rss: npr

  • Five dead after Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airport
    Video showed thick smoke rising from the plane crash of the Boeing 767 that the Federal Aviation Administration says overran the airport runway in Miami.
  • German exit polls suggest far-right party has big lead in regional election
    Exit polls show Germany's AfD taking a commanding lead in a regional election, but it remains unclear whether the far-right party can form the country's first state government since World War II.
  • American Muslims are giving Texas barbecue a halal makeover
    Even as anti-Muslim rhetoric rises in Texas, Muslim pitmasters are winning over diners and reshaping one of the state's most iconic culinary traditions.
  • Witkoff and Kushner call Kyiv talks 'substantive' after Moscow Putin meeting
    U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held meetings in Kyiv with Ukraine's President Zelenskyy on Sunday, a day after lengthy conversations with Russian President Putin in Moscow.
  • QUIZ: Ugh, I'll do it later. How much do you know about procrastination?
    Learn a few surprising facts about procrastination — and helpful tools to overcome it — with this quiz. It's based on social scientist Itamar Shatz's new book, Solving Procrastination.
  • Whatever happened to kindness? Spoiler alert: Our readers prove it's alive and well
    We asked readers to share stories about a moment of kindness involving a stranger. Here are some of their heartwarming anecdotes.
  • Jazz legend John Coltrane's Philadelphia house to become a cultural heritage site
    On the centennial of father's birth, Ravi Coltrane talks about turning the home where the jazz legend spent a crucial period in the 1950s into a cultural heritage and community space.
  • U.S. and Iran trade attacks on ships as fighting flares up again
  • Opinion: A sculpture in perpetual motion, removed
    "Blue," a statue that's been on the grounds of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. for 7 years has been dismantled and removed.
  • Trump administration to dig at triumphal arch site despite no final federal approvals
    The Trump administration says it will break ground on a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, D.C., without final federal approval and despite an ongoing lawsuit.


rss: bbc

  • Germany's far-right AfD set for big win in eastern state, just short of majority
    Germany's AfD hails a "historic result" and is projected to win 44% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, far ahead of the conservatives on 17%.
  • Five dead after Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airport
    Five people are dead and five seriously injured after a Boeing 767-300 cargo plane "overran" the runway and caught fire, officials say.
  • Chancellor to say UK economy 'turning a corner' despite debt concerns
    John Healey will detail plans to spread growth more widely across the UK, ahead of his first Budget.
  • BBC News presenter Maryam Moshiri reveals she has blood cancer
    Maryam Moshiri tells the BBC she wanted to reveal her diagnosis to raise awareness about the cancer.
  • Protesters block roads in Portsmouth as 140 migrants rescued
    The government condemns "thuggish behaviour" in the second major anti-migrant protest of the weekend.
  • Zelensky says he expects war to continue into winter after talks with US envoys
    There was no announcement of a major breakthrough, after Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner travelled to Kyiv.
  • Minister to meet Jaguar Land Rover boss as thousands of job cuts expected
    Speaking to the BBC, Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds ruled out a bailout for the company.
  • Jamaica to bring slavery reparations petition to King Charles
    The King will be asked to refer three questions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
  • The £70 refund letter that isn't a scam
    About one million people - mostly women - are owed pension tax relief and will be contacted by HMRC.
  • Rapist serving life may face more assault charges
    Zhenhao Zou was convicted of raping 10 women but he is thought to have committed further crimes.


rss: the register

  • Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium
    Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour
  • US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why
    DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale
  • BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury
    Eight year after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches
  • Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you
    Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases
  • AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets
    AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk
  • ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk
    Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters
  • Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident
    Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?
  • My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement
    Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month
  • Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels
    The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next
  • Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers
    2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes


rss: ars technica

  • German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket
    "We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before."
  • Farmed salmon may not be as nutritious as it once was, new research suggests
    The shift in the fish’s diet is having significant downstream impacts on the environment and climate.
  • Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation
    The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.
  • After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
    "Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."
  • OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
    In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
  • Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
    "It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."
  • Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
    FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses.
  • Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
    Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.
  • “Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
    Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”
  • Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
    A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.


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