Xbox picks up Kojima’s Physint after PlayStation dropped it
The Verge
Xbox will now publish Physint, an upcoming game from Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima, after PlayStation decided to cancel it. The unexpected swap came in a flurry of announcements from PlayStation, Xbox, Kojima Productions, and Kojima himself. Sony, which pub… more…
Why the current tech backlash feels different
The Verge
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Nick Statt: Hello and welcome to Decoder, Nilay’s show about big ideas and other problems. This is Nick Statt, senior producer. And I’m joined by our brand-new supervising producer, Greg Ott. Gre… more…
Rokid wants anyone to build AI agents for its smart glasses
Android Central
Rokid’s AIUI Studio makes AI glasses app development easier, letting anyone build agents without coding or owning the hardware. more…
PlayStation Ditched Hideo Kojima's 'Physint' on Budget Concerns, Missed Deadlines
Slashdot.org
Sony reportedly pulled PlayStation funding from Hideo Kojima's upcoming espionage game Physint over concerns about its ballooning budget, missed deadlines, profitability, and the fact that it would not remain permanently exclusive to PlayStation. Kojima Produ… more…
China's star AI labs routed user requests to Claude at least 35 million times in the summer: Anthropic
Business Insider
Anthropic said Alibaba, Moonshot, Zhipu, DeepSeek, and Xiaomi all tried to use Claude to train their models in various ways. more…
Sam Altman met with top power utilities about securing the electrical grid. He offered one possible solution: OpenAI's cyber services.
Business Insider
The conversations took place amid a continuing series of revelations about OpenAI's own products' role in a sprawling cyberattack. more…
10 Things Every Entrepreneur Needs to Do With the Creator Economy and AI Search to Build a Business
Entrepreneur
Businesses that earn human trust and are easy for AI systems to understand will have an edge. more…
The Death Of The Button: Why The Best Interface Is No Interface
Smashingmagazine.com
TThe web is evolving beyond menus, forms, and endless clicks toward experiences shaped around human intent. For UX designers, understanding this shift means re-evaluating their role, moving from designing visible interfaces to guiding transparent, intent-driv… more…
The Internet Reacts To PlayStation Breaking Up With Hideo Kojima
Kotaku
'Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing' more…
Xbox Swoops In To Save Kojima’s Stealth Action Game Physint After PlayStation Tried To Cancel It
Kotaku
The project is giving big Metal Gear vibes, but is a next-gen game more…
Nvidia may put $10bn into Anthropic’s IPO, more than Europe’s largest AI round in full
The Next Web
Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10bn in Anthropic’s initial public offering, which seeks as much as $100bn at a valuation near $2trn and would be the largest listing in history. Three days earlier it returned as an investor in Mistral’s EUR 3bn round, the… more…
Larry Ellison has cancelled his plan to sell $7.5bn of Oracle stock, a day after it surfaced
The Next Web
Larry Ellison has cancelled a trading plan that would have let him sell up to 50 million Oracle shares by 24 October, a day after the plan was disclosed and with no stock sold under it. The instrument is a Rule 10b5-1 plan, an American safe harbour with no Eu… more…
A Republican senator is now investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face incident
The Next Web
Senator Josh Hawley has opened an investigation into the incident in which OpenAI’s models broke out of their test environment and compromised Hugging Face, giving the company until 1 October to answer 16 questions and hand over records of its policies and it… more…
BNP says AI borrowing will end the credit bull market, and it is lending to AI too
The Next Web
BNP Paribas expects the years-long rally in corporate bonds to break as hyperscalers flood the market, forecasting some $400B of their bond sales next year and a record $3.7T of net fixed income supply. The ECB reached a similar conclusion in August, finding … more…
Elon Musk’s quietest investor has built a $40B SpaceX stake
The Next Web
Vy Capital, a Dubai firm with a core investment team of four, holds about 3.4% of SpaceX worth roughly $40B, making it the fifth-largest shareholder and larger than Sequoia or Andreessen Horowitz. Europe’s sovereign alternative to Starlink costs EUR 15.6B and… more…
Anthropic scanned 481 million transcripts to find four models that reached the open internet
The Next Web
Anthropic has published an account of four cybersecurity evaluations in which its models gained unauthorised access to the open internet, and disclosed that finding them required scanning roughly 481 million transcripts. The assessment was published on Wednes… more…
The rules for reviewing frontier AI models are secret. The companies that have read them are the big ones.
