rss: npr

  • Do you know signs of a stroke? BE FAST are the words to remember
    Sen. Chris Murphy is expected to fully recover from his stroke. The acronym BE FAST can help you remember the symptoms of stroke and what to do when it happens: Call 911 quickly.
  • Haley Stevens endorses GOP candidate in Michigan Senate race, spurning Abdul El-Sayed
    Rep. Haley Stevens was scheduled to attend a unity event today with Abdul El-Sayed, who beat her in the Democratic primary. Instead, she endorsed his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers.
  • Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy is hospitalized with a stroke
    Murphy's office says he was taken to the hospital this weekend after experiencing numbness in his arm. His chief of staff said he is responding well to treatment and expected to make a full recovery.
  • How to think about the midterms — and the political moment the country is in
    Polls show Democrats with an advantage in the midterm election but there are potential limitations and results may take a while to roll in.
  • Judge tosses Trump's attempt to block Alaska Senate results if GOP incumbent loses
    A federal judge has dismissed a highly unusual lawsuit by the Trump administration that tried to block the certification of results from Alaska's U.S. Senate race if the Republican incumbent lost.
  • The midterms will test the nation's political direction and confidence
    At least some portion of the nation is likely to have its political confidence — and perhaps even its sense of security — tested in the days and weeks ahead. That test could also continue for some time to come.
  • New York City Marathon: Sweden's Almgren and Kenya's Chepkirui win as 60,000 take part
    Andreas Almgren of Sweden won the men's race of the New York City Marathon in his debut in the event while Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya won the women's race on Sunday for the second time.
  • Living with high prices in Virginia's 1st Congressional District
    High prices are straining budgets for both a small business owner and a single mom in a rural part of Va.'s 1st Congressional district. They explain how they're handling the economic stress of these times.
  • It's ACA open enrollment time. Here are the changes for health insurance shoppers
    The ACA health insurance marketplaces — find yours at HealthCare.gov — open Nov. 1 for 2027 coverage. Getting an early start may be especially important this year.
  • How Gen Z Republicans running for Congress are thinking about the future of the party
    On the eve of what may prove to be a tough election for the GOP, young conservatives vying to be part of the first class of Gen Z Republicans in Congress want a role shaping the party's next chapter.


rss: bbc

  • Ukraine air raid app apparently hacked as users receive false radiation threat, Air Force says
    Authorities say there is no threat and have advised the public to stay calm and follow official channels for information.
  • Five teenagers stabbed at Halloween party
    Hampshire Police believes an unknown group gained entry to the party at an address in Chandler's Ford.
  • Thousands of jobs at Virgin Media O2 to be cut
    The broadband provider has not finalised the number of roles to be axed but it will likely be a sizeable chunk of its workforce, the BBC understands.
  • Nowak family tell of 'unbelievable pain' of seeing footage of dying son handcuffed
    His family describe the night police told them of his death, and watching him being handcuffed.
  • King to address slavery in Antigua as PM says he is open to possible UK apology
    King Charles III will deliver a speech to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting on Tuesday as he concludes his nine-day Caribbean tour.
  • Antonelli becomes world champion as Verstappen wins in Mexico
    Kimi Antonelli becomes the youngest world champion in Formula 1 history as Max Verstappen wins the Mexico City Grand Prix.
  • Tributes to 'inspirational' Olympian Ciara Mageean after death at 34
    The former European 1500m champion had bowel cancer and died just three weeks after marrying her partner.
  • Democrat endorses Republican candidate in key Michigan Senate race as party spat erupts
    Haley Stevens, who lost out on the Democratic Senate nomination to Abdul El-Sayed, endorses his opponent days before the vote.
  • 'Like a missile coming down' - Nine killed in fiery Florida jet crash
    Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy described the crash, which happened near President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, as a "horrific tragedy".
  • After a 28-year trek around the world, homebound Karl Bushby crosses the Humber Bridge
    The British adventurer is due to complete his 31,000-mile challenge in Hull on Monday.


rss: the register

  • 'Mother of all editors' Emacs is 50
    By a startling coincidence, so is its arch-rival Vi
  • Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions – Openreach
    Legacy public switched telephone network service is to be retired on January 31, 2027
  • Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth
    Experimental orbital datacenter prototype puts its TPU to work producing poetry
  • Goth aesthetic gone wild: a user's self-inflicted black screen of non-death in Windows 3.1’s
    Labeled in black on black - controls for a galactic hyper-hearse or ill-advised Windows theme?
  • Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use
    A lot of software engineers feel bleak about the future of the profession
  • Chocolate Caterpillar or Chocolate Teapot? Top up the disk space for Windows 10 to find out
    London's Oxford Street signage shows its underwear to passing tourists
  • Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan
    How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot
  • Darkbloom, which allowed Mac users to rent out their GPUs for AI inference, warns of low payouts
    Blame plunging token prices
  • HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare
    How the Uber-bound delivery giant tuned its mobile networking stack to cut latency
  • Crim spent $7K+ on AI services in extortion attacks, then left evidence for all to see
    n0n-existent security


rss: ars technica

  • Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged
    A long flight home from feeding grounds messes with birds' internal clocks.
  • The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.
    The regulator says Tavneos was approved on the basis of manipulated study data. Should patients still have access to it?
  • Once again, NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble from certain death
    The space agency solicited ideas for reboosting Hubble four years ago, but they didn't go anywhere.
  • Flesh-eating screwworms spread to third state and are attacking pets
    USDA has identified 74 animal cases in US since parasitic flies invaded in June.
  • Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart
    "For huge numbers of people, I will always be Jean-Luc Picard. ... We created an admirable individual."
  • Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
    Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.
  • Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
    It's still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic's verified Cursor account.
  • Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
    People who love AI don't always love telling others they used it.
  • Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren't even good
    Faked symptoms still point to infections that antibiotics don't treat.
  • Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
    But it's still early days for the relatively new e-commerce use case.


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