rss: npr

  • Multiple people dead as flooding continues in Indiana
    Some parts of Indiana received more than 11 inches of rainfall over three days, beginning Aug. 11, causing record floods. Several suburbs of Indianapolis also underwater.
  • Kushner meets with Hamas on the Gaza road map ahead of talks with Netanyahu
    Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, held a rare meeting with Hamas leadership Sunday in Egypt, in a new diplomatic effort to make progress in the stalled Gaza ceasefire.
  • Tommy John, namesake for a pioneering elbow surgery that saved his career, dies at 83
    The left-handed MLB pitcher was 31 years old when he tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow in 1974, an injury that had been a death knell for pitchers' careers up to that point.
  • A good – and bad – week for Italy's art police and museum security
    On Friday, Italian police said they'd recovered three paintings stolen from a museum near the city of Parma. By Saturday night, thieves in Sicily had made off with four more masterpieces.
  • Lala is again a tropical storm, sending drenching rain and winds across Hawaii
    Hurricane Lala weakened to a tropical storm Sunday after skirting Hawaii without making landfall, but it wasn't done punishing the Big Island with hurricane-force gusts.
  • What really happened in Ceuta? Why we may never find out
    Hundreds of migrants have again attempted to cross from Morocco into the Spanish territory of Ceuta. This time, Moroccan officials fended them off, raising new questions about the crossing of July 30.
  • 'What are we going to do?' The mom of a trans teen grapples with Trump's Medicaid move
    A longtime Republican living in California says the Trump administration's continuing actions to target transgender youth take a personal toll.
  • Ukraine launches one of its largest aerial attacks of the war, killing at least 6 people in Russia
    Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war.
  • NPR Senior Podcast Challenge: Official Rules
  • Billions of sea stars have died. A Northwest tribe is trying to save the species
    Sunflower sea stars are critically endangered in the Pacific Ocean. University of Washington researchers are working with the Samish Indian Nation to bring this 24-armed creature back from the brink of extinction.


rss: bbc

  • Trump envoy Kushner arrives in Israel after rare Hamas talks on Gaza peace plan
    US President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later on Monday.
  • Heroes actress Hayden Panettiere dies aged 36
    Panettiere starred in TV shows including Heroes and Nashville along with films Remember the Titans and Raising Helen.
  • Parents pushed to breaking point by Child Maintenance Service, BBC told
    Mothers, like Katy, describe battles to make ex-partners pay, while fathers say they have been wrongly charged thousands.
  • UK to turn cooler with rain after exceptional heat and dry spell
    After and exceptional summer of heatwaves and drought, the weather will turn wetter and cooler this week, as Simon King explains
  • Five teenagers dead and four injured after car drives on wrong side of motorway
    The collision occurred on on the M9 Northbound at about 03:00 local time on Sunday in County Kildare.
  • Trump says US to scale back South Korea military drills after it stayed out of Iran war
    Trump cites his "very good relationship" with North Korea's leader in deciding to downsize the exercises.
  • Russia says at least seven killed in largest Ukrainian attack of 2026
    Moscow also launched deadly strikes against Ukraine overnight, sparking fires across the capital Kyiv.
  • History for Hunt and Asher-Smith in golden finish for GB
    Amy Hunt and Dina Asher-Smith make history and Georgia Hunter Bell claims a commanding 1500m gold as Great Britain maintain their bid to top the final medal table at the European Championships.
  • 'I want my brother back' - Tupac’s brother tells BBC murder trial won’t bring justice
    The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil sat down with Mopreme Shakur ahead of the trial for his brother and late rapper's 1996 murder.
  • Calls for public inquiry into Jason Arday 'witch hunt'
    Lord Simon Woolley said Arday had been "hounded" by the media and pursued relentlessly.


rss: the register

  • Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive
    Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service
  • Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI
    PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; Google, Apple, India bans some rideshare tips; and more!
  • Stopping a cyberattack while walking your dog - defensive AI security CEO says it's not ruff to do
    Corma CEO tells The Reg it's building 'One ring to rule them all, for the defenders to have this power'
  • The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments
    Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change
  • ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses
    Shai-Hulud variant poisons 444 packages, spreads via tarballs and dev-tool hooks
  • Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine
    Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices
  • Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words
    'Shall I compare thee to a summer's afternoon' is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it
  • DeepSeek's innovative harness treats everything as a plug-in
    Chinese AI labs keep moving forward while US labs play defense
  • 1.6M RingCentral accounts' data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack
    Another one bites the dust
  • Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine
    Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons


rss: ars technica

  • Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution
    Regulations reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions, but wildfire smoke is erasing gains.
  • VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney's D23 fan event
    Also: Ahsoka S2 teaser, Doomsday trailer, news about MCU's X-Men and Star Wars: Starfighter
  • Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles
    "Flamingo missiles were used. A good achievement."
  • So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year
    Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much.
  • Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
    Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.
  • First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity
    Airline-backed venture aims to develop a hybrid-electric commercial aircraft.
  • Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case
    Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.
  • State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers
    Kalshi ordered to stop offering bets in Washington, must implement geofencing.
  • PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
    "We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.
  • Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch
    It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.


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