
2025-08-22 10:34:00
Local newsletter company 6AM City acquires AI newsletter startup Good Daily, expanding 6AM subscribers from 1.4M to ~2M and footprint from 30 to 400 US cities (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/6am-city-ai-newsletter-good-daily/
OMFG
"A hacker compromised a version of Amazon’s popular AI coding assistant ‘Q’, added commands that told the software to wipe users’ computers, and then Amazon included the unauthorized update in a public release of the assistant this month"
https://www.
The Lions roar back into the NFL's elite, plus two MLB collapses to watch https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6652265/2025/09/23/lions-ravens-nfl-the-pulse/
"**The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, Amazon then pushed out to users.**"
Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent
https://www.404media.co/hacker-plants-computer-wiping-commands-in-amazons-ai-coding-agent/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
"Silicon Valley’s era of innovation is over. This is their villain era. The era of the con. Having bled themselves dry of ideas, and all sense of moral decency, they’re now attempting to bleed us dry of our own humanity."
(Original title: How to keep sea-monkeys alive)
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Kyiv Independent launches One story from Ukraine newsletter: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/23/kyiv-independent-launches-one-story.html
Cyber security is an ever-evolving battle that we can never win.
The reason is simple -- and scary:
Virtually no one actually knows what is running on their computer at this very moment.
Gary Ruddell created a series of videos that are both entertaining and professionally made.
His website provides insight in cyber security and includes articles, a newsletter and also workshops for those who are interested in a career in cyber.
Here's one of his videos.
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"Dokumente vergleichen in #Word – lokal und via SharePoint" https://www.deroutlooker365.de/das-loesungsvideo-817-dokumente-verglei…
„Was passiert, wenn Plattformen journalistische Inhalte noch mehr gezielt diskriminieren – algorithmisch oder manuell? Was, wenn der Rechtsruck weiter voranschreitet und die Pressefreiheit auch bei uns systematisch beschnitten wird? Was, wenn Informationsfreiheitsgesetze, Pressegesetze, Datenschutzstandards ‚abgeräumt‘ werden – in einem Klima der Gleichgültigkeit oder des Zynismus?"
@…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/115162475308234127
More details including a picture of the nameplate (showing the manufacturer and confirming the DC capabilities) in today’s Electric Avenue newsletter
Andrea Maria Dusl informiert, dass die wienerische Bezeichnung "Untergatte" für hosenartige Unterwäsche sich vom ungarischen gatya (Plural gatyšk) ableite, "womit ursprünglich die weite, weiße, leinene, ungarische Bauernhose bezeichnet wurde. Gatya wiederum kommt vom kroatischen gaće, einem Pluralwort für „Unterhosen"." (Falter-Newsletter)
You picked the most overrated and underrated NFL teams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6509332/2025/07/23/nfl-underrated-overrated-teams-the-pulse/
Berlin! Kleinmachnow! Kino-Tipp! Die Neuen Kammerspiele in Kleinmachnow sind ein Kleinod des Kinos im (sorry, Brandenburg) Berliner Umland. Morgen ist das Programm besonders toll und ihr wollt da eigentlich gleich den ganzen Tag bleiben, denn den morgigen Tag haben deren Schulpraktikant_innen gestaltet. Tolles Programm und abends gibt es Dirty Dancing. Yay!
Qwen-Image-Edit: Image Editing with Higher Quality and Efficiency
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image-edit/?utm_source=www.the…
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tamra-maew/?utm_source=newsletter
Status, the newsletter founded by ex-CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy, hires Brian Lowry as Hollywood correspondent and Natalie Korach as media correspondent (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Our paper was featured in a nice article of the Critical Zone Newsletter. Thank you very much @… 😀
https://criticalzonenews.substack.com/p/stone-gardens-after-ice-the-slow
Wether you prefer noisy or quiet events, here are some ideas for the #WordPress community! https://make.wordpress.org/community/2025/07/15/meetup-organizer-…
One early stunner among the NFL's undefeated, plus an incredible catch https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6650195/2025/09/22/nfl-undefeated-teams-the-pulse/
Creative Intelligence is the only book that will give you the foundation, the ability for you to create your own floor. While others scramble to hit AI usage metrics and come up with bland ideas, you'll be building the skills and capabilities that actually matter and set you apart.
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Does anyone know or use #Internxt¹?
295€ for a "lifetime" 3TB storage sounds... Too good? 🤨
But @… @… made a :gitannex:
A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has hit $30M in ARR and fees starting at $43/month for 1,000 subscribers, unlike Substack, which takes a 10% cut (Jessica Roy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/beehiiv-next-billion-doll…
Das Beteiligungsportal des Landes BW stellt über den Sommer eine Vielzahl von Vorhaben zur Debatte - darunter auch das Polizeigesetz (Basis für einen Palantir-Einsatz): https://www.
