rss: npr

  • Red cards can be given to players who cover their mouths while confronting opponents
    The International Football Association Board approved a rule that would penalize players with a red card if they cover their mouths when confronting another player. The measure will be in place at this summer's World Cup.
  • U.S. to issue commemorative passports with Trump's picture for America's 250th birthday
    The State Department said that it is preparing a limited release of commemorative U.S. passports celebrating America's 250th birthday that feature a picture of President Donald Trump.
  • Australia moves to tax Meta, Google and TikTok to fund newsrooms
    Australia is proposing to tax Meta, Google and TikTok a proportion of their revenue to pay for news reporters. The government intends to introduce the draft legislation to Parliament by July.
  • Yomif Kejelcha broke the 2-hour marathon but got 2nd place. He's still happy
    Ethiopia's Yomif Kejelcha ran the London Marathon in under two hours, but he only got second place. He told NPR he hopes to run his next marathon a minute faster.
  • Scientists see Trump's firing of the National Science Board as an attack on research
    The move follows an administration push for cuts to the NSF and raises concerns in the scientific community that it could jeopardize a tradition of independent decisions about federal science grants.
  • Linda McMahon punches back at senators questioning Education Department cuts
    In her first appearance on Capitol Hill this year, lawmakers questioned Education Secretary Linda McMahon about students' civil rights and cuts to federal education spending.
  • With no radical footprint, what drove suspect to try and assassinate Trump?
    An attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday has, again, highlighted the climate of political violence in the U.S. But there are still many questions about the motive.
  • FCC orders early license renewal for ABC stations following Kimmel's first lady joke
    The Federal Communications Commission has ordered Disney's ABC to seek early broadcast license renewals for the eight TV stations it owns amid backlash over Jimmy Kimmel's joke about Melania Trump.
  • How the city with the most to lose in the Colorado River crisis is trying to adapt
    Record low winter snows mean insufficient water in the Colorado River. Here's how a city that's first in line to be cut off is handling it.
  • Grand jury indicts former FBI director James Comey for a second time
    The case revolves around a photo the former FBI director posted online last year of seashells on a beach arranged to say "8647."


rss: bbc

  • Five takeaways from the King's historic address to Congress
    There were some lines in the speech that may have buoyed Democrats – and raised eyebrows in the White House.
  • Eleven cancers on the rise in young people - scientists find first clue why it's happening
    Researchers stress that simple lifestyle changes can still significantly reduce the risk of cancer.
  • Starmer sees off inquiry call - but he doesn't escape unscathed
    No 10 has expended considerable political capital in keeping Labour MPs onside over the Mandelson vetting row.
  • A fresh financial crisis may be coming - it won't play out like the last one
    Several warning lights are flashing that have some wondering whether we are in the foothills of another financial crisis.
  • Al Fayed survivor was modern slavery victim, says Home Office
    Rachael Louw says she feels "vindication" and "validation" that her case has been recognised by the British government.
  • Early care scheme could prevent thousands of miscarriages a year
    Current rules state that three unsuccessful pregnancies are needed to trigger NHS support - but a pilot project could bring about change.
  • Former FBI director charged with threatening Trump's life in Instagram post
    The new case stems from a 2025 seashell photo posted by the former FBI director that the justice department says calls for violence against Trump.
  • Advert for £49 serum banned over 'five years younger' claim
    Eucerin asked 160 people to use the serum for four weeks then say how much younger they thought they looked.
  • Weeks of silence over Iran school strike highly unusual, former US officials say
    In the two months since the deadly strike, the Pentagon has said only that the incident is under investigation.
  • Musk says basis of charitable giving at stake in OpenAI lawsuit
    The case over OpenAI's history and public commitments could have major implications for the future of AI.


rss: the register

  • 30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm

    Yet another reason not to feast on OpenClaw

    Thirty ClawHub skills published by a single author are silently co-opting AI agents and creating a mass cryptocurrency mining swarm – without any malware or user consent.…

  • Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’

    Bemoans frequent outages that mean he’ll move Ghostty elsewhere

    Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto has decided GitHub is so unstable it is “no longer a place for serious work,” and will therefore move his current project elsewhere.…

  • Future holiday horror: ‘A robot lost my luggage in Tokyo’

    Haneda airport will start testing humanoid robots, because everything that gets a plane flying was designed for our species

    Your next holiday memory might involve humanoid robots losing your luggage.…

  • The future of software development: Now with less software development

    At AI Dev 26 x SF, code slingers confront their relationship with AI

    More than 3,000 software developers from around the world gathered in San Francisco on Tuesday to learn what will become of software development in the AI era.…

  • Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm

    No sense in OpenAI stressing over its cloud bills if Oracle can't get the lights on

    Close on the heels of a report that OpenAI has missed revenue targets and may not be able to pay its future bills, compute partner Oracle is keeping calm and carrying on with a massive new datacenter complex in the New Mexico desert.…

  • Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges

    PERM filings require employers to show American workers had a fair shot at the role

    The US Department of Justice has accused data and AI platform provider Cloudera of abusing a program designed to give permanent residency to foreign workers who take tough-to-fill positions by creating a parallel hiring process that dumped the applications of Americans to a non-functional email address. …

  • OpenAI jumps out of Microsoft's bed, into Amazon's Bedrock

    Altman's gaggle of GPTs now available in limited preview in an AWS region near you

    OpenAI's top models are officially available on Amazon Web Services' Bedrock managed inference and agent platform.…

  • Don't pay Vect a ransom - your data's likely already wiped out

    'Full recovery is impossible for anyone, including the attacker'

    Organizations hit by the wave of Trivy and LiteLLM supply-chain compromises that paid Vect in hopes of recovering their data likely did not get much back, according to Check Point Research. That's because the ransomware Vect uses isn't actually ransomware at all, but a wiper that destroys any file larger than 128KB.…

  • Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects

    DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects

    As the Iran war pushes up energy prices, the Trump administration is paying offshore wind developers to walk away from projects and invest instead in fossil fuel infrastructure.…

  • Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative

    Talkie's training data stops at the end of 1930, and its creators hope it'll help us better understand how AI thinks

    If you're tired of interacting with a bot that spews Nazi propaganda or refers to itself as MechaHitler, you could sign off of Elon Musk's xAI. Or, just to be sure, use an LLM whose training data ends in 1930, three years before the Nazis took power in Germany and nine years before World War II started.…



rss: ars technica

  • Anti-Trump Instagram pic of seashells now enough to indict ex-FBI directors
    The clown car is all gassed up.
  • Flesh-eating bacteria devour man's arm and leg in just three days
    When doctors saw him, his limbs were discolored and crackling.
  • FCC orders review of ABC licenses after Kimmel joke offends Trump and first lady
    Kimmel joke calling Melania an "expectant widow" followed quickly by FCC order.
  • Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles
    Civil liberty concerns spur FAA to revise drone no-fly zones near ICE vehicles.
  • Humanoid robots start sorting luggage in Tokyo airport test amid labor shortage
    Humanoid robots could load cargo and clean aircraft cabins at Haneda Airport.
  • GitHub will start charging Copilot users based on their actual AI usage
    GitHub says it can no longer absorb "escalating inference cost" from it heaviest AI users.
  • Electrical current might be the key to a better cup of coffee
    University of Oregon scientists repurposed battery-testing tool to better measure coffee's flavor profile
  • The great American data center divide
    Many rural communities are viscerally opposed to AI infrastructure.
  • A billion miles in less than a decade: GM's Super Cruise reaches a milestone
    The hands-free, eyes-on driver assist only works on geofenced highways.
  • Start with the sensors, then design the rest: How Zoox built its robotaxi
    The bidirectional design has some clear advantages for a working taxi.


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