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Two shelter staffers arrested for allegedly harboring man who shot SFPD officer

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 3:50:38 PM

A federal appeals court tossed out a $130K judgment that a Democratic consultant won against James O'Keefe in 2022 over an undercover video sting (Josh Gerstein/Politico)

Mediagazer , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 3:45:00 PM

Bricks & Minifigs Settles With The Mansells — Gutting Its Own RICO Case Against ‘Reckless’ Ben

Techdirt , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 3:27:32 PM

Oups… Accidentally turned my geekom IT15 off but thanks to herdr recovered my op...

A Node on the Web , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 1:15:00 PM

Sources: the Pentagon gave separation notices to Stars and Stripes' publisher and EIC, citing insubordination; the publisher had retirement planned for Sept. 30 (Jennifer Jacobs/CBS News)

Mediagazer , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 1:06:48 PM

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: School Of Hard Blocks

Techdirt , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 1:04:19 PM

This Might Be Your Last Chance to Own Patrick Stewart’s Professor X

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 1:00:24 PM

Constituent says a Rob Bresnahan video broke House rules. The lawmaker blames a ‘clerical error.’

Spotlight PA , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 12:51:26 PM

As elevator repairs drag on, older residents of subsidized Berks County apartment building endure outages, injury

Spotlight PA , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 12:46:48 PM

The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024 (Ashley Gold/Axios)

Mediagazer , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 12:42:56 PM

Upper Moreland police charge wanted man with driving a stolen vehicle, evading/resisting arrest, drug possession following foot pursuit

Glenside Local , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 12:22:41 PM

Hi Aaron, is there any path to have one’s own domain added to the allowed client...

A Node on the Web , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 12:21:12 PM

Google Workspace Weekly Recap - August 21, 2026

Google Workspace Updates , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 12:10:10 PM

Sam Clemens, compositor

BuzzMachine , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 12:09:00 PM

Theatre in the X presents Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow Is Enuf

'The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate,' catching up with Jaleel Shaw, and more for prime holiday times , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 12:05:00 PM

Teen Drops Meta/Google/Snap Suit, DOJ Targets Mar-a-Lago FBI Agents & Tech Giants Fight Over AI Voice Data

Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 12:01:36 PM

The New ‘Insidious’ Director Got Very Nervous When He Watched ‘Backrooms’

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 12:00:21 PM

No Ads, No Telemetry, No AI Agent: Orion Browser Does Linux

https://fossforce.com , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 12:00:08 PM

Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

Literary Hub , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 11:59:59 AM

A longtime politico alleges the Globe had a conflict in its Seth Moulton endorsement

Dan Kennedy , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 11:59:29 AM

Supreme Court allows White House ballroom construction to continue for now

SCOTUSblog , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 11:55:08 AM

Sources: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is scrutinizing ABC's move to switch TV affiliates in St. Louis from a Sinclair-owned station to a Gray Media station (Joe Flint/Wall Street Journal)

Mediagazer , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 11:55:01 AM

Lower Moreland police arrest registered sex offender for possession of child sexual abuse material

Glenside Local , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 11:52:28 AM

‘Section 415’ podcast: How Giants broadcasts will sound without Mike Krukow

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 11:30:00 AM

This brew, at least, is from Ashburn, Virginia

Marginal REVOLUTION , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 11:24:37 AM

Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Thirty-Sixth Week

LibrarianShipwreck , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 11:22:36 AM

DC’s Jimmy Olsen TV Show Has Its Official Title, Cast, and More

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 11:12:23 AM

Zero Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets

Techdirt , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 11:11:18 AM

Weiss Italic

ruk.ca - Peter Rukavina's Weblog , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 11:10:31 AM

Daily Deal: Plantum Plant Identifier (iOS only)

Techdirt , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 11:06:18 AM

New SynkLoader malware pushed in Microsoft Teams phishing campaign

BleepingComputer , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 11:01:30 AM

I shipped my comment plugin to a service that could never accept it

IndieNews English , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 11:01:06 AM

Walking the Length of Manhattan . I did this, solo,...

kottke.org , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 10:48:00 AM

Vine reboot Divine is now open to everyone, no invite code required

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 10:37:00 AM

Agentic AI is Available to Teachers at No Cost. Here's a Job Worth Giving It.

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 10:37:00 AM

The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 10:37:00 AM

Disney signs a deal with Dhar Mann Studios to produce 20 episodes as it makes a push into creator content; Mann has ~300M views each week across platforms (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)

Mediagazer , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 10:35:00 AM

How ‘Strange New Worlds’ Made Sure the Puppet Episode Still Felt Like ‘Star Trek’

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 10:30:39 AM

Cheltenham Township to discuss Pitcairn Development Project plans for new mixed-use building with 50 apartments, office renovation with 36 apartments

Glenside Local , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 10:28:25 AM

Deconstructing A 17th Century Letter

Brain Baking , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 10:20:00 AM

llm 0.32.1

Simon Willison's Weblog , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 10:16:13 AM

Julia Child in Paris vs Julie Powell in Queens

Sundman figures it out!, Friday, Aug 21, 2026 10:02:16 AM

Reasons That I, a Billionaire, Am Still Miserable

McSweeney’s , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 10:00:00 AM

Imprisoned journalist faces horrifying conditions

Freedom of the Press Foundation , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 10:00:00 AM

Matt ‘Tugboat’ Wilkinson has an elite nickname. Can he be a great Giants pitcher too?

