rss: npr

  • 'Messy,' 'divided' and 'scary': swing voters rate the country ahead of Election Day
    One last check in with the Swing Shift voters before Election Day. All of them voted for President Trump. Now, they're rating his presidency and deciding who to support when he's not on the ballot.
  • How NPR makes race calls in the 2026 election
    Race calls are a critical part of election night and NPR partners with the Associated Press to make those calls. Here's how we do it.
  • It's Election Day. Control of Congress is on the line, and what else you need to know
    There are a lot of variables for how things will go today. Results will start to come in at 6 p.m. ET in Kentucky and Indiana, and then it will be off to the races.
  • A new cold war: hackers target fridges across the globe
    NPR investigated cyberattacks on the digital devices that control industrial refrigerators, revealing the extent to which operational technology is exposed to damage and disruption.
  • From 'model minority' to target, anti-Indian hate on the rise
    A massacre allegedly targeting Hindu Americans was recently thwarted, but researchers say it helps to illustrate a growing and increasingly mainstream hate directed at South Asians in the U.S.
  • This woman defied lethal cancer. Can mRNA vaccines make that possible for others?
    Researchers have been chasing the dream of a cancer vaccine for decades. Some recent successes with mRNA technology are garnering excitement from patients, doctors, government and investors.
  • AI chatbots are becoming political advisers. Their answers can mislead voters
    Millions of Americans are turning to AI for election information, but chatbots are getting voting facts wrong and recommending candidates, raising concerns they could influence voters' decisions.
  • Is America really that polarized? The answer might be a surprise
    The U.S. has become more politically polarized, but research shows people overestimate their differences and there is 'messy middle' majority of Americans who share overlapping political views.
  • Judge accuses DOJ of 'weaponization,' tosses case against ex-FBI officials
    The judge said he was "deeply troubled" by the mistakes and rushed nature of the case over the FBI's Hunter Biden probes — one of several politically charged DOJ actions ahead of the midterms.
  • The Supreme Court rejects a DOJ push to separate California ballots
    The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a last-minute request from the Department of Justice to wade into its unprecedented feud with California over the state's voter rolls.


rss: bbc

  • UK and EU agree draft deal to scrap Brexit red tape over food exports
    The food deal, ahead of a UK-EU summit later this month, is the most significant part of the so-called Brexit reset agreed so far.
  • Spanish footballer dies after collision with goalkeeper during match
    Tenerife forward Jesus de Miguel dies after suffering an on-field collision during a Spanish second-division match.
  • US strikes Iranian island ahead of midterm elections
    US officials described the attacks on Qeshm Island as limited and defensive, according to CBS, the BBC's US partner.
  • Mahmood refuses to detail cost of revised settlement plans
    The home secretary says the full cost of dropping plans to extend the wait for settlement will be laid out in future.
  • Scientists detect signals from the zeptoverse - the smallest scale of nature ever explored
    Researchers have detected signals from the smallest distances ever probed.
  • Watch: Just how small is the zeptoverse?
    BBC science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh, takes us into the zeptoverse and explains how it could change our ideas of how the universe works.
  • 'Mogging' is Collins' word of the year... but do you know what it means?
    The slang term, which relates to outshining or upstaging someone, is one of 10 words celebrated.
  • UK also affected by cyber-attack which hit European supermarket fridges
    Supermarkets in countries including Ireland, Sweden and Belgium reported fridges being hiked in temperature on Monday.
  • PM plans debt reset for Commonwealth nations as slavery apology talks begin
    The move comes as the prime minister begins talks about the UK issuing a formal apology for the slave trade in the next year.
  • Thousands of European troops to rehearse Ukraine deployment in event of peace
    Western officials stress that any force sent to Ukraine would not take part in any offensive operations.


rss: the register

  • UK.gov lacks understanding of climate impact, says watchdog
    Risks of changing climate and cost of transition to low-carbon energy poorly measured by government departments
  • Raspberry Pi hikes prices again, barely a month after the last round
    Memory crunch pushes 16GB Pi 5 to $385, more than triple its launch price, just a month after the last round of hikes
  • Everyone has the file. Nobody has the right version
    Distributed teams need to collaborate, but duplicated files, delays, and competing versions keep getting in the way
  • Forget retraining - AI can now tweak another AI's weights
    'Weight-Space Programming' fiddles with nerd knobs to boost benchmark scores
  • Open models can do 90 percent of agentic work at a twentieth of the cost of a frontier LLM: Gartner
    Models are commodities, harnesses are the valuable part
  • Architect creates open-source replacement for VM migration tool VMware has hidden
    OpenVDDK is reportedly already being used in production, at scale
  • Toyota shows off SoC that stores model weights and its OS on integrated memory
    Accessing external memory puts the brakes on physical AI, so carmaker has found an economical and speedy shortcut
  • Anthropic's compute tab could top $1T as Q3 revenue nears $17B
    Revised IPO filing warns 12x revenue growth is unlikely to continue
  • Max-severity bug in widely used OT programming tool exploited to deliver Linux malware
    Your industrial IoT gateway isn't exposed to the internet, right? RIGHT?!
  • These smart glasses promise to turn your silent mouth movements into text
    Crazy person, or efficient employee? As always, it depends on what they're wearing


rss: ars technica

  • "At Home in Space" opens, caps Air and Space Museum renovation
    The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum has all of its "space" back open.
  • Why large dogs age faster than small ones, and other October research highlights
    Plus invisible tattoos, medieval skeleton gets an ID, trapping a single antimatter particle, and more.
  • Third person dies of bird flu since virus started jumping to livestock
    The threat is still considered to be low, but the virus continues to spread.
  • Googling "Zelda" today offers a glimpse of how search worked in 1998
    "The flow of time is always cruel."
  • Most of our measures of a key cognitive process don't agree
    A big study with very little beyond negative results still gets published.
  • Coming in 2027: Apple’s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lights
    Apple robot backed by CEO John Ternus may have hefty price tag and limited uses.
  • Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom
    The tsunami of imitators is way bigger than any one model maker can stem.
  • China publicly discloses plan for a lunar landing within three years
    The plan does not include a mission similar to Apollo 8 or Artemis II.
  • F1 in Mexico City: Yet another Ferrari fiasco, but that’s not all
    There was plenty of drama on and off the track for Formula 1 this weekend.
  • The world has a new plan to save nature, but it still needs the money
    A new action plan aims to rescue 2030 nature targets as financing remains inadequate.


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