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How Paramount's David Ellison deployed financial backing and political lobbying, including his well-connected chief legal adviser, to beat Netflix and win WBD (Bloomberg)

Mediagazer , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 3:20:03 PM

Silicon Valley Rallies Behind Anthropic in A.I. Clash With Trump

NYT > Kate Conger , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 3:16:10 PM

The NFL Won A Lawsuit Over Its Bluesky Ban. Its Social Media Strategy Is Still A Loser

Techdirt , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 3:07:36 PM

Digesting lactose is pretty weird

Mixture , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 3:00:09 PM

‘Section 415’ podcast: What we learned about 49ers GM John Lynch’s offseason priorities

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 3:00:00 PM

SEO agency Clickout bought The Escapist and two other UK-based gaming sites, fired and replaced staff with AI, and filled the sites with content about casinos (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)

Mediagazer , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 2:55:00 PM

DHS Left a Blind Man and Refugee to Die in the Cold

Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 2:54:40 PM

Alison Roman and Christina Tosi are coming to SF for the city’s first Cookbook Week

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 2:54:24 PM

This Week in the IndieWeb

https://indieweb.org/this-week/, Friday, Feb 27, 2026 2:50:17 PM

Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data

Simon Willison's Weblog , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 2:49:32 PM

La Salle College grad is coaching Gwynedd Mercy University’s championship game on Feb. 28, playing with the Globetrotters on March 1

Glenside Local , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 2:48:49 PM

SF cop investigated for using license plate reader data to track wife’s stolen car

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 2:14:45 PM

Dan Simmons (1948–2026)

Locus Online , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 2:12:49 PM

The FCC approves Charter's $34.5B merger with Cox, combining cable, fiber, and cloud units, and taking the Cox name and using Spectrum for consumer business (Ted Johnson/Deadline)

Mediagazer , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 2:10:02 PM

Friday Report: Febliary 27, 2026

Take Control Books , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 2:06:39 PM

It’s Another Emptywheel Friday on the Nicole Sandler Show – 2-27-26

The Nicole Sandler Show , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 2:06:11 PM

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in Peru

Schneier on Security , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 2:04:45 PM

Paramount agrees to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, paying $31 per share in cash, giving WBD an enterprise value of $110B (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Mediagazer , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 1:53:58 PM

Fanny Wright and the Radical Courage of Being Real: The Forgotten Woman Who Pioneered Scientific Thinking and Free Love in America

The Marginalian , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 1:50:04 PM

Trump Tests Limits With Emergency Powers Over Elections

Dame Magazine , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 1:44:17 PM

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https://crowdersoup.com , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 1:32:55 PM

Test Parent

https://ftrain.com , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 1:31:37 PM

Test Child 1

https://ftrain.com , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 1:31:37 PM

Test Child 2

https://ftrain.com , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 1:31:37 PM

Test Grandchild

https://ftrain.com , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 1:31:37 PM

Let’s Talk About the Ending of ‘Scream 7’

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 1:30:30 PM

99.4% of Flickr’s 22

CogDogBlog , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 1:26:42 PM

A Tale of Two Plumbers

Dissent Magazine , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 1:19:55 PM

Judgment from on high? The strange stories of Richard Nixon’s aerial assailants.

The Garden of Memory , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 1:15:48 PM

“For months, callers to the Washington state...

kottke.org , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 1:08:47 PM

ICE’s Plan to Monitor Social Media 24/7

User Mag , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 1:05:50 PM

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https://crowdersoup.com , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 12:54:07 PM

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https://crowdersoup.com , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 12:52:47 PM

Whistleblower: ICE Has Slashed Its Training Program And Its Boss Is Lying To Congress About It

Techdirt , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 12:51:42 PM

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https://crowdersoup.com , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 12:50:41 PM

One analyst says European regulators are unlikely to block a Paramount-WBD deal; another says it's likely that regulators would slow down the approval process (Deadline)

Mediagazer , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 12:50:03 PM

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https://crowdersoup.com , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 12:49:37 PM

An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail

Simon Willison's Weblog , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 12:43:41 PM

