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A.I. Has Made Me a Better Doctor. It’s Made Med Students Worse.

nytimes.com/2026/09/25/opinion/ai-doctor-medical-students.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D1E.32H0.y68e-hbMS8-S&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Amid our recent doom cycle about whether A. I.

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean

theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/27/banksy-funds-refugee-rescue-boat-operating-in-mediterranean?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/owners-mourn-spoiled-food-after-firmware-update-bricks-samsung-smart-fridges/

So absurd and embarrassing ..."

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Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances

futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-california-trial-n-word-acceptable-racist-discrimination

An important trial in California kicked off with Tesla's lawyers arguing that the n-word is a term of "respect and endearment."

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Officially licensed NYC Tour Guide

donmawsey.com/

NYC Walking & Food Tours by a Real Deal Native New Yorker

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External Memory For Your Brain

repebble.com/index

Just $75 - pre-order today!

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Belleville synagogue shooting a ‘hate-motivated attack,’ police say

globalnews.ca/news/12072001/why-belleville-synagogue-shooting-hate-motivated/

In an update Thursday afternoon, Belleville police said the act was “deliberate” and targeted the Jewish community “during one of the holiest observances of the year.”

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HBO Max ads on a compromised Reddit account exposed a massive PasteSwitch ClickFix operation

hudsonrock.com/blog/hbo-max-ads-on-a-compromised-reddit-account-exposed-a-massive-pasteswitch-clickfix-operation

HBO Max ads on a compromised Reddit account exposed a massive PasteSwitch ClickFix operation HBO Max ads on a compromised Reddit account exposed a massive PasteSwitch ClickFix operation…

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HBO MAX’s Reddit Account Was Compromised And Used For Ad Fraud

adexchanger.com/platforms/hbo-maxs-reddit-account-was-compromised-and-used-for-ad-fraud/

Have you checked your accounts lately? The ad industry had a nice laugh earlier this week when news popped about a 9-year-old who used his father’s already-logged-in Google business account to spend $118,000 on YouTube ads promoting his Minecraft and Roblox channel. His dad, a media buyer who got into hot water at work over […]

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Understanding Agentic Protocols With Adform's Jochen Schlosser

exchangewire.com/tradertalk/2026/09/23/understanding-agentic-protocols-with-adforms-jochen-schlosser/

In this TraderTalkTV episode, Adform's Jochen Schlosser joins Ciaran O'Kane to explain agentic ad tech protocols AAMP and AdCP.

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Publishers’ scorecard on Google’s ad tech remedies: they’re progress, but far from a clean win

digiday.com/media/publishers-scorecard-on-googles-ad-tech-remedies-theyre-progress-but-far-from-a-clean-win/

After years of waiting for the DOJ to finally curb Google’s ad tech power, publishers are finding that the devil in these new remedies

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Control Resonant gets tough, but gives you the tools to deal with it

theverge.com/games/999464/control-resonant-assist-mode

Thanks to assist mode, I could set my own challenge.

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Financing of historic AI buildout raises systemic risks in US, researcher says

reuters.com/business/finance/financing-historic-ai-buildout-raises-systemic-risks-us-researcher-says-2026-09-24/

The artificial intelligence buildout is on track to require a larger share of ​US output than the rollout of electricity, railroads, interstate highways or the internet, with an increasingly complicated financial structure that poses ‌potentially systemic risks, according to a new study.

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Sable Turns Five with a Design Works Reprint

eteogames.com/sable-turns-five-with-a-design-works-reprint/

Reflecting on the Five-Year Anniversary of Sable, and announcing a reprint of the Sable Design Works art book.

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Mitch McConnell Is Entirely Nonverbal in New Video

newrepublic.com/post/215759/mitch-mcconnell-nonverbal-freeze-up-new-video

The 84-year-old senator also appeared to freeze up.

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Massive meat recall on beef, pork and goat

fox8.com/news/massive-meat-recall-on-beef-pork-and-more-usda/

(WJW) — The U. S.

