rss: npr

  • U.S. evacuates diplomats, shuts down some embassies as war with Iran enters fourth day
    The United States evacuated diplomats across the Middle East and shut down some embassies as war with Iran intensified Tuesday while President Trump signaled the conflict could turn into extended war.
  • Kristi Noem set to face senators over DHS shutdown, immigration enforcement
    The focus of the hearing is likely to be on how Kristi Noem is pursuing President Trump's mass deportation efforts in his second term, after two U.S. citizens were killed by immigration officers.
  • College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree
    More than three years after ChatGPT debuted, AI has become a part of everyday life — and professors and students are still figuring out how or if they should use it.
  • North Carolina and Texas have primary elections Tuesday. Here's what you need to know
    The midterm elections are officially underway and contests in Texas and North Carolina will be the first major opportunity for parties to hear from voters about what's important to them in 2026.
  • Trump promised the MAGA base no new wars. Then he went to war with Iran
    President Trump promised his "Make America Great Again" voters an "America First" foreign policy. With the war in Iran, he's testing MAGA world's willingness to be flexible on one of its core beliefs.
  • Melania Trump presides at UN Security Council meeting as U.S. attacks Iran
    U.S. first lady Melania Trump presided over a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday focusing on children in conflict, as the United States has joined Israel in attacking Iran.
  • Morning news brief
    U.S. urges Americans across Middle East to leave as war with Iran intensifies, Congress expected to vote on Trump's war powers, voters head to polls for Senate primaries in North Carolina and Texas.
  • Here are Arkansas' 2026 primary election results
    Live election results: Get the latest on Arkansas' U.S. Senate, U.S. House and gubernatorial primary races.
  • Here are Texas' 2026 primary election results
    Live election results: Get the latest on Texas' U.S. Senate, U.S. House and gubernatorial primary races.
  • Here are North Carolina's 2026 primary election results
    Live election results: Get the latest on North Carolina's U.S. House and U.S. Senate primary races.


rss: bbc

  • Chris Mason: Starmer at odds with Trump in biggest disagreement yet
    The prime minister told MPs that the government "does not believe in regime change from the skies".
  • Why did US and Israel attack Iran and how long could the war last?
    Iran has carried out strikes against Israel, across the Gulf and against a British base in Cyprus in retaliation.
  • Gas and oil prices soar and shares tumble as crucial shipping lane threatened
    Iranian official threatens to "set fire" to any ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
  • Watch: How the US-Israel war with Iran is jeopardising shipping
    Ben Chu has been looking at what’s happened to marine traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, a key trade passage.
  • Jeremy Bowen: Three days in, we still have no idea where this war is heading
    It's hard to predict how the war will end - but those fighting know how they would like it to.
  • I can understand why women don't trust the police, says Met chief on Sarah Everard anniversary
    On the fifth anniversary of Everard's murder, Sir Mark Rowley insists rebuilding trust in the force will take time.
  • 'Deeply misleading' school talks compared student loans to £30 phone contracts
    Graduates hired to deliver the presentations a decade ago were told to avoid using words like "debt".
  • Leaked photo, hot tub, and Pizzagate - video of Clintons' testimony on Epstein ties released
    The newly released videos show Bill and Hillary Clinton sitting through separate depositions about Jeffrey Epstein.
  • One of UK's richest men wants German citizenship over 'hostility' to Jews
    The billionaire says "anti-semitism is always in the air".
  • China removes three retired generals from national advisory body
    Authorities gave no explanation for the ousters but they come as purges of military top brass pick up pace.


rss: the register

  • Vodafone to use Amazon sats for cell backhaul in remote parts of Europe, Africa

    From Bavarian Alps to Congo basin and other places where laying cable is a PITA

    Vodafone has signed a deal with Amazon Leo to use its satellites as a backhaul connection for cellular base stations in remote areas of Europe and Africa, saving it from having to cable them up to its core network.…

  • Brussels urged to pay 'sovereignty premium' to narrow China battery gap

    Analysis claims €500 per EV could secure local production and cut reliance on foreign supply chains

