rss: npr

  • Life jacket worn by a passenger who survived the Titanic auctioned off for over $900,000
    A life jacket worn by a passenger on the RMS Titanic has sold at auction for 670,000 pounds, which is more than $900,000.
  • A mass shooting in Ukraine's capital leaves 6 dead before police shot and killed the gunman
    A gunman has killed six people and injured at least 14 in a mass shooting in Ukraine's capital before he was shot and killed by police.
  • Trump signs order fast tracking review of psychedelics for mental health disorders
    President endorses psilocybin and ibogaine: "Can I have some, please?"
  • Photos: How overfishing in Southeast Asia is an ecological and human crisis
    A rare look at one of the world's most critical and understudied environmental crises. Southeast Asia produces more than half of the world's fish, yet its waters are among the most depleted and contested.
  • Opinion: Remembering Kevin Klose, former NPR president and broadcasting icon
    We remember Kevin Klose, former NPR president, who helped secure financial stability for the network while supporting and encouraging its journalism.
  • Tired of waiting for your EV to charge up? One Chinese company has a novel solution
    Chinese car company NIO is putting up EV battery swapping stations all around the world. NPR took a ride in one car for the experience.
  • Born in south Lebanon, displaced to Beirut, two grandmothers reflect on Israeli invasions
    They grew up amid olive groves in southern Lebanon. The son of one married the other's daughter. Now they're living temporarily in a vacant building in central Beirut, displaced many times.
  • She invited her friends to come together to make her casket
    Friends gathered at a weaver's studio in Massachusetts to help MaddyChristine Hope Brokopp make her casket.
  • Caracas' iconic macaws threatened by vanishing palm trees
    In the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, flocks of colorful macaws that once brightened city skies now face disappearing nest sites — and with them, a unique urban bond.
  • Iran says it has closed the Strait of Hormuz again, as ceasefire nears its end
    Iran's military said on Saturday the Strait of Hormuz has "returned to its previous state." The announcement came after President Trump had said the blockade on Iranian ports would remain in place.


rss: bbc

  • Strait of Hormuz closed again, Iran says, as ships attacked
    Iran is blaming a US blockade for the closure, saying it breaches the ceasefire reached between the two countries.
  • Senior official ousted over Mandelson security row to face MPs
    Former Foreign Office chief Sir Olly Robbins is expected to be grilled by the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
  • Why Starmer still can't move on from the Mandelson mess
    The decision to send Peter Mandelson to Washington has become a scandal that just won't go away for Labour.
  • New charity to remember Queen Elizabeth 100 years since her birth
    The Royal Family will be remembering the late monarch at events on Tuesday - on what would have been her birthday.
  • Scammers are becoming ever more sophisticated - this is what the fightback looks like
    Scams have exploded over the last few years. Can countries and companies come together to turn the tables on the scammers?
  • At least six killed in Kyiv as gunman opens fire and takes hostages
    The attacker, who took hostages inside a supermarket, was killed after a shoot-out with police, officials say.
  • Counter-terror police investigate another London arson attack
    It comes as a man attempts to ignite a plastic bag containing containing fluid in north-west London.
  • Chernobyl's last wedding: The couple who married as a nuclear disaster unfolded
    Serhiy and Iryna married 40 years ago, unaware a nuclear reactor had exploded less than 3 miles away.
  • Should you really trust health advice from an AI chatbot?
    Abi has had very mixed results when asking a chatbot for guidance about her health issues.
  • Harry and Meghan's trip felt like a royal tour - except many Aussies weren't interested
    The Sussexes' four-day tour of Australia appears to have fallen flat with some.


rss: the register

  • Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale

    Agent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when needed

    Not only is hardware memory scarce these days, but context memory, the conversational data exchanged with AI models, can be an issue too.…

  • Atlassian’s new data collection policy protects rich customers while AI eats the rest

    From August 17, the outfit will collect customer metadata by default unless you pay for the top tier

    Unless a customer pays for the most expensive enterprise license, or the law forbids it, Atlassian is going to collect their data to train its AI models. And you can't fully opt out.…

  • Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors

    Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes

    Intel brought a few more chips home from Taiwan this week, with a new round of budget-oriented Core Series 3 processors fabbed right in the US-of-A.…

  • Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams

    The bar for creating visual assets has been lowered to the ability to converse with a model

    Anthropic is known for its industry-leading Claude Code that writes programs, but why stop there? The company, on Friday, introduced a research preview service called Claude Design that creates visual assets, potentially putting some folks out of work.…

  • CISA tells feds to patch 13-year-old Apache ActiveMQ bug under active attack

    Bug hiding in plain sight for over a decade lands on KEV list

    CISA is sounding the alarm on a newly-exploited Apache ActiveMQ bug, ordering federal agencies to patch within two weeks as attackers circle a flaw that's been quietly lurking for more than a decade.…

  • Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker

    Or, how public information and a €5 tracker exposed an avoidable opsec lapse

    Militaries around the world spend countless hours training, developing policies, and implementing best operational security practices, so imagine the size of the egg on the face of the Dutch navy when journalists managed to track one of its warships for less than the cost of some hagelslag and a coffee.…

  • Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems

    We hear Sweden is lovely place for workloads to visit

    Microsoft Azure capacity woes are back, and worse than ever, judging by the complaints of UK users.…

  • Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades

    Starts new one on boot loops

    More than a year after giving administrators an unwelcome surprise with a security update that turned out to be a Windows Server 2025 upgrade, Microsoft has marked the incident as "resolved."…

  • NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission

    Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms

    NASA is moving ahead with its contribution to the European Space Agency's (ESA) long-delayed Rosalind Franklin Mars rover despite another attempt by the Trump administration to cut funding for the effort.…

  • Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned

    Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15

    Plex is pulling the plug on its Alexa integration, leaving anyone who relied on voice commands to wrangle their media library out of luck.…



rss: ars technica

  • Great white sharks are overheating
    The sharks might also be the most physiologically vulnerable to warming waters.
  • US-sanctioned currency exchange says $15 million heist done by "unfriendly states"
    Grinex says needed hacking resources "available exclusively to ... unfriendly states."
  • Man with @ihackedthegovernment Instagram account tells judge, “I made a mistake"
    Probation for man who used stolen logins and posted private info on social media.
  • Trump picks qualified, normal health leader to head CDC; experts still cautious
    She's well qualified but will need to navigate RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda.
  • $25,000 buys plenty of used EVs: Here are some options
    Is $20,000–$25,000 a sweet spot for secondhand electric cars? We think so.
  • Satellite and drone images reveal big delays in US data center construction
    Data centers face construction delays and energy bottleneck as resistance grows.
  • Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore
    The two newest Fire Sticks block apps from outside of Amazon's store.
  • Ridley Scott's post-apocalyptic The Dog Stars drops first trailer
    "The world that was, doesn't exist. It's just us, trying to hold onto what was."
  • Artemis II pilot talks about what it was really like to fly and land in Orion
    "I've been thinking about reentry for three straight years."
  • Meta's AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive
    Prices for "critical components" are surging because of massive data center investments.


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