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A Year After The Competitiveness Compass, Europe Remains Far from Tech Independence

Tech Policy Press, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 7:14:44 AM

Israel kills over 20 in Gaza; U.S. shoots down alleged Iranian drone; At least 162 people killed in west Nigeria attack

Drop Site News, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 7:13:49 AM

How We Tracked a 'Fake Prince' Scammer to His Nigerian Mansion

OCCRP, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 7:10:00 AM

Northeastern journalism faculty members condemn the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort

Dan Kennedy, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 7:08:23 AM

The Double-Edged Sword of Non-Human Identities

BleepingComputer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 7:05:15 AM

Sources: WaPo Executive Editor Matt Murray says that politics and government will remain the largest desk and are central to the paper, alongside national news (Max Tani/Semafor)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 7:05:01 AM

In 2025, Why Did Chicago Experience Historic Lows in Homicide?

Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 7:02:58 AM

Roxane Gay : “Humanity is, always, enough. We have...

kottke.org, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 7:00:41 AM

‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Adds Lego Sets to Its Pop Culture Takeover

io9 | We Come From the Future, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 7:00:19 AM

The Black Codes must not define America’s fundamental freedoms

SCOTUSblog, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 7:00:00 AM

Distributing Go binaries like sqlite-scanner through PyPI using go-to-wheel

Simon Willison's Weblog, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:59:47 AM

Unionized Hearst staffers represented by the WGA East conducted half-day walkouts on Tuesday after a month of contract negotiations with management failed (Erik Pedersen/Deadline)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:55:00 AM

Apple Review #41: Wild Twist

Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:35:51 AM

Sources: WaPo told its ~45-person sports staff that some will be re-assigned within the newsroom, as it cuts one of the great American newspaper sports sections (Dan Shanoff/The Athletic)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:35:01 AM

How Stablecoins make it easy to sidestep sanctions

Coda Story, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:33:34 AM

Kawakami: ‘What a f— run it’s been’ — Draymond Green and the Warriors near the end

The San Francisco Standard, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:30:16 AM

There was a surge in executions in 2025. Here’s how the Supreme Court responded.

SCOTUSblog, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:30:00 AM

Speech translation in Google Meet now generally available for businesses

Google Workspace Updates, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:26:32 AM

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:26:16 AM

Good god, this story: Mother Says Asking 13-Year-Old Son...

kottke.org, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:24:37 AM

Nonprofit newsroom Amjambo Africa wants to bridge the gap between Maine’s newcomers and longtimers

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:21:46 AM

EDR killer tool uses signed kernel driver from forensic software

BleepingComputer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:17:45 AM

People Inc. digital revenue up double digits after signing multiple AI deals in 2025

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:14:52 AM

The Missing Fair Use Argument in the Copyright Battle Over AI Summaries

Tech Policy Press, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:13:59 AM

What Lies Ahead for Nuclear Technology and Security in 2026

Just Security, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:11:11 AM

Sources: WaPo plans to end the sports section in its "current form", restructure the metro desk, and eliminate the books section as part of a "strategic reset" (The Wrap)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:10:00 AM

“The [Washington Post] cuts, announced in a video call with employees, are a sign that Jeff Bezos, who became one of the world’s richest people by selling things on the internet, has not yet figured out how to build and maintain a profitable publication on the internet.”

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:06:51 AM

I might want to look at this later… 👀

Ricardo Mendes, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:06:16 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution plans to cut around 50 positions, or ~15% of its workforce, with about half of them in the newsroom, as it seeks to cut costs (J. Scott Trubey/Atlanta Journal ...)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:06:13 AM

FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

404 Media, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:05:33 AM

The New York Times added 1.4 million digital subscribers last year, thanks to bundles and family plans

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:05:12 AM

Podcast: The Latest Epstein Dump is a Disaster

404 Media, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:00:59 AM

It’s Going to Take a While For ‘Pluribus’ Season 2

io9 | We Come From the Future, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:00:43 AM

San Francisco hits the boom-loop reset button

The San Francisco Standard, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:00:00 AM

We ran the numbers: BART was delayed 35,105 times in the last 2 years

The San Francisco Standard, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:00:00 AM

‘The forever sweep’: San Francisco preps for homeless migration before Super Bowl

The San Francisco Standard, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:00:00 AM

‘Hide it, talk it away’: Lawmaker details German outrage over Shvo’s Transamerica splurge

The San Francisco Standard, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:00:00 AM

California takes more federal money to jail immigrants than any other state

The San Francisco Standard, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:00:00 AM

When the clock is ticking, how do you save your favorite dying restaurant?

