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Six Colors
• Six Colors Podcasts
(Podcast) The Rebound 609: I Know Rotten; I Was In Denmark
Moltz is tired of renting and Lex must be tired of walking.…
The San Francisco Standard
• Max Harrison-Caldwell
SF isn’t sure what to do with downtown. It’s asking high schoolers for ideas
A summer program led by an urbanist youth nonprofit and the Downtown Development Corporation prompted students to reimagine the area.
Techdirt
• Tim Cushing
Court Shuts Down Federal Officers Who Wanted To Run A Stingray Device For A Month Straight
For a long time, cell site simulators, a.k.a. “Stingrays” made headlines on nearly a daily basis. Then they just kind of fell off the map. L3Harris — the manufacturer of cell site simulators that commanded enough market share to see its flagship product become the victim of genericide — saw the writing on the wall […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
ICE Arrests Surge at Airports
“The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired U.S. visas as they travel through airports, including spouses of Americans — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation,” the New York Times reports. “Immigration agents in plain clothes have whisked away targets at check-in counters and arrival gates, […]
Ars Technica
• Stephen Clark
Reaction wheel failures leave Swift rescue mission spinning in orbit
"Preliminary investigation shows that two of Link's three reaction wheels currently are not operable."
What Warsh’s Federal Reserve Task Forces Are Missing (barrons.com)
Sustainable Investing Is Mostly About Sustaining Corporations (bloomberg.com)
Nearly 500 readers shared stories of deathbed visions. Here are 10. (wapo.st)
Southeast Asian Resort Towns Suffer as Iran War Keeps European Tourists Away (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Queens Defenders founder Lori Zeno gets 43 months in prison for stealing funds meant for needy clients (nydailynews.com)
On the experience of the long haul flight . “The...
On the experience of the long haul flight. “The meal cart appears two hours in. You can hear it banging into passengers’ knees before you see it, and the sound causes the entire cabin to sit up slightly, like meerkats detecting motion on the savanna.”
Racket
• Keith Harris
Federal Judge Blocks MN Prediction Market Ban. Anti-Nudification Law Next?
Plus Elon started the fire and U hikes healthcare costs in today's Flyover news roundup.
EV Grieve
• Unknown
A handmade anniversary gift, one chess piece at a time
Berkeleyside
• Alex N. Gecan
Berkeley animal shelter reopens as arson suspect’s trial nears

The Woman In Wellow, 1923 #henrimatisse #matisse
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Trump Dozes Off at Lindsey Graham’s Funeral
Rolling Stone: “Lindsey Graham was laid to rest today, and at least one of his many mourners marked the occasion by getting in a little nap. In several clips of the funeral, Donald Trump was seen openly drifting off in his seat, eyes and head drooping down as the dulcet tones of a political ally’s […]
Ars Technica
• Beth Mole
College lab class ends with 32 people on antibiotics for deadly germ exposure
Lab students were supposed to ID a mild germ. They all identified a deadly pathogen.
Nieman Lab
• Hanaa' Tameez
Despite concerns about AI Overviews, some nonprofit news outlets see a surge in search traffic
Election season is a busy time for any newsroom. In the second quarter of 2026, some nonprofit newsrooms saw their coverage of the primaries — especially voter guides — pay off in both interest and traffic. In Nieman Lab’s quarterly ranking of nonprofit news outlets, four news outlets saw a bump in traffic thanks in...
Ars Technica
• Dan Goodin
JFrog tries to spin OpenAI 0-day exploit of its app into a success story
10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.