rss: npr

  • FAA clears the way for airlines to put Boeing's long-delayed 737 Max 10 into service
    Nearly a decade after Boeing unveiled its largest 737 Max jet, the company has cleared a major hurdle in its effort to bring the plane to airlines.
  • Zelenskyy says early warning system for Russian missile attacks resumes
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the change happened after talks with his American counterparts, including a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
  • France announces nightly curfews 'for as long as necessary' in Paris and other cities
    Fresh curfews were being imposed across the city centers of Paris and Lyon on Tuesday after the first quiet night since France's most destructive rioting in years.
  • United Nations report highlights significant increase in U.S. climate pollution
    The U.S. is the only major economy where planet-warming pollution dramatically increased last year. The United Nations warns the planet is on track for catastrophic warming.
  • Some on DOJ's 20,000 "likely" noncitizen list in Calif. appear to be U.S.-born
    Election officials in Los Angeles County say their preliminary analysis of the federal government's list of 20,000 "likely" noncitizens registered to vote in California shows the list is "unreliable."
  • Nigeria confirms an Ebola case in Abuja as a woman arriving from Uganda tests positive
    Nigeria is the latest country to report an Ebola case as the outbreak spreads across the region. Kenya confirmed its first case earlier this month and has since recorded nine infections.
  • Vanessa Kerry is the new WHO envoy for health resilience. What's on her to-do list?
    A respected figure in the world of global health, Dr. Kerry takes on a new responsibility. She says it's challenging but not "daunting."
  • DOJ charges 28 with voting crimes. And, TikTok ignored staff's child safety concerns
    The Justice Department has charged 28 people in California with voting crimes as Election Day nears. And, TikTok staff raised child safety concerns with executives, who failed to act, court records show.
  • What if an AI bubble bursts — and that accelerates AI job losses?
    Research on past recessions suggests downturns can accelerate automation. That raises the specter of a double whammy for workers.
  • Can the new federal voucher program help public schools? Democrats are torn
    The new scholarship tax credit program could help public school families pay for some educational services, but advocates worry it could do more harm than good.


rss: bbc

  • Lawyer caught offering to make illegal-worker fine go away
    Because of our investigation, the home secretary has ordered a review of how fines are issued and collected.
  • Watch: 'We don't pay' - lawyer advises how to avoid £45,000 illegal-worker fine
    Mohammad Alias Yousaf made his claim to an undercover reporter posing as a mini-mart owner.
  • US envoy to meet Putin in Russia as Zelensky says intelligence sharing 'works now'
    Ukraine had accused the US of withholding key intelligence - a claim rejected as "scandalous" by Washington.
  • King praises Oman's Strait of Hormuz peace efforts at glittering banquet
    The Sultan of Oman, leader of a Middle Eastern strategic partner, is welcomed to Windsor for a state visit.
  • Why does Elon Musk want to merge Tesla and SpaceX?
    Musk, who is CEO of both companies, says there is "a lot to be gained" from the merger, which would be the biggest in history.
  • France is divided over who to blame for weekend riots and what to learn from them
    In France and beyond there is widespread disagreement over what led to some of the worst unrest seen in French cities in modern history.
  • Schools should recognise antisemitism as distinct form of harm, review says
    The government is expected to accept all 27 recommendations made in the review by ex-Ofsted boss, Sir David Bell.
  • Giant tunnel proposed to clean up Windermere's sewage problem
    The plan would eliminate sewage spills into Windermere, blamed for turning the water green.
  • Tighter rules planned to protect people from cosmetic surgery that goes badly wrong
    There will be restrictions on who can carry out procedures and fines for those who flout the law, in England in 2027.
  • 60 years on: The Aberfan disaster through the eyes of those who survived
    It is 60 years since one of Wales' darkest days, when a mining community changed forever.


rss: the register

  • Nervous ISPs replace Chrome as strange consumers of DNS resources
    Some network operators like to wear belts and suspenders to keep their services up
  • Indian certification authority eMudhra’s private keys compromised – one of them was the number ‘4’
    Massive clean-up job under way because this mess makes it possible to impersonate any website or service
  • Auto tech startup claims it traced hack attempt back to rival's IP address
    IQ.Lvbs implies that rival Comma.ai isn't playing fair
  • Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure
    And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model
  • Palo Alto's firewall OS has been under attack from multiple ransomware groups since June
    Unit 42 investigates network compromises across numerous industries
  • Swamped curl maintainers take low-level flaws public to survive vulnerability 'avalanche'
    From October 26, only high and critical cases stay private as project seeks help sharing the workload
  • OneDrive loses bunch of Copilot shortcuts in File Explorer clear-out
    Microsoft keeps 'Ask Copilot' as dedicated actions disappear between mid-November and early December
  • openEuler brings China's enterprise Linux ambitions to the desktop
    CentOS roots give way to homegrown containers, AI tools, and a workstation edition we took for a spin
  • How going dual-native means VM/container co-existence and sovereign security in the AI era
    SPONSORED FEATURE: Nutanix says running VMs and containers within the same operating environment shouldn’t be a brake on AI ambitions
  • Enterprises blow nearly a third of software budgets on upgrades they never asked for
    Keeping vendors happy is costing businesses millions, even when everything was working fine in the first place


rss: ars technica

  • PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently
    Unconfirmed report claims PHP2Shell exploit remotely executes code on PHP sites.
  • Merging SpaceX and Tesla would be a "good idea," Musk says
    "I do think there's a lot of merit to combining the companies."
  • Cops raid office of RFK Jr. allies planning “unethical” vaccine trial on babies
    Guinea-Bissau police said hepatitis B vaccine doses were taken as part of an investigation.
  • Microsoft reportedly projects $1,200 to $1,800 price for 2028 Project Helix
    Xbox maker is also apparently planning its own gaming handheld for next year.
  • JustWatch, which tackles streaming fragmentation, launches own streaming service
    A lifetime ad-free subscription is available.
  • Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash
    Meta changes AI scraping policy but won’t add language respecting robots.txt.
  • Gemini's Personal Intelligence is coming to cars
    It's probably time to audit your Gemini settings.
  • OpenBSD 8.0 arrives with security record still intact
    OpenBSD 8.0 lands with Intel Arc support, ARM64 hibernation, and 64-vCPU guests
  • The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
    Intermediate certs allow anyone to mint web credentials for any Internet server.
  • TP-Link tries to appease Trump admin with pledge to assemble routers in US
    TP-Link can't sell latest routers in US despite rivals getting FCC approvals.


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