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Texas sues TP-Link over Chinese hacking risks, user deception

BleepingComputer, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 4:36:51 AM

Hackers target Microsoft Entra accounts in device code vishing attacks

BleepingComputer, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 4:30:37 AM

India AI Data MCP

Marginal REVOLUTION, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 4:18:23 AM

Malicious AI

Schneier on Security, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 4:05:39 AM

Packaging Expertise: How Claude Skills Turn Judgment Into Artifacts

Radar, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 4:01:11 AM

How ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Nailed Dunk’s Nightmarish Trial by Combat

io9 | We Come From the Future, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 4:00:43 AM

Innovation Is A Game Of Two Halves

Crunchbase News, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 4:00:31 AM

Crunchbase Data: The AI Boom Has Drastically Changed Who’s Funding The Hottest Companies In 2025 Vs. 2021

Crunchbase News, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 4:00:20 AM

Interesting Links for 19-02-2026

Very cool, if true, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 4:00:08 AM

An in-depth guide to customising lists with CSS

Piccalilli - Everything, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 3:55:00 AM

Book extract: ex-Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton recounts his role in sparking North Korea's 2014 hack, one of the worst cyberattacks in corporate history (Michael Lynton/Wall Street Journal)

Mediagazer, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 3:35:00 AM

Lit Hub Daily: February 19, 2026

Literary Hub, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 3:30:16 AM

Police arrests 651 suspects in African cybercrime crackdown

BleepingComputer, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 3:24:17 AM

Palestinian journalists describe being systematically tortured, abused, beaten, and starved in Israel's prisons between October 2023 and January 2026 (Committee to Protect Journalists)

Mediagazer, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 3:15:00 AM

An interview with the late Canadian underground cartoonist Leo Burdak, creator of Gearfoot Wrecks

The Comics Journal, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 3:00:51 AM

The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief

The Comics Journal, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 3:00:19 AM

What Developers Actually Need to Know Right Now

Radar, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 3:00:09 AM

Family deepfakes help people celebrate and grieve in India

Rest of World, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 3:00:00 AM

[Outliers] Phil Knight: The Obsession That Built Nike

Farnam Street, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 2:30:00 AM

New 'Massiv' Android banking malware poses as an IPTV app

BleepingComputer, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 2:00:00 AM

Basket-weaving

doug — off the record, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 2:00:00 AM

Letter from Minnesota: When Home is Away from Home

Literary Hub, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:59:57 AM

On What It Really Means to Live the Writing Life: The Good AND the Bad

Literary Hub, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:59:46 AM

Letter From Minnesota: If You Can Survive This, You Can Survive Anything

Literary Hub, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:59:43 AM

What We Lose When Our Independent Bookstores Close

Literary Hub, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:59:38 AM

The So-Called Tragedy of the English Commons Was Anything But

Literary Hub, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:59:36 AM

What Happens When Your Books (Don’t) Get Banned?

Literary Hub, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:59:31 AM

What Do You Do When the Biggest Platforms For Readers Are Kind of Evil?

Literary Hub, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:59:24 AM

Railsong

Literary Hub, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:59:13 AM

On the Unlikely Origin of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Literary Hub, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:59:06 AM

Letter From Minnesota: Elegy For Renee Nicole Good

Literary Hub, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:58:12 AM

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

Literary Hub, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:57:58 AM

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

Literary Hub, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:57:53 AM

The Annotated Nightstand: What Anne Fadiman is Reading Now, and Next

Literary Hub, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:57:11 AM

Thursday is a rest day Apple Watch!

Superdavey, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:46:09 AM

The cowboy who got rich selling veggie burgers

Grist, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:45:00 AM

The nation’s largest public utility is going back to coal — with almost no input from the public

Grist, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:30:00 AM

Q&A with Walt Handelsman, who retired at the end of 2025 as an editorial cartoonist at New Orleans' Times-Picayune, on the changes in a dwindling profession (Rob Tornoe/Editor and Publisher)

Mediagazer, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:25:00 AM

Two months after being arrested, this Indigenous climate leader remains imprisoned in Russia

Grist, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:15:00 AM

Yi-Ling Liu on Internet Censorship in China and the U.S.

Literary Hub, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:01:38 AM

AI sovereignty won’t come from renting Big Tech’s models

Rest of World, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 1:00:13 AM

I Guess I’m now the first ever Indiekit Instance on the #fediverse Thanks to Fed...

Ricardo Mendes, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 12:58:54 AM

Data center tax break created to boost economy, add jobs in Pa. could cost state billions in revenue

Spotlight PA, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 12:57:05 AM

Shipwrecks, Sham Papers and False Flags: Tracking the Company Behind It All

bellingcat, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 12:25:04 AM

Barb: 54% of all YouTube viewing in the UK is on a TV set across all demographics, making the streaming platform a "significant part of the UK's AV ecosystem" (K.J. Yossman/Variety)

Mediagazer, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 12:20:00 AM

Photographer Roe Ethridge on not letting your expectations get in the way of discovery

The Creative Independent, Thursday, Feb 19, 2026 12:00:00 AM

How I make a mix

Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 11:53:49 PM

WP & AI Updates

Matt Mullenweg, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 11:49:50 PM

Apple Podcasts' fresh leap into video podcasts accelerates the podcast industry's shift from an audio-centric medium to a decidedly video-focused one (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 11:25:00 PM

Nonprofit What To Fix says Facebook's content monetization program grew from under 3M to over 12M participants in just over a year; 8M+ accounts are in English (Hazel Gandhi/Rest of World)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 11:00:01 PM

