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'No shirt, no shirt': Bears HC Ben Johnson's viral celebration triggers free hot dogs https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47170519/chicago-bears-ben-johnson-shirtless-celebration-wieners-circle-free-hot-dogs

So, #Trump is threatening people that do not like hate speech, claiming this is #censorship. But at the same time, he is restricting the rights to free speech for anyone who doesn't agree 120% with his opinion.
Here's a great Guest Essay by Nora Benavidez in the

Will McClay Breaks Down Cowboys’ Approach to NFL Free Agency https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/will-mcclay-breaks-down-cowboys-approach-to-nfl-free-agency

Glad I've never bought a game on the Epic store, as I just grab the free ones, and will now continue to, as Tim Sweeney is garbage
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/according-to-epic-ceo-tim-sweeney-gam…

According to Epic CEO Tim Sweeney - game stores don't need an AI label as it will be everywhere
With the increasing amount of games using AI, Epic Game's Tim Sweeney believes the AI messages on stores like Steam make no sense.

Raiders, Steelers, Bills, Commanders predicted to battle over $80 million free agent https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-steelers-bills-commanders-predicted-b…

USA Today Co., which owns the Detroit Free Press, plans to acquire The Detroit News from MediaNews Group and continue to publish it separately (The Detroit News)
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business

The Detroit News to be acquired by USA TODAY Co., owner of Detroit Free Press
USA TODAY Co., owner of the Detroit Free Press, will acquire The Detroit News and continue to publish it separately, it announced Monday.

OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chatgpts-new-shopping-resear…

ChatGPT's new shopping research tool is fast, fun, and free - but can it out-shop me?
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, OpenAI has introduced a new tool that it hopes will help you find just what you're looking for.

This looks nice! Sometimes we get really cool things posted when folks show up at Maker Forums to make their first post, and AxioCNC looks modern and has some potentially really helpful features. 🎉
https://forum.makerforums.info/t/made-a-free-…

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who
will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter

Cowboys, Eagles, Bears and 49ers named suitors for Chargers $57 million free agent https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-eagles-bears-49ers-suitors-chargers-57-million-free-…

"In Brazil, a new label gives more visibility to deforestation-free beef"
#Brazil #Animals #Food

In Brazil, a new label gives more visibility to deforestation-free beef
Amid growing pressure for beef supply chains to be deforestation-free, a new certification system in Brazil will allow meatpackers, importers and retailers to guarantee that the meat cuts they sell are not associated with deforestation. Down the line, this could also help companies become compliant with the European Union’s regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR). The […]

The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country -- because it doesn’t like their speech.
This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.
If that sounds insane to you,
congratulations on your reading comprehension.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s State Department declared the
“Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex,”
which will take
“decisive actio…

Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship
Mike Masnick: In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Caribou:
🎵 Your Love Will Set You Free
#Caribou
https://caribouband.bandcamp.com/track/your-love-will-set-you-free
https://open.spotify.com/track/2MARVRoAyo476CmEKqBWuP

And here’s what I’m trying to get at: when the bubble bursts, many “AI” “applications” will disappear, but #genAI is here to stay in academia. Companies will discover students and academics as a market and, when the free offers go away, inevitably crank up the prices. But as students have already become dependent on #genAI

And here’s what I’m trying to get at: when the bubble bursts, many “AI” “applications” will disappear, but #genAI is here to stay in academia. Companies will discover students and academics as a market and, when the free offers go away, inevitably crank up the prices. But as students have already become dependent on #genAI

I don't think people fully understand what a disaster some kind of cease-fire and/or peacedeal along current frontlines would be for Putin. The occupied parts of Ukraine will become poor. While the part of Ukraine that is free will, with EU assistance ,be economically succesful and prosperous.
#putin #trump

The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press ended their joint operating agreement, which began in 1989; The News plans to launch a Sunday print edition January 18 (Summer Ballentine/The Detroit News)
https://www.detro…

End of newspaper JOA heralds new era of competition in Detroit
Dave Hunke: 'Good journalism, in the end, I swear it will win. I just wish somebody could find a way to unlock the economics.

