rss: npr

  • China bans hidden car door handles, which can trap people after crashes
    China has introduced new regulations, starting in 2027, requiring all car doors to open manually from both sides. Electric door handles can malfunction in a crash or battery failure.
  • Disney names Josh D'Amaro as its new CEO
    D'Amaro will take over next month from Bob Iger, who has led the company for nearly two decades.
  • Syria, once home to a large Jewish community, takes steps to return property to Jews
    A Jewish heritage foundation has set out to help restore private property appropriated after Syrian Jews left the country.
  • NASA delays the launch of Artemis II lunar mission by at least a month
    NASA is targeting March for the launch of four astronauts on a ten-day mission to circle the moon and return safely to Earth, traveling farther than any humans have ventured in deep space.
  • The U.K. investigates its ex-ambassador to the U.S. over alleged leaks to Epstein
    The U.K. government says newly released files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest that the former British ambassador to the U.S. may have shared market-sensitive information with Epstein.
  • What we know about Savannah Guthrie's missing mother
    Nancy Guthrie is 84 and has mobility issues, but she is mentally sharp, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said. She was last seen Saturday evening at her home near Tucson, Arizona.
  • Back seats aren't as safe as they should be. A crash test is trying to help
    Better engineering has made the front seat much safer in head-on collisions. But the back seat hasn't kept pace. It's a problem one vehicle safety group is trying to solve.
  • House votes to end partial government shutdown, setting up contentious talks on ICE
    The House has approved a spending bill to end a short-lived partial government shutdown. Now lawmakers will begin contentious negotiations over new guardrails for immigration enforcement.
  • Despite a 'ruptured' knee ligament, Lindsey Vonn says she will compete in the Olympics
    The 41-year-old's remarkable comeback from retirement was thrown into jeopardy after she hurt her knee during a crash in competition last week. But that won't keep her from racing in the Olympics.
  • PepsiCo will cut prices on Lay's, Cheetos by as much as 15%
    The food giant is among many big brands worried as shoppers pull back on snack budgets after years of stubborn inflation.


rss: bbc

  • Mandelson investigated by police over claims he leaked information to Epstein
    The former Labour minister faces allegations of misconduct in public office when he was business secretary.
  • Andrew moves out of Royal Lodge home
    The former prince left Royal Lodge on Monday night and is living in a temporary property on the Sandringham Estate.
  • Police assess allegation Epstein sent second woman to UK for sex with Andrew
    The encounter allegedly occurred at the former prince's residence, Royal Lodge, in 2010.
  • Watch: BBC joins Colombian commandos fighting 'never-ending battle' against drug gangs
    As the US and Colombian presidents meet, Orla Guerin joins a police unit tasked with finding and destroying jungle cocaine labs.
  • Trial of Norway crown princess's son hears tearful account in rape trial
    The first alleged victim begins giving evidence in Marius Borg Høiby's trial for rape and more than 30 other alleged offences.
  • Two men killed in light aircraft crash, police say
    A team from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch is at the scene of the crash in Littleborough.
  • Bus driver who was sacked for punching thief protected me, says theft victim
    Kartalin Kaszas is grateful to bus driver Mark Hehir for intervening in a "terrifying" situation.
  • Chappell Roan says revealing Grammys outfit wasn't 'that outrageous'
    The US pop star drew attention for her breast-baring chiffon Mugler dress at Sunday's ceremony.
  • US says it shot down Iranian drone flying towards aircraft carrier
    A US military spokesman says the drone was shot down while approaching an American vessel in the Arabian Sea.
  • 'I was thinking about mum': Boy, 13, swims for hours to save family swept out to sea
    Austin Applebee recounts his 'superhuman' swim which saved the lives of his mother and siblings in Australia.


rss: the register

  • Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support

    Many vital open source resources rely on the devotion of a few individuals

    It's hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.…

  • GitHub ponders kill switch for pull requests to stop AI slop

    Code community site begins to see that AI could drive people away

    GitHub, the Microsoft code-hosting shop that popularized AI-assisted software development, is having some regrets about its Copilot infatuation.…