    Europe's EV battery cost gap with China – currently around 90 percent – could shrink to roughly 30 percent by 2030 if Brussels is willing to pay what campaigners call a "sovereignty premium."…

  • Gamers furious as Brit studio Cloud Imperium quietly admits to data breach

    Slow disclosure and odd reassurance that exposing names and contact details won't be a problem isn't going down well

    Gamers are ready to unleash their mightiest virtual weapons and point them at British games studio Cloud Imperium, after it sat on news of a data breach and then announced it without fanfare.…

  • Claude having artificially intelligent hiccups and access lockouts for over two hours

    Developers ponder the horror of having to actually write code

    Anthropic’s AI service Claude is having artificially intelligent hiccups and availability problems across its basic chat service, API, and Claude Code offering.…

  • Huawei brings its flatpack AI datacenters, packed full of Chinese chips, to the world

    Claims it can build and deploy them fast, whether they run at speed is another matter

    As the AI boom rages, investors and buyers have thrown cash at anyone that even looks capable of selling them hardware capable of crunching tokens at speed. And now they have a new option: China’s Huawei.…

  • Phish of the day: Microsoft OAuth scams abuse redirects for malware delivery

    Crims hope for payday from malicious payloads rather than stealing access tokens

    Microsoft has warned organizations about ongoing OAuth abuse scams that use phishing emails and URL redirects to infect victims' machines with malware and take over their devices.…

  • Nvidia burns $4B to light up American photonics manufacturing

    Coherent, Lumentum each walk away with $2B in cash and a multi-billion purchase commitment

    Nvidia is dipping into its war chest once again this week, investing $2 billion each in Coherent and Lumentum to lock in supply of the vendors' respective silicon photonics technologies.…

  • Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays

    Markets in the Middle East will be affected first and worst

    The war against Iran is causing an air and shipping jam, but it will likely have little effect on the global technology market unless the conflict widens significantly, according to analysts.…

  • AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions

    Multiple zones Middle East in UAE disrupted, with water damage complicating recovery

    UPDATED Multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) availability zones in the Middle East are experiencing outages or degraded connectivity after objects struck a UAE facility, as Iranian retaliatory missile and drone attacks hit targets across the Gulf.…

  • Iran's cyberwar has begun

    'Expect elevated activity for the foreseeable future'

    Iranian hackers have launched spying expeditions, digital probes, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the wake of the US and Israel launching missile strikes over the weekend, and security researchers urge organizations to expect more cyber intrusions as the war continues.…



rss: ars technica

  • Clueless cops post seized crypto wallet password. $5M quickly stolen.
    South Korean police deeply apologized for preventable loss of seized funds.
  • Charter gets FCC permission to buy Cox and become largest ISP in the US
    FCC rejects protests because Charter and Cox don't compete directly in most places.
  • Iowa county adopts strict zoning rules for data centers, but residents still worry
    Though the rules are among the strictest in the US, locals say they aren't enough.
  • $599 M4 iPad Air is a lot like the old one, but with a substantial RAM boost
    Unexpected RAM upgrade is the highlight of an otherwise straightforward refresh.
  • Research roundup: Six cool science stories we almost missed
    Smart underwear measures farts, brain cells play Doom, and AI discovers rules of an ancient game.
  • Apple's new iPhone 17e has an A19 chip, MagSafe, and 256GB of storage for $599
    New just-the-basics phone replaces the year-old iPhone 16e at the same price.
  • It's almost a station wagon: The 2026 Subaru Trailseeker, driven
    Despite the Toyota platform, there's plenty of Subaru DNA in this one.
  • Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding
    America succeeds in space when American companies compete.
  • Trump FCC's equal-time crackdown doesn't apply equally—or at all—to talk radio
    FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's unequal enforcement of the equal-time rule.
  • AMD Ryzen AI 400 chips will bring newer CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs to AM5 desktops
    First wave of Ryzen AI desktop CPUs targets business PCs rather than DIYers.


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