The Films and Shows You Should Be Streaming in March 2026

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 12:30:04 PM

Paramount pays the $2.8B breakup fee owed to Netflix; WBD is expected to announce Friday it signed a deal to be acquired by Paramount; NFLX closes up 13.7% (Bloomberg)

Mediagazer , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 12:29:14 PM

Stan Druckenmiller’s Current Trade Ideas RIGHT NOW

https://firstadopter.substack.com , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 12:24:58 PM

Owners of Goat House Creamery in Elkins Park are adding a vinyl records store + coffee shop in the adjoining storefront

Glenside Local , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 12:20:44 PM

Memo: another CBS News producer leaves, after 46 years, and says, "We've been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum" (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)

Mediagazer , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 12:20:01 PM

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https://crowdersoup.com , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 12:16:54 PM

LOC records

IndieNews English , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 12:05:05 PM

Legal News for Fri 2/27 - Bill Clinton to Testify Regarding Epstein, Trump WH Ballroom Ruling, Kalshi Legal Battles and Netflix Bows Out in Warner Bros Deal

Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 12:01:12 PM

Microsoft testing Windows 11 batch file security improvements

BleepingComputer , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 12:00:27 PM

Enveda’s drugs from plants will turn pharma upside down

Crazy Stupid Tech , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 11:56:00 AM

Thinking Out Loud: What Self-Hosting Is Teaching Me About Computational Thinking

Ian O'Byrne , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 11:54:29 AM

A 2-hour mix of music compiled by Thom Yorke that plays...

kottke.org , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 11:52:25 AM

Dan Simmons, RIP

Marginal REVOLUTION , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 11:50:03 AM

Canadian Software Boutique SimplyPHP Acquired by Startup-Focused TLM

https://fossforce.com , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 11:33:42 AM

California to Paramount: Assimilate This

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 11:30:19 AM

APT37 hackers use new malware to breach air-gapped networks

BleepingComputer , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 11:21:25 AM

CNN employees and viewers have serious concerns about whether Ellison will uphold CNN's editorial independence amid severe political pressure (CNN)

Mediagazer , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 11:15:02 AM

YouTube – Parasite Puppeteers – Chapter Forty-Three

Green Comet , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 11:08:13 AM

Verizon Continues To Make Phone Unlocking Annoying (With The Trump FCC’s Help)

Techdirt , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 11:02:00 AM

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: OpenAI Takes The Spotlight With Record-Setting $110B Round

Crunchbase News , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 11:01:23 AM

Computers and the Internet: A Two-Edged Sword

Jim Nielsen’s Blog , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 11:00:00 AM

What the Father of Black History Can Teach Us About Technology

Tech Policy Press , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:59:19 AM

The Candy Factory

kottke.org , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:59:14 AM

Daily Deal: The 2026 Microsoft Office Pro Bundle

Techdirt , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:57:00 AM

Let Friction Ring

jwz , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:55:15 AM

Elkins Park Fire Company to host Comedy Night fundraiser on April 11, tickets available

Glenside Local , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:54:16 AM

📚 Find Fantastic Books

Wonder Tools , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:49:23 AM

Revisions for Your Hopelessly Optimistic Dystopian YA Novel

McSweeney’s , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:45:00 AM

After listening to this Podcast: Conspiracy Theory Nation Conspiracy Theories Ne...

Ricardo Mendes , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:40:26 AM

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

Literary Hub , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:39:51 AM

Inaugural Glenside Porchfest kicks off May 9. Find out the details and how you can get involved

Glenside Local , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:39:15 AM

Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Eleventh Week

LibrarianShipwreck , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:37:02 AM

Sampling Some Smackin’ Sunflower Seeds

Whatever , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:33:41 AM

Lego’s March Releases Need a Hero (of Time)

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:30:10 AM

Mark Madsen’s Cal turnaround could give the Bay Area multiple March Madness hopefuls

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:30:00 AM

Europol-led crackdown on The Com hackers leads to 30 arrests

BleepingComputer , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:20:15 AM

The international film community sees Paramount's potential WBD acquisition with optimism for theatrical windows and worry about a reduced number of film buyers (Variety)

Mediagazer , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:20:02 AM

Amazon & The Cost of (AI) Lateness

On my Om , Friday, Feb 27, 2026 10:18:46 AM