rss: npr

  • 'Rewarding loyalists,' punishing critics: How Trump's Treasury sanctions foreigners
    Spain's Prime Minister called U.S. strikes against Iran "unjustified." When other foreigners in power have used similar language against the U.S. or Israel, they were sanctioned by the Treasury.
  • Reproductive health clinics scramble as Title X funding cliff approaches
    Title X is a 56-year-old federal grant program that supports thousands of clinics that provide birth control and STI testing and treatment around the country. Now those clinics could face a funding gap because of a Trump administration delay.
  • From Descartes to punk rock, X has an extraordinary history
    The letter X can be a lot of things: rebellious, mysterious, religious. For this Word of the Week, we examine its origins and many uses.
  • Last protester in detention after Trump's campus crackdown has been released
    Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old from the West Bank who has lived in New Jersey since 2016, had been held in a U.S. immigration detention center in Texas since last March.
  • Tennessee teens sue Elon Musk's xAI over AI-generated child sexual abuse material
    The three girls say that the nonconsensual nude images were created by a perpetrator who used AI company xAI's image generation tools.
  • Afghanistan says 400 people killed in Pakistan strike on Kabul hospital
    Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of targeting a hospital for drug users in the Afghan capital with an airstrike, marking a dramatic escalation of a conflict that began late last month. Pakistan has dismissed the accusation.
  • Federal judge halts RFK Jr.'s changes to children's vaccine policies
    In a rebuke, a federal district court judge blocked the administration's reduction in the number of immunizations recommended for kids and also changes to an influential vaccine committee.
  • Supreme Court to hear expedited arguments on protected status for migrants
    The court temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting some 6,000 Syrians and 350,000 Haitians who were granted Temporary Protected Status.
  • A new drug could be the beginning of the end for sleeping sickness
    The goal in the world of global health is to bring an end to this scourge by 2030. A new drug looks as if it could do the job.
  • Cuba hit by island-wide blackout as energy crisis deepens
    On Monday Cuba was plunged into an island-wide blackout affecting 11 million people after a "complete disconnection" of its electrical system, officials said, amid a worsening fuel shortage.


rss: bbc

  • Chris Mason: Why Starmer thinks he's called it right on war despite Trump barbs
    The BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason considers the US president's recent jabs at the UK prime minister.
  • Easter holidaymakers switching from Dubai to Spain as flights fill up
    It comes after the war in Iran caused mass disruption to flights across the Middle East and UAE.
  • Quantum computing and AI to get £2.5bn to stop UK tech 'drifting abroad', Reeves vows
    The chancellor tells the BBC she wants the "pattern to end" while also pledging closer ties with the EU.
  • Dozens killed in air strike on Kabul rehab centre blamed on Pakistan
    The BBC visited the facility and saw more than 30 bodies being carried out on stretchers.
  • Spring to make a comeback with warmest day of the year forecast
    Temperatures are on the rise again this week and as hours of daylight overtake hours of darkness, it will feel like spring has returned.
  • Zelensky to visit Starmer to sign new Ukraine-UK defence pact
    Downing Street says the agreement bring together "Ukrainian expertise and the UK's industrial base".
  • Train Delay Repay rule changes to make claims easier
    There will also be additional checks on railcards during a trial to crack down on fraud.
  • Woman not shortlisted for job as 'car is too old'
    Alanah Thomspon French says her application was not progressed as her car was more than 10 years old.
  • Will Scotland be the first nation in the UK to legalise assisted dying?
    The final vote on the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill is seen as too close to call.
  • Moving English tests for migrants online risks criminal abuse, providers warn
    Moving visa tests online could open the door to fraudsters and criminal gangs, a letter to government warns.


rss: the register

  • Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet

    SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere else

    Feature BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol, was not designed to be secure. It was designed to work – to route packets between the thousands of autonomous systems that make up the internet, quickly and at scale.…

  • In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies

    A wearable sensor designed to monitor intestinal gas suggests the average person may let rip around 32 times a day

    For decades, Reg readers have demanded to know exactly how often humans let rip – and at last science may have produced an answer.…

  • BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops

    MPs say the Beeb closed broadcast services expecting audiences to migrate online, but digital reach has fallen instead

    Britain's push to drag the BBC World Service into the digital age hasn't gone quite to plan, with MPs warning the broadcaster's "digital-first" strategy has shrunk audiences rather than growing them.…

  • Everything needed to make DNA and RNA found in asteroid sample

    Results from Ryugu suggest the the Solar System produced the building blocks of life

    Scientists have found that all five of the substances that make up DNA and RNA in samples from Ryugu, the asteroid Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency visited in 2020.…

  • Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because tired users may be too lazy to check its mistakes

    Admins may be even more exhausted by then, because securing Microsoft’s AI helper is not a trivial job

    Gartner analyst Dennis Xu has half-jokingly suggested banning use of Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday afternoons, because he fears at that time of week users may be too lazy to properly check its possibly offensive output.…

  • Bank built its own threat hunting agent because vendors can’t keep pace with new threats

    AI helped send weekly threat signal count from 80 million to 400 billion, then helped response time shrink from two days to 30 minutes

    Australia’s Commonwealth Bank built its own agentic AI threat hunting tools, because vendors are too slow to develop tools that can cope with emerging AI-powered threats, according to General Manager of Cyber Defence Operations Andrew Pade.…

  • AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

    Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess

    interview Enterprise organizations are still struggling to figure out how AI fits into their business, and that may be for the best because it will take time to understand any problems caused by AI-generated code and content.…

  • Salesforce stock buyback to saddle company with debt until 2066

    'We want to use our capital correctly, and I think debt is a great way to do that,' says CEO Benioff

    Here today; here tomorrow. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s stock buyback will saddle the company with debt until 2066, when he turns 102 years old.…

  • Nvidia's DLSS 5 promises to bring you out the other side of the uncanny valley

    The latest generation of Nvidia’s AI image enhancer brings characters to life

    GTC Computer graphics have come a long way from chasing Donkey Kong around a 2D board and fragging 3D demons in Doom. However, even with the most powerful graphics cards, human faces in games still look surreal and lifeless, with dead eyes,saran-wrap-smooth faces, and beards that blend into their chins. With Nvidia’s upcoming DLSS 5, you can play with characters that look like they’re stepped out of a movie screen – and we’re not talking about a Pixar movie either.…

  • Nvidia wraps its NemoClaw around OpenClaw for the sake of security

    'OpenClaw is the operating system for personal AI,' insists Nvidia CEO

    gtc In Pixar's Toy Story, a trio little green aliens explain, "The claw chooses who will go and who will stay." The claw in that instance was a mechanical claw in a vending machine. …



rss: ars technica

  • RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine changes to CDC vaccine guidance blocked by judge
    Ruling temporarily blocks changes to vaccine recommendations and an advisory board.
  • Elon Musk's xAI sued for turning three girls' real photos into AI CSAM
    Discord user led cops to Grok-generated CSAM of real girls, lawsuit says.
  • National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info
    State attorneys general won't get climate chapter removed from a legal manual.
  • New "vibe coded" AI translation tool splits the video game preservation community
    Creator apologizes after using Patreon funds for Gemini-powered magazine scan processor.
  • Trump and his FCC chair demand more positive news coverage of Iran war
    Carr makes evidence-free claim of "hoaxes and news distortions." Trump is thrilled.
  • OpenAI’s own mental health experts unanimously opposed “naughty” ChatGPT launch
    OpenAI draws a line between AI “smut” and porn. Experts fear it’s all unhealthy.
  • Driving the $375,000 Porsche race car that debuted as a $12 DLC in iRacing
    Porsche's new 911 Cup debuted in iRacing, and then we took it out on the track.
  • F1 in China: I've never seen so many people in those grandstands
    Formula 1's new style of racing puts on an entertaining sprint weekend in Shanghai.
  • Apple’s AirPods Max 2 bring H2 chip, boosted ANC in April for $549
    Apple's over-head headphones get an update after over five years.
  • 100 years later, where is Robert Goddard's first liquid-fueled rocket?
    "He didn't preserve it as a sacred object... "


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