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Thousands flee as First Nations bear the brunt of Canada’s wildfires

Grist, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 1:48:10 PM

Abbott Laboratories probes two cyber incidents amid extortion claims

BleepingComputer, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 1:45:52 PM

How to take a break

Mike Monteiro’s Good News, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 1:21:48 PM

Peter Thiel Snags Top Prize from Politico’s Owner

The Nerd Reich, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 1:20:28 PM

Red-Bellied Black Snake

Superdavey, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 1:19:35 PM

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Putting Some Meat On The Bans

Techdirt, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 12:57:00 PM

Community Snapshot—June

Internet Society, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 12:46:02 PM

text.makeup

Unsung, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 12:30:21 PM

‘The Journey of a Dark Elf With Fading Powers’ Finds Beauty in the Magic of Starting Over

io9 | We Come From the Future, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 12:30:21 PM

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: No Summer Doldrums As Dollars Still Flow To AI

Crunchbase News, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 12:30:17 PM

Silicon Florist links arrangement for July 17, 2026

Portland Oregon startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and community, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 12:08:26 PM

Legal News for Fri 7/17 - Appeals Court Restores Journalist Escort Policy at Pentagon, Judge Scolds DOJ Over Hallucinated Case, "Public Charge" Green Card Rule and DraftKings vs. Philadelphia

Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 12:00:37 PM

Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Thirty-First Week

LibrarianShipwreck, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 11:55:38 AM

Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, the first price hike for Apple Music since 2022 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Mediagazer, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 11:50:04 AM

A US district court judge says she'll issue a ruling by July 22 on state AGs' request for a temporary stay that would pause the Paramount-WBD merger (Deadline)

Mediagazer, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 11:47:36 AM

Hiking the Presidential Traverse: a hut-to-hut adventure

Dries Buytaert, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 11:45:28 AM

The technical aspect of Odyssey IMAX filming is in itself astounding work. I had...

A Node on the Web, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 11:43:09 AM

Keeping Knowledge Accessible Starts Here: Subscribe to the Empowering Libraries Newsletter.

Internet Archive Blogs, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 11:42:48 AM

AI Companies Are Funding the AGs Investigating Them

Sludge, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 11:42:45 AM

Sinclair-owned TV stations affiliated with ABC and NBC aired Trump's speech about elections, using Sinclair's feed; Sinclair owns or operates 177 stations (Patrick Hipes/Deadline)

Mediagazer, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 11:40:00 AM

‘Mortal Kombat II’ Starts Brawling on HBO Max Next Week

io9 | We Come From the Future, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 11:30:40 AM

Ostium loses at least $24 million to oracle exploit

Web3 is Going Just Great, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 11:24:56 AM

US Military Smartphones Targeted Through Roaming and Ad Tech

The Citizen Lab, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 11:18:20 AM

Axel Springer plans to confer the 2026 Axel Springer Award on Peter Thiel in a ceremony scheduled for September 24, with a tribute by CBS News EIC Bari Weiss (Axel Springer SE)

Mediagazer, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 11:10:00 AM

House judiciary panel won’t include farmworker visa changes in immigration package

Spotlight PA, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 11:07:26 AM

The Island of the Nine Whirlpools

Spoken Realms, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 11:05:00 AM

Our Investigation Found That Shen Yun Used U.S. Voter Rolls to Distribute Flyers to Hundreds of Millions of American Households

McSweeney’s, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 11:02:00 AM

JK Rowling Threatens To Sue Amnesty International Into Oblivion For Expressing An Opinion About A Charity She Funds

Techdirt, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 10:59:00 AM

HollowByte DDoS flaw bloats OpenSSL server memory with 11-byte payload

BleepingComputer, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 10:56:21 AM

Daily Deal: 6-in-1 Magstand Mini Magnetic Charge Station + Bedside Lamp

Techdirt, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 10:54:00 AM

The World Cup's Long Shadow w/ Jules Boykoff

Sports Politika, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 10:52:25 AM

