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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
Wired

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations. more…

For Some Reason, Someone Who Generates AI Slop Books Has Unmasked Herself
Gizmodo.com

Someone who calls herself "Coral Hart" is telling the world all her tricks. more…

Streeting's Mandelson messages reveal election fears and criticism of government
BBC News

The health secretary says he is publishing the messages "after a weekend of smear and innuendo that I have something to hide". more…

The 10 best dog foods, with guidance from veterinarians
Business Insider

With guidance from veterinarians, we chose the best dog foods for puppies, adults, and seniors. Our top picks include wet and dry options. more…

How the use of AI and 'deepfakes' play a role in the search for Nancy Guthrie
NPR

As artificial intelligence becomes more advanced and commonplace, it can be difficult to know what's real and what's not, which has complicated the search for Nancy Guthrie, according to law enforcement. But just how difficult is it? more…

China critic and former media tycoon Jimmy Lai is sentenced to 20 years in a Hong Kong security case
NPR

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city's … more…

Map shows how almost 100 private jets departed the Bay Area within 2 hours of the Super Bowl ending
Business Insider

95 private jets departed Bay Area airports within two hours of the Super Bowl finishing, including ones owned by Kim Kardashian and Jay-Z. more…

Dell is rolling out a new sales pay structure. Some employees worry it'll slash their income.
Business Insider

Dell is removing all commission-based pay for sellers who achieve less than 60% of their sales targets, an internal presentation shows. more…

Magic: The Gathering Sets A New $1.7 Billion Record For Turning Cardboard Into Gold
Kotaku

Also: FromSoftware's next game won't be coming to PC more…

Unemployment claims in California increased last week
VC Star

Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in California last week compared with the week prior. more…

27 Rochester restaurants cited for critical health violations. See the list
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Here's a look at the results of restaurant inspections last month. How did your favorite Rochester place do? more…

Vero Beach, St Lucie face new, deadly pandemic. Boot nurse. | Letters
TCPalm

Florida, Vero Beach, St Lucie have 'unruly drivers' running red lights, texting, speeding. Nurse should be fired. Immigration, Donald Trump, more. more…

Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams
Github.com

Multi-agent coordination system powered by OpenClaw. Good for automating weekly SEO review, editing, and publishing workflows for agencies. - getclawe/clawe more…

State of Ruby 2026
Devnewsletter.com

Ruby 4.0 shipped ZJIT and Ruby::Box, Rails 8 ditched Redis for Solid Trifecta, and a RubyGems crisis forced Matz to act. more…

AI-First Company Memos
The-ai-native.company

Every major CEO AI-first memo and mandate, collected. Shopify, Box, Duolingo, Fiverr, Meta, Klarna, Alibaba, Notion, and more. more…

AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
Github.com

This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ... more…

65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
Tildeweb.nl

AI hype trains more…

Tenure Is a Total Scam
Betonit.ai

A tenured professor plays whistleblower more…

Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy
Aaronmate.net

"Noam’s overly trusting nature, in this specific case, led to severe poor judgment on both our parts... we express our unrestricted solidarity with the victims." more…

America's $1T AI Gamble
Apricitas.io

US AI-Related Investment Keeps Breaking Records, With Total Software, Computer, & Data Center Spending Now Exceeding $1T Per Year more…

Sandwich Bill of Materials
Nesbitt.io

SBOM 1.0: A specification for sandwich supply chain transparency. more…

The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
Campedersen.com

src={alwaysHasBeen.src} alt="Always has been astronaut meme" / "Wait, the singularity is just humans freaking out?" "Always has been." Everyone in <span style={ more…

‘Dear Algo’ lets you tweak your Threads feed for trending moments
9to5Mac

The AI-powered feature is rolling out today as beta, letting users in select countries directly steer their feeds (albeit temporarily). Here’s how it works. more… more…

Riot reportedly lay off around 80 devs on League Of Legends spin-off fighter 2XKO less than a month after launch
Rock Paper Shotgun

