rss: npr

  • Bam! Heat's Adebayo scores 83 points, 2nd only to Wilt Chamberlain in NBA history
    Bam Adebayo had a night for all time on Tuesday, with a point total second to only Wilt Chamberlain in the NBA record books.
  • Prosecutor says Rihanna, family were home when woman charged with attempted murder fired
    Rihanna, her partner A$AP Rocky, their three children and her mother were all at home when a woman now charged with attempted murder is alleged to have fired at the property, a prosecutor said.
  • Senate Democrats ramp up pressure campaign for public hearings on war with Iran
    Congressional Democrats are demanding transparency in the form of public hearings from Trump administration officials on the timeline and objectives of the war in Iran.
  • Wheelchair curler Steve Emt's path from drunk driver to three-time Paralympian
    Steve Emt and Laura Dwyer represent the U.S. in the Paralympics' new mixed doubles wheelchair curling event. They could bring home Team USA's first wheelchair curling medal ever.
  • Immigration detention on track for deadliest fiscal year since 2004
    Twenty-three people have died since October in ICE custody, as advocates warn about overcrowding and health care access.
  • Photos from Iran and across the Middle East as the war enters Week 2
    More than a week of the U.S. and Israel's war against Iran has dragged in global powers, upended the world's energy and transport sectors, and brought chaos to usually peaceful areas of the region.
  • A dose of psilocybin helps smokers quit in new study
    The psychoactive substance in magic mushrooms appears to have a powerful effect on people trying to stop smoking.
  • Trump gives mixed signals on Iran war. And, how Epstein built ties to scientists
    President Trump provided conflicting messages about when the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran will end. And, NPR investigates how late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein leveraged ties with scientists.
  • 'Pro-worker AI,' streaming fatalities, and other fascinating new economic studies
    From artificial intelligence to fatalities from music streaming to the effects of immigrants on elderly health care, the Planet Money newsletter rounds up some interesting new economic studies.
  • GLP-1s have transformed weight loss and diabetes. Is addiction next?
    A large study found that people taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic for diabetes were less likely to be diagnosed with substance use disorder.


rss: bbc

  • Al Quds Day march to be banned after government approves Met request
    The government grants a request from the Metropolitan Police to ban a march due to take place in London on Sunday.
  • The Aldi-style disruptors who could be about to shake up the vets market
    As pet owners complain of rising prices, independent practices want to take on the big chains.
  • First Mandelson files to be published on Wednesday
    The documents are expected to detail parts of the process prior to Lord Mandelson's appointment as ambassador.
  • Jeffrey Epstein had two key aides - why do they still control his money and secrets?
    Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke administer Epstein’s estate - court filings allege complicity in his crimes.
  • Hereditary peers to be removed from Lords as bill passes
    The bill abolishes the 92 seats reserved for peers who inherit their titles through their families.
  • Gale-force winds to batter UK as snow and cold set for comeback
    Strong winds are likely across many parts of the UK over the next few days before turning colder with some wintry showers at the end of the week, as Simon King explains.
  • Member of Iranian football delegation granted Australian asylum changes her mind
    One of the seven women who received visas has reversed her decision after speaking to teammates, minister says
  • 'I am no spy': Courier in Russian exploding parcels plot against UK talks to BBC
    Aleksandr Suranovas, charged with carrying out an act of terrorism for Russia, speaks to the BBC.
  • Secret of hedgehog hearing discovered at far beyond human range
    Researchers played a sountrack to hedgehogs to identify the frequency of sounds they can hear
  • Meghan to appear at £1,400 per person 'girls' weekend' in Australia
    The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are returning to Australia in April, their first visit since 2018.


rss: the register

  • AI has made the Command Line Interface more important and powerful than ever before

    Google knows asking agents to navigate GUIs designed for humans is ridiculous. Microsoft might not

    Opinion The command line interface is making a comeback because graphical user interfaces are a poor fit for autonomous agents, which could spell trouble for a lot of software – and software makers.…

  • Atlassian built a tool to migrate Jira users to the cloud and it made the move slower

