rss: npr

  • Trump's ballroom fight sheds new light on an underground White House bunker
    The status of a decades-old bunker beneath the now-demolished East Wing is unclear, but the Trump administration has cited security concerns in its legal filings in favor of continuing construction.
  • Seville, Spain's Holy Week blends faith, tradition and spectacle
    Even as religious belief declines in Spain, the processions at Seville's Semana Santa — the Holy Week lead-up to Easter — draw crowds moved by music, tradition and powerful emotion.
  • A U.S. jet goes down over Iran, a U.S. official confirms
    A U.S. official said that one crew member had been rescued and U.S. forces continue to search for the second crew member.
  • The labor market springs back to life in March as employers add 178,000 jobs
    The U.S. job market perked up last month as employers added 178,000 jobs. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.3%, mainly because the number of people seeking work declined.
  • Trump budget seeks $1.5 trillion in defense spending alongside domestic program cuts
    In his annual budget, President Trump is asking Congress to boost defense spending to $1.5 trillion, the largest such request in decades.
  • China's Communist Party investigates ex-Xinjiang leader Ma Xingrui
    Ma Xingrui is a member of the party's Central Committee and served as party secretary of the Xinjiang region in China's northwest from 2021-2025.
  • Pam Bondi is out at DOJ. And, NASA's Artemis II has left Earth's orbit
    President Trump announced yesterday that Pam Bondi is out as Attorney General. And, NASA's Artemis II has left Earth's orbit and is heading toward the moon.
  • 2 U.S. planes are down and Iran hits Gulf refineries as the war wraps its 5th week
    An F-15 went down in Iran and a second Air Force plane crashed near the Strait of Hormuz as the war capped a week of intensified fighting.
  • Verdicts against Meta and Google may bring a new era of big tech accountability
    Advocates hope recent verdicts against social media platforms will build momentum for bigger changes in Silicon Valley.
  • After the release of the Epstein files, why have there been so few arrests?
    Legal experts tell NPR five possible reasons that, despite the accusations made against rich and powerful people in the files, the DOJ has made no additional arrests. The big one? Lack of evidence.


rss: bbc

  • Three charged over Jewish charity ambulance fires
    Four Hatzola ambulances were set alight in the car park of a synagogue in Golders Green in the early hours of 23 March.
  • Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth
    The snap was taken aboard the Orion capsule by its commander, Reid Wiseman, as the crew head towards the Moon.
  • After 16 years in power, can Viktor Orban finally be unseated?
    Hungary is going to the polls in nine days - after 16 years in power, can Viktor Orban be unseated?
  • Russia chose 'Easter escalation' over ceasefire, says Zelensky
    Six civilians were killed and 40 others injured as Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles.
  • Faced with new energy shock, Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer
    As war drives up gas and fuel prices, Europeans turn again to the issue of energy independence.
  • Starmer's cost-of-living adviser calls for fuel duty cut extension
    Lord Walker suggests the government should keep the 5p cut in place due to increased costs caused by war in the Middle East.
  • State pension age starts rising to 67 - here's how much you get and when
    The age at which people can start receiving the state pension is going up in stages over the next two years.
  • Boy, 14, shot dead in Woolwich named as three teens held
    A boy, 14, shot dead in south-east London is named as Eghosa Ogbebor, as three people are arrested.
  • Trump seeks $1.5tn for defence alongside domestic spending cuts
    The US president's new budget would cut non-defence spending by 10%, partly by slashing domestic programmes.
  • Raye tops album charts with This Music May Contain Hope
    It is Raye's second number one this year, after her hugely popular single Where The Hell Is My Husband.


rss: the register

  • Trump wants to take a battle axe to CISA again and slash $707M from budget

    Ex-CISA official tells The Reg: 'this would weaken the system for managing cyber risk'

    The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's budget will see yet another deep cut if Congress approves President Trump's proposal to slash CISA's spending by $707 million in fiscal year 2027.…

  • Netflix - yes Netflix - jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor

    Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene

    A new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies. Just imagine this. As the director of the multi-million dollar epic Car Crash III: Suddenest Impact, you've just finished filming the finale where your star, Cruz Control, drives straight into an onrushing semi.…

  • NHS staff resist using Palantir software

    Staff reportedly cite ethics concerns, privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds much

    Palantir's software was brought in to help NHS England improve care and cut delays, but new reports suggest some staff are resisting using it over ethical, privacy, and trust concerns.…

  • When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot

    This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food

    Bork!Bork!Bork! It's one thing to bare your undercarriage in private. It's a whole other thing to do so on the side of a road, risking the possibility that passing drivers will question your Linux competence.…

  • Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled

    Discovered once last bug, and that briefcases can hold more beer than you might imagine

    On Call Y2k Easter means today is a holiday in much of the Reg-reading world, but that won't stop us from delivering another instalment of On Call – the reader contributed column that shares your tech support stories.…

  • AI models will deceive you to save their own kind

    Researchers find leading frontier models all exhibit peer preservation behavior

    Leading AI models will lie to preserve their own kind, according to researchers behind a study from the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI).…

  • Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4

    Now with a more permissive license, multi-modality, and support for more than 140 languages

    Google on Thursday unleashed a wave of new open-weights Gemma models optimized for agentic AI and coding, under a more permissive Apache 2.0 license aimed at winning over enterprises.…

  • Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images

    About that partnership...

    Microsoft on Thursday unveiled public preview versions of three home-baked machine learning models focused on speech recognition, speech synthesis, and image generation.…

  • US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks

    Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems

    A software toolkit built for DARPA to test and validate covert communication networks is now open source, and it could help orgs who want to experiment with new kinds of secure, anonymous communications tools. …

  • They thought they were downloading Claude Code source. They got a nasty dose of malware instead

    Source code with a side of Vidar stealer and GhostSocks

    Tens of thousands of people eagerly downloaded the leaked Claude Code source code this week, and some of those downloads came with a side of credential-stealing malware.…



rss: ars technica

  • Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability
    Ice Age hunter-gatherer "were intentionally relying on random outcomes in repeatable, rule-based ways."
  • As Artemis II zooms to the Moon, everything seems to be going swimmingly
    The cabin was colder on Thursday, but the crew has been able to adjust the temperature.
  • Elon Musk insists banks working on SpaceX IPO must buy Grok subscriptions
    Some banks "agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot," NYT reports.
  • "Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds
    Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.
  • Trump ignores biggest reasons his AI data center buildout is failing
    Nearly 50% of data center projects delayed as China holds key to power infrastructure.
  • OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security
    The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.
  • Netflix must refund customers for years of price hikes, Italian court rules
    Consumer group says it will sue if Netflix doesn't reduce current prices.
  • EV adoption in America: Who's winning, who's losing?
    Some OEMs saw double-digit growth in Q1, others saw double-digit declines.
  • OpenAI takes on another "side quest," buys tech-focused talk show TBPN
    OpenAI says program will remain in Los Angeles and will be editorially independent.
  • Four astronauts are now inexorably bound for the Moon
    “I don’t think we could be more pleased."


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