Want to see some fluffs at #39c3 ?
chaosfurs will do two fursuitwalks on day 2 and 3
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/assembly/detail/chaosfurs

I so hope this blows up in his face spectacularly.
Note that I do not believe that any LLM can become as skilled as the least skilled #InfoSec professional using conventional tools, so I’m quite confident this will not reach any useful goal.
I’m saying he needs to learn a lesson, and it would be great if it were useful for others as well. @…

Google launches free SAT practice exams in the Gemini app, providing students with performance analysis and detailed explanations for incorrect answers (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/google-now-offers-free-sat-pr…

Google now offers free SAT practice exams, powered by Gemini | TechCrunch
Students can prompt Gemini by typing "I want to take a practice SAT test,” and the AI will provide them with a free practice exam. Gemini then analyzes the results, highlighting strengths and identifying areas that need further review. It also offers detailed explanations for any incorrect answers. 

The #Enclosure feedback loop or how LLMs sabotage existing programming practices by privatizing a public good:
“[…]something has been taken from the public. Not just the training data, but the public forums and practices that created this training data in the first place. […] LLM companies are now selling back to us something that used to be available for free.”

Most of you will instantly recognize the 10-second slide whistle loop Steven Stapleton sampled from “The Oimels” for a Nurse With Wound song, but this album isn’t goofy like that. Dark and soulful, it represents a piece of the expanding European free jazz scene in 1970. And it’s in my top 10 albums released by the venerable ECM label. Don’t sleep on this!

Wolfgang Dauner – Output (1970, Germany)
A spotlight on the experimental free jazz album from trio Wolfgang Dauner, Fred Braceful, and Eberhard Weber.

"Emperor... will free our hands in all manners of surveillance, search & seizure."
"Why can't they just leave us in peace?"
"It's going on everywhere."
Sounds familiar.
▶️ Andor: The Death of Truth
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q4cVBVSS9f

Will McClay on Christian Parker hire, Cowboys draft and free agency approach, more https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/will-mcclay-on-christian-parker-hire-cowboys-draft-and-free-agency-approach-more

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/115780983944012392
There is no low to which Trump will not sink.

Bitbucket recently announced shutting down inactive workspaces.
I logged there, and my Ph.D stuff (mostly papers, some Python) were all there.
To preserve them, I asked #Copilot to write a script to move them to GitHub.
If you want to admire the slop, there’s now a post about it

Migrate Bitbucket repositories to GitHub · Technical inconsistencies blog
Just before Christmas, I got an email from Bitbucket saying that inactive workspaces will be deleted. Almost 20 years ago, I created a Bitbucket workspace to host my university stuff (mostly for my research thesis and various papers). And while I have the final PDFs, I did not want all that LaTeX to go to waste, so I decided to migrate everything to GitHub (which, since 20 years ago, added private repositories to their free offering).

You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.
The Economist’s country of the year for 2025
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/12/18/the-economists-country-of-the-year-for-2025?giftId=YTQzMzkyMWYtZmUwMS00MGQ2LWJmM2QtMWVlYjg0YTg4OTc3&utm_campaign=gifted_article

#Memphis: there’s a free brake light repair clinic this Saturday! Don’t be giving #Trump’s #tAsKfOrCe nazis a reason to pull you over; make sure your lights are good.
Volunteers will be replacing brake and…

Worked on some more #Gentoo global #jobserver goodies today.
Firstly, Portage jobserver support patch: #PyTest jobs will also be counted towards total job count.
Again, it's not a perfect solution, but it works reasonably. The plugin still starts -n jobs as specified by the arguments, but it acquired job tokens prior to executing every test, therefore delaying actual testing until tokens are available. It doesn't seem to cause noticeable overhead either.

