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The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/

Here Andy Burnham, a Labour policy for you.
Victorian Labor promises free dental care if re-elected in Australia-first move | Victorian politics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/22/vict…

Victorian Labor promises free dental care if re-elected in Australia-first move
Premier Ben Carroll says $230m would be earmarked for 10 public dental clinics to operate on a walk-in basis

Free Blockbuster boxes are recently multiplying all over America.
You can set up your own Free Blockbuster dispenser
or find one near you in the US:
the details are online at https://freeblockbuster.org.

FreeBlockbuster.org
FreeBlockbuster.org is combatting the dangerous myth of scarcity by providing free entertainment to as many people as possible. TAKE a movie, LEAVE a movie. Be Kind, Rewind!

new Nepali language textbook from a great team including Indigenous Himalayan scholars. the article is worth a read --
"working in a team where none of us had Nepali as our only or first language, but where all of us still had strong connections to it in different ways. That mix shaped a collaborative process drawing on different experiences and approaches to the language. More importantly, bringing those different relationships to  language into the same space helped us create s…

Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the US, automatically upgrading users even if they don't subscribe to Prime (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/amazon-makes-its-ai-p…

Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on Fire TV, no Prime required | TechCrunch
Amazon is making its AI-powered Alexa+ assistant free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the U.S., automatically upgrading users whether or not they subscribe to Prime.

Auch 2030: Telekom bleibt bei der WM am Ball
Die Telekom hat sich auch die Rechte für die nächste Veranstaltung 2030 gesichert. Mehrere Spiele werden trotzdem auch im Free-TV zu sehen sein.
https://www.

Auch 2030: Telekom bleibt bei der WM am Ball
Die Telekom hat sich auch die Rechte für die nächste Veranstaltung 2030 gesichert. Mehrere Spiele werden trotzdem auch im Free-TV zu sehen sein.

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/

‘Mercenary’ Cowboys Defender Called Logical Fit for Multiple Contenders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/mercenary-free-agent-jadeveon-clowney/

Four million users of Seoul's public bike-sharing service Ttareungi who had their data stolen in a breach will receive a 30-day pass worth a measly $3.40.
https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/korea/seoul-to-compensate-4-mi…

Seoul Ttareungi data breach: 4 million users to get free 30-day bike pass
Seoul’s Ttareungi bike-sharing service will give a free 30-day pass to about 4 million users affected by a 2024 data breach. The leak exposed personal information of roughly 4.62 million users, city officials said.

Paramount must offer a free streaming TV service "like Pluto TV" and "maintain its current service and quality", as part of its settlement with California's AG (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/09/paramount-

Paramount required to operate free streaming service under settlement over WBD merger
The condition was outlined Monday by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, whose office led the multi-state antitrust challenge.

Free agents: Schultz, Coleman highlight top options for Week 3 https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/page/FFWaiverWirePickUp-49997505/fantasy-football-waiver-wire-free-agent-pickups-nfl-week-3

Octopus Heat-pump Journey - Via quote and survey and negotiation to keeping us warm fossil-free #heatPump #DHW #spaceHeat

Octopus Heat-pump Journey
Via quote and survey and negotiation to keeping us warm fossil-free #heatPump #DHW #spaceHeat #defossilisation

Raiders Told to Pursue Controversial 4-Time Pro Bowler Who Fills Biggest Need https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/stefon-diggs-free-agent-latest/

Freitagnacht hat das Internet-Kollektiv Autistici/Inventati aufgegeben und seine Onlinedienste abgeschaltet.
Aber es gibt Archive, die andere gebaut haben. Und eine Soli-Website, damit diese ungesetzliche Repression nicht in Vergessenheit gerät: https://keepitfree.ai
Und jetzt versucht mal, diese Domain in e…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@drdonpjr/117126933050760375
I had a parent, whose son I was tutoring online, who seemed to think her talking to me was free to her, and done in my free time, not, you know, during the arranged time, tutoring. One time she call…

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116957571811403553
"Neutrality" doesn't exist. You cannot NOT take sides. If you avoid taking sides, you already chose the side of oppressors.

