rss: npr

  • Southeast Asia turns to nuclear as Iran war disrupts energy supplies
    Analysts say the Iran war energy crisis is also adding momentum to nuclear interest and action in the region.
  • Iran rejects U.S. peace plan. And, jury finds Meta, Google to blame in addiction trial
    Iran rejects a U.S. proposal to end the war and counters with a different peace plan. And, a jury finds Meta and Google negligent in a trial over social media's harms.
  • Israel and Iran ramp up attacks as Trump insists Tehran wants a deal
    The war in the Middle East ramped up on Thursday as Israel launched a wave of strikes targeting Iranian infrastructure, and Iran fired rounds of missiles at central Israel.
  • Trump's attacks on offshore wind could hurt infrastructure spending across the economy
    President Trump has tried to kill offshore wind's future in the U.S. But industry analysts say the attacks could hurt business confidence across the U.S. economy.
  • It's Equal Pay Day. Women have lost ground for the second year in a row
    The annual observance marks how far into the new year women must work to make what men earned in the previous year. This year, it's March 26, a day later than it was in 2025.
  • Hoping to unseat Collins, Maine Democrats battle it out in an expensive U.S. Senate primary
    As June's primary election nears, Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and combat veteran Graham Platner are effectively engaged in a proxy battle between factions in their own party.
  • A $50 billion fund to help rural hospitals could actually lead to closures and cuts
    States are rolling out plans for their share of a $50 billion fund established by Congress to improve rural health care. In some states, the money may provoke rural hospitals to cut services.
  • Decades ago, a Maryland sailor burned his winter socks. Now it's a spring tradition
    In Annapolis, Md., people gather each year to usher in the warmer weather by burning their socks. The springtime tradition is the unofficial start of the Chesapeake Bay sailing season.
  • Morning news brief
    Iran rejects U.S. peace proposal and lays out its own conditions, the Army's 82nd Airborne Division readies to deploy to Iran, jury finds Meta and Google liable in social media addiction trial.
  • Melania Trump shares the spotlight with a robot at an education and technology event
    The robot accompanied the first lady to the White House East Room for the final day of a summit she had convened with counterparts from around the world through her Fostering the Future Together global initiative.


rss: bbc

  • 'A game-changing moment for social media' - what next for big tech after landmark addiction verdict?
    The ruling could be the beginning of the end of social media as we know it, writes the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman.
  • UK facing biggest hit to growth from Iran war out of major economies
    The OECD downgrades forecasts for many of the world's biggest economies due to the US-Israel war with Iran.
  • Prepare for turbulence - how a prolonged Middle East conflict could reshape how we fly
    The Gulf's hub airports made long-distance travel cheaper - but now their future looks unclear.
  • I re-visited one of England's most spectacular hikes after a £5.5m upgrade
    The long-distance Coast to Coast route which stretches across the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors is now an official National Trail.
  • In one of country's poorest states, Venezuelans hope for post-Maduro boom
    Ione Wells travels to Sucre, where a lack of investment has hampered locals' prospects.
  • UK now 'ready' to seize Russian shadow fleet ships, Healey says
    Forces are now approved to board sanctioned vessels if required, after ministers identified a legal basis in January.
  • Co-op boss quits after 'toxic culture' claims reported by BBC
    Shirine Khoury-Haq's departure comes after a troubled year, in which the retailer suffered a cyber-attack and faced allegations about its workplace culture.
  • Far-fetched to think McSweeney faked phone theft, says PM
    Messages relating to Lord Peter Mandelson's appointment as US ambassador could have been lost in the alleged theft.
  • Singer Duffy to share sex assault ordeal in documentary
    Disney+ says it has been given "unprecedented access" to the singer in her first major interview in 15 years.
  • Trump's strategy is to pursue two off-ramps at once
    The White House insists the president is dictating events, but even some Republicans are frustrated by mixed messaging about his war aims.


