rss: npr

  • Selection Sunday: Duke No. 1 overall in men's tournament, UConn women get top seed
    Duke will be the top overall seed in the men's NCAA basketball tournament. In the women's, the top-ranked UConn Huskies are undefeated and hope to repeat as champions for the first time in a decade.
  • Snow and wind batter parts of US, with threat of thunderstorms and tornadoes
    A broad and erratic patchwork of severe weather rumbled across much of the U.S. on Sunday, dumping heavy snow in the Upper Midwest while damaging high winds swept across the Plains.
  • How the U.S. is using AI in the war in Iran
    NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Lauren Kahn of Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology about the role of artificial intelligence in war.
  • Texas's state animals, armadillos, are making North Carolina their home
    Armadillos are making North Carolina their home. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with wildlife biologist Colleen Olfenbuttel about how Texas' state mammal has gotten a foothold in the Tar Heel State.
  • Israeli soldiers fire on family car in occupied West Bank, killing 4
    Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority's Health Ministry said.
  • 'We never asked for a ceasefire,' says Iran's foreign minister, as war keeps raging
    Israel announced a barrage of new strikes on western Iran on Sunday, while Iran's foreign minister said the country has not asked for a ceasefire as President Trump had claimed.
  • Why the Chicago Bears could be moving to Indiana
    While Illinois is trying to keep the team in Chicago's suburbs, Indiana lawmakers are offering a plan to finance a new stadium

  • Pentagon tightens controls over Stars and Stripes after calling it "woke"
    The new rules for the independent military newspaper are the Defense Department's latest effort to put extraordinary restrictions on journalists covering the agency.
  • In a small Lebanese town, grief and fear follow the Michigan synagogue attack
    The suspect who attacked a synagogue in Michigan lost family members in an Israeli strike in Lebanon on March 5. Relatives and neighbors in his hometown share their views on his actions.
  • Russian strike on Kyiv region kills 4 and wounds 15, with peace talks stalled
    The strikes comes after the United States paused ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine due to the war with Iran.


rss: bbc

  • Oscars red carpet: Stars and fashion in pictures
    Hollywood's biggest stars turn on the style as they walk the red carpet for the glittering ceremony.
  • Starmer to set out support plan for heating oil costs
    Households have faced a sharp rise in the cost of heating oil since the outbreak of the US-Israeli war with Iran.
  • How US groups are driving a new generation of anti-abortion activism in the UK
    The killing of Charlie Kirk galvanised a transatlantic campaign against abortion. But will it succeed in shifting Britain's pro-choice consensus?
  • Two die including uni student in meningitis outbreak
    Eleven people in the Canterbury area are also seriously ill in hospital, the BBC understands.
  • People turn to private health care to beat NHS waits, says watchdog
    The patient watchdog warns of two-tier service as polling shows numbers paying for care is on the rise.
  • Oscars 2026: Winners list in full (updating live)
    Find out which films and stars have won the famous golden statuettes as the ceremony gets under way.
  • 'I cry every time': How Kpop Demon Hunters went viral
    We find out how the award-winning, demon-busting crooners have cast a spell world over.
  • From Mr Nobody to Oscar winner: How one man took on Putin
    Pavel Talankin's film Mr Nobody Against Putin already won a Bafta, and is now is an Oscar winner.
  • How to watch awards-tipped films
    Hamnet, Avatar and Marty Supreme will face One Battle After Another as the awards race heats up.
  • What Iranians are being told about the war
    Iranian state media's coverage of the war includes inflations of enemy casualties and digital manipulation intended to glorify Iran.


rss: the register

  • India tests whether AI can stop trains hitting elephants

    PLUS: SAP expands Japanese cloud; SK hynix close to shipping LPDDR6; Lenovo’s biggest ever IaaS deal; and more

    India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change last week staged a two-day national workshop titled “Policy Implementation for Minimizing Elephant Mortalities on Railway Track” – and one of the ideas discussed was using AI to protect the beasts and workers.…

  • Outsourcer Telus admits to attack – may have lost a petabyte of data to ShinyHunters

    PLUS: Citrix CISO urges patch blitz; Mandiant founder reveals AI red-teaming tech; Bitter privacy news for Starbucks; And more

    Infosec In Brief Canadian outsourcer Telus Digital has admitted it fell victim to a cyberattack.…

  • Nvidia GTC will be full of surprises - just not for the consumer class

    Join Brandon Vigliarolo, Tobias Mann, and Avram Piltch to discuss our predictions for this week's GTC

    Kettle It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - if you're an AI aficionado, that is, as chip giant Nvidia, now the most valuable company in the world, is kicking off its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on Monday.…

  • Jury out on whether Americans approve or disapprove of datacenters

    Most don't think they are good for the environment.

    Three-quarters of the American public have heard of datacenters, but they haven't quite made their minds up yet about whether they approve of them or not.…

  • Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs

    Cornell Uni researchers pivot to pluck low-hanging fruit to optimize bandwidth

    Workers who believe "leveraging cross-functional synergies" sounds profound may want to rethink their career trajectory because a new study suggests people who fall for corporate word salad also tend to perform worse at their jobs.…

  • Inside the datacenter where the day starts with topping up cerebrospinal fluid

    Biological computing is messy and gassy – It’s now cloudy, too

    At the start of the working day at Cortical Labs’ datacenter in Melbourne, Australia, technicians top up the resident computers with a liquid modelled on the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the human brain.…

  • Claude charts a new course with charts, of course

    Conversations with Anthropic's models may now be accompanied by interactive apps

    Seeing is believing, or so it was said up until AI required questioning everything. But even when braced to resist the slop roulette of online interaction, pictures are worth a thousand tokens.…

  • GitHub infuriates students by removing some models from free Copilot plan

    Coding education may become a bit more challenging, but the economics lesson is free

    You don't get what you don't pay for! Microsoft's GitHub is dialing back on expenses by removing several costly premium models from its free GitHub Copilot Student plan.…

  • AFRINIC accuses litigant of trying to ‘paralyse’ it

    A 'web of litigation'

    The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) has accused one its members of trying to "paralyse" the organization.…

  • 'Are you freaking crazy?' Bot harasses woman, gets led away by cops

    An incident in Macau

    A 70-year old woman in China loudly shouted at a robot to leave her alone, but the bot instead stood its ground and did a “raise the roof” move when the woman called it “freaking crazy.”…



rss: ars technica

  • An engineering thesis disguised as a coupe: A history of the Honda Prelude
    Technology like four-wheel steering and variable valve timing debuted in the Prelude.
  • Staff complain that xAI is flailing because of constant upheaval
    Staff complain that the constant upheaval is destroying morale.
  • NASA officials sidestepped questions on Artemis II risks—there's a reason why
    "This ought to make for some good reading," NASA's mission management team chair said.
  • Woman sneezes out maggots after fly larvae get trapped in her deviated septum
    She made a full recovery, despite the maggots.
  • Slay the Spire 2 is a bit too familiar for its own good
    Early Access impressions: New characters shine, but it feels like we've done this before.
  • Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games
    When winning depends on intuiting a mathematical function, AIs come up short.
  • Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company
    GFiber and Astound to merge with Alphabet selling majority stake to Stonepeak.
  • Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories
    Unicode that's invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned—until attackers took notice.
  • Adobe settles DOJ cancellation fee lawsuit, will pay $75 million penalty
    Adobe says it will also give customers who "qualify" free services but is vague on details.
  • Doubling the voltage: What 800 V architecture really changes in EVs
    Confused about electric vehicle voltages? You won't be after reading this.


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