rss: npr

  • An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland
    New Yorker writer Ben Taub says while the idea of acquiring Greenland is out of the headlines, it hasn't been dropped. Taub describes how Trump's ongoing efforts have broken the trust of our allies.
  • Tropical Storm Arthur is the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season
    Forecasters say Arthur could generate life-threatening flash floods along the northern Gulf Coast. But it is not expected to strengthen further.
  • Greetings from Maputo, Mozambique's capital, shaped by a modernist architecture
    An impromptu tour of Mozambique's capital city reveals a unique imprint left by architect Amâncio "Pancho" Guedes.
  • Pakistan ends 'luxury tax' on menstrual products, contraceptives. Will prices drop?
    In Pakistan, taxes on menstrual products can add up. Activists have long worked to change this. Now a new budget wipes out the 18% sales tax. But questions remain about the impact on prices.
  • Taiwan says Chinese pressure over the island is the 'new normal'
    Taiwan's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said the scholars' passports and mobile phones were confiscated, and they were detained in Mombasa for more than 20 hours before being allowed to leave the country.
  • Senate postpones confirmation hearing for intel chief after Trump's call to delay
    Senators wanted to fast-track President Trump's pick for Director of National Intelligence. But Trump now says he wants to delay until they pass voting legislation that already failed in the Senate.
  • Trump to face questions at G7 press conference. And, Tuesday's primary results
    Trump has touted his tentative agreement with Iran at the G7 summit. Today, he is expected to field questions at a press conference as the summit wraps up. And, a look at Tuesday's primary election results.
  • 'Rejected': How federal prisons stonewall grievances and deny care for years
    People who go to prison keep one important right — to file a grievance over their treatment: from abuse to denied medical care. But in the vast majority of cases, those efforts go nowhere, according to an analysis of federal data by The Marshall Project and NPR.
  • With Iran deal, Trump told ships to 'start your engines.' That's not happening yet
    Iran's control of the Strait of Hormuz inflicted global pain during the months-long conflict with the U.S. and Israel. A tentative deal is in place, but questions remain about the key waterway.
  • On a flight home, a stranger helped her understand what came next
    Rebecca Simonitsch had just learned she might be a candidate for brain surgery. The man seated beside her on the flight home pulled out a notebook to explain what lay ahead.


rss: bbc

  • Iran sends tankers loaded with oil past US military blockade
    Three Iranian tankers loaded with crude oil have passed the US blockade line in the Gulf of Oman, ship-tracking data shows.
  • PM warns Burnham against immediate leadership challenge if he wins by-election
    Keir Starmer says Labour should focus on a subsequent Manchester mayoral race if Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield.
  • Can Bellingham become England's superstar once more at the World Cup?
    After tough love from England head coach Thomas Tuchel, Jude Bellingham's World Cup build-up points to a special talent who can be a key figure in their quest to win the World Cup.
  • BBC announces 550 job cuts as first part of £500m savings plan
    In an email to staff, the corporation laid out proposals for the initial 200 job losses in the news division.
  • Harry and Meghan to bring children to UK next month
    It will be the first time the Duke of Sussex has brought his children to the UK in four years.
  • Israel launches fresh strikes on Lebanon despite Trump criticism
    Speaking on Tuesday, Trump said Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu needed "to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon".
  • Ex-health worker tried to sell Catherine's medical records
    The individual tried to access the princess' records while she was having abdominal surgery.
  • TV personality Ashley Cain accused of using sexist and misogynistic language
    The former footballer is known for presenting BBC Three's Ashley Cain: Into the Danger Zone.
  • Final push for votes in high stakes Makerfield by-election
    Candidates are making their final pitch for votes in the Makerfield by-election in a contest that could determine who becomes the next prime minister.
  • Jeremy Clarkson reveals prostate cancer diagnosis on farming show
    The former Top Gear presenter did not clarify what type of cancer he had been diagnosed with.


rss: the register

  • Uncle Sam bets $500M that Alphabet spinoff's AI can dig up new semiconductor materials
    AI drug discovery is so last year, even though it hasn't accomplished much yet
  • Only half of US datacenter capacity planned for 2026 is actually under construction
    Another fun example of AI hype and reality colliding
  • Smartphone market to shrink 15 percent this year due to memory crisis
    Buyers put off by rising prices expected to turn to second-hand phones instead
  • AWS hypes continuous agentic DevOps, puts Kiro in your pocket
    Trust is the biggest barrier to AI adoption, says AI chief, claiming that new features in Bedrock AgentCore will prevent bad outcomes
  • Digital sovereignty needs an operating model
    PARTNER CONTENT Europe wants control over its own technology, but what does that look like?
  • Surface tension rises as Microsoft's latest kit starts at a pricey $1,499
    Snapdragon X2 silicon and recycled aluminum are nice, the sticker shock less so
  • Cisco adds another SD-WAN box to max-severity bug advisory
    Updated at the time? No sweat. Check those logs, though
  • Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more
    Homebrew was "less vulnerable 10 years ago than npm is today," project lead tells us
  • Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft
    Rival rendering engines could make pages load almost 30% faster on iPhones, Redmond claims
  • Intel starts cooking up enhanced 18A-P silicon for would-be foundry customers
    Chipzilla claims 9% speed bump without extra power draw but is compatible with designs for 18A


rss: ars technica

  • Ten months later, the $100 Google Home Speaker is finally available for preorder
    Google's new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality.
  • Towers once planned for California shuttle launches leveled for SpaceX rockets
    "Space Launch Complex-6 represents six decades of American innovation."
  • "Truly evil" FDA rejection of gene therapy overturned after Trump official ousted
    Gene therapy company UniQure had another FDA meeting after Vinay Prasad's exit.
  • Native NACS ports, infotainment upgrade for MY27 Porsche Taycan
    The bigger battery is standard and there are now simulated "E-Shifts."
  • Windows and Linux users: The deadline to update Secure Boot keys is near
    What you need to know about the expiration of keys securing your machine's boot sequence.
  • Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines
    NAACP lawsuit says xAI uses gas turbines without permits for Grok data center.
  • Year of free HPE software a “step in the correct direction” in VMware rivalry
    Partner tells Ars that HPE should be giving out more free VM Essentials licenses.
  • Cockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomes
    Transferring genes across species doesn't just happen in microbes.
  • Among the large new rockets Amazon was counting on, only Europe has delivered
    "As for Arianespace, they have definitely stepped up."
  • Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK
    Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.


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