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The ‘Dune Messiah’ Graphic Novel Wastes No Time Answering What Happens to Muad’Dib Detractors [Exclusive]

io9 | We Come From the Future , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 11:00:40 AM

‘Jonathan’ Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth. He Could Hold the Secrets to Defying Death

404 Media , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 11:00:38 AM

the coffeeshop manipulation, the Maroon 5 shaming, and other people handling difficult moments well

Ask a Manager , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 10:59:47 AM

Former senior public servant says he turned to lobbying after losing job to Carney’s spending cuts

Investigative Journalism Foundation , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 10:48:52 AM

Wednesday assorted links

Marginal REVOLUTION , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 10:40:28 AM

Meta rolls out AI tools to find ads that secretly lead users to CSAM and says it took action against 33.2M pieces of child exploitation content in H1 2026 (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 10:30:00 AM

Complementary remarks from Gary Marcus and Terence Tao on OpenAI’s giant math drop

Marcus on AI , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 10:16:44 AM

David Ellison's Skydance executive team shows he favors movies with stronger commercial prospects than the artier fare that's defined WBD in recent years (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 9:35:01 AM

The Big Idea: Mia V. Moss

Whatever , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 9:32:32 AM

Lots and Lots and Lots of Control Panels

kottke.org , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 9:32:00 AM

I Hereby Resign as This Year’s Faculty Advisor for Our School’s Human Cloning Club

McSweeney’s , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 9:30:00 AM

how do I emotionally detach from my old job?

Ask a Manager , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 9:29:37 AM

How Big Money Took Over American Elections

Dame Magazine , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 9:27:00 AM

Federal Court Says Flock ALPR Database Searches Require A Warrant

Techdirt , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 9:24:10 AM

The Social Reckoning turns an important subject into a Facebook post

Region Free , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 9:23:13 AM

Food with Mark Bittman: Florence Fabricant

The Bittman Project , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 9:12:09 AM

We Geeked Out Over ‘Back to the Future’ With Bob Gale Himself

io9 | We Come From the Future , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 9:00:15 AM

Making the environment beat general assignment reporting hurts those most at-risk from climate change

The Objective , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 9:00:00 AM

Immigrants in Texas ICE Camp Begin Hunger Strike to Protest Indefinite Detention

The Marshall Project , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 8:45:07 AM

Microsoft Outlook to block MSIX attachments starting November

BleepingComputer , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 8:44:22 AM

EEAS runs scared of US 'disinformation' debate

A Node on the Web , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 8:40:47 AM

DisInfo2026 : Europe cannot defend itself with its eyes shut

A Node on the Web , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 8:40:47 AM

The first relists of the 2026-27 term

SCOTUSblog , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 8:30:00 AM

The AI Narrative Has Shifted

Search Blog , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 8:29:19 AM

The Job Trail, a web game about making it through 52...

kottke.org , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 8:22:00 AM

Another new beginning

Transfer Orbit , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 8:21:26 AM

Disney+ will livestream Super Bowl LXI on February 14 in the US and 55+ international markets, providing another platform for ESPN's first Super Bowl production (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 8:20:00 AM

32 years and still diggin!

Scripting News , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 8:14:09 AM

PoeLLM malware infects exposed AI servers in cryptomining attacks

BleepingComputer , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 8:04:08 AM

Write Now with Tim Flood

Justin Cox , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 8:00:27 AM

Can the River Debate the Suburb?

Public Books , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 8:00:00 AM

how to coach an employee who’s alternately long-winded and unfriendly with customers

Ask a Manager , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 7:59:14 AM

Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging

Simon Willison's Weblog , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 7:53:51 AM

'Undue emotional weight'

404 Media , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 7:46:15 AM

ABC News adds a vertical video feed to its mobile app, as Disney expands the short-form format that has generated significant engagement across ESPN and Disney+ (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 7:40:00 AM

Social Web Incubator Community Group

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 7:37:00 AM

Spotify opens new front in war on fair use

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 7:37:00 AM

Openness & Digital Sovereignty: Who Sustains the Commons?

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 7:37:00 AM

A textbook 14th Amendment revolution

SCOTUSblog , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 7:30:00 AM

74,250 Palestinians in Gaza killed since Oct. 7, 2023; U.S. trade deficit top $100 billion; Kenya confirms first Ebola case

Drop Site News , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 7:29:31 AM

Trump’s Attempts to Control the Census: Your Questions Answered

Bolts , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 7:26:39 AM

Glasses

Chris Coyier , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 7:15:00 AM

Ransomware has a new target. Is your backup ready?

BleepingComputer , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 7:01:11 AM

5 Burning Questions We Have About the Ending of ‘Carrie’

io9 | We Come From the Future , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 7:00:10 AM

Law and politics collide in asylum case

SCOTUSblog , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 7:00:00 AM

How to Better Enforce the Darfur Arms Embargo

Just Security , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:59:17 AM

The Vanishing Herds: Jesse Marsh’s Tarzan Revisited

The Comics Journal , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:58:53 AM

Pluralistic: Disloyalty (07 Oct 2026)

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:58:46 AM

Blue Planet III

kottke.org , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:58:00 AM

ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-off Prior to Arrests

Krebs on Security , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:48:45 AM

Read the winning story of the 2026 Caine Prize for African Writing.

