rss: npr

  • Evette, backed by Trump, and Wilson, a Trump supporter, head to S.C. governor runoff
    In South Carolina, both Republican candidates for governor are MAGA devotees, but Trump only endorsed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, not Attorney General Alan Wilson. The two are headed to a GOP runoff.
  • House approves labor-friendly bill with support from 20 Republicans
    The House has approved a bill to slash the time it takes for newly unionized workers to get a first contract. The measure allows for government intervention if a deal is not reached within 90 days.
  • Three judges, three scandals and new scrutiny of judicial accountability
    Three judges are facing misconduct allegations in three different states, putting pressure on the federal judiciary's system for policing bad behavior in its own ranks.
  • House passes bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol through the remainder of Trump's term
    The bill provides roughly $70 billion for immigration enforcement and highlights a GOP caucus continuing to endorse Trump's immigration agenda as Democrats warn Congress has ceded its oversight role.
  • A warm World Cup welcome? U.S. immigration policies have chilling effect
    As the World Cup begins later this week, match officials and team members have faced enhanced immigration scrutiny when trying to enter the United States. A FIFA referee from Somalia was turned away.
  • Why there's a debate over the new quarantine center for Americans at risk of Ebola
    Opinions are divided about the new facility in Kenya. The U.S. defends it. Kenyans are protesting it. Doctors who were on the ground in the 2014 Ebola outbreak voice criticism as well.
  • NASA names 4 astronauts on the 'highly complex' Artemis III lunar training mission
    The crew of four — NASA astronaut and commander Randy Bresnik, European Space Agency pilot Luca Parmitano, NASA mission specialists Frank Rubio and Andre Douglas — are scheduled to launch next year.
  • To find the World Cup's Cinderellas, we have to start with the group stage
    Uzbekistan, Jordan, Cape Verde and Curacao are making their World Cup debut. Meanwhile, Scotland, South Africa, Canada, and New Zealand (just to name a few) have never made it past the group stage.
  • U.S. strikes Iran in response to downed helicopter
    Trump also confirmed the two pilots in the U.S. helicopter are unharmed and safe.
  • Big tobacco hooked us on ultra-processed foods. It might teach us how to cut back
    Research published in the American Journal of Public Health details the connection between ultra-processed foods and the tobacco industry when it comes to production, strategy and marketing.


rss: bbc

  • Disorder breaks out in Belfast after man charged with knife attack
    Police and political leaders call for calm after disorder breaks out in parts of Northern Ireland.
  • David Sullivan banned from contact with West Ham women's and youth teams since 2023
    The decision followed a safeguarding investigation opened by the the Football Association.
  • Inside Myanmar, rebels are losing ground as military forces men into army
    The BBC travels with rebels to frontline positions in Myanmar to see how the war is unfolding.
  • The rebels at the front line of Myanmar's civil war
    The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville travels to Myanmar - without the permission of the authorities - to meet a group of rebel fighters.
  • US strikes Iran in response to downing of helicopter, military says
    President Donald Trump earlier accused Iran of shooting down the US helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz and vowed to respond.
  • Bowen: Trump and Netanyahu wanted to reshape the Middle East - now they risk a permacrisis
    The US and Israeli leaders have lost control of the consequences after miscalculating the Iran war.
  • Advanced radiotherapy for prostate cancer to cut sessions from 20 to five
    Some men in England with the disease will now be offered an advanced form of treatment on the NHS.
  • Bill debt soars but many don't know help is available
    The majority of billpayers are unaware of special tariffs for water and broadband, the spending watchdog says.
  • Men jailed for violence at Henry Nowak police protest
    Disorder broke out in Southampton close to where the 18-year-old student was murdered.
  • Hidden homeless women are being missed from official figures, charities warn
    Two thirds of the women counted in a charity-led census would not have been recorded using the government method.


rss: the register

  • AI is making Patch Tuesday (kinda) fun again
    Unless you're an admin or vulnerability manager – then you're totally screwed
  • Salesforce cuts staff amid acquisition spree and $50 billion share buyback
    The layoffs come after CEO Marc Benioff boasted of record revenue and 'incredible cashflow' two weeks ago
  • If your sex life is dead, you can blame Steve Jobs
    Economists find signs of a ‘large and causal relationship between iPhones and fertility' in AT&T exclusivity-era data
  • Anthropic spins a Fable of a tamer, safer Mythos
    Company also changes data retention policy
  • Miasma worms its way onto GitHub as attack kit goes open source
    As if there weren't enough package poisonings to worry about
  • MIT boffins take electrospray nozzles out of the cleanroom, into the 3D printer
    Who said sub-millimeter, three-layer science juice had to be expensive to squirt?
  • Apple’s iOS 27 goes all agentic on compromised passwords, promises to change them with one tap
    iBiz might not win the AI race, but analysts say it's focusing on features people may actually use
  • Neo4j plots Palantir alternative with GraphAware acquisition
    Graph database biz says on-prem, air-gapped intel stack gives governments a no-kill-switch option
  • LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy
    The Document Foundation accuses newly launched Euro-Office of undermining digital sovereignty by defaulting to Microsoft's OOXML document format
  • Devs know AI code is riddled with holes, but ship it anyway
    Pressure to deploy wins out over security as four in five orgs confess to breaches from vulnerable apps


rss: ars technica

  • Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases
    Starlink, SpaceX's top moneymaker, also raised service prices by $5 to $10.
  • Locked in heated rivalry with researcher, Microsoft fixes 0-day they disclosed
    A separate zero-day also disclosed by Nightmare Eclipse appears to be patched as well.
  • Three key vital signs make up the "urban pulse" of a city
    Cities are dynamic, not static grids, and urbanization is a "spiky," cyclical, and asynchronous process.
  • Commonwealth Fusion makes the physics case for its 400 MW reactor
    Five peer-reviewed papers update the design and model its expected output.
  • Paramount accuses Netflix of "scorched-earth campaign" against WBD merger
    Netflix's response: "Absurd."
  • Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about
    New frontier model refuses cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry queries.
  • Google announces Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for instant voice-to-voice translation
    Voice translations preserve speaker's tone, pacing, pitch—with SynthID watermarks for security.
  • NASA assigns crew for Artemis III, sets aggressive timeline for flying it
    "Artemis III will be an extraordinary demonstration of what is possible."
  • Screwworms in US: Human risk is low—but they can burrow through your skull
    The chances are low, but not zero.
  • One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition code from its smart glasses
    Meta won't say why or whether it's coming back.


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