2026-01-09 16:36:48
Former NSA insider Kosiba brought back as spy agency’s No. 2
https://therecord.media/timothy-kosiba-nsa-new-deputy-chief
Former NSA insider Kosiba brought back as spy agency’s No. 2
https://therecord.media/timothy-kosiba-nsa-new-deputy-chief
Perplexity Head of Publisher Partnerships Jessica Chan says it isn't "taking any new advertisers", and that ads aren't currently planned for AI browser Comet (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/perplexity-pauses-n…
How about let’s not?
#apple #liquidAss
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#FoodNamedAfterPlaces
I subscribe to a few of these. I'll have to use this as a recommendation list to check out the rest.
"Outstanding Independent Journalism (formerly Outstanding Blog)
Assigned Media
Buckeye Flame
Charlotte’s Web Thoughts
Erin in the Morning
Impact Media
Queer Kentucky
Queer Review
Trans News Network
Under the Desk News
Xtra Magazine"
I'd add to the recommendations list @…
"Scientists develop new floating box array for offshore PV"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
New gene therapies offer a universal approach to treating retinitis pigmentosa https://www.drugdiscoverynews.com/new-gene-therapies-offer-a-universal-approach-to-treating-retinitis-pigmentosa-16866 Mutation-agnostic …
new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…
If you're thinking of applying and want to visit the Quad, or if you're an alum and you have not been back for a while, we think you'll enjoy our new virtual tour! https://tour.concept3d.com/share/SIWhkklH_Y/stop/1
The US CBP proposes vetting five years of social media history for travelers from the UK, France, Germany, and more; the current system only requires basic info (Christine Chung/New York Times)
https://www.nyti…
Good lord, this new Rosalía album is powerful magic.
#music
A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars: #Mars, Says New Report: https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/search-for-life-should-be-top-science-priority-for-first-human-landing-on-mars-says-new-report -> In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/in-a-major-new-report-scientists-build-rationale-for-sending-astronauts-to-mars/
✅ entering #TSMC headquarters. We got a green #semiconductor manufacturing tour through fabs. Sustainability as a roadshow.
Then we visited a village that had been kindly asked to relocate for a new 2 nm fab. Cutting edges. The temple and local god had to move, too – better get the deity’…
Monday jam: The New Mastersounds | The Vandengburg Suite | #jazz
U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists' Social Media History (Christine Chung/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/travel/social-media-tourists-visa-border-patrol.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p140#a251209p140
An interesting social media datapoint: @… and I recently posted about our new research:
Two former Polygon editors say they are launching Mothership, a new game publication, on January 26, to analyze games through the lens of gender and identity (Danielle Riendeau/Game Developer)
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/new-gender-fo…
Finished our first room renovation! Tore out the old builtin wardrobe and minging carpet, replaced skirting board and coving, plastered where the old wardrobe was, laid new flooring, painted. Took ages but happy with it on the whole!
Learnt a lot! Surface on the teal wall is pretty poor due to bad surface prep and thinking paint was more forgiving than it actually is, so will redo that in the new year, and flooring could be laid a bit better with practice. But very happy on the whole!<…
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This phishing content hosting technique described by Barracuda is very clever. I find that the anti-analysis features are especially so: "it prevents right-clicking the mouse, blocks the keyboard’s F12 key (used for developer tools), and prevents common keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl/Cmd and Ctrl/Cmd Shift."
Regardless, the standard phishing prevention techniques of strong technical controls combined with end-user training (don't click on links in unexpected email messages…
The street names in this part of Queens, New York City, seems deliberately confusing. 🤨🗺️
(Map © #OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0)
#NYC #NewYorkCity
Can right-wingers please find something new to hate instead of the private lives of other people?
How about potholes? Hate on potholes.
A Fifth #Drumpf-appointed acting U.S. attorney disqualified by Federal Judge...
