rss: npr

  • White House launches 'Trump TV' after ban on major news outlets
    Days after President Trump barred reporters from three major news outlets from the White House, the administration has launched a 24/7 YouTube channel promising to put its "biggest moments all in one place."
  • Trump's D.C. arch is now a military complex. Here's how that complicates things
    The future of Trump's D.C. arch was already fraught. Then he rebranded it as a military complex. Experts say that only raises more legal and logistical questions.
  • Inside a 'modern slavery situation' where cyber scammers are victims themselves
    Wired's Andy Greenberg explains how a cybercrime operation in Southeast Asia trapped computer engineers into defrauding victims of billions of dollars. Plus, he discusses the scam involving Fresh Air.
  • This 'fire amoeba' pushes the limit of what's possible for complex life
    Scientists have found a species they've named the fire amoeba, which is capable of reproducing at 145°F and continuing to move up to temperatures of 147°F — a record for complex eukaryotic life.
  • Sri Lanka court convicts 15 over deadly 2019 Easter bombings
    The Islamic State group-inspired attacks were among the deadliest in Sri Lanka's history, killing 42 foreigners.
  • CNN, MS NOW and Politico sue Trump. And, Paramount settles in massive merger lawsuit
    CNN, MS NOW and Politico have sued Trump after the networks were suspended from the White House. And, Paramount makes concessions to resolve a lawsuit over its massive Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
  • Houthis try to push deeper into western Yemen, upending life, witnesses tell NPR
    As the U.S. conflict with Iran drags, the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen have opened a new front, taking new territory and displacing more than 100,000 people.
  • A journalist once barred from the White House says this media ban is different
    Jim Acosta has already been through a White House press-pass fight. Now, three news organizations are barred, and he says the press is showing solidarity that should have come sooner.
  • New DNA analysis adds evidence Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings
    A lock of hair, 15 years of sleuthing and a 200-year-old question. In History by a Hair, Smithsonian Institution scholar Richard Kurin follows the DNA trail back to Thomas Jefferson.
  • AI solved one of math's hardest problems. Humanity learned nothing (so far)
    OpenAI beat humans to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, but mathematicians say the AI's solution isn't telling them much.


rss: bbc

  • Watch: Burnham 'gets it' says Trump, as the two leaders meet for first time
    Donald Trump says he can do business with Andy Burnham at their first face-to-face meeting in New York, but criticises the "terrible" Chagos deal.
  • Plot targeting Manchester's Jewish community disrupted, say police
    Two men were arrested in Manchester on Sunday, say counter-terror police.
  • Tim Westwood charged with two more sexual offences
    The alleged sexual offences date back to 1991 and 2004.
  • Earl Spencer should pull Diana book from shelves, Piers Morgan says
    Princess Diana's brother apologised to Morgan for a factual error in his memoir. Morgan said he is "pursuing legal action" against Spencer.
  • Father admits causing death of his son in hotel fall
    The two-year-old boy fell from the window of a hotel in Cyprus in July, a Paphos court hears.
  • Booker Prize judges reveal shortlisted novels after selection 'tussle'
    Past Booker winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are among the nominees for this year's award.
  • Lib Dems leave conference buoyed by Davey's message
    Concerns over Sir Ed Davey's leadership were dampened by pledges at conference and his performance.
  • Autopsy shows Hayden Panettiere died from a drug overdose
    The death of the child star - who had fentanyl, Xanax, a muscle relaxant and antipsychotic medication in her system - was ruled an accident.
  • US to build two military bases in Greenland under new deal with Denmark
    The defence deal signed at the UN General Assembly also re-affirms Denmark's sovereignty over its semi-autonomous Arctic territory.
  • New EU industry rules would damage UK, warns Burnham
    The prime minister met the European Commission President during his visit to the United Nations General Assembly.


rss: the register

  • ABBYY gives old-school OCR a job in the AI pipeline
    FineParser runs in a CPU-powered container, preserving tables and layout before handing documents to an LLM
  • NightmareEclipse's latest zero-day leaves Microsoft Defender stuck in the past
    BigDiskBuster leaves Microsoft's antivirus running but unable to install updates
  • Z.ai says sorry for slurping up your code, open sources ZCode
    China’s AI darling goes on the defense after engineer highlighted Grok-esque security flaws
  • Privacy group slams EU for changing the data rules to cater to AI
    Schrems campaign raises specter of another legal challenge as legislators propose changes to GDPR
  • UK cops arrest 2 EvilTokens suspects, Microsoft seizes 50 phishing kit websites
    Used by crims to compromise 12K+ email inboxes across 10K+ global orgs
  • Who signed off on that AI agent? Nobody? Thought so.
    SPONSORED FEATURE: AI agents may be unpredictable. Who they are, what they can do, and who owns them shouldn’t be.
  • Well-done hack flames 3.2M Burger King Russia users
    HIBP confirms cybercrims stuck a straw into marketing reservoir, sucking up six-years of leaky Whopper secrets
  • EU datacenter green scorecard finally escapes Brussels
    Long-delayed sustainability labels land as Commission eyes minimum efficiency standards
  • Register reader hit with surprise bill after Microsoft portals disagreed
    Did Copilot write the synchronization code?
  • Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI
    First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition


rss: ars technica

  • Cities across US oppose Trump FCC plan to preempt local broadband rules
    Cities defend permit requirements, say ISPs aren't building networks fast enough.
  • Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts
    EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.
  • Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting
    British Columbia sues OpenAI, demands Tumbler Ridge shooter’s ChatGPT logs.
  • Adobe Premiere finally brings powerful video editing to Android, and it's free
    You don't even need a Creative Cloud login to edit clips, but AI features cost extra.
  • Review: Resident Evil might just be the best gaming adaptation yet
    Director Zach Cregger's clever reboot strikes perfect balance between horror, humor, and over-the-top gore.
  • Toyota orders workers to train humanoid robots but says humans won't be replaced
    Toyota's push comes as automakers race to develop and deploy humanoid robots.
  • IT mistake erases 11 years of viewing history for hospitals’ maternity records
    The English hospitals recovered patient care data only.
  • Effort begins to fill the void left by terminated US climate report
    First paper added to community collection is a roadmap for research.
  • Shuffling the deck chairs: Xbox continues its "reset" with dramatic restructuring
    Activision gets Halo, Obsidian becomes part of Bethesda, and more internal shake-ups.
  • Protests for Germany’s car industry as job losses loom
    A combination of Chinese competition and US tariffs is causing problems in Germany.


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