None of this is ours. All of it is theirs.
A newsroom like this one is a borrower. We do not write the stories, take the photographs or film the video: we read what other people publish, decide what belongs on the page, and send you to them. This page exists to say so properly — every wire we follow, every service we lean on, and the rules we hold ourselves to while using them.
Why this page exists
Most aggregators treat their sources as plumbing: invisible pipes that carry text to a page. We think that is the wrong way round. The reporting is the work. Somebody got on a train, sat in a courtroom, called a regulator three times, waited outside a hospital, checked a figure with a second source and then wrote it down in a way that a stranger could understand. That is expensive, slow and often unglamorous, and it is the only reason a news page exists at all.
Everything we do sits on top of that work. We choose, arrange, cut down for the screen and link. When the choice is good, the reader finds the right story quickly; when it is bad, nothing we add can rescue it. So the first thank-you on this page goes to the reporters, photographers, editors, sub-editors, fact-checkers, translators, camera operators, data journalists and desk staff at every publication named below — including the ones whose stories we did not pick today, and the ones whose work is behind a paywall we cannot cross.
We are also grateful to the smaller, stranger outlets: the trade press that understands a supply chain better than any national paper, the regional titles that notice a factory closing two years before anyone else, the specialist blogs that explain a chip architecture in plain words, and the volunteer-run feeds that survive on goodwill. A newsroom made only of the biggest names would be a worse newsroom.
How we use a wire
Every publisher on the list below offers what is normally called a feed: a machine-readable list of its recent stories containing a headline, a short summary, usually a picture, a publication time and a link. It is published openly, on purpose, so that readers and other sites can follow the news without scraping the page.
We read that feed, keep the headline, the summary, the picture and the link, and throw away everything else. When a reader clicks a headline they go to the publisher's own article, on the publisher's own site, with the publisher's own advertising and branding around it. We do not rewrite, we do not translate without saying so, we do not present a summary as if it were the article, and we never put a publisher's name on anything they did not write.
Where a story can be read inside our site through the reading view, the text is fetched from the publisher at
the moment you open it, rendered once for you, and not stored: we keep no archive of anybody's prose. The
reading view carries the publisher's name at the top, a link to the original at the top and at the bottom, a
plain statement that the words are theirs, and noindex so that search engines never treat our copy
of their page as a substitute for the real thing.
If you are a publisher and you would rather we did not show your summaries or pictures at all, write to [email protected] and we will remove the wire, usually the same day. No argument, no negotiation, no invoice.
Every wire we follow
The directory below is generated from our live source list, so it is always accurate: currently 67 wires across 8 desks, of which 67 answered on the last refresh and 1184 stories are on the wire as you read this. Each entry names the publication, the desk it feeds, what that desk covers, and the address where the work actually lives.
World — 9 wires
This desk gathers world news, politics, conflict, diplomacy and the events that cross borders.
BBC News files world news, politics, conflict, diplomacy and the events that cross borders under BBC News — World, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at bbc.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
CNN files world news, politics, conflict, diplomacy and the events that cross borders under CNN — via Google News, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at cnn.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Sky News files world news, politics, conflict, diplomacy and the events that cross borders under Sky News — World, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at news.sky.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
CBS News files world news, politics, conflict, diplomacy and the events that cross borders under CBS News — World, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at cbsnews.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
NPR files world news, politics, conflict, diplomacy and the events that cross borders under NPR — World, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at npr.org. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
France 24 files world news, politics, conflict, diplomacy and the events that cross borders under France 24 — English, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at france24.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Al Jazeera files world news, politics, conflict, diplomacy and the events that cross borders under Al Jazeera — All, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at aljazeera.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
The Guardian files world news, politics, conflict, diplomacy and the events that cross borders under The Guardian — World, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at theguardian.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
The New York Times files world news, politics, conflict, diplomacy and the events that cross borders under The New York Times — World, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at nytimes.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Business & Markets — 6 wires
This desk gathers companies, markets, central banks, earnings and the wider economy.
CNBC files companies, markets, central banks, earnings and the wider economy under CNBC — Top news, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at cnbc.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
MarketWatch files companies, markets, central banks, earnings and the wider economy under MarketWatch — Top stories, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at marketwatch.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
The Wall Street Journal files companies, markets, central banks, earnings and the wider economy under WSJ — Markets, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at wsj.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
BBC Business files companies, markets, central banks, earnings and the wider economy under BBC News — Business, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at bbc.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Guardian Business files companies, markets, central banks, earnings and the wider economy under The Guardian — Business, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at theguardian.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Financial Times files companies, markets, central banks, earnings and the wider economy under Financial Times — Home, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at ft.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Technology — 11 wires
This desk gathers technology, platforms, devices and the companies that build them.
