rss: npr

  • Climate disaster victims are rebuilding using prefab homes from boxy to bespoke
    Wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes and floods fueled by manmade climate change are changing the housing industry. That's because people seeking to rebuild in disaster-prone regions are turning away from stick-builds and embracing prefabricated homes that can withstand fire and extreme weather.
  • Alleged White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter set to appear in federal court
    The suspected gunman will face charges, including assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon.
  • Inflation is sucking the life out of teacher pay raises, report says
    A new review of state education data shows teacher pay increases can't keep up with inflation and fewer students are enrolled in public schools.
  • Musk vs. Altman: Tech CEOs head to court Monday over fate of OpenAI
    The former OpenAI business partners are embroiled in a high-stakes dispute over the future of one of the world's top AI companies.
  • Scientists search the microbiome for clues to the rise in colorectal cancers
    Unlike many cancers, colorectal cancer has become more lethal for people at younger ages. Doctors are sleuthing out why.
  • Ingenious? Orwellian? Or both? Supreme Court considers constitutionality of 'geofence' warrants
    The technique allows police to tap into giant tech-firm databases to find out who was near the scene of a crime and may have been involved.
  • Palestinian officials hail local elections in a Gaza community and the West Bank
    Palestinian officials say local elections in Gaza and the West Bank mark a step toward a long-delayed presidential election. The Palestinian Authority hasn't held a presidential election in 21 years.
  • Monte Coleman, who won 3 Super Bowls as a Washington linebacker, dies at age 68
    The hard-nosed linebacker, who won three Super Bowls and later coached Arkansas-Pine Bluff, has died. UAPB and the Commanders announced his death Sunday. No cause of death was disclosed.
  • Alleged Colorado attacker's family released after nearly a year in detention
    A Texas judge ordered Hayam El Gamal and her five children released Thursday. Two days later, their lawyers say, ICE re-arrested and tried to deport them.
  • A fast-growing Georgia wildfire tops 31 square miles, with evacuations possible
    One of two large wildfires in southeastern Georgia continues to grow and now exceeds 31 square miles.


rss: bbc

  • Trump says King will be 'very safe' during US visit after security talks
    The state visit will go ahead despite concerns raised after a gunman targeted an event attended by the president.
  • UK's biggest ever environmental pollution claim reaches High Court
    One of the UK's largest chicken producers and a water company accused of polluting three rivers including the River Wye
  • UK healthy life expectancy falls by two years in past decade
    Poor housing, obesity and the effects of deprivation have been suggested as underlying cause.
  • Arson arrest after fire at packed-out LGBT+ club
    An eyewitness says "thousands" of people were evacuated from the club.
  • 'I don't want the children to see how worried we are': UK family finances hit by Iran war
    British families tell BBC Panorama how the Iran war is affecting their monthly budgets.
  • Ukraine's drone commander has Russian oil, troops and morale in his sights
    In a rare interview, Commander Robert Brovdi shared how his unit accounts for a third of all targets destroyed on the battlefield.
  • Man arrested over attacks on Jewish community in London
    A 37-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.
  • Kenya's Sabastian Sawe makes history with sub-two hour marathon time in London
    Sabastian Sawe makes history at the London Marathon as the first person to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race.
  • Car bomb hijacking victim 'incredibly brave' says police chief
    Chief Constable Jon Boutcher says his officers suspect the bombing was carried out by the dissident republican group known as the New IRA.
  • Oil prices rise as US-Iran peace talks stall
    President Trump said the US had cancelled plans to send a team to Pakistan for negotiations.


rss: the register

  • Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot

    Microsoft Copilot now heading into ‘Official Sensitive’ work after winning back just 26 minutes a day in a trial

    HMRC is betting big on Microsoft Copilot, rolling it out to tens of thousands of staff after a Whitehall trial estimated it saved each user roughly 26 minutes of time per day.…

  • Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now

    AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that

    Opinion In retrospect, calling it Mythos made it a hostage to fortune. Anthropic may have hoped that the name implied its AI code security model had mythical god-like powers, but there's an alternate reading. Another definition for Mythos is a set of beliefs of obscure origin which are incompatible with reality.…

  • PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch

    There was only one ESC from sneaky screenshots and fake BSODs

    Who, Me? Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's Monday column that shares your stories of mistakes, occasional malice, and how you came out the other side.…

  • Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now

    Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos

    KETTLE If you needed further evidence that AI comes first in pretty much everything nowadays, look no further than this year's Google Cloud Next show, which happened last week.…

  • Tokenmaxxing isn't an AI strategy

    Before checking AI's price tag, see whether it fits

    What does AI cost? It's a simple question and an important one – the answer will determine the fate of companies and shape society. But it's also a question that can't be answered in a meaningful way without additional context.…

  • Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense

    The OS trying to upsell you subscriptions is more than just an annoyance

    opinion You’ve had your laptop for months, and you’ve always made sure it installed Microsoft updates. Then one day you boot up, and Windows 11 greets you with a confusing message: “You’re almost done setting up your PC.”…

  • AI's not going to kill open source code security

    Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way

    Opinion Cal.com has closed its commercial codebase, abandoning years of AGPL-3.0 licensing in a move that has alarmed the developer community that helped build it and sent ripples through the broader open source world.…

  • Ex-AWS legend explains what enterprises need to make AI actually work

    AI transformation is about people and organization, not technology

    Enterprise AI projects go off the rails when companies focus on the technology instead of the people.…

  • Crime crew impersonates help desk, abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data

    Coming in cold with custom Snow malware

    A previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics - Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation - is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.…

  • DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs

    Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1

    Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance to rival the best proprietary American LLMs. Perhaps more importantly, it claims to dramatically reduce inference costs and it extends support for Huawei's Ascend family of AI accelerators.…



rss: ars technica

  • Strange New Worlds S4 teaser strikes a more serious tone
    "I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate where wiser men would have left well enough alone."
  • Prime Video drops full trailer for Spider-Noir
    It's "a detective story, but the detective happens to also have spider powers.”—EP Chris Miller
  • New robotic control software avoids jamming their joints
    Software lets robots learn from each other even if they have different hardware.
  • Artemis II broke Fred Haise's distance record, but he is happy to pass it on
    "It wasn't a big deal. It just coincided with the fact that Moon was farther away from the Earth."
  • Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"
    Slack messages, interviews with current and former works paint picture of company in turmoil.
  • This is who's developing Golden Dome's orbital interceptors—if they're ever built
    "If boost-phase intercept from space is not affordable and scalable, we will not produce it."
  • Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic
    This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.
  • Europe—not US—first to authorize Moderna's combo mRNA flu-COVID vaccine
    Amid RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda, Moderna withdrew its FDA application last year.
  • FCC: Router ban includes portable hotspots, but not phones with hotspot features
    FCC defines consumer routers expansively, updates FAQ to include Wi-Fi hotspots.
  • Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.
    Hundreds of subdomains from dozens of universities have been hijacked by scammers.


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