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NBC News enters an exclusive partnership for Taboola to handle 100% of its global programmatic display ad sales including for NBCNews.com and Today.com (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/18/nbc-news-taboola-programmatic-display-ads

Exclusive: NBC News to outsource all programmatic display ad sales to Taboola
It's a major milestone for Taboola as it looks to expand its business beyond native ads to powering any display ad on the open web.

Sources: Z.ai is on track to achieve an annual recurring revenue of $1B, a first for a Chinese AI company, after achieving its full-year sales target in July (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/z-ai-…

I feel there’s nearly a decade of evidence suggesting he doesn’t give a shit about accessibility except as a virtue-signal-slash-cudgel.
Also, his Gutenberg push drove blind users away. But he’ll use that result to blame the WP-a11y team anyway.
This guy is WordPress’s biggest single risk.
https://

Found new engineering blog to obsess about
> Making glass-to-metal seals for homemade vacuum tubes.
https://maurycyz.com/projects/glass/1/

#Neuroscientists of the world - do you sometimes have questions about a new technique you're trying to setup in the lab? Or getting too much noise in your system and wondering why? Not sure why your rats / flies / humans are not learning? Which virus to get for your optogenetic experiment? How to stain brain slices? Whether an expensive piece of kit is worth buying? ...
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NeuroMethods
A space to ask and answer questions about methods in Neuroscience (this replaces our previous Slack workspace). Prospective users: you should be able to join with an academic email :) | Cheers to Zulip for sponsoring our workspace!

I grew up watching this guy in #Detroit. I went home for lunch every day and watched Soupy, from about age 5 to 8. Then we moved to a suburb and school was too far to go home for lunch, although I did still walk there & back every day. https://

Alice Cooper on The Soupy Sales Show 1979
All the kids who grew up with Soupy Sales, (1926-2009) loved him an...

RE: https://hoosier.social/@KrissyKat/117118051313614336
I have a deep intrinsic distrust for men with this sort of verbal (apparent) improvisational skill… Slick fast talkers. I say intrinsic because I know that it is a skill that is out of reach for man…

Penguin Random House has suspended promotion and sales of Ross Barkan's upcoming book on Zohran Mamdani after plagiarism allegations about Barkan's other work (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

Publisher suspends sales of journalist’s book after plagiarism review
New York Magazine said it updated 67 of Ross Barkan’s columns that did not include proper attribution. His Penguin Random House book on Mayor Zohran Mamdani was set for the fall.

Former Gojek CEO and Indonesian education minister Nadiem Makarim is charged with taking ~$46M in rewards tied to a Chromebook procurement contract for schools (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…