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Sources: Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator who briefly worked at DHS, has been chosen to be White House press secretary, succeeding Karoline Leavitt (New York Times)

Mediagazer , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 11:26:55 AM

Alabama’s TikTok Settlement Comes With An Affiliate Program For Getting Other AGs To Go After TikTok

Techdirt , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 11:10:16 AM

Daily Deal: The Essential MATLAB & LabVIEW Mega Bundle

Techdirt , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 11:05:16 AM

The Coolest ‘Star Wars’ Books Just Announced for 2027

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 11:01:35 AM

Source: ABC News took down an article about government contracts involving companies linked to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump because it was posted prematurely (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)

Mediagazer , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 11:00:01 AM

‘Normalize Bad Tactics’: ICE Keeps Shooting at People in Cars

The Marshall Project , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 11:00:00 AM

The ‘national security’ panic button

Freedom of the Press Foundation , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 10:50:19 AM

This New Law Will Make It Easier for Californians to Visit Family in Prison

Bolts , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 10:47:38 AM

Weball allows you to roll up websites into a Katamari...

kottke.org , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 10:38:00 AM

The Top 5 Longreads of the WeekIn this week’s edition:Orange,...

Longreads , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 10:32:22 AM

‘Avatar: Seven Havens’ Is Getting Four Seasons, New Animated Series Following Kuruk

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 10:30:05 AM

Unpatched AhsayCBS flaws exploited to deploy webshells, mine crypto

BleepingComputer , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 10:17:23 AM

Claude Code can publish reports in Markdown files. Here's an example, a report C...

Scripting News , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 10:14:08 AM

Montenegro Arrests then Expels Russian 'Rybar' Network Leader, Associates

OCCRP , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 10:09:00 AM

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr declines to say whether broadcasters should be allowed to air a live execution by DOD in December, saying he'll defer to Pete Hegseth (Ted Johnson/Deadline)

Mediagazer , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 10:08:17 AM

Subtitles on demand

Unsung , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 10:05:21 AM

FBI arrests another suspected ShinyHunters hacker after agency breach

BleepingComputer , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 10:02:29 AM

‘Street Fighter’ Has 2D Anime Flashback Sequences

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 10:00:19 AM

A Job Application Cover Letter from The Parent Trap’s Meredith Blake

McSweeney’s , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 10:00:00 AM

It’s Not You, It’s Me

Stratechery , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 10:00:00 AM

The Kyle Shanahan-Mike Macdonald chess match is the NFL’s new must-watch rivalry

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 10:00:00 AM

Antichrist, Hitler and JD Vance’s 2028 problem

The Nerd Reich , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:58:48 AM

A Gentle Stippling Of Sassy Updates

Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:52:13 AM

The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official

ProPublica , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:45:00 AM

Is This Weird Quiz Game the Toughest F1 Video Game Ever?

kottke.org , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:38:00 AM

PBS reaches a distribution agreement with news broadcaster France 24 that will allow PBS stations to offer a livestream of France 24 English (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)

Mediagazer , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:35:00 AM

The Most Amazing Cosplay of New York Comic Con 2026, Day 1

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:30:22 AM

Το νέο Parrot App είναι εδώ

error.gr , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:29:37 AM

Ethiopia update

Marginal REVOLUTION , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:24:04 AM

Hey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing Squad

Techdirt , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:23:00 AM

Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 9/10/2026 – #FOIFriday

Blog - Words + Numbers , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:22:53 AM

New Frontier example. I'm working on the menubar we're going to ship with in Atl...

Scripting News , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:16:21 AM

I mentioned in a comment on RSS.chat to Andrew, that's a Markdown browser too. A...

Scripting News , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:10:25 AM

News diary 12-18 October: Russell Brand rape trial, MPs question AI safety, NI Assembly no confidence vote

Press Gazette , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:10:18 AM

Friday assorted links

Marginal REVOLUTION , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:06:02 AM

Books about Mesopotamia, recommended by Moudhy Al-Rashid

Five Books , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:03:39 AM

Pipeline CEO Turned Senator Wants to Limit States’ Power to Block Pipelines

Sludge , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:01:17 AM

VHS Horror Tale ‘Posthumous’ Adjusts the Tracking on Generational Trauma

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:00:30 AM

Following 404 Media Investigation, Senator Demands Info About White House's License Plate Surveillance Program

404 Media , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 9:00:00 AM

previously on Ask a Manager…

Ask a Manager , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:59:46 AM

This Week in AI: More Capability, More Responsibility

Radar , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:55:10 AM

Sources and internal docs: TikTok cut the violations for which an advertiser could be immediately banned from 37 to 13 last fall, leading to a surge in scams (Katharine Schwab/Forbes)

Mediagazer , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:55:00 AM

Premium: The Hater's Guide To Junk

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:53:00 AM

I just went down a rabbit hole of incense seals. So cool.

kottke.org , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:48:00 AM

At least five journalists arrested at Palestine Action protest

Press Gazette , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:45:28 AM

Behind the Blog: What Would the Pope Do?