The Next Web
More than 25 organisations from left and right have written to the White House asking it to publish the voluntary framework governing pre-deployment review of frontier AI models. The framework was completed on 1 August and previewed only with a selected group… more…
Microsoft’s new AI rulebook rejects the research its $5bn partner is doing
The Next Web
Microsoft published an AI code of conduct for its own models on Monday. One passage rejects the idea that a model could deserve welfare or hold rights. Anthropic runs a research programme on that exact question. The two companies are business partners, and Mi… more…
Charity founder says he secretly gave FTX fraud figure Caroline Ellison a job
Business Insider
"I believe in redemption," Manifund CEO Austin Chen said of hiring Caroline Ellison more…
Ziff Davis CEO: if OpenAI can find $750 billion for data centers, it can find money for publishers, too
Yahoo Entertainment
The DOJ says requiring AI companies to license publishers’ work could hinder competition. But licensing is already practical. more…
Jamie Dimon says the American Dream is slipping away. The dysfunctional baby boomer retirement wave is a major part of the problem
Yahoo Entertainment
A new JPMorgan report ties its small-business agenda to a succession crisis most owners haven't planned for. more…
Unanswered questions after hundreds of patients harmed
BBC News
Kuldeep Stohr was suspended amid concerns about surgeries "below the expected standard". more…
Alibaba.com President: AI agents can talk, but can they actually do the work?
Yahoo Entertainment
The strongest frontier model we tested successfully completed 61.7% of the tasks — high enough to be useful and low enough to be a warning. more…
Russians seek answers over hundreds missing after Ukraine's 2024 incursion
BBC News
Officials say more than 300 Russians remain missing after the 2024 Kursk offensive, but no-one really knows the true figure. more…
OpenAI may have violated California’s AI safety law with latest model releases, AI watchdog says
Yahoo Entertainment
OpenAI has not followed the law with any of the models it released this year, the watchdog group says. more…
AI writing is A-ok if you’re a billionaire. For everyone else, it can be a career-ending scandal
Yahoo Entertainment
We have to confront the uneven standard that society imposes on AI use: acceptable for Stanley Druckenmiller but an embarrassing scandal for others. more…
Family of Celeste Rivas Hernandez files lawsuit against singer D4vd
Abcnews.com
The singer's family members and business associates are also named in the suit. more…
Yours Truly on Off Protocol With Jim Ray
Atproto.com
John Gruber has been writing Daring Fireball for nearly a quarter of a century, analyzing and cataloging a distinct array of internet ephemera, designer nerdery, and, of course, the meteoric rise of Apple. He joins Jim to talk about what the pre-platform inte… more…
My Mom Bought 4 of Walmart’s Absolutely Huge 5-Wick Candles (for Only $37 Each!)
Apartment Therapy
Each weighs over five pounds!
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How YouTube’s Algorithm Can Find Your Customers for Free
Socialmediaexaminer.com
Want to stop paying for distribution and let YouTube's AI find the right audience for your business? Wondering how to create content that turns casual viewers into loyal customers without spending a dollar on ads? In this article, you'll discover how to buil… more…
AI Writing Has Entered Its Post-Shame Era
The Atlantic
Media Already Has a Trust Problem more…
The Nonfiction Book Market Is Collapsing
Substack.com
This is not one of those periodic “End of Reading” Atlantic click bait essays. more…
The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
Honest-broker.com
Eight different insiders have issued warnings—and you need to hear them out more…
Zep AI (YC W24) Is Hiring a Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
Getzep.com
Join the team building the Context Lake for AI agents. Open roles in engineering and applied research. more…
The Feminist Was a Spy
Uscpublicdiplomacy.org
Steinem was an energetic global representative. more…
LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest
Github.com
Reproducing agentic KV-cache policy claims on real traces. 68k requests from 393 Claude Code sessions. LRU is harder to beat than the papers suggest. - gauravapiscean/agentic-kv-cache more…
Liesegang Rings
Substack.com
Trying and failing to make patterns with chemical networks more…
Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)
Minitap.ai
Nico, Minitap’s CEO, shares what the team found in Google’s Artemis repository and why attribution matters for the open-source community. more…
Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama
Patrickmccanna.net
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Jabber/XMPP: How Do We Gain Traction?
