rss: npr

  • Actress Eva Marie Saint, who won an Oscar for 'On the Waterfront,' dies at 102
    Saint won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edie, a Catholic schoolgirl whose longshoreman brother is murdered. She went on to star in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
  • Cornell names former acting U.S. attorney general to review rape case
    Cornell University names Sally Yates, former acting U.S. attorney general and career federal prosecutor, to lead an independent review into how the school handled a former student's rape allegations.
  • France's police fire tear gas and water cannons as school protests sweep the country
    More than a quarter of a million people rallied nationwide to support school students demanding more education funding, according to government figures, with thousands of arrests.
  • Here are the finalists for the 2026 National Book Awards
    Three-time National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat and debut novelist Morgan Thomas are up for the fiction prize. Nonfiction books cover the prison system and music, and queer parenthood.
  • What to know about nationwide protests in India over voter list changes
    The campaign is led in part by India's "Cockroach" youth movement, which previously forced the education minister to resign.
  • Vietnamese police arrest 12 suspected of prowling city streets at night, snatching cats for meat
    State media cited investigators who said the network recruited people to ride motorcycles through neighborhoods at night, trapping up to 10 cats a night.
  • Ex-spy chief is arrested in Germany on suspicion of trading state secrets and treason
    A former head of Germany 's foreign intelligence service was arrested on suspicion that he had passed state secrets to a foreign intelligence service, the federal prosecutor's office said.
  • Dems have edge in midterms, poll shows. And, Paramount-Warner Bros. merger to close
    Polls are showing that Democrats have a clear advantage heading into the midterms, but that doesn't tell the whole story. And, today, a mega merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. is set to close.
  • What voters in 6 key states could tell us about the 2026 midterms
    Morning Edition is heading to Maine, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and Michigan to hear what voters say is shaping their choices ahead of the midterm elections.
  • A history of presidents naming things after themselves (It's short. They rarely do)
    While Trump pushes to get his name on the Kennedy Center and other public sites, history shows that sitting presidents have almost always avoided putting their brands on government assets.


rss: bbc

  • US death row inmate Christa Pike awake and speaking after failed execution, lawyers say
    Experts and lawyers called the apparent recovery unprecedented, noting she is believed to be the only known person to survive a lethal injection.
  • What we know about Christa Pike’s ‘unprecedented' recovery after failed execution
    The BBC's Sarah Smith details the injuries sustained by the US death row inmate after two failed lethal injections, and what comes next.
  • Three arrested after raid on gang accused of helping migrants pretend to be gay to get asylum
    Those targeted by Home Office immigration enforcement officers are accused of charging migrants up to £4,500 for fabricated evidence.
  • I'd rather have another election than do a deal with Reform UK, says Badenoch
    The Conservative Party leader also pledged to cut the cost of hiring 21 to 24 year olds.
  • Green member behind Zionism motion named as 'close friend' of jailed al-Qaeda supporter in court
    Lubna Speitan offered to testify on behalf of Minh Quang Pham, who was jailed for 40 years after a Heathrow bomb plot investigation.
  • Watch: Riot police clash with school protesters and use tear gas in France
    Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across France amid a wave of protests by high-school pupils.
  • Incredible or catastrophic? Jaguar unveils its polarising electric car
    Two years after JLR relaunched Jaguar into a blizzard of controversy, it has launched its new EV.
  • UK risks being 'uninvestable' if new oil and gas fields not approved, warns oil giant
    Equinor warns it may shun further investments in the UK if new oil and gas fields at Rosebank and Jackdaw are not approved.
  • Man charged with GP's murder
    A man is charged with the murder of a GP who was found dead at her home.
  • Watch: Police raid on gang behind fake gay asylum claims
    The arrests come after a BBC investigation in April revealed that law firms and advisers were helping migrants pose as gay in an effort to get asylum.


rss: the register

  • Microsoft defines its Azure instance lifecycle, without any info about timing
    Redmond explains how VMs die, but not when you can expect that to happen
  • Anthropic reconfigures its cool kids security program
    Company's Project Glasswing and Cyber Verification Program metamorphose into triple tier threat hunting club
  • Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up
    Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity
  • Anthropic Claude subscription plan provides more value than OpenAI's, study says
    Research firm not exactly thrilled by House of Altman's subscription changes
  • Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb
    Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity
  • European AI flag bearer Mistral's new open weights model is 'Le Chonk'
    Oh lawd it is coming ... to Hugging Face later this month
  • Trump Mobile customers' data dumped - and some never even received their gold device
    All that glitters …
  • Wikimedia Foundation comes forward as latest OpenAI agent assault victim
    Millions of automated requests may have contributed to partial Wikidata outage in May
  • Microsoft extends the Outlook naughty step with two more file types
    You didn't really want to be sending around .msix and .msixbundle files, did you?
  • Classic Outlook clings to stale search results as Microsoft works on a fix
    Moved messages linger and throw errors when clicked, leaving Windows Desktop Search as the workaround


rss: ars technica

  • Drones sink ships near NATO countries in “unacceptable” attacks, EU says
    Two cargo ships have sunk, one ship was afire, and sailors are dead or missing.
  • OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU
    Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it's easy to circumvent.
  • HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service”
    A combined service could lead to higher prices.
  • It looks like the Atlantic storm season may finally produce a hurricane
    To date, this Atlantic tropics year has been exceptionally quiet.
  • Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
    Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.
  • Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth
    Paramount now owns Warner Bros. as last-ditch effort to stop $111B merger fails.
  • Support Ars and get a better reading experience in return
    ArsPro gives you more ways to read while directly supporting our journalism.
  • Amazon kills Alexa’s ability to control Echo speakers' AUX input
    Amazon hasn't made an Echo with a 3.5mm port in six years.
  • Neutrino physicist wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize
    Francis Halzen of University of Wisconsin-Madison led development of IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
  • Googlebook "Better Together" phone features don't work with Samsung at launch
    Googlebooks require Android 17, but Samsung's Android 17 phones won't work yet.


open all | close all