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Public alpha

This early release is open for testing. If something looks wrong, report a problem with the headline or edition link. Reports are saved for review; there is no public comment section.

Established sources, U.S. first

The primary roster is ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, NPR and PBS NewsHour, joined by regional reporting from The Texas Tribune and OPB, technology reporting from Ars Technica, and Science News. NASA, NOAA and the Federal Reserve are clearly labeled official sources. BBC and The Guardian provide secondary international coverage. We choose established reporting organizations, not personality channels or newly created partisan outlets. No publisher is assumed to be free of bias.

Each topic has up to six links. We give different U.S. publishers first opportunity, then fill up to five primary slots, with no more than two links from one publisher in a section. BBC and The Guardian share at most one secondary slot per topic. If there is no eligible secondary item, a sixth primary link can appear. Failed U.S. feeds do not cause additional international slots to open.

Items are ordered by recency within those explicit source tiers. The lead is the newest eligible U.S./world reporting item from a primary newsroom, with primary reporting from other topics as a fallback. The next four links appear under Latest developments; remaining links appear once in their sections. This is a published selection rule, not behavioral personalization or a claim about importance.

Items older than 72 hours, identified opinion and commentary, and identified shopping or sponsored sections are excluded. Exact URL and normalized-title duplicates are removed. Independent reports about the same event may remain. Article classification follows feed metadata and explicit URL or headline labels, so imperfect source metadata can still require correction.

Attribution, not added spin

We preserve publishers’ headlines and link directly to their work. Publisher framing may still be present. Opinion is identified from explicit feed categories, URL paths or headline labels and excluded from selection; analysis and live coverage labels are best-effort, not a guarantee. Items from NASA, NOAA and the Federal Reserve are official announcements, not independent reporting. We do not write humorous replacement headlines, host comments, or rank stories by reactions.

A record you can inspect

Every changed edition has a permanent link. We preserve the eligible collection behind each new edition, along with observed changes to headline and publication metadata. This makes refilled personal views reproducible from that edition. Older editions retain their original smaller collections. We do not archive full articles or claim to know edits made between observations. Source publication times, observation times, collection checks and edition times are distinct.

Your board, your choice

Use the ••• menu beside a headline to hide that story or its publisher. Hidden stories follow the article URL identifier, so headline revisions do not bring the same link back. Your sources & preferences offers a searchable publisher checklist, section and format switches, and a list of hidden items you can restore. Undo reverses the last change. Reset all filters starts fresh.

When you hide something, Your view refills from that edition’s eligible collection using the same source caps and recency rules. Hidden sections stay hidden; fewer links appear when too few allowed stories qualify. We do not infer interests, track clicks or learn from your reading. Choices stay in this browser. Export and import a preference file to move them between devices without an account. Import replaces the current preferences and supports Undo. New publishers start enabled.

Shared edition temporarily shows the complete board without deleting your choices. Preserved editions, structured metadata, RSS, JSON and the read tool always expose the complete shared selection. Your personal view and its hidden-item history are never sent to our server.

Updates without interruption

An hourly background task checks the feeds even when nobody is visiting. An open board checks every ten minutes and offers new editions without rearranging your current page. You can also check manually. The collector uses a ten-minute cooldown. Last-visit markers are stored only on your device and may reset when browser storage is cleared.

Open feeds

Headlines are rendered in the page HTML, with structured metadata, RSS and JSON feeds containing the same selected links. Source availability is public within this site. The alpha and its feeds are publicly accessible.

Image credit

The masthead image is NASA’s historic Apollo 17 Blue Marble photograph (1972). It provides context, not an illustration of the lead story or a live view.