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NFL MVP tracker Week 6: Diving into Matthew Stafford's start to season; Brock Purdy still No. 1 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-mvp-tracker-week-6-matthew-stafford-brock-purdy-josh-allen

Trent McDuffie talks Rams-Cowboys joint practice, returning to SoCal, practicing against Matthew Stafford and Patrick Mahomes https://www.therams.com/video/trent-mcduff

What's wrong with Matthew Stafford? Why 2025 MVP is struggling this season, could bounce back vs. Bills

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-rams-matthew-stafford-bounce-back-vs…

Why Packers' Christian Watson and Matthew Golden could be the NFL's next top WR duo https://www.nfl.com/news/why-packers-christian-watson-and-matthew-golden-could-be-the-nfl-s-next-top-wr-duo

Sources: Druski, aka Drew Desbordes, a sketch comic with 30M followers, is set to host SNL on November 7, the first digital creator to do so (Matthew Belloni/Puck)
https://puck.news/druski-to-host-snl-a-milestone-for-digital-creators/

Josh Allen heaps high praise on Matthew Stafford, says he does this one thing better than any QB ever

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/josh-allen-heaps-praise-matthew-stafford-nfl/

From the Podium: Sean McVay and Matthew Stafford react to Rams' joint practice with Cowboys https://www.therams.com/news/rams-head-coach-sean-mcvay-quarterback-matthew-stafford-joint-practice-with-the-cowboys…

How NFL pros such as Matthew Stafford gain perspective from coaching their kids https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50118480/nfl-players-coaching-kids-matthew-stafford-bud-dupree

Overreaction Monday: Sound The Panic Alarm For The Eagles And Matthew Stafford? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/overreaction-monday-eagles-rams-patriots-raiders-buccaneers-chargers-matthew-stafford-bryce-…

ResonaVis: Visualizing Interactive Music Data to Support Reflective Music Composition for Therapeutic Contexts
Abhishek Karwankar, Elise Ruggiero, Daniel Stevens, Matthew Louis Mauriello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10338 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10338 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10338
arXiv:2608.10338v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Designing music for therapeutic contexts requires navigating complex relationships between musical structure and listeners' sensory responses, yet composers often lack structured representations of these interactions, relying instead on intuition. We present ResonaVis, an interactive visualization system that helps composers analyze interaction and audio data from prior sessions with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), informing future compositions. ResonaVis integrates audio features and interaction logs to capture how children engage with layered musical compositions, representing this engagement through coordinated visualizations of temporal transitions, layer co-occurrence, rhythmic activity, and spectral characteristics. Rather than prescribing strategies or supporting therapy sessions directly, the system surfaces patterns in past session data to support data-informed reflection during composition. We evaluated ResonaVis through a mixed-methods study with eight music students and a follow-up case study with two experienced composers. Results demonstrate good usability (SUS = 72.23), exceeding benchmarks for early prototypes, and show that participants could identify interaction patterns, reason about layer relationships, and make informed compositional decisions with high perceived performance and low frustration. Confidence in interpreting interaction and acoustic data for ASD-focused composition increased significantly across multiple dimensions (p < 0.05), with qualitative findings suggesting a shift toward more adaptive, data-informed composition. This work contributes a visualization design space for therapeutic music interaction data, an integrated system for compositional reflection, and empirical evidence that visualization tools support analytical reasoning and confidence in data-informed creative practice. (Abstract shortened for arXiv.)
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Sources: Netflix is preparing for layoffs that will impact ~5% of employees, or ~850 jobs, amid pressure over weakened engagement and a depressed stock price (Matthew Belloni/Puck)
https://puck.news/netflix-is-sharpening-the-layoff-axe/

Trump's NATO envoy calls for moving military forces east as US reviews troops in Europe (Chris Lunday/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-nato-envoy-matthew-whitaker-calls-for-moving-military-forces-east-as-us-reviews-troops-in-europe/
http://www.memeorandum.com/261012/p29#a261012p29

