rss: npr

  • Strikes resume on Iran, U.S. military says Tehran's defenses 'severely degraded'
    Israel's military said it had begun a "broad wave of strikes" in Tehran Wednesday morning. U.S. officials touted early gains, while Democrats warned the war could widen.
  • ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it
    The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.
  • America has a housing affordability crisis. Building houses for rent can help
    Developers are building more single-family houses for renting. That can lower prices for both renters and buyers.
  • As Paralympics approach, U.S. skier Sydney Peterson balances training and research
    Sydney Peterson is among the U.S. athletes heading to the 2026 Winter Paralympics. A neuroscientist in training, Peterson is studying movement disorders, similar to her own condition.
  • On the brink of death, a woman is saved by a stranger and his family
    In 1982, Jean Muenchrath and her boyfriend went mountaineering in California's Sierra Nevada. Then, an unexpected storm veered them dangerously off course. Luckily, their unsung hero found them.
  • 5 takeaways from the first primaries of the 2026 midterms
    Voters headed to the polls Tuesday in the first primaries of the midterm election season. The latest results from Arkansas, North Carolina and Texas.
  • North Carolina Rep. Valerie Foushee holds narrow lead over challenger Nida Allam
    The race is too close to call between Democratic Rep. Valerie Foushee and her anti-establishment challenger Nida Allam in North Carolina's 4th congressional district and is likely headed to a recount.
  • Roy Cooper, Michael Whatley set to compete for a high-stakes North Carolina U.S. Senate seat
    Former Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper will face former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley in the state's toss-up U.S. Senate race.
  • Talarico wins Democratic nomination for Texas Senate seat; Republicans set for runoff
    Sen. John Cornyn will face Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a May runoff. The winner will face James Talarico, a seminarian and state lawmaker who's emerged as a rising Democratic star.
  • Humans' pull toward alcohol may have ancient origins (according to chimp pee)
    Scientists learned that wild African chimpanzees consume alcohol by eating fermented fruit, suggesting that human attraction to alcohol may have ancient evolutionary origins.


rss: bbc

  • First government flight for UK nationals due to leave Middle East tonight
    Some British nationals are being invited to board the flight from the capital of Oman later on Wednesday.
  • UK stock market calms but oil prices rise over fears Iran war may drag on
    UK and other European markets opened a little higher but gas and crude prices remain volatile.
  • Watch: Footage from across Iran shows scale of strikes
    Footage verified by the BBC and news agencies shows large explosions in Iran following US and Israel strikes.
  • 'All red lines have been crossed': Gulf states weigh response to Iranian strikes
    Retaliatory Iranian strikes on Gulf states have tarnished their image as safe and prosperous, writes the BBC's Barbara Plett-Usher.
  • 'No to war': Pedro Sánchez hits back as Trump threatens full trade embargo on Spain
    Spain's prime minister delivers a strong rebuttal to US President Donald Trump's threat to end trade with his country.
  • Mahmood to stop study visas from four countries due to 'abuse'
    The government will end study visas from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan, due to what she says is abuse.
  • Pregnant women's brains shed grey matter to prime them for motherhood, study suggests
    It is time to move beyond the “baby brain” cliche, say scientists who scanned dozens of women’s brains.
  • Use our tax calculator to see how Spring Statement forecasts may affect you
    Wages are forecast to go up over the next five years but you could pay more tax because of frozen thresholds.
  • TikTok won't protect DMs with controversial privacy tech, saying it would put users at risk
    TikTok tells the BBC it won't join rival platforms such as WhatsApp and Messenger in using end-to-end encryption.
  • Fiery sunsets and 'blood rain' as Saharan dust sweeps UK
    North African dust carried to the UK by a weather system are forecast to have some unusual effects in the coming days.


rss: the register

  • Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US

    Big Red's cloud that 'doesn't go down' goes down again

    An Oracle outage knocked parts of TikTok offline this week. The incident affected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), which trails AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud in market share but counts the social media behemoth among its customers.…

