rss: npr

  • Trump cancels further Iran strikes. And, U.S. men's soccer takes on Paraguay
    Trump canceled new Iran strikes and signaled that a peace deal could come soon, but Iran says it hasn't been finalized. And, the U.S. men's soccer team plays its first 2026 World Cup match today.
  • Which billionaire said they learned a 'significant lesson' this week? The quiz knows
    This week, Knicks fans had a big win after a big loss; fans of inflation were delighted and World Cup fans went broke. How will quiz fans fare?
  • She waited decades for Scotland to make the World Cup. At 93, she'll be cheering in person
    Moira Brown, perhaps the oldest of Scotland's Tartan Army of soccer fans, will be in Boston when Scotland's team plays against Haiti on June 13. "I'm the luckiest person in this world," she says.
  • How small-business loans got caught in Trump's immigration crackdown
    For decades, immigrants who are legal permanent residents in the U.S. could get loans through the Small Business Administration, a core pillar of small-business lending. Not anymore.
  • Your cheat sheet to the 26 players on the U.S. World Cup team
    The U.S. is opening its 2026 World Cup on Friday evening against Paraguay. For the 26 Americans on the team, this match is the culmination of years of hard work and training.
  • Trump's DOJ can't get names and medical files of trans youth in California, for now
    Trump's Department of Justice is seeking patient files that include the names of young people who have been treated in transgender clinics, as well as hospital staff who have provided care.
  • Want a better skin care routine? Sign up for our one-week guide
    Spending too much time and money on skin care? Find out what really works to improve skin health and appearance with our one-week newsletter guide. Sign up here.
  • Referees at the World Cup have new rules to whistle during games
    FIFA has introduced several changes to the laws of soccer for the World Cup. These include efforts to eliminate time-wasting and to ensure potentially game-changing officiating mistakes are corrected.
  • Can smartphones help explain the drop in birth rates?
    Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago.
  • The U.S. men's team is set to take on Paraguay in its World Cup opener
    Friday's game, the first of three group stage matches for the U.S., has been eight years in the making as a generation of players has reached their prime just in time for a World Cup on home soil.


rss: bbc

  • Art's great innovator whose vivid paintings made him a household name
    The proud Yorkshireman, who also painted iconic pictures of America, was routinely described as Britain's greatest artist.
  • Elon Musk's SpaceX raises $75bn ahead of record stock market debut
    The public sale is also expected to make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire.
  • Ministers want 60% of children walking or cycling to school by 2035
    Thousands of safer paths and crossings are promised to help people become more active in England's towns and cities.
  • Grooming survivors left with criminal records still being failed, BBC told
    Victims who were abused and prosecuted as children are still being failed, says grooming report author.
  • Nineteen now arrested over Northern Ireland disorder with house targeted in arson
    Thursday night was relatively quiet although police say an arson attack in north Belfast is linked to the disorder.
  • 'I spent uni savings on getting my teeth fixed' - the real cost of NHS dentist shortage
    People tell BBC Your Voice the rising cost of private dentistry is putting them in a difficult position.
  • Donaldson denies meeting sex abuse accuser to 'nip in the bud' allegations
    Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader, is on trial for 18 sex abuse charges, including one count of rape, all of which he denies.
  • Taylor Swift makes tearful 21-minute speech as she joins Songwriters Hall of Fame
    The singer thanks her family as she becomes the youngest woman to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
  • My friends always want to split the bill equally, how do I say no?
    It is never easy to speak up when a fellow diner says "let's just divide it!"
  • 'No-one knows it's on' - NBA Finals feed US World Cup apathy
    With the World Cup under way, how excited are people across the United States - and do they even know it is on?


rss: the register

  • BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder
    Mission Control sends its regards
  • Windows bowls a BSOD at sports fans
    It's just not cricket
  • Delos Data offers AI chip startups a fast track to rack scale
    Half the trouble of building an Nvidia NVL or AMD Helios competitor is just getting the networking out of the box
  • This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken
    Casual IT team learns that building bespoke PCs can be a false economy
  • Claude is ready for its corporate close-up
    IDC says recent moves show Anthropic racing to meet enterprise requirements
  • Everyone hates frontier AI labs, says Palantir boss
    'Enterprises are fed up,' says Alex Karp, because LLM makers 'want to tokenmax' instead of understanding enterprise needs
  • Anthropic recruits army to sell Claude to nonprofits
    Join Claude Corps, see the world, spread the gospel of AI
  • ShinyHunters hacked 100+ orgs by exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-day
    University of Nottingham is first of many, Shiny tells The Reg
  • Google's new open-weights model brings image-generation tricks to AI text generation
    Language model builds on diffusion tech to boost output performance by up to 4x, claims Chocolate Factory
  • Microsoft's worst 'Nightmare' unleashes BitLocker bypass 0-day
    Another day, another Windows exploit code


rss: ars technica

  • Ebola cases in DRC rise to 676 as Kenya protests erupt over US plans
    Outbreak responses are still playing catch-up as US works to isolate itself.
  • Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses
    The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.
  • Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely
    Failure raises questions about how Verizon prepares refurbished phones for new users.
  • Rocket Report: Nova moving through test campaign; SpaceX IPO launches Friday
    "If I needed to fly on another vehicle, what would that look like?"
  • Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act
    Cruz/Wyden bill would help Americans sue federal officials over censorship.
  • AcuRite admits new app falls short, delays old app’s May shutdown to fix problems
    The old app "still needs to be retired," AcuRite tells us.
  • After nearly breaking, NASA's Deep Space Network "worked well" on Artemis II
    "Some missions are using more than what their paperwork would say."
  • F1 teams spend millions on their simulators—what makes them different?
    Latency, bandwidth, and fidelity all matter when you're chasing milliseconds.
  • Did Iron Age Britons remove brains of the dead?
    Archaeologists found apparent scrape marks inside a skull; long bones may have been sharpened into tools.
  • "This cannot continue": Xbox leaders lay out "hard truths" behind sagging brand
    Brutal self-assessment paints a picture of a Microsoft gaming division in crisis.


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