Rams vs. Bills how to watch, prediction, odds: Matthew Stafford, Josh Allen clash in Week 5 'MNF' matchup

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-vs-bills-ho…

Sources: David Ellison told execs he will move Paramount out of California if AG Rob Bonta doesn't negotiate a settlement of the WBD antitrust case by October 1 (Matthew Belloni/Puck)
https://puck.news/david-ellison-has-gamed-out-a-california-exit-plan/

Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy says he plans to sue the FCC over its end to the ownership cap of local TV stations, calling the move a "blatant violation" of law (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/08/newsmax-preps-lawsuit-over…

Newsmax preps lawsuit over FCC broadcast TV ownership vote
August 11, 2026 - In an interview with The Desk on Tuesday, Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy reaffirmed his commitment to litigation and said FCC Chairman Brendan Carr was "not good for conservatives."

Overreaction Monday: Sound The Panic Alarm For The Eagles And Matthew Stafford? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/overreaction-monday-eagles-rams-patriots-raiders-buccaneers-chargers-matthew-stafford-bryce-…

HCIP (human centered investigative playbooks) are both human and machine readable - Matthew Gracie at #BlueTeamCon https://github.com/InfosecGoon/StandardForPlaybooks

Do People Follow AI Advice? Evidence from a Pension Portfolio Choice Experiment
Hongseok Choi, Jeongbin Kim, Matthew Kovach, Kyu-Min Lee, Euncheol Shin, Hector Tzavellas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11371 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11371 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11371
arXiv:2608.11371v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study how differences in AI-generated financial recommendations are transmitted into individual portfolio choices. In an experiment with 400 employed adults enrolled in workplace defined contribution pension plans in South Korea, participants allocate a hypothetical pension balance across eleven products and may revise it after receiving one of two fixed AI-generated recommendations. A $2 \times 2$ design randomizes recommendation content and whether the recommendation includes a short rationale. Approximately 37$\%$ of the experimentally induced difference between the aggressive and conservative recommendations passes through to final portfolios. This causal contrast changes expected portfolio return, volatility, allocations across risk grades, and the number of products held, but produces no detectable difference in computed Sharpe ratios. 81$\%$ of participants revise. Among revisers, 95$\%$ move toward the assigned recommendation and implement about half of the suggested adjustment. Rationales do not detectably alter pass-through. These results show that users partially and selectively transmit recommendation content into economically meaningful differences in risk exposure while retaining substantial weight on their initial choices.
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An Extreme Summer Workout Left This Hockey Standout on Life Support – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/korey-stringer-matthew-mayich-heat-stroke-deaths-policies-climate-change-extreme-high-temperature-workouts/

Observation of $\Pi$-symmetry ultralong-range Rydberg molecules
Matthew T. Eiles, Aleksandr Zaitsev, Dominik Dorer, Shinsuke Haze, Markus Dei{\ss}, S. Efe G\"urleyen, Chris H. Greene, Johannes Hecker Denschlag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07447

Bills-Rams on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from Buffalo's 37-34 overtime win https://www.nfl.com/news/bills-rams-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-buffalo-s-37-34-overtime-win

Is this the earliest example of #churchcrawling - 1863? Perhaps the earliest where the journey was in part by train! https://edintone.com/st-peter_northampon_st-andrew_steyning/

St Peter, Northampton and St Andrew & St Cuthman, Steyning compared
Matthew Bloxham in his "The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture" (1845) made a comparison between St Peter's, Northampton with St Andrew, Steyning.

Skydance becomes the largest holder of premium US sports media rights, controlling 36 properties, a portfolio nearly twice as large as its closest competitor's (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/10/skydance-cbs-tnt-dominates-sports-tv-rights/

Skydance dethrones NBC, Versant as largest holder of premium sports rights
With CBS and TNT Sports under one roof, Skydance now owns March Madness — and offers games from three dozen other premium sports organizations.

