rss: npr

  • Why is it so hard for the U.S. to win wars?
    U.S. presidents have promised short, decisive wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. All have proved much more difficult than advertised and fallen far short of the political goals set at the beginning.
  • Opinion: The continued courage of Captain Sully
    Retired pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is known for safely landing an airplane on the Hudson River in 2009. This week, he announced that he has Alzheimer's disease.
  • 8 killed and more than 60 wounded in Ukrainian drone attack on Russian regions
    Kyiv's forces are continuing their aerial campaign against energy infrastructure and military targets inside Russia, aiming to undermine Moscow's war effort.
  • The 2000s called. They want their digital camera back
    Why are people who weren't born 25 years ago snapping up the digital camera of that era? Blame Taylor Swift, trend cycles, childhood nostalgia and smartphone fatigue.
  • D'oh! I can't believe I did that! Graceful ways to handle awkward moments
    Yes, there is a way to gracefully address that you've been walking around with spinach in your teeth. Here are tactics to quickly defuse your most embarrassing, cringe-inducing moments.
  • The U.S. and Iran blow past red lines as they lurch back toward all-out war
    The United States and Iran exchanged strikes aimed at infrastructure and military targets on Saturday as their battle over the Strait of Hormuz intensified.
  • ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
    The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
  • Ex-wife says ICE agent who killed man in Maine had racist beliefs, violent tendencies
    Ashley Brouillette has identified her ex-husband, David Brouillette, as the officer who fatally shot Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday. She said she learned he was the officer responsible when he called her on Wednesday.
  • Spain could make World Cup history: The first to win men's and women's trophies back-to-back
    The Spanish Men's National Team will face Argentina in Sunday's World Cup final. The country's women's team lifted its first World Cup trophy in 2023.
  • Move over, Super Bowl? There's an even bigger – and splashier – World Cup halftime show coming
    The show, which will begin somewhere around 3:45 PM ET, will air in the U.S. on Fox, Fox One and in Spanish on Telemundo, as well as on the Fox Sports app and streaming in Spanish on Peacock. It's expected to run for about 11 minutes.


rss: bbc

  • Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
    Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.
  • Ruthless plotter? Flip-flopper? Dad dancer? Insiders reveal the real Andy Burnham
    Who is the real Andy Burnham? Laura Kuenssberg talks to more than 20 people who know him to work it out
  • Russian online retail warehouses hit by deadly Ukrainian strikes
    Drones targeted Wildberries facilities near Moscow and in Tambov. Ukraine's leader called them "major logistics facilities" supplying "sanctioned components".
  • The Bronze Final - the unwanted tie or a match with a 'golden layer'?
    Why does the Fifa World Cup Bronze Final still exist?
  • Laos says it can't determine cause of tourist deaths linked to methanol
    Officials say they have no evidence of poisoning over the 2024 deaths because autopsies were not conducted.
  • Control, threats, disfiguring surgery: My life inside Jeffrey Epstein's 'cult'
    "Anya" gives the BBC a rare account of how sex-criminal financier Epstein lured and abused his “assistants”.
  • Brad Pitt's children are dropping their dad's surname - here's why I did the same
    Hannah had used her mother's maiden name on her social media for years before she legally made the change.
  • 16 viral moments: From Posh Spice's slow reaction to Haaland's bromance
    We look at some of the most memorable scenes during the 2026 World Cup that set the internet alight.
  • Messi and Tom Brady in disbelief over 'prophetic' Lamine Yamal photo
    Argentina's Lionel Messi says it is "crazy" to be facing Spain's Lamine Yamal in a World Cup final after being photographed with him as a baby.
  • White House backs Argentina team over Falklands banner
    The comments could further fuel the row over the incident, which has seen Downing Street back calls for Fifa to investigate.


rss: the register

  • Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage
    Tim Lindholm, Java's original JVM maintainer, shares with El Reg some of the grungy build details the doc glosses over
  • NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD
    New maintainer revives the project with Darwin components, Gershwin, and Claude Code
  • Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly
    And what to expect in Firefox 153 as the next ESR release gets close
  • Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month
    22H2 has until 2028, or there's always Windows 11
  • Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates
    Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug
  • AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting
    Turns out decades-old email tricks still work against some LLM-powered email filters
  • Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'
    More a rewrite really, and of a very early version: Linux 0.11 – in Rust
  • Microsoft gives admins Exchange Online breathing room
    Retirement of PowerShell -Credential parameter pushed back to the end of 2026
  • Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over reviewed content
    You can't claim to be a passive host after vetting a creator's channel, Google warned
  • Attackers target critical FortiSandbox flaws as CISA issues patch order
    Command injection vulns land on exploited list after researchers spot abuse attempts


rss: ars technica

  • Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?
    The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.
  • Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada
    The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.
  • The Pentagon's Space Development Agency hasn't moved as fast as anyone would like
    "Missiles are being launched at the joint force every single day in [Operation] Epic Fury."
  • Hegseth wants a "High-T" military; doctors call it a clinical minefield
    "We're turning the clock back on rational healthcare."
  • Taco Bell iceberg lettuce identified as source of cyclosporiasis in 5 states
    Don't eat Taco Bell lettuce in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, or West Virginia.
  • Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy
    American Diabetes Association blocked publication of op-ed articles so the authors posted them as a preprint.
  • Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?
    Grasshopper-like tests could begin in 2028.
  • Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November
    Fubo subscribers still don't have Versant channels.
  • San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
    Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.
  • Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!
    Desktops, laptops, phones, CPUs, GPUs, NAS—if you know this stuff, come work for us!


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