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New US I-visa rules taking effect on September 15 limit the stay for foreign journalists to 240 days, with extensions available through USCIS costing $420 (Emily McPhee/Press Gazette)

Mediagazer , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 3:55:00 AM

How one VC burns through hundreds of millions of tokens a day to find the next unicorn

Rest of World , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 3:00:00 AM

Why Did an Illinois Prison Fail to Stop 70 Fires?

The Marshall Project , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 3:00:00 AM

US and South Korea warn of Gunra ransomware targeting govt agencies

BleepingComputer , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 2:47:06 AM

Critical Thinking Online Breakouts for K–12 Classrooms: Bible as Literature

TCEA TechNotes Blog , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 2:45:00 AM

Sources: Trump left a NATO summit in Turkey on July 8 on a smaller plane amid an Iranian assassination threat, leaving journalists on Air Force One as a "decoy" (Washington Post)

Mediagazer , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 2:40:00 AM

A New Rumor Says Dean Devlin Chatted With David Tennant About a Return to ‘Doctor Who’

io9 | We Come From the Future , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 2:37:14 AM

Boston Globe invests in local news, politics and sport to boost subscriptions

Press Gazette , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 2:22:34 AM

Téa Obreht, Richard Russo, Claire Carusillo, and more: 20 new books out today!

Literary Hub , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 2:14:28 AM

The Nearly Departed: Inside the Art of Writing a Great Obituary

Literary Hub , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 2:10:36 AM

Téa Obreht on Writing a Layered, Intertextual Tale of the American West

Literary Hub , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 2:10:33 AM

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Literary Hub , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 2:09:44 AM

To Write As If No One Will See What You’ve Written: Why the Short Story Won’t Go Away

Literary Hub , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 2:09:03 AM

Esther Kinsky on Is Beauty Good, the Novel by Rosalind Belben

Literary Hub , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 2:05:46 AM

Exposed tongs, dirty thermometer, and other Centre County restaurant inspections for Aug. 3-9

Spotlight PA , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 2:00:41 AM

Missing soap, broken fryer wiring, and other Berks County restaurant inspections for Aug. 3-9

Spotlight PA , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 2:00:40 AM

Is There Anyone Who Can Respond to My FOIA Requests? Anyone?

ProPublica , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 2:00:00 AM

The Responsible Party

Literary Hub , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 1:55:40 AM

Study: 25.94% of ChatGPT answers include an ad, 14.35% of ads are unrelated to the prompt, and just 3.63% of advertisers are cited in the answer above the ad (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)

Mediagazer , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 1:55:00 AM

They’re making record profits, but oil companies still won’t ‘drill, baby, drill’

Grist , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 1:45:00 AM

New visa rules limit foreign journalists to 240-day stays in the US

Press Gazette , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 1:44:41 AM

A new type of levee is taking root in Northern California

Grist , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 1:30:00 AM

Does your blog support micropub?

A Node on the Web , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 1:25:33 AM

Hmm this is odd, do you have any information to help me debug this ?

A Node on the Web , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 1:25:02 AM

Albania's Cheerful 'AI Minister' Is the Product of a Government Agency Under Investigation for Massive Corruption

OCCRP , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 1:15:00 AM

Floods can leave communities facing higher overdose deaths for years

Grist , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 1:15:00 AM

Rachel Syme Loves a Good Yarn

Literary Hub , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 1:01:46 AM

Pa. has quietly passed a law undermining a court decision on lucrative mineral rights

Spotlight PA , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 12:57:02 AM

How Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch courted Roku to seal a $22B deal after Roku founder Anthony Wood told the company's board that he wanted to take a step back (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Mediagazer , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 12:40:01 AM

Book Review: Victory City by Salman Rushdie

nerds of a feather, flock together , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 12:00:00 AM

How well does AI peer review work?

Marginal REVOLUTION , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 11:57:16 PM

[youtube] watch musicians react to Lim Yunchan

Winnie Lim , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 11:30:09 PM

Bank accounts

diamond geezer , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 11:00:00 PM

Q&A with Ellie Austin about being the editorial director of Fortune's Most Powerful Women franchise, "journalist as a creator and entrepreneur" model, and more (Meredith Klein/Meredith & The Media)

Mediagazer , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 10:40:00 PM

OTR Links 08/11/2026

doug — off the record , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 10:30:55 PM

Who enters Congress?

Marginal REVOLUTION , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 9:30:48 PM

hiring without interviewing, have to use up 10 weeks of sick leave in a few months, and more

Ask a Manager , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 9:03:49 PM

What I imagine some of you are wondering…

The Unmasked Woman - by Hannah Anstee , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 8:56:25 PM

A look at The Chronicle of Glens Falls, a free weekly magazine in New York that grew to 20K print copies by focusing on local reporting and civic boosterism (New York Times)

Mediagazer , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 8:40:01 PM

Thirty reasons to smile

The Zuiker Chronicles , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 8:18:47 PM

The End of Google Search as We Know It

Pixel Envy , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 8:07:56 PM

Fauci’s Senate Hearing Shows How Conspiracy Theories Have Become Political Weapons

Techdirt , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 7:59:09 PM

Nvidia Scores $500 Billion in Financing for Its Customers. That's A Lot.

https://firstadopter.substack.com , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 6:41:25 PM