Ella Langley. 'Landman.' The Rural Vibe Shift Is Real. (Matthew Schmitz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/opinion/ella-langley-landman-rural-politics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.A1E.myNS.1MsosYeWViSa&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260913/p9#a260913p9

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Matthew Sweet:
🎵 Sick of Myself
#MatthewSweet
https://redstarhaze.bandcamp.com/track/sick-of-myself-matthew-sweet
https://open.spotify.com/track/4inXYz8i3xRpNbxZJ99Clo

Replaced article(s) found for math.ST. https://arxiv.org/list/math.ST/new
[1/1]:
- Geometric Identification and Consistent Estimation of Source Apportionment with Application to Gr...
Bora Jin, Nicholas J. Spada, Jessie Creamean, Matthew Shupe, Abhirup Datta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03616 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathST_bot/115331987049793537
- Kernel Estimation Of Chatterjee's Dependence Coefficient
Mona Azadkia, Holger Dette
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14206 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathST_bot/116085283519968859
- Shape without scale: an identifiability dichotomy for a bounded tail observed through a non-addit...
Jiarui Qi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.27384 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathST_bot/117324926550805284
- Spectral Analysis of Gaussian Integral Operators Arising in BHEP Tests
Bruno Ebner, Dominic Edelmann, Norbert Henze, Fr\'ed\'eric Ouimet, Donald Richards
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28464 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathST_bot/117325006460286578
- Allocation Stability and Wald Inference under Variance-Aware UCB
Yingying Fan, Yuxuan Han, Jinchi Lv, Xiaocong Xu, Zhengyuan Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08843 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/113644645066030071
- Cascaded Multiwire-PLC/Multiple-VLC System: Characterization and Performance
Silva, Silva, Tom\'e, Figueiredo, da Silva, de Souza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06357 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/114658385767724324
- Set-Valued Policy Learning
Laura Fuentes-Vicente, Mathieu Even, Ga\"elle Dormion, Antoine Chambaz, Uri Shalit, Julie Josse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19830 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116606031645633121
- Weighted NPMLE for the Marginal Mean of Recurrent Events with a Competing Terminal Event
Anna Bellach, Michael R. Kosorok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25934 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/116639957142027974
- Semi-Supervised Kernel Ridge Fr\'echet Regression
Jaehee Seo, Kwangho Kim, Jisu Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.05388 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/117393144890023611
- Sample-Optimal Estimation of the Fr\'echet Inception Distance
Ziyun Chen, Jerry Li, Kevin Tian, Yusong Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07114 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/117398732519059948
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Golden rule of threat hunting:90% of what you find is IoT devices and admins doing something weird - Matthew Gracie at #BlueTeamCon https://github.com/InfosecGoon/StandardForPlaybooks

Nacht der Rekorde - Zwei Preise! Matthew Rhys schreibt Emmy-Geschichte #News #Nachrichten

A Foundational EDM2-Based Generative Model for High-Resolution Synthetic Fetal Ultrasound Imaging from Open Datasets
Harvey Mannering, Yilin Zhang, Ziao Liu, Zhiwu Huang, Jacqueline Matthew, Miguel Xochicale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05471 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.05471 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.05471
arXiv:2608.05471v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Prenatal ultrasound imaging is key for assessing fetal health, but AI progress is limited by scarce, privacy-restricted, and hard-to-annotate datasets. We propose a high-resolution fetal ultrasound synthesis framework based on the EDM2 diffusion architecture, trained on multiple public datasets to generate 512x512 images across six anatomical classes. Our method achieved improved image quality with lower FID scores and enhanced downstream fetal plane classification, reaching 93.36% ensemble accuracy after fine-tuning, surpassing real-data-only training. Clinical evaluation by an experienced fetal ultrasound specialist (10 years) on 100 images yielded a mean realism score of 2.67/5, with real images rated higher than synthetic. Artefacts included smoothing, speckle irregularities, and anatomical inconsistencies. Code, data, models and other resources to reproduce this work are available at https://github.com/xfetus/fetal-ultrasound-edm2.
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Matthew Stafford calls Rams' Monday practice 'as high-quality' as the 18-year pro has experienced https://www.nfl.com/news/matthew-stafford-calls-rams-monday-practice-as-high-quality-as-the-18-year-pro-has-experien…