The Trump administration’s push to expand oil and gas extraction across the US
is set to bring drilling near cherished natural and cultural sites,
raising alarm among conservationists and prompting questions from the UN’s heritage body.
Unesco said it has received information on the administration’s plan to
scrap a drilling-free buffer zone around the Chaco Culture national historical park in New Mexico,
a world heritage site and one of the most important cultur…

Trump plan to allow drilling near US world heritage site sparks alarm
Administration’s plan to scrap drilling-free buffer zone around New Mexico site prompts scrutiny from Unesco

Ok, as someone who's never used/paid for either, I'm interested to know what folks, either on a biz/org capacity, or personal/family level are paying Microsoft or Google for MSO 365 or Google Workspace these days, and what you get for it. Please clarify the currency you're using. Feel free to DM if you prefer results not to be public. My discretion is assured.

added a #pride flag to https://www.furbnet.com/index.iva :)

Google announces new study tools, including a student hub, notebooks, and interactive 3D visualizations in Gemini, plus student offers for Google AI plans (Amanda Caswell/Tom's Guide)
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/google-gemini

Google is giving students a free year of Gemini Pro — plus, new AI study features
Head back to school equipped with AI tools for studying, researching and more

Someone else pointed out that I left out a whole bunch of racism stuff. I also realized I totally left out the settler colonialism aspect of cars which... there are books about.
Looks like I'm gonna need to revisit this a lot after I do some more reading.
Speaking of which, if you feel like there's something missing here please feel free to point it out. I know it's not exhaustive (just exhausting(.

I hate to say it but the #grokpedia #qemu write-up: https://grokipedia.com/page/QEMU is better than the

QEMU — Grokipedia
QEMU is a free and open-source machine emulator and virtualizer capable of emulating complete systems or individual user-mode applications across a wide range of CPU architectures. Developed by French

"For the left, it’s an obvious example of public ownership and access. Italy’s large rump of former socialists and communists say that the perversity of capitalism is revealed by even shade being commercialised. For the activists of Mare Libero, freeing beaches isn’t a frivolous campaign, but a civil rights one informed by ecology and inclusion."

‘Liberate the lidos!’ Who will win the war over Italy’s private beaches?
Almost all of the sandy stretches on the country’s 8,000km of coastline are run for profit. Now ‘free beach’ campaigners are fighting back against the mafia, the military and those profiteering from sun loungers and cocktails

I wanted to see the last free kick played out, but you can’t really argue that a draw isn’t the right result.
Cape Verde shows again a stoutness of heart and a collective willingness to do the difficult work. 👏
#URUCPV #worldcup

from my link log —
Double-double: 31 decimal digits of precision without leaving the FPU.
https://marekfiser.com/blog/double-double-arithmetic
saved 2026-08-20

Double-double: 31 digits of precision without leaving the FPU
If you ever need more precision than what 15 decimal digits of the double format can offer, there is a neat trick: glue two doubles together and treat them as one number. This gives you ~31 decimal digits for roughly 9x the cost of a plain double in a real kernel (4-12x per isolated operation). With no heap allocation and no dependencies, this puts it almost exactly halfway between a double and an arbitrary-precision library perf-wise. This post explains the error-free transformations that make…

She Owns It With Anissa Cavallo
This show tackles the raw realities facing modern women today, from closing the gender wealth gap and navigating post-divorce resets, to mastering property investment and breaking free from financial abuse...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpo…

I have put out some music.
Feel free to give it a listen.
https://robertloganmusic.bandcamp.com/album/otherscapes-unreleased-works-2006-2026

The Billionaire-Free Packers Stay True to the Game https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/opinion/green-bay-packers-nfl-owners.html

Franklin White Author
@FrankWAuthor
Coyne states it well. For me the most glaring example of unprincipled negotiation is the U.S. offer to lower steel tariffs from 50% to 25% yet requiring Canada to accept U.S. steel imports tariff free. Meanwhile, we must get on with trade diversification, at home and abroad. Cheers!

Cowboys could still use one more free agent addition to the defense https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/19/cowboys-bobby-wagner-free-agent-addition-2026/91360023007/

«Rangdom — Free Random Generators & Browser Tools»
I have only just discovered this online tool and it is useful to have data to try something out. In my case, a random User ID in Base58 format.
🎲 https://www.rangdom.com

Rangdom — Free Random Generators & Browser Tools
Free online random generators and browser tools. Generated values and tool inputs stay in your browser.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/116944871806795039
I wonder how home and car insurance works in times of war?

