rss: npr

  • The iconic Arthur Read made his TV debut 30 years ago
    The animated series "Arthur" premiered on PBS Kids on Oct. 7, 1996.
  • Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison, dies at age 84
    ennis Hastert, whose political legacy as Congress' longest-serving Republican House speaker was later fouled by allegations that he had molested high school athletes during his prior career as a teacher and wrestling coach, has died, a coroner said Monday. He was 84.
  • Drones buzz overhead, troops hunker underground in Ukraine's hellish kill zone
    The front line in the Russia-Ukraine war stretches more than 700 miles and has barely moved in four years. Yet straddling this line is the kill zone, dominated by constantly evolving drone technology.
  • FBI arrests a woman accused of spying on Taiwan leader's family for China
    The FBI and U.S. prosecutors say Wanying Zhang, also know as Heather, surveilled the Taiwanese president's son and his family.
  • Imran Khan supporters march in Pakistan to demand his release after talks failed
    Talks between Khan's party and the government failed two days ago. Besides Khan's release, protesters demand his transfer to a hospital and family visits.
  • SCOTUS hears major climate change case. And, Brazil's presidential race goes to runoff
    The Supreme Court is set to hear a blockbuster climate change case that could affect more than just climate issues. And, Brazil's presidential race is too close to call.
  • FlyDubai attacker intended to crash plane into Tel Aviv airport, investigation finds
    The ongoing investigation has found the attacker intended to crash the plane into Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport, a person familiar with the matter but not authorized to speak publicly told NPR.
  • Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity
    The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.
  • Former Prince Andrew files legal action to quash warrants that led to residence searches
    A judicial spokesperson confirmed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had filed a claim with the High Court in London and a hearing would take place Thursday.
  • Spain's prime minister calls early elections as pressure mounts over housing crisis
    Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced early elections Monday after his government suffered a bruising legislative defeat last week on emergency measures related to the country's housing crisis.


rss: bbc

  • King's funding for Andrew not to be used for legal action against police
    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is taking action over search warrants issued ahead of his arrest in February.
  • What we know about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's legal action against police
    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is taking legal action against Thames Valley Police over his arrest in February.
  • What prompted the US bombers to leave RAF Fairford?
    The mass evacuation of American bombers from the UK points to concern in the Pentagon, our security correspondent writes.
  • Teenager's hand blown off during confrontation between France school protesters and police
    The prefect of Pas-de-Calais says the 15-year-old's life is "not in danger" after the "very serious" incident.
  • Pentagon stops using Anthropic AI tools after blacklisting company, BBC told
    It labelled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" in February after the firm refused to remove safety guardrails from its tools.
  • Prisoner took his own life after terror order had 'substantial impact' on mental state, inquest finds
    Akhtar Uddin was jailed for breaching Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures in 2020.
  • British Museum boss 'sorry' for Bayeux Tapestry visitor issues
    Changes to how visitors see the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition were made after concerns over long queues and overcrowding.
  • BBC appoints Rachel Jupp as new director of news
    Jupp is a former deputy editor of BBC Two's Newsnight and has also served as Panorama's editor.
  • Man who killed dog walker should be deported, says judge
    Dawood Safi killed Wayne Broadhurst and injured two others in a knife attack in west London.
  • Zelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian strike on boat carrying corn in Black Sea
    The vessel's captain was killed and 11 crew members were rescued after the attack on the Turkish-owned ship, Ukraine's leader says.


rss: the register

  • Windows 11 26H2 blighted by new audio issue
    AC-3 decoder drama also hits Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2
  • Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators
    Who said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute?
  • OpenAI to flood your eyeballs with visual ads
    Want to generate an image with ChatGPT? Then prepare for ads if you're in the US
  • Debian's latest kernel security update has 1,313 reasons to patch
    AI-assisted bug hunting adds to maintainers' workload, while broad CVE rules help explain the sprawling tally
  • The question you would ask HPE and NVIDIA if nobody was recording
    The Register’s data sovereignty dinner in Washington puts HPE’s and NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure leads at one table, off the record, on 29 October.
  • Musk follows Trump's lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand
    Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply
  • Games Workshop seeks IT leader to summon the legions in epic saga battling the forces of ERP
    Warhammer set in 40,000? Yes, ERP projects can seem to take that long
  • Anthropic says its IPO could herald the end of the world as we know it
    Pay no attention to those more practical risks behind the curtain, which is exactly what we're doing on this week's Kettle
  • Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-text
    GNOME 51 is here, and Ubuntu interim releases are getting interesting again
  • Windows 11 market share creeps upwards as cost of staying on Windows 10 set to double
    How badly do you want that Win10 device to keep getting security updates?


rss: ars technica

  • F1 in Bahrain... in Malaysia: The race needed a software update to start
    A software bug waylaid half the field and required a race reboot.
  • Mass quarantine issued in Russia after unexplained death of plague researcher
    Unconfirmed reports have suggested there was a laboratory accident.
  • AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
    Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.
  • Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of "mechanical" switches
    Ars Technica's guide to new keyboard sensing technologies.
  • New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"
    Fresh analysis of First Dynasty mass burials finds signs of fatal blunt force trauma on 39 percent of skulls.
  • Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: A spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife
    Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners, Loki) narrates NatGeo's new documentary Africa: Earth's Wild Home.
  • All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.
    The IEA and climate negotiators want to set a target for shifting the economy to run on electricity.
  • Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
    "...we were making history."
  • The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
    The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks.
  • Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
    Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.


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