rss: the register

  • Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech

    Appearing before Parliament, Meta, Google and X struggle to explain how fake political video circulated for so long

    A member of the UK Parliament's lower house who was the victim of a deepfake AI campaign this week had a rare chance to confront the Big Tech executives who helped spread it. Their answers disappointed.…

  • Digital euro goes full sovereignty mode, US cloud giants not on guest list

    Central bank turns to homegrown providers to underpin virtual cash push

    Europe is taking a small step toward breaking its reliance on US Big Tech by hiring only cloud operators headquartered in the EU to work on the backbone of the digital euro project.…

  • Welsh government used Copilot for review to justify closing organization

    Microsoft's Clippy for 21st century deployed to evaluate returns? Industry Wales chair brands it just 'wrong'

    The Welsh government used Microsoft's Copilot to help write a review of an industry liaison body that it then scrapped, its chairman has told a Senedd committee.…

  • UK wants to know if banning under-16s from social media does anything useful

    300 families undergo 6-week trial to test impact on sleep, school, and home life

    The UK government will trial different levels of restrictions on social media for under-16s with the help of 300 families, alongside a public consultation that has already gathered nearly 30,000 responses.…

  • Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda

    CarStation/PlayMobile won’t hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA

    Sony and Honda have broken up, meaning their joint vision to deliver a revolutionary electric vehicle won’t happen.…

  • Indian government probes CCTV espionage operation linked to Pakistan

    Police found cameras pointing at infrastructure

    Indian authorities have reportedly ordered an audit of the nation’s CCTV cameras, after police uncovered what they claim was a Pakistan-backed surveillance operation.…

  • Datacenter batteries are selling years in advance, because AI, says Panasonic

    Shifting production from automotive to compute and working on supercapacitors as another way to protect workloads

    Major memory makers have already sold all the kit they can make this year, creating shortages and price increases. Datacenter infrastructure buyers may soon face the same issues when trying to get their hands on backup batteries.…

  • GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

    As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out

    Microsoft's GitHub next month plans to begin using customer interaction data – "specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context" – to train its AI models.…

  • AI supply chain attacks don’t even require malware…just post poisoned documentation

    A proof-of-concept attack on Context Hub suggests there's not much content santization

    A new service that helps coding agents stay up to date on their API calls could be dialing in a massive supply chain vulnerability.…

  • Scammers have virtual smartphones on speed dial for fraud

    They cleverly mimic most traits of a real phone

    Smartphones have fast become the basis of our digital identities, securing payment systems and bank accounts. Now virtual devices that pretend to be real handsets have become a key tool for financial scammers, according to one company. …



rss: ars technica

  • BRINC's new police drone uses Starlink, carries Narcan, chases vehicles at 60mph
    Company calls Guardian the "most capable 911 response drone ever.”
  • Here is NASA's plan for nuking Gateway and sending it to Mars
    Only one US-built nuclear reactor has ever flown in space, and that was more than 60 years ago.
  • Reddit will require "fishy" accounts to verify they are run by a human
    AI-generated content is still acceptable for now.
  • We got an audience with the "Lunar Viceroy" to talk how NASA will build a Moon base
    "It has been clear that we all need to be focused on one thing, not 10 things."
  • Meta, YouTube must pay $3M to woman who got hooked on apps as a child
    Meta emerges as the biggest loser as second child safety trial verdict hits.
  • Nintendo is raising prices of Switch 2 game cartridges starting in May
    The first physical game affected will cost $10 more than a digital copy.
  • Supreme Court rejects Sony's attempt to kick music pirates off the Internet
    Sony's 1984 Betamax win helps Cox beat Sony in important online piracy case.
  • Google's TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x
    TurboQuant makes AI models more efficient but doesn't reduce output quality like other methods.
  • Antibiotic resistance among germs swells during droughts, study suggests
    Study links two crises: Climate change and antibiotic-resistant infections.
  • Trump staffs science and technology panel with non-scientists
    Appointee list is in keeping with the administration's hostility toward science.


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