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Took a little time to go through most of my podcasts in Overcast, unsubscribing from a bunch of shows that I no longer listen to regularly. I have a “Favorites” playlist that shows recent episodes from select shows. Also: most podcasts are just too long now.

The Trump administration is ending support for the annual Arctic Report Card, a critical assessment of the fastest-warming region on Earth.

Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say.

Over the past several years, a license-plate tracking company called Flock has partnered with over 40 percent of police departments nationwide, allowing local law enforcement to track people's whereabouts across state lines. Jason Koebler, cofounder of 404 Media, unpacks how officials, including ICE, are using the technology, and why anti-surveillance activists on both sides of the are pushing back against the cameras.

Photo: A Flock camera records passersby on July 9, 2026 in Jefferson, Ga. (Kevin D. Liles for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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Lena H. Sun, Washington Post national reporter focusing on health, provides an update on the nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak and the response from U.S. public health agencies.

Photo: Spinach is displayed for sale on shelves at a Target store on July 23, 2026 in Austin, Texas. The cyclosporiasis outbreak, an intestinal illness caused by the microscopic parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis, has spread across multiple states and remains under investigation by federal health officials after the first known illness onset was reported in early May. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

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Jessica Gould, education reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, talks about the steep drop in ELA test scores on last year's state test among city students, and what stakeholders think might be the cause of the decline.

Photo: A student in the library reads a book after receiving candy and a red envelope in a cultural celebration of the Lunar New Year at Yung Wing School P.S. 124 on February 02, 2022 in New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

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After a 15 year hiatus, the NYC Department of Sanitation has resumed putting bright green stickers on cars that don't follow alternate-side parking rules. Listeners call in to talk about other examples of public officials using shaming to change behavior, and share some ideas of their own.

Photo courtesy of NYC Department of Sanitation

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Doug Herrington, Amazon's CEO of Worldwide Stores, explains why conversational AI is the next format shift in retail—just as the catalog gave way to the search bar.

During AI DevCon in London this summer, Lamis Mukta, member of technical staff at Anthropic, hosted a stage presentation session

The post Anthropic gave agents the ability to dream. Then developers woke up. appeared first on The New Stack.

Trump admin claims New York suing Kalshi created "market emergency."

Let me cut right to it: Why can’t I get curry fries over here? Look, I just got back from a work trip to Dublin (where everybody says "Look" to start a sentence), and curry fries are weighing heavy. The trip went as swell as possible. I not only got to cover an all-timer of...

It started as one of the most talked-about e-bike deals in the country. Colorado residents could get what was advertised as a “free” electric bike by applying the state’s e-bike tax credit, with Bear Trail Bikes matching the discount. Customers were generally left paying little more than sales tax.

For many riders, it sounded too good to pass up.

In May, the UK High Court granted several Hollywood studios a broad "omnibus" site blocking order, allowing them to block rotating networks of pirate sites, without the need to link them to known pirate brands. This breakthrough order was recently cited in a Canadian court order, but remained unavailable to the public, until now.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

William Shakespeare may have helped shape the English language, contributing hundreds of words to our modern lexicon, but he was seemingly unconcerned with standardizing his own surname. The playwright spelled — or at least signed — his name several different ways during his...

For centuries, “X” has marked the spot when we don’t know where exactly the spot is. Its use in algebra to mean an unknown quantity spread into the wider culture, giving “X” an air of mystery, as seen in titles such as The X Files and even the term “X-rays,” named by their d...