rss: npr

  • Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader
    It's the latest trade drawing scrutiny on the popular prediction market site for appearing to show an insider making profits on military secrets.
  • Oil prices rise sharply in market trading after attacks in Middle East disrupt supply
    The high prices came as U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran and retaliatory strikes against Israel and U.S. military installations around the Gulf sent disruptions through the global energy supply chain.
  • Satellite images provide view inside Iran at war
    Satellite images from commercial companies show the extent of U.S. and Israeli strikes, and how Iran is responding.
  • Photos: U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran and reactions from around the world
    Here's a look at Iran, Israel and reactions from around the world after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iran.
  • Mideast clashes breach Olympic truce as athletes gather for Winter Paralympic Games
    Fighting intensified in the Middle East during the Olympic truce, in effect through March 15. Flights are being disrupted as athletes and families converge on Italy for the Winter Paralympics.
  • A U.S. scholarship thrills a teacher in India. Then came the soul-crushing questions
    She was thrilled to become the first teacher from a government-sponsored school in India to get a Fulbright exchange award to learn from U.S. schools. People asked two questions that clouded her joy.
  • 3 American troops killed, and Trump says more 'likely,' in war against Iran
    The deaths of three U.S. service members mark the first American casualties since the start of operation "Epic Fury" on Saturday. President Trump said "there will likely be more" Americans killed.
  • Trump warns Iran not to retaliate after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed
    The Iranian government has announced 40 days of mourning. The country's supreme leader was killed following an attack launched by the U.S. and Israel on Saturday against Iran.
  • Explosion rocks Iran's capital as Israel says it is targeting the city
    Iran fired missiles at targets in Israel and Gulf Arab states Sunday after vowing massive retaliation for the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by the United States and Israel.
  • How some Iranians reacted to attacks on their country
    What are people in Iran saying about today's attacks by the U.S. and Israel? We hear from people on the ground who experienced the event as it unfolded.


rss: bbc

  • RAF base in Cyprus targeted in suspected drone strike, MoD says
    The BBC understands there were no casualties in the suspected strike on RAF Akrotiri in southern Cyprus.
  • Allies of US in the Gulf bear brunt of Iran attacks
    Iran's attacks on Gulf Arab states suggest the Islamic Republic is targeting not just the US military but also civilian infrastructure.
  • Iran's regime is still intact - the coming days will show if it can hold out
    Iran's surviving leaders are in crisis mode, battling to project security as US and Israel strikes continue.
  • Watch: Retaliations continue on day two of US-Israel attacks on Iran
    Donald Trump warned of more US deaths after three US service members have been killed in action on the second day of US-Israel attack on Iran.
  • Oil prices rise after ships attacked near Strait of Hormuz
    Experts have warned that a prolonged conflict could push global energy prices even higher.
  • UK will allow US to use bases to strike Iranian missile sites, PM says
    The prime minister says it remains the case that the UK will "not join offensive action now".
  • Major changes to asylum system set to come into force
    From Monday, asylum seekers granted refugee status in the UK will be offered only temporary protection.
  • Deadly Texas bar shooting 'potentially act of terrorism', FBI says
    Two people were killed and 14 injured, with the suspected gunman, identified by some media outlets, also shot dead.
  • Sir John Curtice: Which issues will decide the elections in Scotland and Wales?
    A poll carried out for the BBC examines the issues which will influence how people plan to vote on 7 May.
  • Michael B Jordan upends Oscars race as Sinners wins big at Actor Awards
    The US star's best actor win for Sinners leaves the Oscars race too close to call.


rss: the register

  • OpenAI’s Altman says Pentagon set ‘scary precedent’ binning Anthropic

    Signs a deal with Washington anyway, says he’s kept control of killer robots by allowing only cloudy AI, with guardrails

    OpenAI has signed a deal with the United States Department of War (DoW) that allows use of its advanced AI systems in classified environments, and urged the Pentagon to make the same terms available to its rivals.…

  • UK government's Vulnerability Monitoring System is working - fixes flow far faster

