rss: npr

  • Israel has recovered the last hostage remains from Gaza
    The Israeli military says the body of Ran Gvili, a 24-year-old special forces policeman killed while fighting Hamas militants on Oct. 7, 2023, has been found.
  • Senators call for Alex Pretti death investigation. And, winter storm recovery efforts
    Minneapolis strikes and protests continue after ICE's fatal shooting of Alex Pretti. And, states work to recover from a massive winter storm that has left widespread power outages and flight chaos.
  • How long do you need to spend in the gym to get strong? Less than you think
    If you're procrastinating working out, here's one less excuse. Short gym sessions can be enough to build meaningful strength — as long as you push yourself while you're there.
  • All eyes are on Rubio as he navigates the world in 2 critical roles
    Rubio is the first person to hold both roles at the same time since Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the 1970s.
  • DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton is ending her reelection campaign for Congress
    The 18-term delegate for the District of Columbia in Congress and a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement has filed paperwork to end her campaign for reelection.
  • Israel launches 'large-scale operation' to locate last hostage in Gaza
    The return of the remaining hostage, Ran Gvili, has been widely seen as removing the remaining obstacle to proceeding with the U.S.-brokered ceasefire's second phase.
  • Super Bowl 60 is set and it's a rematch from 11 years ago: Patriots vs. Seahawks
    The Patriots will seek their NFL-record seventh Super Bowl victory when they face the Seahawks on Feb. 8 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
  • Power outages and canceled flights as winter storm brings snow, sleet and ice
    Reporters from across the NPR Network are covering the storm in each state — the impact and how officials are responding.
  • Where is the threat from Russia and China in the Arctic?
    As Trump points to Russia and China near Greenland, experts say the biggest Russian and Chinese activity is elsewhere in the Arctic.
  • Videos and eyewitnesses refute federal account of Minneapolis shooting
    Trump officials have called the victim a "domestic terrorist." State officials warn such unfounded accusations threaten the integrity of the federal investigation.



rss: bbc

  • Ex-Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK
    The MP was unveiled as Reform's latest recruit by leader Nigel Farage at a rally, bringing the number of the party's sitting MPs to eight.
  • Israel says it has retrieved remains of final Gaza hostage
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Ran Gvili’s return "an extraordinary achievement".
  • Starmer defends blocking Andy Burnham from by-election run after backlash
    The Manchester mayor had applied to stand as a candidate for the upcoming parliamentary by-election in Gorton and Denton.
  • Murder and MI5: How an extraordinary battle erupted over what the state keeps secret
    Can the state, especially when it is implicated in killing, be trusted as the arbiter of what should remain confidential?
  • Nigella Lawson to replace Prue Leith on The Great British Bake Off
    The TV chef says she's "bubbling with excitement" to be joining Paul Hollywood on the Channel 4 show.
  • EU investigates Elon Musk's X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes
    The Commission will assess whether "manipulated sexually explicit images" have been shown to users in the EU.
  • UK loses measles elimination status
    Decision made after outbreaks in 2024, when there were nearly 3,000 cases in England and Wales.
  • Heading football likely contributed to Gordon McQueen's brain disease, inquest finds
    An inquest concludes that "it is likely that repetitive head impacts, sustained by heading the ball while playing football, contributed to the CTE" which was a factor in the former Scotland footballer's death.
  • UK braces for severe wind and rain as Storm Chandra named
    Chandra is the third major storm to hit the UK this month, after Goretti and Ingrid caused widespread damage and destruction.
  • Analysing the shooting frame by frame
    BBC Verify has analysed footage of the shooting from multiple angles, piecing together a detailed picture of what happened.


rss: the register

  • Internet spent Q4 '25 losing fights with cables, power, and itself

    Latest data from Cloudflare shows cable cuts, power failures, and network faults drive steady run of internet outages

    The internet spent the closing months of 2025 being knocked over by cut cables, broken power grids, bad weather, military strikes, and the occasional self-inflicted technical wound, according to Cloudflare's latest global traffic data.…

