rss: npr

  • At least 6,000 killed over 3 days during RSF attack on Sudan's el-Fasher, UN says
    More than 6,000 people were killed in over three days when a Sudanese paramilitary group unleashed "a wave of intense violence" in Sudan's Darfur region in late October, according to the UN.
  • Obama responds to Trump sharing racist AI video depicting him as an ape
    "There doesn't seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum," Obama said in an interview that was posted on YouTube Saturday.
  • Photos: The flying doctors of Lesotho won't let their wings be clipped
    This band of airborne health workers bring essential medical care to isolated communities in the southern African nation. In addition to turbulence, they face a new obstacle: budget cuts.
  • Rockstar athletes like Ilia Malinin often get 'the yips' at the Olympics. It can make them stronger
    Ilia Malinin's painful falls at the Milan Cortina Games follow in a long tradition of great U.S. athletes who get the "yips" or the "twisties" during the Olympics.
  • U.S. Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin finishes another Olympic race without a medal
    U.S. Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin looks unstoppable everywhere except the Olympics. She's running out of chances to medal at the Milan Cortina Games.
  • 'Major travel impacts' expected as winter storm watch issued for northern California
    As people travel for the holiday weekend, much of Northern California is under a winter storm watch, with communities bracing for several feet of snow.
  • Brazil's Pinheiro Braathen wins gold, and South America's first Winter Olympics medal
    Once a racer for Norway, Pinheiro Braathen switched to Brazil, his mother's home country. In winning the Olympic giant slalom on Saturday, he earned South America's first medal at a Winter Games.
  • For U.S. pairs skater Danny O'Shea, these Olympics are 30 years in the making
    Danny O'Shea turned 35 at his first Olympics, after three decades of skating and two reversed retirements.
  • Want a mortgage for under 3% in 2026? Meet the 'assumable mortgage'
    Low mortgage rates from the COVID era might still be attainable for homebuyers, if they find the right house and have the cash.
  • Epstein files fallout takes down elite figures in Europe, while U.S. reckoning is muted
    Unlike in Europe, officials in the U.S. with ties to Epstein have largely held their positions of power.


rss: bbc

  • Team GB clinches second gold of day at Winter Olympics
    Team GB wins two Winter Olympic titles on one day for the first time as Matt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker clinch mixed team skeleton gold.
  • Andrew's time as trade envoy should be investigated, says Vince Cable
    The former prince's alleged actions were "totally unacceptable", the ex-business secretary says.
  • DNA found on glove appearing to match those in Nancy Guthrie suspect video
    The FBI says it recovered the evidence sample from the glove, which was found in a field near the side of the road a few miles from Guthrie's home
  • Ukraine's ex-energy minister detained while attempting to leave country
    His detention comes as he faces legal proceedings after being dismissed in a corruption scandal.
  • UK wants action taken on Russia after Navalny frog poisoning, Cooper says
    The foreign secretary said the UK would "continue to look at co-ordinated action, including increasing sanctions on the Russian regime".
  • What is the dart frog toxin allegedly used to kill Alexei Navalny?
    The toxin, epibatidine, can be found in frogs in the wild in South America or manufactured in a lab.
  • Hundreds of thousands join Iran protests around the world
    Munich, Los Angeles, and Toronto saw the largest crowds, with smaller rallies also taking place in Tel Aviv and Libson.
  • 'Trump will be gone in three years': Top Democrats try to reassure Europe
    Opposition politicians flocked to a summit in Munich to offer an alternative to America First - and stake a claim as future party leaders.
  • This rail line caused travel chaos during storms. £165m later, it's happened again
    Taxpayer money has flowed into fixing the rail line connecting Cornwall with the rest of the UK - but the elements have other ideas.
  • Delivery van 'stuck on deadliest mudflat footpath'
    HM Coastguard Southend says the van driver had been trying to get to Foulness Island.


rss: the register

  • GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down

    But that doesn't mean AI is ready to dispense justice

    ai-pocalypse Legal scholars have found that OpenAI's GPT-5 follows the law better than human judges, but they leave open the question of whether AI is right for the job.…

  • Penguin-powered platform board keels over at Alpine station

    It must be that fresh mountain air

    Bork!Bork!Bork! Just picture it. You're at a Swiss train station, looking for information on your connecting line. You peer up at the platform sign hoping to find out how long you'll be waiting and whether you're standing in the right place. But instead of helpful info, you see "* Installation log files are stored in /tmp." Gee, thanks a lot!…

  • If Microsoft made a car... what would it be?

