rss: npr

  • Hayden Panettiere, who starred in 'Heroes' and 'Nashville,' dies at 36
    A child actor since she was cast in various commercials as an 11-month-old, Panettiere was best known for her role as the country music star Juliette Barnes in the series "Nashville."
  • Living with nuns: Priced out of D.C., young women found low rent with unlikely roommates
    For 10 years, a Catholic-run home offered young women an affordable place to live in the nation's capital as they studied and launched careers. Now, that community is saying goodbye.
  • Car problems? No childcare? How an app is helping people get to work
    Unexpected absences can cost employers tens of thousands of dollars a month. An app that helps workers with last-minute transportation, food and childcare is making a difference.
  • Can a student ID be used for voting? More Republican-led states are banning it
    New bans on using student IDs for voting in Indiana and New Hampshire have sparked lawsuits after creating the latest hurdles to the ballot box for the U.S. voting-age group least likely to vote.
  • Meta heads to court in a landmark trial about kids and social media addiction
    Four states are suing the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, alleging that the platforms were designed to hook kids and that Meta hid the mental health risks.
  • Elon Musk's Starbase wants to expand in south Texas
    Landowners and activists worry about impact to the environment around SpaceX's complex.
  • As wildfires get worse, some states are struggling to pass fire protection rules
    There's a lot homeowners can do to prepare for wildfires, such as managing flammable plants and using fire-resistant building materials. But some states struggle to pass rules requiring those steps.
  • Cialis is an erectile dysfunction drug. Could it also help you live longer?
    In some wellness circles, tadalafil is promoted as a longevity drug. There is evidence showing a link between it and a lower risk of death in men, but there are no well-controlled trials in humans.
  • Morning news brief
    USS Washington to relieve USS Lincoln after concerns about conditions, Ukraine launches one of its largest aerial attacks on Russia, a look at where talks stand regarding the future of Gaza.
  • Trump orders Pentagon to scale back joint exercises with South Korea
    President Trump explained the decision by saying South Korea had declined to help with the "denuclearization" of Iran and he cited his good relationship with North Korea's leader.


rss: bbc

  • Parents pushed to breaking point by Child Maintenance Service, BBC told
    Mothers, like Katy, describe battles to make ex-partners pay, while fathers say they have been wrongly charged thousands.
  • Burnham exchanged messages with person posing as Trump's chief of staff
    Downing Street has declined to comment on the security breach, first reported by Politico.
  • Rain on way for UK with temperatures to drop to overnight lows of 3C in some places
    After and exceptional summer of heatwaves and drought, the weather will turn wetter and cooler this week, as Simon King explains
  • Post-mortems due on five boys killed in crash on wrong side of motorway that injured four in Ireland
    Three women and a child who were in a second car are being treated in hospital for serious injuries.
  • Watch: Sprint sensation Amy Hunt takes gold number four at the European championships
    Great Britain win the first mixed 4x100m relay ever staged in the European Athletics Championships as Amy Hunt takes her fourth gold in the competition.
  • Trump envoy Kushner arrives in Israel after rare Hamas talks on Gaza peace plan
    US President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later on Monday.
  • Cambridge chancellor criticises 'racist feeding frenzy' around Jason Arday
    Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row, was found dead last week.
  • Reform UK benefits ban for foreign nationals would include EU citizens
    The move would require renegotiating the UK's Brexit deal and could risk stripping British expats living in the EU of similar rights.
  • Trump says US to reduce military drills with South Korea after it stayed out of Iran war
    Trump cites his "very good relationship" with North Korea's leader in deciding to downsize the exercises.
  • Ukrainian strikes kill six in Russia, acting governor says
    A 14-year-old child was among four others injured, the acting governor of Russia's Belgorod region says.


rss: the register

  • Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await
    With more patches per month than at a pirate convention, the bug must be an endangered species. Well, about that
  • Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too
    On this week's episode of The Reg's Kettle podcast, we revisit 'hacker summer camp,' where the hottest topic was ... sigh... agentic AI
  • Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard
    Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie
  • Linux 7.2 debuts, Linus Torvalds says ‘new normal’ means he had to do it now ... or never?
    Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller. Say goodbye to some PCMCIA support
  • Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive
    Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service
  • Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new model is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI
    PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; South Korea to fine Apple, Google; India bans some rideshare tips; and more!
  • Stopping a cyberattack while walking your dog - defensive AI security CEO says it's not ruff to do
    Corma CEO tells The Reg it's building 'One ring to rule them all, for the defenders to have this power'
  • The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments
    Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change
  • ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses
    Shai-Hulud variant poisons 444 packages, spreads via tarballs and dev-tool hooks
  • Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine
    Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices


rss: ars technica

  • Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution
    Regulations reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions, but wildfire smoke is erasing gains.
  • VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney's D23 fan event
    Also: Ahsoka S2 teaser, Doomsday trailer, news about MCU's X-Men and Star Wars: Starfighter
  • Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles
    "Flamingo missiles were used. A good achievement."
  • So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year
    Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much.
  • Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
    Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.
  • First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity
    Airline-backed venture aims to develop a hybrid-electric commercial aircraft.
  • Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case
    Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.
  • State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers
    Kalshi ordered to stop offering bets in Washington, must implement geofencing.
  • PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
    "We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.
  • Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch
    It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.


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