    PLUS: Firefox adds XSS protection; Leadership turnover at CISA; FTC exempts some data collection

    Infosec In Brief DNS vulnerabilities are being addressed 84 percent faster in the UK public sector thanks to an automated vulnerability scanning system established as part of a program kicked off early last year.…

  • South Korea’s tax office apologizes for leaking seed phrase to seized crypto

    Went from triumph at having busted tax dodgers to embarrassment at losing the proceeds

    South Korea’s National Tax Service has apologized after it leaked passwords to a stash of stolen crypto, which parties unknown used to make off with the digi-cash.…

  • Lenovo shows off snap-together laptop with removable keyboard, screen, and ports

    New ThinkPads also come in blue, get perfect fixability score

    If you own a desktop computer, you're used to swapping parts and peripherals around, but most laptops are closed boxes with few ways to modify them. Lenovo's new ThinkBook Modular AI PC concept shows what happens when you can remove a screen, a keyboard, and even blocks of ports from a mobile PC.…

  • AWS Middle East disrupted after ‘objects struck datacenter’ amid Iran war

    PLUS: AI claims 2,000 jobs at Australia’s WiseTech; Samsung wants humanoid robots for autonomous factories; Micron opens India plant; And more!

    Asia In brief One of Amazon Web Services’ availability zones in the United Arab Emirates is offline after the facility was hit by unknown objects.…

  • OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw

    A smaller, security-conscious take on the viral AI agent platform

    Interview Ideally, you shouldn't have to defend yourself against your own AI agent. But we don't live in an ideal world and an unrestrained agent can cause a ton of damage.…

  • SaaS-pocalypse chatter is doomster pr0n. It would be nice if enterprise IT were boring again

    Lost among the investor froth, someone has to do all the boring stuff. And they'll probably be around for the next spin of the hype cycle

    Opinion Say goodbye to the SaaS-pocalypse theory, which posits that advances in AI will bring the software-as-a-service market to its knees. Say hello to "a feedback loop with no natural brake." Or doomster porn, as others would have it.…

  • Denizens of DEF CON are 'fed up with government'

    Jake Braun thinks hackers need to create a 'Digital arsenal of democracy' to defend us all

    Interview Hackers – especially Jake Braun – are "fed up with government."…

  • Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull

    Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

    Opinion I'm at the Linux Foundation Members Summit, and Sonatype's CTO Brian Fox introduced me to a new open source problem. I wouldn't have thought that was possible, but here I am.…

  • Double whammy: Steaelite RAT bundles data theft, ransomware in one evil tool

    Credential and cryptocurrency theft, live surveillance, ransomware - an attacker's Swiss Army knife

    A new remote access trojan (RAT) being sold on cybercrime networks enables double extortion attacks on Windows machines by bundling ransomware and data theft, along with credential and cryptocurrency stealers, live surveillance, and a whole host of other illicit capabilities, all controllable from a centralized dashboard.…



rss: ars technica

  • The strange animals that control their body heat
    Some creatures can dramatically alter their internal temperature and outlast storms, floods and, predators
  • Trump moves to ban Anthropic from the US government
    The Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.
  • In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT
    An AI chatbot convinced health investigators they had the right answer.
  • Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 15kB of data into 700-byte space
    Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.
  • The Air Force's new ICBM is nearly ready to fly, but there’s nowhere to put it
    "There were assumptions that were made in the strategy that obviously didn’t come to fruition."
  • Under a Paramount-WBD merger, two struggling media giants would unite
    Can two declining companies form a profitable one?
  • Photons that aren't actually there influence superconductivity
    Interactions between neighboring materials is mediated by virtual photons.
  • Whoops: US military laser strike takes down CBP drone near Mexican border
    Trump admin "incompetence continues to cause chaos in our skies," Duckworth says.
  • The AI apocalypse is nigh in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
    Director Gore Verbinksi and screenwriter Matthew Robinson on the making of this darkly satirical sci-fi film.
  • Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77
    I went into Hyperion blind, decades ago, knowing almost nothing about it. I was never the same.


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