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The UK's Reach is hiring an overnight team in Australia for the first time to deliver "what UK news audiences want to see", following its expansion in the US (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-

from my link log —
Rain of Fire Falling: The crash of American Airlines flight 191.
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/rain-of-fire-falling-the-crash-of-american-airlines-flight-191-e17ffc5369e5

Rain of Fire Falling: The crash of American Airlines flight 191
Note: this accident was previously featured in episode 8 of the plane crash series on October 28th, 2017, prior to the series’ arrival on Medium. This article is written without reference to and…

Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov promoted to battalion commander: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/15/ukrainian-filmmaker-oleh-sentsov-promoted.html

Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/following-youtu…

Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on 'unoriginal' Facebook content | TechCrunch
Like YouTube, Meta says it won't penalize users who are engaging with other people's content, doing things like making reaction videos, joining a trend, or adding their own takes.

📉 Fears that falling birth rates in the US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-falling-birth-population-collapse-based.html

Fears that falling birth rates in the US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
Pronatalism—the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed—is having a moment in the U.S.

Complex three-dimensional rearing environments amplify compensatory plasticity following early blindness https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651847v1 "underscoring the role of experience in directing compensatory plasticity following early sensory loss.&q…

Complex three-dimensional rearing environments amplify compensatory plasticity following early blindness
The neocortex has a remarkable capacity to alter its functional organization and connectivity in response to sensory loss, particularly if this loss occurs early in life. A key question is whether this cross-modal reorganization is driven by sensory deprivation itself or through enhanced use of the spared senses. We investigated how different rearing environments shape neural responses in primary somatosensory cortex (S1) of short-tailed opossums ( Monodelphis domestica) , following elimination…

Slovakia hints it won't block 18th sanctions package following EU assurances: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/slovakia-hints-it-wont-block.html

Sources: investigators have uncovered evidence that Russia is at least in part responsible for a recent hack of the US federal court filing system (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/russia-hack-federal-court-system.html…

Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System
Federal officials are scrambling to assess the damage and address flaws in a sprawling, heavily used computer system long known to have vulnerabilities.

China has expanded its media operations globally, filling the void left by Trump dismantling US-funded outlets in countries like Thailand and Nigeria (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/voice-of-america-china-russia-65f54e6a

Filing: Samsung agreed to settle a patent lawsuit over wireless tech with Headwater Research following a $279M jury verdict against Samsung earlier in 2025 (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustr