rss: npr

  • Supreme Court to hear expedited arguments on protected status for migrants
    The court temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting some 6,000 Syrians and 350,000 Haitians who were granted Temporary Protected Status.
  • A new drug could be the beginning of the end for sleeping sickness
    The goal in the world of global health is to bring an end to this scourge by 2030. A new drug looks as if it could do the job.
  • Cuba hit by island wide blackout as energy crisis deepens
    On Monday Cuba was plunged into an island-wide blackout affecting 11 million people after a "complete disconnection" of its electrical system, officials said, amid a worsening fuel shortage.
  • Vaccine critics keep the pressure on, even as RFK Jr. shifts focus
    Anti-vaccine activists rally supporters to try to keep the momentum going on changing federal vaccine policies. This comes even as the White House tries to tamp down attention to the unpopular issue ahead of the midterm elections, and a powerful federal advisory committee plans to meet to consider even more moves.
  • Gasoline prices are still rising as the Iran war stretches into its third week
    U.S. gasoline prices are up nearly 80 cents from a month ago, while diesel prices have shot up even more. Diesel is now just under $5 a gallon, according to AAA, up $1.34 from last month.
  • Team USA won the second-most medals at these Paralympics. See the standout moments
    A mix of decorated veterans and rising stars won 24 medals for Team USA, 13 of them gold. The last one arrived Sunday, when the U.S. sled hockey team beat Canada to win its fifth straight gold medal.
  • Senate prepares to vote on Trump's SAVE Act. And, takeaways from last night's Oscars
    Senate Republicans are gearing up to vote on President Trump's controversial voting overhaul, the SAVE America Act. And, key takeaways from the 2026 Oscars.
  • Trump demands NATO and China police the Strait of Hormuz. So far they aren't joining
    With the Iran war entering a third week, Israel said it plans for at least three more weeks of war, while President Trump demanded other countries help the U.S. secure the vital Strait of Hormuz.
  • As parents clamor for a treatment touted for autism, doctors hesitate to prescribe it
    After leucovorin got public attention as a potential autism treatment, families rushed to get it. Many doctors are torn about prescribing an unproven drug but don't want to lose patients' trust.
  • Oil and gas prices are soaring. Some countries are ready with solar panels and EVs
    As an energy crisis grows, some countries are more prepared because of renewable energy and electric vehicles. Pakistan reduced its reliance on imported natural gas because of the growth of solar.


rss: bbc

  • Family 'beyond devastated' by meningitis death as hundreds get antibiotics
    A sixth form pupil and a university student have died, while 11 more are seriously ill in hospital.
  • What are the symptoms of meningitis and is there a vaccine?
    Two people have died following an outbreak of meningitis, including one student at the University of Kent.
  • Wary allies show there's no quick fix to Trump's Iran crisis
    European leaders are hesitant to help Trump secure the Strait of Hormuz, but they know inaction on the Iran war is not really an option.
  • Key Oscars moments as snubbed Chalamet becomes butt of jokes
    Here's what happened inside the winners room and other insights from the biggest night in Hollywood.
  • Elusive nightjar birds making remarkable comeback, conservationists say
    An ecological survey has found 109 nightjar territories in the lowland heaths of east Hampshire.
  • King hits the DJ decks on city arts venue visit
    The King admits "trying to get a hang of it" while having a go at being a DJ during a visit to Manchester.
  • Starmer announces £53m to help households most hit by rising heating oil costs
    The money will be for "vulnerable" households who have faced a sharp rise in energy bills since the outbreak of the US-Israeli war with Iran.
  • Schoolgirl 'traumatised' after being wrongly sent to England for abortion
    The teenager could have been treated in Northern Ireland, but was sent to London due to confusion over the services available.
  • BBC urges court to dismiss Trump Panorama lawsuit
    The US president is suing for defamation over the way Panorama spliced together parts of a speech he made.
  • Travelodge changes policy after attacker given room key
    The woman was attacked by Kyran Smith, who was given a key to her hotel room by staff.


rss: the register

  • Nvidia's DLSS 5 promises to bring you out the other side of the uncanny valley

    The latest generation of Nvidia’s AI image enhancer brings characters to life

    GTC Computer graphics have come a long way from chasing Donkey Kong around a 2D board and fragging 3D demons in Doom. However, even with the most powerful graphics cards, human faces in games still look surreal and lifeless, with dead eyes,saran-wrap-smooth faces, and beards that blend into their chins. With Nvidia’s upcoming DLSS 5, you can play with characters that look like they’re stepped out of a movie screen – and we’re not talking about a Pixar movie either.…

