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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Experts alarmed by ‘less transparent’ CDC as US measles deaths rise

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/22/cdc-measles-pennsylvania-state-deaths

Agency declines to reveal in which state latest measles death occurred as it delays reporting other measles deaths

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

CDC denies approval for high-volume measles test, citing ‘other priorities’

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/22/cdc-measles-test-denied

California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii health officials ask CDC, ‘prioritizing emerging technologies’, to reconsider

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

TikTok Lawyers Face Their AI Clones

documentedny.com/projects/tiktok-lawyers/

Documented found swarms of fake immigration attorney TikTok accounts and bots targeting immigrants in an analysis of tens of millions of posts.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

‘You Can See Everything’ Through Nathan Fielder’s Looking Glass

theringer.com/2026/10/16/you-can-see-everything/you-can-see-everything-review-nathan-fielder-elizabeth-holmes-documentary

The ‘Rehearsal’ creator’s collaboration with Lance Oppenheim is a stunning look into Elizabeth Holmes’s inner world. It also wrestles with the contradictions of, well, everything.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Switch 2 Has Been Jailbroken For The First Time

kotaku.com/nintendo-switch-2-jailbreak-hack-exploit-piracy-homebrew-emulation-modding-2000748784

While the current methods are convoluted and complicated, it's bad news for Nintendo

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre

Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

‘There are no people’: Springfield, Ohio, faces loss of Haitian residents

washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/10/21/haitians-face-deportation-springfield-ohio-is-losing-jobs-business/

The city’s economy has taken a hit as Haitian immigrants sequester in their homes or leave after the Trump administration canceled their temporary protected status.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The disastrous PHP vulnerabilities were exploited days before the patch

theverge.com/tech/1016798/php-vulnerabilities-exploit-patch

The bugs left sites across the web scrambling to apply a fix.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Why Big Tech is building more data centers in rural America, and what effect it has had on those communities

nbcnews.com/data-graphics/big-tech-building-data-centers-rural-america-effect-rcna588699?refresh=

What a data center boom looks like in the rural community that has already lived it.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

For the first time, UN says breaching 1.5C warming limit is ‘imminent and unavoidable’

cnn.com/2026/10/21/climate/cop31-un-climate-report-emissions-gap

A new UN climate report released Wednesday finds that the globe will unavoidably slip past the Paris Climate Agreement’s 1.5-degree warming target in the next few years. The task now, the report states, is to make the period of warming “overshoot” as limited as possible, eventually bringing global average temperatures back down.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The corporate cash behind Vivek Ramaswamy’s "despicable" TV ad

At 12 years old, Amy Acton was the victim of sexual abuse.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

CBS' DraftKings Gamble

status.news/p/cbs-draftkings-election-results-data

CBS' owned stations will carry DraftKings branding through Election Night, Status has learned, a sponsorship that has stirred concern inside the company.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

My Country Is Going Through an Extraordinary Experiment

nytimes.com/2026/10/21/opinion/serbia-elections-students-vucic.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KlE.YXYv.eA9vHZXKD9Hf&smid=url-share

It may sound like a David-and-Goliath story. But on Sunday, Serbia’s inspiring student movement will run in snap parliamentary elections against the party that has ruled the country for 14 years.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Brendan Carr: Reporting on polls may violate broadcast license terms

freedom.press/issues/brendan-carr-reporting-on-polls-may-violate-broadcast-license-terms/

Ethically challenged regulator is the last person who should be lecturing anyone on journalistic ethics

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Wretched Domains: nine adventures for Hollows - Rowan, Rook and Decard

rowanrookanddecard.com/product/wretched-domains-nine-adventures-for-hollows/

Wretched Domains is a set of nine scenarios for Hollows, each one imagined by a different pair of gifted writers and artists.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

State Asked Foreign Service Officers Up for Promotion Whether They Voted for Trump

washingtonsun.com/administration/state-foreign-service-officers-voting-history-interview-promotion

Federal law strictly prohibits making civil service personnel decisions on the basis of political affiliation.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Most Americans want to halt all data center construction

washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/10/21/poll-finds-most-americans-disapprove-how-trump-handling-ai/

A new Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll shows a gulf between a public worried by artificial intelligence technology and a president who argues it is essential to economic vitality.