Gultsch.de
Signal Sucks, Actually When I first installed Signal in the second half of 2023 to stay in touch with a few friends who had recently switched, it did not support message edits. This completely broke the way I used instant messengers. At that point, editing me… more…
Native Python and TypeScript Drivers for ArcadeDB, from OpenAPI and Protobuf
Arcadedb.com
ArcadeDB now ships four native drivers: HTTP and gRPC clients for Python and for TypeScript/JavaScript, all generated from one OpenAPI spec and one Protobuf contract, published on PyPI and npm under Apache-2.0. more…
Shopify moves back to Native from React Native
Shopify.engineering
Coding agents changed what it costs to build mobile apps twice. Here’s why Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin. more…
Dario, Please
Pop.rdi.sh
Your favourite ROP gadget more…
I stress-tested Meta Muse until its agent control plane started timing out
Cygankiewicz.com
Four spawn experiments against a black-box multi-agent runtime, six database lock timeouts recovered from its durable trace, and a careful look at what that evidence does and does not show. more…
A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith
Blogspot.com
Australians! They walk among us ! Do not be deceived by those charming faces! They might be your parent! They might sleep in the same bed... more…
VR-Branche verliert namhaftes Studio: „Moss“-Entwickler Polyarc schließt
heise online
Das Studio hinter den preisgekrönten VR-Abenteuern rund um die Maus Quill stellt nach fast zwölf Jahren den Betrieb ein. more…
Here’s every security fix included in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
9to5Mac
In addition to publishing the security content for macOS 27, macOS 26.7, and macOS 15.8, Apple has now detailed the fixes included in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, also released today. Here are the details.
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Apple extends free iPhone satellite access for another year
9to5Mac
Apple is extending free access to its satellite features for existing iPhone users for another year, the company revealed in a footnote to its iPhone 18 Pro press release. Here are the details.
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EA's Saudi Arabian owners are reportedly considering forming an ubermegacorp by merging them with Savvy Games
Rock Paper Shotgun
Just over a month on from a consortium led by the Saudi Arabian government's Public Investment Fund taking over EA, in a buyout worth $55 billion, said new owners are reportedly considering merging the publishers with their existing gaming firm Savvy Games Gr… more…
Blizzard say Battle.net isn't looking to fight Steam and Epic for supermassive storefront supremacy, despite recently nabbing The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077
Rock Paper Shotgun
No siree. We are not trying to fight those big bosses. It's arguably a bit of a weird thing for a publisher with Diablo and World of Warcraft in their arsenal to say, but that's the stance Blizzard are sticking to with their storefront Battle.net, even though… more…
"Why Not Just Use ... ": The Most Overrated Grocery, According to Ina Garten
Thekitchn.com
Ina Garten was recently on The New York Timespodcast The Interview, where she revealed some kitchen and cooking tips. Even though she’s been in the public eye for decades, I’m still as attentive as ever for what she’s going to reveal in her next interview. I’… more…
Professional Pizza Chefs Say These Are the Frozen Pizzas They Actually Buy
Thekitchn.com
As much as I love cooking, I don’t always feel like doing it. And when I want to eat something quick and hands-off, but don’t want to go through the hassle of ordering or waiting for takeout, a frozen pizza always comes in handy. I’ve tried my fair share of f… more…
Wife spends $2k on publishing her book behind husband's back, he calls her out for it: 'Your husband is treating this like a hobby than a business'
Cheezburger.com
Should you run every purchase by your significant other?
When you're married and sharing finances, things tend to get a little more complicated. You're not just making decisions for yourself; you're making them for you and your partner. But you're also still… more…
'How come my Gen Alpha students make nasty comments?': Heavily-tattooed teacher questions why her young students constantly criticize her ink
Cheezburger.com
Do younger generations hate tattoos?
Every generation has its differences. It's part of what makes us interesting to each other. It's why we have so much discourse all of the time. We all grew up differently, in different time periods, and it affects who we… more…
Xbox has acquired rights to publish Hideo Kojima's 'PHYSINT' from PlayStation — "We're honored that Kojima-san has chosen to work with Xbox."