As SBOMs slowly progress at the federal level and in enterprises, the rise of AI coding assistants is fueling optimistic—and, some experts argue, “kind of insane”—claims about a future with vulnerability-free software.
Check out my latest CyberScoop piece.
Many thanks to @…, @…

The slow rise of SBOMs meets the rapid advance of AI
Despite progress from CISA and global regulators, SBOM adoption in the private sector remains slow as experts debate if AI-driven coding will improve or undermine software security and transparency.

Will McClay on Christian Parker hire, Cowboys draft and free agency approach, more https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/will-mcclay-on-christian-parker-hire-cowboys-draft-and-free-agency-approach-more

Just realised that this will be my first Amazon free christmas for years.
#AmazonFree

"AI and facial recognition to be rolled out as Britain’s ‘broken’ policing system faces sweeping reforms"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-overhaul-shabana-mahmood-home-office-ai-b2907845.html

IEEE Spectrum: These hearing aids will tune in to your brain #BCI

Hearing Aids Will Use Biosignals to Ease Mental Strain
Could smart hearing aids that read brain waves and eye movements be the answer to fatigue-free listening?

Ampere Analysis: UK streaming subscribers on ad-supported tiers will reach 26.5M by the end of 2025, surpassing the 23.1M ad-free subscribers for the first time (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/26/t…

The next 'After Hours...' expert Q&A session over at #WorkLifeSpark features the incredible Dr. Mike Rucker.
Author of 'The Fun Habit', Mike will be explaining why building fun into our routines is a more impactful and sustainable approach than constantly seeking happiness.
It's members-only, but you can sign up for free:

"Rabbit Recipes," US dept of Ag 1930. (We are looking for things to cook to celebrate public domain day Jan 21st 2026 re: 1930!)
Not so sure about Rabbit Recipes, but nice layout. Thank you US Dept of Ag for digitizing this (I love my job).
What will you cook to celebrate public domain day?
http…

I wonder when the average(!) person will be ready for discussions on free alternatives for popular services like #YouTube, #WhatsApp, #GMail,

Wishing for a Mastodon plushie this Christmas?🎄
We’re giving away two of the new ones for free to two random people who boost and favorite this post! Winners will be announced on December 25th, just like last year.
If you’d like to support our server and projects like these, donations are always welcome:
✊🎁

Amazon Music has a playback API in closed beta, which means that I have hope that one day I will be able to use a replacement for their absolute piece of dogshit android app.
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/music/API_playback_overview.html
Quick quiz - …

Oil is the absolute enemy, and that should be completely clear at this point. Advocate hard for a Dutch style traffic plan and Dutch bike infrastructure. Push hard for mass transit. Fight car infrastructure with everything you can. Abolish free parking.
Every dollar you spend on gas, every dollar that goes to roads and free parking, is a dollar that will be spent murdering civilians to steal their oil.
Free parking is the most important subsidy to car culture. The more expensive you can make parking, the fewer cars will be on the road, the safer cities will be, and the less money will be available for the gang of thieves directing the military.
#FuckCars

Free will means theres that paid subscribers only will and my GOD im a broke ass bitch

Contract Predictions For the Cowboys’ Top 4 Pending Free Agents https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/contract-predictions-dallas-cowboys-top-4-pending-nfl-free-agents

*UPDATE* From Translink
TRAFFIC ALERT: Westham Island Bridge Closed
The Westham Island Bridge is currently closed to vehicles while crews continue damage assessment after a marine vessel hit the span on Tuesday. Pedestrian access is being maintained.

