rss: npr

  • Virginia and D.C. sue to block construction of Trump arch
    U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkin ordered both sides to talk and to agree on a proposed briefing schedule on the motion for a temporary restraining order by Saturday evening.
  • Mixed economic forecast weighs heavy ahead of midterms
    There was a mixed Halloween bag of economic news this week. GDP growth is up, but so are prices. For now at least, interest rates are staying the same. What does that mean for the midterm elections?
  • France seethes again as youth-led protests sweep Europe
    French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez warned of a "very high risk" of disorder, especially after dark on Halloween, as some 320,000 people nationwide took to the streets.
  • Key takeaways from this week's political meeting in Beijing
    The Communist party central committee meeting was focused on discipline and fighting corruption. It comes ahead of next year when Xi is widely expected to try to secure a fourth term.
  • A simple explainer of the massive $6.3 billion crypto heist at Binance
    Here are five things to know about the massive hack of the crypto exchange Binance — from how it happened to what it means for the sector.
  • Justice Department seeks to isolate Alaska ballots amid criminal probe over Senate candidate
    The latest developments come amid allegations, first reported by The New York Times, that Democrats recruited a spoiler candidate in the toss-up U.S. Senate race.
  • Perspective: Forget the ballroom, we're headed to Cheesecake Factory!
    Former President Obama caused a kerfuffle with his comments about President Trump's interior decorating at the White House. But maybe state dinners should happen at The Cheesecake Factory.
  • Drone photo award winners: Far-out landscapes. Ship recycling. Rugs, rugs rugs!
    The Siena Drone Photo Awards for 2026 offer breathtaking bird's-eye views of our planet, revealing landscapes, livelihoods and human stories often invisible from the ground.
  • Do you have seasonal affective disorder? How to tell — and what to do about it
    The syndrome can make people feel like a "hibernating bear," says Dr. Norman Rosenthal, who published the first research on SAD. He explains how to identify the symptoms and what to do to feel better.
  • Can I trust the polls? And other questions from listeners about the 2026 midterms
    Ahead of Election Day, listeners send in questions about whether debates are dead, if polls are reliable for election coverage and how Trump might work with Democrats if they win control of Congress.


rss: bbc

  • Shops looted as German cost of living protests turn violent
    Police in Frankfurt say "violent riots" took place in the city centre, with unrest also reported in Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne.
  • Laura Kuenssberg: Healey risks breaking minimum wage promise for younger workers
    The Chancellor has suggested that younger workers might not receive the same minimum wage as others before the next election.
  • 'We came back from hell', say Ukrainians after years in Russia-occupied front-line city
    One evacuated couple says they crossed minefields in Oleshky in search of food.
  • Democrats are used to heartbreak in Texas - could Talarico turn the tide?
    The state's $500m Senate race may be the most closely watched in the US midterms, and is about far more than control of Congress.
  • Reeves says UK's future should be inside the EU
    In her first major intervention since leaving the Treasury, Rachel Reeves says Brexit has made the UK "poorer, weaker and less secure".
  • Who are the real winners of Celebrity Traitors?
    Certain stars have been tipped by industry experts as getting the biggest career boost after the show.
  • Watch: Heidi Klum as giant severed hand for Halloween bash
    The supermodel and TV host provided a gory new shock at her New York event.
  • No more washing up: How Airbnb's new house rules have divided hosts and guests
    Airbnb hosts must stop asking guests to wash-up or take out bins under rules coming into force in November.
  • I've been stuck on a tiny Pacific island for years and can't get a transit visa to fly home
    Ruchira Ranasingha, 50, has been stranded in the Cook Islands since 2023 and wants to return to Sri Lanka.
  • How the downfall of Serbia's Vučiċ mirrored that of Hungary's Orbán
    Defeat for Serbia's Aleksandar Vučiċ in last weekend's vote was a carbon copy of Viktor Orbán's fall in Hungary.


rss: the register

  • Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth
    Experimental orbital datacenter prototype puts its TPU to work producing poetry
  • Goth aesthetic gone wild: a user's self-inflicted black screen of non-death in Windows 3.1’s
    Labeled in black on black - controls for a galactic hyper-hearse or ill-advised Windows theme?
  • Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use
    A lot of software engineers feel bleak about the future of the profession
  • Chocolate Caterpillar or Chocolate Teapot? Top up the disk space for Windows 10 to find out
    London's Oxford Street signage shows its underwear to passing tourists
  • Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan
    How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot
  • Darkbloom, which allowed Mac users to rent out their GPUs for AI inference, warns of low payouts
    Blame plunging prices on tokens
  • HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare
    How the Uber-bound delivery giant tuned its mobile networking stack to cut latency
  • Crim spent $7K+ on AI services in extortion attacks, then left evidence for all to see
    n0n-existent security
  • GM cracks the petty cash box for multistate driver tracking settlement
    $220 million? For all of you? Yeah, we can probably dig that up ...
  • Anthropic: That Claude Code extension compromise… couldn't be us
    Claudeshop fingers 'malicious actor' in targeted supply-chain attack on Cursor


rss: ars technica

  • Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged
    A long flight home from feeding grounds messes with birds' internal clocks.
  • The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.
    The regulator says Tavneos was approved on the basis of manipulated study data. Should patients still have access to it?
  • Once again, NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble from certain death
    The space agency solicited ideas for reboosting Hubble four years ago, but they didn't go anywhere.
  • Flesh-eating screwworms spread to third state and are attacking pets
    USDA has identified 74 animal cases in US since parasitic flies invaded in June.
  • Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart
    "For huge numbers of people, I will always be Jean-Luc Picard. ... We created an admirable individual."
  • Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
    Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.
  • Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
    It's still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic's verified Cursor account.
  • Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
    People who love AI don't always love telling others they used it.
  • Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren't even good
    Faked symptoms still point to infections that antibiotics don't treat.
  • Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
    But it's still early days for the relatively new e-commerce use case.


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