rss: npr

  • Inflation eased slightly in July. And, ICE plans to give officers electric shock gloves
    Inflation cooled a bit last month, according to a new report from the Labor Department. And, ICE plans to equip its officers with electric shock gloves.
  • The drug lenacapavir is a mighty weapon against HIV. Its rollout gets mixed reviews
    It's a twice-a-year injection that is remarkably effective in preventing an HIV infection. Distribution is starting. But questions are being raised about getting it to the areas that need it most.
  • Primary voters send mixed signals about what they want from the Democratic Party
    Primary results this month in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin paint a muddled picture of just how far to the left Democratic voters want their candidates to be come this fall's midterm elections.
  • U.S. ambassador calls settler siege of Palestinian homes a 'horrific act of terror'
    The U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee condemned the actions of Jewish settlers who are besieging the home of an American Palestinian family in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
  • Sailors and their families have lives on pause, uncertain if they'll return to Mideast
    Sailors and family members who were evacuated from U.S. bases in the Middle East months ago are waiting for the military to figure out what will happen to the lives they left behind.
  • These swing voters in Nevada say they are not dismissing socialist candidates
    In online focus groups, 10 of 12 Biden-to-Trump voters said they wouldn't automatically think negatively of a politician who identifies with socialism.
  • Morning news brief
    Primary results reveal divide among Democratic Party, new inflation report could give the Fed more time to bring inflation under control, rescues teams race to find survivors of Colombia earthquake.
  • New indictment alleges Nick Reiner was lying in wait before killing his parents
    A grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on murder charges in the killings of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, and adds the allegation that he was lying in wait before attacking them.
  • Millions crowd cities to see Spain's first total solar eclipse in over a century
    As the sky darkened, gradually at first and then quickly, people broke into applause and cheered. It was the Spain's first total solar eclipse in more than a century.
  • 3 men set for lethal injection on same day in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma
    Three men in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are scheduled for lethal injection Thursday in a rare convergence of executions on the same day in the U.S.


rss: bbc

  • Water bills set to rise for many after firms permitted extra funding
    Ofwat has given provisional approval for 13 water companies to charge customers more to pay for investments.
  • Man, 102, dies after alleged pub assault
    Phillip Ormerod was taken to hospital in critical condition and later died, police have confirmed.
  • The key signs you may have damaged your eyes by looking at the eclipse
    Symptoms after looking at the sun without eclipse glasses can include blurred vision
  • Watch: Key moments from Karoline Leavitt's White House tenure as Trump says she will leave post
    Leavitt became the youngest press secretary in the country's history when she took the job in January 2025 at age 27.
  • Harvey Nichols bought by Sports Direct owner
    Harvey Nichols was founded in 1831, but had appointed an administrator in June.
  • Heatwaves drive A&E attendances up to record high
    More than 2.4 million visits in each of last three months, as unions warn of inhumane conditions.
  • Met chief accepts mistakes made over Simon Levy but defends investigation into murders
    Critics - including Labour MP Jess Phillips - have accused the Met of overlooking the first murder carried out by Levy.
  • UK defends seizing shadow fleet tanker after Putin threat
    The UK government says it is "disrupting and deterring shadow fleet vessels" in accordance with the law.
  • More troops to be sent to West Bank village besieged by Israeli settlers
    Two Palestinian families in the village of Qusra say they have been trapped in their homes, with water and power cut off, since Sunday.
  • Voting under way in Clacton by-election
    Voters will choose between 34 candidates - the most to stand in any British parliamentary election.


rss: the register

  • Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan
    Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat
  • AWS key exposed in JavaScript may have lit way to Beacon's charity data
    CRM provider confirms customer database was copied and probably downloaded in readable form
  • Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop
    Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work
  • Everything is better with pickles... except Windows
    Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad
  • Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results
    Developer spotted hostname and credential string lurking in autocomplete
  • Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit
    CEO says buyers are moving fast and shuffling budgets to replace old boxen
  • Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53B hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads
    Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term
  • Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find
    Attackers could extract data, even working from inside a guest VM
  • OpenAI ad service can bill customers for up to one day after they pause campaigns
    ChatGPT Ads, I wish I knew how to quit you
  • Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous
    And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there


rss: ars technica

  • Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible — for now
    The mark flags anything Claude processed, even human writing it only edited.
  • Toddler's tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors
    Boy's unusual symptoms could help identify the next case sooner.
  • The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
    “ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
  • Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
    The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
  • Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.
    “It’s the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature.”
  • Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
    Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."
  • Trump sued over "brazen" scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month
    With Truth API, Trump is "selling priority access to news he himself generates."
  • US boosts drone surveillance as flesh-eating screwworms spread in Texas
    Hundreds of Homeland Security drones retasked to survey wildlife and livestock.
  • Two hydrogen-burning engines powered this car to a new land speed record
    JCB has invested heavily in hydrogen to power its diggers and other machinery.
  • US tries to override New York gambling laws, orders Kalshi to keep operating
    Trump admin claims New York suing Kalshi created "market emergency."


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