  • KDE Plasma 6.6 beta ships a login manager that won't log in without systemd

    Bad luck, BSDs – although alternatives still work

    KDE Plasma 6.6 is approaching, and one of its more controversial changes is a new login screen that depends on systemd – meaning that it won't work on the non-Linux operating systems KDE still nominally supports.…

  • Three is the magic number for Alaska Airlines: triple redundancy

    Thankfully they only sufffered two outages in 2025. And now it has flown in experts to play with configurations

    Alaska Air's CEO says IT outages last year damaged the company on multiple fronts despite "triple redundancies" built into its disaster recovery plan.…

  • Knee-Deep in the CAD: Boffin gets Doom running inside a design modeler

    The seminal shooter finds yet another unlikely home

    Not content with rendering Doom in PCB design software or playing it on an oscilloscope, engineer Mike Ayles has got the 1990s shooter running in a computer-aided design (CAD) modeler.…

  • Sandia boffins let three AI agents loose in the lab. Science, not chaos, ensued

    Researchers demonstrate fourfold improvement to LED steering results after enlisting the help of some good old-fashion AI

    Boffins at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Labs are working to develop cheap and power efficient LEDs to replace lasers. One day, they let a trio of AI assistants loose in their lab.…

  • EU looking into Elon Musk's X after Grok produces deepfake sex images

    Probe follows outcry over use of creepy image generation tool

    The European Commission has launched an investigation into X amid concerns that its GenAI model Grok offered users the ability to generate sexually explicit imagery, including sexualized images of children.…

  • Data thieves borrow Nike's 'Just Do It' mantra, claim they ran off with 1.4TB

    US sports brand launches probe after extortion crew WorldLeaks claims it stole huge dataset

    Nike says it is probing a possible breach after extortion crew WorldLeaks claimed to have lifted 1.4TB of internal data from the sportswear giant and posted samples on its leak site.…

  • Microsoft probes Windows 11 boot failures tied to January security updates

    Some machines are failing to start after security updates, prompting yet another Microsoft investigation

    Microsoft is investigating reports that its January 2026 security updates are leaving some Windows 11 machines stuck in a boot loop, adding another entry to this month's bumper post–Patch Tuesday borkage list.…

  • When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype

    Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter

    Opinion AI-integrated development environment (IDE) company Cursor recently implied it had built a working web browser almost entirely with its AI agents. I won't say they lied, but CEO Michael Truell certainly tweeted: "We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in Cursor."…

  • Moscow likely behind wiper attack on Poland’s power grid, experts say

    Cyber sleuths believe Sandworm up to its old tricks with a brand-new sabotage toy

    Russia was probably behind the failed attempts to compromise the systems of Poland's power companies in December, cybersecurity researchers claim.…



rss: ars technica

  • EU launches formal investigation of xAI over Grok's sexualized deepfakes
    Elon Musk's company faces fines of up to 6 percent of its daily turnover.
  • Former astronaut on lunar spacesuits: "I don't think they're great right now"
    "These are just the difficulties of designing a spacesuit for the lunar environment."
  • A decade of Star Trek-themed fart jokes: The Greatest Generation podcast turns 10
    How two podcasters turned a Star Trek side project into a full-time career.
  • Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
    Destructive payload unleashed on 10-year anniversary of Russia's attack on Ukraine's grid.
  • Did Edison accidentally make graphene in 1879?
    Rice University chemists replicated Thomas Edison's seminal experiment and found a surprising byproduct.
  • A weird, itchy rash is linked to the keto diet—but no one knows why
    While the rash has a clear link to ketones, the underlying mechanism remains elusive.
  • TR-49 is interactive fiction for fans of deep research rabbit holes
    Dense narrative deduction game tells a compellingly academia-tinged sci-fi tale.
  • Demand for Intel's processors is apparently there, but the supply is not
    Intel is allocating more of its own production to its money-making server chips.
  • DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online
    Community watch groups have a playbook to keep ICE away from subscriber information.
  • White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue"
    Lawyer calls it "outrageous that the White House would make up stories."


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