rss: npr

  • CPB agrees to revive a $36 million deal with NPR killed after Trump's pressure
    The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $36 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.

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  • The U.N. Security Council approves a U.S. plan for a Gaza stabilization force
    The plan authorizes a security force in the devastated territory and envisions a possible path to an independent Palestinian state. Russia, which had circulated a rival resolution, abstained along with China on the 13-0 vote.

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  • FEMA acting chief David Richardson departs after 6 months on the job
    The acting chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has left his post, marking another disruption in a year of staff and policy changes. His leadership was questioned after he delayed responding to deadly floods in Texas.

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  • Why some ant colonies get tricked into killing their own queens
    For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide.

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  • Ecuador rejects U.S. military bases in major defeat for President Noboa
    Ecuadorians have decisively rejected a series of referendum measures, including plans for U.S. military bases and constitutional changes, handing President Daniel Noboa a major political setback amid rising gang violence.

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  • Bangladesh's ousted prime minister sentenced to death for role in protest crackdown
    A tribunal in Dhaka sentenced Sheikh Hasina to death for her involvement in the use of deadly force against protesters last year. She fled to India and was sentenced in absentia.

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  • Trump changes stance on Epstein files. And, the U.S. increases pressure on Venezuela
    President Trump changes stance on the Epstein files, urging Republicans to support a House vote tomorrow. And, the U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean adds pressure on Venezuela.

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  • Dementia housing without locked wards? It's a small but growing movement
    Some senior living communities are caring for people with dementia alongside other residents, not segregated behind locked doors.

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  • With 'Baby Botox,' young adults strive to keep wrinkles from ever forming
    A growing number of 20-somethings are trying to freeze time with preventative Botox treatments. Here's what's behind the trend.

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  • Alaska owns dozens of crumbling schools. It wants underfunded districts to take them on
    Rural school district superintendents are trying to find the best use of limited resources. Taking on the state's unmaintained buildings, they say, will only increase their burden.

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rss: bbc

  • Mahmood defends overhaul of 'out of control' asylum system
    Under the plans, refugee status will become temporary and new capped "safe and legal routes" into the UK will be created.

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  • Unprecedented plan for asylum system sees government walk tightrope
    Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's plan is unprecedented and marks an enormous change in policy, writes Dominic Casciani.

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  • Trump's plan for Gaza backed by UN Security Council
    Included in the 20-point peace plan is the establishment of an International Stabilisation Force (ISF), which would work to demilitarise the territory.

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  • Shelters plea for Gazans as winter rains raise fears of more disease and death
    Displaced Palestinians face life-threatening conditions, as aid agencies appeal for more shelters to be allowed in.

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  • Reselling tickets above face value set to be banned by government
    Ministers are expected to announce the plan to tackle touts and resale sites offering tickets at several times face value.

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  • So long, plastic wet wipes - but should we be flushing the new ones?
    Water companies say wet wipes containing plastic are one of the main causes of blockages in their pipes.

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  • KPop Demon Hunters star on how her life mirrored main character's journey
    Korean-American actress Arden Cho tells BBC Global Women she struggled to feel accepted while growing up in Texas.

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  • Dan Wootton denies High Court claim that he catfished 'former colleague'
    In High Court documents, the broadcaster said he did not trick a man into sending him explicit photos.

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  • Staff wellbeing 'crisis' forcing teachers out of schools, charity says
    A poll of teachers around the UK suggests they have a poorer wellbeing than the general population.

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  • Snow and ice warnings issued by Met Office as sub-zero temperatures forecast
    The weather has turned colder with the risk of snow and ice in parts of the UK as Simon King explains.

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rss: the register

  • Oops. VMware admits it over-specced storage servers for years

    VCF users wrestling with bill shock may get a little relief

    VMware has admitted that its guidance about the hardware needed to run its vSAN virtual storage arrays has been wrong for years.?