John Sarcone, ostensible U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York, has been ruled to be serving #unlawfully for months according to a new #Federal
From Translink
Customer-driven improvements are coming to Metro Vancouver transit
TransLink’s new five-year plan outlines 34 actions shaped by feedback, focused on reliability
Better real-time transit information, more reliable elevators and escalators, easier ways to report cleanliness issues, and continuing design work for Bus Rapid Transit are among the improvements TransLink is advancing through its new Customer Experience Action Plan.
"When we synchronize initiatives that are small enough to manage and big enough to matter ... things actually happen. Parks get built. Gardens get planted. Food gets served."
—Andrew K. Barnett ’12 M.Div./M.E.M. writing in the new issue of Reflections in his piece titled "The Gospel Politics of Hope"
"Interpol announces a new global fight against illegal deforestation"
#Trees #Environment #Deforestation
A statue from Egypt, 1069-664 BCE (about 3,090-2,690 years ago), in bronze and gold.
Currently on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, as part of their new "Made in Egypt" exhibition. #art #archaeology #ancienthistory
NSA cyber directorate gets new acting leadership
https://therecord.media/nsa-cyber-directorate-new-acting-leadership
Sources: Anderson Cooper has signed a new deal with CNN (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/anderson-cooper-cnn-new-contract-1236603476/
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#FastFoodABook
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"We are all capable of the change we seek, and we must not let the distractions of unyielding thoughts—'I can’t, I shouldn’t, or someone else will do it'—lead us into a place of complacency."
—Living Village resident Sheena Lefaye Crews ’28 M.Div. writing in the new issue of Reflections in her piece "A Villager’s Dream of Sustainable Faith."
a16z announces an eight-week new media fellowship for people with a record of creating "impactful content" via newsletters, podcasts, communities, and more (a16z)
https://a16z.substack.com/p/introducing-the-a16z-new-media-fellowship
Preferential Accretion onto the Secondary Black Hole Strengthens Gravitational-wave Signals: #GravitationalWaves mystery: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/01/07/new-study-examines-gravitational-wave-mystery
Awaiting a clearer picture to evaluate the long term financial viability of #Starlink:
"I doubt that investors are fully factoring in launch costs, satellite support and management into their bullishness. Most of them have no access to operating expenses. These include ground network costs, customer support, and satellite management."
Trump says he won't pardon New Jersey's Bob Menendez (Natalie Fertig/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/08/trump-wont-pardon-new-jersey-bob-menendez-00718085
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p153#a260108p153
The LA Times Media Group announces plans to raise up to $500M selling private shares and is preparing an NYSE IPO in fall 2026 under the ticker symbol LAT (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/business/media/la-times-ipo.html
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You don't want to miss today's Metacurity for a surprising number of critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Pro-Hamas hackers stole plans for Australia's next-gen infantry fighting vehicles,
--Australia, UK, Denmark and Norway raise security concerns about Chinese buses,
--CISA 2015 will extend once US government shutdown ends,
--Chinese cyber company with close ties to Beijing suffered massive hack,
--New NS…
To ChatGPT: Why does it take Neuralink so long to even come up with a compelling monkey video showcasing the promise of their Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision to the blind? https://chatgpt.com/share/69384562-e9a4-8004-89f3-f472209351e0
ChatGPT…
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#MusicEggCorns
#HashTagGames
"Pay to protect: Brazil pitches new forest fund at COP30"
#Brazil #COP30 #Environment
Under its contract with Artists Equity, Netflix will pay the crew a bonus if The Rip performs well, a departure from its usual refusal to make back-end payments (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/business/media/ne…
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#TongueTwisterFood
Maybe Don't Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani (Peter Coviello/Literary Hub)
https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251108/p27#a251108p27
Dynamical development of strength and stability of #asteroid material under 440 GeV proton beam irradiation: #impact – and reveals the hidden strength of space rocks, a breakthrough with direct implications for #PlanetaryDefence strategies: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01-08-new-study-simulates-asteroid-impact-and-reveals-hidden-strength-space-rocks
Despite worries by some that vendor reports on AI cyber threats are merely hype to sell new defensive tools, most cyber defenders and threat intel experts say CISOs who dismiss AI in the attack chain do so at their own risk.