SpaceX's earnings show X's Q2 ad revenue at $367M, down from Twitter's $1.08B in Q2 2022; Elon Musk said he would take X's annual ad revenue to $12B in 2027 (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Mediagazer , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 6:40:01 PM

Trump Media says 10+ customers signed up for its real-time feed of top Truth Social accounts, mainly high-frequency trading firms paying $60K to $100K per month (David Uberti/Wall Street Journal)

Mediagazer , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 6:05:00 PM

MY Interview with MN LG Peggy Flanagan for US Senate

Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 5:52:04 PM

Trump Media reports a Q2 net loss of $238.1M, up from a net loss of $20M in Q2 2025, on revenue of $1.7M, mainly due to non-cash losses, such as digital assets (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Mediagazer , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 5:50:00 PM

Archer Aviation acquires Wisk, Skygrid, and InSitu from Boeing

Andy Sylvester's Web , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 5:46:15 PM

Inevitable Monday: Some Things We Just Can’t Avoid

The Nicole Sandler Show , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 5:44:38 PM

Claude to add “imperceptible” watermarks to text outputs in the EU

birdwatching , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 5:42:45 PM

Health Insurers Are Paying Third Way as It Targets the Left

Sludge , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 5:34:03 PM

House of the Dragon (2022-)

Justin Cox , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 5:26:32 PM

Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense Of Guitar Hero

Whatever , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 5:23:33 PM

The Peacock’s Paywall

Status , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 5:19:30 PM

Reply: 1786407172

https://crowdersoup.com , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 5:12:52 PM

Like: 1786407154

https://crowdersoup.com , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 5:12:34 PM

at Plaid Pantry

Aaron Parecki , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 5:03:33 PM

Dismiss Church’s Trademark Lawsuit Against “Mormon Stories” Podcast, EFF Urges Court

Electronic Frontier Foundation , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 5:00:30 PM

Introducing Muse Glimmer

Simon Willison's Weblog , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 4:56:03 PM

at Paul Bunyan

Aaron Parecki , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 4:42:51 PM

49ers draft check-in: 5 rookies standing out during training camp

The San Francisco Standard , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 4:38:03 PM

The Indonesian-led art collective building cross-cultural solidarity in Tokyo

Unfiltered , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 4:32:23 PM

ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir

404 Media , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 4:25:58 PM

Hackers breached a small Polish energy plant via private APN last year

BleepingComputer , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 4:07:21 PM

John Crowley (1942-2026)

Locus , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 3:51:46 PM

Island where it constantly rains is experiencing another drought

Normal Island News , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 3:33:31 PM

SpaceX’s Earnings Show Elon Wiped Out Two-Thirds Of Twitter’s Ad Business

Techdirt , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 3:33:04 PM

How I spent my summer

https://editdesk.wordpress.com/, Monday, Aug 10, 2026 3:32:39 PM

SparkleShare Finds Funding—and an Unintended Lesson for Open Source

https://fossforce.com , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 3:15:39 PM

Like: 1786399687

https://crowdersoup.com , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 3:08:07 PM

SF Camerawork to close after 52 years, citing rising costs

The San Francisco Standard , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 3:07:58 PM

How six tiny newsrooms are building trust through community listening

Tiny News Collective , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 3:03:31 PM

James Norton on Ormund’s Gruesome ‘House of the Dragon’ Scene

io9 | We Come From the Future , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 3:00:05 PM

OmFest Registration

Matt Mullenweg , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 2:54:47 PM

2026 Aurora Awards Winners

Locus , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 2:42:22 PM

‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Stars Always Believed the World Deserved to See It in Theaters

io9 | We Come From the Future , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 2:30:46 PM

Hollywood is having its best year since 2019, with global ticket sales up 15% YoY in the first seven months and five movies crossing $1B+ in revenue (Bloomberg)

Mediagazer , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 2:30:01 PM

“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than...

kottke.org , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 2:28:00 PM

BdThemes plugins supply-chain hack creates rogue WordPress admins

BleepingComputer , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 2:12:10 PM

ICE considering buying immigrant detention facilities, other options to maintain capacity in Pa.

Spotlight PA , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 2:05:29 PM

I Ate a Large Meal of Indian Food and Foolishly Assumed I Would Then Be Able to Function in the Afternoon, So Here is Saja and Charlie to Cover For Me While I Recover

Whatever , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 1:45:09 PM

Stories of “people finding weird, wild and defiant...

kottke.org , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 1:38:00 PM

Coinsbuy exploited for $8 milllion

Web3 is Going Just Great , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 1:30:13 PM

Edinburgh Fringe: 15 Minutes of Shame ★★★★⯪

Terence Eden , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 1:29:30 PM

Silicon Florist links arrangement for August 10, 2026

Portland Oregon startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and community , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 1:28:37 PM

Outside Lands: Millennial nostalgia bait fought EDM to a draw

The San Francisco Standard , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 1:10:40 PM

Trump Doubles Down On Conspiracy Theories After DOJ Drops Reflecting Pool Vandalism Charges

Techdirt , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 1:10:10 PM

From the Brâncuși exhibition, which we managed to see on the closing weekend.

amble.blog , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 1:03:26 PM

Phia Saban on How ‘House of the Dragon’ Changed Helaena From Page to Screen

io9 | We Come From the Future , Monday, Aug 10, 2026 1:00:46 PM