rss: npr

  • 5 ways to reduce everyday exposure to 'forever chemicals' 
    Mara Hoplamazian has spent years reporting on 'forever chemicals,' or PFAS. Here's what they've learned about what may help limit everyday exposure to the contaminant.
  • Trump appoints housing official as acting director of national intelligence
    Bill Pulte has shown a willingness to go after the president's perceived enemies.
  • Doctors checked Biden just after Trump debate as Jill Biden feared he had a stroke
    The Biden administration previously said doctors examined the president "days" following the debate, not in the moments after. The former first lady revealed more details in her new book.
  • How Ebola kills -- and what it takes to stop it
    It's a virus that can strike with unrelenting force. The kind of care need to knock it out is often not fully available in a lower resource country like the Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • DOJ will pause $1.8 billion fund, per court order. And, key primaries to watch today
    The DOJ says it will abide by a federal court order pausing its anti-weaponization fund. And, six states are holding primaries today. Here are the races to watch.
  • Pentagon policy illegally banned transgender troops from military, appeals court rules
    A divided panel of appeals court judges has ruled that a Trump administration policy illegally banned transgender troops from military service.
  • EU strikes migration deal for more deportations and detention centers abroad
    The European Union has moved forward with an overhaul of its migration policy, aiming to ramp up deportations and build detention centers abroad. Critics compared the regulation to the immigration strategy of the Trump administration.
  • For veterans, a place where peace can take root
    Iraq war veteran John Follmer leads vet volunteers who are rehabbing a neglected Japanese garden on the West LA Veterans Affairs Campus.
  • Trump vowed to revoke hundreds of citizenships. It's proving harder to do
    President Trump's vow to revoke citizenship worries immigrant advocates, legal scholars and naturalized Americans — but so far it's proving harder to do than the rhetoric suggests.
  • Michigan found a way to reduce school vaccine waivers. Until it backfired
    A decade ago, Michigan had high rates of parents not vaccinating their children, so it required them to attend an in-person education class to get an exemption. It worked — until things got ugly.


rss: bbc

  • Police bodycam shows officers handcuffing stabbed student as he lay dying
    Henry Nowak was handcuffed after his killer Vickrum Digwa lied and claimed he was racially abused by the teen.
  • Murrell used fake invoices to cover up £400,000 spending spree
    The former SNP chief executive is facing a lengthy jail sentence after admitting embezzling funds from the party.
  • Five questions left unanswered by the Mandelson files
    A second batch of files relating to Lord Mandelson's appointment as US ambassador has been released.
  • British couple lose Iran jail sentence appeal, family says
    Lindsay and Craig Foreman were arrested in January 2025 during a global motorbike journey.
  • Israel strikes southern Lebanon but partial truce with Hezbollah appears to hold
    Israel continues its campaign in the south, though has not struck Beirut after a deal announced by the US.
  • Married at First Sight UK allegations 'deeply disturbing', says watchdog
    Ofcom says it is taking the the allegations against the Channel 4 programme "very seriously".
  • UK Athletics fined £350,000 over death of Paralympian
    A judge at the Old Bailey has fined UK Athletics £350,000 with £44,000 in costs after hearing how a Paralympic athlete died when equipment fell on him at a training ground in east London.
  • More black men to benefit from prostate cancer screening trial
    Experts are trying to find the best way to screen for prostate cancer, since blood tests alone are not accurate enough for most men.
  • South West Water fined £1.8m over Devon parasite outbreak
    Four people were hospitalised and there were more than 140 cases of sickness and diarrhoea in Devon.
  • Cara Delevingne says new music was inspired by getting sober
    The model and actress is now moving into the world of music, having released her first two songs.


rss: the register

  • Marvell enters the AI network fray with 102.4 Tbps switch silicon
    High radix, low latency and low power is what AI datacenters crave, the chipmaker says
  • Enhanced performance for server consolidation with Intel Xeon 6+
    SPONSORED POST: How Intel’s first 18A data center CPU delivers efficiency and TCO gains, with Intel's Kira Boyko
  • Russian spy agency says foreign spies turned officials' smartphones into surveillance devices
    FSB claims large-scale snoop op compromised phones of senior officials, but gives no technical evidence to back allegations
  • Expect more of those DRAM price hikes as memory shortage continues to bite
    Chip costs may rise another 63% this quarter, as effects feed through to PC pricing
  • 'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices
    Your personal Jarvis or an end to privacy as we know it?
  • Microsoft reaches for olive branch after public dustup with 0-day researcher
    Following days of criticism from the security community, Redmond dials back rhetoric, insists vulnerability hunters not in its legal crosshairs
  • Claude celebrates Anthropic's stock market float with blockbuster ... outage
    Chatbot has no respect for timing of its maker's financial announcement
  • HPE declares Juniper deal a 'home run' as AI and networking fuel record quarter
    Networking orders surged, AI demand showed little sign of slowing, and HPE used the occasion to take a victory lap over its $14 billion Juniper bet
  • Northern Ireland cops issue PSA after official phone number spoofed by scammers
    If you’re going to impersonate an officer, perhaps choose a more sophisticated way to nick cash than asking for gift cards…
  • Peter Mandelson invited UK PM to meet Palantir's Thiel
    Britain's former US ambassador founded lobbyist that represented spy-tech firm, saw it win big roles in UK defense, health tech


rss: ars technica

  • Blue Origin has set a very aggressive return-to-flight timeline
    "The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen, and LNG tanks are all in good shape."
  • Slate Auto gets serious about privacy for its bare-bones EV pickup
    With no embedded modem, the Slate Truck is the antithesis of today's connected cars.
  • Trump's DOE restarts energy rebate program with dumb conditions
    Switching from fossil fuels to electricity for heating is no longer covered.
  • Impulse Space raises $500 million as orbital maneuvering race heats up
    "The market's going to continue to find exciting new things."
  • AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.
    Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day.
  • Why cats prefer silver vine to catnip and other May highlights
    Prehistoric mining in the Pyrenees, a new species of tiny blue octopus, slapstick acoustics, and more.
  • Moderna gets $50 million to develop mRNA Ebola vaccine against Bundibugyo
    Amid a raging Ebola outbreak, officials "urgently accelerate development" of vaccines.
  • Hackers duped Meta AI support chatbot to steal celebrity Instagram accounts
    Pricey Instagram handles were stolen and resold before Meta patched the exploit.
  • Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra looks like its first true MacBook Pro competitor
    It's Microsoft's least-weird attempt at a high-end mobile workstation.
  • Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel
    Anyone who has downloaded affected Red Hat packages should investigate immediately.


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