What on earth. And starring Matthew Rhys?
Anyone seen this? Is it awful?

"First sighting of African wild dogs in Malawi national park in more than 10 years"
#Africa #Dogs #Animals

First sighting of African wild dogs in Malawi national park in more than 10 years
Four African wild dogs were recently spotted in Kasungu National Park in Malawi, making it the first confirmation of the endangered species in the park in more than a decade. The wild dogs appear to have travelled hundreds of kilometers from a park in eastern Zambia to reach Kasungu. Matthew Becker, chief executive of the […]

A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment, AI alignment says sandboxes can't fully contain agents (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/…

Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else. I try hard not to work on AI (except when the topic occasional…

PBS reaches a distribution agreement with news broadcaster France 24 that will allow PBS stations to offer a livestream of France 24 English (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/10/pbs-adds-france-24-english-to-digital-streaming-lineup/

PBS adds France 24 English to digital streaming lineup
PBS member stations across the country will have access to France 24 news programming and can offer a live simulcast of France 24 English via broadcast and streaming.

Hochul shells out over $7M to cover legal bills for 1,400 migrant children in NY (Matthew Fischetti/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/08/12/us-news/hochul-shells-out-over-7m-to-cover-legal-bills-for-1400-migrant-children-in-ny/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260813/p48#a260813p48

Breaking down the 49ers' win against the Rams in Australia https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49892445/2026-nfl-week-1-los-angeles-rams-san-francisco-49ers-matthew-stafford-brock-purdy-melbourne

Towards a Fossil-Free Future:
Seed the Commons invites you to a two-part webinar series this weekend so that you can join the movement to build a truly regenerative food system and a fossil-free future.
Date & Time
Jul 26, 2026
10:00 AM  Pacific Time
https://us06…

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Towards a Fossil-Free Future: Farming for a Time of War and Climate Change . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Seed the Commons invites you to a two-part webinar series this weekend so that you can join the movement to build a truly regenerative food system and a fossil-free future. JULY 26: Farming for a Time of War and Climate Change We will be joined by three Northern California farmers, educators and advocates for a radically different way of growing food and living on our planet. Sydney Grange, Lama Nasser-Gammett, Matthew Nasser-Gammett will speak about how they avoid an extractive approach to …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Matthew Herbert, Momoko Gill, Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill:
🎵 Circle Shore
#MatthewHerbert #MomokoGill
#Spotify

The Nova Podcast
Each week Pooley and Matthew bring you the latest news about Cinema Nova, including new releases, anniversary and restoration screenings, events, festival news, and more...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-nova/…

The Vacation Stack™

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.DS. https://arxiv.org/list/math.DS/new
[1/1]:
- Beyond Invariant Dictionary: Data-Driven Koopman Spectral Recovery with Filtered Extended Dynamic...
Siji Chen, Igor Mezi\'c, Sui Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02661 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathNA_bot/117041757453239989
- A Proof of the Forsythe Conjecture for the Two-Step Restarted Conjugate Gradient Method
Matthew J. Colbrook, George Stepaniants, Alex Townsend
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02852 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathNA_bot/117041786747771352
- Geodesic string counting invariants and arithmetic of multiplicities
Yasha Savelyev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02857 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/117041820596493504
- Local limit theorem and Edgeworth expansions for inhomogeneous random walks on $GL(d,\mathbb R)$
Yeor Hafouta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02897 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathPR_bot/117041853991359257
- Stochastic Saddle Avoidance Beyond Unit Excitation and Smoothness: A Pathwise Lyapunov-Perron Fra...
Junwen Qiu, Bohao Ma, Andre Milzarek, Junyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03001 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathOC_bot/117041775179365775
- Population Structures with Positive Feedback and Asymmetric Division
Gabriel Dooley, Camden Kilton, Brynley Needham, Graham Walther, Todd R. Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03604 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioCB_bot/117041846353665589
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Sources: Netflix is preparing for layoffs that will impact ~5% of employees, or ~850 jobs, amid pressure over weakened engagement and a depressed stock price (Matthew Belloni/Puck)
https://puck.news/netflix-is-sharpening-the-layoff-axe/

