rss: npr

  • New Orleans port sues owners of tanker involved in Mississippi crash
    Officials are seeking at least $1 million in damages from the owners of the tanker that hit a cruise ship last week. The incident was dubbed "the miracle on the Mississippi" after no one was killed.
  • Laws limiting coal miners' exposure to toxic dust are in danger of being rolled back
    Coal miners who are exposed to silica dust are at a higher risk of black lung disease. Despite decades of advocacy, new efforts to regulate the toxic dust are under threat.
  • New Mexico wanted free childcare for all. This is what's worked — and what hasn't
    A year ago in November, New Mexico became the first state to offer free childcare to every eligible family, regardless of income.
  • Midterm voters ended the long-running GOP dominance in state legislatures
    In several states, Democrats took control of legislatures that had been divided and they weakened GOP dominance in others. Issues on the agenda: More access to health care, new limits on school vouchers.
  • A new generation of disability rights activists carry on Judy Heumann's legacy
    The film Being Heumann tells the lesser-known story of the mother of the disability rights movement. A new generation of activists share how they "carry the torch" today.
  • Trump blasts judge for halting his Washington golf project and says he will appeal
    A federal judge on Saturday ordered a two-week delay to any work at a historic Washington public golf course not far from the White House.
  • FAA ground stop disrupts college football
    Some college football games were delayed a few hours on Saturday or postponed to Sunday. And in Oklahoma at least, there will be perks for fans to make up for the inconvenience, including cheap beers.
  • Florida city cancels St. Patrick's Day parade, citing new anti-DEI law
    A new Florida law that prohibits taxpayer dollars from going toward diversity initiatives has prompted Delray Beach to cancel its St. Patrick's Day parade after a nearly 60-year run.
  • Maintenance gone awry caused nation-wide ground stop, says Transportation Secretary
    Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy points blame toward contractor in explaining Friday's nation-wide aviation ground stop.
  • US has lost measles elimination status, global health authorities say
    The U.S. has lost its status as a country where measles is eliminated, according to researchers with direct knowledge of the deliberations at the Pan American Health Organization.


rss: bbc

  • Staggered age of consent to be discussed after Brand case, minister says
    A woman who alleges she was raped by the jailed comedian when she was 16 is campaigning to see relationships between 16-and 17-year-olds and adults made illegal.
  • Man and woman die and four arrested after police pursuit crash in Leeds
    Four people have been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, police say.
  • Zelensky urges US and Musk to lift Starlink restrictions and be on 'right side of history'
    The Ukrainian president says restrictions are still in place and making it difficult to stop Russian attacks.
  • Ex-Met Police inspector lied about wife's death in Barbados hotel room, BBC learns
    Warren Arter faced claims of sexually exploiting crime victims - his wife was found in a blood-stained room.
  • Minister backs legal right to job support for young people
    The work and pensions secretary said the level of support currently on offer was too vague.
  • Pope Leo rides in helicopter cockpit during Peru trip
    The Pope took to the skies before arriving in Cusco on the penultimate day of his Latin America tour.
  • Thousands of US flights still cancelled or delayed two days after grounding of planes nationwide
    The US transport secretary says that normal air-traffic operations may not be restored until Monday.
  • Trident submarine returns home after record-breaking undersea patrol
    Defence Secretary Wes Streeting was at HM Naval Base Clyde to welcome the crew after the longest deployment at sea for a British vessel.
  • Tearful McIlroy dedicates record-equalling win to ill dad
    Rory McIlroy wipes away tears as he dedicates his record-equalling eighth Race to Dubai title to his ill father, Gerry.
  • Iran targets US military base in Bahrain with drone attack
    It marks the second attack on the country in three days and comes as the US and Iran remain locked in a stand-off over the Strait of Hormuz.


rss: the register

  • LEO gets a birthday bash, 75 years after clocking in
    Cambridge museum celebrates the world's first business computer with films, family activities, and a little Python
  • Microsoft's school email bill gives rivals something to smile about
    Collabora and Nextcloud pitch alternatives as education customers weigh the cost of losing free services
  • Big Tech takes a beating as online safety experts accuse companies of doing bare minimum
    Accessing banned content is as easy as whipping out a thesaurus, Parliament's Communications and Digital Committee hears
  • FAA blames ground stop on faulty copper wiring
    Safety reasons and unspecified communications issue cited
  • Chinese AI labs are training models on Nvidia's Blackwell despite export controls, says ex-OpenAI engineer
    Forensic report finds Blackwell's fingerprint in DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and Ant Group models
  • This year’s bug count just passed 100K
    ‘We don’t have a security problem anymore. We have a data problem now’
  • Meatbags suck at spotting lying LLMs, so let AI narc on itself
    What, you didn't actually want to fact-check it yourself, did you?
  • Mozilla leaves Solo website owners to go it alone as hosting shuts down
    If you have one of these AI-generated homepages, you'd better download and save it quick
  • Email addresses used in European school bomb hoaxes spotted in old infostealer logs
    Researchers say organizations should have detected and secured them sooner
  • HPE debuts hybrid storage configs: Rising SSD costs hit supercomputing
    HPE aims for the market with faster, more cost-effective HPC storage to combat rising costs


rss: ars technica

  • How the world’s fires changed while humanity hit pause
    COVID-19 lockdowns cut global fire activity by 12.3 percent.
  • SpaceX returned its Starship rocket on Saturday—but there's a catch
    It felt like stepping into the future.
  • James Webb telescope finds ice older than the star it orbits
    Radiation and collisions reshape the planetary building materials.
  • Winemakers are learning that conservation can be good for business
    Healthy soils, native plants, and fewer chemicals are helping vineyards adapt.
  • Starship flight 15 powers to orbit—setting up a possible catch on Saturday
    One way or another, the company will get some more data on Saturday.
  • FAA has lifted its third-ever nationwide ground stop
    Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy blamed obsolete equipment for the outage.
  • Millions of Americans are not taking their GLP-1 drugs as prescribed
    Cost and access barriers are pushing people to modified use and unapproved versions.
  • FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace
    Airlines praised the AI tool, but the air traffic controllers’ union wasn’t involved.
  • In elephants, the resilience of communities has its limits
    In Sri Lanka, ecological change is shrinking a park's elephant population.
  • Kalshi ditches Trump Jr. as advisor; CEO admitted "optics" weren't good
    Trump son advised Kalshi and got equity while Trump admin helped Kalshi in lawsuits.


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