@aks@scalie.zone @… from when I looked into it months ago the funding to him is bare minimum. They sent him a laptop for free.
The funding to his organization and of the conferences that he organizes instead are much more substantial, even compared to other conferences sponspored by framework. So that part was fishy to me.
Then there is the probl…

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The two essential freedoms in C are use-after-free and double-free.
Just found this nice older paper on the topic:
https://software.imdea.org/~juanca/papers/undangle_issta12_av.pdf
This is from

@… What do you think of this idea?
https://old.mermaid.town/@futzle/116946565340778896

Deborah Pickett (@futzle@old.mermaid.town)
Attached: 1 image Free idea: synthesizer wavetables that use magnitude curves of variable stars. #astronomy #music

No nicotine product is risk-free for the heart #health

No nicotine product is risk-free for the heart
Nicotine injures blood vessels by two routes at once, and only quitting entirely, not switching to a vape or pouch, clears the risk.

A look at the nonprofit Current AI, backed by $400M in commitments from many partners including $100M from France, that's funding open, public AI infrastructure (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/nonpr…

Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all | TechCrunch
Current AI, a non-profit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat and more.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/116942832773106608
This is so unbearably cruel to kids. They're just kids.

Free Software is inherently political. It always has been.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/free-software-political

Free Software is Political
Free Software is, and has always been, a political movement.

There are no free kicks in capitalism
#worldcup

Raiders Urged to Sign 27-Year-Old Ex-Cowboys Veteran https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/trevon-diggs-free-agent-cowboys-rumors/

So I bought these Boulder Creek potato chips cooked in Beef Tallow.
Beef Tallow has been making a comeback as a cooking oil thanks to crackpots in the US government. I was also under the impression that it might taste good so when I saw this at Costco, I figured “why the hell not.”
🤢🤮🥴
It was NASTY. Whatever I remember of stuff cooked in beef tallow, they had beef tallow in it as opposed to being cooked in it. Stuff cooked only in beef tallow tastes like rancid beef fat.…

Airbus & the cloud.
"European aerospace giant Airbus has lined up on the runway and is pushing the throttles forward as it prepares to evict apps from America. Airbus has named French cloud services provider Scaleway as the destination for some 900 applications, with an initial 70 getting priority onboarding, as it seeks to put critical systems and data under European control."

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical
Which way to the Land of the Free again?

RE: https://diaspodon.fr/@dada/117290450227841484
Fully repairable
Design to last
No DRM, No locks
Free to refill ink
Free paper format
No subscriptions
Open Source
Paper roll or sheet
100% private data
Congrats to the team for foll…

Draft: the Trump admin plans to use the UN General Assembly to push a global "freedom of expression" declaration that EU lawmakers call an attack on tech rules (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-admi…

Trump administration will push ‘free speech’ declaration at UN that takes aim at European tech regulation
The White House and Republican party allies have repeatedly attacked EU rules that govern online platforms as censorship. Now they want the world to put the critique into writing.

Saints have fight-free joint practice with Rams 2 days after brawl-filled workout with Cowboys https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/saints-have-fightfree-joint-practice-with-rams-2-days-after-brawlfilled-workout-…

QB uncertainty for half the NFL next offseason? 16 situations to watch and possible outcomes https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49659412/2027-nfl-quarterback-predictions-16-teams-starter-questions-free-agency-trades…

The first record of the parable commonly known as the "Blind Men and the Elephant" showed up around 2500 years ago, in a Buddhist text from India. At this point it's pretty commonly known. I assume that most folks reading this will be familiar with some variation of it.
If not, it's essentially a story about people who have limited information making assertions about something: one man grabs a tail and says, "it's like a rope," another the trunk and says, "it's like a snake," a third the leg saying, "it's like a tree," and so on. Later variations are less kind to the men, having them not simply report their findings, but fight over them. The first English translation draws a parallel to religion.
This comes to mind for me, because social media has a tendency to incentivize us to make those hard assertions, to dig in, to argue our perspective as part of a spectacle. Free and federated social media isn't structurally that different from corporate media, so the incentive models built to maximize engagement by maximizing conflict tend to leak through the similarities in the user experience and the conditioning of other platforms.
I didn't really come here to critique the fediverse, but rather to remind everyone, "no one sees the whole fucking elephant." We are limited and there are necessarily some things so big they will never be individually comprehensible. Any system that relies on us all agreeing cannot possibly respond to those big things.
We can see that concretely if we look at the difference between "democratic unity" and "diversity of tactics." In the first model, everyone either agrees or gets forced to behave as though they agree (at least on some issues). That's how liberal democracy works. Diversity of tactics (which systematically described, for example, in the "St Paul Principles"), on the other hand, let's people align on goals without needing to agree on exactly how to achieve them. The reality being that often there are multiple "correct" paths, and sometimes those paths can only work if multiple paths are taken in unison.
No one sees the whole elephant. We won't even see the elephant later. People will still be arguing about the elephant long after it's gone. But if you want to get rid of the elephant, you're gonna need to accept that you can't comprehend it all and you're gonna have to figure out a way to work together that doesn't require a unified approach.

