rss: npr

  • American Muslims are giving Texas barbecue a halal makeover
    Even as anti-Muslim rhetoric rises in Texas, Muslim pitmasters are winning over diners and reshaping one of the state's most iconic culinary traditions.
  • U.S. envoys Witkoff and Kushner land for talks in Kyiv after meeting Putin in Moscow
    U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are set to arrive in Kyiv on Sunday in their first visit to the Ukrainian capital as part of a renewed push for peace in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
  • QUIZ: Ugh, I'll do it later. How much do you know about procrastination?
    Learn a few surprising facts about procrastination — and helpful tools to overcome it — with this quiz. It's based on social scientist Itamar Shatz's new book, Solving Procrastination.
  • Whatever happened to kindness? Spoiler alert: Our readers prove it's alive and well
    We asked readers to share stories about a moment of kindness involving a stranger. Here are some of their heartwarming anecdotes.
  • Jazz legend John Coltrane's Philadelphia house to become a cultural heritage site
    On the centennial of father's birth, Ravi Coltrane talks about turning the home where the jazz legend spent a crucial period in the 1950s into a cultural heritage and community space.
  • U.S. and Iran trade attacks on ships as fighting flares up again
  • Opinion: A sculpture in perpetual motion, removed
    "Blue," a statue that's been on the grounds of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. for 7 years has been dismantled and removed.
  • Trump administration to dig at triumphal arch site despite no final federal approvals
    The Trump administration says it will break ground on a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, D.C., without final federal approval and despite an ongoing lawsuit.
  • U.S.-Venezuela oil deal puts opposition in a political bind
    Venezuelan opposition members are uneasy with new oil deals with the U.S., worried that agreements with authoritarian regime in Caracas could undermine democratic progress.
  • Whatever happened to the floating schools of Bangladesh?
    It was a light bulb moment: If monsoon rains keep kids from safely getting to school, let's create a floating school to pick them up! Bangladesh pioneered the idea. How's it doing?


rss: bbc

  • US envoys meet Zelensky in Ukraine after talks with Putin in Russia
    Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are holding talks in Kyiv, in their first visit to Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion.
  • Police slow to respond to Dover protest, says council boss
    The "exceptionally well organised" protest "caught several agencies on the hoof", the leader says.
  • Minister to meet Jaguar Land Rover boss as thousands of job cuts expected
    The company is struggling with the impact of tariffs as well as the fallout from a major cyber attack last year.
  • TV presenter among 12 sentenced to death in Egypt drugs case
    Sarah Khalifa is best known for her TV programme Mission Impossible which dealt with crime issues.
  • The next James Bond: The (00)7 questions fans want answered
    Speculation has been building recently that an announcement about Daniel Craig's successor could be close.
  • Volcano eruption leaves 150,000 passengers stranded in Indonesia
    More than 150,000 airline passengers are stranded after ash was detected in airspace near Jakarta following the eruptions.
  • Temperatures could climb to 28C in late burst of warmth
    A summer-like day is in store for some on Sunday with above average temperatures, but the heat will be short-lived.
  • Why more women carry the 'mental load' - and how couples can share it
    Planning, organising and remembering household tasks often fall disproportionately to mothers - here are some tips to help.
  • Aviation faces hotter, stormier skies – and passengers might have to accept more disruption
    Are people going to have to increasingly accept more delays and diversions as the effects of climate change intensify?
  • Natalie Imbruglia on her worst audition: 'I remember feeling icky'
    The pop star talks about new music, stage fright, conspiracy theories and awkward auditions.


rss: the register

  • Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium
    Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour
  • US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why
    DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale
  • BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury
    Eight year after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches
  • Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you
    Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases
  • AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets
    AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk
  • ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk
    Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters
  • Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident
    Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?
  • My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement
    Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month
  • Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels
    The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next
  • Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers
    2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes


rss: ars technica

  • German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket
    "We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before."
  • Farmed salmon may not be as nutritious as it once was, new research suggests
    The shift in the fish’s diet is having significant downstream impacts on the environment and climate.
  • Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation
    The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.
  • After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
    "Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."
  • OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
    In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
  • Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
    "It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."
  • Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
    FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses.
  • Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
    Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.
  • “Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
    Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”
  • Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
    A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.


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