MIT Technology Review files technology, platforms, devices and the companies that build them under MIT Technology Review — AI, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at technologyreview.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
TechCrunch files technology, platforms, devices and the companies that build them under TechCrunch, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at techcrunch.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Ars Technica files technology, platforms, devices and the companies that build them under Ars Technica, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at arstechnica.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
The Verge files technology, platforms, devices and the companies that build them under The Verge, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at theverge.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Wired files technology, platforms, devices and the companies that build them under Wired, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at wired.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
ZDNet files technology, platforms, devices and the companies that build them under ZDNet, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at zdnet.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Android Authority files technology, platforms, devices and the companies that build them under Android Authority, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at androidauthority.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
CNBC Technology files technology, platforms, devices and the companies that build them under CNBC — Technology, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at cnbc.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
OpenAI files technology, platforms, devices and the companies that build them under OpenAI — News, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at openai.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Ars Technica AI files technology, platforms, devices and the companies that build them under Ars Technica — AI, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at arstechnica.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
MarkTechPost files technology, platforms, devices and the companies that build them under MarkTechPost — AI, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at marktechpost.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
AI & Developers — 12 wires
This desk gathers artificial intelligence, software engineering, open source and the craft of building things.
TechCrunch AI files artificial intelligence, software engineering, open source and the craft of building things under TechCrunch — AI, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at techcrunch.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
The Decoder files artificial intelligence, software engineering, open source and the craft of building things under The Decoder, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at the-decoder.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
SiliconANGLE files artificial intelligence, software engineering, open source and the craft of building things under SiliconANGLE, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at siliconangle.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Google AI files artificial intelligence, software engineering, open source and the craft of building things under Google — AI blog, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at blog.google. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Google DeepMind files artificial intelligence, software engineering, open source and the craft of building things under Google DeepMind — blog, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at deepmind.google. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
GitHub Blog files artificial intelligence, software engineering, open source and the craft of building things under GitHub Blog, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at github.blog. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Stack Overflow Blog files artificial intelligence, software engineering, open source and the craft of building things under Stack Overflow — Blog, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at stackoverflow.blog. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
DEV Community files artificial intelligence, software engineering, open source and the craft of building things under DEV Community, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at dev.to. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
The New Stack files artificial intelligence, software engineering, open source and the craft of building things under The New Stack, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at thenewstack.io. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
InfoQ files artificial intelligence, software engineering, open source and the craft of building things under InfoQ, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at infoq.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
CSS-Tricks files artificial intelligence, software engineering, open source and the craft of building things under CSS-Tricks, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at css-tricks.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Phoronix files artificial intelligence, software engineering, open source and the craft of building things under Phoronix — Linux, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at phoronix.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Autos — 7 wires
This desk gathers cars, electric vehicles, the industry around them and the road ahead.
Motor1 files cars, electric vehicles, the industry around them and the road ahead under Motor1 — News, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at motor1.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Car and Driver files cars, electric vehicles, the industry around them and the road ahead under Car and Driver, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at caranddriver.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Jalopnik files cars, electric vehicles, the industry around them and the road ahead under Jalopnik, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at jalopnik.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
InsideEVs files cars, electric vehicles, the industry around them and the road ahead under InsideEVs, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at insideevs.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Electrek files cars, electric vehicles, the industry around them and the road ahead under Electrek, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at electrek.co. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
The Drive files cars, electric vehicles, the industry around them and the road ahead under The Drive, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at thedrive.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Autoblog files cars, electric vehicles, the industry around them and the road ahead under Autoblog, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at autoblog.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Sports — 13 wires
This desk gathers football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, swimming and the people who play them.