from my link log —
VBR: version based reclamation.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13843
saved 2022-12-26 https://dotat.at/:/IVLGG.html

VBR: Version Based Reclamation
Safe lock-free memory reclamation is a difficult problem. Existing solutions follow three basic methods (or their combinations): epoch based reclamation, hazard pointers, and optimistic reclamation. Epoch-based methods are fast, but do not guarantee lock-freedom. Hazard pointer solutions are lock-free but typically do not provide high performance. Optimistic methods are lock-free and fast, but previous optimistic methods did not go all the way. While reads were executed optimistically, writes w…

On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base.
There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows.
The last people to live here moved away long ago.
Yet a bright orange pipe with a black fiber-optic cable inside runs from the outer wall down into the surrounding soil.  
The cable was installed to connect the home to the internet after the base closed.
It costs more than $340…

Airtable | Everyone's app platform
Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

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Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using over the past three years, in the US; the service is free to use for the rest of 2026 (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/ramp-launches-its-own-ai-model-router-calle…

Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router | TechCrunch
Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.

ABC sues the FCC, claiming the agency's investigations and regulatory actions are part of a Trump administration "retaliatory campaign" to curb its free speech (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/abc-sues-fcc-first-amendment-lawsuit…

ABC Files First Amendment Lawsuit Against FCC, Claiming Trump Administration “Retaliatory Campaign” Against Its Free Speech
ABC filed an unprecedented lawsuit against the FCC on Tuesday, claiming that its investigations and regulatory actions are part of a Trump administration “retaliatory campaign” to curb the network’s free speech. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., also seeks to halt a proceeding in which the agency and its chairman, Brendan Carr, […]

Why Cowboys need to sign free agent Bobby Wagner to fix defensive woes, communication

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-dallas-cowboys-need-free-agent-bobby-wagner/…

David Sirota:
None of the Bush/Cheney people who stole the 2000 election,
lied America into war
and created conditions for the financial crisis
paid any personal price at all.
On the contrary, Obama's "look forward, not back" policy gave them get-out-of-jail-free cards,
and they were all promptly enriched and rewarded with media platforms, stature and money,
positioning them to then take partial control of the Democratic Party and the …

Draft: the Trump admin plans to use the UN General Assembly to push a global "freedom of expression" declaration that EU lawmakers call an attack on tech rules (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-admi…

Trump administration will push ‘free speech’ declaration at UN that takes aim at European tech regulation
The White House and Republican party allies have repeatedly attacked EU rules that govern online platforms as censorship. Now they want the world to put the critique into writing.

2026 NFL free agency tracker: Von Miller to join Cowboys; four of top 100 free agents still unsigned

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-free-agency-tracker-best-unsigned-f…

Von Miller Makes Comment About Joining Raiders to Maxx Crosby https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/von-miller-maxx-crosby-free-agent/

Cowboys Have Clear Free-Agent Solution to Fix Admitted Communication Problem https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-clear-free-agent-solution-fix-admitted-communication-problem

www.maptap.gg July 22
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Block launches Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace on Nostr protocol for humans and AI agents to share messages, code repositories, workflows, and more (Block)
https://block.xyz/inside/introducing-buzz-where-humans-and-agents-work-together

Introducing Buzz: where humans and agents work together
Today we're releasing Buzz, a free, open source collaboration platform where humans and AI agents work together in a shared workspace. It's available now at buzz.xyz. Buzz is a collaboration workspace built on the Nostr protocol. It has channels, threads, direct messages, voice, media sharing, code repositories, and automated workflows. The interface will feel familiar to anyone who's used a modern team communication tool.

