rss: npr

  • Questions remain about deceased Israeli hostages in Gaza
    The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war appears to be holding even as complex issues remained ahead.

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  • What's next for Gaza. And, ICE tactics are reportedly becoming more violent
    With the first phase of a ceasefire holding, eyes are on what is next for Gaza. And, ICE agents are ramping up arrest operations in several cities and raising concerns about their tactics.

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  • Maine Gov. Janet Mills enters crowded Democratic race to unseat Susan Collins
    Mills was reportedly recruited by Democratic Senate leaders after her high-profile confrontation with President Trump in February, in which she told the president she'd "see you in court."

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  • A Nobel Prize for explaining when technology leads to growth
    The 2025 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt.

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  • Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks
    How tech companies and government officials handle local impacts will shape the industry's future in the U.S.

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  • Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
    Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any?government or administration says.

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  • In reading, the nation's students are still stuck in a pandemic slump
    New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic.

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  • Death toll from torrential rains in Mexico rises to 64 as search expands
    Mexico has deployed some 10,000 troops in addition to civilian rescue teams. Helicopters have ferried food and water to the 200 some communities that remained cut off by ground.

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  • SpaceX launches 11th test flight of its mega Starship rocket with another win
    Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, thundered into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas.

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  • Madagascar's president flees country in fear for his life after military rebellion
    Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina called for dialogue "to find a way out of this situation" and said the constitution should be respected.

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rss: bbc

  • UK will be second-fastest-growing G7 economy, IMF predicts
    But the UK is also predicted to suffer the highest rate of inflation in the G7 both this year and next.

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  • Tommy Robinson police stop unlawful, court hears
    The far-right activist was charged under the Terrorism Act over an incident at the Channel Tunnel in July 2024.

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  • French PM backs freezing Macron's pension reform to save government
    The changes, which raised the retirement age from 62 to 64, were seen as signature reforms in Emmanuel Macron's presidency.

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  • Man jailed for five years for threatening to kill Nigel Farage
    The Reform UK leader has described the threats made in a TikTok video as "pretty chilling".

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  • Raducanu has blood pressure taken in China defeat
    Britain's Emma Raducanu struggles physically in a three-set loss to world number 219 Zhu Lin in the Ningbo Open first round.

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  • How Milei's 'Thatcherite' economics divided his nation - but won over Trump
    Ahead of Milei's visit to the White House - amid protests and anger on the streets back at home - Ione Wells unravels the paradox that Argentina's president has created

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  • Mental health hospital to install CCTV after mysterious death of patient
    An inquest into Maria Morris's death found it was accidental, but her family still have questions over what happened the night she died.

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  • YouTubers Dan and Phil confirm relationship after 16 years
    Dan says intense fan intrusion "could have killed me", but that they "can't live in fear any more".

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  • 'It's not over,' says son of hostage whose body remains in Gaza
    Rotem Cooper, whose father Amiram's body has not been returned, calls on mediators to put pressure on Hamas to release the remaining bodies.

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  • 24 hours with Trump on diplomatic tornado through Middle East
    The US president's single-day tour was a victory lap rather than an exercise in setting out detail, writes the BBC's Tom Bateman.

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rss: the register

  • DGX Spark, Nvidia?s tiniest supercomputer, tackles large models at solid speeds

    This relatively affordable AI workstation isn?t about going fast; it?s about doing everything well enough

    hands on Nvidia bills its long-anticipated DGX Spark as the "world's smallest AI supercomputer," and, at $3,000 to $4,000 (depending on config and OEM), you might be expecting the Arm-based mini-PC to outperform its less-expensive siblings.?



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  • Researchers intercept unencrypted satellite traffic from space blabbermouths

    University team picks up voice calls, texts, and corporate data from orbit with off-the-shelf kit

    Geostationary satellites are broadcasting large volumes of unencrypted data to Earth, including private voice calls and text messages as well as consumer internet traffic, researchers have discovered.?



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  • KuzuDB says so long and thanks for all the commits, marooning community

    Users left wondering whether to fork it or forget it as another FOSS project bites the dust

    The KuzuDB embedded graph database, open source under the MIT license, has been abandoned by its creator and sponsor Kùzu Inc, leaving its community pondering whether to fork or find an alternative.?



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  • Asahi breach leaves bitter taste as brewer fears personal data slurped

    Japan's beer behemoth still mopping up after ransomware spill that disrupted deliveries and delayed results

    Asahi's cyber hangover just got worse, with the brewer now admitting that personal information may have been tapped in last month's attack.?



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  • What do we want? Windows 10 support! When do we want it? Until 2030!

    Protesters slam forced obsolescence outside Microsoft's office

    Updated Campaigners staged a protest outside Microsoft's Brussels office yesterday over the company's decision to end support for Windows 10.?



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  • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Another 550 employees set to leave the building

    US government shutdown nothing to do with action as space veteran calls move 'an alarming time' for science

    The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is facing another round of layoffs, with 550 additional employees set to lose their jobs.?



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  • Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN

    Lucky few randomly selected to trial the feature, which won't fully roll out for several months

    Mozilla is working on a built-in VPN for Firefox, with beta tests opening to select users shortly.?



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  • Oracle rushes out another emergency E-Business Suite patch as Clop fallout widens

    Latest in a long line of EBS flaws leta miscreants remotely compromise enterprise systems to pinch sensitive data

    Oracle is rushing out another emergency patch for its embattled E-Business Suite as the fallout from the Clop-linked attacks continues to spread.?



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  • Shadow AI: Staffers are bringing AI tools they use at home to work, warns Microsoft

    Bring Your Copilot To Work Day, anyone?

    Microsoft, the corporation that just 13 days ago implored customers to bring their Copilot to work, has now published a report warning of the dangers of Shadow AI.?



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  • Lance takes aim at Parquet in file format joust

    Challenger seeks to unseat incumbent for machine learning workloads

    A fledgling file format that aims to address limitations in the widely-used Parquet is under review for adoption by an open source foundation.?



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rss: ars technica

  • OpenAI wants to stop ChatGPT from validating users? political views
    New paper reveals reducing "bias" means making ChatGPT stop mirroring users' political language.

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  • SpaceX finally got exactly what it needed from Starship V2
    This was the last flight of SpaceX's second-gen Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year.

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  • Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones
    Malicious app required to make "Pixnapping" attack work requires no permissions.

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  • Measles outbreak in SC sends 150 unvaccinated kids into 21-day quarantine
    The outbreak includes at least seven confirmed cases, but some are clearly being missed.

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  • Google?s Photoshop-killer AI model is coming to search, Photos, and NotebookLM
    After more than 5 billion AI image edits, Nano Banana is expanding.

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  • Starship?s elementary era ends today with mega-rocket?s 11th test flight
    "The final phase of Starship?s trajectory on Flight 11 includes a dynamic banking maneuver."

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  • To shield kids, California hikes fake nude fines to $250K max
    California cracks down on AI as child safety concerns grow.

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  • Apple?s streaming service gets harder to tell apart from its streaming app, box
    Apple unifies its remaining streaming offerings by dropping the "+".

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  • Why Signal?s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
    New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness.

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  • 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act
    4chan fine may test if US will intervene to block UK?s Online Safety Act.

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