rss: npr

  • A man impersonating an FBI agent tried to get Luigi Mangione out of jail, authorities say
    A man claiming to be an FBI agent showed up to a federal jail in New York City on Wednesday night and told officers he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione, authorities said.
  • Trump says he will announce his Federal Reserve chair nominee on Friday morning
    President said he plans to announce new Federal Reserve chair choice Friday, after criticizing incumbent Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates more aggressively.
  • Trump sues IRS and Treasury for $10 billion over leaked tax information
    President Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion, accusing them of failing to prevent a leak of his tax information to news outlets.
  • How Democrats want to reform DHS — and why some Republicans are open to their demands
    A spending agreement under consideration in the Senate would temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security while lawmakers negotiate provisions to rein in federal immigration agents.
  • With his first Grammy nomination, Destin Conrad embraces personal evolution
    Destin Conrad went from teen social media star to a musician touring the world on some of its biggest stages. In 2025, he put out both an R&B and jazz album and earned his first Grammy nomination.
  • How the West was won: K-pop's great assimilation gambit
    The crossover hits stacking Grammy nods this year have little in common with the culture that birthed them — but they're winning the chart game.
  • Medicare Advantage insurers face new curbs on overcharges in Trump plan
    Federal officials have a plan that could curb billions of dollars in overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans. But will they follow through on it?
  • Border czar says he plans to "draw down" ICE and CBP operations in Minnesota
    Tom Homan, who took over leadership of the surge in Minneapolis, says he is working on a plan to reduce the force of federal agents in the Twin Cities.
  • Senate to move ahead with spending deal but shutdown appears inevitable
    Senate Democrats say they have a deal on the table to separate DHS funding from a package of five other appropriations bills. Once those bills are passed, they will have to once again be approved by the House.
  • Why these women break the law to sell their eggs for IVF
    Women in India were told they couldn't be paid for their eggs. The result: a black market for eggs from women in need of money to survive.


rss: bbc

  • Trump says 'dangerous' for UK to do business with China as Starmer lands in Shanghai
    The US president's comments come as Sir Keir Starmer arrives in Shanghai on the third day of his visit to China.
  • What did UK and China get out of Starmer's reset visit?
    Sir Keir Starmer's visit to China brought agreements on visas, services, healthcare, green tech and finance.
  • Two officers to face court martial over handling of Jaysley Beck sexual assault case
    The officers are to face a court martial over the handling of the case of teenage soldier Jaysley Beck.
  • Arrests made over supersized illegal rubbish dump
    The Environment Agency says the arrests are a "vital step" into the Kidlington dump investigation.
  • 'He enjoyed hurting people': Teen attacked others before murdering schoolboy, 12
    Det Insp Joe Davenport says the killer attacked his victims in Birmingham for "violence sake".
  • Could weight-loss jabs be behind rising gallbladder removals?
    Last year, there was a 15% annual increase in the operations and surgeons want more research.
  • Inside warehouse holding lost world of treasures found on HS2 route
    Archaeological finds from the planned HS2 train line have been shown exclusively to the BBC.
  • Millions to get £150 off energy bills for further five years
    The government has confirmed the discount for six million low-income households will continue for the rest of the decade.
  • Syria's defiant Kurds vow to 'fight until last breath' despite government push
    The US fought IS with the Kurds for years. Now, Donald Trump is siding with Syria's new leader.
  • 'I get nightmares of him': Former patient of surgeon who harmed nearly 100 children tells BBC
    12-year-old Vivaan Sharma was one of 94 patients harmed by surgeon Yaser Jabbar


rss: the register

  • NS&I's IT car crash considers cutting legacy links to stop the bleeding

    £1.3B over budget and four years late, bank searches for a way to not to bust new timetable and funding pot

    A British state-owned bank is reconfiguring its modernization project, including considering reducing connections with legacy systems, as it tries to claw back schedule and budget overruns that are far beyond early plans.…

  • In-house techies fixed faults before outsourced help even noticed they'd happened

    60-minute SLA was effectively useless and the contractor admitted it

    On Call Welcome to another instalment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of weird and wonderful tech support jobs.…