On October 31, 1803 the frigate USS Philadelphia hit a reef and ran aground chasing Barbary pirates near Tripoli, Libya.
All 307 members of its crew were captured and held hostage by the Barbary states.
Rather than pay tribute to the pirates, U.S. President Thomas Jefferson sent U.S. frigates to intervene and free the hostages.
The first of two wars against the Barbary pirates, the scourge of shipping for decades, hastened the building of the U.S. Navy
and began a lon…

The Slow Death of the Global Commons
Hormuz is a sign of worse things to come.

SFGate launched a $4.99-per-month Friends of SFGate ad-free app, its first paid product, on July 16, as traffic to its free website fell sharply in recent years (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america…

SFGate creates paywalled ad-free app as website traffic tumbles
Hearst’s California news website SFGate has introduced a paid reader model for the first time with a paywalled ad-free app.

Cowboys Called ‘Logical Landing Spot’ for $118 Million Free Agent https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/logical-landing-spot-linebacker-bobby-wagner/

After violence in the region over the weekend culminated in the death of three U.S. service members,
a growing number of House Republicans,
including vulnerable incumbents,
have been asking GOP leaders and the White House
for more information about the war
before they vote Wednesday to advance a plan to free up $95 billion
in additional funding for the Iran war, defense activities and farm assistance.

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Raiders Sign Former Cowboys, Commanders Starting Wide Receiver in Free Agency https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-sign-noah-brown-free-agency/

Chinese open models are proper competition that should be welcomed, not something to ban or treat as a danger, and open-sourcing is an old business strategy (Bill Gurley/Washington Post)

Powerful AI models are being given away for free. It was inevitable.
They aren’t a security threat — they’re what competition looks like.

Happy birthday to Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011)
medical physicist & Nobel laureate for radioimmunoassay for measuring concentrations of molecules in blood. 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci
Born to an immigrant Jewish family in the Bronx she went to Hunter College, tuition-free, their 1st physics major

Ele Willoughby (@minouette.bsky.social)
Happy birthday to Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011) medical physicist & Nobel laureate for radioimmunoassay for measuring concentrations of molecules in blood. 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci Born to an immigrant Jewish family in the Bronx she went to Hunter College, tuition-free, their 1st physics major &

UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy urges a deal to put some Rugby League World Cup games on free-to-air TV after Premier Sports acquired exclusive streaming rights (Aaron Bower/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/18…

Lisa Nandy urges deal to keep Rugby League World Cup on free-to-air TV
The culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has spoken out after it emerged that this year’s Rugby League World Cup will not be shown on the BBC

Meta's Oversight Board says top AI models may be restricting free expression in its first evaluation of LLMs, as it seeks to expand its influence beyond Meta (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2216274/the-overs

The Oversight Board Says Leading AI Models Might Be Restricting Free Expression
The group is trying to extend its influence beyond Meta.

Garrett Wilson feels more free to be himself and deliver with move to outside https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49970144/new-york-jets-garrett-wilson-move-back-receiver

At Cornell University in upstate New York, researchers are testing how a deep geothermal system can work
far from the tectonic boundaries and volcanoes that have long defined where distributing their energy is even viable.  
By tapping into the planet's internal warmth, the project, known as
"Earth Source Heat",
could supply the 2,300-acre
(931-hectare) campus in Ithaca with fossil fuel-free heat to help the university become carbon neutral by 2035.…

How geothermal energy could power US homes
Advancements in geothermal systems and sustained political support in the US provide an opportunity for this clean energy industry to scale.

Raiders add veteran free agent WR Noah Brown https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/08/16/raiders-sign-veteran-free-agent-wr-noah-brown/91331247007/

Anthropic announces a new Claude for Teachers initiative, as part of which it will provide K-12 teachers in the US free access to premium Claude features (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/14/anthropic-is-giving-tea…

Anthropic is giving teachers free access to premium Claude features, details here - 9to5Mac
Anthropic is providing free access to premium Claude AI features to K-12 teachers in the United States. The effort is...

Under-the-radar free agent signing a wildcard in Cowboys safety room https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/15/pj-locke-under-radar-free-agent-signing-dallas-cowboys-safe…

Versant plans to overhaul its free streaming service, dropping the "Fandango At Home" branding in favor of a streamlined "Fandango" name and adding new features (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.

