rss: npr

  • The CDC still hasn't issued COVID vaccine guidelines, leaving access in limbo
    Access to the COVID-19 vaccines remains difficult because of an unusual and unexplained delay by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in accepting recommendations from its advisers.

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  • Crime experts say there are benefits to more uniformed officers in cities, but it can come at a cost
    As President Trump ramps up efforts and threats to send federal officers and National Guard into cities, professional criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?

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  • AI designs for dangerous DNA can slip past biosecurity measures, study shows
    Companies that make DNA for science labs screen out any requests for dangerous bits of genetic material. But a new study shows how AI could help malevolent actors get the stuff anyway.

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  • The Energy Department canceled billions in funding. Democrats say it's retribution
    Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said the funding was for projects in 16 states, all of which voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris.

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  • Sean Combs, in custody for a year, to face sentencing on split verdict
    The music mogul, who was convicted on two counts of transportation for prostitution but acquitted of more serious charges, will be in court on Friday, Oct. 3 for a sentencing hearing.

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  • What's behind the health care fight that led to the government shutdown
    It's Obamacare health insurance prices ? and how much help 24 million Americans will get with their premiums ? that are in dispute.

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  • U.K. police investigate Manchester's deadly synagogue attack as a terrorist incident
    Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the attack outside a synagogue in Manchester, England, "all the more horrific" for taking place on Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day.

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  • VIDEO: Trump's tariffs, changing markets and what an uncertain economy means for you
    Eight months into Trump's second term, it's unclear what the larger impact of these tariffs will have on the economy. Despite that, the president keeps promising to roll out new ones.

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  • Pressure on Democrats grows to end shutdown. And, Gaza City receives evacuation orders
    The White House is intensifying pressure on Democrats to end the government shutdown. And, Gaza City has been ordered to evacuate as Israel expands its ground operations.

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  • 5 takeaways from NPR's investigation into the role of distribution lines in LA fires
    NPR looked into malfunctions on lines that power individual homes in one of the communities hardest hit by the LA fires in January. Here's what we found.

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rss: bbc

  • Worshippers helped stop suspect from entering synagogue - what we know about attack
    Two Jewish people were killed in a car and stabbing attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester on the holiest day in the Jewish religious calendar.

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  • What footage tells us about attack
    BBC Verify analyses footage circulating online showing the moment police opened fire on a suspect at a Manchester synagogue.

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  • 'The man was just running out with a knife' - eyewitnesses describe how attack unfolded
    A delivery driver describes the moment a man is shot by firearms officers at Heaton Park synagogue.

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  • Starmer vows to protect Jewish communities
    The prime minister said Britain must defeat antisemitic hate, as the King, religious leaders and politicians issue statements.

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  • I'm not resigning, Met Police chief says after BBC investigation
    Sir Mark Rowley insists he won't resign, saying it's "the misogynists and racists frankly who want me out".

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  • Hamas military leader in Gaza objects to ceasefire plan, BBC understands
    President Trump's proposal, accepted by Israel, stipulates that Hamas disarm and have no future role in governing Gaza.

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  • Baroness Mone accuses chancellor of 'inflammatory' language
    Her comments come after a firm linked to the peer was ordered to pay £122m over a Covid-19 contract.

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  • Mum's anti-chemo views influenced daughter's death, coroner says
    Paloma Shemirani died after refusing chemotherapy despite a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

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  • Say sorry to children for Covid errors, ex-children's commissioner tells ministers
    Anne Longfield says ministers at the time prioritised opening pubs and theme parks before schools.

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  • Watch: Inside the lab analysing the world's oldest ice
    Studying samples from the ice sheet gives an environmental record of over a million years.

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rss: the register

  • Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips

    Pivot will hinge on success of next-gen Maia accelerator

    Microsoft buys a lot of GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD. But moving forward, Redmond's leaders want to shift the majority of its AI workloads from GPUs to its own homegrown accelerators.?



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  • College student went on a destructive rampage, then confessed to ChatGPT, cops say

    Police say they found the evidence on his phone

    A Missouri college student has learned the hard way that admitting a vandalism spree to ChatGPT and asking whether he was likely to get caught may not be the best use of AI. ?



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  • Curl project, swamped with AI slop, finds not all AI is bad

    Artificial intelligence works when humans use it wisely

    Over the past two years, the open source curl project has been flooded with bogus bug reports generated by AI models.?



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  • UK police caught slacking off by jamming their keyboards while working from home

    One officer was recorded pressing the 'I' key more than 16,000 times

    Police in the United Kingdom appear to be taking a cue from Homer Simpson's playbook, with officers in multiple departments accused of "key jamming" to make it look like they were working from home when they likely weren't. ?



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  • Ex-US cyber boss slams politics getting in the way of preparedness

    And don't even get him started on AI

    interview The bodies responsible for securing America from cyberattacks are currently too fragmented to be successful, according to former US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis, the first person ever to hold that job. ?



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  • Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack

    Software maker Kodex said its domain registrar fell for a fraudulent legal order

    A software platform used by law enforcement agencies and major tech companies to manage subpoenas and data requests went dark this week after attackers socially engineered AWS into freezing its domain.?



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  • Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told

    Smithsonian warns that dismantling orbiter for relocation is history in the wrecking

    How would you move Space Shuttle Discovery from Virginia to Texas? The White House Office of Management and Budget asked NASA and the Smithsonian Institution and the response was to dismantle it.?



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  • Mad man builds chatbot in Minecraft with redstone, Python, and patience

    Replies are slow and it's prone to gibberish ? just like any other AI

    Never mind Doom running on a potato, or whatever ? the next generation of ridiculous computing belongs to Minecraft YouTuber Sammyuri, who built a working chatbot in the perennially popular voxel building sandbox.?



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  • OpenAI ropes in Korean giants Samsung and SK Hynix to feed its AI megaproject

    Duo pledge memory for Stargate to the tune of 900k DRAM wafer starts a month

    OpenAI has persuaded two of South Korea's chip titans to fuel its bid to build the biggest AI engine yet.?



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  • Dirty little Electron secret tanks macOS 26 performance

    Apple's bad QA or poor coding by developers?

    The Electron team has fixed code that caused system-wide slowdowns on the newly released macOS 26 "Tahoe."?



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rss: ars technica

  • Trump offers universities a choice: Comply for preferential funding
    Who needs peer review? Plan offers easier grants to schools that agree to limits.

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  • Meta won?t allow users to opt out of targeted ads based on AI chats
    US users stuck with AI ad targeting as EU users win more control over their feeds.

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  • World-famous primatologist Jane Goodall dead at 91
    Goodall's immersive studies of chimpanzees in Africa redefined what it means to be human.

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  • Tesla reverses sales decline in Q3, sells 50k more cars than it built
    The end of the EV tax credit in the US on September 30 helped spur sales.

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  • Japan is running out of its favorite beer after ransomware attack
    Asahi Super Dry production at Japanese breweries halted after cyberattack.

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  • How America fell behind China in the lunar space race?and how it can catch back up
    Thanks to some recent reporting, we've found a potential solution to the Artemis blues.

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  • Meet the Arc spacecraft: It aims to deliver cargo anywhere in the world in an hour
    "The key discriminator is, does this make a difference in the moment it's needed?"

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  • That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this
    Smishers looking for new infrastructure are getting creative.

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  • Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters
    Giant sloths are extinct in part because they were tasty and nutritious.

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  • OpenAI mocks Musk?s math in suit over iPhone/ChatGPT integration
    xAI's claim that Apple gave ChatGPT a monopoly on prompts is ?baseless,? OpenAI says.

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