  • Deciphering the alphabet soup of agentic AI protocols

    Tools, agents, UI, and e-commerce - of course each one needs its own set of competing protocols

    MCP, A2A, ACP, or UTCP? It seems like every other day, orgs add yet another AI protocol to the agentic alphabet soup, making it all the more confusing. Below, we'll share what all these abbreviations actually mean and share why they are important for the future of AI.…

  • Java developers want container security, just not the job that comes with it

    BellSoft survey finds 48% prefer pre‑hardened images over managing vulnerabilities themselves

    Java developers still struggle to secure containers, with nearly half (48 percent) saying they'd rather delegate security to providers of hardened containers than worry about making their own container security decisions.…

  • Maybe CISA should take its own advice about insider threats hmmm?

    The call is coming from inside the house

    opinion Maybe everything is all about timing, like the time (this week) America's lead cyber-defense agency sounded the alarm on insider threats after it came to light that its senior official uploaded sensitive documents to ChatGPT.…

  • Musk distracts from struggling car biz with fantastical promise to make 1 million humanoid robots a year

    To what end? Who knows? Tesla isn't even using them in its own factories yet

    Elon Musk's car company is getting ready to be Skynet. Tesla, facing an 11 percent decline in automotive revenue in Q4 2025, has committed to $20 billion in capex spending this year on manufacturing and compute infrastructure. The goal: build lots of humanoid robots.…

  • Google's Project Genie could put even more game developers out of work

    A Labs prototype turns prompts into short, explorable 3D worlds

    Google has put the video gaming industry on notice with the rollout of Project Genie, an experimental AI world-model prototype that generates explorable 3D environments from text or image prompts.…

  • Agents gone wild! Companies give untrustworthy bots keys to the kingdom

    'We're letting thousands of interns run around in our production environment'

    Corporate use of AI agents in 2026 looks like the Wild West, with bots running amok and no one quite knowing what to do about it - especially when it comes to managing and securing their identities.…

  • Dow Chemical says AI is the element behind 4,500 job cuts

    The 129 year old chemical company uses Palantir-rival C3's AI as its software of choice.

    ai-pocalypse The jury is still out when it comes to determining how much job loss AI is causing. However, we now have another case study. Dow Chemical blames AI automation for its plans to cut 4,500 jobs, about 12.5 percent of its work force.…

  • AI datacenter boom triples US gas power builds, filling the air with more CO2

    Reduce emissions? Screw that - we have money to lose and memes to generate

    Fossil fuel-fired power plant development is roaring back to life in the US thanks to the AI datacenter boom, with data from 2025 suggesting we're reaching the point where the renewable energy transition - and efforts to ease carbon emissions - may well be doomed.…



rss: ars technica

  • Having that high-deductible health plan might kill you, literally
    With ACA tax credits gone, more people are turning to high-deductible plans.
  • US spy satellite agency declassifies high-flying Cold War listening post
    The JUMPSEAT satellites loitered over the North Pole to spy on the Soviet Union.
  • People complaining about Windows 11 hasn't stopped it from hitting 1 billion users
    Windows 11 clears a milestone as Windows 10 continues its slow fade.
  • How often do AI chatbots lead users down a harmful path?
    Anthropic's latest paper on "user disempowerment" has some troubling findings.
  • Google Project Genie lets you create interactive worlds from a photo or prompt
    Project Genie lets you generate new worlds 60 seconds at a time, but only if you pay for AI Ultra.
  • Comcast keeps losing customers despite price guarantee and unlimited data
    Comcast overhauled Internet plans to stop customer losses. It isn't working yet.
  • She'll mess with Texas: Nurse keeps mailing abortion pills, despite Paxton lawsuit
    Texas sues Delaware nurse practitioner shipping out hundreds of abortion pills each month.
  • What ice fishing can teach us about making foraging decisions
    Social density increases likelihood of sticking with a location. Environmental factors had little influence.
  • County pays $600,000 to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security
    Settlement comes more than 6 years after Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn's ordeal began.
  • New OpenAI tool renews fears that “AI slop” will overwhelm scientific research
    New "Prism" workspace launches just as studies show AI-assisted papers are flooding journals with diminished quality.


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