404 Media , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:44:32 AM

YouTube, Meta, and Twitch won’t say if they’ll allow the US government to livestream an execution

Mike Runcieman , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:42:53 AM

Germany arrests alleged core Qilin ransomware member after extradition

BleepingComputer , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:38:56 AM

Homeland Security targets Democratic campaign after ICE arrest in Pennsylvania

Spotlight PA , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:28:58 AM

Sous vide chicken breast (144F for a few hours, sprinkled with Cavender’s Greek seasoning, and…

Unselling Convenience , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:19:42 AM

Child killed in Gaza every 71 min for 3 years; Pentagon to livestream firing squad; Human rights jurist Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize

Drop Site News , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:15:00 AM

Some thoughts on the EU, where we are, and what might happen next

Very cool, if true , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:12:06 AM

Pizzamaps

Atoms vs Bits , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:11:51 AM

Apple has started licensing TV shows, including the UK's Small Prophets, a shift from its all-originals strategy; previous exceptions were children's content (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)

Mediagazer , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:10:01 AM

Quoting Matthew Green

Simon Willison's Weblog , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:02:29 AM

open thread – October 9, 2026

Ask a Manager , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:00:51 AM

Indie Presses and the Literary Ecosystem: Meg Reid and Will Evans

Public Books , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 8:00:00 AM

Laser merch photoshoot (sabotaged by cat)

AI Weirdness , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:58:53 AM

Bonus: some of my favorite cat photobombs

AI Weirdness , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:57:54 AM

“We Will Never Interfere”

The Present Age , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:55:23 AM

Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Forty-Third Week

LibrarianShipwreck , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:52:08 AM

Y’s First Anki Spaced Repetition Deck

Interdependent Thoughts , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:48:08 AM

The First Trailer for the ‘Crossed’ Movie Is Finally Here

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:34:41 AM

Is the new Fire TV Stick really faster?

Cord Cutter Weekly , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:30:34 AM

The Constitution’s structure should decide Suncor

SCOTUSblog , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:29:55 AM

Who Participates in Politics on Social Media, and Why?

Tech Policy Press , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:28:50 AM

Bill McKibben: I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We...

kottke.org , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:28:21 AM

Quartz's website appears to be mostly produced by one AI-assisted "reporter" who posted 52 articles in one day; its newsletters seem to have original reporting (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)

Mediagazer , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:25:02 AM

Is the new Fire TV Stick really faster?

Advisorator , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:24:03 AM

This Week in Matrix 2026-10-09

Matrix.org , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:19:11 AM

Returning to Bengaluru in November, see you there.

Christian Heilmann , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:05:42 AM

Top priority for Anthropic. Teach Claude how to work with humans.

Scripting News , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:04:38 AM

How to keep AI agents within their permissions

BleepingComputer , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:01:11 AM

Though ‘Critters’ Is a Love Letter to Early 1980s Horror, We Had a More Personal Reaction

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:00:03 AM

Crossword Clues Where It’s Clear the Puzzle’s Creator Got Themselves into a Jam Letter-wise

McSweeney’s , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 7:00:00 AM

Is Spreadsheet Simulator Victoria 3 Finally Good?

Typebar Magazine , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:57:23 AM

Next thing I said to Claude after killing whatever long task it got going on. "Y...

Scripting News , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:53:32 AM

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is the best game in the series

Region Free , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:50:53 AM

I said to Claude: "Have you ever seen the movie Memento? You are the main charac...

Scripting News , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:47:12 AM

The Supreme Court and the last word

SCOTUSblog , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:30:00 AM

‘That girl is ready’: An unlikely rookie is flipping the Valkyries-Aces series

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:30:00 AM

Montenegro detains pro-Kremlin Russian military blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk on suspicion of spreading Russian influence; Britain sanctioned Zvinchuk in 2025 (Pjotr Sauer/The Guardian)

Mediagazer , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:25:00 AM

notiz.brick

notizBlog , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:23:07 AM

Hope – and Vigilance – on the Road to a Crimes Against Humanity Treaty

Just Security , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:14:30 AM

Logs as UX

articles on Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:12:48 AM

Tenkara Angler’s 2026 Fall Kebari Swap

Chuck Grimmett , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:10:19 AM

The Washington Post names Alex Wallace as COO, starting October 19; she was previously EVP at Yahoo and held executive roles at NBC News (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)

Mediagazer , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:10:01 AM

Guantanamo Dispatch: All Four Defendants’ Confessions Are Now Suppressed in the 9/11 Case

Just Security , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:04:33 AM

The Giants’ 40-man roster crunch: Who stays, who goes, and the toughest decisions

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:00:00 AM

49ers vs. Seahawks: The Standard’s 5 fast predictions

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:00:00 AM

‘I can’t breathe’: New video shows SFPD cops punching man in head more than a dozen times

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:00:00 AM

In San Francisco, artist dorms are being turned into 996-style startup hubs

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:00:00 AM

The October sitting so far

SCOTUSblog , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 6:00:00 AM

We sent a reporter to SlutCon for 72 hours. Here’s what went down

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Oct 9, 2026 5:59:35 AM