How to benefit from editorial input

Media Helping Media, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 10:44:44 AM

Elon to Open Source X’s Codebase. Believe It When Git Happens

https://fossforce.com, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 10:44:36 AM

rss.chat install diary – had some problems

Andy Sylvester's Web, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 10:42:26 AM

Playboy has relaunched a print edition with a "respectful and modern" take on nudity; in 2025, its parent company had a $12.7M net loss on $120.9M in revenue (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

Mediagazer, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 10:30:00 AM

“No such thing as too fast”

Unsung, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 10:28:32 AM

Appeals court keeps Pentagon’s escort policy for journalists in place

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 10:26:26 AM

Madison Square Garden sues Wired over “defamatory” article alleging surveillance of gay celeb fans

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 10:22:48 AM

Friday assorted links

Marginal REVOLUTION, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 10:12:39 AM

Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices

Electronic Frontier Foundation, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 10:05:57 AM

‘The Odyssey’ Is Already Off to an Epic Start

io9 | We Come From the Future, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 10:00:59 AM

The Giants’ farm system hasn’t been this good since Buster Posey was a prospect

The San Francisco Standard, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 10:00:00 AM

Engineering Manager, Ads

Current Mozilla job openings, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 9:57:13 AM

Your Vision. Your Legacy. Your Future.

Electronic Frontier Foundation, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 9:44:40 AM

Balaji Srinivasan’s Tech Cult Threatens Malaysia

The Nerd Reich, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 9:38:57 AM

The Documents Trump Declassified To Blame China For The 2020 Election… Actually Show Russia Was The One Meddling For Him

Techdirt, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 9:29:00 AM

Lucy Dacus x Haymarket Books: Lucy's Book Bundle

Haymarket Books, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 9:27:31 AM

Frozen 2 should be rated R

Interconnected, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 9:25:04 AM

You're Invited: 404 Media's Third Anniversary Live Podcast and Party!

404 Media, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 9:15:53 AM

Playboy magazine is back – with ‘respectful and modern’ take on female nudity

Press Gazette, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 9:14:17 AM

“With My Own Hand” chronicles the untold life of Scotland’s sixteenth-century Sappho

Time for Inclusive Education, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 9:13:51 AM

Behind the Blog: Infinite Bowl Machine

404 Media, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 9:07:19 AM

The Big Idea: John Wiswell

Whatever, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 9:04:44 AM

Prime Video’s ‘God of War’ Recasts Kratos After Ryan Hurst’s On-Set Injury

io9 | We Come From the Future, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 9:00:39 AM

Wildfire smoke threatens the World Cup final. FIFA still doesn’t have a plan.

Grist, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:55:16 AM

There’s No Gotcha Here

The Present Age, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:54:38 AM

This Week in AI: A First for Agentic Ransomware

Radar, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:54:07 AM

U.S. bombs civilian infrastructure in Iran; Israeli attacks in Gaza at highest level since “ceasefire”; Rubio urges crackdown on “far-left terrorists”

Drop Site News, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:48:28 AM

Announcing AAJA’s 2026 Summer Scholarship, Internship, Grant, and Fellowship Recipients

| Asian American Journalists Association, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:43:05 AM

On a CBS News editorial call, Bari Weiss announces that Mike Pesca, longtime host of recently ended podcast The Gist, is joining as editorial head of podcasts (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)

Mediagazer, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:40:04 AM

In 2024, Trump killed a federal shield law. Now he’s exploiting that to harass The New York Times.

Dan Kennedy, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:37:11 AM

ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’

404 Media, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:35:37 AM

Cataloging Growth: A Re-Evaluation of 1900–1990

Marginal REVOLUTION, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:33:38 AM

I have a personal working rss.chat server now (independent from the developer) &...

