rss: npr

  • Pope Leo XIV to undergo lung surgery this week
    Pope Leo XIV said he would undergo surgery after doctors found a "localized nodule" in his lung.
  • Hurricane Simon nears Mexico with 155 mph winds and flooding fears
    The eye of Hurricane Simon was just off the Pacific coast of Mexico early Sunday and was expected to move inland later in the day as an extremely powerful storm.
  • Justice Department investigates TV networks, citing possible anti-trust violations
    The move escalates Trump's fight with the press amid court battle over barring CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House.
  • Don't be scared: Being afraid is outright fun, and maybe useful
    Listeners of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday may already know that host Ayesha Rascoe loves horror. But why do scream queens (and kings) like her like what's frightening? The answer may surprise you.
  • She was a global star: Teen bikes 700 miles carrying injured dad. Where is she now?
    Her epic ride — carrying her injured dad on her $20 hot pink bicycle — made headlines. Promises were made — financial help, training for a cycling career, even a movie deal. Were any of them kept?
  • Sweating the details: Sauna's potential health benefits draw scientists' interest
    A group of international researchers is pushing to rigorously study the potential health benefits of sauna and other heat therapies. They hope to bring scientific legitimacy to the age-old practices.
  • Reshaped civil rights mission at Justice Department transforms its work, workforce
    Harmeet Dhillon has pushed out hundreds of longtime attorneys, replaced many with inexperienced ideological allies, and used the division's enforcement powers to pursue the president's agenda.
  • In one of the country's most competitive districts, a Democrat tries to keep her seat
    In a highly competitive Washington congressional race, the incumbent Democrat has angered part of her party base and the Trump-backed Republican challenger faces backlash against the party in power.  
  • It's taking longer to find a new job after losing one
    People who lose their jobs in this economy are taking longer to find new work. Nearly four in ten people exhaust their unemployment benefits before they land a new job.
  • Passenger terminal at Riyadh airport is struck again, a day after 12 were killed
    A projectile struck a passenger terminal at the international airport in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after a missile hit the same terminal and killed 12 people, officials said.


rss: bbc

  • Saudi capital airport hit by second Houthi strike in two days
    The Yemeni group says it carried out attacks that killed 13 people in Riyadh over the weekend and targeted two airports and oil facilities.
  • Riyadh airport attacks another dangerous moment in already tense conflict
    While the physical damage from Houthi attacks can be quickly repaired, the Saudi reputation for stability is taking a battering.
  • PM says it is 'clear' Russia interfered with Brexit vote
    He says voters were not "sufficiently" informed about how foreign actors sought to disrupt UK democracy.
  • Wildlife park remains closed after fatal tiger attack
    Yorkshire Wildlife Park remains closed after a man entered the tiger enclosure and was fatally attacked on Saturday.
  • Poland stabbings driven by online glorification of violence, Tusk says
    The PM was speaking after violent attacks at Polish schools this week left one dead and others injured.
  • Children among 139 dead after boat capsizes off Djibouti, UN says
    The boat was travelling from Djibouti to Yemen with 305 people on board, when it capsized near the port town of Obock on Thursday night.
  • Pope Leo to have surgery after lump found on lung
    The 71-year-old pontiff said the nodule was identified "at a very early stage".
  • Burnham to release details of Man City meetings
    Andy Burnham has faced criticism for comments he made in the wake of Manchester City being found guilty of all charges related to breaches of the Premier League's financial rules.
  • DUP MP says her party could help remove O'Neill as first minister over Drumcree row
    Carla Lockhart says unionist voters are angry at Michelle O'Neill over her role in the Garvaghy Road protests.
  • Buildings swept away as flash floods hit central Nepal
    A flash flood at the Budhi Gandaki River has swept away several buildings and bridges, two months after catastrophic floods hit the country.


rss: the register

  • AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready
    Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie'
  • HPE's networking boss says AI will handle all trouble tickets without humans in two years
    And you'll trust agents to do that for the same reason you no longer worry about automatic transmissions
  • Researchers work out how to control 2D semiconductor growth for future chips
    Korean boffins use oxygen to stop crystals forming in the wrong places, aiming to get tech to commercial sector by 2030
  • Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers
    Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites
  • EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software
    EU executive branch is building a sovereign backup with Element, not replacing Teams. Not yet anyway
  • Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment
    Source attribution matters to 79% of respondents – handy for a company licensing its Q&A archive to model builders
  • Microsoft leans on open weight model from Chinese AI lab to challenge Jev
    The first version of Microsoft-Decision-1 is based on Qwen3.5-9B, but the next will sport homegrown tech, Redmond reassures
  • AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
    Tokens transmitted in metadata, weak VM isolation, and expansive permissions make hacking a lot easier
  • Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4 TB of OneDrive storage
    What Microsoft giveth, Microsoft taketh away, again and again
  • SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier
    Low-band frequencies can reach devices inside buildings, while 2 GHz orbiters could extend coverage beyond cell towers


rss: ars technica

  • Prime Video unveils Blade Runner 2099 full trailer at NYCC
    Also: new trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero, the sequel to Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju epic, Godzilla Minus One
  • One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
    Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin.
  • Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
    Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.
  • Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
    One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
  • A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis
    Stylish upcycling, with a retro flair, at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.
  • NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
    "We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit."
  • What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains?
    Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day.
  • AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
    Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
  • Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial
    CDC allocated $1.6M for study on alleged harms of hepatitis B vaccine.
  • PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
    "The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."


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