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Filings: Meta reduced its $65M midterms budget by $25M through refunds, primarily from a super PAC it launched in 2025 with $45M to fight state AI bills (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/technology/meta-midterms-funding.html

Meta Withdraws $25 Million from Its Midterms Push
The company outlined a $65 million budget last year when it embarked on an effort to elect state politicians friendly to the A.I. industry.

Absolutely gorgeous #sunset yesterday, following along the Doe River in Roan Mountain S.P. in East Tennessee.
Also, we nailed the fall colors this week.
#fallcolors #fall

Filing: Newsquest now has 159,000 paying digital subscribers, up 18% YoY, with online subscription revenue up 20% in FY 2025; overall revenue fell 4.5% to £192M (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/newsquest-accounts-2025/

Newsquest grows profit as online subscribers rise to 159,000
Newsquest accounts 2025: Revenue declines year on year and profit up. Newsquest Community Media, formerly Archant, saw profit fall.

#Glasgow impressions

Indian tricolor flying over the Rhode Island State House. (Yesterday was Indian independence day, and there was a gathering in front of the state house.) Didn't get to see whether the other dome was flying the PK flag. (-:

Firefighters battling enormous wildfires in the United States say
the federal government is failing them at a time when supercharged blazes have made their jobs exponentially more dangerous.
While the US continues to grapple with a critical shortage of federal firefighters
– with especially large gaps in essential management positions
– the Trump administration has increased pressure on firefighting forces to rapidly and aggressively contain the flames.

‘We’re near a breaking point:’ firefighters say US government is failing them amid intense wildfire season
US grapples with federal firefighter shortage as crews say they’re spread thin and lack resources during unrelenting year of fire

How many cases of prompt injection in legal cases are we unaware of because they succeeded?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/suspecting-court-of-using-ai-man-injected-prompts-in-filings-to-try-to-win-case…

Emergence World Study 2:
AI Chatbots develop shorthand and new word meanings to talk to each other without humans understanding them, conspiring to commit crimes.
Paper "Emergence World: Adversarial Stress-Testing of Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Systems" by Deepak Akkil, Tamer Abuelsaad, Karthik Vikram, Matthew Pace, Aditya Vempaty, Saahir Beotra,Ravi Kokku, Satya Nitta

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.

Falls jemand Lust hat, am Computer zu sitzen und Geschwindigkeitsbussen zu verteilen - bei der Kantonspolizei Zürich ist eine Stelle frei
https://live.solique.ch/ktzh/job/details/4069237/