rss: npr

  • Rubio plans travel to France to sell Iran war to skeptical G7 allies
    Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to France this week to try to sell America's skeptical Group of Seven allies on the Iran war that has sent global fuel prices soaring.
  • Judge says government's Anthropic ban looks like punishment
    Tech company Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI system, is suing the Trump administration over the government labeling it a "supply chain risk."
  • An air traffic controller was juggling extra roles during the LaGuardia plane crash
    The National Transportation Safety Board said it has concerns about air traffic controllers who work the midnight shift taking on extra work in an airspace as busy as LaGuardia's.
  • New Mexico jury says Meta harms children's mental health and safety, violating state law
    The jury agreed that Meta engaged in "unconscionable" trade practices that unfairly took advantage of the vulnerabilities of and inexperience of children. Jurors found there were thousands of violations, each counting separately toward a penalty of $375 million.
  • Cuba sends doctors on medical missions. The U.S. isn't a fan
    It's a major source of revenue for the island. And it's controversial. Now countries are sending Cuban doctors home in response to pressure from the Trump administration.
  • Senate confirms Trump's pick for new role of fraud enforcement at Justice Department
    The confirmation comes just days after the White House announced details of its own task force to pursue fraud in government programs.
  • The Israeli military wants several more weeks to fight Iran war, officials say
    The Israeli military estimates it would need several more weeks of fighting to complete its war goals in Iran, at a time when President Trump says the U.S. is negotiating an end to the war.
  • Congress loses a flying perk as DHS shutdown continues
    Delta Airlines is temporarily suspending specialty services to member of Congress due to resource constraints from the ongoing shutdown of DHS.
  • A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee is arrested for murder
    Dayton Webber, 27, is accused of shooting a man in his car during an argument. He has shared his story of becoming a pro athlete after losing his arms and legs to a childhood bacterial infection.
  • Will President Trump act on his threat to take Cuba?
    New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson describes conditions in Cuba, why it's vulnerable now — and what regime change would mean — considering the Castro family's entrenchment in the Cuban government.


rss: bbc

  • Lyse Doucet: Small window open for US-Iran talks, but swift end to war still unlikely
    President Trump says the US is already dealing with a "top person" in Iran, but Tehran denies that any talks have begun.
  • NHS waited two days before raising alarm about meningitis outbreak
    Experts say the wait was indefensible and possibly delayed identification of the outbreak.
  • 'Wildy unaffordable': The harsh reality of shared ownership
    For many, the promise of getting a foot on the property ladder has turned into a nightmare.
  • Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers
    The government will interview the young people and their parents before and after they try the limits to assess their impact.
  • Oil at $150 would trigger global recession, says boss of financial giant BlackRock
    Larry Fink says if oil prices stay high for a sustained period it will have "profound implications" for the world economy.
  • 'It wasn't meant to end like this' - Salah exit tough but inevitable
    Less than a year ago, Mohamed Salah was sitting on a throne inside Anfield after renewing his contract - so why is he leaving?
  • NHS dentistry is rotting. Will the plan to fix it work?
    As patients struggle to find NHS dentists, Labour has a plan but not everybody is convinced it will work
  • Meta told to pay $375m for misleading users over child safety
    The owner of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp has been found liable by a court in New Mexico.
  • Tough negotiations loom as Denmark's Social Democrats fail to secure a majority
    The party, which has governed since 2019, gained the most votes but saw its weakest results in over a century.
  • Adolescence star Owen Cooper takes two RTS Awards
    Owen Cooper wins double for his standout performance in the Netflix drama show.


rss: the register

  • Alibaba delivers RISC-V server chip optimized to run China’s top AI models

    Claims its set performance records but looks to be years behind western fare

    Alibaba has revealed a new server chip that it says is the most powerful processor ever to use the RISC-V instruction set.…

  • HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops to make them either more useful at work, or a bit creepy

    'HP IQ' can chat, share files, and record and summarize meetings

    You’ve heard the call of Apple Intelligence, jumped for joy over Google Gemini, and cuddled up with Microsoft Copilot. Now, get ready for HP IQ, a local AI and collaboration application HP Inc. hopes will make its business laptops stand apart.…

  • AI-pilled Arm CEO teases mystery products that will turn it into a money machine

    Breaking free of its IP licensing shackles

    Arm CEO Rene Haas took an ice-cold sip of the AI Kool-Aid during a keynote speech at the company’s annual conference on Tuesday, teasing a future product that he thinks will pump the British chip designer's total addressable market (TAM) to $1 trillion by the end of the decade.…

  • EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom

    Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government

    interview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.…

  • 1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack

    Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects

    RSAC 2026 Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like Lapsus$.…

  • Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens

    They still look goofy, but at least you might be able to use 'em like a stylus

    An undergraduate chemistry researcher has developed a nail polish formulation that will let people use their nails to tap away on touch screens.…

  • LiteLLM loses game of Trivy pursuit, gets compromised

    Python interface for LLMs infected with malware via polluted CI/CD pipeline

    Two versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) following a supply chain attack that injected them with malicious credential-stealing code.…

  • AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks

    Paper argues the real impact isn't job loss but narrowing human work and pay

    AI isn't killing jobs wholesale – it's quietly chipping away at them, one task at a time.…

  • Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city

    Global hiring data shows employees relocating nearer major hubs, reversing pandemic-era shift

    The post-pandemic shift away from cities has reversed since 2022, with return-to-office mandates playing a role, according to a new report on global hiring trends.…

  • Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

    Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrows

    After weeks of debate, code to record user age was finally merged into the Linux world's favorite system management daemon.…



rss: ars technica

  • "The last straw"—RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally angrily quits CDC panel after spat
    Robert Malone quit a vaccine panel, blaming an HHS spokesperson for "trashing" him.
  • Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
    Too much hardware was allowed to disconnect right at the edge of normal conditions.
  • Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
    Walmart wants to connect what people stream "directly with retail interaction."
  • Mozilla dev's "Stack Overflow for agents" targets a key weakness in coding AI
    There are major problems to be solved before it can be adopted, though.
  • OpenAI announces plans to shut down its Sora video generator
    Move comes amid a reported plan to refocus on business and productivity use cases.
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation to swap leaders as AI, ICE fights escalate
    Public interest in government tech abuses is peaking. EFF's new leader plans to build on that.
  • FCC imposes sweeping ban on foreign-made routers, affecting all new models
    Trump admin to decide which router makers get exemptions from FCC import ban.
  • Apple releases iOS, iPadOS, macOS 26.4 with a long list of medium-size tweaks
    The 26.4 updates are more significant than the last few updates have been.
  • NASA kills lunar space station to focus on ambitious Moon base
    "Everyone wants to be on the surface."
  • Google's new version of Android Automotive will move beyond infotainment
    Google wants Android in cars to break out of the infotainment box.


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