rss: npr

  • Arizona's taps won't run dry, but water bills will go up under federal plan for Colorado River
    New federal rules mean Arizona will be getting a lot less water from the Colorado river. City leaders say they've been planning for years and no one will run out, but keeping taps flowing is expensive.
  • What Argentina gets right about youth soccer — and what the U.S. gets wrong
    Argentina has produced some of the world's greatest soccer players. Could its youth system offer lessons for the United States?
  • Families of pilgrims likely caught in floods are desperate for news from Nepal
    Four days after catastrophic floods wiped out villages along the Nepal-China border, thousands are still missing. Families look for answers but hear nothing.
  • Canada claps back at Trump's efforts to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'
    Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a giant billboard reading: "Lake Ontario — Now and Always." But tech giant Google has said it is renaming the lake for U.S. users, as President Trump demanded.
  • Exclusive: Meet the inaugural winner of Fat Marmot Week
    Dawn was crowned fattest marmot by popular vote.
  • Politics chat: more tariffs, mail-in voting order, Kushner-Jeffries meeting
    Real economic sanctions on Canada and economic threats to countries trading with Iran may work against Republicans in the midterm elections.
  • Are you sure that Kimmel clip was real? Late-night AI deepfakes are spreading online
    While social media is rife with AI celebrity deepfakes, videos featuring late night TV hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart are are easier to create than other kinds of deepfakes and potentially more disruptive.
  • 'A glorious dawn launch': NASA's newest space telescope has left the Earth
    The tour-bus-sized telescope aims to unravel cosmic mysteries and identify more than 100,000 planets beyond our solar system.
  • How a comic book store got swept into the tariff storm
    Tariffs continue to rile all kinds of American businesses more than a year after Trump unveiled his first set of tariffs — including a comic book store owner in Ohio.
  • From Appalachia to Africa: Why Dolly Parton was beloved across the continent
    Dolly Parton's songs traveled far beyond Nashville. Across Africa, musicians embraced her stories of hardship, heartbreak and humble beginnings — and made them their own.


rss: bbc

  • Prisoners freed early are returning to jail at rapid rate, governors tell BBC
    PM Andy Burnham on Sunday announced changes to the next early release scheme - scheduled to start in October - which mean PC Harper's killers will stay in jail.
  • Iran vows 'decisive response' to first US strikes in weeks
    Iran says the attack on Larak Island, the first known US strikes since late July, killed two people and injured two others.
  • Patel to be replaced by Tugendhat as shadow foreign secretary
    Kemi Badenoch is expected to carry out a wider reshuffle of her front bench team following high-profile departures.
  • Parents of seriously ill children should get paid leave, says commissioner
    Children's commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza has backed called for more support for parents and carers.
  • This actor was told he had Alzheimer's, now he's performing a one-man show
    Peter Marinker is taking on one of Samuel Beckett's most famous plays alone on a London stage.
  • The mystery of why so many black Britons still can't swim
    For decades, swimming ability has been lower in the black community. Our writer asks why.
  • UK raises case of British activist detained by settlers in West Bank with Israel
    Finn Joughin, a 22-year-old student activist, was arrested in the Palestinian village of Umm Al-Kheir.
  • 'Like fighting a dinosaur': Sydney woman recalls how she punched shark during attack
    Leah Stewart, 34, was mauled by a great white shark in June during a morning swim at Coogee Beach.
  • Jewish community in harder position than immediately after synagogue attack, says rabbi
    Rabbi Daniel Walker says members of the Jewish community are feeling increasingly vulnerable.
  • Eight killed and 18 missing after ferry capsizes off northern Cyprus
    A search and rescue operation is under way after a ferry carrying nearly 270 people turns over after leaving port.


rss: the register

  • Debian votes to let contributors code with AI
    Disclosure optional, quality mandatory
  • Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
    Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats
  • AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting
    A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's
  • Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems
    Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle
  • Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range
    At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads
  • Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website
    More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi
  • German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters
    How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?
  • AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system?
    Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense
  • LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI
    It looks a bit clunky, but it does the job – and on your own computer
  • Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted
    Tree huggers aim to end blanket critical infrastructure status for bit barns and ensure environmental standards are met


rss: ars technica

  • A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
    Cut content from Portal 2, hints of Half Life 2: Episode 3, and so much more.
  • Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference
    With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.
  • Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
    The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.
  • I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.
    Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.
  • Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name
    Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," judges rule.
  • Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August
    Cancellations have accelerated.
  • "RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate": Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster
    RFK Jr. went to Samoa to spread vaccine fears. The measles outbreak after killed 83.
  • Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge
    Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.
  • Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced
    "It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal."
  • Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent
    Annual Apple TV subscriptions get the biggest bump.


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