rss: npr

  • 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.
  • Uncertainty over the Strait of Hormuz remains, 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.
  • What's it like to negotiate with Iran? We asked people who have done it
    Experts who spent months negotiating a 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran say mutual mistrust, starkly different negotiating styles, and the complexity of the issues make a quick deal unlikely.
  • Not just Trump: Redistricting race will hinge on what these state leaders did
    An 82-year-old Virginia senator raising the stakes, an Indiana consensus builder and a Texas enforcer are among state officials who have shaped the course of the midterm redistricting race.
  • Sitting in a jail cell, alone and hopeless, a man's life is suddenly changed
    Jay found himself sitting in a jail cell, alone and hopeless, after attempting to break into a building on his college campus. A fellow inmate's unexpected words brought him comfort — and changed the course of his life.
  • Judge halts local TV giant Nexstar's takeover of rival Tegna until trial
    U.S. Judge Trevor Nunley ruled that consumers could suffer irreparable harm if Nexstar integrated Tegna's stations into its own operations ahead of an antitrust trial.


rss: bbc

  • 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.
  • Chris Mason: Mandelson saga is a messy palaver - and the questions continue to swirl
    Sir Keir and the top official at the Foreign Office at the time are expected to face questions from MPs next week.
  • Mortgage rates show signs of falling after Iran war peak
    Major lenders make rate reductions as markets take some heart from a possible truce in the Iran war.
  • The home cooks reviving forgotten British dishes you've probably never heard of
    Carrageen pudding and Bedfordshire clangers might no longer be household staples, but some home chefs are bringing them back.
  • 'I'm the lucky one' - more than one in three young men now live with their parents
    Last year, the highest proportion of men aged 20-34 were still living at home since at least 2007 as the rising cost of living takes hold.
  • Madonna joins Sabrina Carpenter to surprise Coachella
    The Queen of Pop makes a guest appearance during the Espresso singer's headline set.
  • My weekly juggling act - being a teacher to other children and a mum to my own
    Many teachers say they struggle to balance the pressures of their job with the demands of being a parent.
  • Coachella campers are turning tents fancy and not all Brits are happy
    Campers are being judged for over-the-top tent set ups at this year's festival in California.
  • Orbán's era was over in a flash and Hungary's next PM is a man in a hurry
    Péter Magyar and his Tisza party are wasting no time preparing for the transfer of power after their dramatic landslide victory.
  • A man wrongfully served 17 years for rape. Now another man has been convicted
    Malkinson had his rape conviction quashed in 2023 after fresh DNA analysis linked a new suspect to the offence.


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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