Just as a reminder for Metacurity readers, I’m on a two-week hiatus for my daily newsletter.
I’m not on holiday - I’m working to meet a 9/30 deadline for my next book and also continuing to work on independent reporting projects.
But my daily Metacurity newsletter returns on Sept. 2. Stay tuned!
Let's start football season with some takes, plus the strangest walk-off win https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6506943/2025/07/22/nfl-power-rankings-the-pulse/
I never understood the "you need to push out a newsletter every week or people unsubscribe" thing. Like: If you don't send anything you are totally out of my attention and I don't think enough about you to hunt down your page and unsubscribe. What gets me to unsubscribe is some filler post that has a convenient "click here to unsubscribe" post at the bottom.
Has #DH2025 inspired you to get more involved in Digital Humanities communities? Sign up for the @… newsletter for updates from our 14 DH organisations and 10 special interest groups (SIGs)
Might be a good time to get caught up on this ARG if they are going to do more!
#criticalRole
Sources: CBS News is losing around $50M per year (Dylan Byers/Puck)
https://puck.news/newsletter_content/cbs-newss-50m-loss-msnow-hand-wringing-the-arguments-uphill-battle/
EU #ATLANTIS
1) final newsletter
10 SEP 2025
site: https://www.atlantis-horizon.eu/atlantis-newsletter-6/
pdf:
The Lever: Amid Deadly Floods, Lawmakers Left Gap In Warning System
https://www.levernews.com/amid-deadly-floods-lawmakers-left-gap-in-warning-system/?utm_source=…
"Please open up our #newsletter with our #advertisement in a web browser because your #email setup doesn't fulfill our way of seeing things and therefore we'll not show you the content in your t…
An excellent, though long, essay on what's really happening with spending on building out Data Centers for AI and how there is no hope to every pay it back
#AIHype
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter
The Anarchist's Cookbook for Fonts
A Must read
The Arialpocalypse
https://brilliantcrank.com/the-arialpocalypse-default-thinking-ate-the-world/?ref=brilliantcrank-newsletter
via @…
They’re also looking for German-speaking developers
https://fosstodon.org/@filen/114819935727883330
I wonder how much energy is saved by unsubscribing from just one regular email newsletter 🤔
"Ardisson, c'était une machine Š broyer les femmes, les pauvres, les minorités, parfois les trois Š la fois. Mais avant tout, et tout le temps, les femmes."
https://www.arretsurimages.net/chroniques/sur-le-gril/ardisson-der…
#hagalil: das D-A-CH Bündnis gegen #Antisemitismus, hat nun einen konkreten, überparteilichen Fünf-Punkte-Plan gegen Antisemitismus entwickelt.
Glassholes 4.0 - who would have thought that this is the usecase for these devices.
https://www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-wore-meta-smart-glasses-to-an-immigration-raid-in-los-angeles/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
🏃♀️ Flopped launch and new squad building: Boston and Denver’s journey to the NWSL | Moving the Goalposts
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jul/31/nwsl-boston-legacy-denver-summit-expansion-moving-the-goalposts
Judge kills DOJ's "bad faith" subpoena seeking children's hospital info on gender-affirming care - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/judge-kills-dojs-bad-faith-seeking-childrens-hospital-info-on-gender-affirming-care/?utm_campaign=good-news-newsletter&utm_edition=202509120100&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
Sam Altman says OpenAI "totally screwed up some things" on the GPT-5 rollout, confirms plans to fund a brain-computer interface startup to rival Neuralink (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/command-line-news
Whoa. New science. These ant queens produce babies of two different species.
https://www.404media.co/the-biological-rulebook-was-just-rewritten-by-ants/?ref=the-abstract-newsletter
This month's digest/newsletter is on the way to the age-verified kosher normal people who signed up for it in their email.
The rest of you unverified anarchists can use your VPN and access it here.
#digest #newsletter
Consent auf Politisch: "Nicht nein" heißt Ja.
via @… #SachsenAnhalt
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A practical application of AI in research.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/using-genera
Jessica Wildfire: We Live Under Authoritarian Rule
https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/we-live-under-authoritarian-rule/?ref=the-sentinel-intelligence-newsletter
> It's time to act like it.
The US State Department survey of human rights -another thing destroyed by Trump.
https://www.
Partially paywalled but still lots of juicy data. “State of the software engineering job market in 2025”: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market-in-2025
From which:
Fascinating stuff, an open protocol by Google to let agents make payments.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/pro…
heise | heise Update vom 15. August 2025: Lesetipps zum Wochenende
Der Newsletter von heise : Abnehmen mit Gadgets, E-Lastenräder, macOS-Tools, Wechselrichter-Tausch, Foto-Sync-Speicher.
https://www.