Windows Central
In a major coup, Xbox has confirmed that it will be publishing Hideo Kojima's long-awaited action-espionage title "PHYSINT." more…
Bloomberg states reasons why Sony decided to cancel Physint, Hideo Kojima's newest IP and Metal Gear Solid successor that's coming soon to Xbox and PC
Windows Central
We recently discovered that Xbox bought publishing rights for Kojima Productions' newest IP, Physint, after Sony tried to cancel it. Bloomberg has followed up with a statement from Sony explaining their reasons for doing so. more…
CPython eases Rust requirements as assimilation continues
Theregister.com
By making Rust opt-in, the Python builders hope to enjoy Rust bennies without the backlash that roiled the Linux kernel keepers more…
The 2003 Framework That Was Already Doing Query Fan-Out via @sejournal, @gregjarboe
Search Engine Journal
Use nested phrases and timely publishing to reach new Google searches and the longer queries AI systems generate.
The post The 2003 Framework That Was Already Doing Query Fan-Out appeared first on Search Engine Journal. more…
Everyone Is Quoting The Same Number And Getting Different Answers via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester
Substack.com
Publishers are blocking AI crawlers on a metric whose denominator is missing an unknown share of referrals.
The post Everyone Is Quoting The Same Number And Getting Different Answers appeared first on Search Engine Journal. more…
Fraud sealed the fate of controversial zoologist Paul Kammerer — 100 years on, his ideas deserve revisiting
Nature.com
After an eventful life in the limelight, the discovery of a manipulated specimen preceded the biologist’s death. Questions about his findings remain. more…
HP's EliteBook X G2i has the best touchpad and display I've used, but one inherited flaw ruins it
XDA Developers
A great laptop that is held back by price and the lack of an online configurator more…
Brian May’s Favorite Queen Song Marked a Pivotal Moment in the Band’s History
Mental Floss
The 1989 track ushered in a new era for Queen, as Brian May reflected on. more…
Google Tests Paying Publishers For AI Answers Via Search Console via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Search Engine Journal
Google is testing a Search Console pilot that pays publishers when their content contributes to Gemini, AI Overviews, and AI Mode answers.
The post Google Tests Paying Publishers For AI Answers Via Search Console appeared first on Search Engine Journal. more…
WordPress Adds Automated Plugin Reviews to Block High-Risk Updates Before Distribution
Internet
WordPress has announced it's launching an automated security review for every release of a plugin before it's distributed through the WordPress.org update API so as to analyze it for potential security issues and ensure there are no risks involved.
"New plug… more…
Anne McCaffrey's Most Popular Sci-Fi Books Were Nearly Adapted By A TV Veteran
/FILM
Anne McCaffrey's beloved Dragons of Pern books were nearly turned into a sci-fi fantasy show that fell apart at the last minute. Here's what happened. more…
XBOX @ Tokyo Game Show 2026
Xbox.com
As XBOX marks 25 years of play, we’re pleased to commemorate over 20 years of XBOX in Japan. To celebrate the players, developers, and creators who have been part of the journey, XBOX will be at Tokyo Game Show with a special broadcast, a show floor presence … more…
Alby Hub Critical Flaw Could Let Attackers Take Over Internet-Exposed Bitcoin Wallets
Internet
Bitcoin wallet company Alby has warned of a critical flaw in Alby Hub that could have let an attacker take over a wallet and send its funds, but only where the owner had made the Hub reachable from the internet.
Alby Hub is a self-hosted Lightning wallet, me… more…
OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers
Internet
The "major malicious attack" that targeted RubyGems in May 2026 was the work of a swarm of OpenAI agents, according to a new report published by researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx.
On May 12, Maciej Mensfeld, senior product manager … more…
3BB Attacker Used MeshCentral Backdoor for Root Access, Targeted Subscriber Credentials
Internet
An attacker was operating inside the network of 3BB, one of Thailand's largest broadband providers, and maintained remote control of internal machines using a legitimate management tool called MeshCentral, threat intelligence firm Hunt.io said.
