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The Television Academy merges the Outstanding Scripted Variety Series and Outstanding Talk Series into a single category for 2026 Emmys as submissions decline (Casey Loving/The Wrap)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:55:00 AM

Hackers Say They've Hacked Match Group, Maker of Hinge, OkCupid

404 Media , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:54:09 AM

The Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer to Midnight. Does Anyone Care?

404 Media , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:50:52 AM

CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil interviewed his own mother during Tuesday's broadcast regarding the cognitive benefits of grandparenting (Martin Holmes/Yahoo Entertainment)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:45:01 AM

Dutch Court Hands 20-Year Sentence to Eritrean Human Trafficker

OCCRP , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:39:00 AM

Major power grid operator for Pa., East Coast predicts energy shortfall by mid-2027

Spotlight PA , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:35:11 AM

People Photographed With Their Vehicles

kottke.org , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:23:46 AM

Large funeral for Palestinian youth killed by Israeli troops in West Bank; Two GOP senators join calls for Kristi Noem's resignation; Ilhan Omar attacked at town hall

Drop Site News , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:21:01 AM

I know a place

James Frew , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:17:26 AM

Bluesky says it is working to make feeds more "live", interactive, and timely during live events, and teases improvements to posting and follow suggestions (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:15:00 AM

Meta is spending millions on ads to convince people that data centers are cool and you like them

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:09:50 AM

Why launch a feminist video games website in 2026?

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:07:58 AM

Mapping 6,000 Worlds: The New Era of Exoplanetary Data

IEEE Spectrum , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:04:38 AM

BBC names a new interim director general

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:04:32 AM

An idea I read in this blog post is one I hadn't considered, is super important....

Scripting News , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:00:41 AM

Need a manuscript critique? This literary auction is raising money to support Minnesotans.

Literary Hub , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:00:16 AM

AI Is Rewriting Compliance Controls and CISOs Must Take Notice

BleepingComputer , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:00:10 AM

Second Amendment jurisprudence is a mess

SCOTUSblog , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 7:00:00 AM

Google Search now lets you ask AI Overviews follow-up questions

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:58:05 AM

Australian publishers worry that AI is disproportionately showing U.S. outlets to Australian users

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:57:12 AM

Attack Against Poland's Grid Disrupted Communication Devices at About 30 Sites

https://zetter.substack.com , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:42:11 AM

SolarWinds warns of critical Web Help Desk RCE, auth bypass flaws

BleepingComputer , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:39:02 AM

A decent proxy for how well a town is managed is what the roads look like 48 hou...

Chuck Grimmett , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:38:26 AM

Why Some People See Collapse Earlier Than Others: Perception, pattern-seeking, and the...

kottke.org , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:36:06 AM

Introducing the Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack

SCOTUSblog , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:30:00 AM

Amid Backlash, Massive Porn Platform ManyVids Doubles Down on Bizarre, AI-Generated Posts

404 Media , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:28:19 AM

DNS fix: pagepark.scripting.com now redirects to the GitHub repo for PagePark. S...

Scripting News , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:24:37 AM

1993: Global Network Navigator and the first web designer

Cybercultural: Internet History , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:20:00 AM

Apple Ruined My Mechanical Keyboard Experience (A NuPhy Halo75 Review)

Brain Baking , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:17:38 AM

“America Alone” Runs Counter to U.S. Public’s Preferences for Robust Global Engagement

Just Security , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:15:59 AM

Spotify paid out $11B+ to the music industry in 2025, up 10% YoY, bringing its all-time payments to $70B, and now accounts for ~30% of recorded music revenue (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:15:03 AM

The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2026 Duff Cooper Prize, recommended by Andrew Holgate

Five Books , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:10:46 AM

Pursuing Truth, Not Peace: International Courts’ Limited Ability to Help End Wars

Just Security , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:05:00 AM

Podcast: Creators Worry Porn Platform Is Falling Into ‘AI Psychosis’

404 Media , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:00:49 AM

App for Quitting Porn Leaked Users' Masturbation Habits

404 Media , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:00:38 AM

The MCU Might Get to Start Using Sony’s Spider-Man Characters More Often

io9 | We Come From the Future , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:00:34 AM

Junk science about Levi’s Stadium substation grows into problem 49ers must address

The San Francisco Standard , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:00:00 AM

AI is booming. Tech jobs in San Francisco are not

The San Francisco Standard , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Fry up the plátanos: The Bad Bunny Bowl is officially a food holiday

The San Francisco Standard , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:00:00 AM

SCOTUStoday for Wednesday, January 28

SCOTUSblog , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 6:00:00 AM

SFWA Winter Worlds of Giving

Steven D. BREWER , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:57:12 AM

The new boss? Not the same as the old boss

Coda Story , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:55:00 AM

What the Times, the AP and Merriam-Webster say about the words ‘murder’ and ‘execution’

Dan Kennedy , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:50:23 AM

Artificial Guilt? A Practitioner’s Guide to Criminal Liability in the Age of GenAI

Just Security , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:49:25 AM

The Desolate Order of the Head in the Water by A. W. Prihandita (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:46:40 AM

Report warns federal gun buyback gives ammunition to extremists

Investigative Journalism Foundation , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:45:41 AM

Warm Takes

Doc Searls Weblog , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:45:14 AM

How a Small Swiss City Could Help Regulators Avoid the Next Grok Scandal

Tech Policy Press , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:40:51 AM