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 10:00:00 AM

llm-openrouter 0.7

Simon Willison's Weblog , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 9:58:19 AM

“When Jason Ganos was asked to help sell an old box full...

kottke.org , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 9:57:00 AM

AI Is Learning to Write Genetic Code

Schneier on Security , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 9:51:50 AM

Skill games' roots in Pa. trace to allegedly arranged Beaver County raid

Spotlight PA , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 9:49:10 AM

Silicon Florist links arrangement for August 21, 2026

Portland Oregon startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and community , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 9:44:29 AM

Maybe someday Claude will understand what a Frontier-like app is, but until then...

Scripting News , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 9:39:14 AM

A Vision for PK–12 Computer Science Education

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 9:37:00 AM

On values, morals, and doing business

Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 9:35:00 AM

CBP Officers And Contractors Abused Government Databases To Stalk Their Exes

Techdirt , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 9:28:28 AM

After raising prices in the US, Google is raising YouTube Premium prices in parts of Europe and Singapore by around 10% to 15%, in line with the US (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Mediagazer , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 9:20:00 AM

Claude is still learning that there's unprecedented depth to Frontier. A bunch o...

Scripting News , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 9:09:12 AM

Stop Making TUIs

Simon Willison's Weblog , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 9:07:32 AM

Friday assorted links

Marginal REVOLUTION , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 9:03:18 AM

EFF and Civil Society Groups Call on Nottinghamshire Police to Halt Live Face Recognition

Electronic Frontier Foundation , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 9:03:17 AM

The Agent-Era Career

Radar , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 9:01:58 AM

previously on Ask a Manager…

Ask a Manager , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 8:59:02 AM

What a great idea for a book: Cookbooking: A Fan’s...

kottke.org , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 8:56:00 AM

Hundreds of leaked AWS keys give full control over corporate accounts

BleepingComputer , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 8:55:15 AM

Fryharderday

Doc Searls Weblog , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 8:51:14 AM

U.S. imposes new Cuba sanctions; Progressive wins California special election; Congo Ebola outbreak “growing exponentially”

Drop Site News , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 8:47:03 AM

Closing the Gap: Consolidating Terrorist Threat Intelligence in Frontier AI Governance

GNET , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 8:44:53 AM

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Defense Tech, AI Tools And Infrastructure Lead The Way

Crunchbase News , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 8:42:23 AM

YouTube – The Francesians

Green Comet , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 8:40:13 AM

White Nationalists Are Planning A Full Media Takeover

Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 8:38:14 AM

AP lays off 20 U.S. video production staffers and moves jobs to India

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 8:37:35 AM

Axel Springer loaned £7M to the Telegraph in early 2026 before buying the outlet; filings: Telegraph had a £3.9M pre-tax loss in 2025 and £273.2M in revenue (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

Mediagazer , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 8:30:03 AM

Slowing Down the Race to Superintelligence

Continuations , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 8:22:56 AM

Quoting Matt Webb

Simon Willison's Weblog , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 8:06:26 AM

open thread – August 21, 2026

Ask a Manager , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 8:00:24 AM

Birds Beyond Birding

Public Books , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 8:00:00 AM

New restaurant called Brown Ginger may be coming to Huntingdon Valley

Glenside Local , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 7:55:15 AM

Microsoft blames Windows gaming issues on RGB lighting devices

BleepingComputer , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 7:54:49 AM

Behind the Blog: Early Birthday Reflections

404 Media , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 7:54:35 AM

The Big Idea: Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Whatever , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 7:53:44 AM

Portland has definitely slipped among tech communities — but at least we’re still registering

Portland Oregon startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and community , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 7:53:02 AM

Avoiding Peacock price hikes

Cord Cutter Weekly , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 7:50:46 AM

Avoiding Peacock price hikes

Advisorator , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 7:41:13 AM

Digital Subscription Revenue Continues Rising at Telegraph as Advertising Struggles

A Media Operator , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 7:34:28 AM

Realizing Scalia’s vision: state originalism centers as legal civics education

SCOTUSblog , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 7:30:00 AM

The Ice Tower is a beautiful and melancholy fantasy

RegionFree , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 7:28:13 AM

YMCA looking to fill multiple positions in Glenside, Willow Grove, & Abington

Glenside Local , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 7:22:25 AM

This Week in Matrix 2026-08-21

Matrix.org , Friday, Aug 21, 2026 7:19:49 AM