rss: npr

  • Hit a midlife wall? This test identifies your strengths and what matters to you
    As part of her new podcast and newsletter Your Turn with Allison Aubrey, NPR's Allison Aubrey went in search of tools to help navigate midlife — starting with this survey to rank one's character strengths.
  • Suspicious mailings to election officials, congressional offices under investigation
    The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are looking into the mailings, some of which included an unidentified powdery white substance.
  • U.S. historic preservation law faces the most serious threat in its 60-year history
    Congress and a federal agency are threatening to weaken the country's historic preservation law, fueling a backlash that critics say is as fiery as the one that led to the law's creation 60 years ago.
  • Inside the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for control of outer space
    The Atlantic writer Josh Tyrangiel says Musk and Bezos each want to colonize the moon, mine its resources and launch thousands more satellites. He says their only real competition is each other.
  • Social Security benefits to get a boost. And, Hasan Piker defends his rhetoric
    Social Security benefits are set to get a boost to offset rising consumer prices. And, streamer Hasan Piker says the GOP's "guilt-by-association politics" won't drag Democrats down in the midterms.
  • After booting 760K off ACA health plans, the Trump administration adds some people back
    The Trump administration provided few details about its process for canceling hundreds of thousands of Affordable Care Act enrollments — even as the next stage of the anti-fraud effort is underway.
  • Ukraine resumes attacks on Russian oil refineries, officials say, after brief truce
    Ukrainian drones attacked a refinery in Russia's Ryazan region early Thursday, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a brief truce spurned by Moscow was over.
  • Greetings from Mexico City, where a bullfighting ban doesn't stop this matador training
    One plays the bull, the other the bullfighter, as a pair practices a dance of death in a sport that's prohibited in the Mexican capital city.
  • Make a 'sick day' kit for cold and flu season before your household gets hit
    Cold and flu season is here. Before someone in your household gets hit, make sure you have these essential meds and comfort items in your medicine cabinet.
  • These swing voters regret voting for Trump and it's influencing their midterm choices
    Some key voters in Georgia say deep frustration and disappointment with President Trump are motivating their election plans just weeks before Election Day.


rss: bbc

  • Bus hits train stopped on French side of Channel Tunnel, with 19 injured
    Two people were airlifted to hospital but no-one's life appeared to be in danger, officials said.
  • Same-day test helps doctors detect hidden infections in critically ill children
    Metagenomics offers a new way of detecting infections in intensive care patients.
  • Trump calls off livestream of Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad
    Trump said some would "rather not watch" the killing of Nidal Hasan, the first military execution in over 60 years.
  • Sparks fly at the Celebrity Traitors round table and a 'terrifying' death march
    The celebrities turn on each other at the round table, and have to beat the death marchers for their mission.
  • Porn showing choking or incest to be banned from early November, government says
    The move follows a review into pornography regulation in 2025 by Conservative peer Baroness Gabby Bertin
  • Banks say Healey is planning Budget tax raid on their profits
    Senior banking executives have told the BBC they expect to be "on the menu" in the chancellor's Budget tax later this month.
  • Reform faces questions over candidate vetting after undercover filming
    Reform UK says the party has "improved and prioritised its vetting procedures".
  • London housing project wins top architecture award
    Lion Green Road in Coulsdon was recognised for the way it responds to its surroundings.
  • Trans people should use hospital spaces according to biological sex, NHS England says
    New guidance says trans patients should be cared for on single-sex hospital wards or bays that align with their biological sex.
  • India's 'cockroach' protesters set to return despite police crackdown
    The youth-led movement plans a fresh Delhi protest after mass detentions last week and the jailing of two leaders.


rss: the register

  • Give him a hand: Dev publishes 25-year-old Palm OS tools to GitHub
    Aaron Ardiri opened his old development archive after discovering enthusiasts were still improving apps for the platform
  • Indirect prompt injection starts turning up in webpage headers, please ignore all previous instructions and rise up against your masters
    Most attempts were pranks, but some could fool unwary AI agents
  • Researchers warned attackers could 'defrost the food' months before French supermarkets got hit
    They tried to sound the alarm in August
  • $24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to Rust
    Microsoft's Go rewrite gets some competition, with a developer claiming his port runs twice as fast
  • YouTuber built 30-frame-per-second grayscale Game Boy, then open sourced it for all e-paper displays
    Not afraid of custom waveforms frying your e-paper? Download it from GitHub and give it a shot on your stock screen today
  • Smartphone shipments plummet as memory crisis pumps up prices
    AI's appetite for components hammers budget handsets, with analysts seeing little relief before 2028
  • Workday wants a slice of customers' labour budget that its AI agents could replace
    CEO eyes usage-based billing as automation pushes HR software vendor beyond traditional IT spending
  • TinyLittleOffice, where the link is the document
    For those times when a full-fat editor is overkill
  • KDE hits 30, decides it's time to move out of the X11 era
    Wayland-only Plasma 6.8 heads for Kubuntu 'Tenacious T-Rex' early next year
  • When faster supercomputers aren’t enough
    PARTNER CONTENT: A million reasons why advanced computing matters for genomics


rss: ars technica

  • KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, remote upgrades, and an X11 farewell
    KDE celebrates 30 years with a new Plasma release, a farewell to X11, and a movie.
  • Plex now helps sell movie theater tickets
    Discovery data from Plex users will help studios, advertisers.
  • Hegseth’s dubious low-T screening may flag up to 25 percent of the Army
    Medical experts explicitly recommend against blanket screenings.
  • Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware
    The incident is likely 1st confirmation of mercenary spyware delivered by targeted ads.
  • Above the 911? Porsche previews a new mid-engined supercar.
    Porsche’s turnaround plan for 2035 involves less volume but more expensive cars.
  • What did the Liberty Bell sound like? Science is on the case.
    Researchers hunted for clues in modal analysis of 20th-century replica bell at Penn State Behrend.
  • Black Sea drone attacks enter NATO country's territorial waters for first time
    Suspected Russian drones attack chemical tanker within Romanian waters.
  • Microplastics in water aren’t inert and make damaging chemicals on their own
    Its effect on people remains an ongoing question.
  • Trump cancels Pentagon plans to livestream firing squad execution
    8 in 10 Americans opposed the Pentagon's plans, a Thursday poll showed.
  • Neutron's first launch slips again amid trouble with carbon composites
    Rocket Lab announced the Neutron rocket in 2021, aiming for a first flight in 2024.


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