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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 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.

Super agent Lynn, Quinnen Williams' rep, visits Cowboys' contract guy https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/09/super-agent-lynn-quinnen-williams-rep-visits-cowboy…

How Trump and Musk made the Nepal disaster worse, by glaciologist dr Heïdi Sevestre:
"What about early warning systems?"
SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya, a joint initiative by NASA, USAID and ICIMOD monitoring, had mapped landslide and flood hazard in these valleys since 2010.
The Trump administration’s aid freeze cut it in January 2025."
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I spent the entire summer worrying about glaciers collapsing. With the crazy temperature records everywhere I knewit was only a question of time. On August 26th, all these fears came true. At… | Dr. Heïdi Sevestre | 62 comments
I spent the entire summer worrying about glaciers collapsing. With the crazy temperature records everywhere I knewit was only a question of time. On August 26th, all these fears came true. At 8:37AM, Nepal time, 100 to 200 million cubic metres of rock and ice detached from the north flank of Langtang Lirung at 5200m high, the equivalent of 90 to 175 Wembley stadiums, on Mohd. Farooq Azam's estimate at ICIMOD. Dan Shugar in Calgary and Jakob Steiner in Graz find from the satellite imagery that…

The Trump administration renewed its appeal to the US supreme court on Sunday
to allow restrictions on mail-in voting,
after a federal judge had blocked new limits on such ballots, just ahead of November’s midterm elections.
The latest filing follows a decision by US district court judge Indira Talwani on Friday to extend a court order
preventing the US Postal Service (USPS) from enforcing Donald Trump’s executive order.
The legal fight was continuing as states …

Trump again asks supreme court to restrict mail-in voting as midterms loom
Legal fight continues as states begin sending out ballots for voters to vote by mail in November’s midterm elections

Quantum Lifts of Noninteger Power Law Field Theories
Jarah Evslin, Hengyuan Guo, Stefano Bolognesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06282 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.06282 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.06282
arXiv:2608.06282v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Field theories whose potentials have noninteger power laws $\alpha$ have found many applications, but are often claimed to have no lift to quantum field theory except as effective models. We define quantum lifts by expanding the classical potential in Hermite polynomials and then normal ordering at a mass scale shifted by a parameter $\beta$. We find that when $\alpha>2$, for sufficiently large $\beta$, the vacuum state can be perturbatively expanded in usual Fock states. We apply this to the following problem. The $\sigma=4$ P\"oschl-Teller model has a $\phi^{5/2}$ potential. As the third derivative of the potential diverges in each vacuum, one expects the three point interactions to diverge in the vacuum. The model's kink has three shape modes and the least bound mode extends so far into the vacuum that its probability of being excited by radiation apparently diverges. We show that a deformation $\beta$ of order the meson mass or larger is sufficient to tame this divergence, although it nonetheless results in an excitation probability which is enhanced by a $\beta$-dependent fractional power of the inverse coupling.
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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.

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…

On Thursday June 25, 2026,
the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision,
granted Trump the power to terminate the Temporary Protective Status (TPS)
of hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians living in America.
The ruling clears the path for Trump to extend his mass-kidnappings and deportations to over 350,000 people from Haiti.
Trump and his admin’s focus specifically on Haitian migrants isn't by chance.
What brought them into his focus was one of the …

Following the Trail: From Blood Tribe to the Supreme Court
How a neo-nazi campaign targeting Haitians in Ohio led all the way to the Supreme Court.