rss: npr

  • Canada claps back at Trump's efforts to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'
    Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a giant billboard reading: "Lake Ontario — Now and Always." But tech giant Google has said it is renaming the lake for U.S. users, as President Trump demanded.
  • Exclusive: Meet the inaugural winner of Fat Marmot Week
    Dawn was crowned fattest marmot by popular vote.
  • Politics chat: more tariffs, mail-in voting order, Kushner-Jeffries meeting
    Real economic sanctions on Canada and economic threats to countries trading with Iran may work against Republicans in the midterm elections.
  • Are you sure that Kimmel clip was real? Late-night AI deepfakes are spreading online
    While social media is rife with AI celebrity deepfakes, videos featuring late night TV hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart are are easier to create than other kinds of deepfakes and potentially more disruptive.
  • 'A glorious dawn launch': NASA's newest space telescope has left the Earth
    The tour-bus-sized telescope aims to unravel cosmic mysteries and identify more than 100,000 planets beyond our solar system.
  • How a comic book store got swept into the tariff storm
    Tariffs continue to rile all kinds of American businesses more than a year after Trump unveiled his first set of tariffs — including a comic book store owner in Ohio.
  • From Appalachia to Africa: Why Dolly Parton was beloved across the continent
    Dolly Parton's songs traveled far beyond Nashville. Across Africa, musicians embraced her stories of hardship, heartbreak and humble beginnings — and made them their own.
  • Nepal warns of possible fresh flooding as communities grapple with devastation
    Authorities in Nepal warned of possible fresh flooding on Sunday and urged residents in flood-affected districts to remain on high alert after water levels rose in the Bhotekoshi River.
  • Medicare's pilot GLP-1 discount program has a catch. Some sick patients don't qualify
    Medicare launched a pilot program that could streamline the process to get GLP-1s, with some seniors paying just $50 a month. But many people with the most serious illnesses won't get that discount.
  • Trump administration deports relative of Afghans who helped US military to Central African Republic
    His family in Afghanistan had received threats from the Taliban because of the work performed by his brothers in support of the U.S. military.


rss: bbc

  • Prisoners freed early are returning to jail at rapid rate, governors tell BBC
    PM Andy Burnham on Sunday announced changes to the next early release scheme - scheduled to start in October - which mean PC Harper's killers will stay in jail.
  • Eight killed and others missing after ferry capsizes off northern Cyprus
    A search and rescue operation is under way after a ferry carrying nearly 270 people turns over after leaving port.
  • US strikes Iranian launchers on Larak Island in first known attack in weeks
    Iran says the attack killed some civilians and is the first known US strike on Iran since late July.
  • Sons of officer who died in A66 crash lead out Man Utd as mascots
    The sons of PC Matthew Blades led Manchester United out at Old Trafford for Sunday's Premier League game with Ipswich.
  • 'A giant leap forward': Nasa launches powerful new space telescope
    The US space agency's telescope is starting a multi-year mission to create a new map of the universe and learn more about dark energy and dark matter.
  • British woman killed in stabbing at German railway station
    A 27-year-old German man was arrested immediately after the incident in Rosenheim, Bavaria.
  • Church names pastor killed by falling sign at Christian festival
    Robert Guanco, 41, was a pastor at Jesus the Living Water Church in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
  • Police release one of two men arrested over fatal house fire
    Police continue to question a 23-year-old man over the fire in which a girl, 7, and her aunt died.
  • Iceland votes against restarting EU membership talks
    Broadcaster RUV reports that 52.8% of voters rejected the government's proposal to resume accession talks.
  • Seven arrested after death of newborn baby girl
    The baby was pronounced dead at a property in the Wincobank area of Sheffield.


rss: the register

  • Debian votes to let contributors code with AI
    Disclosure optional, quality mandatory
  • Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
    Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats
  • AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting
    A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's
  • Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems
    Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle
  • Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range
    At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads
  • Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website
    More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi
  • German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters
    How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?
  • AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system?
    Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense
  • LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI
    It looks a bit clunky, but it does the job – and on your own computer
  • Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted
    Tree huggers aim to end blanket critical infrastructure status for bit barns and ensure environmental standards are met


rss: ars technica

  • Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference
    With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.
  • Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
    The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.
  • I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.
    Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.
  • Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name
    Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," judges rule.
  • Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August
    Cancellations have accelerated.
  • "RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate": Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster
    RFK Jr. went to Samoa to spread vaccine fears. The measles outbreak after killed 83.
  • Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge
    Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.
  • Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced
    "It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal."
  • Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent
    Annual Apple TV subscriptions get the biggest bump.
  • Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day
    James Cameron's 1991 sci-fi blockbuster returns to theaters this weekend for its 35th anniversary.


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