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A 5th Person In PA Has Suffered A Measles-Related Death

Techdirt , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 8:17:04 PM

Slowly tweaking a local trained LoRA model to generate stylized images of my cats doing seasonally-appropriate activities. It takes only a few seconds to generate these on the GPU in the closet. Still have some work to do on the poses and image styles. But I'm pretty happy with the progress so far!

Aaron Parecki , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 8:14:00 PM

Comedians urge Sebastian Maniscalco and SiriusXM to restore working-class comics in its programming following the Raw Dog channel's rebrand under Maniscalco (Matt Grobar/Deadline)

Mediagazer , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 7:55:00 PM

OpenAI’s models have also meddled with U.S. government websites after going rogue.

NYT > Kate Conger , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 7:31:42 PM

What to know about recent A.I. hacks.

NYT > Kate Conger , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 7:11:30 PM

Ellison Leaves His Mark

Status , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 6:59:19 PM

The White House barred Politico from Air Force One Monday; sources: other outlets declined to take Politico's seat, leaving no primary print pooler on the trip (Brian Stelter/CNN)

Mediagazer , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 6:30:01 PM

President Trump says his super PAC, MAGA Inc., will now pay for TV ads promoting him nationwide; AdImpact: $10M+ in taxpayer-funded ads have run since September (New York Times)

Mediagazer , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 5:50:00 PM

The US Supreme Court declines to hear an appeal from Nexstar seeking to block an antitrust lawsuit brought by DirecTV over retransmission consent negotiations (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)

Mediagazer , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 2:20:00 PM

Opening the book on the October Term 2026

SCOTUSblog , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 2:12:00 PM

Bend Venture Conference finalizes Growth Stage slate for 2026

Portland Oregon startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and community , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 1:55:21 PM

Day 2085: “A valuable contribution.”

What The Fuck Just Happened Today?, Monday, Oct 5, 2026 1:52:12 PM

Use stock charts in Sheets to better visualize price movements

Google Workspace Updates , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 1:42:28 PM

DNA Lounge: Wherein we return this blog to our core competency: plumbing disasters

jwz , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 1:38:31 PM

A look at the challenges facing Skydance, including nearly $80B in debt and a commitment to achieve $6B in operational savings over three years (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)

Mediagazer , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 1:35:01 PM

Duck, duck… dough: University of Oregon partners with January Ventures

Portland Oregon startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and community , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 1:33:37 PM

Rejetto HFS servers now actively scanned for critical RCE flaw

BleepingComputer , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 1:20:05 PM

Designer Giorgia Lupi: In Defense of the Detour. “I fear...

kottke.org , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 1:19:00 PM

Silicon Florist links arrangement for October 5, 2026

Portland Oregon startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and community , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 1:18:18 PM

Court sends mixed signals on whether it will allow state-tort suits seeking to hold energy companies liable for climate change to go forward

SCOTUSblog , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 1:17:26 PM

States Prosecuting Platforms For Being Platforms? Section 230 Is Supposed To Avoid This Mess, We Reminded A Court

Techdirt , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 1:14:04 PM

Pennsylvania's measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US

Spotlight PA , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 1:10:40 PM

Founded Colorado

Feld Thoughts , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 1:08:43 PM

Pier Players Theatre Company presents Kate Brennan and David Lee White’s Big Babies

'The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate,' catching up with Jaleel Shaw, and more for prime holiday times , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 1:08:00 PM

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

Nieman Lab , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 1:01:27 PM

Dragoncatcher: Cyberpunk is now

Robin Sloan , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 1:00:00 PM

What to read after you see the Bayeux Tapestry.

Literary Hub , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 12:44:39 PM

Inside the ALA’s list of the 150 most banned books of the last 35 years.

Literary Hub , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 12:41:01 PM

TikTok debuts Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that helps users find and buy products, and Buy Direct for one-click purchases from the For You feed (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Mediagazer , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 12:35:01 PM

‘The Institute’ Season 2 Trailer Teases the Tense Road Ahead

io9 | We Come From the Future , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 12:15:40 PM

The Future Library

kottke.org , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 12:12:01 PM

SCOTUS Opens Its Term With Boulder's Climate Case, the Harvard Funding Fight Hits the First Circuit & Poland Charges Google Over Publisher Payments

Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 12:02:13 PM

As ‘nuisance’ evictions surge, SF lawmakers propose a fix

The San Francisco Standard , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 12:00:00 PM

New post series: Déjà Boo

nerds of a feather, flock together , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 12:00:00 PM

Pluralistic: Scrutinized (05 Oct 2026)

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:58:11 AM

A Blood-Red Tide

Dissent Magazine , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:54:49 AM

Canal+ threatens to pull out of its commitment to invest ~€1B in French and European films between 2028 and 2032 if France doubles VAT on pay-TV subscriptions (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)

Mediagazer , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:50:00 AM

U.S. attorneys name South Korean intelligence ‘handlers’ of indicted former CIA analyst

All-Source Intelligence , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:49:35 AM

How a plan to turn the Spokane Spokesman-Review into “The People’s Paper” ended in a newsroom revolt

Nieman Lab , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:44:52 AM

WaningCrescentMoonday

Doc Searls Weblog , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:33:00 AM

The Arden presents Conon McPherson’s Girl from the North Country

'The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate,' catching up with Jaleel Shaw, and more for prime holiday times , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:32:00 AM

The Team Behind ‘Lanterns’ Discusses Its Unconventional Ending

io9 | We Come From the Future , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:30:45 AM