  • Capita's £370M Whitehall outsourcing deal challenged as 'abnormally low'

    Rival bidder Sopra Steria launched legal claim over DWP procurement

    Capita confirmed today it won a business process outsourcing deal for multiple UK government departments for £370 million over ten years, less than 40 percent of the estimated value outlined during the tender stage.…

  • Users fume over Outlook.com email 'carnage'

    Email flow slowed or stopped by mysterious forces at Microsoft

    Microsoft spent last week rejecting emails to Outlook recipients after what appears to be either a fault or overzealous blocking rules, a situation a source described as "carnage."…

  • Cloud inquiry chair quits UK competition watchdog over glacial pace of reform

    Kip Meeks walked a year early with the overseer of tech markets yet to take action against AWS and Microsoft

    The chair of the competition markets authority's cloud inquiry has quit, citing the slow pace of implementing recommendations outlined in a report it published in 2025 to boost market dynamics in Britain's cloud computing market.…

  • One vendor doesn't mind high RAM prices: VMware

    Memory tiering and pooled memory are having a moment because they offer the chance to use less RAM

    The high price of memory and solid-state storage has almost everyone worried – but not VMware, because the most innovative new feature in the Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) private cloud suite it launched last year is memory tiering tech that allows offload of data from RAM to NVMe drives.…

  • European Space Agency and China both achieve gigabit links to geostationary satellites

    Raises hopes birds 40,000km away can be reprogrammed, for science or military purposes

    The European Space Agency and the Institute of Optoelectronics at China’s Academy of Sciences both claim they’ve achieved gigabit links to satellites in geostationary orbit.…

  • Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks

    Retains eight-weekly Extended Stable releases but warns fortnightly updates are the best way to stay safe

    Google will halve the time between releases of its Chrome browser to two weeks, across versions of the software for desktop operating systems, Android, and iOS.…

  • OpenAI says its latest model is less likely to beat around the bush

    The AI giant is also trying to walk back some terms of its deal with the Defense Department

    OpenAI says GPT‑5.3 Instant, the latest addition to its GPT-5.3 family of models, is less inclined to moralize.…

  • Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs fills its wallet to mass-produce CPO chiplets

    Company aims to stitch tens of thousands of GPUs together for more efficient training and inference

    It's a good time to be an AI chip startup, especially if you happen to specialize in silicon photonics.…

  • Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town

    Probably not an isolated incident only as researchers have already found 2,863 live API keys exposed

    A developer says their company is on the hook for more than $82,000 in unauthorized charges after a stolen Google Gemini API key racked massive usage costs up in just 48 hours.…



rss: ars technica

  • No fooling: NASA targets April 1 for Artemis II launch to the Moon
    "Engineers are assessing what allowed the seal to become dislodged to prevent the issue from recurring."
  • Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service provider Accenture in $1.2B deal
    Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.
  • FCC chair calls Paramount/WBD merger "a lot cleaner" than defunct Netflix deal
    FCC to review foreign debt, but Carr indicates it will be a formality.
  • What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes
    Multispectral imaging, proteomics, historical texts yield new insights into 16th-century medical manuals.
  • There are plenty of great choices if you want to spend less than $15K on an EV
    There's a lot of good Hyundai and Kia EVs in this price bracket, plus the Bolt and i3.
  • M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon
    Apple is using more chiplets and three types of CPU cores to make the M5 family.
  • New MacBook Airs come with M5, double the storage, and higher starting prices
    New Airs leave more room underneath for the rumored low-cost MacBook.
  • Apple intros M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and its first new monitors in years
    New laptops come with more storage but also higher starting prices.
  • This is why our electricity bills are so high right now
    New data shows electricity rates rose 5 percent nationwide in 2025.
  • As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar "harvester"
    "Ultimately, we want to build a fleet of electric harvesters."


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