Instagram’s long-form video update is more than a swipe at YouTube. It’s an attempt to capture the clip economy.
WIRED
• Reece Rogers
Instagram Is a Streaming Service Now
WIRED
• Reece Rogers
Instagram’s long-form video update is more than a swipe at YouTube. It’s an attempt to capture the clip economy.
WIRED
• David Gilbert
From heat maps to Signal chats to war rooms, volunteers across the US are ready to act if federal immigration agents show up on Election Day.
WIRED
• Paula Mejia
“Sovereign citizens” think they can live beyond the reach of the state. Now the movement has influencers—and they’re selling all sorts of anarchist courses to expectant families.
WIRED
• Christopher Null
The Waterdrop X12 improved the taste of my tap water, but reverse osmosis comes with costs beyond the purchase price.
WIRED
• Reece Rogers
I ranked six AI agents—from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet—on how well they completed basic tasks.
Longreads
• Maggie Shipstead

TorrentFreak
• Ernesto Van der Sar
FlavaWorks can subpoena Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and three other companies to identify staff and members of the defunct BitTorrent site Gay-Torrents.org, an Illinois federal court ruled. Instead of starting from IP addresses, the subpoenas target the email accounts that are linked to their tracker profiles. How FlavaWorks obtained those email addresses remains unclear.
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A young Hudson Valley boy is one step closer to becoming a real-life superhero, but he needs your help. Continue reading…
EV Grieve
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EV Grieve
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The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• CJ McIntyre
Orange County residents who regularly cross the Mario Cuomo Bridge are about to get a break on tolls, with a new discount now available to drivers who use E-ZPass. Continue reading…
There was plenty of speculation about where this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree would come from, including rumors involving two Hudson Valley towns. Now, we finally have an answer! Continue reading…
The Daily
• The New York Times
The City Reporter
• Haidee Chu, Carol Chen, Stephen Lurie | The Pudding, and Matt Daniels | The Pudding

This story was reported by Haidee Chu and Carol Chen of The City Reporter, based on original research and data analysis by Stephen Lurie and Matt Daniels of The Pudding. Katie Honan contributed. When the playground at St. Vartan Park closed for renovations this spring, parents in Murray Hill rallied around one question: Where will […]
The post New Yorkers Want to Play Ball. The Toughest Game is Getting a Field. appeared first on The City Reporter.
The City Reporter
• Katie Honan

The city is dragging its feet on a requirement for all city agencies to upload records requests and data to an online public portal, further delaying transparency from city agencies, good-government advocates said. The bill, which was passed in the City Council last November, requires every municipal agency to opt into the city’s Open Records […]
The post A Freedom of Information ‘Christmas Present’ Remains Unopened as City Delays Rollout appeared first on The City Reporter.
Seth's Blog
• Seth Godin
When things don’t turn out the way you pictured, how long does it take for you to move on? Reducing this window of disappointment unlocks the path to creativity and leadership. People who get over disappointment more quickly aren’t less excited about the project than the others. They realize that getting attached to an outcome […]
Open Culture
• Colin Marshall
Even now, in this age when the very reading of literature is endangered — or so the articles tell us — Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) retains a notable ability to pick up new admirers. But even though he may have a decent readership by the standards of French novelists who died in the middle of […]
TorrentFreak
• Ernesto Van der Sar
FlavaWorks can subpoena Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and three other companies to identify staff and members of the defunct BitTorrent site Gay-Torrents.org, an Illinois federal court ruled. Instead of starting from IP addresses, the subpoenas target the email accounts that are linked to their tracker profiles. How FlavaWorks obtained those email addresses remains unclear.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
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