rss: npr

  • Israel's Arab-led parties in spotlight after inconclusive election
    Israel's center-right opposition has a chance to unseat Netanyahu — but backing of Arab-led parties will be key.
  • The incoming class of U.S. senators is full of historic firsts
    From the first Native American woman elected to the U.S. Senate and the first Muslim who will join the upper chamber to the Senate's first Paralympian, voters elected historic candidates on Tuesday.
  • Trump's global health strategy is emerging. What will the Democratic Congress say?
    The Trump Administration has ushered in a fundamental shift in the U.S. approach to global health aid. How will the newly elected Democratic Congress weigh in?
  • No one knows how many ballots are outstanding in Mississippi's Senate race
    The razor-thin margin between GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Scott Colom is shining a light on an election process in Mississippi that is among the slowest and most decentralized in the U.S.
  • Stephen Miller will replace Susie Wiles as Trump's chief of staff
    The change comes after sweeping Republican losses in the midterm elections.
  • Pope Leo begins a 12-day, 3-country South America tour after his cancer surgery
    Pope Leo begins his first South American tour since lung cancer surgery. The 12-day journey takes him to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, where he spent two decades.
  • Health intel-sharing group warns industry in wake of cyberattack on French blood bank
    A healthcare intelligence-sharing organization is warning its members to lock down systems following cyberattacks on cold storage systems, including a French blood bank.
  • Remembering 'Star Trek' actor Patrick Stewart
    Stewart, who died Oct. 28, performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company before becoming famous as Star Trek's Picard. Critic David Bianculli has a tribute, and we listen back to a 2020 interview.
  • European flights and broadcasters are targeted with another wave of bomb threats
    Officials across Europe reported a slew of bomb threats against multiple flights, following a string of hoaxes that caused flight diversions this week. Three broadcasters also received threats.
  • The leader of a Kenyan doomsday cult is sentenced to 200 years in prison
    Cult leader Paul Mackenzie was convicted of murdering 190 children and one adult after he ordered his followers to starve themselves to death in order to meet Jesus.


rss: bbc

  • Meghan's father Thomas Markle appears in court over child sex abuse material
    The 82-year-old was arrested in Florida after the FBI searched two Los Angeles-area storage units he rented.
  • With Stephen Miller pick, Trump readies for a battle
    The US president's promotion of Miller, a loyal partisan firebrand to be his new chief of staff sets up likely clashes with Congress.
  • Why the US midterms sparked an AI stock selloff
    Fears of more AI regulation appear to have sparked fear among investors, but concerns about the industry have been growing for some time.
  • Brand's barrister refers himself to regulator after report he confronted journalist
    Ian Winter allegedly confronted a reporter outside court who had investigated the comedian.
  • What happens if all the lights go out? This is the plan for a 'Black Sky' event
    A Black Sky event could leave millions without power, water and communications. So how prepared is the UK?
  • Watch: Is it the end of the road for Tesla's Cybertruck?
    The car company's CEO Elon Musk has said production will halt in Texas, to focus on the firm's self-driving Cybercabs.
  • England 'disappointment' fuels Dewsbury-Hall's Everton heroics
    Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall responds to his England omission by scoring a stunning goal to inspire Everton's 3-1 comeback victory over Coventry City.
  • Gladiator II stuntman sues over injuries from on-set explosion
    Edward Sarsfield says he suffered "excruciating" burns while filming a scene on a burning ship.
  • Dutch launch shows smugglers are adapting, says MP
    Dover MP Mike Tapp says smugglers will find new launch locations and methods due to disruptions.
  • Paraguay's president impeached after collapse of bank
    Santiago Peña was ousted due to a banking crisis which left millions of people unable to access their money.


rss: the register

  • Agents reveal secrets when offered to team up with each other
    If you wouldn't put it on GitHub, don't give models access to it
  • PyTorch 2.15 tackles the 'one bad GPU' problem
    Technical debt shoveled aside to make large-scale AI training more resilient
  • US air traffic control enters the 21st century, starts to abandon floppy disks
    The FAA will need to come up with more money to finish the wider overhaul, though
  • Mac lookalikes multiply as Linux raids Apple's wardrobe
    New and revived desktops promise Cupertino polish, but our quick tests found a few seams showing
  • Oak Ridge labs gets hybrid quantum-HPC system to test qubit error correction
    Co-design platform for quantum error correction melds IBM quantum kit with AMD CPUs and GPUs
  • RIP to the world’s ugliest car
    Who'd'a thunk a giant steel box could make such a flop? Us, that's who - and probably you, too
  • DoJ's 'Super Intelligence Task Force' up and running
    Organization responsible for countering anyone who wishes to scupper the US's ambition for AI supremacy
  • Crowd fave Linux Mint update approaches, fresh from autumn release of Cinnamon desktop
    Mint 27 to land before Christmas, with stable Wayland display upgrades, as punters try out Cinnamon 6.8
  • Blue Origin unveils more thrust, less haste as New Glenn slips to 2027
    Staff memo pushes return to flight into January, overshadowing third-stage and engine announcements
  • DigiCert admits 16-month security lapse exposed customer information
    Botched server move left the door open, and DigiCert took months to notice someone had wandered in


rss: ars technica

  • Doctors pull knife from man's eye that went through his brain—and he's fine now
    It's the exact path, not the apparent severity that matters most, doctors say.
  • Ships loiter near subsea cables amid Iran's warnings to Trump
    Iran threatened to attack subsea cables if US escalates military strikes again.
  • Re-releases of Wing Commander, Ultima titles hit Steam and GOG
    It's mostly bad news from EA lately, but preservation efforts are nice to see.
  • Chainalysis says hackers stole credentials and tokens for all of its customers
    Company said a "multifront cyberattack" included AI agents and an on-path data snatch.
  • Earth's churning mantle may have created the Great Unconformity
    Explaining the Great Unconformity, where Cambrian deposits sit on top of older rocks.
  • Nvidia hardware worth $11.4M vanished between Oakland and Texas
    6 pallets of hardware vanished en route to Texas, with no arrests 2 months later.
  • Developer ends lucrative screensaver deal with Roku because Fox bought it
    Developer: “I can’t be part of the Fox world.”
  • FAA to finally ditch floppy disks in what it calls "historic" tech upgrade
    FAA information display systems to be floppy-free at 435 sites by end of 2028.
  • The folks behind John Wick are back with Karōshi trailer
    Stuntman/director Chad Stahelski and 87Eleven bring us an action-packed dystopian, futuristic thriller.
  • You know the launch market is tough when satellite companies start building rockets
    "The Blacklift rocket is the springboard to significantly expand our total addressable market."


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