Alan Cumming Urges UK Industry To Help Bring Down Paramount-Warner Merger, As Government Poised To Make Intervention (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/alan-cumming-paramount-warner-boycott-block-the-merger-1236982775/
Court filing: Google says it is ready to add third-party app stores in Google Play in the US on July 22, as Google and Epic withdraw their joint motion (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/965792/google-ep…
Cowboys Stars’ Top-10 Rankings Could Foretell Coming Problem https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/george-pickens-ceedee-lamb-coming-problem/
Any ideas as to what would be good practices for annotating images on #wikicommons using structured data?
cf. annotations such as these, but with #wikidata items and not wikipedia links:
The Federal Communications Commission will vote next month on whether a single company can own broadcast stations that reach more than 39 percent of US TV households.
In a Breitbart op-ed on Wednesday, Republican Chair Brendan Carr announced an August 6th vote to end the national ownership cap rule,
which was intended to prevent one company from dominating the media landscape and incentivize serving local communities.
Carr argued the rise of social media and streaming plat…
Which one of these BGA fanouts is better?
Both are the same nominal trace/space, both are skew matched by the time you get to the vertical "home run" area heading towards the connector.
But TDR of the first one wasn't that great. Let's see if the second one is any better when the simulation finishes...
thom hogan: I’ll put it bluntly: some of the best innovation in camera design is now coming out of China. Because that relies upon communication (radio waves) to mobile devices, it’s now possible US citizens will not see the next great future camera. This is the way empires die: they try to wall themselves off from competition. <-- same with renewables and a whole bunch of other things
Sources say Anthropic struggles to communicate effectively with the Trump administration; an official says it "screwed us" after failing to "honor" a cyber EO (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/15/anthropic-white-house-fable-mythos
Bernie Sanders Saw This Coming
For decades, the senator has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy.
Now he’s betting that frustration with Big Tech, billionaires, and unchecked AI is reaching a tipping point
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interv…
Memo: CTO Andrew Bosworth said Meta did "an atrocious job" sharing Applied AI's vision, promising employees better communication, career growth, and more perks (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/andrew-bosworth-meta-employees-unrest/