    Fixed it amid user ire, swears new tool for bigger shifts is up to the job

    Atlassian has admitted that the tools it developed to move Jira users into the cloud were actually slower than older code that did the same job, and that its efforts to speed things up also had speed problems.…

  • Oracle says AI coding tools are helping it dodge the SaaSpocalypse

    Big Red reckons paying for datacenters is easy when you have half a trillion dollars of cloud orders on the books

    Oracle says AI code generation tools have become so efficient, and it is so good at using them, that it will dodge the SaaSpocalypse and watch smaller rivals suffer.…

  • Governments across Asia order work from home, thanks to Iran war

    Pakistan, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines are all trying to conserve fuel

    The US government may be ordering staff back to the office, but governments across Asia have sent public sector workers back home to preserve fuel supplies due to supply chain disruptions caused by the war in Iran.…

  • AIOps is so powerful, vendors are building tools to clean up after agents break your infrastructure

    Cohesity, ServiceNow and Datadog team on recoverability suite

    Three more vendors have decided that the world needs tools to roll back mistakes made by AI, after Cohesity teamed with ServiceNow and Datadog on a recoverability service that will hunt down all the files and data corrupted by bad AI actors and restore systems to a “trusted state.”…

  • Critical Microsoft Excel bug weaponizes Copilot Agent for zero-click information disclosure attack

    Could steal sensitive personal and financial data

    After a whopper of a Patch Tuesday last month, with six Microsoft flaws exploited as zero-days, March didn't exactly roar in like a lion. Just two of the 83 Microsoft CVEs released on Tuesday are listed as publicly known, and none is under active exploitation, which we're sure is a welcome change to sysadmins.…

  • Amazon insists AI coding isn't source of outages

    E-souk disputes report linking 'Gen-AI assisted changes' to recent high-impact incidents

    Amazon's weekly operations meeting today reportedly focused on recent service outages and on the role that code changes attributed to generative AI may have played. However, the company is downplaying the possibility of problems with AI.…

  • AI nonsense finds new home as Meta acquires Moltbook

    Think it's hard to tell bot from human on Facebook now?

    The biggest generator of AI slop on the internet has a new home, as Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook and hired the team behind the social network for AI agents.…

  • Cybercrime isn't just a cover for Iran's government goons - it's a key part of their operations

    Ransomware, malware-as-a-service, infostealers benefit MOIS, too

    Iranian government-backed snoops are increasingly using cybercrime malware and ransomware infrastructure in their operations - not just hiding behind criminal masks as a cover for destructive cyber activity, according to security researchers.…

  • AI datacenters may gulp a New York City's worth of water on hot days

    Study warns peak cooling demand could strain US water systems by 2030

    Public water supplies in America will need billions invested to meet the peak requirements of datacenters during the hottest periods of the year, even if their overall annual consumption is relatively modest.…



rss: ars technica

  • Reentry of NASA satellite will exceed the agency's own risk guidelines
    "Due to late-stage design changes, the potential risk of uncontrolled reentry increased."
  • FDA contradicts Trump admin, declines to approve generic drug for autism
    In the end, the FDA only approved the drug for a rare genetic condition with clearer data.
  • AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?
    Is it clean "reverse engineering" or just an LLM-filtered "derivative work"?
  • Meta acquires Moltbook, the AI agent social network
    The viral social network project was created with OpenClaw.
  • After complaints, Google will make it easier to disable gen AI search in Photos
    One toggle for "fast classic search."
  • Anthropic sues US over blacklisting; White House calls firm "radical left, woke"
    Anthropic says it was blacklisted for opposing autonomous weapons, mass surveillance.
  • Trump's divisive FDA vaccine regulator self-destructs, will exit agency (again)
    It's unclear what Prasad's FDA exit means, but some drug makers are happy to see him go.
  • NASA and SpaceX disagree about manual controls for lunar lander
    "NASA’s tracking of SpaceX’s manual control risk indicates a worsening trend."
  • Gemini burrows deeper into Google Workspace with revamped document creation and editing
    Gemini can now pull context from your files, emails, and more to create and edit documents.
  • Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns
    Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."


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