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Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 extensions in Edge starting this month, following Google Chrome, and for enterprise users in early 2027 (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
Microsoft Edge is ending support for Manifest V2 extensions like uBlock Origin starting this month.

Nexstar appeals a district court judge's injunction blocking its Tegna acquisition while an antitrust lawsuit proceeds and calls the injunction "overbroad" (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/nexstar-reactions-tegna-merger-i…

Nexstar Rails Against $6.2B Tegna Merger Injunction: Calls Out DirecTV & State AGs “Cynical Attempt To Advance Their Own Commercial & Political Interests”
Months after a federal judge put a freeze on Nexstar & Tegna's $6.2B merger, the local TV giant trashed State AGs & DirecTV in a hardcore court filing

A study estimates the iPhone's diffusion explains 33%-52% of the decline in US births from 2007 to 2011, with the most pronounced effects among women aged 15-24 (Sabrina Tavernise/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/us/ipho…

Two New Studies Ask: Did the iPhone Cause Birthrates to Decline?
Modern smartphones rolled out in 2007, the year that fertility rates began falling. Two studies say that is not a coincidence.

Bryan Johnson,
a 48 year old American entrepreneur,
has made headlines for his outlandish anti-ageing techniques
-- spending millions of dollars in a bid to extend his life
and reduce his biological age to that of an 18-year-old.
Johnson refers to his Benjamin Button-esque ways as
‘Project Blueprint’,
meticulously taking 54 supplements a day,
eating every meal between 6am and 11.30am,
and following a strict exercise regimen.
In 2023, …

Billionaire who injected blood to live forever has incurable disease
Billionaire biohacker Bryan Johnson, aka the man determined to live forever, has revealed he has an incurable autoimmune disease.

4 Cowboys who may be in line for contract extensions before Week 1 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/04/quinnen-williams-among-4-cowboys-who-could-get-extensions-…

A profile of Tatyana Kim, founder of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which has lost an estimated third of its warehouse space to Ukrainian attacks (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/world…

She Is Russia’s Richest Woman. Her Business Empire Is Going Up in Flames.
As Ukraine repeatedly strikes warehouses of the e-commerce site Wildberries, Tatyana Kim, its billionaire co-founder, faces her biggest test yet.

Australia is failing to meet its environment targets, argues ecologist https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2026/05/australia-is-failing-to-meet-its-environment-targets-argues-ecologist/

Australia is failing to meet its environment targets, argues ecologist
Australia is one of 17 “megadiverse” countries that account for 70% of Earth’s biodiversity. However, Australia is unique in having the highest mammalian extinction rate in the world. That makes conservation on the island continent, where most of the wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth, all the more urgent. Conservation and environmental scientists have […]

Texans QB C.J. Stroud on looming contract extension entering 2026: 'I think I've held my bargain up' https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-qb-c-j-stroud-on-looming-contract-extension-entering-2026-i-think-i-ve-held-my-…

Cowboys found their bell cow running back and he's hungry for a Pro Bowl nod https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-javonte-williams-pro-bowl-contract-extension/5e6b0a3f233b6105eaefa4…

SEC filing: SpaceX will reserve up to 5% of its Class A shares for select employees and executives' friends and family; 60% of shares have an extended lock-up (Charles Capel/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

SpaceX Reserves Up to 5% of IPO Stock for Employees and Friends
SpaceX will reserve up to 5% of shares in its upcoming initial public offering for certain employees and friends and family of its executive officers, the company disclosed in an amended filing.