rss: npr

  • Morning news brief
    Primary results reveal divide among Democratic Party, new inflation report could give the Fed more time to bring inflation under control, rescues teams race to find survivors of Colombia earthquake.
  • New indictment alleges Nick Reiner was lying in wait before killing his parents
    A grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on murder charges in the killings of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, and adds the allegation that he was lying in wait before attacking them.
  • Millions crowd cities to see Spain's first total solar eclipse in over a century
    As the sky darkened, gradually at first and then quickly, people broke into applause and cheered. It was the Spain's first total solar eclipse in more than a century.
  • 3 men set for lethal injection on same day in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma
    Three men in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are scheduled for lethal injection Thursday in a rare convergence of executions on the same day in the U.S.
  • Photos: See the best photos from the solar eclipse
    Millions of people in Europe stepped outside this evening to watch a spectacular sunset with a solar eclipse. The path of totality passed through portions of Greenland, Iceland and Spain,
  • ICE plans to outfit officers with electric shock gloves
    The company that makes the gloves, Compliant Technologies, says they're a nonlethal tool to make individuals compliant during arrests.
  • Trump sued over service selling faster access to Truth Social posts
    The federal lawsuit alleges that the service from the president's media company violates the Constitution. Meanwhile, Trump Media executives say they have signed up more than 10 customers.
  • Controversial group wins $158M-contract to represent unaccompanied immigrant children
    Utah-based Our Rescue was founded by activist Tim Ballard. It was previously known as Operation Underground Railroad and it says it helps law enforcement perform sting operations and rescues human trafficking survivors.
  • White House press secretary leaving
    Karoline Leavitt will continue to be an outside adviser, Trump said
  • Has the U.S. lost its dominance to China?
    Beijing may be benefiting from the war in Iran and Trump's tariffs and has an edge in the competition for tech supremacy. The New Yorker's Evan Osnos discusses his story "The Future, Made in China."


rss: bbc

  • Once-in-a-generation solar eclipse wows millions in UK and Europe
    More than 95% of the Sun was covered by the Moon in Cornwall, while parts of Spain experienced the magic of a total eclipse.
  • Watch: Moment 'surreal' solar eclipse witnessed in UK and Europe
    More than 90% of the Sun was covered by the Moon in the UK, while a full eclipse was visible in Spain and Iceland.
  • UK economy grows between April and June but experts warn of challenges in coming months
    The UK economy grew by 0.4% with some firms reporting hot weather and sports helped growth in June.
  • Putin can no longer claim victory in Ukraine, Nobel Peace Prize winner tells BBC
    In an exclusive interview with the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg, Dmitry Muratov says the Kremlin leader can only "destroy Ukraine, not conquer it", with the war now in its fifth year.
  • Travis Kelce shares first details from his wedding to Taylor Swift: 'Best night of my life'
    In the comments, Kelce called Swift his "wife" for first time and said it was a "childhood dream" to wed at Madison Square Garden.
  • Polls open in Clacton by-election
    Voters will choose between 34 candidates - the most to stand in any British parliamentary election.
  • Trump says White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to leave post
    Leavitt will depart from her role to spend time with her young children and family, the president says.
  • ICE plans to equip agents with gloves that can deliver electric shocks
    The US immigration agency is spending $20m on gloves that deliver a sharp electric shock intended to compel subjects to comply.
  • First 100% British chocolate bar made since 1932
    Master's student Maha Khan created the chocolate bar by harvesting and processing Reading-grown cocoa.
  • Results, appeals and resits - what to do if things don't go to plan
    Your full guide to A-level results day, including what to do if you are not happy with your grades.


rss: the register

  • Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results
    Developer spotted hostname and credential string lurking in autocomplete
  • Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit
    CEO says buyers are moving fast and shuffling budgets to replace old boxen
  • Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53bn hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads
    Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term
  • Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find
    Attackers could extract data, even working from inside a guest VM
  • OpenAI ad service can bill customers for up to one day after they pause campaigns
    ChatGPT Ads, I wish I knew how to quit you
  • Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous
    And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there
  • 'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency
    Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm
  • Deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's Tailscale outages
    Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset took six months of hunting and development of a new logging tool to identify
  • Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare
    Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure
  • Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible
    Eight years on, we're still paying to hide the future glimpsed during speculative execution


rss: ars technica

  • Toddler's tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors
    Boy's unusual symptoms could help identify the next case sooner.
  • The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
    “ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
  • Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
    The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
  • Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.
    “It’s the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature.”
  • Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
    Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."
  • Trump sued over "brazen" scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month
    With Truth API, Trump is "selling priority access to news he himself generates."
  • US boosts drone surveillance as flesh-eating screwworms spread in Texas
    Hundreds of Homeland Security drones retasked to survey wildlife and livestock.
  • Two hydrogen-burning engines powered this car to a new land speed record
    JCB has invested heavily in hydrogen to power its diggers and other machinery.
  • US tries to override New York gambling laws, orders Kalshi to keep operating
    Trump admin claims New York suing Kalshi created "market emergency."
  • Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books
    AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.


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