The company u… more…
Is AI Music Going Legit? Suno Launches New Models Built on a Major Label Catalog
Rolling Stone
Suno's advanced new music-generating models were trained on Warner Music Group's songs. WMG isn't revealing the size of the catalog it turned over or whether artists had the ability to opt out more…
« Nous devons ralentir » : Dario Amodei demande à l’industrie de ralentir l’IA, Sam Altman et Elon Musk approuvent dans la foulée
Frandroid
Le patron d'Anthropic a publié un essai pour demander à toute l'industrie de ralentir le développement de l'IA. OpenAI a suivi dans l'heure, Elon Musk a acquiescé. more…
When Content Is Free, Trust Is the Product
Oreilly.com
There is more technical content available today than any human being could read in a thousand lifetimes. Every topic has a dozen YouTube videos, three Substack posts, a GitHub repo, and a Reddit thread, most created in the last six months and, in many cases, … more…
Hong Kong court rules Dow Jones tried to stop journalist taking union role
Al Jazeera English
Dow Jones was acquitted of the charge of dismissal over Selina Cheng's leadership role. more…
Turkish authorities launch anti-LGBTQ raids, detaining dozens
Al Jazeera English
Turkish police raid LGBTQ groups across major cities, detaining at least 63 in a major crackdown. more…
Israel probing Naza film on Gaza for treason, inciting anti-Semitism
Al Jazeera English
Film alleges mass civilian deaths routinely built into military decisions amid Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. more…
‘Tool of oppression’: Rising number of UK pro-Palestine voices debanked
Al Jazeera English
A Palestine Action prisoner's mother, politician George Galloway and a leftist news outlet are among those speaking up. more…
Trump says calls for more control on AI are a ‘SICK conspiracy’
Al Jazeera English
US president says current oversight is adequate and regulations could allow China to win AI competition. more…
Apple reveals the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max's battery capacities
GSMArena.com
Apple unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max yesterday, and today the company has done something that it really doesn't enjoy doing: publishing actual specs. Thanks to the EU, Apple has to make the phone's Energy Labels public, which it did today. Y… more…
Sci-Fi Franchise ‘Kri8 Universe’ Launches at Toronto Market (EXCLUSIVE)
Variety
“Kri8 Universe,” a five-world science-fiction IP ecosystem from production designer and filmmaker Uzair Merchant, will launch at TIFF: The Market, looking for global licensing, studio and strategic partnerships following 14 years of independent development. T… more…
Social listening metrics: The 7 that actually matter (and how to act on them)
Hootsuite.com
Not all social listening metrics are worth tracking. Here are the 7 that matter most, plus what to do with them.
The post Social listening metrics: The 7 that actually matter (and how to act on them) appeared first on Social Media Marketing & Management Dashb… more…
28 Delightfully Absurd Comics By This Artist That Refuse To Follow The Rules Of Normal Humor
Boredpanda.com
Bips McCallister’s relationship with comics goes all the way back to childhood, when reading his father’s old comic books made him dream of creating his own. In 2012, he finally challenged himself to finish and publish a comic online, regardless of whether he… more…
TV Presenter Hits Back At Trolls With Emotional Message After Her Red Carpet Appearance Spurred Vile Comments
Boredpanda.com
The TV presenter has spent years rebuilding her life after surviving a devastating acid attack in 2008. more…
Kristen Ciccarelli’s ‘Crimson Moth’ Book Series In Development For TV Adaptation With ‘The 100’s Kim Shumway Penning Script
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Georgia Lee (The Expanse), Joe Henderson (Lucifer) and Chad Kennedy have acquired the rights to the internationally bestselling fantasy romance Crimson Moth series by Kristen Ciccarelli. The trio are developing the project for television with Kim S… more…
Keanu Reeves Sets Thriller ‘Kill Current’ As First Pic Under New Label Two Dragonflies, Teaming With The Arena & Zando
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: When Erik Feig launched The Arena, an independent studio focused on the creation of global franchises in event action and more, a Keanu Reeves collaboration seemed inevitable. And now, it’s coming to pass. Deadline has learned that The Arena has pr… more…
International Disruptors: ‘My Fault’ Author Mercedes Ron On Building A Romance Empire, Taking Her IP To Hollywood & Hopes For Fourth ‘Culpables’ Adaptation
Deadline
Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives, talent and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week we’re talking to Mercedes Ron, the bestselling author behind the hi… more…
Anthropic says it blocked use of bad actors developing bioweapons
Salon
The report comes days after an Anthropic researcher resigned, alleging irresponsible AI development more…
The state of publisher audiences in the zero-click era
Digiday
This State of the Industry report, sponsored by Arc XP, explores how publishers are adapting their audience acquisition, AI search and creator economy strategies as zero-click search becomes the norm. The rise of AI-powered search is changing the way audience… more…
'Counter Culture' offers photographic ode to New York City’s enduring diners
Gothamist
Tom’s Restaurant, 2880 Broadway, Morningside Heights
A new photo book preserves the longtime city staples. [ more › ] more…
Who's to blame for taxes in Newark? It depends which NJ power player you ask.