2XKO, Riot's League of Legends fighting spin-off, is having its development team significantly cut back not long after release. Game Developer report a Riot spokesperson as stating the publishers have put plans in motion to lay off around 80 developers on the… more…

The Sunday Papers
Rock Paper Shotgun

Sundays are for waking up and remembering you said you’d help your sister-in-law move house. A burning fear flares in your gut, not of the manual labour, but of how she said it was fine because she’d bought a flatbed trolley off a Chinese website for £40. The… more…

Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliance had to fit into the role of the only woman in a lab filled with men—it was the air she breathed
Scientific American

From Schenectady, N.Y., to the University of Cambridge, Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliance impressed the world’s leading physicists more…

Nothing Sets the Mood Like an Ice Cold Dirty Martini
Thekitchn.com

As the wise scholar Kate Hudson once said, “Can I have a filthy, dirty, little martini?” READ MORE... more…

This “Vintage” $18 Little Luxury Makes My Kitchen 100x Cozier Every Morning (It’s So Functional!)
Thekitchn.com

I'm obsessed! READ MORE... more…

Cloudflare on how Google abuses its search monopoly for AI, has access to "4.8" times more data than Microsoft — by holding publishers to ransom
Windows Central

Microsoft and OpenAI cannot hope to replicate Google's dual-purpose crawlers, owing to the search firm's total monopoly over web traffic. more…

Exploring sci-fi treats from George Saunders and Matthew Kressel
New Scientist

In George Saunders's Vigil, a ghost visits Earth to help a dying oil tycoon, while terraforming efforts on Mars are about to bear fruit in The Rainseekers by Matthew Kressel. Emily H. Wilson's sci-fi column explores two very different short novels more…

Should I Optimize My Content Differently For Each Platform? – Ask An SEO via @sejournal, @rollerblader
Search Engine Journal

This Ask an SEO explains how search, social platforms, and on-site content demand different optimization approaches without fragmenting strategy. The post Should I Optimize My Content Differently For Each Platform? – Ask An SEO appeared first on Search Engine… more…

Publishing less won’t save the research system
Nature.com

Letter to the Editor more…

How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science
Nature.com

Preprint repositories and conference organizers are having to counter a tide of ‘AI slop’ submissions. more…

What can I do if my idea has been plagiarized?
Nature.com

An early-career scientist’s idea, shared at a poster session, has been published by someone else. What happens now? more…

China’s biotech boom: why the nation must collaborate to stay ahead
Nature.com

Increased geopolitical tensions are prompting some in China to argue that the country should go it alone in biotechnology. That would be a backwards step — for China and the rest of the world. more…

Britney Spears Sells Rights to Her Music Catalog
Pitchfork

Primary Wave acquired some portion of her work for an undisclosed sum more…

A Healthy 41-Year-Old Entered ICE Detainment. Five Hours Later He was Dead, Cause Unknown
Jezebel

Jean Wilson Brutus was healthy when a nurse did his intake examination. Hours later he was dead, and even the ICE report doesn't explain why. more…

4 self-hosted services I run on the same mini PC as Home Assistant
XDA Developers

Home Assistant isn't the only smart home management utility in my FOSS toolkit more…

10 Sunday Morning Reads
Ritholtz.com

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • You’ve Never Seen Super Bowl Betting Like This Before: Prediction markets are turbocharging America’s obsession with sports gambling. (The Atlantic) • 10 Reasons This I… more…

From Article to Short-Form Video That Holds Attention via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Search Engine Journal

Effective article-to-video workflows prioritize what to cut, what to keep, and how to structure 150 words that actually hold attention. The post From Article to Short-Form Video That Holds Attention appeared first on Search Engine Journal. more…

A rare look inside Google’s most secretive Pixel Hardware Labs
Android Authority

We visited Google's largest hardware R&D center outside of the US, with 50 secretive engineering labs where everything Pixel is made! more…

npm’s Update to Harden Their Supply Chain, and Points to Consider
Internet

In December 2025, in response to the Sha1-Hulud incident, npm completed a major authentication overhaul intended to reduce supply-chain attacks. While the overhaul is a solid step forward, the changes don’t make npm projects immune from supply-chain attacks. … more…

