rss: npr

  • 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 the 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 GenZ 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.
  • ICE says it now has enough body cameras. And, Congress averts shutdown before midterms
    Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it now has enough body cameras to equip all of its agents. And, Congress votes to fund the government, averting a government shutdown ahead of the midterms.
  • How will tariffs affect the midterms? In this Michigan border town, it's complicated
    The recent trade war between the U.S. and Canada has both economic and political implications for Michigan given it's the state's top trade partner.
  • Israel bars U.S. citizens over criticism and ties to Palestinian activists, lawyers say
    Travelers from the U.S. and other nations are denied entry to Israel after interrogations about their links to Palestinians, plans to visit the occupied West Bank and opinions of Israel, lawyers say.
  • ICE detainee dies just hours after he was admitted into detention
    Lianyong Wei's death marks the 57th death of an immigrant detainee held in the care of the government since the start of President Trump's second term. Twenty-four of those have occurred since Jan. 1.
  • He died of 'natural causes.' But his mother says she knows what killed him: heat
    When Arizona counts heat-related deaths, Adam Willson isn't included. His story shows how thousands of heat deaths can go uncounted every year in the United States.
  • Morning news brief
    U.S. military strikes rock Iran for a second day in a row, Trump attempts to combat rising gas prices as midterm approaches, Sen. Ed Markey wins Massachusetts' Democratic primary.
  • Germany blames Russia for last month's attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport
    The German government blamed Russia for an attempted attack at Leipzig airport last month using a drone laden with explosives. It announced that it would shut down a Russian consulate among measures.


rss: bbc

  • 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".
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • More than 900 killed in Gaza this year despite ceasefire, Hamas-run health ministry says
    The ministry says the total number of people killed in the Strip since 10 October is now more than 1,300, including 301 children.
  • London mayor says conviction for untaxed car was due to a scam
    City Hall officials say the Nissan Micra does not belong to the mayor or Transport for London.
  • UK aid worker says he was mistaken for survivor in Nepal
    Alastair Chambers says the mix-up was after he returned to Kathmandu after flying back in an aid helicopter.
  • BBC gains rare access to occupied Lebanon as officials say Israel expanding positions
    A BBC team joined a humanitarian mission of the UN peacekeeping force, which says Israeli troops are fortifying positions and continuing demolitions.
  • Nottingham attacks families not told 'stalker' had violent past
    Nottinghamshire Police received a complaint and has referred the matter to the IOPC.
  • King Charles, Macron and Burnham to preview Bayeux Tapestry display
    British and French leaders will be at the British Museum to see the exhibition of the historic Bayeux Tapestry.
  • Gary Glitter pleads not guilty to historical sex offence charges
    The former singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, appeared at Southwark Crown Court via video.


rss: the register

  • 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
  • London Tube closes the 5G gap with streets above
    Mobile signal below ground beats the citywide average, Ookla says
  • UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme
    Startups invited to tackle NHS, defense, compute, and agent security challenges while Whitehall's own adoption remains patchy
  • Northern Ireland adds £15M to Fujitsu education deal without competition
    Japanese supplier remains in place despite scrutiny over its Horizon role
  • UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it
    Ministers reject proposed red lines and emergency shutdown powers, pointing instead to voluntary safeguards
  • UK digital ID may be dead, but its legacy IT problem lives on
    Spending watchdog says fragmented data and inconsistent standards would constrain any future attempt
  • Arm in the enterprise is at least three years away, says Broadcom software boss
    And RISC-V is absolutely nowhere
  • Tape still isn’t dead, but shipments slipped by 16 exabytes in 2025
    LTO program is confident this is a glitch, not terminal unspooling


rss: ars technica

  • 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."
  • This is what a supercar was like a century ago
    When the average car could only do 40 mph, this Bentley could break 100.
  • It turns out that Orion's much-maligned heat shield performed really well
    Independent safety officials also have high praise for changes by NASA leadership.
  • Without new landers or rovers, it's helicopters or bust for NASA's Mars program
    NASA's cost estimate for SR-1 Freedom is $2.1 billion, but that doesn't include the helicopters.


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