rss: npr

  • FBI releases description of suspect, increases reward in Nancy Guthrie case
    The FBI describes the armed man caught on Nancy Guthrie's camera as 5-foot-9-inches to 5-foot-10 and of average build. The 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie has been missing since Feb. 1.
  • Virginia court allows Democrats' redistricting vote in their plan to counter to Trump
    The ruling allows an April election where voters can let the legislature draw a new congressional map. It could help Democrats win more House seats. Republicans might still fight it in court.
  • A familiar move with a new twist: Trump tries to cut CDC funds he just signed into law
    A federal judge in Illinois quickly issued a restraining order after the Trump administration slashed more than $600 million in CDC grants to four blue states.
  • Kitty cats and cloud hands - how U.S. Olympic snowboarders keep calm in competition
    U.S. snowboarders psych themselves up before competition with heavy metal and pop music, cat photos, and apparently many on the men's halfpipe team now do Qigong.
  • Minnesota immigration crackdown will end, border czar says. And, DHS funding to expire
    Border czar Tom Homan announced that the Trump administration will end the immigration crackdown in Minnesota. And, DHS funding is set to expire after lawmakers failed to advance a spending bill.
  • Britain's High Court says government illegally banned Pro-Palestinian group
    In its ruling, the court said an earlier decision to ban the Pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was "disproportionate."
  • On their way! 4 people on NASA Crew-12 mission launch to International Space Station
    The four are set to dock with the space station on Saturday, returning the orbital lab to its full complement of seven. NASA's last mission, Crew-11, left a month early due to an ill crew member.
  • Who is the 'Quad God' and what does he want? The quiz holds the answers you seek
    Plus: more Olympics, the Super Bowl and some monks.
  • Who will police Gaza, and how?
    Under President Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan, Arab countries and the European Union are supposed to train a new police force in the Gaza Strip. But U.S. plans have run into serious challenges.
  • RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
    In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.


rss: bbc

  • Two jailed over plot to attack Jewish community
    Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein planned to carry out an "Isis-inspired plot", a court hears.
  • Watch: How Andrew's BBC interview compares to what Epstein emails tell us now
    Following the latest release of the Epstein files, claims made by the then Prince Andrew in 2019 are under fresh scrutiny.
  • Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful but group remains proscribed for now
    Three judges rule against the Home Office in a massive blow to the government, but say the ban must remain until a further hearing.
  • US politicians urge Mandelson to give evidence over Epstein
    Lord Mandelson has previously expressed his regret for his continued association with Jeffrey Epstein.
  • Two Britons among three dead in French Alps avalanche
    The Britons had been part of a group of five people accompanied by an instructor, skiing off-piste in Val d'Isère.
  • Six possible effects of Trump's climate policy change
    The announcement on Thursday removes the legal bedrock for much of US environmental legislation.
  • Boxers, dancers and weightlifters - the war dead pictured on banned Ukrainian slider's helmet
    Vladyslav Heraskevych's helmet depicts fellow athletes who have been killed since Russia's full-scale invasion of his country.
  • Andrew facing claim he shared Treasury document with banking contact
    Reports suggest the former prince shared a Treasury document when he was serving as trade envoy.
  • Fresh snow and ice warnings issued for weekend
    The weather will turn markedly colder, with a new front bringing in potentially more snow.
  • Don Lemon pleads not guilty in Minnesota church protest case
    The former CNN host and eight others have been charged for interrupting a church service to protest immigration raids in the state.


rss: the register

  • Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024

    As if admins haven't had enough to do this week

    Ignore patches at your own risk. According to Uncle Sam, a SQL injection flaw in Microsoft Configuration Manager patched in October 2024 is now being actively exploited, exposing unpatched businesses and government agencies to attack.…

  • Trump's Genesis Mission gets its first set of 26 sure-to-succeed objectives

    DoE bets AI can speed fusion, unlock decades of nuclear data, and probe fundamental physics

    The Trump administration has outlined the first 26 goals for its project to inject AI into the government's scientific research, and everything from securing critical minerals to discovering a unified theory of physics is on the table. …

  • AMD climbs in desktop and server CPUs while Intel battles supply squeeze

    Q4 figures reveal shifting market share across PCs and cloud infrastructure

    Intel continues to lose market share to rival AMD across server, desktop, and mobile processors, and this has been noticeable in PCs thanks to supply constraints on Chipzilla's processors.…

  • Broadband rollouts feel the burn from AI memory frenzy

    Prices for router and set-top boxes up nearly sevenfold, squeezing telcos and raising deployment costs

    Prices for memory used in routers and set-top boxes are surging nearly sevenfold thanks to AI, raising fresh fears that the industry's silicon binge could leave telcos scrambling to get customers online.…

  • Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown

    Rapid rollout into cyber-physical systems raises outage risk, Gartner warns

    The next blackout to plunge a G20 nation into chaos might not come courtesy of cybercriminals or bad weather, but from an AI system tripping over its own shoelaces.…

  • US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters

    Bitbarn nuke campus to be sited at Idaho National Laboratory

    Nuclear-powered datacenters in the US are moving closer as a consortium prepares to build proposed facilities for the Department of Energy (DoE) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).…

  • Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny

    Move comes against backdrop of disasterclass Super Bowl ad

    Ring has cut ties with Flock, citing resource constraints, mere months after the pair announced a partnership.…

  • Investors shove another $30B into the Anthropic money furnace

    $380B valuation for a company that's yet to turn a profit? Sure, why not

    The AI bubble continues to inflate with Anthropic's announcement of $30 billion in Series G funding at a $380 billion post-money valuation.…

  • Booster nozzle anomaly fails to stop ULA Vulcan Centaur reaching orbit

    Fiery mid-flight incident not enough to derail US Space Force mission

    United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur reached orbit on February 12 despite "a significant performance anomaly" that saw one of its four solid rocket boosters burn through its nozzle during ascent.…

  • ʎɹǝʌoɔǝᴚ sʍopuᴉM ʇɐ sǝʇɐuᴉɯɹǝʇ snq sᴉɥ┴

    One destination passengers were definitely not hoping to reach

    Bork!Bork!Bork! As if to demonstrate that whatever one operating system can do, Windows can do it better, bluer, and upside down, we present a bus stopping only at bork.…



rss: ars technica

  • The first Android 17 beta is now available on Pixel devices
    Don't expect big changes yet.
  • After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name
    One developer is struggling with the social implications of a drive-by AI character attack.
  • $1.8 million MST3K Kickstarter brings in (almost) everyone from the old show
    MST3K's 2010s revival looked forward; this one is emphatically looking backward.
  • Tiny, 45 base long RNA can make copies of itself
    Self-copying RNAs may have been a key stop along the pathway to life.
  • What if riders don't close a robotaxi door after a ride? Try DoorDash.
    Robotaxis can't escape the gig economy as Waymo tries to solve a human problem.
  • Why is Bezos trolling Musk on X with turtle pics? Because he has a new Moon plan.
    "It’s time to go back to the Moon—this time to stay."
  • I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent
    These bots supposedly need a human body to accomplish great things in meatspace.
  • Rocket Report: Say cheerio to Orbex; China is getting good at booster landings
    "You absolutely have to have a plan to compete with SpaceX on price."
  • Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say
    Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem sued for coercing platforms into censoring ICE posts.
  • When Amazon badly needed a ride, Europe's Ariane 6 rocket delivered
    This was the first launch of the Ariane 64, the most powerful rocket in European space history.


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