    What is the automotive equivalent of Word, and where does Copilot fit?

    In the Venn diagram of car owners whose vehicles have a certain amount of "character" and individuals who use Microsoft's applications, there is an intersection of people who accept a quirk or two but not an unexpected explosion.…

  • Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows

    Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course

    Hands-on Run real Windows in an automatically managed virtual machine, and mix Windows apps in their own windows on your Linux desktop.…

  • How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them

    Just ask DeepSeek

    Two of the world's biggest AI companies, Google and OpenAI, both warned this week that competitors including China's DeepSeek are probing their models to steal the underlying reasoning, and then copy these capabilities in their own AI systems.…

  • Log files that describe the history of the internet are disappearing. A new project hopes to save them

    The Internet History Initiative wants future historians to have a chance to understand how human progress and technical progress align

    APRICOT 2026 For almost 30 years, the PingER project at the USA’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used ping thousands of time each day to measure the time a packet of data required to make a round trip between two nodes on the internet.…

  • Amazon-backed X-Energy gets green light for mini reactor fuel production

    Startup expects to complete construction of its first fuel plant later this year

    Amazon inched closer to its atomic datacenter dream on Friday after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensed its small modular reactor partner X-energy to make nuclear fuel for advanced reactors at a facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.…

  • ServiceNow can't seem to keep its wallet closed, snaps up small AI analytics company

    News of the deal came about two weeks after CEO Bill McDermott swore off any “large scale” M&A this year. A spokesperson called this deal a “tuck in.”

    Despite its CEO's insistence that it wasn't doing any "large scale" deals soon, ServiceNow has acquired yet another company. This time, the software firm has scooped up Pyramid Analytics, an Israeli corporation with data science and preparation expertise. The goal is to build additional context and semantics into its software stack.…

  • Anthropic wants comp-sci students to vibe code their way through college

    By partnering with CodePath, AI biz aims to modernize how people learn to program

    Can using AI teach you to code more quickly than traditional methods? Anthropic certainly thinks so. The AI outfit has partnered with computer science education org CodePath to get Claude and Claude Code into the hands of students, a time-tested strategy for seeding product interest and building brand loyalty.…

  • Oxide plans new rack attack, packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM

    Oxide says AMD’s Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works

    Remember that giant green rack-sized blade server Oxide Computer showed off a couple of years back? Well, the startup is still at it, having raked in $200 million in Series-C funding this week as it prepares to bring a bevy of new hardware to market with updated processing power, memory, and networking.…



rss: ars technica

  • Ancient Mars was warm and wet, not cold and icy
    Kaolinite pebbles show evidence of alteration under high rainfall conditions.
  • Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
    We are reinforcing our editorial standards following this incident.
  • "It ain't no unicorn": These researchers have interviewed 130 Bigfoot hunters
    What prompts this community to spend time looking for a creature that likely doesn't exist?
  • NASA has a new problem to fix before the next Artemis II countdown test
    "We observed materially lower leak rates compared to prior observations during WDR-1."
  • A Valentine's Day homage to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Ang Lee's gorgeous 2000 masterpiece has awe-inspiring martial arts stunts and a tragic love story for the ages.
  • Astronomers are filling in the blanks of the Kuiper Belt
    Next-generation telescopes are mapping this outer frontier.
  • WHO slams US-funded newborn vaccine trial as "unethical"
    CDC awarded $1.6 million for study birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.
  • Aided by AI, California beach town broadens hunt for bike lane blockers
    Hayden AI's cameras will scan for violations from 7 city vehicles.
  • Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones
    Verizon unlocks have 35-day waiting period after paying off device plan online.
  • Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage
    “This is definitely not about dogs,” senator says, urging a pause on Ring face scans.


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