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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.

Filings: Skydance extends the length of contracts and bumps up compensation for its four top executives, and WBD unveils bonuses for outgoing leaders (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/10/skydance-extends-employment-contr…

Skydance Bumps Pay, Extends Contracts For Top Execs; New Bonuses For WBD Brass
Skydance has extended and expanded employment agreements for key corporate executives including CEO David Ellison. WBD unveiled deal-related bonuses.

3 Running Backs Dallas Cowboys Should Target Following Malik Davis Injury https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/3-running-backs-dallas-cowboys-should-target-malik-davis-injury

California approves 35 films for its production incentive program, estimating that they will bring $1.08B in combined production spending to the state (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/michael…

'Michael' Sequel Among 35 Films Approved for California Tax Incentive
Lionsgate's upcoming sequel to the highest grossing biopic of all time, "Michael," headlined the latest batch of 35 films approved for California's production incentive program.

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

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.

Sony Pictures hires YouTube's Fede Goldenberg to lead Screen Gems, a unit focused on genre films, as it seeks "digital-native storytellers" like Curry Barker (Borys Kit/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Screen Gems Shocker: Sony Brings in YouTube Exec Fede Goldenberg to Run Genre Label in Pivot to Digital Creators (Exclusive)
Current head Ashley Brucks exiting to a producing deal with the studio.

All across America, the midterm elections are drowning in dark money.
A New York Times review of advertising data, campaign-finance filings and tax records
revealed that about $1 billion in anonymous money is sloshing through the political landscape in 2026,
a staggering sum and yet almost certainly a low-end estimate,
given how difficult this money is to trace.

‘The Least Transparent Midterm’: How Dark Money Is Washing Over the 2026 Election
At least $1 billion from anonymous donors is flowing into the midterm elections. Dark money is not new, but it now permeates nearly every major contest.

Filings: David Ellison and his family invested about $17B in the WBD acquisition, on top of the $8B they invested alongside RedBird to buy Paramount (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-08/ellisons-invest…