rss: npr

  • Despite concerns, the Trump administration still sends pregnant migrant minors to south Texas
    Several children have had to leave the state to receive medical care, including abortions, that is unavailable in Texas.
  • Judge orders an inquiry into potential DOJ misconduct in Trump's golf course case
    A federal judge is opening an formal inquiry into Trump officials' conduct in the East Potomac case, including whether they misled the court about their plans for the municipal golf course.
  • ICE activity is surging ahead of midterms. So is voter turnout.
    Across the country, there are reports of heightened ICE activity. Advocates worry about how close it is to midterms, but so far voter turnout is surging.
  • NPR special: 5 takeaways from a year of listening to swing voters
    Every election, there is a crucial sliver of voters who help determine which candidates win. Here are five takeaways from a year of listening to voters who backed Biden in 2020 and then Trump in 2024.
  • Blockchain intelligence firms link North Korea to $6.3B hack on Binance
    The world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange reported Thursday that approximately $6.3 billion was impacted in an apparent hack.
  • Why is the Cheesecake Factory at the center of the latest culture war?
    A joke by former President Obama has gone viral and received backlash from the Trump administration as the issue of affordability looms large over next week's midterm elections.
  • Binance flags 'potential security issue,' says approximately $6.3 billion impacted
    It wasn't immediately clear the extent of the damage hackers might have been able to cause, and Binance had not explicitly confirmed that funds had been pilfered. The company said its teams are "working around the clock" to resolve the issue.
  • Alaska's Senate race faces claims of spoiler candidate. And, Hegseth ousts Army general
    Alaska's governor ordered an investigation into claims that Dems recruited a spoiler candidate to confuse voters. And, Hegseth ousted an Army general as the U.S. prepares for potential attacks on Iran.
  • The two most interesting risks to Anthropic
    Anthropic gave a 94-page list of risk factors in its S-1 this week. Two of them stood out.
  • Candy prices got you scared stiff? What to know about the cost of Halloween this year
    Prices for candy, the most popular Halloween purchase, and gum have risen 7.7% in one year and are up more than 18% in two years, according to the latest federal data.


rss: bbc

  • US approves sale of 500 Patriot missiles to Ukraine
    The American-made interceptors are the only effective weapon for downing Russia's ballistic missiles.
  • Burnham 'open' to calls for slavery apology but not reparations
    The prime minister says Britain must "face up to the past" for its role in the transatlantic slave trade but reparations are "not the right answer".
  • Why North Korea's 'elite' hackers are the prime suspect in major Binance hack
    If the accusations are true, the record-making heist shows how powerful suspected North Korean hackers have become.
  • Celebrity Traitors comes to a climax in nail-biting final
    The second series of the hit show reached its climax on Friday after attracting 15 million viewers.
  • Watch: Traitor or faithful? Celebrities reveal their allegiances
    The second series of BBC One's The Celebrity Traitors reached its climax on Friday, with the 21 original contestants having been reduced to seven before the final.
  • Mahmood expected to announce changes to rules around indefinite leave to remain
    The home secretary has faced opposition from within the government over plans to impose new rules on migrant workers already in the UK.
  • He left 28 years ago, now after 36,000 miles Karl Bushby is almost home
    Global walker Karl Bushby is almost within sight of his journey's end after 28 years away.
  • Responsible or panicked? Meet the people around the world already preparing for crisis
    Filter straws to a disposable toilet - people in the US, Japan, Sweden and Netherlands on what's in their emergency stashes.
  • 'The necktie is dead': How US midterm candidates are dressing for votes
    From Alaska to Texas, candidates with an eye on Congress are using their personal style to stand out.
  • Why MPs keep talking about an early election despite Burnham's denials
    The prime minister has categorically ruled out an early general election, but it has not stopped speculation at Westminster.


rss: the register

  • Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan
    How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot
  • Darkbloom, which allowed Mac users to rent out their GPUs for AI inference, warns of low payouts
    Blame plunging prices on tokens
  • HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare
    How the Uber-bound delivery giant tuned its mobile networking stack to cut latency
  • Crim spent $7K+ on AI services in extortion attacks, then left evidence for all to see
    n0n-existent security
  • GM cracks the petty cash box for multistate driver tracking settlement
    $220 million? For all of you? Yeah, we can probably dig that up ...
  • Anthropic: That Claude Code extension compromise… couldn't be us
    Claudeshop fingers 'malicious actor' in targeted supply-chain attack on Cursor
  • Voyager 1 gives controllers the silent treatment
    Whew! Only kidding, here I am
  • AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS
    Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland
  • NASA ponders a Hubble servicing mission or a controlled deorbit
    Agency only looking for information, but reentry countdown ticking for veteran space telescope
  • AI projects not paying off? Keep at it, says Uni Productivity Institute
    All that up-front investment needs time to take effect, and speeding individual tasks won't necessarily boost the entire firm


rss: ars technica

  • Once again, NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble from certain death
    The space agency solicited ideas for reboosting Hubble four years ago, but they didn't go anywhere.
  • Flesh-eating screwworms spread to third state and are attacking pets
    USDA has identified 74 animal cases in US since parasitic flies invaded in June.
  • Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart
    "For huge numbers of people, I will always be Jean-Luc Picard. ... We created an admirable individual."
  • Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
    Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.
  • Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
    It's still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic's verified Cursor account.
  • Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
    People who love AI don't always love telling others they used it.
  • Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren't even good
    Faked symptoms still point to infections that antibiotics don't treat.
  • Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
    But it's still early days for the relatively new e-commerce use case.
  • Rare meteorite from Mars gives us a view into its ancient crust
    A meteorite found in the Sahara is a rare piece of Mars' ancient crust.
  • Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
    Low costs and offline security mean magnetic tape still has a job.


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