rss: npr

  • India's opposition parties march to top court as protests over voter lists escalate
    Opposition parties say revisions to the list of eligible voters favor Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party. Authorities have removed more than 130 million names from the voter roll.
  • DOJ launches antitrust probe of TV networks. And, Trump says Ukraine needs new leader
    The Justice Department is investigating several TV networks for possible antitrust violations. And, President Trump pressures Ukrainians to elect a new leader.
  • U.S. restrictions on Chinese drones are hurting cash-strapped police departments
    The U.S. government is trying to end the dominance of high-quality, low-cost drones made in China. But more restrictions mean higher costs for cash-strapped police forces that rely on those drones.
  • Here's what to know if you're unsure about your measles immunity status
    Vaccination is the best way to protect yourself against measles. For most adults, one shot of the MMR is considered enough protection. But there are certain situations that call for a second dose.
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  • Texas' 15th Congressional District provides clues to state's Latino vote
    The 15th Congressional District runs from the east of San Antonio all the way down into the Rio Grande Valley. This majority-Latino district provides a window into the Latino vote in Texas.
  • 2 Americans win Nobel Prize in economics for work on boom-bust cycles
    Two Americans have won the Nobel Prize in economics for their work on how to smooth boom-and-bust cycles to limit unemployment and inflation.
  • Trump says Russia and Ukraine agree to an 'energy ceasefire'
    President Trump said Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an "energy ceasefire," but he offered no details on it and Kyiv reported attacks by Moscow on energy sites after his statement.
  • Tropical Storm Rachel downgraded as high winds and rain turn inward
    Forecasters say the storm, which brought heavy rain and coastal flooding, is a preview of what may be in store as California braces for a possibly record-setting El Niño.
  • Pope Leo XIV to undergo lung surgery this week
    Pope Leo XIV said he would undergo surgery after doctors found a "localized nodule" in his lung.


rss: bbc

  • Britain won't tolerate threats on our soil, Miliband says as he summons Iran ambassador
    The prime minister says Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard "almost certainly" directed the RAF Fairford incident.
  • Six Ukrainian energy sites hit by Russia since Trump announced ceasefire, Zelensky says
    Despite the US president announcing energy infrastructure would not be targeted strikes have continued, Ukraine says.
  • Watch: What could Trump's energy ceasefire mean for Ukraine?
    The BBC's Dan Johnson reports from Kyiv, where Ukrainians face another winter with electricity outages.
  • Saudi minister vows 'serious response' to Houthi attacks on airports
    It comes after the armed group hit Riyadh's international airport and another facility, killing 13 people, in a significant escalation.
  • On Yemen's desert battlefield, a war with global consequences is being waged
    Yemen's entrenched civil war is now impossible to ignore. But in operating rooms in its port city of Aden, geopolitics feels remote.
  • Immigration agents search Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home
    Omar, an outspoken Trump critic, said the search was "an attempt to target political enemies" and that she "will not be silenced".
  • Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth, BBC finds
    Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, investigation finds.
  • French supermarket fridges heated to 50C in 'unprecedented' cyber attack
    Hundreds of stores were targeted by the overnight hack, which spoiled fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.
  • Schoolboy knife attacker texted 'sorry' to mum
    The mother of a boy accused of attempted murder at a high school gives evidence at his trial.
  • Tom Cruise film Digger forecast to become one of Hollywood's biggest flops
    The film dropped by around 60% in its second weekend, and could become one of Hollywood's biggest flops.


rss: the register

  • AMD unveils Helion racks for AI agents at OCP summit
    CPU-only and mixed CPU/GPU configurations due from partners in November
  • Which AI infrastructure option actually holds a boundary?
    Just over two weeks before The Register’s Washington dinner with HPE and NVIDIA, the questions on the table are the ones that decide the architecture.
  • Windows 11's easiest account bypass gets the Microsoft boot
    'Learn More' shortcut to local setup reportedly patched server-side, leaving users with more involved workarounds
  • Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex datacenters knock cloud and payments offline
    Techies at 'Russia's Google' work around the clock as users await access to funds and network connectivity falls to 30% of normal
  • UCLA settles Oracle ERP dispute with $3.1M in credits and $1.31M wiped off the bill
    University alleged cloud software couldn't meet its needs after years of delays to financial systems overhaul
  • Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Copilot edition
    Office documents in Copilot? Absolutely! Using Copilot to make Outlook themes? Nah…
  • London cabbies want Sadiq Khan to slam the brakes on robotaxis
    Union urges Mayor to halt driverless taxi rollout as City Hall report raises questions about safety, congestion, and who's actually in charge
  • Pigeon-powered internet packet goes under the hammer at Christie's
    25 years after taking flight, a surviving packet from the world's most impractical network has attracted a $4,000 bid
  • Imagine there's no Shiny Hunters – AI could make human hacking crews obsolete
    This week on The Kettle, we discuss some arrests and how Mythos' mathematical expertise has led to a second exploited bug that no human would have found
  • When you just need to build a tiny desktop app: TinyJS
    How a micro JavaScript runtime uses native OS webviews to shrink the desktop footprint.


rss: ars technica

  • Long-lost horror gaming cult classic P.T. gets a much-needed PC port
    Kojima's discontinued "playable trailer" is no longer stuck on a few aging PS4 hard drives.
  • F1 in Singapore: There's a new fastest car now
    Also, F1’s final sprint saw our first real wet racing of the year.
  • Google announces the Fitbit Edge, a middle ground between Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit Air
    The Fitbit Edge offers more than the Air, but it's not a real smartwatch.
  • Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
    The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.
  • Review: 4-hour Musk documentary feels like two different films
    Alex Gibney's provocative film is compelling but overlong, and there's not much new here for Ars readers.
  • Prime Video unveils Blade Runner 2099 full trailer at NYCC
    Also: New trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero, the sequel to Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju epic Godzilla Minus One.
  • One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
    Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin.
  • Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
    Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.
  • Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
    One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
  • A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis
    Stylish upcycling, with a retro flair, at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.


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