rss: npr

  • German exit polls suggest far-right party has big lead in regional election
    Exit polls show Germany's AfD taking a commanding lead in a regional election, but it remains unclear whether the far-right party can form the country's first state government since World War II.
  • American Muslims are giving Texas barbecue a halal makeover
    Even as anti-Muslim rhetoric rises in Texas, Muslim pitmasters are winning over diners and reshaping one of the state's most iconic culinary traditions.
  • Witkoff and Kushner call Kyiv talks 'substantive' after Moscow Putin meeting
    U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held meetings in Kyiv with Ukraine's President Zelenskyy on Sunday, a day after lengthy conversations with Russian President Putin in Moscow.
  • QUIZ: Ugh, I'll do it later. How much do you know about procrastination?
    Learn a few surprising facts about procrastination — and helpful tools to overcome it — with this quiz. It's based on social scientist Itamar Shatz's new book, Solving Procrastination.
  • Whatever happened to kindness? Spoiler alert: Our readers prove it's alive and well
    We asked readers to share stories about a moment of kindness involving a stranger. Here are some of their heartwarming anecdotes.
  • Jazz legend John Coltrane's Philadelphia house to become a cultural heritage site
    On the centennial of father's birth, Ravi Coltrane talks about turning the home where the jazz legend spent a crucial period in the 1950s into a cultural heritage and community space.
  • U.S. and Iran trade attacks on ships as fighting flares up again
  • Opinion: A sculpture in perpetual motion, removed
    "Blue," a statue that's been on the grounds of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. for 7 years has been dismantled and removed.
  • Trump administration to dig at triumphal arch site despite no final federal approvals
    The Trump administration says it will break ground on a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, D.C., without final federal approval and despite an ongoing lawsuit.
  • U.S.-Venezuela oil deal puts opposition in a political bind
    Venezuelan opposition members are uneasy with new oil deals with the U.S., worried that agreements with authoritarian regime in Caracas could undermine democratic progress.


rss: bbc

  • German far-right set for big win in eastern state, projections show
    Germany's AfD has hailed a "historic result" and is projected to win more than 44% of the vote, far ahead of the conservative CDU on 18.4%.
  • Zelensky says he expects war to continue into winter after talks with US envoys
    Talks finished without an announcement of a major breakthrough, after Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner travelled to Kyiv.
  • Minister to meet Jaguar Land Rover boss as thousands of job cuts expected
    The company is struggling with the impact of tariffs as well as the fallout from a major cyber attack last year.
  • Jamaica to bring slavery reparations petition to King Charles
    The King will be asked to refer three questions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
  • Volcano eruption leaves 170,000 passengers stranded in Indonesia
    More than 170,000 airline passengers are stranded after ash was detected in airspace near Jakarta following the eruptions.
  • Dozens feared trapped in collapsed building in Delhi
    As many as 50 people are thought to have been inside the five-storey hostel when it came down.
  • 140 migrants in single dinghy rescued in English Channel
    They were transferred onto two lifeboats and taken to shore in the UK.
  • Aviation faces hotter, stormier skies – and passengers might have to accept more disruption
    Are people going to have to increasingly accept more delays and diversions as the effects of climate change intensify?
  • Iran warns of 'faster, heavier, more painful response' to US attacks
    The comments came a day after Washington said it had struck Iranian oil tankers in response to Tehran's attacks on US warships in the region.
  • Fifa president Infantino will stand for re-election
    Fifa president Gianni Infantino will stand for re-election in March, the world governing body has confirmed.


rss: the register

  • Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium
    Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour
  • US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why
    DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale
  • BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury
    Eight year after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches
  • Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you
    Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases
  • AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets
    AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk
  • ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk
    Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters
  • Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident
    Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?
  • My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement
    Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month
  • Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels
    The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next
  • Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers
    2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes


rss: ars technica

  • German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket
    "We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before."
  • Farmed salmon may not be as nutritious as it once was, new research suggests
    The shift in the fish’s diet is having significant downstream impacts on the environment and climate.
  • Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation
    The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.
  • After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
    "Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."
  • OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
    In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
  • Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
    "It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."
  • Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
    FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses.
  • Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
    Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.
  • “Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
    Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”
  • Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
    A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.


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