rss: npr

  • Venezuela reels from earthquakes as rescuers scramble to find survivors
    As Venezuela begins counting the cost of its deadliest quake disaster in over a century, a shattered economy and struggling health system threaten to slow recovery efforts.
  • Reflecting Pool liner was cut with a sharp knife or razor, National Park Service says
    A top official at the National Park Service says a liner along the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was cut with a sharp knife or razor this month, causing damage to the foam sealant installed as part of a $16 million rehabilitation project.
  • UN agency pauses evacuation of ships through the Strait of Hormuz after attack on vessel
  • King Charles III will not live at Buckingham Palace after its costly refurbishment
    The decision was announced Thursday during a briefing on royal finances at which Charles became the first British monarch to reveal the taxes he paid to the government.
  • What made the deadly Venezuelan earthquakes different
    It appears the two big earthquakes in Venezuela that occurred in rapid succession may have involved two separate fault lines. Several faults intersect in this tectonically complex region.
  • Photos: See Venezuela destruction after earthquakes
    The earthquakes were Venezuela's largest in over a century.
  • Judge blocks Postal Service proposal to restrict mail-in voting under Trump's order
    A judge has blocked the U.S. Postal Service's proposals responding to President Trump's order, including not delivering ballots in states that don't turn over voter lists to the federal government.
  • The Supreme Court says the U.S. can turn away asylum seekers at the border
    By a 6-3 vote, the high court ruled that federal law allows the government to stop asylum seekers from physically setting foot in the United States, effectively keeping them from applying for asylum. 
  • Trump can begin deportations of Syrian, Haitian TPS holders, Supreme Court says
    Writing for the court majority, Justice Samuel Alito that under the TPS law, the president has unreviewable authority to end the program, without intervention from the courts.
  • The Viking chant that became Norway's World Cup rallying cry
    Norway's long-awaited World Cup return is being powered by a viral Viking "rowing" chant that's sweeping the world, from Boston train stations to Times Square — and the heart of Norway's parliament.


rss: bbc

  • King becomes first monarch to reveal tax bill as royal public funding to double to £100m
    New figures show the monarch paid £12.9m in tax last year, but do not give any detailed breakdown of how that tax was calculated.
  • King and Queen will not live in Buckingham Palace after renovations
    King Charles and Queen Camilla will continue to reside in Clarence House, Buckingham Palace says.
  • Chris Mason: The anatomy of the prime minister's downfall
    Sir Keir, like his predecessors Liz Truss and Boris Johnson, lost the capacity to viably govern, our political editor writes.
  • Boy, 14, charged with murder after body found in search for girl in south Wales
    The body was found during the search for a 14-year-old girl, Lilly, who was reported missing.
  • How male infertility is still not getting enough attention
    How could the system better support men who have been told they might have a fertility issue?
  • Investigation after up to 40 hospital staff access records of boy attacked by crocodile
    Cambridge University Hospitals refers itself to the Information Commissioner over the breach.
  • Home Office plan to use more military bases to house asylum seekers
    Three new sites in Oxfordshire, Suffolk, and Yorkshire could house about 3,750 asylum seekers if permission is granted.
  • Teens who hacked TfL were known to police years before cyber-attack
    Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair were convicted for their roles in the attack, which led to large costs for Transport for London.
  • Reflecting Pool liner cut with sharp knife or razor, National Park Service says
    Earlier in the week Donald Trump blamed vandals for "a 300 foot long gash" in the pool and accused someone of putting fertiliser in the water.
  • Rescues and prayers a day after Venezuelan earthquakes
    The BBC's Vanessa Silva reports from Caracas as the city faces the aftermath of back-to-back tremors.


rss: the register

  • BOFH: Amnesty means never having to say you're sorry
    There's no I in team, but there is one in insurance fraud
  • Security boss thought MFA would be too much security
    One rule for the workers, another for execs
  • Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable
    Tiny tweak to support page reveals consumers can purchase another year of patch protection
  • Chinese cybersecurity company claims it’s built a better-than-Mythos bug finder
    Qihoo 360, which the US has banned, says it’s needed as a deterrent to weaponized Anthropic models
  • AI giants back non-profit to retrain workers left behind by AI
    Sorry we spent your wages on datacenters, but call us when you're AI-ready
  • Self-destructing Mistic backdoor linked to access broker selling corporate footholds to ransomware gangs
    Spotted in intrusions targeting insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors
  • They read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius
    'Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them,' reads a scroll virtually unwrapped with the help of AI
  • Ex-Huntress analyst claims company insider fed info to a ransomware crim. Social media drama ensues
    Former employee accuses company of prioritizing pending IPO over client security
  • OpenAI says employees moving beyond chat to agents
    Codex, it's not just for developers, really
  • Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars
    Scientists remain skeptical, plead for someone to bring the rocks home


rss: ars technica

  • Microsoft adds another year to Windows 10 extended update program
    About a quarter of PCs are still running Microsoft's previous operating system.
  • FCC may kill $2B program that connects schools and libraries to Internet
    Carr cites screen time concerns, is accused of trying to be "the nation’s parent."
  • Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead
    Notion is "going all in on using agents to run your inbox."
  • Google finally releases a Finance Android app, promises iOS version later in 2026
    It took 20 years, but the Finance app arrives just in time to be packed full of AI.
  • Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack
    Alibaba allegedly used 25,000 accounts to mine Claude over 28.8 million exchanges.
  • Planet orbits so close to its star that their magnetic fields connect
    At the right point of the orbit and stellar cycle, the star's chromosphere brightens.
  • Feds deny Polestar authorization to sell cars in US from model year 2027
    Unlike with Volvo, there will be no authorization for Polestar to sell its cars here.
  • Apple ratchets up prices, blames the cost of memory
    Some Macs are hundreds of dollars more expensive today than yesterday.
  • The "sad inevitability" of Europe's heat wave
    Europeans are baking under their second heat wave of the summer.
  • New effort will get genome sequences for entire Endangered Species list
    Colossal Biosciences will be biobanking tissues from all of them as well.


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