Stalin Boys is a short documentary about a Joseph...

kottke.org , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:27:00 AM

Preview, edit and collaborate on Markdown (.md) files natively across Drive and Docs

Google Workspace Updates , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:15:32 AM

The Existential Grinth for the Ninth (month of daily photos in 2026)

CogDogBlog , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:14:00 AM

Warner/Chappell Sinks Lindsay Ellis’ Two-Hour Cruise Video Over A Few Seconds Of Karaoke

Techdirt , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:11:45 AM

Mergers and Acqui-hires

Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:11:08 AM

Food with Mark Bittman: First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom

The Bittman Project , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:09:37 AM

Daily Deal: Babbel Language Learning (All Languages)

Techdirt , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:06:45 AM

Court declines to hear cases on “Let’s Go Brandon” sweatshirts, felons’ Second Amendment rights, COVID-19 vaccine mandates, and other notable issues

SCOTUSblog , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:05:00 AM

TV Simulator’s TV Poetry

Waxy.org , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:04:05 AM

6 Guidelines for Governing AI

IEEE Spectrum , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 11:00:02 AM

it is OK to boil eggs at work when you’re new on the job (or ever)?

Ask a Manager , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:59:16 AM

Axel Springer-owned Morning Brew acquires Express Checkout, a creator-led media brand covering the consumer packaged goods industry (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)

Mediagazer , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:50:00 AM

1440’s $27M Newsletter Business Is Moving Beyond the Inbox

A Media Operator , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:45:17 AM

YouTube – This is Not My World – Chapter One

Green Comet , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:43:24 AM

I Live in a Swing State and I Am Going to Need to See More Political Ads, Please

McSweeney’s , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:40:00 AM

‘The Batman Part II’ Has Paused Its Production

io9 | We Come From the Future , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:38:51 AM

Strickman Wins 2026 WSFA Small Press Award

Locus , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:38:23 AM

Nappy is a site offering free stock photos of Black and...

kottke.org , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:37:00 AM

Another codesign firedrill

jwz , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:27:38 AM

Monday assorted links

Marginal REVOLUTION , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:23:07 AM

NBCUniversal names Chris Wayland, head of its Boston portfolio, as the president of NBCU Local, succeeding Valari Staab, who will retire at the end of the year (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

Mediagazer , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:20:00 AM

IQVIA fined $7.8 million for failing to properly anonymize health data

BleepingComputer , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:19:53 AM

Secondary calendars will now follow the lifecycle of their owner

Google Workspace Updates , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:16:27 AM

Sources: TNT Sports CEO Luis Silberwasser is departing Skydance; CBS Sports CEO David Berson will lead a newly formed global sports group (Alex Sherman/CNBC)

Mediagazer , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:15:01 AM

Know Your Enemy: The Post-MAGA Midterms?

Dissent Magazine , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:04:42 AM

Lego’s 3 New Batman Sets Give You a Choice: Cute, Cool, or Terrifying

io9 | We Come From the Future , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:00:44 AM

Piers Morgan's Uncensored plans a $4.99/month subscription tier, along with four newsletters and a website built on Beehiiv; its YouTube shows will stay free (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)

Mediagazer , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:00:04 AM

Every Bay Area champion has great role players. The 49ers and Valkyries have theirs

The San Francisco Standard , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 10:00:00 AM

What's the best way to block a browser from a website? Is there a meta code for ...

Scripting News , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 9:55:33 AM

I love what Claude Code does, but hate working with it. It doesn't have any sens...

Scripting News , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 9:50:57 AM

Sources: despite saying in July that its 2027 Super Bowl ad inventory is sold out, Disney is seeking $10M-$12M per 30-second spot plus matching ad commitments (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

Mediagazer , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 9:35:01 AM

The Ringer is launching a media newsletter written by editor-at-large Bryan Curtis

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 9:32:47 AM

CIA Report Warns Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total Collapse

Drop Site News , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 9:30:47 AM

Court Permanently Dismisses Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case Against David Hearn

Techdirt , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 9:30:19 AM

I can’t fire a terrible employee

Ask a Manager , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 9:29:49 AM

2026 Ignyte Awards Winners

Locus , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 9:20:44 AM

O Superman, Laurie Anderson

kottke.org , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 9:17:00 AM

Some Clothes I'm Into

Atoms vs Bits , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 9:11:50 AM

Cooking for One: Crispy Tofu with Broccolini and Rice

The Bittman Project , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 9:09:51 AM

lastfm-mcp v2.6.0 — Sign-in without client registration

Elezea - RSS Feed , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 9:04:29 AM

SF Democratic Party chair apologizes for endorsing Yekutiel

The San Francisco Standard , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 9:03:21 AM

Reading about Ben Thompson’s Mac getting hacked, which he uses exclusively for a...

Brad Barrish , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 9:03:14 AM

Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build Your First Agent with MCP

Radar , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 8:59:57 AM

Fresh redundancies at Future as tech brands hurt by AI Overviews

Press Gazette , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 8:55:04 AM

Four Writing Humans. No, Wait, Five.

Rands in Repose , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 8:53:12 AM

“Authenticity is exactly the same as phoniness.”

Marginal REVOLUTION , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 8:45:12 AM

Meta, TikTok, and X challenge UK's Ofcom over the amount of info it is demanding under the Online Safety Act, saying it creates unprecedented regulatory burdens (Paul Sandle/Reuters)

Mediagazer , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 8:40:00 AM

Muse escapes containment

404 Media , Monday, Oct 5, 2026 8:38:35 AM