rss: npr

  • Justice Department to allow firing squads for executions in move to ramp up capital punishment
    The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases.
  • Appeals court rules that Trump's asylum ban at the border is illegal
    A U.S. appeals court ruled Friday that immigration laws allow people to apply for asylum at the border, and the president cannot bypass this. The decision stems from Trump declaring the border situation an invasion and suspending asylum.
  • From night life in Egypt to rice farming in Vietnam, the war in Iran is a drain
    Fuel costs more. Food is harder to get. Jobs are evaporating. And in Cairo, cafes and restaurants are ordered to close at 9 p.m.
  • A real-life Kraken stalked the seas of the late Cretaceous
    Researchers discovered evidence of enormous Kraken-like creatures who hunted in the seas some 100 million years ago, competing with large apex predators.
  • Justice Department drops probe into Fed Chair Jerome Powell
    The move paves the way for the Senate to confirm Kevin Warsh, the president's nominee to head the central bank.
  • Decades-old, newly restored Smithsonian carousel reopens — to children's delight
    The carousel was first desegregated when part of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park outside Baltimore in 1963. It was moved to the National Mall after the park closed.
  • How Pittsburgh — host of this year's NFL draft — became a sports mecca
    The Pennsylvania city is hosting the draft for the first time in almost 80 years. Pittsburghers say the city's passionate fanbases and winning teams make the selection a natural fit.
  • Kushner and U.S. envoy Witkoff will head to Pakistan for new Iran talks
    Iran's foreign minister arrived in Islamabad, and the White House says Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will go there Saturday to try to "move the ball forward towards a deal."
  • Israel and Lebanon extend ceasefire. And, Trump eases medical marijuana rules
    Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend their ceasefire for three weeks, President Trump says. And, the Trump administration is easing rules on medical marijuana.
  • Thousands of seafarers stranded by ongoing U.S. blockade on Strait of Hormuz
    As the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports drags on, thousands of seafarers are stranded on ships, and economic shockwaves ripple around the world.


rss: bbc

  • Trump's envoys Witkoff and Kushner to fly to Pakistan for Iran talks
    Iran says its Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is already in Pakistan but that there is no meeting planned between Iran and the US.
  • Katya Adler: Europe's Nato allies push back at reported US threat to Spain
    On Friday morning, souring relations between Europe and the United States reared its Medusa-like head again, writes the BBC's Europe editor.
  • 'Killing in prison is not difficult' - the rise in cold-blooded attacks behind bars
    Is a culture of prisoners intimidating inmates into inflicting pain on others too normalised to change?
  • Falklands veteran hopes King can persuade Trump to 'back down'
    Simon Weston says reports the US is reviewing the UK's claim to the territory makes his sacrifice feel "irrelevant".
  • King's 'high stakes' visit with Trump will be toughest test yet of his reign
    The state visit to the US looks fraught with difficulty - but could be key to rescuing the special relationship.
  • Man charged with murder of Kamonnan Thiamphanit after extradition
    Kamonnan Thiamphanit, 27, who was also known as Angela, was stabbed in Westminster in 2024.
  • I'm A Celebrity 'legend' crowned in heated live final
    Adam Thomas, Craig Charles, Mo Farah and Harry Redknapp were in the final of I'm A Celebrity... South Africa.
  • Heated Rivalry, The Housemaid and Fourth Wing: TikTok launches BookTok bestseller list
    The inaugural top 20 is entirely made up of female authors, with Chloe Walsh appearing most frequently.
  • Thousands at risk after multi-million dollar Everest flood warning system left to rust
    The flood warning system at Imja glacial lake has not been maintained since 2016, fearful locals tell BBC.
  • China car giant BYD says it can thrive without US
    With the price of fuel rising China's BYD says it is positioning itself to benefit from the global shift away from fossil fuels.


rss: the register

  • DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs

    Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1

    Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance to rival the best proprietary American LLMs. Perhaps more importantly, it claims to dramatically reduce inference costs and it extends support for Huawei's Ascend family of AI accelerators.…

  • Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps

    New LTS is here, with more tooling for GPGPU and AI workloads

    Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon," the latest LTS release from Canonical, arrives with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.0, and drops the Xorg option from Ubuntu Desktop while still running X11 applications through Xwayland.…

  • Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs

    What, you didn't expect autonomous military craft to stay in the sky forever?

    Drones: they're not just for the sky anymore. DARPA is seeking compact deep-ocean autonomous craft developed faster, smaller, and cheaper than today's full-ocean-depth AUV systems.…

  • US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit

    Silicon often from US, but the kit from APAC and elsewhere

    America's telco regulator has clarified its ban on foreign-made routers also includes mobile hotspots and domestic routers that use a 5G cellular connection to the internet.…

  • ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival's booty as 7.5M emails surface

    Leak-site bragging meets breach hunters as Have I Been Pwned flags millions of records

    Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise company, is dealing with choppy waters after Have I Been Pwned flagged what it claimed were 7.5 million unique email addresses all allegedly tied to one of its subsidiaries. …

  • Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network

    Latest in long-running pwning of Cisco kit found in mystery Fed agency

    A US federal agency was successfully targeted by a previously unknown backdoor malware called Firestarter, according to CISA cybersnoops and their UK counterparts – neither of which disclosed the agency's name.…

  • More ancient Linux device support faces the chop

    One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers

    One tactic to deal with LLM-powered vulnerability detection is simple – just speed up the removal of old code. If it's gone, it no longer matters if it's buggy.…

  • Open Telemetry founder tools up for project graduation party

    We gotta get boring to get graduated

    Grafanacon The founder of the Open Telemetry project says its maintainers may need to turn to AI tools to get some elements robust enough for the project as a whole to graduate.…

  • Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave

    Windows giant offers buyouts to eligible staffers willing to walk

    Microsoft has committed to improving the quality and reliability of Windows, and a step on the path to that goal is… encouraging a chunk of its US staff to leave the company.…

  • Intel bets the farm on AI inference to drag CPU back to the top table

    Chipzilla hopes agents, robots, and edge devices make CPUs cool again... now it has to build the chips

    Intel is betting on AI to reverse its fortunes, wagering that inference and agentic workloads will restore the CPU to the center of compute - even as its chip manufacturing struggles persist.…



rss: ars technica

  • Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic
    This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.
  • Europe—not US—first to authorize Moderna's combo mRNA flu-COVID vaccine
    Amid RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda, Moderna withdrew its FDA application last year.
  • FCC: Router ban includes portable hotspots, but not phones with hotspot features
    FCC defines consumer routers expansively, updates FAQ to include Wi-Fi hotspots.
  • Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.
    Hundreds of subdomains from dozens of universities have been hijacked by scammers.
  • In rare chickenpox case, itchy blisters mushroom into large, rubbery nodules
    Treatment options are tricky. The teen opted to live with the masses.
  • Soldier won $410K in Polymarket bets on timing of Maduro capture, US alleges
    It's like "Pete Rose betting on his own team," Trump says of arrested soldier.
  • Meet the 19-meter Cretaceous kraken that swam with mosasaurs
    Layer by layer, researchers revealed the jaws of an ancient predator.
  • Report: Samsung execs worried company could lose money on smartphones for the first time
    The AI-driven memory shortage is hitting Samsung's bottom line.
  • Man faces 5 years in prison for using AI to fake sighting of runaway wolf
    Beloved wolf gripped the nation after burrowing out of the zoo.
  • Well, this is embarrassing: The Lunar Gateway's primary modules are corroded
    "Preliminary findings indicate that the issue likely results from a combination of factors."


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