The TikTok Deal Is Done

Marketing Junto , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:36:06 AM

The UK CMA proposes measures to let publishers opt out of content scraping for Google's AI Overviews and AI training without losing visibility in search results (Robert Booth/The Guardian)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:30:01 AM

Kristen Radtke remembers Alex Pretti. “I didn’t realize, in the hours before...

kottke.org , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:26:02 AM

Brendan Carr Pretends To Care About Competition, Helps Larry Ellison Undermine Netflix Warner Brothers Merger

Techdirt , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:21:00 AM

Hackers hijack exposed LLM endpoints in Bizarre Bazaar operation

BleepingComputer , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:15:03 AM

Early Edition: January 28, 2026

Just Security , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:10:39 AM

How ICE Uses AI to Automate Authoritarianism

Tech Policy Press , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:06:17 AM

The BBC names Rhodri Talfan Davies, currently its director of nations, as interim Director-General and confirms outgoing DG Tim Davie will exit on April 2 (Ellise Shafer/Variety)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:01:56 AM

I’m Sorry, That ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Prosthetic Was How Big?

io9 | We Come From the Future , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:00:42 AM

Digital resistance

Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:00:00 AM

Cake Scientists Say This Is the Healthiest Way to Eat an Entire Cake Off a Cake Stand, Top Down, in One Sitting (Sponsored by the Remaindered Cake Association)

McSweeney’s , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:00:00 AM

Wikipedia at 25 grapples with new challenges arising from generative AI

Walled Culture , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 5:00:00 AM

Audio: Bari Weiss told staff that she wanted CBS News to appeal to political moderates, saying "we're for the center-right, and we're for the center-left" (Washington Post)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 4:50:00 AM

Slovakian man pleads guilty to operating darknet marketplace

BleepingComputer , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 4:49:05 AM

Evals Are NOT All You Need

Radar , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 4:22:41 AM

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple lifts the series into zombie masterclass

Region Free , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 4:20:09 AM

“Agentic Smurfing”: How AI-Autonomous Micro-Laundering is Outpacing Traditional Terrorist Financing Detection

GNET , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 4:13:40 AM

The Hill says it has "fortified" its breaking news team due to a "bonkers" US news cycle; Comscore says The Hill had 1.24B page views across 2025, up 7% YoY (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 4:10:01 AM

Letter From Minnesota: We Are Going to Win

Literary Hub , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 4:04:44 AM

A Growing Share Of Seed And Series A Funding Is Going To Giant Rounds

Crunchbase News , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 4:00:47 AM

Bandai’s ‘Marvel vs. Capcom’ Figures Just Keep Getting Better and Better

io9 | We Come From the Future , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 4:00:23 AM

Interesting Links for 28-01-2026

Very cool, if true , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 4:00:09 AM

The Index: Issue #159

Piccalilli - Everything , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 3:55:00 AM

The Confounder Is Being Popular and Important

Atoms vs Bits , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 3:49:17 AM

New WhatsApp lockdown feature protects high-risk users from hackers

BleepingComputer , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 3:48:26 AM

🎵 Portugal. The Man - Angoon (https://portugaltheman.bandcamp.com/track/angoon)

amble.blog , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 3:48:04 AM

Exploring Extreme Winter Weather in a Human-Heated Climate

Sustain What , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 3:31:26 AM

Lit Hub Daily: January 28, 2026

Literary Hub , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 3:30:57 AM

Sources: Paramount's Dane Glasgow told staff that Paramount+ gained ~1M subscribers on the day of its first UFC event; Paramount calls the figures "unverified" (James Faris/Business Insider)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 3:15:02 AM

Letter From Minnesota: Vigil in a Besieged City

Literary Hub , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 3:11:23 AM

A Diverse Boomtown in Trump Country Says ‘Thanks, But No Thanks’ to ICE

The Marshall Project , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 3:00:10 AM

At day cares in Minnesota, strangers are showing up at their doors as parents scramble to protect staff

The 19th , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 3:00:00 AM

Meet UpScrolled, the anti-censorship TikTok alternative

Rest of World , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 3:00:00 AM

Programme for publishers from Ukraine

News from the Oxford International Centre for Publishing , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 2:24:51 AM

Five Ed Tech Fads to Avoid (and Five to Follow Instead)

TCEA TechNotes Blog , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 2:18:00 AM

Secret Sailings: Oil Tankers Turn off Tracking Between Russian and Georgian Ports

OCCRP , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 2:07:00 AM

New Bills Seek to Rein In Oil Companies’ Pollution of Oklahoma Groundwater

ProPublica , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 2:00:00 AM

Letter to My Daughter After the Murder of a Poet in the Streets of Minneapolis

Literary Hub , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 1:59:03 AM

Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…”

Literary Hub , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 1:59:03 AM

How We’ve Handled Disease Throughout History

Literary Hub , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 1:58:59 AM

How the NY Post and the NY Daily News Turned Victims Into Criminals

Literary Hub , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 1:58:49 AM

Portals, Vehicles, and Vessels: How Folklore Holds the Weight of Cultures in Flux

Literary Hub , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 1:58:42 AM

The Accidental Discovery of the Most Valuable Shipwreck in History

Literary Hub , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 1:58:33 AM

The Rise and Fall of the Internet As a Politicized Space for Black Art

Literary Hub , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 1:58:23 AM

What Europeans Found on the Most Isolated Island in the World

Literary Hub , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 1:58:20 AM

My Writing Life in Tasmania: Living Remotely and Exploring Widely

Literary Hub , Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 1:57:53 AM