The bridge will remain closed on Thursday and Friday for further assessments. Updates on repair timelines and continued closures will be shared as soon as more information is available.
TransLink is providing free a…

"Socialism will be free, or it will not be at all."
-- Rudolf Rocker
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #Socialism

If you are free tonight, there are still some places open in the Our Brilliant Ruin One-Shot
#TerryCon

I've been playing a lot of Ball x Pit - psyched to learn its first free update ('The Regal Update') will be available January 26 with new balls, passives, and other features: https://www.gematsu.com/2026/01/ball-x-pit-the-regal-update-launches-january-26…

BALL x PIT ‘The Regal Update’ launches January 26
BALL x PIT’s first free major update, “The Regal Update,” will launch on January 26, publisher Devolver Digital and developer Kenny Sun announced. It will add new characters, ball…

Nvidia and Google launch the GeForce Now Fast Pass to let Chromebook owners stream over 2,000 games directly from an existing PC game library without ads (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/824940/chromebooks-nvidia-geforce-now-fa…

New Chromebooks will come with a year of Nvidia’s cloud gaming ‘fast pass’
Nvidia GeForce Now Fast Pass is an ad-free queue-jump for GeForce Now’s free tier, and it’s exclusive to Chromebook owners.

Trump is just the worst!
The National Park Service is reshuffling its free-admission schedule
so that visitors get in free on Donald Trump’s birthday next year,
while Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth (previously free days) will now require regular entrance fees.
https://bsky.app…

Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social)
Trump is just the worst! The National Park Service is reshuffling its free-admission schedule so that visitors get in free on Donald Trump’s birthday next year, while Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth (previously free days) will now require regular entrance fees. https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/national-park-service-free-days-2026-trump-birthday-mlk-juneteenth

In which a) hilarious and b) what the fuck does Twitter need “starter packs” for anyways?
Like…everyone who’s joining Twitter is on there, man.
It’s all downhill from here. You literally got passed by threads.
Twitter: we’re coming up with new features like free revenge porn and starter packs!
Jesus. https://

Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)
Attached: 1 image Will Twitter have a Nazi starter pack

An easy start for Zohran in NYC would be to make the SBS Bx12 free because few pay as it is. Its de facto free but carries the expence of enforcement.
Convert other bus lines in the city from de facto free to officially free as the loss of income will be negligible if not nil due to no need of enforcement.

me: [frantically cleaning dripping maple syrup out of the fridge with a sponge]
fridge: *beep*
fridge: *beep*
fridge: *beep*
8yo: "CLOSE THE FRIDGE DOOR"
me: "I will close the door when I'm good and ready. I will not be told what to do by a REFRIGERATOR of all things."
13yo: 😂
13yo: "I'LL CLOSE THE FRIDGE WHEN I DAMNED WELL FEEL LIKE IT!"
13yo: "THIS IS AMERICA! LAND OF THE FREE...DGE"

I was looking at the @… OpenSSF annual report and wondering which kind of open source they use for their publishing.
Maybe one day, open source foundations will actually use open and free software.
#opensource

Which Raiders will become free agents in 2026? https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-2026-free-agents-list-nfl-free-agency

Plex starts to enforce a rule requiring users to pay for a Plex Pass or Remote Watch Pass to stream from a remote server on Roku; other platforms follow in 2026 (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/pl…

Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week
Roku users will be hit first.

What could happen when the spirit of 1968 collided with Franco's Spain?
"Patronato: My mum was a 17-year-old free spirit in Franco's Spain - so she was locked up and put in a coma"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr43vx0rrwvo

This is a subtweet...
People who are not anti-capitalist sometimes wonder: "Why is there a monopoly on X life-critical thing?" (E.g., epipens, insulin, web search).
This one is really simple actually: because monopolies are more profitable than competition, and the foundation of capitalism is that capital = power.
Various societies have recognized the necropolitical outcomes of monopolies and have tried to erect barriers to monopoly; we all know that monopolies are bad, death-and-suffering-causing things. But since these societies mostly remain capitalist, they allow these barriers to be eroded by the power of capital (to do otherwise would be to repudiate capitalism because it puts a limit on the power of money). The barriers are ineffective, and the capital = power equation holds, and monopolies result and get to do their killing & maiming thing (remember: even things like social media monopolies that you wouldn't expect to pay for political assassinations like a mining company still profit from inciting genocides). *Sometimes* there are oligopolies instead of monopolies, but instances of really competitive markets are pretty rare for things that are widely sought-after.
The "government will manage the markets to prevent bad outcomes like monopolies" strategy has failed repeatedly, spectacularly, and almost universally. To actually prevent monopolies you need a population that no longer believes that money should equal power, it's that simple. Sadly, it's actually not that simple, since all of the alternatives which equate something else to power, like "the king" or "party loyalty as judged by the supreme leader" have the same problems or worse. The attitude you need to cultivate is "nobody should have power," which is hard because *all* of the power-systems we have constantly propagandize against this attitude in myriad ways. Still, in the future once we've broken free of this age where hierarchy is accepted, people will look back and wonder whether the historical records are even credible given how much needless death and suffering were endured with little resistance.
#anarchy #capitalism

