rss: npr

  • Trump set to greet Xi for high-stakes state visit
    It is the second time the leaders are meeting this year after the Beijing summit in May.
  • Iran's president gives a rare wartime speech at the U.N.
    Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addressed the U.N. General Assembly a day after President Trump threatened from the same podium to "annihilate" Iran.
  • A Catholic media star will be beatified in St. Louis, moving a step closer to sainthood
    Bishop Fulton Sheen, who charmed millions of television viewers on his show Life Is Worth Living,'will come one step closer to being declared a saint.
  • From cybersecurity to AI to Taiwan, what's at stake in Trump's summit with Xi
    As President Trump and China's President Xi prepare to meet, Rush Doshi of the Council on Foreign Relations explains the current state of U.S.-China relations and what to expect from this summit.
  • It's getting harder to afford rent in the U.S., even for middle-income families
    Housing affordability challenges are spreading to higher income brackets, according to new research, which found one in five renters struggled last year to pay for their housing in full and on time.
  • Greetings from Edinburgh, where a cheeky tour guide makes art history hilarious
    For anyone who grew up staring blankly at museum artwork, this is the fun that was missing: Coco leads interactive and (mostly) factual art history comedy tours.
  • Is Nepal's flood a harbinger of what's to come in the Himalayas?
    Building dams and hydropower plants in the Himalayas holds great promise for providing electricity. In the wake of the Nepal disaster, experts are asking about the risks of such construction.
  • Dems have an edge over GOP, poll finds. And, ICE looks into 'mobile detention centers'
    An NPR poll shows that Democrats have an edge over Republicans going into the midterms, partially due to Trump. And, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking into "mobile detention centers."
  • U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz on Iran, Venezuela and Trump's foreign policy
    Deals, threats and oil are all on the table as the president's foreign policy takes center stage.
  • Will FDA advisers recommend a multi-cancer blood test for approval? They'll vote
    The company Grail says its Galleri blood test can detect up to 50 forms of cancer. An independent panel of experts will decide if the test should be recommended for FDA approval.


rss: bbc

  • UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told
    The head of the RAF says the UK faces "unprecedented threats" from adversaries in space, as a new unit is created to defend Britain's satellites.
  • Home secretary says undetected migrant landings 'unacceptable'
    The arrivals of two unescorted migrant boats mark the first uncontrolled landings recorded in the UK since 2025.
  • Watch: Moment pilots eject as RAF jet crashes in Anglesey
    The two pilots ejected from the jet before crash and sustained minor injuries.
  • Iran's president tells Trump it will never 'bend the knee'
    Masoud Pezeshkian's defiant speech to the UN comes after the US president threatened to "annihilate" Iran if a peace deal is not agreed soon.
  • Police examine video of anti-migrant activist slashing dinghy with knife
    Daniel Thomas, known to his supporters as Danny Tommo, livestreamed a video of the alleged incident.
  • Family tribute to 'devoted' mum and 'precious' children who died in fire
    Elisha Brabin, 36, and her children, Leo, 16, Ellis, 8, and Prudence, 7, died in Bootle on Tuesday.
  • UK to review Chagos Islands deal over lack of US support, Streeting tells BBC
    Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has confirmed the review after Donald Trump told Andy Burnham the deal was "terrible".
  • Singer Michael Kiwanuka reveals he is recovering from a stroke
    The award-winning musician says he faces a "tough journey ahead" after a "quite severe" brain injury.
  • Barrecore and Boom Cycle owner suddenly shuts studios
    Common Bond has emailed customers announcing its locations were closed "until further notice".
  • Open wounds and eyes that can't close - women warn about cheap bleph eyelid surgery
    A concerning number of patients are reporting problems from treatment abroad, say doctors.


rss: the register

  • Mop the slop from your LinkedIn feed with a new open-source Chrome extension
    Jev-powered Slop Mop demonstrates another great use case for probabilistic, non-chatty AI model
  • Europe's fastest supercomputer is finally getting its domestic silicon infusion
    Bull, the system builder behind JUPITER, takes delivery of SiPearl's long-awaited Rhea1 CPUs
  • Someone's attacking a critical 0-day RCE in F5 BIG-IP APM
    Good news: there's a patch. Bad news: both CISA and F5 warn that it's under active exploitation
  • Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology
    Discord users asked to prove they’re adults get less intrusive options
  • Robot dog ran a marathon on one charge and lived to publish the paper
    Two years later, creators explain how lightweight hardware and reinforcement learning helped it go the distance
  • An Epyc trip to Venice: Everything we do and don't know about AMD's 256-core monster chip
    16 channels of DDR5, 5 GHz clock speeds, and support for CXL 3.1 memory god boxes? What's not to like?
  • Thoughts return to forbidden RAM upgrades as Raspberry Pi OS gets fresh lick of paint
    New dock and app launcher arrive while soaring memory prices revive scrutiny of a two-year-old firmware restriction
  • Academic publisher Elsevier hit by LAPSUS$ redirect attack
    Customers got crime crew's calling card instead of access to journals
  • Closing the observability gap for the AI-ready enterprise
    SPONSORED FEATURE: Why AI-driven operations need a data-rich view of the network
  • The more Americans hear about datacenters, the less they like them
    Pew finds growing concern over their effects on energy bills, the environment, and nearby communities


rss: ars technica

  • XPRIZE Wildfire winners spotted fires within 10 min—but couldn’t stop them
    $11M competition showed wildfire detection is still easier than stopping fires.
  • Discord age verification rolls out today with changes spurred by user backlash
    Discord will try to automatically estimate ages, require verification when it can't.
  • YouTube promises custom feeds and a lot more AI later this year
    YouTube's next year could change the content you see with a big focus on AI and livestreams.
  • Contrary to some reports, you don't have two brains
    A bad press release makes a good excuse to look at how developmental biology works.
  • Netflix releases trailer for Brad Bird's Ray Gunn
    "It’s film noir and a hard-boiled detective story, but it’s got a lot more comedy and a lot more action."
  • Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
    "So absurd and embarrassing ..."
  • Former NASA chief sounds alarm on China's lunar "exploration" plans
    "Beijing's intended strategy is to dominate the high ground of the twenty-first century."
  • After multiple deaths and injuries, NHTSA is investigating comma.ai
    Feds know of 5 crashes where cars using comma.ai devices hit slow or stopped vehicles.
  • America gave up its rare earth edge. China took full advantage.
    Decades of cheaper imports left US dependent on China for crucial rare earth processing.
  • Small undersea volcanoes may unleash outsized tsunamis
    Post-eruption imaging of the Hunga caldera gives new details of its collapse.


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