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  • Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI

    Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing

    Interview Scientific computing is about to undergo a period of rapid change as workloads inject AI.?



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  • 'Largest-ever' cloud DDoS attack pummels Azure with 3.64B packets per second

    Aisuru botnet strikes again, bigger and badder

    Azure was hit by the "largest-ever" cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft.?



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  • Pentagon and soldiers let too many secrets slip on social networks, watchdog says

    Ready, aim, mire

    Loose lips sink ships, the classic line goes. Information proliferation in the internet age has government auditors reiterating that loose tweets can sink fleets, and they're concerned that the Defense Department isn't doing enough to stop sensitive info from getting out there. ?



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  • AI is actually bad at math, ORCA shows

    ORCA benchmark trips up ChatGPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok 4, and DeepSeek V3.2

    In the world of George Orwell's 1984, two and two make five. And large language models are not much better at math.?



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  • Security researcher calls BS on Coinbase breach disclosure timeline

    Claims he reported the attack in January after fraudsters tried to scam him

    A security researcher says Coinbase knew about a December 2024 security breach during which miscreants bribed its support staff into handing over almost 70,000 customers' details at least four months before it disclosed the data theft.?



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  • Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run

    EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year

    SC25 Europe has officially entered exascale orbit. On Monday, EuroHPC's Jupiter supercomputer became the fourth such machine on the Top500 list of publicly known systems to exceed a million-trillion floating point operations a second in the time-honored High-Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark.?



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  • Google previews Code Wiki: Can you trust AI to document your repository?

    Documenting code can be dull, but explaining the source code of a complex project is hard for AI to get right

    Google has previewed Code Wiki, an AI project that aims to document code in a repository and keep it up to date by regenerating the content after every code change.?



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  • Need AI? Dell backs up the truck and tips out servers, storage, blueprints

    Vendor leans on Nvidia tie-up so hard you can hear the GPUs squeak

    SC25 Dell continues to push itself as a one-stop shop for enterprise AI infrastructure with a wave of products and services, including updates to servers, storage, and software to expand its offerings.?



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  • Selling your identity to North Korean IT scammers isn't a sustainable side hustle

    Four US citizens tried it, and the DoJ just secured guilty pleas from all of 'em

    It sounds like easy money. North Koreans pay you to use your identity so they can get jobs working for American companies in IT. However, if you go this route, the US Department of Justice promises to catch up with you eventually.?



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rss: ars technica

  • Trump admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants
    It's a "violation of foundational ethical principles of human participant research."

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  • With a new company, Jeff Bezos will become a CEO again
    He stepped down at Amazon in 2021 and doesn't hold a CEO title at Blue Origin.

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  • 5 plead guilty to laptop farm and ID theft scheme to land North Koreans US IT jobs
    Fleets of laptops run from US residences gave appearance workers were in the US.

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  • UCLA faculty gets big win in suit against Trump?s university attacks
    Government can't use funding threats to override the First Amendment.

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  • Judge smacks down Texas AG?s request to immediately block Tylenol ads
    The Texas lawsuit hinges on the unproven claim that Tylenol causes autism.

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  • After last week?s stunning landing, here?s what comes next for Blue Origin
    "There's never been such a high demand for launch as there is right now."

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  • Report claims that Apple has yet again put the Mac Pro ?on the back burner?
    Mac Pro was last updated in mid-2023, one of the last Macs to switch from Intel.

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  • Benoit Blanc takes on a ?perfectly impossible crime? in Wake Up Dead Man trailer
    "I'm incapable of not solving a crime. You'll see. It's fun!"

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  • Fans? reverse-engineered servers for Sony?s defunct Concord might be in trouble
    "Concord Delta" project locks down Discord after YouTube video takedowns.

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  • Oracle hit hard in Wall Street?s tech sell-off over its huge AI bet
    Company falls more than rivals over its borrowing and reliance on OpenAI contracts.

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