CBS Sports files football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, swimming and the people who play them under CBS Sports — Headlines, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at cbssports.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Sky Sports files football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, swimming and the people who play them under Sky Sports — News, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at skysports.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
SwimSwam files football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, swimming and the people who play them under SwimSwam — Swimming, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at swimswam.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Motorsport.com files football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, swimming and the people who play them under Motorsport.com, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at motorsport.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
BBC Sport files football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, swimming and the people who play them under BBC Sport, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at bbc.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Guardian Sport files football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, swimming and the people who play them under The Guardian — Sport, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at theguardian.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Guardian Paralympics files football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, swimming and the people who play them under The Guardian — Paralympics, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at theguardian.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
ESPN files football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, swimming and the people who play them under ESPN — Top news, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at espn.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
ITTF files football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, swimming and the people who play them under ITTF — Table tennis, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at ittf.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
ESPN NBA files football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, swimming and the people who play them under ESPN — NBA, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at espn.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Guardian Football files football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, swimming and the people who play them under The Guardian — Football, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at theguardian.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
BBC Sport Football files football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, swimming and the people who play them under BBC Sport — Football, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at bbc.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Hindustan Times Badminton files football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, swimming and the people who play them under Hindustan Times — Badminton, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at hindustantimes.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Crypto — 5 wires
This desk gathers digital assets, exchanges, regulation and on-chain news.
Cointelegraph files digital assets, exchanges, regulation and on-chain news under Cointelegraph, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at cointelegraph.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Decrypt files digital assets, exchanges, regulation and on-chain news under Decrypt, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at decrypt.co. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
The Block files digital assets, exchanges, regulation and on-chain news under The Block, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at theblock.co. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Bitcoin Magazine files digital assets, exchanges, regulation and on-chain news under Bitcoin Magazine, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at bitcoinmagazine.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
CoinDesk files digital assets, exchanges, regulation and on-chain news under CoinDesk, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at coindesk.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Video — 4 wires
This desk gathers video reporting from a newsroom we follow.
BBC News (YouTube) files video reporting from a newsroom we follow under BBC News on YouTube, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at youtube.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Sky News (YouTube) files video reporting from a newsroom we follow under Sky News on YouTube, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at youtube.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
CNBC Television (YouTube) files video reporting from a newsroom we follow under CNBC Television on YouTube, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at youtube.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
Al Jazeera English (YouTube) files video reporting from a newsroom we follow under Al Jazeera English on YouTube, and we follow it through the public feed it publishes at youtube.com. Everything we show from this publication — headline, summary and picture — was written or chosen by its own staff, not by us; the headline you click opens their page, and their name stays at the top of the card. Thank you to the desk that keeps it running.
The tools and services we lean on
A small site can still need a surprising amount of machinery. These are the services that make the newsroom work, all of them free or open, and none of them holding anything of yours.
Feed conversion relays
Several of the world's best newsrooms publish behind networks we cannot reach directly. Rather than give up on them, we ask two public conversion services to fetch those feeds and hand us the result as JSON: rss2json and feed2json. They do the fetching and the parsing; we do the choosing. Thank you to the people who run those services out of the generosity that used to define the web, and who put up with an unusual amount of traffic from one small newsroom. We deliberately pace our requests, cache results for minutes rather than seconds, and convert only a few new feeds at a time, because a free service should not be punished for being useful.
Market data
The tape at the top of the front page is not ours either. Index levels come from CNBC's public quote service, with Eastmoney as a fallback; crypto prices come from Coinlore, with blockchain.info and mempool.space behind it; exchange rates come from Frankfurter, which republishes the European Central Bank's reference rates. Every one of them is free and key-less, and every one of them can fail: when they do, the tape shows the last good reading and a timestamp instead of an invention. A number that cannot be sourced should not be printed.
What we promise, and what we refuse
We link out. Every headline leads to the publisher's page. The reading view is a convenience, never a replacement, and it is only offered where the publisher's own page can be fetched and rendered honestly.
We name our sources. Every card carries the publication's short label; every article page names the publication again, with its address.
We do not rewrite. A summary on our page is the publisher's own summary, trimmed for length and nothing else. We do not add spin, we do not remove caveats, we do not turn a careful "may" into a confident "will".
We do not bypass paywalls. If a page asks for a subscription, the reader sees a subscription wall, or a message from us saying the text could not be shown. We do not keep copies, we do not use credentials that are not ours, and we do not pretend a paywalled article is free.
We do not sell attention. No advertising, no sponsored posts, no affiliate links, no tracking pixels, no third-party analytics, no cookie banner because there are no cookies to consent to. The only thing we store in your browser is a note that you closed the notice, and a link can clear it.
