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Poisoning AI Training Data

Schneier on Security, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 4:01:23 AM

The First Reactions to ‘Project Hail Mary’ Are Out of This World

io9 | We Come From the Future, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 4:00:54 AM

IPOs Are Holding Up In 2026, But SaaS Debuts Aren’t Happening

Crunchbase News, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 4:00:37 AM

Interesting Links for 25-02-2026

Very cool, if true, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 4:00:07 AM

A Boring Archetype

Atoms vs Bits, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 3:44:23 AM

Lit Hub Daily: February 25, 2026

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 3:30:19 AM

Beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk says creators on the platform are generating nearly $5M in collective annual earnings from subscriptions and its ad network (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 3:15:03 AM

Pluralistic: The whole economy pays the Amazon tax (25 Feb 2026)

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 3:07:59 AM

Escarole White Bean Soup

Chuck Grimmett, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 3:07:00 AM

Traced identities: Hisashi Eguchi and the crisis of the Tokyo Pop image

The Comics Journal, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 3:00:42 AM

Cancelled Carrot Weather Sub

Superdavey, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 2:57:01 AM

Extremist Nasheeds: Emerging Subcultures and the Cultivation of Radical Online Communities in Southeast Asia

GNET, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 2:46:17 AM

UK weekly street newspaper Big Issue promotes Deputy Editor Steven MacKenzie to editor, succeeding Paul McNamee, who led the publication for 19 years (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 2:45:00 AM

How and why I attribute LLM-derived code

articles on Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 2:31:40 AM

US sanctions Russian broker for buying stolen zero-day exploits

BleepingComputer, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 2:31:13 AM

10 Fresh Think-Pair-Share Variations to Energize Your Classroom

TCEA TechNotes Blog, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 2:26:00 AM

The next chapter

Open Thinkering, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 2:23:10 AM

Time for Change

https://laurahilliger.com, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 2:23:03 AM

ActivityPub Federation Tests Fedify 2

Ricardo Mendes, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 2:09:01 AM

BBC issues statement explaining the "N-word" is not a slur, but "Free Palestine" is

Normal Island News, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 2:02:46 AM

Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files

ProPublica, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 2:00:00 AM

Why I Don’t Regret the “Pornographic” Scene That Got My Book Banned

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:59:48 AM

How Trotsky and Stalin, Ruthless in Their Own Ways, Absolutely Hated Each Other

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:59:44 AM

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a Deranged, Half-Assed Bodice-Ripper That Entirely Misses the Point

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:59:33 AM

The Tortoise in the Tree: A Yoruba Folktale

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:58:55 AM

The Very First Video Game Was Just a Box in the Corner of a Bar

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:58:50 AM

“Astro Mischief.” A Poem by Preeti Vangani

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:58:34 AM

A Day in the Life of an American Paperboy, c. 1974

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:58:31 AM

Jesse Jackson Loved Us—Sometimes Before We Loved Ourselves

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:58:13 AM

The European Myth of Indigenous “Savages”

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:58:02 AM

Mothering at the End of the World: Six Contemporary Novels That Center Caretaking Through Crisis

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:58:02 AM

Crowd rallies at first protest against planned ICE center in Upper Bern

Spotlight PA, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:57:05 AM

🎵 Barry Can't Swim - The Person You'd Like To Be (https://youtu.be/dmlyoaDCnm4)

amble.blog, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:55:00 AM

A hotter, wetter South is becoming a breeding ground for mold

Grist, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:45:00 AM

Q&A with Carlos Dada, founder and EIC of the Salvadoran newspaper El Faro, on outlet's impact, covering his country from afar while living in exile, and more (Eduardo Suárez/Reuters Institute)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:35:03 AM

A tough Supreme Court hearing brings little clarity on Line 5 pipeline’s fate

Grist, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:30:00 AM

I can now configure my h-card from the indiekit backend :)

Ricardo Mendes, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:29:55 AM

Really cool Eleventy design & Fonts

Ricardo Mendes, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:07:46 AM

Q&A with Bostopia's Evan George on his TikTok and Instagram videos under @bostopianews, summarizing Boston local news while offering his own opinions (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:05:00 AM

Proust and the Journey of Self-Discovery

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:02:02 AM

Free Software and Linux Foundation Veteran Named OIN Patent Ambassador

https://fossforce.com, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:02:01 AM

Marina Carr on Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:01:54 AM

Dubai taps U.S. startups to go over, under, and around its traffic

Rest of World, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 1:00:41 AM

Ex-L3Harris exec jailed for selling zero-days to Russian exploit broker

BleepingComputer, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 12:21:40 AM

PRIX FIXE • by Michael Tracy

Every Day Fiction, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 12:01:00 AM

Costume designer and director Nadia Acimi on subverting societal expectations

The Creative Independent, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 12:00:00 AM

Film Review: Bugonia

nerds of a feather, flock together, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 12:00:00 AM

February 25ths

diamond geezer, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 11:54:30 PM

Windows 11 KB5077241 update improves BitLocker, adds Sysmon tool

BleepingComputer, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 11:51:51 PM

Photo cross-post

Very cool, if true, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 11:51:15 PM

Public Finance in the Age of AI: A Primer

Marginal REVOLUTION, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 11:47:36 PM

Is this good AI?