Cowboys Predicted to Retain Top Player in 2026 NFL Free Agency https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-predicted-retain-top-player-2026-nfl-free-agency

OpenAI for Science launches Prism, a free LaTeX-based text editor that embeds GPT-5.2 to assist in scientific paper drafting and citation management (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/27/…

OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science
Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers. 

Chargers' Khalil Mack pondering NFL future heading into free agency https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-khalil-mack-pondering-nfl-future-heading-into-free-agency

An update to my work-from-a-coffee-shop experiment.
I finally got out to a coffee shop with my iPad and Magic Keyboard, and am using this time to respond to emails.
The coffee shop seemed very happy with me buying a coffee and sitting here without restriction. So, that’s what I am doing.
Although they have free Wi-fi here, I am tethering to my phone… feels safer, although I guess I could VPN 🤔
I’m also meeting @… here for lunch, so that will be nice.
Best of all, I can access my NAS remotely, so I have everything I need 😅
#WFH #NotWFH #CoffeeShop

Cowboys Exec Reveals Timeline on New DC’s Free-Agent Approach https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/christian-parker-free-agent-approach/

Channel 4 says Jimmy Kimmel will share a message on Christmas Day as part of its Alternative Christmas Message show, emphasizing the importance of free speech (Ali Watkins/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/world/europe/jimmy-kim…

Jimmy Kimmel Will Deliver Britain’s ‘Alternative Christmas Message’
Mr. Kimmel will speak out against fascism and about the importance of free speech in the holiday address, according to a Channel 4 spokesman.

Perplexity plans to roll out a free agentic shopping product for US users next week in partnership with PayPal (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/perplexity-ai-online-shopping-paypal.html

Perplexity AI announces free product to streamline online shopping
Perplexity AI announced it will roll out a free agentic shopping product for U.S. users next week

Will the Cowboys Finally Splash the Cash in 2026 Free Agency? https://insidethestar.com/will-the-cowboys-finally-splash-the-cash-in-2026-free-agency

IRS Direct File,
the electronic system for filing tax returns for free,
will not be offered next year,
the Trump administration has confirmed.
An email sent Monday from IRS official Cynthia Noe to state comptrollers that participate in the Direct File program said that
“IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026. No launch date has been set for the future.”
The program developed during Joe Biden’s presidency
was credited by users with…

IRS Direct File won't be available next year for submitting tax returns for free
The Trump administration has decided not to offer the IRS' electronic tax filing system for free next year, and its future is unclear. An IRS official informed state comptrollers in an email Monday that "IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026." Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said better alternatives exist and the private sector can do a better job. The program, developed during Joe Biden's presidency, was praised for making tax filing easy and economical. However, it face…

Morning all!
This evening (Tues 25th Nov, 6pm UK) I'm going to be interviewing an expert on #burnout at work - an experienced psychotherapist and author called Dr. Richard Duggins. And it will be live on my online community.
If you'd like to join us - and ask your own questions - you can join the community for free right now:

