rss: npr

  • Death toll in attack on Kyiv apartment building now stands at 24
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that a Russian missile attack on a Kyiv apartment building the previous day killed 24 people, including three children.
  • Which Trump cabinet member has a new reality show? The quiz knows
    This week, in Warshington, D.C., the Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the Federal Reserve and we wrote a quiz question about his name. Enjoy that, and the other nine, too.
  • After redistricting, what does representation mean to Tennessee voters?
    What does representation look like for Tennessee voters who were split into three new congressional districts last week? NPR traveled from Memphis into the Nashville suburbs to ask.
  • Gen Z homeowners? Yes, more in their 20s are managing to buy despite the odds
    Gen Z homeowners now outpace millennials at the same age. They're more likely to be single and less likely to use help from parents.
  • Morning news brief
    Trump returns to U.S. after trip to China, Supreme Court decides to maintain abortion pill access, U.K. prime minister faces challenges from his own party.
  • Son reflects with his mother about growing up with autism
    Jhovana Figueroa was diagnosed with autism when he was a toddler. For StoryCorps, Figueroa and his mom talk about his childhood and their hopes for the future.
  • CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Raul Castro's grandson in Havana, US and Cuban officials say
    CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Cuban officials including Raúl Castro's grandson during a high-level visit to the island Thursday, Cuban and U.S. officials said.
  • Pope decries rise of AI-directed warfare, saying it leads to a spiral of annihilation
    Pope Leo XIV denounced how investments in artificial intelligence and high-tech weaponry were leading the world into a "spiral of annihilation," as he called for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine.
  • Tensions flare near Strait of Hormuz as a ship is seized and another is sunk
    Tensions are escalating again near the Strait of Hormuz after a ship anchored off the United Arab Emirates was seized and taken toward Iran and another was attacked and sank near the coast of Oman.
  • The 10 best songs competing at (a very contentious) Eurovision
    Glitter, vocal gymnastics, on-stage flames — the show goes on on the Eurovision stage in Vienna, even though five countries are boycotting this year's contest due to Israel's participation.


rss: bbc

  • Analysis: Andy Burnham's route back to Commons is clearer - but can he win in Makerfield?
    The Greater Manchester mayor faces a messy and bitter by-election battle with Reform UK.
  • Watch: The day Labour's potential leadership race began to heat up
    Political turmoil continued in Westminster on Thursday after Health Secretary Wes Streeting resigned Starmer's government saying he had "lost confidence" in his leadership.
  • Brutal raid on woman's birthday party highlights rise of Russian vigilante group
    The Russkaya Obshina group stages raids to look for activities contravening "traditional Russian values".
  • 'Don't swim' warnings in place at nearly all of England's official river bathing sites
    Too much bacteria linked to faeces found at almost all England's designated river bathing sites
  • Five Italians die during cave scuba dive in Maldives
    Four of the Italians were part of a team from the University of Genoa.
  • British Gas pays £20m over prepayment meter force-fitting scandal
    The regulator say the energy supplier breached licence conditions aimed at protecting customers in vulnerable situations.
  • Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline, BBC finds
    "Patriotic" UK anti-immigration social media accounts have been traced to Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
  • Australia soars into Eurovision final as UK song debuts
    Delta Goodrem is now a favourite to win Eurovision, following a spectacular semi-final performance.
  • Zack Polanski did not vote in local elections, Green Party says
    The Green Party leader previously told Hackney mayoral candidate Zoë Garbett "you have my vote".
  • Search for new James Bond officially kicks off as auditions begin
    Callum Turner, Jacob Elordi and Harris Dickinson are among the frontrunners to replace Daniel Craig.


rss: the register

  • UK reloads artillery plans with £1B remote-control howitzer order
    72 Boxer-mounted RCH 155s due from 2028 as Britain fills the gap left by AS-90s sent to Ukraine
  • Britain's latest civil servant is a chatbot trained on GOV.UK misery
    Whitehall says the AI assistant will help citizens navigate public services faster; others may see it as a cheaper alternative to answering the phone
  • MPs want social media treated more like unsafe toys than harmless apps
    Parliamentary committee tells ministers online safety regime is failing children and warns 'no action is not an option'
  • On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off
    Lazy weekend of Grand Prix fun turned into a terrifying all-nighter
  • AWS racks M3 Ultra Macs that boast specs you can’t currently buy
    Manages to get its hands on some Mac Studio machines before the OpenClaw machine grabs them
  • Possible Samsung strike puts even more pressure on memory pricing
    As a senior policymaker ponders whether all South Koreans should enjoy an ‘AI dividend’
  • Cerebras risked it all on dinner plate-sized AI accelerators a decade ago. Today it's worth $66B
    Here's a look at the tech powering the first big IPO of 2026
  • Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data
    Other than Instructure execs - maybe?
  • Sick and wrong: Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts
    60% of evaluated AI Scribe systems mixed up prescribed drugs in patient notes, auditors say
  • Anthropic tosses agents into the API billing pool
    Limits Claude subscriptions to interactive use


rss: ars technica

  • Men use "vocal fry" more than women, counter to stereotype
    Study suggests "the bias is real but socially constructed, rather than grounded in how women actually sound."
  • Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes
    One little mystery—solved.
  • Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves
    People confide almost everything to their phones.
  • Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
    Town’s 49,000 California residents compete with Nevada data centers for energy.
  • Over a year later, AMD is bringing improved FSR 4 upscaling to its older GPUs
    FSR 4.1 running on RDNA3 or RDNA2 GPUs may take a bigger performance hit.
  • Judge probes whether Musk settlement with Trump admin is tainted by corruption
    Trump admin wants to let Musk pay $1.5M fine to settle $150 million Twitter suit.
  • Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections
    It's not entirely clear how the exploit works. Microsoft says it's investigating.
  • Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds
    Made-up therapy referrals, incorrect prescriptions among the common mistakes.
  • Vaporware or not? Aptera assembles its first five validation models.
    The three-wheel, two-seat EV has been in development since 2006.
  • Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day
    Layoffs are "not a savings-driven restructure," CFO says.


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