Amazon May Launch Marketplace for Publishers to Sell Content to AI Firms
PetaPixel

Amazon is reportedly in discussions with publishers about launching a marketplace where media sites could sell and license their content directly to AI firms. [Read More] more…

‘Assistants’ Celebrates the Unsung Heroes of Fashion Photography
PetaPixel

Behind nearly every iconic studio fashion photo is a stylist assistant. These unsung heroes often go entirely unnoticed to the outside world, but they are essential to the photographic process and vital members of the team. A new photography book, Assistants,… more…

Copyright Kills Competition
Techdirt

Copyright owners increasingly claim more draconian copyright law and policy will fight back against big tech companies. In reality, copyright gives the most powerful companies even more control over creators and competitors. Today’s copyright policy concentra… more…

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Goes To Washington DC, Gets Section 230 Completely Backwards
Techdirt

You may have heard last week that actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt went to Washington DC and gave a short speech at an event put on by Senator Dick Durbin calling for the sunsetting of Section 230. It’s a short speech, and it gets almost everything wrong about Sect… more…

People still love Wikipedia. Can it survive AI?
Vox

If you grew up with computers in your classroom, there’s a good chance you heard this instruction before starting a research paper: Don’t trust Wikipedia. The reasoning? Anyone can go in and make changes to a Wikipedia page. This is mostly true, though pages … more…

Cross Canadian Ragweed Will Finally Get Their Do-Over at Red Rocks
Rolling Stone

After a 2005 appearance at the Colorado amphitheater became a sore spot for frontman Cody Canada — "It was kind of bullshit" — the Red Dirt group will headline this July more…

How Johnny Mullenax Turned a Tulsa Bluegrass Brunch into a Music Fan Must-Do
Rolling Stone

Johnny Mullenax turned his weekly bluegrass brunch set into a career: He'll play major festivals this year and opened for Turnpike Troubadours. more…

Lucky Man: Carl Palmer on Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Legacy and Keeping Prog Alive
Rolling Stone

The deaths of Greg Lake, Keith Emerson, and Asia's John Wetton still shake Palmer: "It's quite strange to lose them in one blast like that" more…

The Download: inside the QuitGPT movement, and EVs in Africa
MIT Technology Review

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions In September, Alfred Stephen, a freelance sof… more…

Split Fiction met la coopération à l’honneur et est en forte promo sur Switch 2, Xbox Series et PS5
Frandroid

Split Fiction est le dernier jeu en date du studio Hazelight, à qui on doit A Way Out et It Takes Two. Comme eux, c'est un jeu exclusivement en coopération que vous retrouvez à 31,13 euros sur Switch 2 et Xbox Series X sur E.Leclerc. Il passe à 36,98 euros su… more…

El auge de la IA y su huella de carbono en EE. UU.: cuánto pesa realmente y qué se puede hacer
Wwwhatsnew.com

La inteligencia artificial se ha colado en tareas tan distintas como filtrar currículos, optimizar rutas de reparto, detectar fraude o ajustar inventarios. Vista desde fuera, parece “magia”: un modelo responde, recomienda o predice en segundos. Por dentro, es… more…

I Tested Our New Trending Topics Feature and Got 54K Views Overnight
Buffer.com

See what's trending on Threads before you post. Buffer's Trending Topics helps you join conversations that already have momentum and reach new audiences. more…

Venezuela’s National Assembly chief rules out new presidential election
Al Jazeera English

Jorge Rodriguez, the interim president's brother, says the current government is focused on national stability. more…

What were Jeffrey Epstein’s links to Israel?
Al Jazeera English

New documents show some thought disgraced US financier had links to Israeli intelligence services and settler groups.BI more…