Literary Hub , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:48:09 AM

ABC's lawyer tells a US federal judge that ABC is already tempering its election coverage ahead of the midterms due to threats from Trump and Brendan Carr (John Hendel/Politico)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:35:00 AM

Paul Carus’ The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil (1899)

The Public Domain Review , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:34:00 AM

The Uzbek President’s Son-In-Law Secretly Acquired a UAE Passport While Serving as a Top Security Chief

OCCRP , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:30:00 AM

Justices emphasize comparing apples to apples in assessing investment choices for retirement funds

SCOTUSblog , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:30:00 AM

NerdPress is sponsoring WordPress Accessibility Day again this year. The event s...

https://cdevroe.com/, Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:26:37 AM

discogs-mcp v3.6.0 — Self-hosting on the Workers Free plan

Elezea - RSS Feed , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:26:03 AM

‘Doctor Who’ Returns in First Look at Animated Series for Pre-Schoolers

io9 | We Come From the Future , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:21:27 AM

A Decade Under Trump’s Influence

The Present Age , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:16:40 AM

Key Takeaways from Suncor v. Boulder Oral Argument: Jurisdiction, Preemption, and the Proper Role of State Tort Law in Addressing Climate Change

Just Security , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:14:04 AM

118 Things to Do Instead of Doomscrolling. Including “put...

kottke.org , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:14:00 AM

Why the U.S. Must Prepare for Rapid Global Population Aging – and How

Just Security , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:04:30 AM

How Does It Feel To Have Remained Silent?

Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:01:32 AM

From Ballet To Breach Prevention: How A Magician’s Son Raised $4.2M In Seed Funding For His Cybersecurity Startup

Crunchbase News , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:00:37 AM

‘Left in the dark’: Why it took a year to get the lights on at this Tenderloin gallery

The San Francisco Standard , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Kawakami: Yaxel Lendeborg might be just what the Warriors desperately need — ASAP

The San Francisco Standard , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Pelosi’s pick for SF supervisor gets a sudden turn of fortune, and so does her legacy

The San Francisco Standard , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:00:00 AM

It’s flu season. SF vaccinations are off to a slow start

The San Francisco Standard , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Restaurants can’t be reduced to a number. But I’m glad someone is trying

The San Francisco Standard , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Inside a 20,000-square-foot Duboce Park compound that finally found a buyer

The San Francisco Standard , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:00:00 AM

The best events in SF this week, from Fleet Week to a sunrise gathering on Alcatraz

The San Francisco Standard , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:00:00 AM

SF public schools stopped suspending students. What they’re doing instead is illegal

The San Francisco Standard , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Justice Alito in the spotlight

SCOTUSblog , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 6:00:00 AM

In a speech to staff, BBC DG Matt Brittin outlined his vision for the Silicon Valley-ization of the BBC, including an AI agent for iPlayer called Iggy (Jake Kanter/Deadline)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 5:55:02 AM

No Emergency Exception: The Ban on Troops at the Polls Was Built for Crises

Just Security , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 5:50:11 AM

Hackers exploit critical Atlassian flaw after public PoC release

BleepingComputer , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 5:49:01 AM

Paramount, Warner Bros Formally Merge, Form Giant Mountain Of Disastrous Debt

Techdirt , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 5:29:48 AM

Vizio's free, ad-supported streamer WatchFree+ announces an original holiday movie and more programming from studios and creators in a major content expansion (Dade Hayes/Deadline)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 5:25:00 AM

Early Edition: October 7, 2026

Just Security , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 5:24:28 AM

People Don’t Refer Categories. They Refer Moments.

Marketing Junto , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 5:07:10 AM

This ‘Scream’ Box Set Features a Blood-Spattered Phone That Prank-Calls You

io9 | We Come From the Future , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 5:05:10 AM

How AI could bring about the mass adoption of open access in mathematics – and beyond

Walled Culture , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 5:00:00 AM

My Campaign Promises

McSweeney’s , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 5:00:00 AM

I’m newly optimistic about the future of CNN. I just hope that David Ellison means what he says.

Dan Kennedy , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 4:59:04 AM

The best books on Knitting, recommended by Rosie Fletcher

Five Books , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 4:41:08 AM

SonicWall warns of max severity SSRF flaw in SMA1000 gateways

BleepingComputer , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 4:37:07 AM

Why Ottawa Can’t Do the Knowledge Economy

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 4:37:00 AM

Source: news outlets are excluded from a Meta One test restricting pages from posting more than two external links per month for free on Facebook and Instagram (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 4:30:01 AM

The threads that bind us

Hi, I'm Heather Burns , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 4:23:43 AM

Against Laissez-Faire Democracy

Marginal REVOLUTION , Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 4:18:34 AM