rss: npr

  • Morning news brief
    Trump and Obama campaign at rallies ahead of Election Day, two reports will give latest insights on GDP and inflation ahead of midterms, Israel's election is deadlocked.
  • Spain reckons with 2nd deadly train crash of the year ahead of national election
    Spain's second high-speed rail disaster this year, a crash in which one train struck another from behind, killing 68 people, has raised fresh concerns about the safety of the country's rail network.
  • Brewers beat the Rays to win the first World Series title in franchise history
    The small-ball Milwaukee Brewers playing in the smallest market in the majors are World Series champions for the first time. The championship comes in the 58th season for a franchise that began as the Seattle Pilots in 1969.
  • Hackers expose the identities of more than 40,000 DHS employees
    A group of hacktivists calling themselves Distributed Denial of Secrets, said the unmasking of ICE agents, DHS operatives and contractors was fair play, given the government's lack of transparency.
  • Forecasters are predicting a warmer and wetter winter. Here's how El Niño will affect your region
    El Niño years typically lead to more precipitation and higher-than-average temperatures. The latest data shows the different potential impacts by region.
  • Judge denies the Justice Department's bid to stop processing California ballots
    While the judge rejected the Department of Justice's unprecedented demand in California, the case isn't over yet. The federal government immediately filed notice that it will appeal.
  • Trump administration will allow pharmacies to make popular peptides
    The Department of Health and Human Services will let small compounding pharmacies make six peptides that haven't been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. It may not be enough to meet demand.
  • Brazilian political drama unfolds as defeated Flavio Bolsonaro arrives in Miami
    Defeated presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro and his family have arrived in the U.S. after Brazilian authorities ordered him to surrender his passport. He is facing multiple investigations in Brazil.
  • Trump administration wants to remove regulations on a super planet-heating gas
    The Trump administration wants to undo a Biden-era rule that would reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.
  • New book revisits the 2023 killing of an unhoused man in crisis on the NYC subway
    Jordan Neely was frightening fellow passengers. A former Marine named Daniel Penny put Neely into a chokehold, killing him. Journalist Anand Giridharadas investigates the incident in Man in the Mirror.


rss: bbc

  • Healey promises reduction in welfare bill before next election
    The Conservatives criticised the chancellor for not providing more details on welfare reform in his Budget.
  • I earn £30,000. I'm angry there was no fuel duty cut in the Budget
    People on a range of incomes from £4,062 to £150,000 a year tell the BBC what they made of this year's Budget.
  • Audio reveals exchanges between control centre and drivers before deadly Spain train crash
    The recordings appear to show one high-speed train was given clearance to move even though another up ahead had stalled.
  • Ofcom sets out social media age-checking methods ahead of ban
    Ofcom says photo and digital ID, banking checks or facial age estimation can help prove someone is 16 or over.
  • Flávio Bolsonaro denies fleeing Brazil after landing in Miami
    The defeated Brazilian candidate claims to be the victim of a coup d’état and political persecution, recycling unsubstantiated allegations of “electoral fraud”.
  • Death of US actress Hayden Panettiere ruled accidental
    The Heroes and Nashville star died in August from the toxic effects of fentanyl, Xanax and several other drugs.
  • Family row over George Michael items up for auction - including Faith guitar
    The brother of the singer's late personal assistant says she would not have wanted the items to be sold.
  • Details of thousands of US immigration agents leaked in major hack
    A group called the Department of Peace released information on more than 41,000 DHS staff.
  • Watch: BBC in the Philippines where Thomas Markle is expected to be investigated
    Jonathan Head is in Cebu, reporting from outside the home where Markle last resided.
  • Weight-loss jab boom brings needles warning for recyclers
    Recycling bosses say used needles are increasingly being found among household waste.


rss: the register

  • Admin dropped the F-bomb in a password to show hackers who was really 1337
    Cursing in login credentials can help keep the bad guys out, but not when the rest of your security is BS
  • HPE puts storage to work on AI’s expensive memory problem
    PARTNER CONTENT: HPE Alletra MP X10000 cache offload delivers up to 20× faster time to first token in testing validated by Kamiwaza. Apparently, remembering things beats calculating them again.
  • Google's Gemini 4 Carbon looks like a diamond in the rough
    Undercutting Claude on price ahead of Anthropic's IPO
  • Boffin's software found a possible dwarf planet - a result so rare he thought it must be a bug
    2026 ED138 is way out beyond Neptune and perhaps the smallest known object of its type
  • Tape is so not dead that Fujifilm will increase production capacity 5x
    Because, sigh, AI
  • Google struggling to make AI Mode searches pay
    That’s a problem, cos it just spent $51 billion on infrastructure and still needs to rent compute from others to run its cloud
  • Please state the nature of the medical emergency: Google is building a robot medic for NASA
    The AI medical assistant is still being tested. Now the space boffins want to give it hands
  • Anthropic engineer declares the coding interview dead
    Why give people tests that AI aces?
  • Oracle celebrates end of Cybersecurity Awareness Month with quadruple trouble
    Attackers probe another EBS bug, and ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft 0-day turns out to involve three vulns
  • Amazon tells tokenmaxxing devs to slow their AI roll
    Focus more on what matters, please, like creating useful software and accomplishing company goals


rss: ars technica

  • ULA's Vulcan rocket is set to return to flight on Friday the 13th
    This Vulcan launch will be the first to utilize a full complement of six solid rocket boosters.
  • As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland
    Europe's Pan-Arctic Cable will bypass US to link Canada, Japan, and South Korea.
  • Peptide peddlers cheer as RFK Jr. unilaterally grants access, overruling FDA
    Six unproven peptides popular with MAHA now under "enforcement discretion policy."
  • Trump admin sues Utah to save Kalshi from the state's total ban on gambling
    US agency has sued 10 states for trying to stop gambling on prediction markets.
  • The last, best hope for space tourism just rolled onto a runway in Arizona
    It has been nearly a year since any space tourism flights occurred.
  • Touchscreen MacBook Pro hands-on: OLED looks great on a Mac
    It's not as different from the previous model as you might have expected.
  • Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can't use
    Gemini 4 Carbon is essentially a slightly better version of Argon.
  • Amazon turns its most capable smart speaker into a smart camera, too
    The Echo Studio with Home Camera can "see and understand what's in front of the camera."
  • Cadillac Escalade IQ review: Huge battery, huge range, huge SUV
    With more than 200 kWh, this luxury three-row can go 460 miles on a charge.
  • Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
    But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.


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