We correct in public. If we mislabel a source, mistranslate a headline, break a page or put a story on the wrong desk, tell us and it will be fixed, and where the mistake mattered we will say that it was fixed.
On pictures, video and the things we cannot show
Photographs and video belong to the people who made them, and they are usually served from a delivery network that has opinions about who may look at them. Where we can fetch a picture we deliver it from our own address, so the page works on a slow connection; where we cannot, the card falls back to a plain coloured tile with the publication's name on it rather than showing you a broken image icon. That fallback is not a bug: it is us being honest about what we could not deliver.
Video is the same story with more moving parts. A few wires publish video as a feed; most publish it inside pages we cannot reach. Where a video is embedded, the player is the platform's own, and if your network blocks that platform you will get a black rectangle and a link — again, honest rather than clever.
None of this is anyone's fault in particular. It is simply what the web looks like from where we read it, and the notice at the top of the front page says so in plain words.
The standing topics, and the people who keep them honest
Our topic pages are not edited by hand. They are matched against every headline and summary we carry, which means they inherit both the breadth and the blind spots of the wires themselves. Artificial intelligence looks well covered because the wires are obsessed with it; badminton looks thin because almost nobody publishes a badminton feed we can reach. We would rather show you an honest thin column than pad it with press releases.
- AI & Machine Learning — Models, labs, chips and the money behind them. Open the report.
- Chips & Hardware — Silicon, fabs and the machines that make them. Open the report.
- Electric Vehicles — Batteries, charging and the end of the petrol car. Open the report.
- Developer & Open Source — Code, tooling and the people who build it. Open the report.
- Markets & Tickers — Stocks, indices, rates and the tape. Open the report.
- Crypto & Blockchain — Bitcoin, exchanges, regulation and on-chain news. Open the report.
- Elections & Politics — Votes, campaigns and the people counting them. Open the report.
- Climate & Energy — Emissions, power grids and extreme weather. Open the report.
- Space & Launch — Rockets, satellites and what is upstairs. Open the report.
Sport gets its own desk for a simple reason: a football result and a wheelchair-basketball result are both sport, and both deserve to be findable without wading through a general feed. Our sport page sorts stories into football, basketball, badminton, table tennis and swimming, and flags the disability version of each. Thank you to the Paralympic desks and the specialist disability-sport writers who make that column possible at all; they are working with less resource than almost anyone else in the industry and producing more per pound than most.
Frequently asked, honestly answered
No. We write the framing, the headings and pages like this one. The journalism is other people's, and it carries their name.
Topics match words in the headline and summary, not the full article. A piece that only mentions its subject in the fourth paragraph will not match, and we would rather miss it than quietly fetch and index the whole article.
Because some image servers answer our request and some do not. We do not fake a picture, and we do not show a grey placeholder pretending to be one.
Each visit gets a fresh edition: the newest stories are still at the top, but the order inside that band is shuffled, so a reader who checks in often sees a different page rather than the same photograph all day.
Sometimes. Where the publisher's page can be fetched and parsed, a reading view shows the body text inside our layout, with links to the original at the top and the bottom. Where it cannot — paywalls, JavaScript-only pages, blocked servers — you get the publisher's page or a clear explanation.
CNBC and Eastmoney for indices, Coinlore (with blockchain.info and mempool.space as fallbacks) for crypto, and Frankfurter for currencies. Updated every few minutes, never invented, never smoothed.
No. There is no analytics script on any page, no tracking pixel and no third-party tag, and we do not build profiles of readers. What you read here is your own business.
Nobody, in the commercial sense: there is no advertising, no subscription and no company behind it with something to sell you. It is run by the editorial team itself.
Send one line to [email protected]. We will drop the wire and delete what we cached from it, and we will not ask why.
Same address. A feed URL is ideal. We will try it, and if it works and it is not already covered, it goes on the list with a credit on this page.
A last thank-you
To the people who still read past the first paragraph: thank you. A newsroom of any size exists for maybe twenty thousand people who care about the difference between a claim and a finding, and every one of them is worth the trouble. To the librarians, the fact-checkers, the local reporters, the stringers, the photographers who wait nine hours for one frame, the subs who catch the error at midnight, and the readers who write in to say a headline is wrong: this page is for you.
And to the publications listed above — the big ones with legal departments and the small ones run out of a spare room — thank you for publishing openly enough that a small newsroom in a different country can point at your work and say: read this. We will keep sending people your way.
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