rss: npr

  • ICE officers set to deploy to airports as delays mount, border czar Homan confirms
    Border czar Tom Homan says ICE agents will help the Transportation Security Administration 'move those lines' while also enforcing immigration law.
  • This lab that's determined to discover new drugs isn't where you might expect
    A scientist from Zambia who loves — LOVES! — chemistry runs a lab in South Africa that is being hailed for "extraordinary" work.
  • An orthopedic surgeon explains the hand injury that has many MLB players on the bench
    Baseball hitters are on a quest for power. But that quest comes at a cost. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to orthopedic surgeon Dr. Thomas DiLiberti about baseball players suffering hamate injuries.
  • She cared for her mother for 14 years. She says she'd do it all over again
    Kathy Barnes-Lou cared for her mother for 14 years before her death. She learned that caregiving can bring life's purpose into focus, even as it grinds you down.
  • Democrats who won big in last November's general election are grappling with reality
    Some Democrats who were swept into office last November are grappling with the reality of governing. The new leader of Pennsylvania's Lehigh County says urgency is needed.
  • The Iran war is impacting the global economy, and Asia is particularly vulnerable
    NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator for the Financial Times, about how the war on Iran is effecting the global economy.
  • The effects of the Iran war on environmental and human health, according to an expert
    As the war in Iran enters its fourth week, the costs are adding up. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Doug Weir, with the Conflict and War Observatory, about impacts to human health and the environment.
  • Politics chat: Trump's mixed messages on the Iran war, the latest on DHS funding
    We look at President Trump's mixed messages on the war with Iran, plus the latest on Department of Homeland Security funding, which Congress has frozen over his immigration enforcement policies.
  • Trump threatens Iran's power plants as war enters fourth week with no end in sight
    We have the latest on the U-S and Israeli war on Iran, where in the past 48 hours, Israel has struck one of Iran's nuclear facilities and Iran has responded with strikes in Israel.
  • The U.S. is a big oil exporter. So why does it import most of the oil it consumes?
    NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to University of Texas engineering professor Hugh Daigle about why the U.S. imports most of the oil it consumes despite being one of the world's largest oil exporters.


rss: bbc

  • No assessment Iran could strike London, UK minister says
    Steve Reed says there is "no specific assessment" Iran is capable of hitting the UK, after Israel claimed it now could.
  • Energy bills rise 'inescapable' if oil prices stay high, says British Gas boss
    The boss of Centrica says it is "too early" to speculate but if oil costs continue to rise, homes will be hit.
  • Israeli settlers target Palestinian villages in occupied West Bank, attacking people and properties
    The violence began after 18-year-old settler Yehuda Sherman was killed after reportedly being hit by a vehicle driven by a Palestinian while on his quad bike.
  • 'Club vibes without the hangover': The twenty-somethings going out - in the gym
    Young people are driving a gym boom as more fitness spaces are transformed into vibrant hangouts.
  • 'We cannot be in peace', say Guthrie family as they renew appeal over missing mother
    A seven-week nationwide search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, the mother of TV anchor Savannah Guthrie has not identified any suspects.
  • What did critics think of Saturday Night Live UK's debut?
    The long-running US sketch show now has a British equivalent, which received a broadly positive reaction on its debut.
  • Trump says ICE agents will assist airport security as DHS shutdown continues
    Travellers have faced hours-long waits at airports around the country as a partial government shutdown has left TSA agents without pay.
  • Jorginho's criticism of Chappell Roan over daughter's tears goes viral
    Ex-Chelsea and Arsenal midfielder Jorginho goes viral with a social media post alleging singer Chappell Roan's security guard made his daughter cry.
  • Hillsborough campaigners blame Mahmood for law delay
    The Hillsborough Law has been further delayed and will not be passed in this session of parliament.
  • Newcastle-Sunderland paused after reported racism towards Geertruida
    Referee Anthony Taylor stopped the Premier League match in line with the competition's on-field anti-discrimination protocol.