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The LAN party revival makes public radio

killscreen.com/the-lan-party-revival-makes-public-radio/?ref=killscreen-weekly-newsletter

KCRW covers Paizley Lee’s Dead Internet Theory, the roving event bringing the LAN party back to Los Angeles.

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Stalling installing

adactio.com/journal/22757

Trying to get past Webkit’s blockage at the W3C.

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Marketers have bought into microdramas — but a lack of ROI might make them irrelevant

digiday.com/marketing/r-i-p-quibi-you-would-have-loved-microdramas/

Microdramas are attracting brand dollars and audiences. The harder question is whether the format can translate that attention into meas.

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In Graphic Detail: LLMs keep citing YouTube in search results

digiday.com/marketing/in-graphic-detail-llms-keep-citing-youtube-in-search-results/

The YouTube videos getting cited reveal how different that AI search can be from traditional Google search.

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Scope3’s Rebrand to Apostra Solidifies Shift from Sustainability to AI

adweek.com/programmatic/scope3s-rebrand-to-apostra-solidifies-shift-from-sustainability-to-ai/

A defiant Brian O’Kelley raged against the “double standard” to which he claims to be held.

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IAB Tech Lab Introduces AAMP 3.0 to Standardize the RFP-to-Buy Process for Agentic Advertising

iabtechlab.com/press-releases/iab-tech-lab-introduces-aamp-3-0-with-openproposal/

New specification standardizes the RFP to Buy process for agentic advertising and is in public comment until October 22, 2026

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The FTC’s Amazon Lawsuit Is Ad Tech’s History Of Opacity Repeating Itself

adexchanger.com/platforms/the-ftcs-amazon-lawsuit-is-ad-techs-history-of-opacity-repeating-itself/

Buy-side experts said it’s another example of a Big Tech platform taking advantage of the lack of transparency built into programmatic ad auctions.

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Why Wall Street Turned Against The Trade Desk

adexchanger.com/platforms/why-wall-street-turned-against-the-trade-desk/

It’s a little less sunny in California these days – at least as far as The Trade Desk is concerned. The Ventura-based independent DSP is less than a third as valuable as it was a year ago. It retains about one-tenth of its high-water market cap from December 2024, when the company was worth almost […]

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The Trade Desk’s Bumpy Ride Down

adexchanger.com/the-big-story/the-trade-desks-bumpy-ride-down/

The Trade Desk’s recent reduction of 15% of its workforce comes after nearly two years of challenges on Wall Street, leadership turnover and bumpy product decisions. Independent analyst Richard Kramer comes on to dissect how Wall Street views TTD – and what it got wrong in the first place.

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Google AI Overviews With Way More External Links; Report

seroundtable.com/google-ai-overviews-more-external-links-42135.html

New data shows that Google is showing far more external links in its AI Overviews than before. A jump from close to 0% of AI Overviews containing external links to over 25% of AI Overviews containing external links.

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Infillion Acquires Foursquare, Adding More Location Data To Its Ever-Growing Ad Tech Stack

adexchanger.com/marketers/infillion-acquires-foursquare-adding-more-location-data-to-its-ever-growing-ad-tech-stack/

Infillion checked in with its latest acquisition on Friday: Foursquare. Terms of the deal were nor disclosed.

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Atmosphere in a Box - All your sandbox needs

50-shades.pckt.blog/atmosphere-in-a-box-all-your-sandbox-needs-dwkr23r

This has been the year of ATprotocol development for me, starting with Stratos, A social-app fork and then starting my own business focused on building local fi...

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Everyone Into The Grinder

hamiltonnolan.com/p/everyone-into-the-grinder

The text argues for equal treatment in public systems for all, including powerful individuals like Donald Trump. It emphasizes the need to end the exclusion of the rich from public services to drive improvements in societal systems. The author calls for collective action to address injustices and challenges readers to resist the temptation to buy their way out of public problems.

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Private Schools Are Bad for Society

hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-schools-are-bad-for-society

The starting point for any honest discussion.