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The EU accepts X's plan to meet DSA transparency obligations and give researchers access to data, giving X six months to implement it, following a €120M fine (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Mediagazer , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 4:55:03 PM

A White Supremacist Stabbed A Muslim Man 15 Times Because of His Faith

Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 4:53:59 PM

Firefox in WebAssembly

Simon Willison's Weblog , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 4:34:16 PM

Court docs: Trump drops part of his BBC lawsuit, dismissing claims against its commercial and production arms but continuing the lawsuit against the broadcaster (Connor Stringer/Telegraph)

Mediagazer , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 4:25:01 PM

Elite colleges brought back SAT requirements. The UC answer? Hurry up and wait

The San Francisco Standard , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 4:24:58 PM

People and Blogs: Brennan Kenneth Brown

People and Blogs — Zachary Kai , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 3:45:10 PM

BalletX presents Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, adapted by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa

'The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate,' catching up with Jaleel Shaw, and more for prime holiday times , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 3:36:00 PM

Old people yelling at clouds in squircles

Superdavey , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 3:22:01 PM

Added a layer to the Docs menu, the blog posts I've written here and elsewhere, ...

Scripting News , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 3:20:32 PM

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount As The Company Needed Approval For Billion-Dollar Deals

Techdirt , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 3:17:06 PM

Dark and Clear Icons iOS

Superdavey , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 3:16:46 PM

In a filing disputing state AGs' request for a temporary restraining order, Paramount argued its merger with WBD would increase theatrical motion picture output (Gene Maddaus/Variety)

Mediagazer , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 3:15:01 PM

Silicon Florist links arrangement for July 16, 2026

Portland Oregon startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and community , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 3:08:16 PM

Sony Music Publishing completes its acquisition of the full music rights portfolio of Recognition Music Group, backed by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC (Tim Ingham/Music Business Worldwide)

Mediagazer , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 3:05:02 PM

Netflix says roughly 300 titles used generative AI this year, mostly in post-production, "to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Mediagazer , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 2:10:54 PM

dustin.works

Waxy.org , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 2:10:07 PM

Coca-Cola says Fairlife ransomware attack halts US dairy production

BleepingComputer , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 2:09:41 PM

Texas Democrats Ask for Investigation Into Ken Paxton After Our Reporting Found He May Have Violated Election Law

ProPublica , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 2:05:00 PM

TV Appearance of Lincoln Assassination Witness

kottke.org , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 2:00:01 PM

Mobilizer, connector, spectator, or outsider? New Pew research categorizes how Americans do (or don’t) engage civically

Nieman Lab , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 1:53:45 PM

Smoke changes everything

doug — off the record , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 1:47:18 PM

itwashotwestayedinthewater: happy decade to the horrible beast...

https://teradome.com , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 1:38:44 PM

Today in Youtube's joke of a fair-use appeal process

jwz , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 1:37:43 PM

A World Turned Upside Down: Syria Reckons with an Assad-Era Peacemaker

Drop Site News , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 1:34:50 PM

Governing agentic AI

Marginal REVOLUTION , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 1:23:55 PM

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

Simon Willison's Weblog , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 1:19:30 PM

Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $12.56B, vs. $12.59B est., and says it will give fewer engagement updates starting in 2027; NFLX drops 7%+ after hours (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)

Mediagazer , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 1:18:16 PM

Cops Continue To Prove They Can’t Be Trusted With Surveillance Tech

Techdirt , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 1:15:06 PM

Lost Boys on Fallon

sippey.com , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 1:13:00 PM

What Training My Chaotic Dog Taught Me About Power,...

kottke.org , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 1:12:00 PM

New Google Meet 'Take notes for me' settings for admins and end users

Google Workspace Updates , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 1:07:25 PM

Cast yourself in AI video clips using your personal avatar with Gemini Omni in Vids

Google Workspace Updates , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 1:06:53 PM

View From a Hotel Window, 7/16/26: Greensboro, NC

Whatever , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 1:06:00 PM

The R-Rated Director’s Cut of ‘The X-Files’ Movie Has a Title and Release Date

io9 | We Come From the Future , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 1:00:31 PM

A good kind of an update: The responses

Unsung , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 12:49:48 PM

Asides: Jul 16

Amit Gawande , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 12:42:07 PM

Chicago Police Promised to ‘Fix’ Secret Traffic Stops. A Year Later, the Problem Has Only Gotten Worse.

Bolts , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 12:41:30 PM

Marvel Comics Finally Has a New Editor-in-Chief

io9 | We Come From the Future , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 12:30:50 PM

Claude Chrome extension flaw lets malicious extensions trigger AI actions

BleepingComputer , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 12:26:07 PM

Building a World Map With Only 500 Bytes .

kottke.org , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 12:22:00 PM

Protecting Your Neighbors by Following ICE Vehicles : A Guide from the Bay Area

CrimethInc., Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 12:19:11 PM

An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive "authors" proliferate (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)

Mediagazer , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 12:10:01 PM

New OkoBot framework deploys 20 payloads to steal data, crypto

BleepingComputer , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 12:09:35 PM

Generate higher quality AI video clips and edit any video with Gemini Omni in Vids

Google Workspace Updates , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 12:09:09 PM

Legal News for Thurs 7/16 - Trump's Personal Lawyer Blanche Grilled, Second Pro-Trump FL Judge Gets Appointed to Fed Bench, FTC Backs Curbing ABA Role

Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 12:01:32 PM

New Book Releases Video: July 14, 2026

Locus , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 12:00:54 PM

With ‘The Odyssey’ in Theaters, Another ‘Odyssey’ Is Already Coming

io9 | We Come From the Future , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 12:00:51 PM