  • Amazon's European datacenter buildout blows a breaker as grid connection wait list hits 7 years

    E-commerce giant has watts of bit barns to deploy but nowhere to plug them in

    Amazon Web Services' European expansion has hit the buffers as the American cloud provider grapples with aging grid infrastructure and lengthy interconnect delays.…

  • 'Lethal' and 'magical' Palantir tech is in demand by Pentagon, China, Middle East, CEO says

    Less popular in Canada and Northern Europe

    Palantir is shaping the "under-the-hood" practices of the US Defense Department as demand for its software grows across warfighting, shipbuilding, and weapons procurement, CEO Alex Karp said during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Monday.…

  • Critical React Native Metro dev server bug under attack as researchers scream into the void

    Too slow react-ion time

    Baddies are exploiting a critical bug in React Native's Metro development server to deliver malware to both Windows and Linux machines, and yet the in-the-wild attacks still haven't received the "broad public acknowledgement" that they should, according to security researchers.…

  • Next-gen nuclear reactors safe enough to skip full environmental reviews, says Trump admin

    DoE trims NEPA paperwork for advanced reactors

    The Department of Energy says advanced nuclear reactor designs - many of which have so far existed mainly at the experimental, testing, or demonstration stage - generally pose limited environmental risk and can qualify for a streamlined environmental review for future projects.…

  • Snowflake plugs PostgreSQL into its AI Data Cloud

    Yes, it already had Unistore

    Snowflake is launching a PostgreSQL database-as-a-service within its AI data environment to place transactional workloads alongside analytics and AI under a single set of governance rules.…

  • CISA updated ransomware intel on 59 bugs last year without telling defenders

    GreyNoise's Glenn Thorpe counts the cost of missed opportunities

    On 59 occasions throughout 2025, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) silently tweaked vulnerability notices to reflect their use by ransomware crooks. Experts say that's a problem.…

  • Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights

    CEO Alex Karp meets criticism with soaring revenues and a sermon

    Opinion Palantir had a whopper of a Q4, showing accelerating revenue growth, beating Wall Street's profit estimates, and enjoying a share price jump of as much as 11% during pre-market trading on Tuesday before coming back down to earth.…

  • Azure outages ripple across multiple dependent Microsoft services

    Managed Identity and virtual machine failures triggered knock-on problems throughout cloud platform

    Microsoft has reported two Azure service wobbles in as many days, including a disruption affecting Virtual Machine management ops yesterday and a Managed Identity for Azure resources outage in East US and West US regions today.…



rss: ars technica

  • Godlike Titan threatens humanity in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S2 trailer
    "This Titan is like a god, and the sea creatures worship it."
  • Nvidia's $100 billion OpenAI deal has seemingly vanished
    Two AI giants shake market confidence after investment fails to materialize.
  • Newborn dies after mother drinks raw milk during pregnancy
    Raw milk is promoted by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Kennedy.
  • X office raided in France's Grok probe; Elon Musk summoned for questioning
    Paris prosecutor: Illegal content probe includes pornographic images of minors.
  • Nintendo Switch is the second-bestselling game console ever, behind only the PS2
    Switch 2 has already beaten the Wii U and is on its way to overtaking GameCube.
  • Google court filings suggest ChromeOS has an expiration date
    ChromeOS may be canned once the current support guarantee has run its course.
  • Xcode 26.3 adds support for Claude, Codex, and other agentic tools via MCP
    With Model Context Protocol (MCP), this works with more than Codex/Claude, too.
  • Wing Commander III: "Isn't that the guy from Star Wars?"
    C:\ArsGames looks at a vanguard of the multimedia FMV future that never quite came to pass.
  • Upset at reports that he'd given up, Trump now wants $1B from Harvard
    Hefty "fine" comes in wake of NY Times reporting of money-free settlement.
  • China bans all retractable car door handles, starting next year
    The pop-out door handle ban starts in 2027 for new cars, 2029 for existing models.


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