rss: npr

  • The next redistricting battle might be who is counted in state legislative districts
    A Republican push to alter the census may lead to a radical shift in redistricting for state legislatures — drawing districts that don't take into account children and non-U.S. citizen adults.
  • Come along with some geese as they migrate back from their southern winter havens
    Geese's iconic "V" formations and trademark squawks can be seen and heard overhead as they go back and forth to the south through the year. But what does it take for such a long trip?
  • Kids' willpower is no match for fast food and screens. Try this instead
    For decades, parents were told to help children build willpower like a muscle, to resist things like junk food and too much time on their screens. But new research suggests a better strategy.
  • Millions more people are in the path of rising seas than previously thought
    Oceans are rising as the climate changes, threatening coastal cities. A new study shows that much more of the world's population is vulnerable than earlier predictions had estimated.
  • 12 years on, renewed hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight comes up empty
    Twelve years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with 239 people aboard, a deep-sea search has so far failed to locate the missing aircraft, as families pressed for the effort to continue.
  • U.S. military kills 6 in strike on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific
    Sunday's attack brought the death toll to at least 157 people since the Trump administration began targeting alleged drug-smuggling vessels, in early September.
  • Video appears to show U.S. cruise missile striking Iranian school compound
    The seven-second video was released by Iranian state media and directly contradicts statements made by President Trump, who said Iran was responsible for the strike.
  • Crude oil rockets past $100 as markets lose hope for a quick resolution in Iran
    Brent crude reached its highest price since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Gasoline prices in the U.S. are expected to continue to rise.
  • Country Joe McDonald, anti-war singer who electrified Woodstock, dies at 84
    Country Joe and the Fish's best-known song, "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag," captured the growing anti-war sentiment of the Vietnam era.
  • Georgia's special election to fill vacated House seat
    Voters in Northwest Georgia are choosing who should replace former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene as voting closes in a special election Tuesday. In a crowded race, the weight of Trump's endorsement will be tested.


rss: bbc

  • Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader?
    Many expect the 56-year-old, who has largely kept a low profile, to continue his father's hardline policies.
  • G7 nations to hold emergency meeting on oil as stock markets sink
    Chancellor Rachel Reeves will join talks amid reports that oil reserves could be released to lower prices.
  • 'Night turned into day': Iranians tell of strikes on oil depots
    Fuel depots were hit in Tehran and Karaj overnight, with videos showing huge fires and plumes of smoke in multiple locations.
  • Australia urged to protect Iranian football team after Asian Cup elimination
    Concern has grown for team after one critic called them 'wartime traitors' for failing to salute during the Iranian anthem.
  • Watch: Fire crews fight blaze near Glasgow Central Station
    The dome of a neighbouring building has collapsed as ScotRail says no trains will operate in or out of the station on Monday.
  • Images of face released in bid to solve mystery of man found dead in wetsuit
    Detectives hope the new facial reconstruction images will end an 18-month mystery.
  • Rihanna's Beverly Hills home hit by gunfire, police say
    A suspect was arrested after the shooting on Sunday afternoon, Los Angeles officers say.
  • NHS England pauses new prescriptions of cross-sex hormones for under-18s
    The health service said young people who already receive the drugs will continue to do so.
  • IRA bomb victims' civil court case begins against Gerry Adams
    The men are seeking a ruling that Adams is personally liable for decisions to plant car bombs in London and Manchester in 1973 and 1996.
  • 'He's the dog of a lifetime': Bruin the Clumber spaniel wins best in show at Crufts
    Handler Lee Cox said Bruin was the "dog of a lifetime" as he accepted the award.


rss: the register

  • Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat

    Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks

    Britain's Royal Navy is urgently seeking a ship-based counter-drone system and recent world events likely explain why.…

  • Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract

    Ignorance really was the way to achieve bliss

    Who, Me? Welcome to another working week, and another installment of "Who, Me?" – a weekly reader-contributed column that unearths your errors and reveals how you rebounded afterwards.…

  • Lenovo, Nintendo, sue US government, seeking tariff refunds

    Tech-adjacent Dyson, Epson, and Whoop also have a crack

    World War Fee Tech companies have started suing the US government to seek repayment of tariffs that the Supreme Court recently declared unconstitutional.…

  • NASA’s asteroid defence mission slowed targets by 1.7 inches per hour

    You gotta start somewhere, and in this case astroboffins would have been nowhere without help from intrepid volunteers

    NASA has published new analysis of its 2022 planetary defense test that suggests the mission slowed down the target asteroids, albeit infinitesimally.…

  • Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought

    Cyber is no longer the hush-hush thing it used to be, as team Trump invades Iran with hackers taking the lead

    Kettle Unlike previous military conflicts, the cyber domain has been front and center since the Trump administration invaded Iran, upending the traditionally quiet role played by hackers in military conflicts.…

  • Beijing warns of more chip supply worries after Nexperia China claims it was cut off from SAP

    PLUS: Indonesia joins kids social media ban; China frets about AI job impacts; India’s PC market fails to launch, again; And more

    China’s Ministry of Commerce has warned of further disruption to the global semiconductor supply chain after Dutch chipmaker Nexperia cut access to some of its systems for Chinese staff.…

  • FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools

    PLUS: Europol takes down two crime gangs; LastPass users phished (again); Crooks increase crypto hauls; And more

    Infosec In Brief The FBI is investigating a breach of its systems which reportedly affected systems related to wiretapping and surveillance.…

  • AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work

    Crims 'will do what gets them their objective easiest and fastest,' Microsoft threat intel boss tells The Reg

    interview AI agents allow cybercriminals and nation-state hackers to outsource the "janitorial-type work" needed to plan and carry out cyberattacks, according to Sherrod DeGrippo, Microsoft's GM of global threat intelligence. North Korea is taking advantage.…

  • Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom

    What hath science wrought?

    A clump of living human brain cells wired into a silicon chip has answered the internet's most important computing question: yes, it can run Doom.…

  • Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics

    Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits

    feature By now you've probably heard AI datacenters called factories. It's an apt description: power goes in and tokens come out.…



rss: ars technica

  • Jessica Jones joins the fray in Daredevil: Born Again trailer
    "I'm gonna take this city back."
  • Tiny, long-armed dinosaur leads to rethink of dinosaur miniaturization
    Small size seems to have come before a change in diet for a tiny dinosaur lineage.
  • Hunting for elusive "ghost elephants"
    Werner Herzog directed this evocative NatGeo documentary of an ornithologist's quest to find a new species.
  • A unicorn-like Spinosaurus found in the Sahara
    A unique head spike and fish-eating jaws help make sense of these dinosaurs.
  • From Iran to Ukraine, everyone's trying to hack security cameras
    Research shows apparent Iranian state hackers trying to hijack consumer-grade cameras.
  • Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead
    The Exploration Upper Stage did not in any way get NASA closer to landing on the Moon.
  • Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases
    Planet wants to prevent "adversarial actors" from using images for "Battle Damage Assessment" purposes.
  • Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons
    Fishing crews face horrifying burns from dredging the dumped chemical weapons.
  • Google's new command-line tool can plug OpenClaw into your Workspace data
    This could make it easier to use multiple Workspace APIs, but it's not yet an official Google product.
  • Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances
    The long, strange trip of a large assembly of advanced iOS exploits.


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