Indie 617

JPButler.com , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 12:00:05 PM

How Are Memories Stored Inside Your Brain?

kottke.org , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 11:29:00 AM

Marginally Better S01E24: The Wrong Metric

https://joetaylorjr.com , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 11:27:07 AM

Marginally Better S01E24: The Wrong Metric

https://johnsandtaylor.com , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 11:27:04 AM

Primary Election 2026: Minnesota Secretary of State

https://naomikritzer.com/contact-me/, Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 11:18:01 AM

Effective Immediately, Every God-Fearing Soldier Will Be Jacked to the Gills with Testosterone

McSweeney’s , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 11:15:00 AM

Trove of LION Audit data reveals what a “Sustaining” news business looks like in 2026

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 11:14:42 AM

Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026)

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 11:13:07 AM

To Dodge A Fight With Trump, Law Firms Cut Deals. Now The Deals Are Creating A Fight With Trump.

Techdirt , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 11:08:06 AM

Hack reveals Suno scraped YouTube, Deezer, Genius, and more

Waxy.org , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 11:07:58 AM

Daily Deal: The 2026 Microsoft Azure Architect & Administrator Exam Prep Bundle

Techdirt , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 11:04:00 AM

Animator Zane Little tries to find the first smear frame in animation

Waxy.org , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 11:01:22 AM

Heatday

Doc Searls Weblog , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 11:00:42 AM

The First Trailer For ‘Cocoon—One Summer of Girlhood’ is Ready to Make You Cry

io9 | We Come From the Future , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 11:00:23 AM

Scientists Discover Planet Has Everything to Host ‘Earth-Like Life’ In Breakthrough

404 Media , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 11:00:10 AM

R.S. Belcher (1967-2026)

Locus , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 11:00:00 AM

The Aral Sea isn’t just an ecological nightmare – it’s a carbon bomb

Grist , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 11:00:00 AM

how soon can you tell if someone isn’t cut out for the job?

Ask a Manager , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:59:28 AM

Beehiiv launches Community, which lets subscribers chat with each other, adds an AI tool that helps creators manage their audiences, and adds programmatic ads (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Mediagazer , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:56:37 AM

The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle

Spoken Realms , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:56:00 AM

Shorts Will Sell You SpaceX

Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:54:25 AM

The Lost Joy of Music Piracy

Waxy.org , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:50:46 AM

Quoting Thibault Sottiaux

Simon Willison's Weblog , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:45:59 AM

A look at issues with DMCA, which is weaponized to silence reporting, turbocharged by automated requests, and places the burden of proof on the attacked party (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)

Mediagazer , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:45:02 AM

Lower Moreland police arrest man for stealing 150 tires from a Huntingdon Valley storage facility

Glenside Local , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:43:56 AM

Kashmir Hill tries to find her AI-generated slop biographer

Waxy.org , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:41:23 AM

Exclusive: (Nominally) Ukrainian cyber extortion platform rebooted as Investigations.org

All-Source Intelligence , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:40:08 AM

From the Brooklyn Public Library, a list of “the...

kottke.org , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:39:00 AM

TEST — prime-then-purge verification (safe to delete)

SCOTUSblog , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:34:00 AM

MS NOW’s pivotal moment

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:30:34 AM

Peter Thiel’s AI tribunal put journalists on trial. Now it’s pivoted to a scoreboard model

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:22:32 AM

The recruitment agency scam, I almost fell for…

Cubic Garden , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:20:12 AM

Newsletter platform Beehiiv adds community features and programmatic advertising

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:19:13 AM

I am having problems installing rss.chat – discovered that AWS SES config ...

Andy Sylvester's Web , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:16:00 AM

Baltimore Sun owner threatens to sue Moore over Epstein comments

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:04:29 AM

Finally, a Brutally Honest Anime About the Forbidden Love of Fighting Games

io9 | We Come From the Future , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:00:17 AM

New-to-me podcast that looks really interesting: Time...

kottke.org , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:00:00 AM

Newsletter platform Beehiiv adds community features and programmatic advertising

Press Gazette , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 10:00:00 AM

Thursday assorted links

Marginal REVOLUTION , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 9:59:20 AM

Ansarallah Vows to Block Saudi Access to Bab al-Mandab After Strikes on Sana’a

Drop Site News , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 9:56:14 AM

Why Trump Keeps Talking About Communism: The 'Unhumans' Playbook

The Nerd Reich , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 9:51:36 AM

How newsrooms developed their AI guidelines

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 9:49:15 AM

Marvel Comics is moving from NYC to Burbank, CA, the headquarters of Marvel Studios, and asks 100+ NY-based employees to move to California by July 2027 (Borys Kit/The Hollywood Reporter)

Mediagazer , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 9:49:01 AM

I needed a nice image for the OG Metadata, so I turned to Gemini. I know it reek...

Scripting News , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 9:48:47 AM

Truth Social to license its data to Wall Street

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 9:47:43 AM

Expanded language support for Gemini in Google Docs

Google Workspace Updates , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 9:46:22 AM

“The idea of just being able to fire off a text to a journalist that you follow and believe in, especially in this era of nobody believing in the media or like trusting the media, is incredibly valuable.”

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 9:45:48 AM

CybersecKyle Security How-To Series: Power User and Small Team, Part 4 - Light Self Hosting Behind a Reverse Proxy

CybersecKyle , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 9:45:39 AM

Disgruntled Performance

McSweeney’s , Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 9:45:00 AM