Check out my latest CSO piece.
Many thanks to Marcus Hutchins, Steve Stone of SentinelOne, Billy Leonard of Google Threat Intelligence Group, the folks at Anthropic, Rob T. Lee of SANS Institute, Morgan Adamski of PwC, Joe Levy and Alexandra Rose of Sophos, …
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#PungentMoviesOrFonts
NY Mayor Zohran Mamdani invited dozens of "new media" figures to City Hall for a tour and private news conference while excluding legacy media outlets like NY1 (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/busines
"Oceans struggle to absorb Earth's carbon dioxide as microplastics invade their waters"
#Oceans #Microplastics #Plastic
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#PizzaABookOrPlay
The filibuster is the new MAGA litmus test (Adam Wren/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/11/08/the-trump-card-is-the-new-maga-litmus-test-00643732
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p1#a251109p1
CBS names Tony Dokoupil as the new anchor of CBS Evening News as part of a major overhaul under Bari Weiss; Dokoupil is currently an anchor on CBS' morning show (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne
North Korean Scammers Are Doing Architectural Design Now
https://www.wired.com/story/north-korean-scammers-are-doing-architectural-design-now/
Sources: micro-drama app DramaBox seeks to raise $100M from US backers at a $500M valuation; Disney had invested in the app via its accelerator program (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/dramabox-seeks-new-fu…
"Did you know that for every US$1,000 a person has in savings is roughly equivalent to the direct #Emissions generated by flying from New York to Seattle every year”
#Banks are a core part of how we store and spend money. This
Check out my latest CSO piece, which provides the key takeaways from the 2026 NDAA compromise bill released earlier this week, chief among which are provisions that protect the mobile communications of top brass and requirements to safeguard AI systems from digital threats.
https://www.
Supreme Court Will Consider New Curbs on Human-Rights Suits (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-09/supreme-court-will-consider-new-curbs-on-human-rights-suits
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p117#a260109p117
Email: USA Today EIC Caren Bohan has abruptly left the company, the second editor in chief to do so in less than two years; she became EIC in September 2024 (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/business/media/usa-today-to…
https://www.billboard.com/pro/taylor-swift-sabrina-carpenter-impersonators-scam-fans-2025/
TAYLOR SWIFT, SABRINA CARPENTER IMPERSONATORS SCAM FANS OUT OF $5.3 BILLION IN 2025: REPORT
Gas Prices Plunge to New Multi-Year Low -- and They're Trending Lower ⛽ (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/12/gas-prices-plunge-to-new-multi-year-low-and-trending-lower/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p98#a251208p98
Omfg
"NSO’s new executive chairman, David Friedman, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and onetime bankruptcy lawyer for President Trump, said he wants to use his ties to the Trump administration to help rebuild the company’s spyware business in the U.S."
Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Gets New Owners, Leadership and Seeks to Mend Reputation
"Canada may approve a new oil pipeline. First Nations fear another ‘worst-case scenario’"
#Canada #FossilFuels #Climate
Mamdani Moves to 'Trump-Proof' New York as ICE Tensions Rise (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-08/mamdani-moves-to-trump-proof-new-york-as-ice-tensions-rise
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p87#a251208p87
https://www.wsj.com/tech/israeli-spyware-maker-nso-gets-new-owners-leadership-and-seeks-to-mend-reputation-166ac50e
Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Gets New Owners, Leadership and Seeks to Mend Reputation
The New Yorker adds Jason Zengerle and Ruby Cramer as staff writers for politics and Jon Allsop as a contributing writer; Emily Nussbaum will be theater critic (Michael Luo/@michaelluo)
https://x.com/michaelluo/status/1998423522524426421
Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba resigns as New Jersey U.S. attorney after disqualification (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/trump-alina-habba-new-jersey-prosecutor.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p104#a251208p104
CNN revamps its app's homepage with a new Shorts tab that provides a TikTok-style feed of short-form vertical video clips covering news stories (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/816638/cnn-app-shorts-feed-videos-launch
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Former Trump attorney Alina Habba resigns as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey (Ryan Lucas/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/g-s1-101204/trump-attorney-new-jersey-habba
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p115#a251208p115
After Big Tech implemented a blackout on political advertising in the EU following a new law, the European Commission says it's in talks with Big Tech (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-political-ad-rules-google-meta-microsoft-big-…