Trump's vaccine plan would require millions of individual shots last used decades ago (Matthew Perrone/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-trump-mmr-drugmakers-5a1d91e149feab99b18dd916412523ee
http://www.memeorandum.com/260813/p123#a260813p123

6 Takeaways From The Madden 27 Ratings Reveals https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/6-takeaways-madden-27-ratings-rams-matthew-stafford

NYC's Department of Education adopts a policy barring public school students from using AI until high school, banning companion chatbots in all grades, and more (Matthew Haag/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/nyregio…

A.I. Is to Be Banned in N.Y.C. Elementary and Middle Schools
A new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using A.I., but stops short of a moratorium.

49ers Dominate N.F.L.’s First Regular-Season Game in Australia https://www.nytimes.com/video/the-athletic/100000011146693/49ers-dominate-nfls-first-regular-season-game-in-australia.html

One-time Jets LB Anthony Wint earns UFC contract with 34-second win https://www.nfl.com/news/one-time-jets-lb-anthony-wint-earns-ufc-contract-with-34-second-win

Reflecting Pool's botched repairs threaten to tarnish the National Park Service's reputation (Matthew Daly/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-reflecting-pool-national-park-service-c2ba61c896028b1c4ef87811a70fb8d9
http://www.memeorandum.com/260813/p77#a260813p77

ABC News adds a vertical video feed to its mobile app, as Disney expands the short-form format that has generated significant engagement across ESPN and Disney (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/10/abc-news-verts-vertical-video-clips-app/

ABC News rolls out vertical video clips within mobile app
The vertical video clips are available via a dedicated button within the ABC News app for smartphones.

Anthropic's cryptanalysis results on HAWK and AES show AI can now understand existing cryptanalysis results, turn them into new attacks, and even extend them (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/2…

Some notes about Anthropic’s new results
Yesterday Anthropic published two new cryptanalysis results, both outputs of Claude Mythos, their (still) unreleased advanced model. The first of these results attacks a signature scheme called HAW…

The first person to get in touch with Bijan Robinson after his new contract? Matthew McConaughey https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49539998/bijan-robinson-atlanta-falcons-matthew-mcconaughey

Middle Aged Dad Record Club
A podcast where two mates, Matthew and Ash, dig through the record crates of their lives — from the 90s albums that shaped them to whatever is spinning on their turntables right now...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/middl…

QB Stock Market Week 4: Is Trevor Lawrence Finally Who We Thought He Was? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/qb-stock-market-week-4-trevor-lawrence-finally-who-we-thought-he-was

49ers dominate Rams in Australia behind Brock Purdy’s 3 TDs, stingy defense https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7583527/2026/09/10/49ers-rams-brock-purdy-myles-garrett-score-results-takeaways/

A judge says Nexstar cannot appoint its execs or ex-employees to Tegna's board without prior approval of the court and calls Nexstar's efforts to do so "brazen" (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/08/judge-scolds-nexsta…

Judge says Nexstar can't appoint its executives to TEGNA's Board of Directors
The order says current and former Nexstar officers, employees, directors, consultants and other affiliated personnel are prohibited from serving on TEGNA’s board.