Superdavey, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 11:34:47 PM

1Password what?!

Superdavey, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 11:29:09 PM

Cuts to USAID and other US government funding have seriously impacted grants for science-based investigative journalism, particularly in poorer countries (Ben Deighton/Scientific American)

Mediagazer, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 11:25:00 PM

Journalism trauma: why cultural context matters

Media Helping Media, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 11:03:41 PM

“Tough on crime” is good for young men

Marginal REVOLUTION, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 10:13:46 PM

Koah, which embeds sponsored ads directly into AI chatbots and aims to build an AdSense for AI, raised a $20.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

Mediagazer, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 10:10:00 PM

CITR Joins in Filing Amicus Brief to Protect Independent Research from Retaliatory Investigations

Coalition for Independent Technology Research, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 10:08:31 PM

In Address, Trump Calls for More Limits on Trans Youth

NYT > Amy Harmon, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 9:38:48 PM

The Perfect Music App

Pixel Envy, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 9:34:38 PM

OTR Links 02/25/2026

doug — off the record, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 9:30:54 PM

Dragoncatcher: Nobody knows anything

Robin Sloan, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 9:30:17 PM

Newfie Cannonball Cathedral

oh messy life, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 9:26:36 PM

The Political Effects of Twitter’s Feed Algorithm

Pixel Envy, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 9:03:55 PM

my coworker is in a cult, acting like people are late to a meeting if they aren’t early, and more

Ask a Manager, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 9:03:00 PM

In State of the Union address, Trump used women to prove his point

The 19th, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 8:38:50 PM

Trump didn’t mention abortion in the State of the Union

The 19th, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 8:33:09 PM

Likes Ftrain.com – Paul Ford. I don’t pop molly, I read Paul FordInt...

Chuck Grimmett, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 8:31:50 PM

Blizzard

Chuck Grimmett, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 8:09:55 PM

Trump Administration Makes The Conscious Choice To Make America Less Prepared For The Next Pandemic

Techdirt, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 8:00:25 PM

New Post

https://ftrain.com, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 8:00:23 PM

Robins m’aime

https://ftrain.com, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 8:00:00 PM

A look at the Uyghur Post, one of the world's only Uyghur-language news sites, which launched in November 2025 and has ~30K monthly readers (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)

Mediagazer, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 7:35:00 PM

Quoting Kellan Elliott-McCrea

Simon Willison's Weblog, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 7:30:32 PM

Note: 1771990197

https://crowdersoup.com, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 7:29:57 PM

FediBoost Plugin

Chuck Grimmett, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 7:10:15 PM

Sources: Jasmine Crockett ejected an Atlantic reporter from an event and called police on a CNN reporter; the Atlantic's editor called the ejection unacceptable (Max Tani/Semafor)

Mediagazer, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 6:35:00 PM

The world is still so full of dinosaurs

Robin Rendle, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 6:33:12 PM

Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon

We Distribute, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 5:56:29 PM

cocAIne

jwz, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 5:47:12 PM

Like: 1771983074

https://crowdersoup.com, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 5:31:14 PM

Reply: 1771983059

https://crowdersoup.com, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 5:30:59 PM

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https://crowdersoup.com, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 5:29:41 PM

Progressive organizations and media networks, including MeidasTouch and Courier, plan two streaming events to counter Trump's State of the Union speech (Michael Calderone/The Wrap)

Mediagazer, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 5:15:00 PM

The State of Distraction

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 5:12:56 PM

Linear walkthroughs

Simon Willison's Weblog, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 5:07:10 PM

An outside law firm is probing a claim that Paramount President Jeff Shell leaked details of 2025's Paramount-UFC deal almost a month before its announcement (Gary Baum/The Hollywood Reporter)

Mediagazer, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 5:00:41 PM

The Gentle Giant: Oliver Sacks and the Art of Choosing Empathy Over Vengeance

The Marginalian, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 5:00:20 PM

Love your customers

Seth's Blog, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 4:42:53 PM

Silicon Florist links arrangement for February 24, 2026

Portland Oregon startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and community, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 4:40:19 PM

*Introduction to Quantitative Economics*

Marginal REVOLUTION, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 4:33:11 PM

The Macroeconomic Effects of Tariffs

Marginal REVOLUTION, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 4:30:16 PM

Weiss’ Recruiting Woes

Status, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 4:24:24 PM

Day 1862: “Brink of disaster.”

What The Fuck Just Happened Today?, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 4:15:16 PM

Join the fight for full restoration of the President’s House Slavery Memorial

'The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate,' catching up with Jaleel Shaw, and more for prime holiday times, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 4:03:00 PM

A federal judge in Virginia denies the US DOJ's request to search Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's devices as part of a national security leak probe (Perry Stein/Washington Post)

Mediagazer, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 4:00:04 PM

Apple’s Interoperability Commitments to the UK’s CMA Promise Nothing

Open Web Advocacy, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 4:00:00 PM

Phishing campaign targets freight and logistics orgs in the US, Europe

BleepingComputer, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 3:57:58 PM

Tech Companies Shouldn’t Be Bullied Into Doing Surveillance

Electronic Frontier Foundation, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 3:42:44 PM

Germany’s Formidable Trade Show Industry Regroups as Events Evolve

A Media Operator, Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 3:34:05 PM