rss: npr

  • Citing 'challenges,' AIPAC halts endorsements and direct contributions to candidates
    The pro-Israel lobbying group and influential political donor announced it would no longer endorse candidates or give directly to campaigns, instead mobilizing its members to give individually.
  • The Justice Department begins notifying counties where it wants to monitor elections
    The department has long deployed election monitors, but the Trump administration's unprecedented steps to try to wrestle control over elections have led to new concerns about DOJ monitoring this year.
  • Poll: Voters want Congress to be a check on Trump, trust Democrats more on issues
    A new poll shows record support for Democratic congressional candidates ahead of the midterms, as voters feel the party is better attuned to handling their top issues.
  • Meet the people moving north to escape increasingly hot summers
    As climate change fuels hotter summers, some Britons are moving north in search of cooler weather. Could a similar shift be on the horizon in the United States?
  • Top 2 Democrats on Intel say they're preparing for Trump to claim foreign meddling
    The top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees said they are working under the presumption that the president will seek to justify election interference by alleging fraud.
  • How Trump's attacks on voting system integrity might affect upcoming elections
    Election law expert Rick Hasen explains Trump's interference in the midterms, including threatening local officials with criminal prosecution unless they strike alleged noncitizens from voter rolls.
  • Why local officials are feeling 'on edge' as election day approaches
    Al Schmidt is the chief election official in the state of Pennsylvania. President Trump's insults put him in danger during the 2020 ballot count. Now Schmidt talks about preparing for the midterms.
  • Supreme Court upholds pause on Trump's anti-trans prison policy
    The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration has to continue providing gender-affirming care to inmates in federal prisons as litigation on efforts to change the policy continues.
  • New human data hints at psychedelics' potential to combat inflammation
    Lab studies have shown that psychedelics like psilocybin can lower inflammation and may be protective for a range of illnesses. Now, researchers are publishing some of the first data in humans that signals this holds potential for patients with neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's disease.
  • Sentenced to death at 17, at 68, quilt artist receives solo museum exhibition
    A quilt artist who spent decades on death row now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum.


rss: bbc

  • Burnham defends Jackdaw decision as Badenoch urges PM to overturn ban on new oil and gas licences
    The UK government says the field, which is opposed by environmental campaigners, could be producing gas by the end of this month.
  • Websites taken down worldwide as critical cyber-security update issued
    The vulnerabilities with PHP, a programming language widely used across the internet, have been described as the most significant ever found by AI.
  • Missiles hit Kyiv after Russia agrees to US call to resume Ukraine peace talks
    Moscow says it is "ready in principle" to resume peace talks and US President Donald Trump says the world is "the closest we've been" to ending the war.
  • Rosenberg: US diplomatic push offers little hope for imminent Ukraine peace
    President Vladimir Putin does not feel under pressure right now to end the war, the BBC's Russia Editor writes.
  • Criminals who skip sentencing will face solitary confinement or lose social visits
    Judges will be given new powers to impose tougher prison punishments on offenders who refuse to face their victims' families during sentencing.
  • Diabetes and ADHD drugs to be tested on Alzheimer's patients in new study
    Drugs will be tested simultaneously, which it's hoped will speed up the process of finding new treatments for this common type of dementia.
  • The real reasons US politicians are getting older
    No country for young men and women: why do older politicians seem to have such a tight grip on the US political system?
  • The 'trillion pound' oil fund the government believes Britain could have built
    For the first time, the Treasury calculates how much the UK could have raised by investing North Sea proceeds.
  • Airbnb hosts can no longer make guests strip beds and wash dishes under new rules
    The updated policy will apply to all reservations booked on the accommodation site on or after 20 November.
  • The four locations in the running to be UK City of Culture 2029
    The winner, announced in early 2027, will receive £10m to deliver a year of cultural activities.


rss: the register

  • PHP blames supply chain security biz Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk
    'Coordinated vulnerability disclosure, unless there's evidence of active exploits in the wild,' Chainguard CEO tells The Reg
  • OpenClaw creator says he spent $10 million in tokens last month
    Good thing it's somebody else's money
  • Reach new heights of laziness by burning tokens to let an AI tap your smartphone screen for you
    Nothing will ruin your faith in humanity like an AI that operates your smartphone slowly, struggles with basic tasks, and can charge you for it
  • Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models
    New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows
  • LiteLLM supply chain attack hoovers up passwords and secrets
    Plus a RAT for good measure - get threat hunting now
  • AI will eat a fifth of tech budgets in 2027, but don't expect it to pay for itself
    Forrester says only isolated wins are likely, while 'good enough' open-weight models soak up the tokens
  • Signal bug could keep your mic - and camera - on after hangup
    Careful what you say after goodbye, or better yet, update your messaging app
  • OpenBSD 8.0 beefs up virtual machines and gets a taste of Wine
    Proposed port brings 64-bit Windows apps within reach
  • PHP devs publish critical bug fix as site owners warned: Pull 'em offline if you're unpatched
    Websites down as precaution as exploits have already been published
  • Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision
    Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all feature in Berlin keynote interrupted by environmental protesters


rss: ars technica

  • FCC chair warns media not to run the "fake polls" Trump keeps complaining about
    Ex-FCC chairs say Brendan Carr aims to scare broadcasters into self-censorship.
  • Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought
    Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves.
  • Enterprises keep buying software upgrades that IT thinks will make things worse
    Survey of 2,018 IT heads at big firms points to a lack of leverage.
  • Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3
    Tesla’s once-booming energy storage business also shrunk in Q3 2026.
  • The new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI world
    Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.
  • RIP BioWare: EA shuts down storied RPG studio after over three decades
    Next Mass Effect project canceled as parent company lays off 400.
  • OpenAI's latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity
    Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.
  • Report: Musk ordered Starlink slowdown in Ukraine, then blamed it on Trump
    Musk and Trump both denied ordering Starlink slowdown. WSJ reports it was Musk.
  • Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits
    Trump’s EPA can't unilaterally dismiss SpaceXAI pollution lawsuit, court rules.
  • Does opting out of smart TV tracking work? Research finds “suspicious” traffic.
    OS operators throwing out that data is "unlikely," research author tells Ars.


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