Matthew Stafford, Davante Adams dominate Giants in Rams' blowout win https://www.nfl.com/news/matthew-stafford-davante-adams-dominate-giants-in-rams-blowout-win

Nexstar CEO Perry Sook says he's open to settling the Tegna suit, praises the FCC ending the TV ownership cap but warns case-by-case reviews may add uncertainty (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/08/nexstar-ceo-perry-sook-open-settlement…

Nexstar CEO open to settling antitrust lawsuit over TEGNA merger
During a conference call on Thursday, Nexstar CEO Perry Sook said he is open to a settlement in its ongoing antitrust case over the TEGNA merger.

Matthew Stafford moves into sixth all time in touchdown passes https://www.nfl.com/news/matthew-stafford-moves-into-sixth-all-time-in-touchdown-passes

Rams' Matthew Stafford makes surprise cameo in Taylor Swift's new music video

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-matthew-stafford-cameo-taylor-swift-video/

Bitget halts withdrawals after detecting unauthorized transfers from some hot and warm wallets, affecting ~$351.6M; CEO Gracy Chen says "user funds are safe" (Matthew Brockett/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

'Madden NFL 27' 99 Club revealed: Josh Allen, Matthew Stafford, Myles Garrett headline 6-player class https://www.nfl.com/news/madden-nfl-27-99-club-revealed-josh-allen-matthew-stafford-myles-garrett

Sinclair reports Q2 revenue up 7% YoY to $840M, a net loss of $76M, vs. a $64M loss a year ago, and political ad revenue of $59M, up 9% from Q2 2022 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/08/sinclair-q2-2026-earnings-report/

Sinclair revenue rises 7 percent during Q2 as political advertising surges
Sinclair saw strong momentum from political advertising uptake and viewership of the FIFA World Cup on its local Fox affiliates.

Federal court rejects Trump order keeping Michigan coal plant open (Matthew Daly/Associated Press)
https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/09/11/trump-coal-plant-michigan/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260911/p91#a260911p91

The US Supreme Court declines to hear an appeal from Nexstar seeking to block an antitrust lawsuit brought by DirecTV over retransmission consent negotiations (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/10/supreme-court-nexstar-directv-lawsuit/

Supreme Court rejects Nexstar bid to end DIRECTV retrans lawsuit
The decision leaves intact a 2025 appeals court ruling that revived DIRECTV’s case; the original case involves stations owned by White Knight and Mission.

MVP Matthew Stafford says star-studded Rams have 'high ceiling' for climb toward Super Bowl run https://www.nfl.com/news/mvp-matthew-stafford-star-studded-rams-high-ceiling-training-camp

Tegna launches an internal probe of whether two KGW-TV journalists followed editorial processes when reporting on sports broadcaster Braiden Bell's social posts (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/10/tegna-investigation-kgw-braiden-bell-twee…

TEGNA launches internal review of KGW-TV story on fired sports broadcaster
The probe comes one day after the station published a story on old social media comments made by broadcaster Braiden Bell while he was a teenager.

Matthew Stafford, Rams come from behind to stun Eagles and avoid 1-3 hole https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7659369/2026/10/04/rams-vs-eagles-nfl-2026-score-result-takeaways/

Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthropic, says he was able to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture with the help of Fable 5 (Matthew Sparkes/New Scientist)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2580374-ais-…

AI's solution to 87-year-old riddle takes mathematicians by surprise | New Scientist
Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has apparently found a counterexample that disproves it

QB Stock Market Week 4: Is Trevor Lawrence Finally Who We Thought He Was? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/qb-stock-market-week-4-trevor-lawrence-finally-who-we-thought-he-was

NFL QB rankings, Week 1: Ranking all 32 starters entering 2026 season https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-qb-rankings-week-1-ranking-all-32-starters-entering-2026-season

Memo: E. W. Scripps Company is laying off 268 workers across its broadcast TV operation; sources: workers at stations in NY, NE, OK, and TX were among those cut (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/08/scripps-confirms-pink-slips-affecting-…

Scripps confirms pink slips affecting nearly 270 workers
August 4, 2026 - The layoffs are part of Scripps' decision to execute on a new "phase of our transformation plan," which involves centralized news production and the use of automation tools.