Panel talking about dark markets on nostr.
Nostr can be quite anonymous and encrypted and connected to payment via bitcoin. Can it therefore do Silk Road? Allow anonymous markets?
Nobody wants to publicly advocate for selling illegal drugs, but yeah, sure, people could do that. There's even protocol types for market places.
Relay owners might get into legal issues if they are forwarding illegal market listings. But this is true in general, there are also illegal images and even illegal text.
Nostr relays and Devs might find themselves in legal trouble anyway, due to the general legal crackdowns on internet requiring age proof and id on websites obstensively to protect kids. These are freedoms we all need to fight for. Perhaps brains will drain to more free jurisdictions? Devs move to where open development is legal? Not the panel at least. They want to say at home.
#nostr #nostrshire #darkMarkets

Braden Smith is the grown-up the Raiders offensive line needs https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/27/braden-smith-is-the-grown-up-the-raiders-offensive-line-needs/

Meta says it will test new paid subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps and plans to scale Manus as part of those offerings (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/meta-to-test-premium…

Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp | TechCrunch
In the coming months, Meta is going to explore a premium experience on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp that gives users access to special features and more control over how they share and connect, while keeping the core experiences free. 

WSJ launches Free Expression, a newsletter-focused opinion brand that will be available via its own channels and Substack, initially offering free content (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/15/wsj-opinion-substack-free-expression

Exclusive: WSJ launches new opinion offshoot "Free Expression"
The new section is meant to expand WSJ's opinion coverage to a broader audience.

Cowboys' Big Decision: What They Should Do With Javonte Williams This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-big-decision-what-dallas-should-do-javonte-williams-nfl-offseason

OpenAI announces ChatGPT for Teachers, designed for K-12 educators and school districts, and says it will be free to K-12 educators in the US through June 2027 (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/openai-chatgpt-for-teachers-k-12-educators.html…

OpenAI rolls out 'ChatGPT for Teachers' for K-12 educators and districts
ChatGPT for Teachers will be free to K-12 educators in the U.S. through June 2027

Hey Bandcamp Fridays are fee-free!
The artist gets 100%, 12-12 PST.
Bandcamp Fridays will be continuing in 2026! Find the dates below, and mark your calendars:
February 6th
March 6th
May 1st
August 7th
September 4th
October 2nd
November 6th
December 4th.
-- Jay Peach
My bandcamp site is 👇
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Cowboys' Big Decision: What They Should Do With Javonte Williams This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-big-decision-what-dallas-should-do-javonte-williams-nfl-offseason

Ads for things are like We Will Now Allow This! For FREE*!
And then, the caveat, often in fine print.
(*if you stab yourself in the face)

Falcons restructure Kirk Cousins' contract, will likely release him by March: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6946922/2026/01/06/kirk-cousins-falcons-contract-restructure-free-agent/

Letting Cowboys 2026 Free Agents Walk Makes Sense https://insidethestar.com/letting-cowboys-2026-free-agents-walk-makes-sense

1 Impending Free Agent Raiders Should Prioritize https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-1-impending-free-agent-should-prioritize

American Airlines partners with AT&T to add free, high-speed satellite-based Wi-Fi across its entire fleet, with a target spring 2026 completion date (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/855838/american-airlines-free-att-wifi-speed…

American Airlines is adding free AT&T Wi-Fi to all its planes
American Airlines announced it was installing free Wi-Fi provided by AT&T on all of its planes. The entire fleet will be operational by spring 2026.

PEN America elects novelist Dinaw Mengestu as president, as the organization navigates free speech challenges across the US and criticism of its Gaza response (Jennifer Schuessler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/arts/dinaw-mengestu-pen…

Dinaw Mengestu Will Be New President of PEN America
The novelist Dinaw Mengestu will lead the literary group at a time of escalating threats to free expression at home and abroad.