Andy Sylvester's Web, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:32:00 AM

Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows

ruk.ca - Peter Rukavina's Weblog, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:31:13 AM

I’m moving Lillihub from classic deno deploy (which is sunsetting) to the ...

Hey Loura!, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:22:59 AM

How the Watch Dogs Video Game Series Mirrored and Predicted Real-World Digital Rights Issues

Electronic Frontier Foundation, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:01:22 AM

Peek Behind the Mask of a Stunning New Darth Vader Book [Exclusive]

io9 | We Come From the Future, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:00:54 AM

open thread – July 17, 2026

Ask a Manager, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:00:52 AM

Designing beyond detection #GenAIN3

https://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:00:51 AM

Is It a Red Flag? The Odyssey Edition

McSweeney’s, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:00:00 AM

The Pain Is the Point: On the Violent Realities of Capitalist Sport

Public Books, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 8:00:00 AM

Ernst & Young discloses data breach after support system hack

BleepingComputer, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 7:55:28 AM

InOrOutDay

Doc Searls Weblog, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 7:49:22 AM

Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled

Dustycloud Brainstorms, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 7:45:00 AM

Netflix’s problems (and potential changes)

Cord Cutter Weekly, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 7:37:43 AM

New rss.chat feature: It now supports feed discovery, so you can subscribe to an...

Scripting News, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 7:26:29 AM

Working on something really cool, but its too soon to show, all I can say is its...

A Node on the Web, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 7:14:01 AM

This Week in Matrix 2026-07-17

Matrix.org, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 7:01:39 AM

I mentioned the previous post on rss.chat, and it developed into an interesting ...

Scripting News, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 7:01:28 AM

Inside the Search for "Clean" Residential Proxies for Carding

BleepingComputer, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 7:00:10 AM

The Ending of ‘The Odyssey’ Lands on Every Level

io9 | We Come From the Future, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 7:00:10 AM

In birthright citizenship dissent, Justice Thomas stakes out an ideological claim of who counts as an American

SCOTUSblog, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 7:00:00 AM

A US Court of Appeals rules that the DOD's policy requiring government escorts for journalists working at the Pentagon could stand, a blow for the NYT's case (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

Mediagazer, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:55:01 AM

Quoting Kimi K3

Simon Willison's Weblog, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:43:53 AM

Alien Bikers Invade Earth in First Look at Star-Studded ‘Alpha Gang’

io9 | We Come From the Future, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:38:30 AM

Is our intelligence rooted in how living organisms are organized?

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:37:00 AM

Zero Books Read

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:37:00 AM

DHS announces plans to shorten visas for foreign journalists in the US from up to 5 years to 240 days and cut those for Chinese journalists to 90 days (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)

Mediagazer, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:35:01 AM

Recording Shows UAW Federal Monitor Pressured Union President Over Israel

Drop Site News, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:33:50 AM

Key Trump Deportation Strategies: Removing, Replacing, and Pressuring Immigration Judges

Just Security, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:32:44 AM

A Weary Party Snail

Lilith Saintcrow, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:30:55 AM

Three profound constitutional provisions – and how the Supreme Court has avoided dealing with them

SCOTUSblog, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:30:00 AM

Soccer's Tech Revolution Has a Labor Chain

Tech Policy Press, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:22:19 AM

Major Blockchain Firm Consensys Accidentally Hired a North Korean Hacker

Drop Site News, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:07:25 AM

How Congress Can End Trump’s Iran War and Prevent the Next One

Just Security, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:05:47 AM

Lawsuit fights Ellison-Trump corruption’s harm to news outlets

Freedom of the Press Foundation, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Can AI beat a goldfish at calling the World Cup?

Rest of World, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Why AI will save the liberal arts degree

The San Francisco Standard, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:00:00 AM

San Francisco’s beloved drag venue Oasis is back — gaudier, gayer, and finally its own

The San Francisco Standard, Friday, Jul 17, 2026 6:00:00 AM