rss: npr

  • ICE plans to outfit officers with electric shock gloves
    The company that makes the gloves, Compliant Technologies, says they're a nonlethal tool to make individuals compliant during arrests.
  • Trump sued over service selling faster access to Truth Social posts
    The federal lawsuit alleges that the service from the president's media company violates the Constitution. Meanwhile, Trump Media executives say they have signed up more than 10 customers.
  • Controversial group wins $158M-contract to represent unaccompanied immigrant children
    Utah-based Our Rescue was founded by activist Tim Ballard. It was previously known as Operation Underground Railroad and it says it helps law enforcement perform sting operations and rescues human trafficking survivors.
  • White House press secretary leaving
    Karoline Leavitt will continue to be an outside adviser, Trump said
  • Has the U.S. lost its dominance to China?
    Beijing may be benefiting from the war in Iran and Trump's tariffs and has an edge in the competition for tech supremacy. The New Yorker's Evan Osnos discusses his story "The Future, Made in China."
  • Inflation eases in July as gasoline and grocery prices fall
    Consumer prices in July were up 3.4% from a year ago — a smaller annual increase than in May or June. The news makes it less likely the Fed will feel the need to raise interest rates in September.
  • Greetings from a surreal expanse of sand dunes dotted with freshwater lagoons in Brazil
    The pristine white sand dunes of the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park are bordered by thick jungle on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. Thousands of lagoons fill up after the rainy season.
  • His wedding guests gave $6k to fund a health startup. Now it's won a $3 million prize
    Dr. Raj Panjabi founded Last Mile Health to bring healthcare to people living in remote areas. The group is the 2026 recipient of the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize.
  • Zhu Rongji, who drove China's 1990s economic reforms, has died at 97
    Zhu was renowned for reforms that sought to transition China from the post-Maoist years to a more global market-oriented financial system, without ceding party control over the economy.
  • Takeaways from Tuesday primaries. And, Iran threat prompted Trump's secret plane swap
    Yesterday's primaries provided more insight into what voters in both parties want from their new leaders. And, Trump secretly switched planes in Turkey last month amid a foreign threat


rss: bbc

  • Once-in-a-generation solar eclipse wows millions in UK and Europe
    More than 95% of the Sun was covered by the Moon in Cornwall, while parts of Spain experienced the magic of a total eclipse.
  • Watch: Solar eclipse seen over UK skies
    Millions of people in the UK and Europe have been wowed by a once-in-a-generation solar eclipse.
  • Major Russian grain export terminals hit in Ukraine Black Sea port attack
    Grain exports from both Russia and Ukraine are falling as both countries attack each other's shipping facilities and ports.
  • Students wait for A-level, T-level and BTec results
    Another record number of students are expected to secure a place at their first choice of university.
  • Double killer and rapist given whole life sentence
    Simon Levy, from Tottenham, will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of two women and rape of a third.
  • Burnham urges shops not to sell disposable BBQs over wildfire risks
    The PM wants the public to avoid using single-use grills during the current spell of extremely dry weather.
  • ICE plans to equip agents with gloves that can deliver electric shocks
    The US immigration agency is spending $20m on gloves that deliver a sharp electric shock intended to compel subjects to comply.
  • Jasper Carrott says family is 'so proud' of Lucy Davis after cancer diagnosis
    The actress, best known for playing Dawn in The Office, has revealed she has incurable breast cancer.
  • Eurovision Song Contest changes rules for countries at war
    Organisers say countries engaged in armed conflict will be automatically disqualified from hosting.
  • Trump says White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to leave post
    Leavitt will depart from her role to spend time with her young children and family, the president says.


rss: the register

  • 'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency
    Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm
  • Tailscale says deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's outages
    Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset took six months of hunting and development of a new logging tool to identify
  • Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare
    Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure
  • Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible
    Eight years on, we're still paying to hide the future glimpsed during speculative execution
  • Nvidia's latest solution to soaring enterprise AI costs is...a router?
    NeMo Switchyard brings GPT-5-style model routing to the mainstream
  • Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows
    Exploit Wednesday's back, baby
  • OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models
    Contributors wanted: 167B transparent tokens have a long way to go against AI giants' trillions
  • CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B
    Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending
  • Smooth-talking fraudsters clone contactless cards, authorize payments in just 13 minutes
    Social engineering and malware combine to enable financial fraud before banks have time to act
  • Sovereign AI overcomes compliance challenges and feeds innovation in public sector and other regulated industries, say HPE and NVIDIA
    SPONSORED POST: Sovereign AI is becoming a strategic infrastructure priority, explain HPE's Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA's Kaushik Shirhatti


rss: ars technica

  • Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
    The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
  • Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.
    “It’s the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature.”
  • Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
    Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."
  • Trump sued over "brazen" scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month
    With Truth API, Trump is "selling priority access to news he himself generates."
  • US boosts drone surveillance as flesh-eating screwworms spread in Texas
    Hundreds of Homeland Security drones retasked to survey wildlife and livestock.
  • Two hydrogen-burning engines powered this car to a new land speed record
    JCB has invested heavily in hydrogen to power its diggers and other machinery.
  • US tries to override New York gambling laws, orders Kalshi to keep operating
    Trump admin claims New York suing Kalshi created "market emergency."
  • Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books
    AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.
  • Google reveals 2026 hardware lineup: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, and Pixel Tag
    Google focuses more on AI and curated experiences than spec upgrades in 2026.
  • Researchers found a way to hijack devices through Zoom screen sharing
    A public AI tool found the dangerous Zoom flaw in under 20 prompts.


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