rss: npr

  • Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity
    The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.
  • Former Prince Andrew files legal action to quash warrants that led to residence searches
    A judicial spokesperson confirmed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had filed a claim with the High Court in London and a hearing would take place Thursday.
  • Spain's prime minister calls early elections as pressure mounts over housing crisis
    Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced early elections Monday after his government suffered a bruising legislative defeat last week on emergency measures related to the country's housing crisis.
  • Supreme Court's new term kicks off with blockbuster climate change case
    The case centers on whether local governments can hold giant energy companies accountable for the local harms of climate change, but it has repercussions beyond climate.
  • Voters are increasingly using AI chatbots to fact-check and compare candidates
    Voters are already voting in the midterms. This year, some voters are trying something new to get ready for the election: asking AI to help research their ballot and even decide who to vote for.
  • Super El Niño is here. What's so super about it?
    This year, federal forecasters say the planet could see the strongest El Niño event on record. Here's what you need to know.
  • Republicans and Democrats find a unifying target: Pharmacy benefit managers
    Republicans and Democrats, both patients and politicians, seem united in their disdain for the healthcare companies known as pharmacy benefit managers. Tennessee and Arkansas are regulating them now.
  • From floating saunas to clinical trials: How heat might help mental health
    While scientists have a decent understanding of how sauna and other forms of heat exposure exercises our cardiovascular system, they know relatively little about its impact on mental health.
  • Morning news brief
    Investigators are still searching for the motive behind a midair attack aboard a FlyDubai plane, SCOTUS term begins with climate change case, Brazil's presidential race heads to run-off.
  • Brazil's presidential race heads to Lula–Bolsonaro run-off as right gains ground
    Now there are two: Brazil heads into a runoff after a first round that failed to fully energize voters, setting the stage for a more polarized contest that Washington is watching very closely.


rss: bbc

  • US removes all bombers from RAF Fairford base
    No reason has been given for the withdrawal, but it follows a major incident last week when police were alerted to "suspicious vehicles" near the airbase.
  • Andrew takes legal action over arrest search warrants with hearing this week
    Mountbatten-Windsor's lawyers are challenging warrants used relating to his arrest in February on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
  • How the eviction of an elderly resident in Madrid has led to an early general election
    A series of measures to tackle the housing crisis were defeated in parliament on Friday
  • Nobel Prize awarded for showing how nerve cells shape feelings
    US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded for their work.
  • Protesters scuffle with police as migrants brought ashore on south coast
    The Home Office said 149 migrants were brought ashore and taken by coach to a processing centre in Kent.
  • Average five-year mortgage rate hits 6% for first time in three years
    The cost of a new fixed-rate mortgage has been rising in recent weeks as lenders face higher costs.
  • Polanski banned from Israel after party's motion declaring 'Zionism is racism'
    The vote has caused divisions among figures at the top of the party at its conference in Brighton.
  • Court of Appeal hears residents' parade challenge over Drumcree dispute
    The deadlock over the Orange Order march in Portadown - opposed by residents of the Garvaghy Road - has lasted since last Sunday morning.
  • Right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro wins first round of Brazil election
    With neither candidate getting more than 50% of the vote, the election will go to a run-off on 25 October.
  • Potty training scheme to roll out to 20 more areas
    The government wants 75% of children to end their first year of school with a good level of development by 2028.


rss: the register

  • Windows 11 market share creeps upwards as cost of staying on Windows 10 set to double
    How badly do you want that Win10 device to keep getting security updates?
  • BT buys TalkTalk out of administration to keep 2.5M customers connected
    Rescue carries an estimated £400M cash impact as ministers intervene and competition review looms
  • Brighter isn't better and more is less. The AI slowdown is nigh, no matter who says what
    Meta isn’t helping — or perhaps it is
  • What people say about their file infrastructure once the badge comes off
    Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in Soho on 20 October where infrastructure leaders compare notes on the file estate they inherited, off the record.
  • Buyer missed one option and got 1% of the cable they needed
    Silly supplier ended up short-changing themselves
  • Fulcrum Echo promises AI text in the style of any writer, so I tested it
    I am just a copy of a copy of a copy, everything I say has come before
  • Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care
    All this, and angry NeoVim users
  • Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40
    The Centre for Computing History gathers the minds behind the project and the ones keeping it alive today
  • Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack shows
    Exploitation attempts came from China-hosted IP, VulnCheck researcher says
  • Clever database, but can it run Doom?
    Reg hack learns the meaning of 'Be careful what you wish for'


rss: ars technica

  • New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"
    Fresh analysis of First Dynasty mass burials finds signs of fatal blunt force trauma on 39 percent of skulls
  • Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: a spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife
    Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners, Loki) narrates NatGeo's new documentary Africa: Earth's Wild Home
  • All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.
    The IEA and climate negotiators want to set a target for shifting the economy to run on electricity.
  • Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
    "...we were making history."
  • The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
    The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks.
  • Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
    Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
  • Someone got Doom in an SQL database
    1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps.
  • Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
    Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
  • Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed
    Actors with makeup and fake symptoms staggered into 73 healthcare facilities.
  • Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M
    Critics say workers are still owed far more.


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