rss: npr

  • U.S. and Iran resume attacks. And, Fauci to face Senate questions on COVID pandemic
    The U.S. and Iran have resumed fighting after Iran attacked U.S. forces in the Middle East yesterday. And, a Senate committee will question Anthony Fauci about the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • New York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlash
    A school district in upstate New York is pausing plans to deploy an AI-powered, humanoid robot in the classroom after state education officials, teachers and local residents raised concerns.
  • Iran resumes missile attacks as U.S. and Saudis strike Tehran-backed militias in Iraq
    The flare-up on multiple fronts raised the risk of a return to all-out war, underscoring the difficulty of winding down a five-month conflict that has jolted the world economy.
  • 'Machines are collaborators' at this new museum of AI art
    "What is beyond reality?" asks artist Refik Anadol. His latest projects include Dataland, an immersive AI art museum in Los Angeles, and an installation at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.
  • As extreme heat grips the South and West, here's how to stay safe
    Experts say immersion in cold water before an ambulance arrives can greatly increase the chances of heat stroke survival and reduce the risk of long-term complications.
  • The Federal Reserve faces a critical decision on interest rates
    Policymakers at the Federal Reserve are meeting to discuss interest rates Wednesday. They're expected to hold rates steady, but there's a chance they could raise rates to combat stubborn inflation.
  • To win over working-class voters, Democrats need to stop talking about democracy
    Working-class voters have moved away from the Democratic Party. Winning them back is key to the party's future, a new reports shows. But first, the messaging has to change.
  • More Americans are going bankrupt. What does that mean?
    The bankruptcy rate has risen about 48% between 2022 and 2025, although it's still below pre-pandemic levels.
  • Anthony Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment in Rand Paul Senate hearing
    At a Senate hearing Wednesday, Anthony Fauci is likely to face questions from Sen. Rand Paul related to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's what you need to know
  • Morning news brief
    President Trump met with the leaders of Ukraine and Israel on Tuesday at the White House, heatwave threatens firefighters' hold on wildfires in France and Spain.


rss: bbc

  • More than half of England officially in drought, Environment Agency says
    The drought declarations follow an exceptionally hot and dry period, which has hit rivers, crops and nature.
  • Burnham doesn't rule out tax rises to fix social care
    The prime minister holds cross-party talks as he speeds up review of social care in England.
  • Serial killer given whole life order for murdering two men
    Police are reviewing four unexplained deaths at a homeless shelter where James Desborough stayed.
  • Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct when they were teenagers
    The actor and musician faces allegations from 10 women in total who say he mistreated them as teenagers.
  • Boy, 7, dies in hospital after beach tragedy
    Musa Ahmed is the third person to die after getting into difficulty in the water last Wednesday.
  • Fifa offers $40m if nations back controversial plan
    Fifa has set a deadline of 19 September for member associations to access cash as FA voice disapproval of world governing body's funding plan before emergency Uefa meeting.
  • BBC cancels Blankety Blank, Celebrity Mastermind and Live at the Apollo due to budget cuts
    The corporation said it was "incredibly proud" of all three shows, but that it must make savings.
  • Teenage Norwegian 'hitman' guilty of UK murder plot
    Johannes Natland travelled to Huddersfield to carry out a 'hit' in March last year.
  • Anthony Fauci refuses to answer questions during US Senate hearing about Covid origins
    The former top US health official said he feared Republicans could try to trip him up and use his testimony to prosecute him for perjury.
  • Oscar-winning songwriter Glen Hansard killed in crash
    Hansard, who was 56, won the best song Oscar for the 2007 low-budget musical film Once.


rss: the register

  • Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers suspected in attacks on Minnesota water systems
    More than 30 facilities disrupted in 'coordinated cyberattack,' though officials have yet to name a culprit
  • AI storage boom is keeping Seagate's hard drives spinning
    Cloud operators have already claimed most of its nearline capacity through 2028
  • Microsoft faces competition probe over Copilot subscription price hike
    Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans
  • AI insiders ask Uncle Sam to help slow the race they started
    More than 1,200 industry staff sign petition seeking international guardrails for automated research
  • After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres
    Cloud database upstart wants one virtual machine core to power multiple SQL frontends
  • Back of the NetApp: Latest exec signing scores $34M compensation package
    Product chief shoots straight to the top of the pay league, out-earning CEO in fiscal '26
  • NHS England rapped over inaccurate Palantir patient data disclosure
    Privacy guardian warns public trust quickly erodes when supplier access comes as a surprise
  • AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness
    Researchers uncover patterns in how sleeping minds recombine memories, people, and places
  • Burnham's spanner in the works leaves UK government tech scattered across Whitehall
    Splitting up responsibility for digital transformation and procurement while AI gets a seat at Cabinet risks incoherency
  • Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours
    Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year


rss: ars technica

  • Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI misinformation
    Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.
  • Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong?
    Expect bumps with X Money rollout as major US financial markets are excluded.
  • Audi has a new flagship designed with the US in mind: The 2027 Q9
    The new full-size flagship SUV starts at $87,700 when it goes on sale in Q4.
  • Reaction wheel failures leave Swift rescue mission spinning in orbit
    "Preliminary investigation shows that two of Link's three reaction wheels currently are not operable."
  • College lab class ends with 32 people on antibiotics for deadly germ exposure
    Lab students were supposed to ID a mild germ. They all identified a deadly pathogen.
  • We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face
    10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.
  • eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign
    eBay sent bloody pig mask and other macabre deliveries to journalists' home.
  • Study: Dinosaurs were charbroiled after Chicxulub impact
    “We're in the realm where we might be essentially killing off everything within that first hour or two."
  • Philly suburb: Sure, build that data center—but first meet our 43 demands
    The final condition will shock you! (It won’t. It’s taxes.)
  • Despite AI hype, Google's data shows workers aren't automating themselves away
    Analysis of 15 million real AI interactions finds most tasks at most jobs are unaffected.


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