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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is Already a Pretty Big Hit

io9 | We Come From the Future , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 5:00:59 AM

Inside David Ellison's risky courtroom strategy to save Paramount's WBD deal, sources say including talks of potential state concessions and political appeals (Wall Street Journal)

Mediagazer , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 5:00:32 AM

Ontario company linked to First Nation seeks funding for emergency evacuation shelter

Investigative Journalism Foundation , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 5:00:22 AM

‘A Rare Land-Grab Moment’: Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy On The Next Wave of AI And Putting $3B In New Capital To Work

Crunchbase News , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 4:00:43 AM

Surface Tension

(Re)Structured News , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 4:00:36 AM

Heaven

The Comics Journal , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 4:00:14 AM

‘Survival is Aspirational’: An Interview with Katie Skelly

The Comics Journal , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 4:00:07 AM

The Rise and Fall of Kyrgyzstan’s Seemingly Untouchable Security Chief

OCCRP , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 4:00:00 AM

We Keep Renaming AI Coding. Here’s What I’d Call It.

Radar , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 3:58:20 AM

The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle

Schneier on Security , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 3:47:47 AM

Lit Hub Daily: August 3, 2026

Literary Hub , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 3:30:02 AM

YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage "is not healthy for me or good for the world" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Mediagazer , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 3:05:00 AM

HOLLYWOOD’S CASTE SYSTEM

Media War & Peace , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 3:04:54 AM

The Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union Should Welcome Scrutiny from Academia

Tech Policy Press , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 3:04:50 AM

Public Service Internet monthly newsletter (Aug 2026)

Cubic Garden , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 3:00:05 AM

FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount

ProPublica , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 3:00:00 AM

Why Silicon Valley is divided over China’s powerful, cheap AI models

Rest of World , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 3:00:00 AM

Robots to the Rescue Robotics Challenge

TCEA TechNotes Blog , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 2:45:00 AM

A bootleg of Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day remained on X for over seven hours, reaching 5.9M+ accounts and receiving 143K+ likes before being removed (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

Mediagazer , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 2:45:00 AM

Reckoning with the Long Literary Tradition of Age-Gap Relationships

Literary Hub , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 2:10:16 AM

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in August 2026

Literary Hub , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 2:08:50 AM

Sea Monster Villages and Soul Traders: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Literary Hub , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 2:08:22 AM

This Week in Literary History: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is Performed for the First Time (Probably)

Literary Hub , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 2:07:10 AM

Break to Sing: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read in July

Literary Hub , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 2:06:08 AM

Yñiga

Literary Hub , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 2:01:16 AM

Solar Developer Cancels Washington State Project on Sacred Indigenous Land

ProPublica , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 2:00:00 AM

Sources: WaPo Opinion Editor Adam O'Neal's exit stunned some colleagues, as he sounded confident and recently boasted he pushed the section further to the right (Natalie Korach/Status)

Mediagazer , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 1:55:00 AM

Pluralistic: Dualism (03 Aug 2026)

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 1:25:53 AM

Is the recycling symbol free speech? A judge just ruled it could be.

Grist , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 1:15:00 AM

Video podcasters are expanding beyond YouTube with FAST channels, which allow them to repackage their programming and potentially generate additional ad revenue (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Mediagazer , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 1:05:00 AM

State temporarily shutters rural aging agency after finding ‘serious performance issues’

Spotlight PA , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 12:57:10 AM

On infinite ethics

Marginal REVOLUTION , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 12:11:06 AM

The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2026: A Shortlist Discussion

nerds of a feather, flock together , Monday, Aug 3, 2026 12:00:00 AM

Unblogged July

diamond geezer , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 11:21:37 PM

Inside Netflix and Prime Video's fight to loosen France's "unsustainable" streaming rules, which include investment obligations and unfavorable release windows (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)

Mediagazer , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 10:55:00 PM

OTR Links 08/03/2026

doug — off the record , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 10:30:52 PM

An unsecured police dashboard exposes how China aggregates vast amounts of data to track foreigners in the country, including a database for foreign journalists (New York Times)

Mediagazer , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 9:55:00 PM

Tech oligarchy

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 9:37:00 PM

A Classroom Ritual for Peer Affirmations

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 9:37:00 PM

The Pseudoscience of Reading

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 9:37:00 PM

Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 9:37:00 PM

Rome’s Age of Revolution

Marginal REVOLUTION , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 9:33:37 PM

"The S is for surveillance": fighting KOSA and bad internet bills in the ATmosphere and the fediverses

The Nexus Of Privacy , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 9:31:51 PM

Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day opens to $927M worldwide, including $355M in North America, the second-biggest domestic debut behind Avengers: Endgame's $357M (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)

Mediagazer , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 9:25:00 PM

Sources: Netflix asked YouTube creators to remove brand integrations before videos appear on its service and is in talks to add Hot Ones to its YouTube lineup (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Mediagazer , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 9:05:01 PM

my coworker thinks I’m overwhelmed but I’m not, coworker charges everyone for coffee, and more

Ask a Manager , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 9:03:14 PM

I kicked over a hornet’s nest today and can confirm that expression is spot on.

https://ftrain.com , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 7:05:05 PM

Licensed shows account for ~40% of Netflix's global series titles but generate 50%+ of series-driven sign-ups, meaningfully outpacing their share of the catalog (Christofer Hamilton/The Wrap)

Mediagazer , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 7:05:01 PM

Oops Tempus Fugit!

