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Writer and filmmaker Sal and photographer Mark have a five year plan to sail their Swan 47 MATILDA from Palma, Spain back to Sydney Australia...
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David and Larry Ellison Sued by Paramount Investor Over Alleged Trump Side Deal
The lawsuit claims that the Ellisons illegally promised to overhaul CNN as the administration looks to reshape media.
The complaint follows a coalition of state attorneys general,
the Writers Guild of America
and Paramount subscribers filing lawsuits against the studio.
A fourth lawsuit has been filed looking to block Paramount‘s bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery
-- this t…

David and Larry Ellison Sued by Paramount Investor Over Alleged Trump Side Deal
The lawsuit claims that the Ellisons illegally promised to overhaul CNN as the administration looks to reshape media. The complaint follows a coalition of state attorneys general, the Writers Guild of America and Paramount+ subscribers filing lawsuits against the studio.

Fox revamps sports site OutKick following Clay Travis' departure, hiring Matt Calkins, who quit The Seattle Times after it spiked his column on trans athletes (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0…

Outkick Moves Past Its Clay Travis Era
Fox is revamping the sports site following the exit of its founder, Clay Travis. It’s hiring a writer who resigned from The Seattle Times over a column about transgender athletes.

Forests in Liberia are falling to cocoa, in half a year the EU could ban imports https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2026/07/forests-in-liberia-are-falling-to-cocoa-in-half-a-year-the-eu-could-ban-imports/

Forests in Liberia are falling to cocoa, in half a year the EU could ban imports
On this week’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we speak with features writer Ashoka Mukpo, who traveled to southeastern Liberia to investigate what satellite images indicated was a spike in deforestation over a relatively concentrated period. Along with video production coordinator Juan Maza, Mukpo documented illegal cacao plantations in the rainforests in the county of […]

ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall "feeling", amid its legal battles with book authors (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/cha

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.

Paramount investors sue David and Larry Ellison, claiming the two struck an illegal deal with Trump for approval of the WBD merger by promising to overhaul CNN (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

David and Larry Ellison Sued by Paramount Investors Over Alleged Trump Side Deal
The lawsuit claims that the Ellisons illegally promised to overhaul CNN as the administration looks to reshape media. The complaint follows a coalition of state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America filing lawsuits against the studio.

Jack Williamson’s 1947 novelette
"With Folded Hands" tells of a new type of robot following a Prime Directive:
“to serve and obey and guard men from harm”.
Since the robots work for free, soon no one has a job.
It gets worse. The robots take the “guard men from harm” directive too literally.
They ensure a person can’t do anything remotely dangerous.
Before long, humans can do nothing except sit… with folded hands.
We should not fear this sc…

These are all the times sci-fi writers predicted the future
Sci-fi writers have often pre-empted technological developments but we don't always heed their warnings in real time.

ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall "feeling", amid its legal battles with book authors (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/cha

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.

A hillside villa that served as a cultural hub for German writers and artists fleeing the Nazis
and narrowly escaped destruction in last year’s Los Angeles wildfires
reopened its doors to the public this weekend,
marking the latest milestone in the city’s slow recovery from one of the darkest chapters in its history.
Hundreds of friends of the Villa Aurora,
a 1920s Spanish Mediterranean house that has taken on a second life as a cultural center with a fierce com…

Los Angeles villa that was hub for German exiles fleeing Nazis reopens after narrow wildfire escape
Spectacular Villa Aurora, which was nearly destroyed in last year’s fires, leading the recovery as Pacific Palisades emerges from a dark chapter

Four more freelance crypto journalists, with bylines at Forbes, Entrepreneur, Information Age, and TNW, have not verified their IDs after a reporter's queries (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/tech-websites-…

Tech websites remove articles after failing to verify journalists exist
Press Gazette raises questions about four more profilic tech writers who cover world of crypto.