Sundance 2026 Final Recap: 10 Favorite Films - The Best from the Fest
First Showing

The 2026 Sundance Film Festival has wrapped up after another lively 10-day in-person event held up in the Utah mountains (its final year before moving to Colorado in 2027), along with an online counterpart for the second half. Now it's time to present our ann… more…

After cutting half of 2XKO's team less than 30 days from launch, I have to ask: how can any of us get behind a new Riot game ever again?
Eurogamer.net

Riot Games is "downsizing" a substantial number of developers from the team that has been working on 2XKO, the fighting game that only launched less than a month ago. Roughly 80 staff will be either transferred to other teams at Riot, or laid off with six mon… more…

Social media for banks: 9 tips to boost trust + engagement
Hootsuite.com

Managing a bank's social media means balancing compliance regulations with effective social media marketing. The post Social media for banks: 9 tips to boost trust + engagement appeared first on Social Media Marketing & Management Dashboard. more…

I Capture Daily Human Interactions In Their Most Natural Form (30 Pics)
Boredpanda.com

My name is Shawal Lee Kassim, a Melanau from Bintulu, Sarawak, and I currently help out at my family’s restaurant, KakJuneCafe, while pursuing street photography in my free time. For me, street photography is about capturing funny and spontaneous moments that… more…

Artsy darling Remedy Entertainment has a new CEO - a former EA exec and sports betting platform president - who is there to "accelerate growth"
Eurogamer.net

Remedy Entertainment, best known for narrative-rich single player games like Control and Alan Wake 2, has got itself a new CEO. His name is Jean-Charles Gaudechon, a former EA executive and senior vice president of fantasy sports betting platform Sleeper. Rea… more…

"It's going to be a very long goodbye" - Peter Molyneux's last game will be Masters of Albion, but that's not necessarily as simple as it sounds
Eurogamer.net

Peter Molyneux has had a divisive career. On the one hand, he's celebrated as the creator of the god game and for making classics like Populous, Dungeon Keeper, Black & White and Fable. Whereas on the other hand, he's been derided for overexaggerating promise… more…

Texas “Antifa Cell” Terror Trial Takes on Tough Questions About Guns at Protests Against ICE
The Intercept

After a cop got shot, Prairieland ICE protesters face terrorism charges. Will Alex Pretti’s killing sway the jury? The post Texas “Antifa Cell” Terror Trial Takes on Tough Questions About Guns at Protests Against ICE appeared first on The Intercept. more…

Independent Artist Group Signs Horror Author Johnny Compton
Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Horror author Johnny Compton has signed with Independent Artist Group for film and TV representation. Compton’s critically acclaimed debut novel, The Spite House, was named to several year-end “best of” lists, securing a nomination for best first n… more…

Scott Borchetta Leaving Hybe America, Sets Big Machine Records Relaunch
Deadline

Scott Borchetta is leaving Hybe America and is planning to relaunch Big Machine Records. Hybe acquired the Big Machine Label Group in 2021 as part of its acquisition of Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings. Borchetta has served as CEO of Big Machine Label Group si… more…

Musique : « Toxic »… Britney Spears ne serait plus propriétaire des droits de ses tubes
20 Minutes

Des médias aux Etats-Unis affirment que la chanteuse Britney Spears a vendu ses droits musicaux pour environ 200 millions de dollars more…

If They’re Slowly Draining Your Confidence, You Might Be Dating A Narcissist
Thoughtcatalog.com

Here are some of the most common micro-betrayals narcissistic partners can subject their victims to. more…

Michael Douglas Memoir Coming Out In October From Grand Central Publishing
Deadline

Grand Central Publishing said Wednesday that it has acquired worldwide rights to an upcoming memoir by Michael Douglas, with the book scheduled to be published October 6. Deadline Editor-at-Large Mike Fleming Jr collaborated with the two-time Oscar-winning ac… more…

