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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/

Alan Cumming Urges UK Industry To Help Bring Down Paramount-Warner Merger, As Government Poised To Make Intervention
Alan Cumming is leading a Paramount-Warner boycott via a Block The Merger UK coalition as the government prepares to make an announcement.

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…

Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week
Epic Games and Google have just jointly withdrawn their attempt to retroactively settle the lawsuit changing how Android app stores work in the United States.

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…

Brendan Carr plans to let broadcast giants dominate the airwaves
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr set a vote to eliminate the 39 percent broadcast ownership cap, which critics say he lacks authority to do.

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

"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline
Governing the world's most consequential technology is coming down to speaking President Trump's language.

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…

Bernie Sanders Saw This Coming
For decades, Bernie Sanders 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.

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/

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’
In an internal memo seen by WIRED, Bosworth promised employees more stability, better communication, and the return of workplace perks as the company seeks to improve morale.