rss: npr

  • New Jersey asks Supreme Court to resolve fight over Kalshi's future
    If the high court accepts the petition, it would tee up a case with sweeping implications for prediction markets, an industry that has unleashed billions of dollars of betting across nearly every aspect of modern life.
  • New immigration court tactic leads to huge lines and chaos in Miami
    Chaos unfolds at the Miami immigration court after judges are assigned mega master calendars, hearings where judges see more than 100 immigrants at once.
  • Understanding the tech giants' oversized influence in American schools
    Big tech companies like Apple and Microsoft use devices, training and conferences for teachers and students to embed in schools. The New York Times' Natasha Singer discusses the impact in Coding Kids.
  • Iran fires on its Gulf neighbors, retaliating for U.S. strikes after a monthlong lull
    The six-month war has led to a spike in oil prices, roiled the global economy and posed increasing political problems for President Trump's Republican Party ahead of November midterm elections.
  • Greetings from the Royal Pavilion, a stunning reminder of India in southern England
    Looking up at this 18th century building, it became clear the British didn't only bring their architectural style to India. They also took some of India's style home.
  • Chevron to expand in Venezuela, days after the U.S. and Venezuela strike oil deal
    Chevron is the largest foreign oil operator in Venezuela. The deal will expand its footprint at a time of political and economic uncertainty for Venezuela.
  • Medical groups offer vaccine guidance to fill federal vacuum
    In the unprecedented absence of federal guidance, leading medical groups are issuing their own recommendations for who should get the COVID-19, flu and RSV immunizations.
  • New lawsuits claim OpenAI execs put image ahead of safety in Canadian mass shooting
    The suits say that recommendations to alert police about the alleged shooter were nixed by OpenAI's global affairs team, led by veteran political strategist Chris Lehane. OpenAI denies the claims.
  • Whatever happened to ... children infected with HIV due to failures in healthcare?
    For years, Pakistan has seen cases of children infected with HIV due to unsafe treatment in clinics and hospitals. A current outbreak numbers hundreds of cases. Why does this problem keep occurring?
  • India's prime minister is wooing the Gen Z while cracking down on them
    Over two months, protesters, most who appeared to be digitally-savvy GenZ, used social media to organize. Government's efforts to respond spotlight how the ruling party appears to be playing catch-up.


rss: bbc

  • Burnham pressed on economy at first PMQs as UK borrowing costs rise
    Burnham said he had already cut taxes, including VAT on energy bills and hospitality business rates.
  • King hails 'unprecedented' Bayeux Tapestry exhibition in London
    British and French leaders will be at the British Museum to see the exhibition of the historic Bayeux Tapestry.
  • What famous scenes are in the epic Bayeux Tapestry?
    The 70m (230ft) tapestry, which tells the story of the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings in 1066, will be on display the British Museum.
  • 'Nothing but mud and silt' - the village swept away by deadly floods in Nepal
    BBC South Asia correspondent Azadeh Moshiri spoke to a local, who is still waiting for his his wife's body to be retrieved, as rescue efforts continue.
  • Lucy Letby 'boyfriend' doctor named as court order lifted
    Dr Mark Deakin, a consultant at Alder Hey hospital, was described as Letby's "boyfriend" during her trial.
  • Farage tells BBC 'we live in a complainants' society' after questions over Reform funding
    The Reform UK leader said a "whole ecosystem" didn't want "new kids on the block succeeding".
  • Iran says US strike killed four at wedding in 'war crime' as US denies targeting civilians
    Iranian media reports two children were among those killed when shrapnel hit a home. Iran then launched missiles and drones at US targets in the Middle East.
  • Rosenberg: Putin's veiled threat to UK part of Russia's campaign against West
    The Russian president wants to keep Britain guessing - and stressing - over Moscow's real intentions.
  • EU and Nato vow to step up pressure on Russia after 'new escalation' in Germany
    Russia is accused of growing increasingly reckless after Berlin blamed Russia for a failed drone attack on Leipzig airport.
  • Four in court over murder of baby stabbed to death
    Four people, aged between 19 and 38, appear in court charged with murdering the newborn.


rss: the register

  • SonicWall's SMA1000 boxes under active attack again
    Miscreants use chained zero days to pwn boxen as third-party SOCs say further attacks 'almost certain'
  • Microsoft will stop finishing your sentences in Word and Outlook
    Predictive text remains available, but users will have to invite it into their workflow
  • NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science
    Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry
  • Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill
    Don't disable automatic updates if the pace is too much – that's what ESR is for
  • Legacy Lenovo login opens 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers
    Cloud storage biz severs old integration and urges victims to reset credentials
  • Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15
    Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas
  • Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest'
    Matt Clifford plans to keep role as ARIA chair while leading the LLM maker's dealings with governments outside North America
  • Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return
    Photonics startups like iPronics are raking in hundreds of millions in funding to make optical circuit switches faster, denser, and cheaper
  • Microsoft update disarms Outlook and Teams on Arm PCs
    Installing an AI gaming package offers relief while custom cursors suffer a separate reset
  • A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter
    The budget was minimal, FedEx was the bottleneck, and DNS was of course the source of trouble


rss: ars technica

  • US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case
    The DOJ proved to the court that Google acted illegally, but it won't get the big win it wanted.
  • Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen and journalist in space, dies at 84
    He reported from space that only "fat" Japanese tree frogs enjoyed weightlessness.
  • The Army just used a 20-kilowatt laser to take out three drones
    The Army says its laser system can track and destroy hostile drones.
  • Is Russia's rival to Starlink failing? Here's what we know.
    At least three of the first 32 Rassvet satellites likely suffered outright failures, and more may be in trouble.
  • BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all
    What can we learn from a BGP hijacking that poisoned production software? Plenty.
  • Here's our first look—and drive—of the 2027 Range Rover Electric
    333 miles of real-world range with uncompromised comfort and off-road ability.
  • Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed
    "Black hole stars," making cookies from plastic, tiny sound-powered drones, and more.
  • A newborn and child reportedly died of measles; CDC isn't counting them
    Historically, state health departments determine cases and deaths, not the CDC.
  • New Android Drop adds remembered items in Find Hub, makes anti-nausea dots official
    New features are rolling out across the Android ecosystem starting today.
  • FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions
    FTC says firm replaces actual ad-auction results "with higher prices set by Amazon."


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