rss: the register

  • CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge

    The operating system of the universe isn’t going to debug itself

    feature CERN is nothing like today's agentic AI jockeys, who mostly rely on pre-set weights and generic TPUs and GPUs to generate their slop. CERN burns custom nanosecond-speed AI into the silicon itself just to eliminate excess data.…

  • Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor

    Decades of data suggest people who stick to a couple of brews fare better in terms of gray matter

    A decades-long study suggests that your daily caffeine fix might be doing more than jolting you through morning meetings – it could also be quietly helping your brain hold it together.…

  • Payment biz pulls plug on open source charity after KYC spat

    Free Software Foundation Europe says it was asked for supporters' passwords; Nexi insists it only wanted test credentials to check cancellation flows

    The Free Software Foundation Europe says its electronic-payments provider Nexi Group unexpectedly "cancelled" its account – cutting the charity off from around 450 donors.…

  • Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports and subsequent ban

    Rust security maintainers contend Nadim Kobeissi's vulnerability claims are too much

    Since February, cryptographer Nadim Kobeissi has been trying to get code fixes applied to Rust cryptography libraries to address what he says are critical bugs. For his efforts, he's been dismissed, ignored, and banned from Rust security channels.…

  • Sorry, Amazon, you couldn't pick a worse time to bring a phone to market: IDC analyst

    The market is contracting

    Right product, wrong time? Amazon is reported to be developing a new smartphone, its first since 2014, and, according to industry tracker IDC, it will face entrenched competition with better products and a market that is expected to contract by double digits.…

  • Salesforce snaps up the team who built calendar app Clockwise to work on Agentforce

    Just the team, not the tech

    Salesforce's Agentforce team is getting an infusion of new talent by hiring the team behind Clockwise, a calendar scheduling app, but the app itself isn't sticking around.…

  • WSL graphics driver update brings better GPU support for Linux apps

    Meanwhile, WINE and OpenGL tweaks speed Windows apps on 64-bit hosts

    Whatever OS you run, you have a better chance to run non-native apps. Running Linux virtualized on Windows is set to speed up slightly, and so is running Windows apps on top of 64-bit Linux and macOS.…

  • Starship may chauffeur Orion to the Moon, as NASA mulls ditching SLS after Artemis V

    SpaceX's still-not-quite-orbital rocket tapped as lunar taxi. Musk's minicab anyone?

    NASA is reportedly considering using SpaceX's Starship to transport the Orion capsule to the Moon, with some sources calling it a done deal.…

  • Microsoft breaks Microsoft account sign-ins in Windows 11 with latest update

    OneDrive, Office, Teams Free users greeted with phantom 'no internet' errors, restart may help if you're lucky

    Microsoft has broken account sign-ins in Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 with a recent update, causing error messages in apps like OneDrive and Office.…

  • UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias

    Cams statistically more likely to ID Black people, says new research

    A UK police force has suspended its deployment of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after a study revealed it was statistically more likely to identify Black people on a watchlist database.…



rss: ars technica

  • There can (still) be only one: Highlander is 40
    Sure, it's cheesy in many respects, but its central mythology still resonates even decades later.
  • Mining the deep ocean
    Policymakers debate if we even need deep ocean mining and if we can do it safely.
  • We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids—what's it telling us?
    This week's result is just the latest in a growing collection of discoveries.
  • DOGE goes nuclear: How Trump invited Silicon Valley into America’s nuclear power regulator
    “Assume the NRC is going to do whatever we tell the NRC to do.”
  • Jury finds Musk owes damages to Twitter investors for his tweets
    The verdict, while not a complete loss, could still cost him billions.
  • You're likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you've never heard of
    Fatal brain infection was thought to be from profound immune suppression. Not anymore.
  • Once again, ULA can't deliver when the US military needs a satellite in orbit
    ULA's Vulcan launch vehicle is grounded after a solid rocket booster anomaly last month.
  • Microsoft keeps insisting that it's deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11
    "Reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points" is one of Microsoft's action items.
  • Writer denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use
    One of the first controversies of its kind.
  • Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack
    Admins: Sorry to say, but it's likely a rotate-your-secrets kind of weekend.


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