HarperCollins Productions, Viva Pictures & Cantilever Media Ink Three-Picture Animation Co-Production Deal; Ken Lamug Graphic Novel Adaptation ‘Mischief And Mayhem’ First Up For Development
Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: HarperCollins Productions is teaming with the L.A.-based Viva Pictures Distribution and the UK-based Cantilever Media to develop and produce three animated features under a co-production deal. Under the agreement, the companies will focus on adapti… more…

Remedy sceglie un CEO ex EA per rilanciare lo studio
Tomshw.it

Il mondo del gaming assiste a una svolta significativa in casa Remedy Entertainment, lo studio finlandese celebre per capolavori narrativi come Control e Alan Wake 2. La software house ha appena nomin... more…

Amazing Fantasy Landscapes And Book Cover Art By Concept Artist Raja Nandepu
Designyoutrust.com

Raja Nandepu is a freelance concept artist and illustrator based in Hyderabad, India (BFA Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University), currently working with Wizards of the Coast on Magic: The Gathering Universe Beyond card illustrations. He creat… more…

How to change the reminder time zone on iPhone and Mac
Idownloadblog.com

Find out how to set task alerts on a date and time in a different time zone in the iOS 26 Reminders app on your iPhone or iPad. more…

Massie Gets DOJ to Unredact Name of Potential Epstein Co-Conspirator
The New Republic

Representative Thomas Massie got the Justice Department to unredact billionaire and former Victoria Secret CEO Les Wexner’s name in the Epstein files, all while exposing the DOJ’s complicity—or incompetence—in the process. Massie was one of a few members of C… more…

Bengal SIR phase 2: 5 lakh voters don’t turn up for hearings, face deletion
The Indian Express

CEO proposes to EC to extend the hearing deadline till Feb 14; asks DEOs submit data on pending hearings more…

Why the Indian IT sector must course-correct amidst ‘SaaSpocalypse’ fears
The Indian Express

The question then is where does the IT services sector – a key driver of India’s economic growth in the last two decades – go from here, and what would the sector be able to bring to the table in an increasingly automated world? more…

Try This High-Protein Version Of Butternut Squash Souap With Kale & White Beans
mindbodygreen.com

Roasting the squash brings out its sweetness, while white beans add a creamy touch. more…

MAGA Snaps at CBS for Publishing Story About How Horrible ICE Is
The New Republic

Republicans are turning on CBS News chief Bari Weiss for daring to allow her broadcasting network to report on the reality of ICE arrests, as documented by the Department of Homeland Security.CBS revealed Monday that less than 14 percent of some 400,000 peopl… more…

你的文章值多少錢?科技巨頭競相打造 AI 內容市集,出版業迎來新賽局
Inside.com.tw

事實上,Amazon 在內容授權領域早有布局。 more…

Op-ed: Weakening Section 230 Would Chill Online Speech
EFF

(This appeared as an op-ed published Friday, Feb. 6 in the Daily Journal, a California legal newspaper.) Section 230, “the 26 words that created the internet,” was enacted 30 years ago this week. It was no rush-job—rather, it was the result of wise legislat… more…

Digiday+ Research: Dow Jones, Business Insider and other publishers on AI-driven search
Digiday

This report explores how publishers are navigating search as AI reshapes how people access information and how publishers monetize content. more…

Media Briefing: Turning scraped content into paid assets — Amazon and Microsoft build AI marketplaces
Digiday

Amazon plans an AI content marketplace to join Microsoft's efforts and pay publishers, but it relies on AI companies to stop free scraping. more…

Ad Tech Briefing: Publishers are turning to AI-powered mathmen, but can it trump political machinations?
Digiday

AI is giving publishers new tools to counter Big Tech's sway over advertisers, but there is a ghost at the feast making it a three-way fight. more…

Journalism May Be Too Slow To Remain Credible Once Events Are Filtered Through Social Media
Nakedcapitalism.com

Some hand-wringing, as well as blame shifting, as to why social media and independent sites are eating the lunches of mainstream media. more…

America’s Real Health Crisis? Inequality— and a Generation Pays
Nakedcapitalism.com