Fandango to Be Overhauled In Bid to Rival Free Streamers Like Tubi and Pluto (Exclusive)
The Versant-owned media company is adding content, changing the brand name and adding new features to grab marketshare free ad-supported streaming space.

India's UPI, which has been free for merchants, will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments above ₹2,000, or $21, from October 15 in a major shift (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/15/indi

India ends free ride for larger transactions on its ubiquitous digital payments network | TechCrunch
India will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments made through UPI starting October 15.

Cowboys' 2026 offseason grades: Did Dallas fix its defense? https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/18/cowboys-offseason-grades-free-agency-nfl-draft-2026/90856466007/

Free-agent WR Stefon Diggs: There is no WR2 better than me https://www.nfl.com/news/free-agent-wr-stefon-diggs-there-is-no-wr2-better-than-me

Von Miller’s Signing Might Seal Cowboys’ Third-Year Defender’s Inevitable Fate https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/von-miller-cowboys-marist-liufau-fate/

Sources: Disney is discussing a potential free tier for Disney ; product and tech chief Adam Smith discussed the initiative at a town hall but gave no timeline (James Faris/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-discusses-free-tier-viewers-…

Disney+ explores a free tier as YouTube draws TV viewers
Disney is discussing a free tier for Disney+ as US TV viewers embrace no-cost streamers like YouTube.

Google is cutting the Google One AI Pro trial bundled with Pixel 11 Pro and other handsets from 12 to 6 months, and removes the free trial from the Pixel 11 (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/08/12/goog

Google drops the AI Pro to 6 months with Pixel 11 Pro, ditches free plan for base model
With the launch of the Pixel 9, Google offered fairly extensive 12-month free trials of the Google One AI Pro...

Why Republicans struggle to prove
"the danger of socialism"
-- Marc Short
Since taking office, the second Trump administration has made no secret of its departures from conservative orthodoxy.
That’s hardly a surprise, since neither Trump nor Vice President JD Vance identifies as conservative,
and Vance appears to be crafting a new political ideology in which Huey Long is praised and Milton Friedman is denounced.
Under Trump 2, elected Republic…

Why Republicans struggle to prove the danger of socialism
When the GOP embraces big government, it’s harder to champion free markets.

Pornhub says the UK's new internet age checks have boosted non-compliant porn sites, which occupied seven of the top 10 search results for "free porn" in June (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/295c2eba-da29-434d-84e0-e9de3b0b1cc2

Cowboys’ ‘Unproven’ Position Group Named One to Watch in 2026 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-unproven-position-group-watch-2026/

Pornhub says the UK's new internet age checks have boosted non-compliant porn sites, which occupied seven of the top 10 search results for "free porn" in June (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/295c2eba-da29-434d-84e0-e9de3b0b1cc2

California joined 19 other states
on July 16 to take a swing at a Trump administration delay tactic
in approving onshore wind energy projects.
In light of California’s goal for its energy to be 100 percent carbon-free by 2045,
wind plays a large part.
On a hot and humid afternoon like this Friday’s, renewable energy is supplying 70 percent of the 34-gigawatt demand.
Wind makes up 11 percent of that carbon-free renewable energy.
Any project that uses…

California AG Seeks to Intervene in Lawsuit Against Trump Administration over Onshore Wind Projects
Projects nationwide are “frozen” while the Department of Defense conducts “further agency coordination,” said Attorney General Rob Bonta.

Hugging Face says it used the open-weight GLM-5.2 hosted on its own compute for breach forensics, after US frontier model safety guardrails blocked the requests (Edward Targett/The Stack)
https://www.thestack.technology/hugging-fa

Hugging Face hacked: Turned to Chinese LLM for help after US models blocked Blue Team
Expensive, proprietary US models were no help to Hugging Face’s defenders, and free Chinese ones were; that’s a warning sign.

OpenAI updates the default model for free users to GPT-5.6 Luna, adds unlimited text chats for free users, rolls out an improved GPT-5.6 Sol version, and more (Herb Scribner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/openai-chatgpt-upgrades-luna-free-paid

OpenAI makes major upgrades for free and paid ChatGPT users
The upgrades will help both paid and free users.