Along the Ray , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 6:50:10 PM

The Giants’ selling spree begins as they flip Tyler Mahle for a pitching prospect

The San Francisco Standard , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 6:44:16 PM

Asana’s fascinating Tab shortcuts

Unsung , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 6:35:24 PM

Weekly output: airlines reject robots, AT&T raises rates retroactively

Rob Pegoraro , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 6:32:03 PM

Anthropic’s Claude for OSS Program Adds Codenotary’s immudb

https://fossforce.com , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 6:17:54 PM

The Post's Opinion Parting

Status , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 6:13:36 PM

Look who’s back: Mohammed Nuru has returned to San Francisco … and City Hall

The San Francisco Standard , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 6:00:00 PM

Love and Monsters (2020)

Justin Cox , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 5:17:21 PM

Australia finalizes the News Bargaining Incentive, upping the rate from 2.25% to 2.5%, narrowing the charges to digital ad revenue attributable to Australia (Ronald Mizen/Australian Financial Review)

Mediagazer , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 5:05:00 PM

What has driven deforestation in the 21st century?

https://ourworldindata.org , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 5:00:00 PM

Half-Life on Mac OS 9, a GammaOS handheld release, and shipping VR without Unity

Max Glenister , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 4:00:00 PM

How many things are competing for your attention?

Steven D. BREWER , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 3:35:33 PM

OpenAI teases Astra, its next major AI model, after it solves 10 long-standing math problems

BleepingComputer , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 3:31:41 PM

Reading matters deeply

Robin Rendle , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 3:23:40 PM

condense-json 1.0

Simon Willison's Weblog , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 3:19:59 PM

Fascinating thread on Hacker News about RSS.

Scripting News , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 2:27:07 PM

OpenAI’s amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra

Marcus on AI , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 2:25:27 PM

Sources: former 60 Minutes EP Bill Owens seeks ~$50M to launch a rival news series with Scott Pelley and other fired staffers; a source close to Owens denies it (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)

Mediagazer , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 2:25:00 PM

Over the years I and others have experimented with "watch" posts, short notes th...

Tantek Çelik , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 2:19:00 PM

COLDCARD wallet RNG flaw likely linked to $88 million Bitcoin theft

BleepingComputer , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 2:14:29 PM

Home, sweet home. Tiny, mouldy home...

Lewackie Pitolenie , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 2:00:00 PM

Linkfest #47: A Decoy Font, "Reverse Minesweeper", and A Plant That Dies If You Look At Your Phone

The Linkfest , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 1:48:33 PM

Coldcard hardware wallet flaw sees more than 1,367 BTC (~$89 million) drained across thousands of wallets

Web3 is Going Just Great , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 1:26:40 PM

‘The Odyssey’ Is So Big, It’s Made People Like ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Again

io9 | We Come From the Future , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 1:15:42 PM

Week Notes 26#31

articles on Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 1:10:49 PM

Pentagon secrecy deepens as Iran war drags on

Freedom of the Press Foundation , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 1:00:00 PM

California Democratic Party endorses wealth tax after contested floor fight

The San Francisco Standard , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 12:50:00 PM

Bryn Athyn man pleads guilty to possessing and disseminating child sexual abuse materials

Glenside Local , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 12:48:37 PM

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

Techdirt , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 12:45:39 PM

How much AI can a maintainer get away with using without losing their humanity?

articles on Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 12:39:42 PM

10 Days In. Nearly 200 Miles Marched. And We Are Just Getting Started.

Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 12:35:46 PM

Glenside’s The Mediocre Gardener: The Backyard Watering Holes Hidden Across Our Community

Glenside Local , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 12:31:35 PM

Truehart Wedding Chapel in Glenside Offering Affordable Elopements

Glenside Local , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 12:24:15 PM

Steph Kines Photo of Glenside: Branding photography for your business

Glenside Local , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 12:20:04 PM

TL;DL v2.5.0 — Editorial decks everywhere and a new transcription model

Elezea - RSS Feed , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 12:16:55 PM

FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending July 31, 2026

https://fossforce.com , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 12:07:49 PM

A story from the deep dark history of my blog. I got an email from Steve Wozniak...

Scripting News , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 12:06:26 PM

Taking some time off to breathe and regain perspective. Fixed a few bugs, and wr...

Scripting News , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 11:47:57 AM

Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide

Elezea - RSS Feed , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 11:32:17 AM

‘Wonder Man’ Showrunner Discusses Show’s Sudden Cancellation

io9 | We Come From the Future , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 11:05:50 AM

Commonplinks

daniel.industries , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 10:39:16 AM

The top-paid podcasters of 2026: Joe Rogan earned $82M, TBPN's John Coogan and Jordi Hays $70M, Steven Bartlett $45M, Ashley Flowers $42M, SmartLess' hosts $37M (Matt Craig/Forbes)

Mediagazer , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 10:35:00 AM

An Iconic ‘90s Neo-Soul Record About Life After Lockup

The Marshall Project , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 10:00:00 AM

YouTube – Quantum Shorts 2 – Entanglement

Green Comet , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 9:51:51 AM

🎦 watched “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” in the Metreon Dolby Cinema this past Frid...

Tantek Çelik , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 9:51:00 AM

Why “Grab Any Seat on the Rocketship” is a bad career strategy; this VC thinks people are right to hate today’s capitalism; look for founders who play RTS games; and a Chrome extension which blocks slop ecom brands ++ [link blog]

Hunter Walk , Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 9:40:39 AM