The San Francisco Standard, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:00:00 AM

New Amaranth Dragon cyberespionage group exploits WinRAR flaw

BleepingComputer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:00:00 AM

SCOTUStoday for Wednesday, February 4

SCOTUSblog, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:00:00 AM

International Criminal Court Intervention in Civil Wars: A Tradeoff Between Atrocity Prevention and Peace

Just Security, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Réflexion interessante 👀

Ricardo Mendes, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 5:57:42 AM

Governing AI Agents with Democratic ‘Algorithmic Institutions’

Tech Policy Press, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 5:53:26 AM

Tetris Diorama

bavatuesdays, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 5:52:08 AM

How Can a New International Treaty Address Older Persons’ Decision-Making Rights?

Just Security, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 5:51:17 AM

Video call: WaPo Executive Editor Matt Murray says the paper plans to lay off hundreds of staff, cutting into its local, international, and sports coverage (New York Times)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 5:47:53 AM

Trumpland Ramps Up Attacks On Netflix Warner Brothers Merger To Help Larry Ellison

Techdirt, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 5:38:24 AM

The Results of UN80: Reform or Decline?

Just Security, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 5:31:07 AM

Canada's Labour Trafficking Problem Is Getting Worse: Intelligence Agency

Investigative Journalism Foundation, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 5:30:21 AM

Beyond Pilot Purgatory

Radar, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 5:30:05 AM

Fox reports Q2 revenue up 2% YoY to $5.18B, a profit of $247M, down from $388M in Q2 2025, cable revenue up 5% YoY to $2.28B, and ad revenue up 1% YoY to $2.46B (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 5:25:00 AM

Automatically fixing links with the Wayback Machine

Chuck Grimmett, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 5:03:51 AM

Early Edition: February 4, 2026

Just Security, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 5:03:39 AM

People Inc. reports Q4 digital revenue up 14% YoY to $355M, total revenue down 2% YoY to $512M, print revenue fell 21% to $168.5M, and ad revenue up 9% to $209M (Ray Schultz/MediaPost)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 5:00:04 AM

Wizards of the Coast Is Giving God’s Favorite Princess Her Own ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Secret Lair

io9 | We Come From the Future, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 5:00:01 AM

There Is Limited Money in Our Big, Beautiful Budget, So We Need to Spend as Much of It as Possible to Keep Ruining Immigrants’ Lives

McSweeney’s, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 5:00:00 AM

Microsoft rolls out native Sysmon monitoring in Windows 11

BleepingComputer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 4:58:20 AM

Curating Temporality: Embodied and Political Listening in Ephemeral Soundscapes

Ars Electronica Blog, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 4:51:07 AM

What I wrote in The Atlantic about the Clicktatorship

Can We Still Govern?, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 4:38:50 AM

Shock and Awe: Geopolitical Disruption and Terrorist Narrative Opportunism Online

GNET, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 4:31:37 AM

6.0.0-alpha.2

Release notes from kirby, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 4:30:18 AM

A Guide to the Epstein Files, Part I

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 4:30:06 AM

Favourites of January 2026

Brain Baking, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 4:20:00 AM

NYT reports adding 450K digital subscribers in Q4 and 1.4M in 2025 for 12.78M in total, putting it on a pace to reach its stated goal of 15M by the end of 2027 (Katie Robertson/New York Times)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 4:20:00 AM

The NYT reports Q4 revenue up 10.4% YoY to $802.3M, subscription revenue up 13.9% YoY to $381.5M, and operating profit up 10.2% YoY to $161.6M; NYT drops 15%+ (The New York Times Company)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 4:14:47 AM

