rss: npr

  • 5 dead after crash at Miami Airport. And, Germany's far-right wins state election
    A cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport has left five people dead and several others injured. And, Germany's far-right AfD party achieves an electoral victory in a key state election.
  • The first day of school: Bells, bikes, buses and big feelings
    Fifth graders calm school kindergartners in Los Angeles. Kids take the "bike bus" in Oklahoma. High school students take in a new high school building in Oregon.
  • 'Her body temperature was 106': How heat is killing Americans in their homes
    Heat kills thousands of people across the U.S. every year. The risk is especially high for the millions of Americans who live in manufactured housing like mobile homes and trailers.
  • The copper peptide trend has gone from creams to injections — ahead of the science
    The peptide is supposed to deliver flawless and firm skin, promote wound healing and other anti-aging effects. So what's the evidence behind GHK-Cu?
  • Morning news brief
    Five people are dead after a cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport, Trump's top envoys go to Ukraine with hopes of restarting peace talks, Germany's far-right party wins landslide victory.
  • At least five dead after Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airport
    An Amazon Prime cargo plane was landing at the airport around 2 p.m. ET on Sunday when it overran the runway, crashed and rammed into vehicles on the ground, according to FAA.
  • Germany's far-right achieves an electoral breakthrough in key state election
    Germany's populist, far-right Alternative for Germany party has declared victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt after more than doubling its share of the vote in the first of several regional elections this fall.
  • American Muslims are giving Texas barbecue a halal makeover
    Even as anti-Muslim rhetoric rises in Texas, Muslim pitmasters are winning over diners and reshaping one of the state's most iconic culinary traditions.
  • Witkoff and Kushner call Kyiv talks 'substantive' after Moscow Putin meeting
    U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held meetings in Kyiv with Ukraine's President Zelenskyy on Sunday, a day after lengthy conversations with Russian President Putin in Moscow.
  • QUIZ: Ugh, I'll do it later. How much do you know about procrastination?
    Learn a few surprising facts about procrastination — and helpful tools to overcome it — with this quiz. It's based on social scientist Itamar Shatz's new book, Solving Procrastination.


rss: bbc

  • How anti-migrant boat protests were organised and who is behind them
    Danny Thomas organised the demonstration in Dover - seemingly after weeks of preparation - and was also present in Portsmouth.
  • Jaguar Land Rover to cut 4,000 jobs over next two years
    The cuts come as the carmaker struggles with Chinese competition, US tariffs, and the transition to electric vehicles.
  • Murder arrests over baby girl's death in woodland
    Police say they have arrested two men and two women as part of their investigation.
  • New videos of man at centre of 9/11 lawsuit reveal links to extremists and Saudi state
    The footage and other evidence the FBI failed to share undermine Omar al-Bayoumi's 25 years of denials.
  • Dolly Parton's sister pleads for end to 'AI garbage' posts after singer's death
    Since Parton's death in late August, dozens of AI-generated songs, images and videos have appeared online.
  • Germany's far-right AfD says 'democracy demands' parties work with them after state election win
    The far-right party is trying to form a government in the state after falling three seats short of a majority.
  • BBC News presenter Maryam Moshiri reveals she has blood cancer
    Maryam Moshiri tells the BBC she wanted to reveal her diagnosis to raise awareness about the cancer.
  • 'The man who drugged and raped me was freed from prison and went on to kill'
    One of Richard Scatchard's victims says his killing of Kelly Faiers in 2023 could have been avoided.
  • One million people to receive one-off pension top-up payment
    About one million people - mostly women - are owed pension tax relief and will be contacted by HMRC.
  • New Inbetweeners film confirmed by Netflix as lead stars return
    Netflix has confirmed the original stars of the coming-of-age sitcom are set to reprise their roles for the film.


rss: the register

  • Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements
    Vast majority of new devices on market still don't give repair information to owners, but give themselves top marks for repairability
  • Welsh environment regulator's FoI blunder exposes diversity data of 2,000 staff
    NRW says it has found no evidence data was misused after spreadsheet published in error five years ago
  • UK food supply chain at risk from hostile attacks
    Defending against cyber foes is among factors hitting food price inflation, report finds
  • Peers ask why UK cyber bill leaves execs off the personal liability hook
    Ministers say £17M corporate fines and forthcoming board-level governance rules provide sufficient accountability
  • OpenAI's rebel agent swarm died young, but its chilling logs live on
    'The Collective' learned to communicate, organize, cheat, and apparently sacrifice its own
  • Amazon-branded plane in fatal accident at Miami Airport
    Couldn’t stop before the end of a runway
  • Who, Me? Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner’s PC almost set it on fire
    Even the greatest scientific minds are at risk of rogue 9-pin connectors
  • Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry
    This week on The Kettle we weigh in on Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition and why it could spell a new, more fragmented and siloed era of AI development
  • Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds
    Last week, he blamed himself for being ‘a grade A nincompoop’ who assumed a system upgrade couldn’t possibly go wrong
  • Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals
    PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; And more!


rss: ars technica

  • The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center
    When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?
  • German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket
    "We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before."
  • Farmed salmon may not be as nutritious as it once was, new research suggests
    The shift in the fish’s diet is having significant downstream impacts on the environment and climate.
  • Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation
    The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.
  • After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
    "Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."
  • OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
    In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
  • Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
    "It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."
  • Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
    FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses.
  • Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
    Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.
  • “Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
    Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”


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