super about it?
    This year, federal forecasters say the planet could see the strongest El Niño event on record. Here's what you need to know.


rss: bbc

  • No 10 insists RAF Fairford is safe after US withdraws bombers
    US media reported a new threat led to the bombers being removed on Sunday, following an incident near the base last week.
  • Andrew takes legal action over search warrants before his arrest
    Mountbatten-Windsor's lawyers are challenging warrants used relating to his arrest in February on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
  • Spanish PM Sánchez calls early election after housing protests
    Sánchez says Spain will head to the polls on 29 November after recent defeats on measures aimed at addressing the country's housing crisis.
  • Watch: How the eviction of an elderly resident in Madrid led to a snap election
    A series of measures to tackle the housing crisis were defeated in parliament on Friday
  • Average five-year mortgage rate hits 6% for first time in three years
    The cost of a new fixed-rate mortgage has been rising in recent weeks as lenders face higher costs.
  • Flydubai co-pilot planned to crash plane into Tel Aviv airport or building, reports say
    The Omani national was a "lone wolf" extremist, according to the reports.
  • Twelve arrests after protest over migrant boat arrival
    Flares were set off and there were a few scuffles with police during the stand-off in Gosport.
  • Nobel Prize awarded for showing inner workings of the brain
    US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded for their work.
  • Teenager's hand blown off during confrontation between France school protesters and police
    The prefect of Pas-de-Calais says the teenager's life is "not in danger" after the "very serious" incident on Monday.
  • Jewish Greens chair says she could leave party over 'Zionism is racism' motion
    The motion, which has divided senior party figures, backs a "single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine".


rss: the register

  • Anthropic says its IPO could herald the end of the world as we know it
    Pay no attention to those more practical risks behind the curtain, which is exactly what we're doing on this week's Kettle
  • Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-text
    GNOME 51 is here, and Ubuntu interim releases are getting interesting again
  • Windows 11 market share creeps upwards as cost of staying on Windows 10 set to double
    How badly do you want that Win10 device to keep getting security updates?
  • BT buys TalkTalk out of administration to keep 2.5M customers connected
    Rescue carries an estimated £400M cash impact as Virgin Media declares move 'a stitchup'
  • Brighter isn't better and more is less. The AI slowdown is nigh, no matter who says what
    Meta isn’t helping — or perhaps it is
  • What people say about their file infrastructure once the badge comes off
    Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in Soho on 20 October where infrastructure leaders compare notes on the file estate they inherited, off the record.
  • Buyer missed one option and got 1% of the cable they needed
    Silly supplier ended up short-changing themselves
  • Fulcrum Echo promises AI text in the style of any writer, so I tested it
    I am just a copy of a copy of a copy, everything I say has come before
  • Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care
    All this, and angry NeoVim users
  • Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40
    The Centre for Computing History gathers the minds behind the project and the ones keeping it alive today


rss: ars technica

  • Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of "mechanical" switches
    Ars Technica's guide to new keyboard sensing technologies.
  • New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"
    Fresh analysis of First Dynasty mass burials finds signs of fatal blunt force trauma on 39 percent of skulls
  • Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: a spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife
    Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners, Loki) narrates NatGeo's new documentary Africa: Earth's Wild Home
  • All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.
    The IEA and climate negotiators want to set a target for shifting the economy to run on electricity.
  • Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
    "...we were making history."
  • The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
    The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks.
  • Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
    Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
  • Someone got Doom in an SQL database
    1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps.
  • Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
    Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
  • Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed
    Actors with makeup and fake symptoms staggered into 73 healthcare facilities.


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