US Declassifies Information on JUMPSEAT Spy Satellites

Schneier on Security, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 4:02:10 AM

Maggie Gyllenhaal Insists ‘The Bride!’ Isn’t a Musical, Despite All the Singing

io9 | We Come From the Future, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 4:00:38 AM

Google Is A $4T Company That’s Still In The Startup Game

Crunchbase News, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 4:00:16 AM

Interesting Links for 04-02-2026

Very cool, if true, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 4:00:10 AM

Our gatherings could be so much better

Source, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 4:00:00 AM

Preserving the Open Web: Inside the New Wayback Machine Plugin for WordPress

Internet Archive Blogs, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 4:00:00 AM

The Index: Issue #161

Piccalilli - Everything, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 3:55:00 AM

When you think about it… It’s quite astounding that the European Union needed a...

Ricardo Mendes, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 3:44:11 AM

Sources: the NFL is set to open negotiations to revise its broadcast and streaming contracts in the coming months despite a $120B deal that runs to the 2030s (New York Times)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 3:40:00 AM

Lit Hub Daily: February 4, 2026

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 3:30:05 AM

More Dating Apps

Atoms vs Bits, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 3:28:50 AM

Owner of Incognito dark web drugs market gets 30 years in prison

BleepingComputer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 3:24:23 AM

Lego is building up an in-house programmatic media buying team and hiring programmatic staff in the US and Denmark, part of a trend of companies going in-house (Sam Bradley/Digiday)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 3:20:00 AM

‘We Know Where You Live.’ Protesters Say ICE Agents Retaliate With Threats, Investigations

The Marshall Project, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 3:00:49 AM

Playing Dirty: The State of Florida Versus Mike Diana, a new drama about a notorious comic book obscenity case

The Comics Journal, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 3:00:42 AM

To understand China, we need to understand the Chinese internet

Rest of World, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 3:00:00 AM

A Mississippi Synagogue Was Attacked in 1967 and 2026. The Antisemitic Rhetoric Looked the Same Then and Now.

ProPublica, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 3:00:00 AM

Why Goal Setting Usually Falls Apart (and How to Build Better Habits)

TCEA TechNotes Blog, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 2:51:00 AM

Substack-based investigative outlet Democracy for Sale says it now has nearly 50,000 subscribers and 1,500 paying readers; its stories had 3M+ views in 2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 2:50:03 AM

Secretive Firms From U.K. to Singapore Win $200M in Tenders From Uzbek State Giant

OCCRP, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 2:45:00 AM

Africa Is Writing AI Rules Faster Than the World Notices

Tech Policy Press, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 2:31:10 AM

We Found New York’s Guardianship System in Shambles. Now State Lawmakers Say They Have a Plan to Help Fix It.

ProPublica, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 2:30:00 AM

Nielsen: CBS' Grammy broadcast averaged 14.41M viewers, down 6% from 15.4M in 2025 and a 17.09M post-pandemic high in 2024; Disney will broadcast it from 2027 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 2:10:01 AM

Idaho Seeks to Improve Its Troubled Coroner System and Lagging Child Autopsy Rates

ProPublica, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 2:00:00 AM

On Russia’s New Official Dictionary and the Language of Authoritarianism

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 1:59:56 AM

From Gaza to Minneapolis We Are Still Being Told to Disbelieve Our Eyes

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 1:59:37 AM

Letter From Minnesota: “did they really take a 4 yo too the other night?”

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 1:59:00 AM

Letter From Minnesota: Our Work is to We Protect What We Love

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 1:59:00 AM

What’s the Word for… Forgetting Words?

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 1:58:50 AM

The Annotated Nightstand: What Bianca Stone is Reading Now, and Next

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 1:58:49 AM

How W.E.B. DuBois and James McCune Smith Helped Combat Medical Racism in America

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 1:58:49 AM

Meet the Ancient Ancestor of Macaroni and Cheese—and Cook It Yourself

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 1:58:22 AM

Office Culture Follows Us Everywhere: Six Books About Work

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 1:58:21 AM

“Sylvia,” “Go, Gentle,” and “When It is Time,” Poems by Robert Fanning

Literary Hub, Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026 1:58:20 AM