rss: npr

  • Meta plans to release AI-powered prediction market app, documents show
    The company is building an app separate from Facebook and Instagram where people can wager on the outcome of real-world events, using "play money."
  • A judge says the Kennedy Center must update him on its plans — and address that tarp
    A federal judge has ordered the Kennedy Center to update him on programming and operational plans. But with most of the staff gone and many artists booked elsewhere, what shows would they present?
  • Postal Service says its cash crisis is delayed until at least 2031, but problems loom
    The U.S. Postal Service is no longer set to be out of cash in 2027, the agency's head says. But its finances remain shaky as Trump officials keep putting it in political hot water.
  • Will Texas' new top voting official be a 'disruptor'? Locals are preparing for it
    Just ahead of closely contested midterms, Texas is about to get a new top voting official. Many locals there fear the frontrunner is a state lawmaker and pastor with no election experience.
  • Understanding 'masculinism,' a movement to restore the primacy of men
    Masculinism is a belief that feminism emasculates men, and men should be in control while women stay at home raising children. The Atlantic writer Helen Lewis says the movement is becoming mainstream.
  • US eases restriction on Iran's World Cup team, allowing travel 2 days before next match
    The U.S. is easing its restrictions on Iran's World Cup team. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday the squad could travel into the country two days before its next match.
  • Star Fox Review: Can't quite teach an old Fox new tricks
    The Switch 2 Star Fox remake comes with high-effort visuals and a fun battle mode, but its campaign feels stuck in the past.
  • Greetings from sweltering Switzerland
    On the waterfront in Lucerne, Switzerland, soccer fans watched jumbo TVs showing a World Cup match played an ocean away. But the air felt more like the tropics.
  • U.N. nuclear chief says inspectors will visit Iran, but Iran says only after final deal
    The head of the U.N.'s atomic agency said Iran's nuclear enrichment sites would be inspected as part of the interim deal. Iran insists any such visit would only come after a final deal.
  • Congress passes major housing bill. And, Mamdani-backed candidates sweep NYC primaries
    Congress has passed the largest housing affordability bill in decades. And all three candidates endorsed by New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani have won their primaries. 


rss: bbc

  • UK sees hottest June day on record as 36.1C recorded in Hampshire
    Heat records were broken when temperatures soared across southern England on Wednesday afternoon.
  • Why this heatwave feels worse than the last one
    A combination of factors is making this heatwave more uncomfortable than some we have had in the past, as Simon King explains
  • Obesity cases rising fastest in young adults
    Experts say the cost of living, pandemic and boom in unhealthy food are behind the rise in cases.
  • 'From excitement to emptiness': Families affected by largest NHS maternity scandal tell their stories
    Families explain how they became part of the biggest maternity scandal in NHS history.
  • King meets women's cricket team that is not allowed to exist
    King Charles shows his support for the Afghan women's cricket team, who are no longer allowed to play official games.
  • Burnham on course to be PM, but what would his No 10 operation look like?
    Burnham's top team starting to take shape as questions remain over his policies and priorities.
  • Trump asks Congress for $87bn, mostly for 'urgent' Iran war costs
    But the proposal faces an uphill battle and comes one day after Congress passed a resolution rebuking Trump's military action in Iran.
  • Michael Barrymore TikTok videos prompt concern over filming on smart glasses
    A shop worker tells the BBC he unexpectedly appeared in a video Barrymore uploaded on social media.
  • People stuck on M25 in heat alert taken to hospital
    The ambulance service says it struggled to reach patients suffering "heat related illnesses".
  • Elon Musk loses trillionaire status as global tech rout hits SpaceX
    Elon Musk lost his trillionaire status on Tuesday after a brutal global tech rout erased billions from his wealth.


rss: the register

  • Companies are not looking before they're leaping into the AI playpen
    93% of organizations report infrastructure incidents attributable to AI
  • The hits keep on coming for Cisco vulnerabilities
    CVE-2026-20230 under exploitation, while an earlier SD-WAN 0-day looks even worse than we thought
  • Qualcomm claims it's not too late for Dragonfly to land in datacenters
    Oh, Snap(dragon): DC chief says the mobile-chip giant sees bit barns as its next growth market
  • Loop engineering, latest AI buzzword, still needs humans in the loop
    Prompting less and automating more comes with a price
  • OpenAI gets chippy with Broadcom
    Jalapeño is the latest announcement that attempts to portray OpenAI as more than a race-to-the-bottom model maker
  • Microsoft uses AI to link two malware operations in racketeering suit
    200+ C2 servers linked to StealC and Amadey shut down
  • Windows 11 turns five, leaving some important lessons for Microsoft
    Maybe sometimes users know best
  • Deno project is going to add cross-platform desktop apps in next major update
    Feature is not yet stable, but will offer easy conversion of web applications
  • Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'
    Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data. Redmond insists its work is sound
  • Medical diagnosis AIs can be tricked into telling whose data trained them
    Did you read all the documents you signed last time you had a medical test?


rss: ars technica

  • Hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI will cost more than other AAA games
    GTA6 might be an outlier, though—at least for now.
  • OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale
    The silicon race is heating up amid the struggle to keep up with demand.
  • 13 years and $500 million for a stage adapter? Report justifies NASA cancellations.
    "Contract values for these efforts ballooned from nearly $2.8 billion to $5.9 billion."
  • US ends hantavirus outbreak response with no answers on draconian quarantines
    We still don't know why RFK Jr. overruled CDC expert to order strict quarantines.
  • One-two punch delivered in global operation disrupts cybercrime "assembly line"
    "Operation Endgame" simultaneously disrupts two widely used crime tools.
  • Underpromise, overdeliver? Hands-on with the $24,950 Slate auto.
    It has 205 miles of bare-bones range.
  • Disney agreed to $50M settlement over claims it made live-TV streaming expensive
    Lawsuit alleged Disney inflated market prices by making carriers include ESPN.
  • Experimental wine bottle tracks oxygen moving through the cork
    The small bit of air in the bottle sees oxygen and other chemicals move in and out.
  • FCC plans ID mandate that could block anonymous use of prepaid burner phones
    Privacy advocates and domestic violence groups say ID mandate is a big mistake.
  • Formula E reveals first calendar for GEN4 with lots of real race tracks
    Brands Hatch, COTA, and Zandvoort will all hold an e-Prix in 2027.


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