WIRED
• Maddy Varner
The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens of states allege encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.
WIRED
• Scott Gilbertson
Insta360’s Luna Pro and Luna Ultra are the ideal cameras for solo filmmakers, content creators, and independent journalists.
TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Mike Rothschild
In Rough Edges, Mike Rothschild writes about fringe groups, conspiracy theories and how the Internet broke our brains. This column is part...
TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Robert H. Frank
This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Significant polling errors most often result when late-deciding...
Seth's Blog
• Seth Godin
Just about everyone commutes to work, by car or by public transit. And just about everyone carries a smart phone. All organizations have a communications problem, and it gets worse as they grow. Which issues are we facing today? Who else is on the team? What’s changed in the environment, and what do we need […]
John Singer Sargent, Door of Campanile, Florence, June 1871 #themet #johnsingersargent
The Daily
• The New York Times
The City Reporter
• Greg B. Smith
Back in the good old days of “honest graft,” William “Boss” Tweed didn’t mess around when it came to enriching himself at the expense of New York City taxpayers. Take the Tweed Courthouse, the opulent Italianate marble edifice next to City Hall that now houses the Department of Education headquarters. Originally budgeted at $250,000, it […]
The post First Adams-Era Corruption Trial Begins — Without a Jury appeared first on The City Reporter.
The City Reporter
• Samantha Maldonado
A Brutalist-style city office building in Lower Manhattan is slated for a transformation — the likes of which New York City has never seen. The city Economic Development Corporation is teaming up with a developer GFP Real Estate to demolish the building at 100 Gold St. and replace it with a supersized development at a […]
The post The Densest Apartment Building in the US Could Be Coming to FiDi appeared first on The City Reporter.
Pootlepress
• Jamie Marsland
A new app for user testing any WordPress plugin, theme or site. Testers get WordPress Playground in their browser, and the app runs on Spacefast.
Marcel Duchamp @artistduchamp #followart #artontwitter
TorrentFreak
• Ernesto Van der Sar
Denuvo can subpoena Discord, Valve and Reddit to identify the anonymous game cracker ‘voices38’. After a California federal judge raised privacy concerns, the DRM company dropped its demands for payment data, comments and other data, reducing 46 requests to nine. What remains are identity and contact details, including IP addresses, which Denuvo says may be the only reliable path to identify the defendant.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
TorrentFreak
• Ernesto Van der Sar
Denuvo can subpoena Discord, Valve and Reddit to identify the anonymous game cracker ‘voices38’. After a California federal judge raised privacy concerns, the DRM company dropped its demands for payment data, comments and other data, reducing 46 requests to nine. What remains are identity and contact details, including IP addresses, which Denuvo says may be the only reliable path to identify the defendant.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Open Culture
• OC
Back in 1975, Jack H. Hetherington, a physics professor at Michigan State University, wrote a research paper on low–temperature physics for the respected scientific journal Physical Review Letters. Before sending it off, Hetherington asked a colleague to review the paper, just to make sure it covered the right bases. What happened next Hetherington explained in the 1982 book, More Random Walks […]
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Tonight Lingling Wei, Alex Leary, Thomas Grove, and Josh Dawsey of the Wall Street Journal reported that Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has proposed a meeting next month with Trump and China’s president Xi Jinping to decide the fate of Ukraine.
blindaccessjournal.com/2026/10/an-open-letter-to-matt-mullenweg-on-accessibility-in-wordpress/
Several respected members of the WordPress community have said publicly that they feel unable to speak freely about these events. A project that depends on volunteer and sponsored contributions cannot build accessible software if the people doing that work fear the consequences of doing it.
AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed
• Aram Zucker-Scharff
A week of our entirely-ordinary *extraordinary* violence
AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed
• Aram Zucker-Scharff
kottke.org/26/10/how-hunting-owls-use-sound-to-see-under-the-snow
The great grey owl basically has a sound cone for a face, which helps it hunt down voles burrowing through snow in the winter. The owl’s large facial ruff, form
