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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CBS' DraftKings Gamble

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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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My Country Is Going Through an Extraordinary Experiment

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

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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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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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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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Perspectives with Nate Stewart

Nate Stewart joins Luke and Jonathan to discuss chickens, gambling, commercialized addiction, skill atrophy, taste, GeoCities, and how Automattic, WP Engine, and the WordPress community might work together in a way that would make everyone happy. Nate share his perspective on an unsuccessful retirement and advocates for more organizational diversity in the AI ecosystem. Nate also checks off his bingo card while Jonathan and Luke realize, again, that they’re getting old.

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Scripting News: Thursday, October 22, 2026

Thursday, October 22, 2026
I hope to see the The Web of Markdown idea take the next step later today or early tomorrow at the latest. Still diggin! #
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Cody Johnson’s Dream as a Little Boy Became His Reality

Before the country music success, Cody Johnson pictured a life with land, horses, cattle and a family of his own. Today, he’s living the life he once thought was beyond his reach. Continue reading…