rss: npr

  • Here's why an Arizona medical examiner is working to track heat-related deaths
    No one across the U.S. is consistently tracking climate-fueled deaths. One medical examiner has a new protocol on heat-deaths.
  • House passes Russia sanctions, sending bill named for Lindsey Graham to Trump's desk
    The legislation was named for the late South Carolina Republican. It gives the president authority to impose tariffs on top importers of oil and natural gas from Russia, such as China and India.
  • You'd expect homeowners to save their stuff. Federal policy pays them to leave it
    NPR dug into the upside-down world of FEMA flood insurance in coastal areas, and found many homeowners have no financial choice but to let their homes collapse.
  • Committee investigating Epstein holds billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress
    Billionaire investor Leon Black refused to appear before the committee investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for a deposition. Now it's up to the Department of Justice whether to pursue criminal charges.
  • Trump administration plans ideological warning signs for Smithsonian
    The Interior Secretary says the move is necessary to combat what he calls ideological bias.
  • The 'burnerverse' exploiting young women in college
    Wired reporter EJ Dickson speaks with NPR's Juana Summers about an online community that targets and harasses young women with their own nonconsensual, sexually explicit images.
  • EU rolls out red carpet to Canada to become its first 'associate member'
    The European Union's top official backs the Canadian prime minister's push for his country to become the bloc's first "associate member," as Brussels seeks to deepen ties amid pressure from the U.S.
  • Congress is under pressure to act on AI — here's what that could look like
    Lawmakers are expressing broader willingness to regulate AI development, but the path forward may not be a quick one.
  • DOJ charges Russian agents with plotting attacks, including in the U.S.
    The indictment says the defendants belong to a network that "is one arm of the Russian Federation's apparatus used to carry out external attacks" worldwide.
  • A tumultuous congressional primary season closes with record departures and defeats
    Already, close to 100 lawmakers who started this Congress will not be around for the next one, according to an NPR analysis, driven by record-setting retirements and primary defeats.


rss: bbc

  • Body found in search for missing three-year-old Noah Woods
    Police divers discover child's body in a pond after Noah went missing from a playground on Tuesday.
  • US interest rates raised for first time in three years
    Rates were hiked in a unanimous decision despite fierce opposition from President Donald Trump, who had called for a cut.
  • 'Grief can colour memory': Palace responds after Earl Spencer's claim in Diana book
    Diana's brother claimed the then-Prince of Wales said she would be forgotten "soon enough" days after her death.
  • New hope for breast cancer patients as life-extending drug now on NHS in England
    Enhertu, which can give patients an extra seven months to live on average, has been prescribed in Scotland for more than two years and is available.
  • Interest rates hold expected but Bank of England facing tough choices
    Forecasts of further rises in the inflation rate mean some analysts expect the Bank to act by the end of the year.
  • At least seven months of relentless rain needed to end drought, research shows
    Almost 75% of England remains in drought following an exceptionally dry spring and summer.
  • Snapchat 'willing to implement' daily time limits for teens, boss tells BBC
    Evan Speigel says it would be "an important step forward for the industry" in an interview with the BBC.
  • 'Putney pusher' suspect found dead at home
    Nicholas Brandram was a suspect in the incident where a woman was shoved into the path of a bus nine years ago.
  • Lena Dunham announces birth of first baby via surrogacy
    The writer and actress announced the birth of her daughter in an op-ed published by Vogue on Wednesday.
  • Two Britons among three killed in Swiss Alps light aircraft crash
    Authorities say the plane took off from the Rhône Valley and collided with a mountain slope about 10 minutes later.


rss: the register

  • AI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so
    This is a test - it is only a test
  • Nvidia goes green to keep grid capacity from zapping its revenues
    GPUzilla woos neoclouds into another walled garden, promising smarter, more efficient, and profitable bit barns
  • CISA decides weekly vulnerability bulletin isn't necessary anymore
    Agency's shift from static CVSS scores to risk-based prioritization sends the old format packing September 28
  • OpenAI's new sponsored agents are happy to chat about selling you things
    Advertisers can now ask ChatGPT to help create their ChatGPT ads, because what's more relatable than an ad crafted by a bot?
  • Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks
    CISA gives federal agencies just 3 days to patch
  • Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows
    Hardware such as mainframes found to hold the data and business logic needed to build those AI services
  • Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel
    He'll need to earn around $13K a year to pay pops back between now and when he turns 18, so at least there's that free labor to look forward to
  • Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century
    Kmscon brings smooth scaling, richer colors, and better Unicode support beneath GNOME 51
  • SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22
    Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific
  • AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good
    Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible


rss: ars technica

  • Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI
    Planned 2029 debut could make this Apple’s first enterprise server in decades.
  • Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who's in them
    Survivors appalled nobody will tell them if they’re in Epstein’s CSAM collection.
  • Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down by "critical blow" from a cyberattack
    Group plans to be largely out of commission for several weeks.
  • Lionsgate releases a new trailer for Sunrise on the Reaping
    Also: Laika Studios debuts a stunning full-length trailer for its stop-motion feature, Wildwood.
  • Not just Proton: Getting to know Valve's new SteamOS compatibility layers
    New system-level tools bring Arm chipsets, Android APKs into the Steam ecosystem.
  • California may gut state net neutrality law to comply with Trump admin demand
    Trump admin broadband grants forbid states from enforcing net neutrality laws.
  • Researchers swap in human brain cells for a mouse's cortex
    The results are only a slight improvement over missing the entire brain structure.
  • Scientists develop new method for deciphering ancient scrolls
    Even a handheld XRF scanner is sufficient to determine most promising scrolls for further analysis.
  • The Specialized Diverge Pro 4 makes rough gravel your playground
    The Diverge Pro 4 is happiest when the road gets ugly.
  • It’s OK to tell ICE their actions will haunt them, judge rules in speech fight
    Man wins fight to block ICE threat over off-the-cuff angry email.


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