rss: npr

  • Alexander brothers convicted of sex trafficking in Manhattan federal court
    Three brothers, including two of the nation's most successful luxury real estate brokers, were convicted of sex trafficking Monday after a five-week trial.
  • Australia grants asylum to 5 members of the Iranian women's soccer team
    Australia has granted asylum to five members of the Iranian women's soccer team who were in the country for a tournament when the Iran war began.
  • Here are Mississippi's 2026 primary election results
    Live election results: Get the latest on Mississippi's U.S. Senate and U.S. House primary races.
  • Tennessee GOP Rep says Muslims 'don't belong in American society' 
    Rep. Andy Ogles' social media post is the latest in a series of Islamophobic statements from House Republicans.
  • Trump says U.S. is 'achieving major strides' in Iran but doesn't cite endpoint
    President Trump held his first news conference since the beginning of the U.S.-Israel-led Iran war on Monday as oil and gas prices soared, throwing the global economy into turmoil.
  • Epstein used his ties to Nobel laureate scientists to try to rebuild his image
    A 2006 conference for physicists in the U.S. Virgin Islands that included a trip to Jeffrey Epstein's private island shows how he used his wealth to build relationships with prominent scientists.
  • Top Arizona lawmaker says he's complied with a subpoena for 2020 election records
    Arizona's state Senate president says he has complied with a subpoena he received last week seeking records from a flawed, Republican-led review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County.
  • What to know about Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader
    The second son of the late supreme leader keeps a low profile. But he's long been viewed as wielding his power behind the scenes, from crushing dissent to influencing presidential elections.
  • Anthropic sues the Trump administration over 'supply chain risk' label
    The Pentagon told suppliers they can't use Anthropic's artificial intelligence tools after the company said it would not let its tech be used for autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance.
  • This historian dug up the hidden history of 'amateur' blackface in America
    In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.


rss: bbc

  • Chris Mason: The cost of living is catapulted centre stage yet again
    Labour faces pressure to stem the Middle East's impact on energy bills, writes the BBC's political editor.
  • Five Iranian footballers granted Australian visas after anthem protest
    Concern has grown for team after one critic called them "wartime traitors" for failing to salute during the Iranian anthem.
  • Rising prices, mixed messages: Iran war is fraught with political risk for Trump
    The war's price, measured in damage to the economy and in political costs to Trump, is still coming into view.
  • Faisal Islam: Trump comments may have eased oil price surge, but havoc remains
    It has been the most volatile day of oil trading in world history, and there is much still to play out.
  • US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows
    A US Tomahawk missile hit a military base near a primary school in southern Iran where Iranian authorities said 168 people were killed, expert video analysis shows.
  • Business owners 'heartbroken' after retail units destroyed in Glasgow fire
    Union Corner was home to many independent businesses that have been left with nowhere to work after the building next to Glasgow Central Station collapsed.
  • MPs reject call for under-16s social media ban, backing more flexible powers
    The House of Lords had backed a move to ban under-16s in the UK from social media platforms in January.
  • An 'epidemic' of violence: The women and girls killed by men last year
    We tracked reports and contacted police and prosecutors for a deeper look at the situation across UK.
  • Thousands of lawyers oppose jury restriction plan
    Lawyers including top barristers and retired judges urge the government to drop a plan to abolish some jury trials.
  • Snow for some as winter weather returns to UK this week
    The weather is set to get a lot colder as the week progresses, as Tomasz Shafernaker explains.


rss: the register

  • SETI admits its search for alien life may be too narrowly focussed

    Solar winds near aliens’ homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals

    The SETI Institute, the nonprofit that conducts a search for extraterrestrial intelligence by examining radio waves for artefacts that are unlikely to be the result of natural processes, thinks it may have been going about it the wrong way.…

  • HPE tweaks T&Cs so the price it quotes may not be the price you pay

    With memory and storage contributing over half the price of a server, Big Green needs to protect its margins

    HPE has changed its terms and conditions in ways that allow it to change hardware prices after it’s issued a quote, due to rampant storage and memory price rises.…

  • Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff

    As Department of Agriculture employees return to the office, it needs ‘real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments’

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture is using Palantir to figure out where its staff should sit, after deciding only the colorful AI company can do the job.…

  • Anthropic debuts pricey and sluggish automated Code Review tool

    First vibe coding, now vibe reviewing ... but the buzz is good as it finds worthy issues

    Anthropic has introduced a more extensive – and expensive – way to review source code in hosted repositories, many of which already contain large swaths of AI-generated code.…

  • AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours

    David and Goliath…but with AI agents

    Researchers at red-team security startup CodeWall say their AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform and gained full read and write access to the chatbot in just two hours.…

  • Moody humans should let AI handle bad public feedback first, study finds

    Enjoy meltdowns from businesses on Yelp over negative reviews? AI is threatening to take that away

    Angry company responses to customer complaints are a favorite topic of internet amusement and outrage, but they're also embarrassing for the employees who post them. Having AI process customer reviews could be a better way. …

  • Microsoft taps Claude to make Copilot Cowork a better agent

    Copilot gets tuned to handle long-running knowledge work tasks

    Microsoft on Monday celebrated freedom of choice by giving customers in the company's Frontier program the option to use Anthropic and OpenAI models via Copilot Chat.…

  • ShinyHunters claims more high-profile victims in latest Salesforce customers data heist

    And they abused a Mandiant-developed open source tool in the attacks

    ShinyHunters told The Register that it has stolen data from about 100 high-profile companies in its latest Salesforce customer data heist, including Salesforce itself.…

  • Amazon tells FCC to bin SpaceX's million-satellite datacenter dream

    Calls Musk’s orbital plans “speculative” despite Bezos touting orbiting compute

    Amazon wants US regulators to reject a SpaceX application for permission to launch a fleet of orbital datacenter satellites, criticizing it as incomplete, speculative, and unrealistic.…

  • China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon

    Not a US flag in sight

    Researchers from China are narrowing down the landing sites for the nation’s first crewed mission to the Moon, set to take place before 2030.…



rss: ars technica

  • After falling far behind the rest of industry, Blue Origin creates new stock option plan
    "It's a big fat middle finger for those that thought they had something."
  • Quad Cortex mini amp modeler: All the power, half the size
    A warehouse of guitar gear in the palm of your hand.
  • Testing Apple's 2026 16-inch MacBook Pro, M5 Max, and its new "performance" cores
    M5 Pro Max's "performance" CPU cores definitely aren't just rebranded E-cores.
  • US blindsides states with surprise settlement in Live Nation/Ticketmaster trial
    States seek mistrial, saying "sudden disappearance" of US will influence jury.
  • An unlikely set of clues helps reconstruct ancient Chinese disasters
    Shang Dynasty oracle bones and modern weather models feature in the same study.
  • Nintendo sues to prevent Trump from dodging full tariff refunds
    Nintendo may face pressure to share refunds with gamers who helped pay tariffs.
  • Flexible feline spines shed light on "falling cat" problem
    Falling cats in the study also seemed to show a marked preference for turning to the right.
  • Don't worry, Valve still plans to launch the Steam Machine "this year"
    What part of "this year," exactly, is still anyone's guess.
  • 2026 Australian Grand Prix: Formula 1 debuts a new style of racing
    The key is understanding how to conserve energy across a lap. Oh, and be reliable.
  • Chevrolet killed it then brought it back, now we drive it: The 2027 Bolt
    Faster charging, more modern infotainment, and a new LFP battery are highlights.


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