Raw milk won’t cut it. Even being rich won’t save you. The fast track to improving health in America is tackling inequality. more…

Crystalline nitrogen chain radical anions
Nature.com

The isolation of catenated nitrogen compounds is difficult, in part because these chains can readily lose nitrogen, creating a strong thermodynamic push towards decomposition. Now, a series of molecules containing radical anions of four-atom nitrogen chains h… more…

Asymmetric synthesis of enantioenriched lactams from cyclic ketones via Beckmann rearrangement
Nature.com

Stereoselective access to lactams from ketones via asymmetric nitrogen insertion is challenging due to demanding reaction conditions typically required. Now an adaptive strategy using ketones and O-(sulfonyl)hydroxylamine reagents has been developed, enabling… more…

10 Photography Laws That Sound Made Up (But Are Very Real)
Fstoppers

From copyrighted light bulbs to illegal selfies, here are the strangest regulations governing your shutter button. Most photographers operate under a simple assumption: if your eyes can see it, your camera can capture it. Point, shoot, done. Nobody can tell y… more…

China convirtió el borde de un “vacío biológico” en un cinturón verde. Uno de los mayores desiertos del planeta empieza a absorber más CO₂ del que emite
Gizmodo.com

El Taklamakan, uno de los desiertos más secos del planeta, ha sido durante décadas un símbolo de degradación ambiental. Un nuevo estudio muestra que la reforestación masiva en su periferia ya está alterando su balance de carbono. La frontera del desierto func… more…

The Emotional Implications of the AI Risk Report 2026
Psychology Today

Our need for connection makes us vulnerable to forming bonds with machines, because AI can simulate empathy while completely lacking care. We are putting ourselves at risk. more…

Simplifying Research Data Sharing with R
R-bloggers.com

Working with Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) researchers across multiple resource-limited countries, we observed that valuable datasets often remain underutilized. This is frequently due to limited familiarity with FAIR (Findable, Accessib... Contin… more…

PUBG Publisher Krafton Finally Reveals Project Windless, an Ambitious Open-World Action RPG From Ubisoft's Former Far Cry Director | Sony State of Play
IGN

We've just had a full reveal for Project Windless, a single-player action RPG long in development at the Montreal studio set up by PUBG publisher Krafton. more…

Logitech Pro X2 Superstrike Review: A Must-Have Mouse for Competitive Players
IGN

Logitech's X2 Superstrike mouse was developed for pro players - but do its haptic inductive clicks work well for casual gamers too? IGN investigates Logitech's latest ultra-light. more…

There's a simple way to watch the Winter Olympics 2026 for free
TechRadar

Here's our guide on a super simple way to stream every moment of the Winter Olympics for free from anywhere in the world. more…

How to watch Super Bowl 2026 from anywhere in the world for free with this VPN deal
TechRadar

Here's how to watch the Super Bowl 2026 for free from anywhere in the world with this mega VPN deal. more…

Super Bowl LX 2026 — stream it *FREE* in the US
TechRadar

Here's a quick guide on how to watch NBC's live coverage of Super Bowl LX for free in the US. more…

There's a simple way to watch Bad Bunny for free
TechRadar

There's a simple way to watch Bad Bunny for free – live stream Halftime Show at the Super Bowl 2026 including special guests. more…

How to watch Puppy Bowl 2026 online and stream from anywhere — date, TV channels, Super Bowl for dogs
TechRadar

Adorable pups face off as Team Ruff battles Team Fluff. Here's how to watch Puppy Bowl 2026 online from anywhere. more…

There's a sneaky way to watch the Super Bowl 2026 for free
TechRadar

All the ways to watch Super Bowl 2026 live streams for FREE from anywhere, as the New England Patriots take on the Seattle Seahawks. more…

Surfshark partners with Internews to protect journalists and activists with free VPN access
TechRadar

Surfshark has helped 100 media outlets and civil society groups in nine high-risk countries to access a free and secure internet. Here's why it matters. more…