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#MashupChocolateAndFilms
Matt Gutman is leaving ABC News to join CBS News as chief correspondent on January 5, reporting across the network as well as lead correspondent for 48 Hours (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/matt-gutman-joins-cbs-news-chief-correspon…
Republican Bruce Blakeman planning to enter race for New York governor (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/08/republican-bruce-blakeman-planning-to-enter-race-for-new-york-governor-00681465
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p112#a251208p112
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Former Trump personal lawyer Alina Habba resigns as acting US attorney for New Jersey (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/08/politics/alina-habba-resigns-acting-us-attorney-for-new-jersey
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p91#a251208p91
A look at the advantages and pitfalls of AI use in major newsrooms: from sifting through big datasets to suggesting headlines to causing embarrassing errors (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/business/media/ai-news-media-.html
Jared Kushner, the President's Son-in-Law, Is Part of Paramount's Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (Lauren Hirsch/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/business/media/jared-kushner-paramount-bid-warner-bros-discovery.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p117#a251208p117
a16z announces an eight-week new media fellowship for people with a record of creating "impactful content" via newsletters, podcasts, communities, and more (a16z)
https://a16z.substack.com/p/introducing-the-a16z-new-media-fellowship
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes New Department of Justice Division for National Fraud Enforcement (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-establishes-new-department-of-justice-division-for-national-fraud-enforcement/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p126#a260108p126
WSJ: during a recent Washington visit, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump admin officials that if Paramount bought WBD, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN (Brian Stelter/@brianstelter)
https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1998206606857715774
Sources: Tony Dokoupil is set to be the next CBS Evening News anchor beginning in the new year, despite an external search for a high-profile star (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/david-ellison-david-zaslav-warner-bros-paramount-bids<…
UK CMA designates Google with "strategic market status" in online search and advertising and will begin consultation on potential new regulations later in 2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/google
TikTok announces Shared Collection, to organize and share saved videos, and plans to launch Shared Feed, a daily curated selection of 15 videos, globally (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/apps/tiktok-announces-shared-feed-and…
WBD merging with either Netflix or Paramount should be challenged by US antitrust authorities and would be bad for US streaming market competition (Tim Wu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/opinion/netflix-paramount-warner-bros.html
A YouGov survey estimates 9% of UK adults, or 4.7M people, watched sports via illegal streams in the six months to October, about 200K people more than in 2023 (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6742752/2025/11/09/illegal-stream…
A look at Alan's Universe, a YouTube channel for Gen Alpha with 98.3M subscribers that releases long-form, episodic videos as viewers shift to watching on TV (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/arts/television/youtube-alans-universe.html
Q&A with Greg Gutfeld, host of Gutfeld!, on his rivals Colbert and Kimmel, what offends his audience, Fox News persuading him to do a NYT interview, and more (David Marchese/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/magazine/greg-gutfeld-interview.html
Trump attacks Paramount owners as "no better than the old ownership", demanding an apology from 60 Minutes and Lesley Stahl for Marjorie Taylor Greene interview (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/trump-paramount-60-minutes-david-el…
Uber launches Uber Intelligence, an insights platform that lets advertisers tap into Uber's data about customer trips and deliveries (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-ads-launches-intelli…
An analysis details how right-wing influencers and Trump officials have formed a powerful alliance to target critics, spread false claims, and reshape media (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trump-20-maga-aligned…
After the building fire, Hong Kong summoned AFP, FT, NYT, AP, Bloomberg, and WSJ journalists, telling them to avoid "trouble making", and arrested a commentator (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/12/hong-kong-arre
Reddit is rolling out new safety features globally for all users under 18, ahead of Australia's social media ban for under-16s taking effect on December 10 (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20