rss: npr

  • Alex Ferreira wins 10th gold medal for Team USA, matching America's highest total in Winter Olympics
    Freeskier Alex Ferreira clinches a tenth gold medal for the U.S. in these Games, tying the U.S.'s all-time record for gold medals in a Winter Olympics.
  • Trump calls SCOTUS tariffs decision 'deeply disappointing' and lays out path forward
    President Trump claimed the justices opposing his position were acting because of partisanship, though three of those ruling against his tariffs were appointed by Republican presidents.
  • The U.S. men's hockey team to face Slovakia for a spot in an Olympic gold medal match
    After an overtime nailbiter in the quarterfinals, the Americans return to the ice Friday in Milan to face the upstart Slovakia for a chance to play Canada in Sunday's Olympic gold medal game.

  • NASA eyes March 6 to launch 4 astronauts to the moon on Artemis II mission
    The four astronauts heading to the moon for the lunar fly-by are the first humans to venture there since 1972. The ten-day mission will travel more than 600,000 miles.
  • On pins and needles: Why Olympians pass the time knitting
    A number of Olympic athletes have turned to knitting during the heat of the Games, including Ben Ogden, who this week became the most decorated American male Olympic cross-country skier.
  • U.K. considers cutting ex-Prince Andrew from line of succession over his Epstein ties
    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the British former prince, is being investigated on suspicion of misconduct in having shared confidential trade information with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
  • 7 key things to know about Trump's tariffs after the Supreme Court decision
    The Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Trump overstepped his authority in ordering tariffs on nearly everything the U.S. imports. Here's some economic context to understand that decision.
  • Facing a mental health crisis, an NJ school pulled a beloved novel from English class
    Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was removed from an English class at the public school. PEN America says it's part of a trend of scrubbing literature dealing with uncomfortable topics.
  • Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs
    The 6-3 ruling is a major blow to the president's signature economic policy.

  • The economy slowed in the last 3 months of the year — but was still solid in 2025
    The U.S. economy grew 2.2% in 2025, a modest slowdown from 2.4% the previous year. GDP gains were fueled by solid consumer spending and business investment.


rss: bbc

  • Government considers removing Andrew from royal line of succession
    The former Duke of York is eighth in line to the throne meaning he remains eligible to be King.
  • Andrew and King Charles, a personal battle of royal brothers
    The problems facing the monarchy over Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is also a family problem between brothers.
  • Humans to travel further into space than ever before as Nasa confirms March Moon mission
    Nasa sets the launch date following a successful "wet dress rehearsal" of the Artemis II mission.
  • Tributes paid to teens who died at holiday park
    Cherish Bean, 15, and Ethan Slater, 17, died at Little Eden Holiday Park on Wednesday, police say.
  • Couple left with $200k bill after baby born in US
    Family face a nine month battle with insurance giant Zurich which has now apologised.
  • Sam Fender and Olivia Dean finally reach number one after 35 weeks
    Rein Me In sets a new UK chart record for the longest time to reach number one.
  • KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge
    Wingstop, Burger King, and others have walked away from an industry commitment to avoid using fast-growing chickens
  • Life sentences for teens after racist murder of stranger delivering food to his mum
    Kamran Aman was subjected to further racist abuse as he lay dying on the floor of a neighbour's house.
  • UK agrees drone defence plan with four EU allies
    The scheme will seek to take inspiration from Ukraine's drone manufacturing programme.
  • Man charged with raping unconscious wife with other men for years
    The defendants cannot be named for legal reasons at this stage.


rss: the register

  • Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs

    Legal language change aims to make longstanding policy clear

    Anthropic this week revised its legal terms to clarify its policy forbidding the use of third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions, as the AI biz attempts to shore up its revenue model.…

  • AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos

    4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack

    Someone compromised open source AI coding assistant Cline CLI's npm package earlier this week in an odd supply chain attack that secretly installed OpenClaw on developers' machines without their knowledge. …

  • SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists

    Good news: Team shows re-entry pollution can be measured. Bad news: There may be more of it coming

    The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that burned up over Europe last year left a massive lithium plume in its wake, say a group of scientists. They warn the disaster is likely a sign of things to come as Earth's atmosphere continues to become a heavily trafficked superhighway to space. …

  • Cerebras plans humongous AI supercomputer in India backed by UAE

    Up to 8 exaFLOPS of super sparse AI compute

    Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems' dinner plate-sized accelerators will power a new supercomputing cluster in India capable of 8 exaFLOPS of AI compute.…

  • ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data

    What happens in Vegas…

    Las Vegas hotel and casino giant Wynn Resorts appears to be the latest victim of data-grabbing and extortion gang ShinyHunters.…

  • Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS

    Bezos-corp blames user error for outage, 'specifically misconfigured access controls'

    In a cautionary tale of agentic AI, AWS reportedly suffered service outages caused by its own AI coding tools in December - though the company insists the downtime was ultimately due to human error.…

  • Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed

    Probe says SAAQ misled government and botched rollout caused province-wide disruption

    A judge-led commission in Quebec has found that the state agency responsible for driver's licenses and license plates misled the Canadian government about a troubled SAP ERP project that ran more than C$245 million ($179 million/£132.6 million) over budget.…

  • Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs

    Polish arrest leads to extradition and federal prison sentence

    Ukrainian national Oleksandr Didenko will spend the next five years behind bars in the US for his involvement in helping North Korean IT workers secure fraudulent employment.…

  • Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work

    Consultancy to monitor usage by meatbags with corporate aspirations

    Accenture staff must demonstrate they have fully bought into the consultancy's AI vision if they want to get on.…

  • Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play

    Attempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort

    Building a startup entirely on European infrastructure sounds like a nice sovereignty flex right up until you actually try it and realize the real price gets paid in time, tinkering, and slowly unlearning a decade of GitHub muscle memory.…



rss: ars technica

  • Controversial NIH director now in charge of CDC, too, in RFK Jr. shake-up
    The unusual dual role has renewed criticism of Bhattacharya's lack of leadership.
  • Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
    If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
  • Why Final Fantasy is now targeting PC as its "lead platform"
    Director says PC is the "foundation" when targeting "high-end environments first."
  • "Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans
    The revised age may help make sense of 2-million-year-old stone tools elsewhere in China.
  • It's outright war for the Iron Throne in House of the Dragon S3 teaser
    "The king has abdicated his throne. A new line is coming. A new line of unsullied kings."
  • Nintendo brings GBA-era Pokémon to the Switch, but not Switch Online subscribers
    Games appear to be mostly unmodified ports of the well-regarded remakes.
  • Supreme Court blocks Trump's emergency tariffs, billions in refunds may be owed
    Economists estimated more than $175 billion may need to be refunded.
  • Tesla slashes Cybertruck prices as it tries to move (unpainted) metal
    The stainless steel pickup truck is Tesla's first real flop.
  • An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services
    Blames "user error, not AI error" for incident in December involving its Kiro tool.
  • Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books
    The now-deleted Harry Potter dataset was "mistakenly" marked public domain.


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