rss: npr

  • Hegseth's failed impeachment was a warning to Democrats. Where will they go from here?
    Democrats have been given a huge opportunity with majorities in both the House and Senate — but the balance of priorities, timing, messaging and discipline are all going to be major tests.
  • An organ transplant controversy tests 'the dead donor rule'
    New guidelines are supposed to protect organ donors in a retrieval procedure that keeps blood flowing through livers, kidneys, lungs and hearts. But bioethicists have troubling questions.
  • As Democrats win big, thirst traps of male candidates take social media by storm
    It's everywhere on social media: Democrats celebrating the attractive men voters elected in the midterms. But it's bigger than a meme and says a lot about politics of masculinity in the age of Trump.
  • Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins wins race for Alaska governor, replaces a Republican
    Kreiss-Tomkins, a former state legislator, ran a campaign emphasizing bipartisanship in the the state that usually votes Republican. At 37, he'll be the youngest governor in the state's history.
  • DHS head Markwayne Mullin says there is not a threat to the U.S. amid FAA ground stop
    Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin spoke to at the White House on Friday afternoon after the FAA issues a total ground stop. NPR was there for the briefing.
  • Stuck on the tarmac without information: Travelers share their ground stop experiences
    Passengers stuck on airplanes on tarmacs across the country during the FAA ground stop on Friday share their stories.
  • What we know about the FAA nationwide ground stop
    The Federal Aviation Administration took an extraordinary step Friday afternoon by issuing a nationwide ground stop. No planes are taking off at any airport and millions of passengers are stranded.
  • GOP state officials push to revive Trump's mail voting restrictions for 2028 election
    Some Republican state officials are reviving a bid for mail-in voting restrictions for the 2028 election by appealing a court order blocking the Postal Service from carrying out a revised ballot rule.
  • Old tech blamed for the ground stop that caused flight chaos: 'It got overloaded'
    The nationwide ground stop that paralyzed the U.S. aviation system on Friday has ended, according to Federal Aviation Administration.
  • With his challenge to Schumer, Van Hollen forces a debate over Democrats' mandate
    Democrats say they have a mandate to deliver change, but as the party gets ready to retake the majority in both the House and Senate, there are divides over who should lead it.


rss: bbc

  • Young people should have legal guarantee of job or training, Milburn tells BBC
    The author of a major review on youth unemployment, due next week, acknowledges the change would mean some young people losing out on benefits.
  • What we know about the US ground stop and what to do if your flight is affected
    US officials say the disruption was caused by old equipment overloading and not a cyber-attack.
  • US has floated Ukraine ceding Donbas for Nato membership, Zelensky says
    The Ukrainian president says US envoys touted the exchange as part of efforts to end the war with Russia.
  • Cruise ship left on its side after collision with tanker on Mississippi
    The collision leaves 32 people in hospital with non-critical injuries, but no-one unaccounted for.
  • King jokes with Elton John as he marks 78th birthday with radio show
    The monarch appears on a special episode to coincide with his 78th birthday on Saturday.
  • Widespread frost and freezing fog as cold health alerts continue
    It's a weekend of two halves with a cold start on Saturday giving way to wetter and milder day on Sunday.
  • Brand, Walliams and Married at First Sight: Is this a reckoning for the entertainment industry?
    These stories represent the consequences of changes that began years ago, rather than being a sudden cultural shift.
  • Even Grand Theft Auto's original creators haven't been able to play GTA 6
    The next title in the series is expected to be the biggest video game release ever.
  • The search to find a friend for Jojo the gorilla after a lifetime of being alone
    Jojo was poached as an infant and grew up in captivity. His keepers want to find him a friend - but it's not straightforward.
  • Eurovision is finally coming to Asia - meet the stars gearing up to take the stage
    On Saturday, the biggest and longest-running international song contest will make a leap into unknown territory.


rss: the register

  • 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 lifts ground stop after hours-long delays snag travelers
    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
  • Microsoft outage gives customers a crash course in dependence on Redmond
    Rivals offer sympathy for stranded admins – and a reminder that putting all your eggs in one basket has consequences


rss: ars technica

  • 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.
  • OpenAI board member worries an AI "takeover" of society could be months away
    Researcher traces a path from AI reward hacking to potential human extinction.
  • Windows 0-day dropped by disgruntled researcher hands hackers System rights
    "SignDrop" exploit lets local users gain all-powerful System rights.
  • Microsoft’s global outage may be worse than Amazon's or CrowdStrike's, expert says
    Governments, hospitals, courts scrambled by global Microsoft outage.
  • It's the end of the world as we know it, per a physicist's 1960 prediction
    Heinz von Foerster thought population would grow exponentially and "squeeze" us all to death.


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