Linebacker Who Dominated Cowboys Floated as Free-Agent Target https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/linebacker-who-dominated-free-agent-target/

Crunchyroll announces it is shutting down its free ad-supported streaming option on December 31; Crunchyroll subscriptions start at $7.99/month or $79.99/year (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/crunchyroll-is-shutting-down-its-free…

Crunchyroll is Shutting Down Its Free Ad-Supported Plan | Cord Cutters News
Crunchyroll will eliminate its ad-supported free tier on December 31, 2025, ending the last remaining way to legally watch anime on the platform without paying a subscription fee. The change, delivered unceremoniously through an in-player message that replaced a scheduled advertisement, marks the quiet conclusion of an option that had persisted, in increasingly limited form, […]

Crunchyroll announces it is shutting down its free ad-supported streaming option on December 31; Crunchyroll subscriptions start at $7.99/month or $79.99/year (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/crunchyroll-is-shutting-down-its-free…

Crunchyroll is Shutting Down Its Free Ad-Supported Plan | Cord Cutters News
Crunchyroll will eliminate its ad-supported free tier on December 31, 2025, ending the last remaining way to legally watch anime on the platform without paying a subscription fee. The change, delivered unceremoniously through an in-player message that replaced a scheduled advertisement, marks the quiet conclusion of an option that had persisted, in increasingly limited form, […]

1 Underrated Free Agent Wide Receiver Raiders Should Target https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-underrated-free-agent-wide-receiver-should-target

Online influencer Andrew Tate,
a self-described misogynist who has millions of young male followers,
was facing allegations of sex trafficking women in three countries
when he and his brother left their home in Romania to visit the United States.
“The Tates will be free,
Trump is the president.
The good old days are back,”
Tate posted on X before the trip in February
— one of many times he has sung the president’s praises to his fans.
But…

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

Schottenheimer Makes Plea to Cowboys on $21 Million Free-Agent Move https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brian-schottenheimer-cowboys-on-free-agent-star/

Cowboys predicted to sign $18 million Bills free agent for more firepower on defense https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-predicted-sign-18-million-bills-free-agent-fire…

Versant says it has acquired Free TV Networks, which owns several digital broadcast and FAST channels, and INDY Cinema Group, which will fold into Fandango (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Versant Plans Fandango FAST Offering, Acquires Digital Broadcast Operator Free TV Networks
The company is also adding movie theater operations outfit INDY Cinema Group to its portfolio.

Javonte Williams wants strong finish, offers insight into free agency https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/javonte-williams-wants-strong-finish-offers-insight-into-free-agency

In a global first, DAZN will broadcast a live match between two teams in the National League, the fifth tier of English soccer, for free on its TikTok account (Matt Slater/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6783979/2025/11/06/…

English National League game to be streamed live on TikTok in global first
The fixture between arguably the two biggest teams outside the EFL will be streamed live, free of charge, on DAZN's TikTok channel.

Amazon plans to let authors offer their DRM-free ebooks in the EPUB and PDF formats through Kindle Direct Publishing, starting January 20, 2026 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/amazon-chan…

Amazon changes how copyright protection is applied to Kindle Direct's self-published ebooks | TechCrunch
Amazon says its Kindle Direct DRM-free titles will be available as PDFs and EPUB files going forward.

Cowboys have 21 pending free agents and not all of them should return https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/17/cowboy-21-pending-free-agents-preference-2026/88226731007/

Will McClay Discusses Defensive Coordinator Hire, Free Agency,

Dallas Cowboys can do 'whatever they want to do' in NFL free agency https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-can-do-whatever-they-want-nfl-free-agency

Pickens, Aubrey among 10 free agents Cowboys should bring back in '26 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/13/10-pending-free-agents-cowboys-should-bring-back-for-2026/87751…

Cowboys 2026 Free Agency: 22 players with expiring deals in Dallas https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-2026-free-agency-22-players-with-expiring-deals-in-dallas

Cowboys 2026 Free Agency: 22 players with expiring deals in Dallas https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-2026-free-agency-22-players-with-expiring-deals-in-dallas

AFC West Star Named Top Cowboys Free Agent Target https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/john-franklin-myers-free-agent-target/