US newsletter publisher The Flyover now has 25 staff, 2.5M subscribers, nine state-specific daily editions, and one national edition, after its 2023 launch (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-ameri
EU, JRC
3. Juli 2025
De neitsten #Newsletter iwwer Critical Infrastructure Resilience vun der Europäescher Kommissioun
site: https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/cipr/newsl…
Die Regierung in #Chile hat am vergangenen Montag per Dekret die Enteignung der ehemaligen deutschen Sektensiedlung #ColoniaDignidad eingeleitet. Sie soll eine Gedenkstätte werden.
This month's newsletter is on the way to all the great people with intact wrists who asked for it.
All the rest of you broken wristed scum can read it here:
#newsletter
Pondering the Dolphins' 'good loss,' plus Clayton Kershaw's exit https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6643194/2025/09/19/bills-dolphins-mike-mcdaniel-the-pulse/
Substack raised $100M from the Chernin Group, a16z, and others, sources say at a $1.1B valuation, as it builds a social network and focuses on advertising (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/substack-fundraising-social-network.htm…
The comments point to the racism Substack supports and recommend against it. 👍
Substack Offers Craft Businesses More Than Just a Newsletter - Craft Industry Alliance
https://craftindustryalliance.org/substack-offers-craft-businesses-more-than-just-a-newsletter/
Oliver Darcy expands his Status newsletter by launching a podcast and videocast called Power Lines, and says Status is approaching 85,000 paid and non-paid subs (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/oliver…
Newsletter platform Ghost now lets publishers syndicate their posts across social web platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads
https://www.theverge.com/news/718286/ghost
A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has hit $30M in ARR and fees starting at $43/month for 1,000 subscribers, unlike Substack, which takes a 10% cut (Jessica Roy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/beehiiv-next-billion-doll…
Before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity -- our last daily newsletter before a two-week summer break -- for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--US feds crack down on Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex,
--US seeks to seize $2.8m from ransomware actor's wallet,
--Polish city fended off likely Russian attack on water supply,
--Iranian hackers infiltrated former Israeli justice minister's phone…
A deep dive into the state of the tech job market in 2025, including an increase in demand for AI engineers and a rising average tenure at Big Tech companies (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer)
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market…
Baltimore, Penn State and the pressure of being oh so close https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6563329/2025/08/20/ravens-penn-state-football-the-pulse/
Trump’s immigration end game could destroy an already-strained court system
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/analysis/trump-deportations-immigration-courts-project-47-newsletter-rcna224394
Sources: OpenAI plans to launch an open-weight model as soon as next week on Hugging Face and other platforms, its first open-weight release since GPT-2 in 2019 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft
Q&A with independent journalist Molly White, who writes the tech and crypto newsletter Citation Needed, which has ~29K subscribers, including ~2,400 paid (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/independent-journali…
Gmail: Google kündigt vereinfachte Abo-Verwaltung an
Google startet in Gmail eine zentrale Abo-Verwaltung, um Newsletter einfacher zu verwalten und abzubestellen.
https://www.heise.de/news…
Sources detail Google's struggles to monetize Google TV, which has been costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars annually and has yet to break even (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/lowpass-newsletter/724970/google-tv-ad…
A look at newsletter-first publisher The European Correspondent, which launched in 2022, got a €2.1M grant from the EU in June, and has almost 70K subscribers (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters
The unsettling rise of athlete stalkers, plus an NFL QB debate https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6548086/2025/08/12/the-unsettling-rise-of-athlete-stalkers-plus-an-nfl-qb-debate/
The NFL teams already panicking, plus an MLB standings check https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6629887/2025/09/15/nfl-week-2-the-pulse/
heise | heise Update vom 05. September 2025: Lesetipps zum Wochenende
Der Newsletter von heise : Blutmond fotografieren, Fotobuch-Dienste, Hörbuch-Anbieter, Fensterputzroboter und ein E-Ink-Tablet.
https://…
How a new money battle emerged in the NFL; plus Scottie chases history https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6503441/2025/07/19/how-a-new-money-battle-emerged-in-the-nfl-plus-scottie-chases-history/
heise | heise Update vom 4. Juli 2025: Lesetipps zum Wochenende
Der Newsletter von heise : Arzttermin-Scraper, Klimaanlagen-Guide, Schlüsselfinder, Donkey Kong und Bier-Reportage.
https://www.
Substack raised $100M from the Chernin Group, a16z, and others, sources say at a $1.1B valuation, as it builds a social network and focuses on advertising (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/substack-fundraising-social-network.htm…
A profile of Dan Rather, now 93, as he publishes his Steady newsletter three times a week to over 530K subscribers, 20 years after signing off as a CBS anchor (Jacques Steinberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/busines
NASCAR launches on Substack, becoming the first major sports league on the platform; the newsletter will be written by NASCAR's in-house editorial team (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/26/nascar-substack-newsletter