rss: npr

  • ICE plans to outfit officers with electric shock gloves
    The company that makes the gloves, Compliant Technologies, says they're a nonlethal tool to make individuals compliant during arrests.
  • Trump sued over service selling faster access to Truth Social posts
    The federal lawsuit alleges that the service from the president's media company violates the Constitution. Meanwhile, Trump Media executives say they have signed up more than 10 customers.
  • Controversial group wins $158M-contract to represent unaccompanied immigrant children
    Utah-based Our Rescue was founded by activist Tim Ballard. It was previously known as Operation Underground Railroad and it says it helps law enforcement perform sting operations and rescues human trafficking survivors.
  • White House press secretary leaving
    Karoline Leavitt will continue to be an outside adviser, Trump said
  • Has the U.S. lost its dominance to China?
    Beijing may be benefiting from the war in Iran and Trump's tariffs and has an edge in the competition for tech supremacy. The New Yorker's Evan Osnos discusses his story "The Future, Made in China."
  • Inflation eases in July as gasoline and grocery prices fall
    Consumer prices in July were up 3.4% from a year ago — a smaller annual increase than in May or June. The news makes it less likely the Fed will feel the need to raise interest rates in September.
  • Greetings from a surreal expanse of sand dunes dotted with freshwater lagoons in Brazil
    The pristine white sand dunes of the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park are bordered by thick jungle on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. Thousands of lagoons fill up after the rainy season.
  • His wedding guests gave $6k to fund a health startup. Now it's won a $3 million prize
    Dr. Raj Panjabi founded Last Mile Health to bring healthcare to people living in remote areas. The group is the 2026 recipient of the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize.
  • Zhu Rongji, who drove China's 1990s economic reforms, has died at 97
    Zhu was renowned for reforms that sought to transition China from the post-Maoist years to a more global market-oriented financial system, without ceding party control over the economy.
  • Takeaways from Tuesday primaries. And, Iran threat prompted Trump's secret plane swap
    Yesterday's primaries provided more insight into what voters in both parties want from their new leaders. And, Trump secretly switched planes in Turkey last month amid a foreign threat


rss: bbc

  • Once-in-a-generation solar eclipse wows millions in UK and Europe
    More than 95% of the Sun was covered by the Moon in Cornwall, while parts of Spain experienced the magic of a total eclipse.
  • Major Russian grain export terminals hit in Ukraine Black Sea port attack
    Grain exports from both Russia and Ukraine are falling as both countries attack each other's shipping facilities and ports.
  • Students wait for A-level, T-level and BTec results
    Another record number of students are expected to secure a place at their first choice of university.
  • Burnham urges shops not to sell disposable BBQs over wildfire risks
    The PM wants the public to avoid using single-use grills during the current spell of extremely dry weather.
  • Travis Kelce shares first details from his wedding to Taylor Swift - 'Best night of my life'
    In the comments, Kelce called Swift his "wife" for first time and said it was a "childhood dream" to wed at Madison Square Garden.
  • ICE plans to equip agents with gloves that can deliver electric shocks
    The US immigration agency is spending $20m on gloves that deliver a sharp electric shock intended to compel subjects to comply.
  • GB's Hudson-Smith wins historic 400m gold on home track
    Great Britain's Matthew Hudson-Smith makes history as the joint-most decorated man of all-time at European Championships by claiming 400m gold in Birmingham.
  • Woman pulled alive from rubble 36 hours after Colombia quake
    Following a 10-hour rescue operation, emergency workers pulled the 32-year-old from beneath slabs of concrete.
  • Trump says White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to leave post
    Leavitt will depart from her role to spend time with her young children and family, the president says.
  • First 100% British chocolate bar made since 1932
    Master's student Maha Khan created the chocolate bar by harvesting and processing Reading-grown cocoa.


rss: the register

  • Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous
    And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there
  • 'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency
    Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm
  • Tailscale says deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's outages
    Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset took six months of hunting and development of a new logging tool to identify
  • Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare
    Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure
  • Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible
    Eight years on, we're still paying to hide the future glimpsed during speculative execution
  • Nvidia's latest solution to soaring enterprise AI costs is...a router?
    NeMo Switchyard brings GPT-5-style model routing to the mainstream
  • Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows
    Exploit Wednesday's back, baby
  • OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models
    Contributors wanted: 167B transparent tokens have a long way to go against AI giants' trillions
  • CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B
    Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending
  • Smooth-talking fraudsters clone contactless cards, authorize payments in just 13 minutes
    Social engineering and malware combine to enable financial fraud before banks have time to act


rss: ars technica

  • Toddler's tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors
    Boy's unusual symptoms could help identify the next case sooner.
  • The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
    “ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
  • Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
    The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
  • Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.
    “It’s the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature.”
  • Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
    Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."
  • Trump sued over "brazen" scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month
    With Truth API, Trump is "selling priority access to news he himself generates."
  • US boosts drone surveillance as flesh-eating screwworms spread in Texas
    Hundreds of Homeland Security drones retasked to survey wildlife and livestock.
  • Two hydrogen-burning engines powered this car to a new land speed record
    JCB has invested heavily in hydrogen to power its diggers and other machinery.
  • US tries to override New York gambling laws, orders Kalshi to keep operating
    Trump admin claims New York suing Kalshi created "market emergency."
  • Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books
    AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.


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