rss: npr

  • Virginia and D.C. sue to block construction of Trump arch
    U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkin ordered both sides to talk and to agree on a proposed briefing schedule on the motion for a temporary restraining order by Saturday evening.
  • Mixed economic forecast weighs heavy ahead of midterms
    There was a mixed Halloween bag of economic news this week. GDP growth is up, but so are prices. For now at least, interest rates are staying the same. What does that mean for the midterm elections?
  • France seethes again as youth-led protests sweep Europe
    French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez warned of a "very high risk" of disorder, especially after dark on Halloween, as some 320,000 people nationwide took to the streets.
  • Key takeaways from this week's political meeting in Beijing
    The Communist party central committee meeting was focused on discipline and fighting corruption. It comes ahead of next year when Xi is widely expected to try to secure a fourth term.
  • A simple explainer of the massive $6.3 billion crypto heist at Binance
    Here are five things to know about the massive hack of the crypto exchange Binance — from how it happened to what it means for the sector.
  • Justice Department seeks to isolate Alaska ballots amid criminal probe over Senate candidate
    The latest developments come amid allegations, first reported by The New York Times, that Democrats recruited a spoiler candidate in the toss-up U.S. Senate race.
  • Perspective: Forget the ballroom, we're headed to Cheesecake Factory!
    Former President Obama caused a kerfuffle with his comments about President Trump's interior decorating at the White House. But maybe state dinners should happen at The Cheesecake Factory.
  • Drone photo award winners: Far-out landscapes. Ship recycling. Rugs, rugs rugs!
    The Siena Drone Photo Awards for 2026 offer breathtaking bird's-eye views of our planet, revealing landscapes, livelihoods and human stories often invisible from the ground.
  • Do you have seasonal affective disorder? How to tell — and what to do about it
    The syndrome can make people feel like a "hibernating bear," says Dr. Norman Rosenthal, who published the first research on SAD. He explains how to identify the symptoms and what to do to feel better.
  • Your writing was flagged as AI. What does that actually mean?
    As editors turn to imperfect AI detection tools to weed out machine-generated submissions, writers who say they were falsely accused of using AI are left wondering what triggered a positive result.


rss: bbc

  • 'We came back from hell', say Ukrainians after years in Russia-occupied front-line city
    One evacuated couple says they crossed minefields in Oleshky in search of food.
  • Laura Kuenssberg: Healey risks breaking minimum wage promise for younger workers
    The Chancellor has suggested that younger workers might not receive the same minimum wage as others before the next election.
  • King to address slavery during Commonwealth speech in Antigua on final leg of Caribbean tour
    King Charles III will deliver a speech to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting on Tuesday as he concludes his nine-day Caribbean tour.
  • Thousands demonstrate in Paris as protests spread across Europe
    More than 320,000 people demonstrated across France against the rising cost of living and poor public services, with clashes between some protesters and police.
  • 'It's been killing me!' Celebrity Traitors winners relieved the secret is out
    The second series of the hit show reached its finale on Friday, attracting a whopping 11.2 million live viewers.
  • Crypto firm Binance covers 90% of losses after $6.3bn hack
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says North Korea was responsible for the hack.
  • Why did this Korean content creator throw a divorce ceremony?
    Cho Seung-yeon marked the end of her marriage by having a divorce ceremony - however not everyone online was happy about it.
  • 'The necktie is dead': How US midterm candidates are dressing for votes
    From Alaska to Texas, candidates with an eye on Congress are using their personal style to stand out.
  • He questioned Thailand's monarchy dressed as Harry Potter. Now he's in jail for 34 years
    Thailand has prosecuted 294 people since 2020 under its lèse majesté law, with sentences going up to 50 years.
  • Responsible or panicked? Meet the people around the world already preparing for crisis
    Filter straws to a disposable toilet - people in the US, Japan, Sweden and Netherlands on what's in their emergency stashes.


rss: the register

  • Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth
    Experimental orbital datacenter prototype puts its TPU to work producing poetry
  • Goth aesthetic gone wild: a user's self-inflicted black screen of non-death in Windows 3.1’s
    Labeled in black on black - controls for a galactic hyper-hearse or ill-advised Windows theme?
  • Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use
    A lot of software engineers feel bleak about the future of the profession
  • Chocolate Caterpillar or Chocolate Teapot? Top up the disk space for Windows 10 to find out
    London's Oxford Street signage shows its underwear to passing tourists
  • Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan
    How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot
  • Darkbloom, which allowed Mac users to rent out their GPUs for AI inference, warns of low payouts
    Blame plunging prices on tokens
  • HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare
    How the Uber-bound delivery giant tuned its mobile networking stack to cut latency
  • Crim spent $7K+ on AI services in extortion attacks, then left evidence for all to see
    n0n-existent security
  • GM cracks the petty cash box for multistate driver tracking settlement
    $220 million? For all of you? Yeah, we can probably dig that up ...
  • Anthropic: That Claude Code extension compromise… couldn't be us
    Claudeshop fingers 'malicious actor' in targeted supply-chain attack on Cursor


rss: ars technica

  • Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged
    A long flight home from feeding grounds messes with birds' internal clocks.
  • The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.
    The regulator says Tavneos was approved on the basis of manipulated study data. Should patients still have access to it?
  • Once again, NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble from certain death
    The space agency solicited ideas for reboosting Hubble four years ago, but they didn't go anywhere.
  • Flesh-eating screwworms spread to third state and are attacking pets
    USDA has identified 74 animal cases in US since parasitic flies invaded in June.
  • Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart
    "For huge numbers of people, I will always be Jean-Luc Picard. ... We created an admirable individual."
  • Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
    Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.
  • Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
    It's still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic's verified Cursor account.
  • Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
    People who love AI don't always love telling others they used it.
  • Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren't even good
    Faked symptoms still point to infections that antibiotics don't treat.
  • Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
    But it's still early days for the relatively new e-commerce use case.


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