rss: npr

  • At least 2 deaths attributed to Isaias after hurricane bashes Florida and Alabama
    Hurricane Isaias is blamed for at least two deaths, after the storm made landfall on the Florida coast and ran through Alabama. The are numerous reports of downed trees, with hundreds of thousands of people without power.
  • Opinion: Can I keep the baseball I caught?
    What would you do if you caught a baseball during the MLB playoffs? Give it to a kid nearby or keep it? This very scenario played out this week, with a fan deciding to keep the ball.
  • Ongoing lawsuits allege GLP-1s can cause serious harm. But we don't know how often
    Scant data about serious adverse effects makes it harder to answer scientific and legal questions about how often the drugs might cause serious harm like blindness or pancreatitis.
  • After losing ground with Latino voters, Democrats are turning to influencers for help
    Democrats are hoping to win back Latino voters who have soured on both parties. They hope Latino content creators will bridge the gap.
  • 16 cozy activities to add to your fall bucket list
    Carve a pumpkin? You can do better than that. Fun and unusual ways to celebrate the season, from writing a gratitude letter to making an ancestral altar.
  • The Met puts a modern artist front and center (and there's some Jackson Pollock, too)
    In a blockbuster show, The Metropolitan Museum of Art places the work of two major 20th century artists side by side: the married couple Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock.
  • Photos: What a year of ceasefire in Gaza looks like
    It has been one year since Hamas released the remaining Israeli hostages and President Trump promised an end to the war, but Palestinians say the past 12 months have been a ceasefire in name only.
  • India cracks down on youth protests as anger grows against Modi and election chief
    The protests focus on the Election Commission's voter list revision, which the opposition claims disenfranchises millions. The government denies the allegations, saying the revision aims to eliminate duplicate entries.
  • Kalshi taps former FBI agent to fight against money laundering
    The prediction market company says it wants to prevent its platform from being abused by criminals. The company is facing mounting pressure over market manipulation and insider trading on the site.
  • Fired OpenAI employees question the company's commitment to safety
    The three fired workers say OpenAI punished them for being outspoken about safety. The company disputes the claims and says they were fired over mishandling sensitive information.


rss: bbc

  • Man dies after tiger attack at wildlife park
    The visitor attraction near Doncaster was evacuated on Saturday and remains closed for the weekend.
  • US murderer Christa Pike discharged from hospital 10 days after failed execution
    Pike's lawyers say she is "grateful" to the medical team who cared for her after she survived two lethal injections last month.
  • Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a gift to Putin
    Ukraine's president sharply criticised the move, calling it an "investment in war that must be ended, not prolonged".
  • Head of Met's volunteer force fired after AI tool found deleted intimate images on work phone
    Special chief officer James Deller copied intimate images on to his work phone, AI monitoring finds.
  • Watch: 'Cockroach' group leaders among hundreds detained in Delhi protest
    Thousands of security personnel were deployed in Delhi ahead of the Gen-Z led Cockroach Janta Party protest on Saturday calling for electoral reforms.
  • King warns malicious online actors are evolving tactics
    The King spoke of "threats to our international order" in a letter marking the 10th anniversary of the National Cyber Security Centre.
  • Ashe was too scared to cancel her wedding, then her story became a hit song
    The US singer-songwriter reveals the story behind her international smash hit, Stop The Wedding.
  • I couldn't access my family's medical history - not knowing was terrifying
    People who have been adopted or are in care sometimes struggle to access family medical history which could be crucial to their own health.
  • Public executions in the US stopped nearly a century ago, why are they resuming now?
    The Pentagon says the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed, but experts suggest officials are reading the country wrong.
  • Afrobeats singer Ayra Starr on making history at her NFL half-time show in London
    The Nigerian star will become the first African artist to headline the show at an international NFL game.


rss: the register

  • Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers
    Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites
  • EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software
    EU executive branch is building a sovereign backup with Element, not replacing Teams. Not yet anyway
  • Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment
    Source attribution matters to 79% of respondents – handy for a company licensing its Q&A archive to model builders
  • Microsoft leans on open weight model from Chinese AI lab to challenge Jev
    The first version of Microsoft-Decision-1 is based on Qwen3.5-9B, but the next will sport homegrown tech, Redmond reassures
  • AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
    Tokens transmitted in metadata, weak VM isolation, and expansive permissions make hacking a lot easier
  • Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4 TB of OneDrive storage
    What Microsoft giveth, Microsoft taketh away, again and again
  • SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier
    Low-band frequencies can reach devices inside buildings, while 2 GHz orbiters could extend coverage beyond cell towers
  • Growing pains: how distributed AI training changes the network between datacenters
    SPONSORED FEATURE: While linking the GPUs in a datacenter is a challenge, coordinating thousands of them to work efficiently over hundreds of kilometers presents a new set of difficulties.
  • Oracle lets AI agents do the work, provided you stay in Big Red's world
    Analysts welcome Fusion Claw's tighter controls but warn of early adoption and cloud lock-in
  • Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand
    Buyers rushed to beat hikes earlier this year, but demand has since dried up as AI-fueled component shortages send costs soaring


rss: ars technica

  • One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
    Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin.
  • Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
    Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.
  • Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
    One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
  • A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis
    Stylish upcycling, with a retro flair, at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.
  • NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
    "We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit."
  • What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains?
    Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day.
  • AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
    Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
  • Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial
    CDC allocated $1.6M for study on alleged harms of hepatitis B vaccine.
  • PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
    "The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."
  • AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
    New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.


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