Agent's Take: How the Rams built a salary-cap super team around Matthew Stafford

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-take-rams-2026-salary-cap-super-bowl-window/

Taylor Swift tried to tell us Matthew Stafford would be in 'Patient Zero' video https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50052555/matthew-stafford-taylor-swift-rams-aries-patient-zero-music-video-cameo

Traffic to Trump's Truth Social Falls Sharply This Summer (Matthew Goldstein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/business/trump-truth-social-traffic-declines.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260810/p88#a260810p88

Stafford says Nacua 'played like Puka' in return for Rams https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50104477/matthew-stafford-says-nacua-played-puka-return-rams

Highlight: Matt Hibner Puts Ravens Ahead With Clutch Touchdown https://www.baltimoreravens.com/video/matt-hibner-touchdown-ravens-cowboys-week-3-highlights

Sources: Warner Bros. Pictures co-CEOs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy are expected to leave amid Paramount's acquisition; David Zaslav held himself a farewell party (Matthew Belloni/Puck)
https://puck.news/the-mike-and-pam-era-at-warner-bros-is-ending/

OpenAI employees need to oppose its support for Leading the Future, which seeks to chill federal regulation, and Congress should hold hearings on AI risks (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring)
https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-simple-plan-to-save-the-world-from

A simple plan to save the world from rogue A.I.
Plus a not-so-simple plan to save the world from rogue A.I.

Sling TV discontinues Sling Pass, which gave streamers limited access to ESPN, CNN, and others, from $5 for one day; Disney and WBD sued Sling over the feature (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/10/sling-tv-stops-offering-day-pass-espn-tnt/

Dish's Sling TV stops offering Day Pass, Week Pass
Sling TV has removed a feature that allowed sports and news fans to subscribe to a handful of channels for as little as 24 hours.

Taylor Swift tried to tell us Matthew Stafford would be in 'Patient Zero' video https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50052555/matthew-stafford-taylor-swift-rams-aries-patient-zero-music-video-cameo

Sources: the DOJ issued a subpoena to NYT freelancer Matthew Cole, seeking to force him to reveal his sources about a failed top secret mission in North Korea (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)
https://www.n…

Justice Dept. Subpoenas Times Freelancer in Effort to Identify Sources
A previously undisclosed subpoena, involving reporting on a failed SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea, reflects the government’s expanding campaign to investigate leaks of secrets.

Falcons lock up OL Bergeron on 4-year extension https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49505699/falcons-sign-matthew-bergeron-four-year-96m-extension

Roku raises the prices of its flagship hardware devices, citing shortages of RAM and other components due to AI; Roku Ultra's price rises $50 to $150 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/07/roku-raises-prices-memory-component-shortages-bla…

Roku raises prices of streaming devices, ongoing memory shortage blamed
The cost of some Roku streaming devices has increased by as much as 50 percent as the company works through ongoing component shortages caused by the AI craze.

2026 NFL training camp: Early takeaways for all 32 teams https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-training-camp-early-takeaways-for-all-32-teams

Internal messages: Nexstar has ordered its Fox affiliates to stop using news packages from Fox News Edge in an attempt to bolster the prominence of NewsNation (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/08/nexstar-fox-affiliates-move-on-from-fox-news-ed…

Nexstar Fox affiliates move on from Fox News Edge
Moving forward, Nexstar-owned Fox affiliates will rely exclusively on NewsNation's live feeds and video packages for their national news reporting.

