rss: npr

  • 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?
  • U.S. envoys in Moscow in new push for peace between Russia and Ukraine
    U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have arrived in Moscow to revive efforts to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for a halt to air attacks during their visit, but Moscow has not publicly responded.
  • Voters are fed up with data centers. Both parties are trying to cash in for midterms
    Democrats and Republicans have found common ground in this campaign season. Both parties have poured millions into ads attacking data centers as the public continues to protest the AI facilities.
  • Flock cameras draw opposition from across the political spectrum
    As political races heat up heading into the midterms, candidates from both parties are increasingly joining the fray to voice concerns over Flock surveillance cameras.
  • Philippines Vice President Sara Duterte posts bail after arrest
    Philippines Vice President Sara Duterte has posted bail after order issued for her arrest on charges she publicly threatened to arrange assassination of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and two others.
  • The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size
    The U.N. has backed a new map showing Africa in its true relative size, with the U.S. standing alone in opposition.
  • 4 things investigators learned about the dysfunction at Trump's Labor Department
    A report from Labor Department investigators found former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer violated her own department's policy prohibiting harassment. She resigned in April.
  • 'Hidden tribunals': Immigration court due process in tumult with new locations
    The new effort appears to be another tactic in a broader Trump administration strategy to short-circuit immigrants' already limited due process options in order to speed deportations.
  • 'The health system in Nepal is not prepared for this'
    That's the grim assessment from the ground in the wake of the catastrophic flooding, which damaged or destroyed 7 health facilities, interrupted routine care and is affecting mental health.
  • El-Sayed split Michigan Democrats. Whether they unify could decide Senate control
    After a bruising Senate primary, Michigan Democrats are trying to unify to hold onto a must-win seat. But healing those fissures is proving not so simple.


rss: bbc

  • Cleveland police chief proud of force but being 'let down' by funding
    Victoria Fuller tells the BBC the force's resources need a rethink, speaking after the A66 crash in Middlesbrough which killed seven including two officers.
  • 'I'd rather die than ring the police': Distrust and fear in Middlesbrough after A66 crash
    BBC News visits town where violence has escalated after the fatal crash and residents say they are living in fear.
  • Reform promises to increase tax-free personal allowance to £15,000
    The party says the tax cut will be paid for by reducing public spending by £80bn.
  • Lindsay Clancy murder trial has divided US on whether she's victim or criminal
    Some say the case shed light on the mental health struggles of mothers, while others argue it's no excuse for murder.
  • Trump's response is key as Argentina's Falklands demands get louder
    With Argentina's President Milei promising "winds of change" over the Falklands, will Donald Trump shift his stance on British rule?
  • Michael Owen doesn't tell his children he loves them - how big a deal is that?
    His comments sparked discussions around parenting, gender and culture, and just how important those three simple words are.
  • Police say these cameras make US safer - so why are they being sabotaged?
    The AI-powered cameras have been vandalised across the US, as citizens object to the growing surveillance network.
  • Counterfeit copies of experimental weight-loss jab flood black market
    Counterfeit versions of a drug which is still in clinical trials are flooding the black market.
  • Recipe for success - the Chicken Shop Date moments that created a YouTube star
    After more than 10 years, Amelia Dimoldenberg announced Chicken Shop Date was shutting up shop.
  • Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
    The Netherlands has relocated 86 tonnes of the shiny stuff - what's going on?


rss: the register

  • 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
  • PostgreSQL 19 connects the dots with standardized graph queries
    Baked-in SQL syntax arrives through multi-vendor collaboration, although indexing still needs to catch up
  • JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up
    Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers.


rss: ars technica

  • 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.
  • Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
    The Pentagon says the guidance is being updated after being online for one day.
  • A ratings board wouldn't let Valve release a trailer. It "leaked" it instead.
    "I think we can't get in trouble for that now. It's like 20 years ago."
  • Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed
    Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice.


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