rss: npr

  • NEWSBRIEF: HURRICANE ISAIAS, UKRAINE WAR LATEST, POLITICS OF IRAN WAR
    Gulf Coast Preps for Isaias, Ukraine expects Russian winter offensive, and Trump's Iran War in focus as Midterms approach.
  • Christa Pike is walking with help and eating after failed execution attempt
    Pike has begun walking and eating again at a hospital a week after surviving Tennessee's attempt to execute her with lethal drugs, her attorneys said Thursday.
  • Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
    The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be "public.
  • Isaias strengthens into Category 2 hurricane on collision course with the Gulf Coast
    The first hurricane of the Atlantic season was forecast to intensify rapidly and cause dangerous conditions in the Florida Panhandle, southern Alabama and southern Mississippi when it makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday.
  • OpenAI caught Russians and Iranians using ChatGPT for influence campaigns
    The company says Russian operatives used its AI chatbot to update their bosses, shedding light on influence campaigns previously not attributed to Russia.
  • The long-deployed USS Lincoln returns home to San Diego Bay
    The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier has returned home after a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea supporting the Iran war. The extended deployment drew attention following reports of crew stress and supply shortages.
  • Suicide is up among Black Americans. We need to talk about it.
    NPR's Michel Martin hosted a panel conversation about mental health and suicide in the Black community, exploring a difficult subject in deeply personal conversations.
  • The long-deployed USS Lincoln is returning home to San Diego
    The USS Abraham Lincoln is returning home to San Diego Thursday after supporting the Iran war during a record long deployment of 265 uninterrupted days at sea that included reports of deteriorating conditions among its crew.
  • New U.S. indictment charges former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with torture
    U.S. authorities added new torture charges to their case against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, ramping up pressure on the ousted authoritarian leader already fighting drug trafficking allegations.
  • 4 people on NASA's Crew-12 mission return to Earth after 8 months in space
    Four people — two NASA astronauts, one from the European Space Agency and a Russian cosmonaut — spent nearly eight months at the space station, conducting spacewalks, science experiments and research.


rss: bbc

  • I would not have voted for Zionism motion, Polanski says
    A motion declaring Zionism a form of racism was passed by Green Party members on Sunday.
  • Chris Mason: Questions remain for Green Party leader Zack Polanski
    Senior party figures have criticised his response to a motion passed by members declaring Zionism a form of racism.
  • Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says
    Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
  • Emotions run high at the round table as Celebrity Traitors banish two players
    Viewers watched to see whether Richard E Grant could save himself at the first round table of the series.
  • £15m spent cleaning illegal waste supersite in ancient woodland
    Concerns remain over the ancient Kent woodland's future after 39,500 tonnes of rubbish were cleared.
  • Russian strikes and approaching winter force many in Kyiv to pack bags and flee
    A renewed Russian campaign of strikes on power and energy infrastructure has made some contemplate leaving Ukraine's capital.
  • Everton owners consider selling club two years after takeover
    Everton owners the Friedkin Group are exploring the sale of the club less than two years after taking control.
  • ​​USS Lincoln finally docks in San Diego after 10-month mission
    The US aircraft carrier was set to return in May but the war with Iran has kept it at sea on one of the longest deployments ever.
  • Suspect linked to Monaco bomb attack on millionaire speaks to BBC
    Vitalii Zhykovych gives his own account of the attempted assassination of Ukrainian-born businessman Vadym Yermolayev.
  • Mark Zuckerberg has an image problem - so why is Meta's business booming?
    A new film paints the Meta founder as a villain. But the tech firm seems immune to bad publicity, writes our North America tech correspondent.


rss: the register

  • Whose roadmap is your software estate running on?
    SPONSORED POST: Vendor roadmaps set the pace of change in most enterprise software estates. Origina argues the business should.
  • Rejecting a promotion sent field service tech into support hell
    Chap who took the job left a trail of wreckage – and invaluable case studies – in his incompetent wake
  • So long, Spokes: GitHub rewrites storage to restore reliability, just in time for agentic hordes
    Octocats claim 35x write improvement
  • India’s tech giants shrug off changes to USA’s skilled visa program
    As Microsoft denies alleged ‘fraud and abuse’ that sparked the tweaks
  • Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter
    Putin this cloud region back into operation might not be possible, says Yandex
  • AI company moves to defend critical infrastructure and open-source projects from AI
    Anthropic says for the next two years, attackers will have the advantage
  • US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide
    Infecting devices from 2021 until the FBI stepped in
  • Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance
    Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers
  • There can be only one: Google Cloud casts Gemini as your enterprise AI hero
    The Chocolate Factory proposes a single universal agent for work
  • NASA taps DoE to help it build nuclear space reactors
    Space agency claims steady progress on lunar reactor plans, but offers little evidence to back it up


rss: ars technica

  • SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink
    "These led to conjunctions of tens of meters to hundreds of meters. Way too close to comfort."
  • Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts
    Judge questioned if Trump delaying access to Truth Social posts by a second harms the press.
  • Trump Mobile hack and apparent lack of FCC authorization raise security alarms
    After hack and data breach, senator asks why Trump Mobile lacks some FCC filings.
  • Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules
    Reducing glare and allowing modern light technologies will be two goals.
  • RIP Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing
    Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering" and founded two successful software companies.
  • Let's Encrypt cuts certificate lifetimes to 64 days starting February 2027
    Free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes reduce to 64 days in February.
  • Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches
    Mass surveillance gets stupider.
  • RFK Jr. unveils sweeping federal initiative to find evidence of vaccine injuries
    "[T]he Trump-RFK Jr. anti-vax agenda keeps getting more corrupt and dangerous."
  • An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light
    Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light.
  • Amazon's new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever
    Amazon killed its app store, so Google Play it is.


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