rss: npr

  • After losing ground with Latino voters, Democrats are turning to influencers for help
    Democrats are hoping to win back Latino voters who have soured on both parties. They hope Latino content creators will bridge the gap.
  • 16 cozy activities to add to your fall bucket list
    Carve a pumpkin? You can do better than that. Fun and unusual ways to celebrate the season, from writing a gratitude letter to making an ancestral altar.
  • The Met puts a modern artist front and center (and there's some Jackson Pollock, too)
    In a blockbuster show, The Metropolitan Museum of Art places the work of two major 20th century artists side by side: the married couple Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock.
  • A year of ceasefire in Gaza through the lens of NPR's reporter
    It has been one year since Hamas released the remaining Israeli hostages and President Trump promised an end to the war, but Palestinians say the past 12 months have been a ceasefire in name only.
  • India cracks down on youth protests as anger grows against Modi and election chief
    Indian authorities have launched a major security crackdown in New Delhi, detaining thousands of protesters who intended to hold a mass demonstration against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
  • Kalshi taps former FBI agent to fight against money laundering
    The prediction market company says it wants to prevent its platform from being abused by criminals. The company is facing mounting pressure over market manipulation and insider trading on the site.
  • Fired OpenAI employees question the company's commitment to safety
    The three fired workers say OpenAI punished them for being outspoken about safety. The company disputes the claims and says they were fired over mishandling sensitive information.
  • Trump says U.S. to get diesel from Russia, relaxing pressure on Moscow to ease prices before midterms
    Trump says the U.S. will obtain diesel from Russia, relaxing years of U.S. pressure on Moscow, to combat prices before midterms. He said he struck the deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call.
  • The U.S. last held a public execution in the 1930s. The Pentagon wants to change that
    The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, the site of his 2009 mass shooting. That would be the first public execution in the U.S. since the 1930s.
  • U.S. working to reverse an Egyptian man's third-country deportation to Africa
    The Trump administration's effort to return Ahmed Soliman to the U.S. come after an Arizona judge said his deportation violated due process.


rss: bbc

  • Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a gift to Putin
    Ukraine's president sharply criticised the move, calling it an "investment in war that must be ended, not prolonged".
  • Analysis: Trump's shock Russia deal highlights mounting pressure to curb fuel prices
    The US president hopes to ease his party's pain before next month's midterm elections, writes the BBC's North America correspondent.
  • Green Party wants to make sure it is 'not vulnerable to extremists'
    The party's Westminster leader Ellie Chowns made the comments after ex-leader Caroline Lucas said some members had joined to vote in the Zionism motion.
  • Met's Special Constabulary head fired after AI tool found deleted intimate images on work phone
    Special chief officer James Deller copied intimate images on to his work phone, AI monitoring finds.
  • Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case
    Philadelphia police said the tip was "flagged as spam", but criticised the tech company for taking more than two months to detect and report the breach.
  • Queen reflects on reading 'forbidden' Lady Chatterley's Lover under the pillow
    In BBC documentary The Book That Changed My Life, the Queen speaks about memorable moments in her own reading.
  • 'Everyone hates the police' – what France's school protests reveal about a divided nation
    Students taking to the streets have become a focal point in the country's increasingly polarised politics.
  • What happens when you grow up not knowing your family medical history?
    People who have been adopted or are in care sometimes struggle to access family medical history which could be crucial to their own health.
  • Public executions in the US stopped nearly a century ago, why are they resuming now?
    The Pentagon says the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed, but experts suggest officials are reading the country wrong.
  • Ashe was too scared to cancel her wedding, then her story became a hit song
    US singer-songwriter Ashe reveals the story behind her international smash hit, Stop The Wedding.


rss: the register

  • Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers
    Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites
  • EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software
    EU executive branch is building a sovereign backup with Element, not replacing Teams. Not yet anyway
  • Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment
    Source attribution matters to 79% of respondents – handy for a company licensing its Q&A archive to model builders
  • Microsoft leans on open weight model from Chinese AI lab to challenge Jev
    The first version of Microsoft-Decision-1 is based on Qwen3.5-9B, but the next will sport homegrown tech, Redmond reassures
  • AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
    Tokens transmitted in metadata, weak VM isolation, and expansive permissions make hacking a lot easier
  • Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4 TB of OneDrive storage
    What Microsoft giveth, Microsoft taketh away, again and again
  • SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier
    Low-band frequencies can reach devices inside buildings, while 2 GHz orbiters could extend coverage beyond cell towers
  • Growing pains: how distributed AI training changes the network between datacenters
    SPONSORED FEATURE: While linking the GPUs in a datacenter is a challenge, coordinating thousands of them to work efficiently over hundreds of kilometers presents a new set of difficulties.
  • Oracle lets AI agents do the work, provided you stay in Big Red's world
    Analysts welcome Fusion Claw's tighter controls but warn of early adoption and cloud lock-in
  • Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand
    Buyers rushed to beat hikes earlier this year, but demand has since dried up as AI-fueled component shortages send costs soaring


rss: ars technica

  • Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
    Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.
  • Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
    One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
  • A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis
    Stylish upcycling, with a retro flare, at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.
  • NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
    "We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit."
  • What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains?
    Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day.
  • AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
    Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
  • Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial
    CDC allocated $1.6M for study on alleged harms of hepatitis B vaccine.
  • PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
    "The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."
  • AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
    New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.
  • Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release
    Debian Linux has put a call out for artist submissions for its next release: Forky.


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