  • Nvidia wraps its NemoClaw around OpenClaw for the sake of security

    'OpenClaw is the operating system for personal AI,' insists Nvidia CEO

    gtc In Pixar's Toy Story, a trio little green aliens explain, "The claw chooses who will go and who will stay." The claw in that instance was a mechanical claw in a vending machine. …

  • Robotics surgical biz Intuitive discloses phishing attack

    Operations and hospital networks not affected, we're told

    Robotics-assisted surgical tech firm Intuitive said that unauthorized intruders gained access to some of its internal IT business applications after stealing an employee's credentials during a phishing attack.…

  • Nvidia powers further into the CPU market with new rack systems packing 256 Vera processors

    The cubicals of the agentic AI age are cores

    GTC Intel and AMD take notice. At GTC on Monday, Nvidia unveiled its latest liquid-cooled rack systems. But unlike its NVL72 racks, this one isn't powered by GPUs or even Groq LPUs, but rather 256 of its custom Vera CPUs.…

  • Nvidia slaps $20B Groq tech into massive new LPX racks to speed AI response time

    GPUzilla's $20B acquihire paves to way to AI agents that halucinate faster than ever

    GTC Nvidia will use Groq's language processing units (LPUs), a technology it paid $20 billion for, to boost the inference performance of its newly-announced Vera Rubin rack systems, CEO Jensen Huang revealed during his GTC keynote on Monday. …

  • Cybercrime has skyrocketed 245% since the start of the Iran war

    Hacktivists use proxy services from Russia, China for 'billions of designed-for-abuse connection attempts'

    Cybercrime has skyrocketed since the start of the Iran war, according to Akamai, which reports a 245 percent increase in everything from credential harvesting attempts to automated reconnaissance traffic aimed at banks and other critical businesses.…

  • Vite team boasts 10-30x faster builds with Rust-powered Rolldown

    Native code build tools now dominate for TypeScript or JavaScript projects

    Vite 8.0 has been released, and it uses Rust-built Rolldown as its single bundler, replacing both esbuild and Rollup, to enable faster builds.…

  • AI takes on Robotron: 2084, the original robot uprising simulator

    Former Microsoft dev trains a model to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress test

    A former Microsoft engineer is training AI to beat 1982's Robotron: 2084, an arcade game where a lone human must overcome endless waves of robots following a cybernetic revolt.…

  • AI finally delivers those elusive productivity gains... for cybercriminals

    Interpol says fraud schemes using the tech are 4.5x more profitable

    AI is apparently good for the bottom line if your business is crime. Financial fraud schemes carried out with the help of artificial intelligence are 4.5 times more profitable than those that aren't enhanced, according to Interpol's latest estimates.…

  • Boffins hook fly brain map to virtual body, which starts looking for sugar

    Early demo hints at a future sci-fi writers warned us about

    San Francisco startup Eon Systems claims that it has created the first digital simulation of a fruit fly brain that can control a virtual body and produce recognizable behaviors.…



rss: ars technica

  • RFK Jr's changes to CDC vaccine guidance, advisory board blocked by judge
    The move temporarily undoes significant damage Kennedy has done.
  • National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info
    State attorneys general won't get climate chapter removed from a legal manual.
  • New "vibe coded" AI translation tool splits the video game preservation community
    Creator apologizes after using Patreon funds for Gemini-powered magazine scan processor.
  • Trump and his FCC chair demand more positive news coverage of Iran war
    Carr makes evidence-free claim of "hoaxes and news distortions." Trump is thrilled.
  • OpenAI’s own mental health experts unanimously opposed “naughty” ChatGPT launch
    OpenAI draws a line between AI “smut” and porn. Experts fear it’s all unhealthy.
  • Driving the $375,000 Porsche race car that debuted as a $12 DLC in iRacing
    Porsche's new 911 Cup debuted in iRacing, and then we took it out on the track.
  • F1 in China: I've never seen so many people in those grandstands
    Formula 1's new style of racing puts on an entertaining sprint weekend in Shanghai.
  • Apple’s AirPods Max 2 bring H2 chip, boosted ANC in April for $549
    Apple's over-head headphones get an update after over five years.
  • 100 years later, where is Robert Goddard's first liquid-fueled rocket?
    "He didn't preserve it as a sacred object... "
  • No accountability: Bills would ban liability lawsuits for climate change
    This is the latest front in the battle over climate lawsuits.


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