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05:45 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

I was a Theranos whistleblower. In ‘You Can See Everything,’ Elizabeth Holmes is still lying

statnews.com/2026/10/19/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-whistleblower-tyler-shultz-insider-review/

A more accurate name would be “You Can See Everything That We Chose To Point The Camera At,”Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz writes.

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05:45 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Map Library

rollandplaypress.com/products/the-map-library

This colossal box set of 100 dry-erasable DnD battle maps gives you the perfect map for every adventure in your DnD campaign.

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05:45 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

ChatGPT is my new TA, and I’m scared

dailycollegian.com/2026/10/chatgpt-is-my-new-ta-and-im-scared/

“It feels as though everyone in charge of our education has already accepted that, at the pace we’re moving, we’re all going to have to use AI at some point in our careers. By tasking us with AI assignments, professors do us a ‘favor’ by removing our agency in school, rather than in our future workplace,” writes Vempali.

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05:45 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Poly Fighter Early Access Impressions

ladiesgamers.com/poly-fighter-early-access-impressions/

Poly Fighter brings back the joy of solo arcade fighting, combining snappy combat, accessible controls and roguelike moveset-building.

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05:45 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Don’t forget for a second that Elizabeth Holmes is a liar

theverge.com/policy/1014687/fielder-holmes-you-can-see-everything

What three hours of a documentary looks like to someone who spent four months at the Holmes trial.

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05:45 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security

thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-php-security/

Describing the story behind how critical security vulnerabilities were found and fixed.

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05:45 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

‘This Is Not A Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire

wired.com/story/this-is-not-a-drill-2-php-vulnerabilities-are-setting-the-internet-on-fire/

The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could have dire consequences.

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05:45 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

And Just Like The Movies

bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/10/20/and-just-like-silent-hill-townfall

Monthly magazine for long-form articles and podcasts on videogames

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05:45 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

No iPad Till After Dinner, Mom

nymag.com/intelligencer/article/boomer-parents-screen-time-problem.html

Seniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled, scam-riddled feeds. It has become their adult children’s job to save them.

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05:45 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

MAGA Candidate’s Nemesis Twists the Knife Over Disaster Ad

thedailybeast.com/maga-candidates-nemesis-twists-the-knife-over-disaster-ad?utm_source=bsky_owned_snd&utm_medium=bsky&utm_campaign=owned_social

Vivek Ramaswamy is hoping that doubting child rape will give him a much-needed midterm boost.

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05:45 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Prediction markets are partnering with top athletes and sports teams. Why it’s taking the magic away for many fans

cnn.com/2026/10/18/sport/prediction-markets-backlash

Partnerships between prediction markets and teams have for some, become emblematic of what fans see as unfettered greed permeating throughout sports.

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05:45 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Someone Opened a CashApp In Her Name. She Faces Years in Prison

404media.co/amanda-smith-opened-a-cashapp-in-her-name-she-faces-years-in-prison-cashapp-fraud/

Amanda Smith spent three nights in jail after a Facebook Marketplace scam led to a CashApp account in her name. She says she didn't make it.

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05:45 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Nobody Wants To Talk About Why The Ringer Is Pivoting To Substack

defector.com/nobody-wants-to-talk-about-why-the-ringer-is-pivoting-to-substack

A media company launching a series of paywalled newsletters is not, on its own and on its face, a strange thing to do. AI’s ongoing cannibalization of online search is ravaging website traffic, and programmatic advertising doesn’t provide the kind of revenue it used to. If you were running a website like The Ringer, you…