Pershore

diamond geezer, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 11:00:00 PM

babybel

Eriks Logbuch, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 10:53:05 PM

Magic Lasso Adblock, Now for tvOS

Pixel Envy, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 9:59:37 PM

Experimenting with sponsorship for my blog and newsletter

Simon Willison's Weblog, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 9:44:29 PM

My excellent Conversation with Joe Studwell

Marginal REVOLUTION, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 9:40:27 PM

Skyscraper Is a Bluesky Client for iOS, and Some Other Things

Pixel Envy, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 9:40:20 PM

OTR Links 02/19/2026

doug — off the record, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 9:30:56 PM

Current Is an RSS Reader With a Twist

Pixel Envy, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 9:24:05 PM

should I tell people at the company we acquired what they’re in for, interviewer didn’t ask me any questions, and more

Ask a Manager, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 9:03:48 PM

SWE-bench February 2026 leaderboard update

Simon Willison's Weblog, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 8:48:47 PM

Backups

Shawn Hooper, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 8:41:56 PM

ExplanAItions 2025: The Evolution of AI in Research

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 8:37:00 PM

Twilight Chief Sorrow

oh messy life, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 8:01:47 PM

Vinay Prasad: The One Man Roadblocking An mRNA Flu Vaccine

Techdirt, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 8:01:45 PM

How to Raise Children

Pinboard (shiflett), Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 7:57:16 PM

First I wrote the wrong book, then I wrote the right book (xpost)

charity.wtf, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 7:35:45 PM

[CPU] Software is about to change... radically.

Chris Pirillo's LockerGnome, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 7:35:33 PM

An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the For You feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 7:35:01 PM

“A State that Massacres Its Own People Cannot Be a Force of Liberation for Others" : A Conversation on the Recent Uprising in Iran

CrimethInc., Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 7:22:03 PM

'Today's' Unsettled Tomorrow

Status, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 7:07:13 PM

I Was Wrong Again on Memory Chip Stocks

https://firstadopter.substack.com, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 7:00:56 PM

Sony sends ByteDance a C&D letter over Seedance 2.0, joining Netflix, Paramount, WBD, and Disney in condemning the model's AI-generated copyright infringement (Gene Maddaus/Variety)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 6:35:01 PM

‘Get some new shoes, too, b****’: Marin hospital board meeting erupts ahead of strike

The San Francisco Standard, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 6:31:43 PM

FOX29 recaps SPS Technologies’ journey, local companies reflect on the fire’s one-year anniversary

Glenside Local, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 5:57:29 PM

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https://crowdersoup.com, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 5:55:44 PM

PA Treasury Department is asking for legal justification for public money to fund upgrades to Gov. Shapiro’s private residence

Glenside Local, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 5:31:55 PM

LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Abandon Swift adoption

Simon Willison's Weblog, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 5:25:33 PM

Like: 1771463057

https://crowdersoup.com, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 5:04:17 PM

Like: 1771463045

https://crowdersoup.com, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 5:04:05 PM

Manor College of Jenkintown partners with Thomas Jefferson University to offer discounted tuition

Glenside Local, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 4:48:43 PM

Rep. Dean published an opinion piece in Newsweek titled ‘Bad Bondi’s Disgraceful Performance’

Glenside Local, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 4:34:49 PM

I Have Questions- Law Dork’s Chris Geidner has Some Answers on the Nicole Sandler Show 2-18-26

The Nicole Sandler Show, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 4:19:59 PM

What led up to the Tahoe avalanche? Experts weigh in

The San Francisco Standard, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 4:13:09 PM

Cheltenham High School employee listed as a defendant in Protection From Abuse order, police say

Glenside Local, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 4:07:38 PM

The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun

sippey.com, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 4:06:00 PM

Day 1856: “An embarrassment.”

What The Fuck Just Happened Today?, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 3:56:00 PM

Sources: the US DOJ has summoned some of the largest theater chains to private conversations about the potential impact of a sale of WBD (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 3:50:00 PM

PADD Updates (last for a while!): Managing Channels and Feeds

IndieNews English, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 3:45:45 PM

“Free” Surveillance Tech Still Comes At A High And Dangerous Cost

Techdirt, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 3:45:17 PM

Trying AI (and failing)

A Whole Lotta Nothing, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 3:41:49 PM

Journalists say an AP reporter and three other journalists were detained in Cameroon while probing a secretive US program that deports migrants to Cameroon (Pranav Baskar/New York Times)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 3:40:01 PM

Typewriter interview with Tom Hart

Austin Kleon, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 3:39:52 PM

The Pricemaster

Austin Kleon, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 3:35:10 PM

Though I might be wrong

Superdavey, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 3:04:39 PM

Kansas, Idaho, Utah, Oklahoma in New Push to Restrict Transgender Rights

NYT > Amy Harmon, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 3:03:45 PM

Tom Noonan, Frankenstein of ‘The Monster Squad,’ Dies at 74

io9 | We Come From the Future, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 3:00:45 PM

Love this cool JS pattern-making script .

kottke.org, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 2:53:24 PM

The “river” of “vibes”

Superdavey, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 2:51:31 PM

UCLA cancels Bari Weiss' Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture on "the future of journalism", following student protests; a source says it will be rescheduled (The Wrap)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 2:45:00 PM

YouTube – Parasite Puppeteers – Chapter Thirty-Nine

Green Comet, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 2:44:38 PM