rss: npr

  • 'Profits won.' The child safety trial against Meta kicks off in federal court
    Opening arguments are underway in a trial that pits four states against the company that owns Facebook and Instagram. They allege that Meta knew its products could hook kids — and lied about the danger.
  • S. Korea stresses US alliance amid confusion over Trump drill cut
    Lee's comments Tuesday come as many South Koreans remain baffled and concerned about U.S. President Donald Trump's abrupt order to "substantially reduce" military exercises with South Korea.
  • U.S. and Iran miss peace talks deadline. And, Alaska, Florida and Wyoming primaries
    The U.S. and Iran missed a deadline to begin peace talks this week. The monthslong war has depleted U.S. resources. And, what to know about Alaska's U.S. Senate seat primary.
  • The grueling fight over who profits from AI music
    AI can generate songs in seconds. But behind every AI track is a complicated question: Who should get paid? And, how? The fights have started.
  • In Portland, this soap box derby combines downhill speed with extreme pageantry
    Soap box derbies send motorless cars down a steep incline. At one event, contestants make their cars look like cartoon characters, subway cars, food, and giant animals (among other outlandish shapes).
  • This crowded Republican primary in Florida has drawn a unique cast of candidates
    The GOP primary in Florida's 19th District includes candidates who are new to the state, candidates who've run for Congress before and two candidates who have received pardons from President Trump.
  • Many recent grads say AI is making it harder to get a job. Economists aren't so sure
    The unemployment rate for young adults with new degrees is higher than the rate for all workers, according to the New York Fed. Is AI the problem, or is it more complicated?
  • She told no one about her agony except ChatGPT. What her death reveals about AI risks
    A 29-year-old woman confided her suicidal thoughts to an AI chatbot — not to her therapist, not to her parents, not to her best friend. What can AI learn from her death?
  • Morning news brief
    Jared Kushner and Israel's prime minister meet in attempt to move Gaza ceasefire plan forward, U.S. focus on Iran draws key resources from Asia, voters head to the polls for primaries Tuesday.
  • Jason Arday's rise and fall tells a larger story about academia, a critic says
    What can academia learn from Jason Arday's rise and fall? Atlantic staff writer and former academic Tyler Austin Harper weighs the questions his story left behind.


rss: bbc

  • UK 'supports Ukraine 100%', Burnham says, after Russia's drone warning
    Russia accuses the UK of escalating the Ukraine war by supplying British-made drones as the prime minister vows to support Kyiv in its "hour of need".
  • British couple on honeymoon killed in helicopter crash on Greek island
    The newlyweds, named as Alexander Cromie and Marie Ebert, were killed alongside their Greek pilot.
  • PM says he's not embarrassed about hoax message exchange
    The PM communicated with a person posing as Susie Wiles, the chief of staff to Donald Trump.
  • How soon will the drought be over?
    Rain has returned to parts of the UK this week but is it enough to end the drought some regions are facing?
  • Premier League chief says Fifa self-destructed over World Cup plan
    Premier League chief executive Richard Masters has criticised Fifa president Gianni Infantino's World Cup sell-off plan, saying the organisation has "pressed the self-destruct button" by delivering "a self-inflicted wound".
  • National Television Awards pick first all-female shortlist for drama acting award
    The five-strong list features Ella Bruccoleri, Sheridan Smith, Ruth Jones, Vicky McClure and Judy Parfitt.
  • Earl Spencer to 'tell the truth' about his sister Princess Diana in new book
    Swan Song: Diana, My Sister is due to be released in the UK next month, nearly 30 years after she died.
  • Prevent scheme not helping children fixated with violence, children's commissioner says
    Growing numbers of children referred to the government's counter-terror programme are not suitable for it and need help, Dame Rachel de Souza warns.
  • I was given the wrong sperm donor by my IVF clinic in northern Cyprus
    Multiple children are feared to have been conceived using sperm and egg donors which were not the ones selected by the parents.
  • One dead and hundreds ill in UK salmonella outbreak
    Most of the cases were in England in recent weeks, linked to eating imported eggs, experts believe.


rss: the register

  • CISA gives feds 3 days to fix actively exploited Ray RCE bug
    Phishing, malvertising attacks could target devs to gain access to private corporate networks
  • Apple plugs image-processing hole ripe for spyware abuse
    Patch batch spans current kit, older iGadgets, Macs, and Vision Pro
  • Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70
    Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online
  • Microsoft finally fixing File Explorer and the Context Menu
    Time to flex that Windows 10 muscle memory
  • Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself
    How to social engineer an AI's reasoning engine
  • Government Teams users face another ******* month of filtered captions
    Officials must wait a little longer before Live Captions tells it like it is
  • Passport out-of-control at French airport
    Papers please. Windows is watching
  • Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment
    Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps
  • UK puts Google AI on the flight path to fewer contrails
    Trial will test whether small route and altitude tweaks can reduce aviation's warming impact
  • AI models get convenient amnesia about source material as they grow, MIT boffins find
    Attributing diffusion model output to a specific input becomes more difficult with more training data


rss: ars technica

  • Peacock raises prices by 18 percent after becoming profitable
    Peacock's quarterly profitability isn't guaranteed.
  • The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China's space program
    One big question: Will China assert territorial rights where its rover explores?
  • Fairphone's latest repairable phone is finally available in the US for $650
    Fairphone sells components like the USB port and screen, all swappable with a single torx driver.
  • Ford hopes this Hypercar will be its next Le Mans winner
    The American automaker returns to the top category of endurance racing next year.
  • Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma takes pains to deliver a slasher fan’s dream
    Matte paintings—not CGI—warp a world designed to hit a nerve for slasher fans.
  • X-rays add new twist to narwhal's spiral tusk
    New study finds that the tusks have not one but two spirals, twisting in opposite directions.
  • Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
    Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.
  • As temperatures get hotter, pesticides are more dangerous to farmworkers
    Research shows heat amplifies the dangers of pesticides.
  • Theban tomb reveals how Egyptian burial trends evolved in time
    Practices shifted from individuals buried in coffins to reusing sites for later mummy interments.
  • US vaccination rates fall again as exemptions continue to rise, CDC data shows
    Again, the CDC did not publish a full report and instead simply put the data online.


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