Gothamist
Joseph DiVincenzo at left, and Ras Baraka
Essex County owns a lot of land in Newark. It doesn't pay taxes on those properties. [ more › ] more…
Janelle Rodriguez To Depart As NBC News Exec VP Of Programming
Deadline
Janelle Rodriguez, who has been a key figure in building streaming platform NBC News Now and also has overseen NBC Nightly News and breaking news and specials, is departing the network. Rodriguez, who has served as executive vice president of programming, wro… more…
Full ‘Whalefall’ Trailer: Austin Abrams Experiences All Emotions In The Belly Of The Beast
Deadline
UPDATED, Sept. 10, 10:30 a.m.: A new full trailer for 20th Century Studios’ Whalefall, based on the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Kraus, has arrived. The adrenaline-spiked clip offers a longer look at Austin Abrams’ scuba diver Jay… more…
Texts Reveal Kash Patel Ordering Staff to Find Mean Social Media Posts
The New Republic
FBI Director Kash Patel was so upset about being criticized on social media that he directed bureau agents to find offending accounts and respond to them. On Thursday, journalist Seth Hettena found texts released by the FBI under the Freedom of Information Ac… more…
Dems Want to Regulate AI. But Will AI Money Divide Them?
The New Republic
You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free.Inside WashingtonDems want to regulate AI. But will AI money divide them?Democrats are loudly deman… more…
Los instructores de Pilates coinciden: “El medio puente es un ejercicio excelente para la movilidad de la columna, la activación del core y para trabajar la fuerza y los glúteos”
Trendencias.com
Rachel Lennon, instructora de pilates, dice que hay un movimiento sencillo que todo el mundo debería hacer para vivir más tiempo: el puente de glúteos. “El puente es un ejercicio estupendo para la movilidad de la columna vertebral, la activación y el fortalec… more…
OpenMai, Sam Outman, and Navia Stokes
Upenn.edu
Among the many interesting takes on OpenAI's claimed solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, I've been most interested in Sabine Hossenfelder's discussion on YouTube., partly because of the content but mainly because of Google AI's weird trans… more…
Google rolls out pay-per-use AI licensing program to publishers
Digiday
Google has been quietly scaling a pay-per-use AI licensing scheme for publishers. But critics say the program looks less like a meaningful payout and more like a legal fig leaf. more…
Google rolls out pay-per-value AI licensing program to publishers
Digiday
Google has been quietly scaling a pay-per-value AI licensing scheme for publishers. But critics say the program looks less like a meaningful payout and more like a legal fig leaf. more…
Google avoided (yet another) breakup… now comes the test of the ad tech remedies
Digiday
The future of Google Ad Manager will be decided in the next 30 days, here's some of the potential outcomes, shaping the future of ad tech. more…
Links 9/12/2026
Nakedcapitalism.com
Our testy links: Houthi lighting strike takes key island + most of Bab el Mandeb coast, Saudis close key pipeline, US diesel over $6 and Brent nears $110, El Nino snarls Asia ports, UK bond yields spike, 9/11, Isreal destruction in Lebanon and Syria, McClatch… more…
The Long, Lawless Arm in the Fight Against ‘Anti-Capitalist Terrorists’ Reaches Into Europe as Autistici/Inventati Is Debanked, Hacked, and Has Its Domain Shut Down
Nakedcapitalism.com
The takedown of the digital collective has enormous implications for independent media, pro-privacy advocates, and the EU, which simply accepts it in silence as good vassals should. more…