FCC commissioners are under investigation for violating ethics rules by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount while the FCC reviewed Paramount's $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Amanda Caswell
DeepSeek’s smaller model just outperformed its own flagship
DeepSeek has launched DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, delivering a significant boost in agent performance without changing the model’s core architecture. Following an announcement
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Dear Therapist: It’s Hard to Accept Being Single (theatlantic.com)
What Worries Democrats as the Midterms Heat Up (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Exclusive | The Paper in Your Paper Towel Is a Candidate for a Radical Overhaul (wsj.com)
Emigration from Israel remained at a record high in 2025, study finds (haaretz.com)
Katalin Karikó über mRNA-Forschung und neue Krebsimpfstoffe (faz.net)
3 Art Terms That Will Change the Way You Look at Paintings (medium.com)
Michigan’s Tense Democratic Senate Race Poses a Big Test for a Divided Party (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Klanten getuigen over malafide architecten: “Verslagen van de werf werden vervalst” (apache.be)
The wildfire smoke won’t quit: Poor air quality to expand across West (wapo.st)
Heatwave forces farmers to abandon crops as harvests fail (thetimes.com)
After big win, left-leaning slate seeks to flex power in D.C.’s Democratic Party (wapo.st)
New reporting reveals ICE collected DNA samples from nearly 1 million people last year, including nearly 500 children under 14.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Trump Immunity Memo Remains
“Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s Sunday night memo formally rescinding the $1.776 ‘anti-weaponization’ fund leaves intact another key provision for President Trump: an order offering broad immunity to him, his adult children and their business for past conduct,” NewsNation reports.
Protocols for Publishers✨
• PfP Team
Mike Masnick on protocols for publishers
An interview with @masnick.com (of TechDirt), the author of the influential 2019 paper "Protocols, Not Platforms," reflecting on how his ideas apply to publishers in 2026.
The Texas Observer
• Monse Guajardo
American Skater
Between May 2025 and March of this year, I photographed Robinson Gonzalez, a Venezuelan professional skateboarder in his mid-twenties. Three years before I started this work, Gonzalez crossed the Darién Gap, having left his family behind. He was later granted entry into the United States as an asylum-seeker. Back in 2018, during anti-government protests in […]
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The San Francisco Standard
• Jane Kenny
The Valkyries’ quiet trade deadline made a loud statement about their philosophy
Golden State doubled down on continuity and bypassed a chance to add players to its roster on Sunday.
Updated the Mac app to version 4.0.4, fixing a few issues and adding a new Scheduled tab to more easily keep track of posts scheduled to publish later. Reminder you can use File → Schedule when writing a new post.
The City Reporter
• Alex Zimmerman, Chalkbeat
NYC Schools Will Change How They Handle Chronic Absence Due To Disabilities
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. New York City’s Education Department is changing how it responds to students who are chronically absent due to school avoidance, according to an agreement officials signed last week with the legal team that brought a class-action lawsuit over the issue. School avoidance, or school […]
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