Fubo signs a deal with the NHL to offer locally-televised games by making RSNs covering four teams available to subscribers in each team's respective market (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/09/fubo-hurricanes-blue-jackets-wild-blues-ho…

Fubo will offer local hockey games in four markets
Hockey fans in Minnesota, Ohio, Missouri and the Carolinas will be able to watch locally-televised games from four teams through Fubo.

E.W. Scripps promotes veteran news executive Sean McGarvy to head of news, overseeing Scripps News and the editorial output of local Scripps-owned TV stations (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/09/e-w-scripps-promotes-sean-mcgarvy-to-head-of-ne…

E. W. Scripps promotes Sean McGarvy to Head of News
McGarvy will oversee Scripps News and the editorial output of local Scripps-owned TV stations; he reports to Dean Littleton.

SiriusXM will drop Howard Stern's Howard 101 channel while keeping Howard 100 as part of a programming shuffle to make room for Audacy sports radio stations (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/08/siriusxm-to-drop-one-of-two-howard-stern-chan…

SiriusXM to drop one of two Howard Stern channels
SiriusXM is dropping one of two channels dedicated to Howard Stern's radio universe.

NFL QB rankings, Week 3: Patrick Mahomes, Dak Prescott, Matthew Stafford heating up https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-qb-rankings-index-week-3-2026-nfl-season

Meta signs an AI licensing deal with Newsmax, letting Meta Platforms use current and archived editorial content to help train Meta's search and discovery tools (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/07/facebook-parent-meta-signs-ai…

Facebook parent Meta signs AI licensing agreement with Newsmax
Newsmax is one of several right-of-center news outlets to ink a partnership with Meta Platforms in recent months; others include Fox News Media, the Daily Caller and the Washington Examiner.

Nexstar names a new board of directors to oversee Tegna after a federal judge ruled that its earlier board composed of Nexstar's C-suite violated a court order (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/08/nexstar-appoints-new-tegna-board-after-co…

Nexstar appoints new TEGNA Board after court order
Nexstar has appointed three new directors and one non-voting member to TEGNA's board, less than a month after a federal judge ruled its earlier board violated a hold-separate order.

A federal appeals court sets aside an FCC notice that would have let political parties and joint fundraising committees qualify for lowest broadcast ad rates (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/08/federal-appeals-court-blocks-fcc-g…

Federal appeals court blocks FCC guidance on political ad rates
The case centered on the “lowest unit charge” requirement for broadcast campaign ads before elections.

Dart ruled out, Donald back in action. Rams bounce back in win vs. Giants https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49999155/2026-nfl-week-2-los-angeles-rams-new-york-giants-matthew-stafford-jaxson-dart

Week 4 Fantasy Football Start/Sit: 7 Lineup Calls to Trust https://profootballmania.com/2026/09/30/week-4-fantasy-football-start-sit-2026/

Week 2 NFL QB Power Rankings: Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson rise to the top; Drake Maye, Matthew Stafford tumble

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/week-2-nfl-…

Scripps names Dean Littleton president of media, a new position overseeing local stations, national networks, and Scripps News, its streaming news service (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/07/scripps-elevates-dean-littleton-to-president-of…

Scripps elevates Dean Littleton to President of Media
The reorganization places 60 local stations, ION, Scripps’ multicast and digital networks and Scripps News under one executive.

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.

Hearst warns viewers that a dispute with Dish could disrupt access to nearly three dozen of its TV stations on Thursday, including in bigger cities like Boston (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/08/hearst-dish-network-carriage-dispute-august-202…

Hearst warns of possible local TV blackout on Dish Network
Dish Network is accusing Hearst of demanding a significant fee increase to keep its local channels on the satellite platform.

First-round pick Ty Simpson, Los Angeles Rams agree on rookie contract https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7470097/2026/07/25/ty-simpson-la-rams-rookie-contract/

Rams are unprecedented Super Bowl favorites, but history offers a stark warning

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-super-bowl-odds-nfl-history/