The Poynter Institute appoints President Neil Brown as chairman of the board, succeeding Paul Tash, who served as chairman for 20 years and is retiring (Jennifer Orsi/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/news-release/2026/neil-brown…
North Carolina led for just .4 seconds in Saturday's rivalry game against Duke.
But that's all they needed to secure the win.
Seth Trimble's three-pointer with 0.4 seconds left delivered the Tar Heels a 71-68 win and closed out a 9-0 run in the game.
After Trimble's three-pointer, the fans rushed the court before having to clear it,
leaving a delay and one last heave for the Blue Devils.
But a turnover sealed it and the party can begin on Franklin…
from my link log —
Pointer-based data structures in SPARK Ada.
https://blog.adacore.com/pointer-based-data-structures-in-spark
saved 2019-10-12
More than 200 journalists at Law360 and its sister publications sign a letter demanding that parent company RELX drop its contract with DHS due to ICE's actions (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/law360-reuters-newsr…
A pro-Iranian cybercrime group claims responsibility for cyberattacks on Chime and Pinterest that knocked the websites of both companies offline this month (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-07/pro-ir…
Is this "break all kinds of cybersecurity news day" and nobody told me?
Pro-Iran Group Takes Credit for Cyberattacks on Chime, Pinterest
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-07/pro-iran-group-takes-c…
An eventful day at the home office so far... just spent the last 20 minutes trying to clean up the mess of pushing bag of besan (chick pea) flour off the top shelf in the pantry, which burst on impact, maximising dispersion on the coffee making stuff & the rest of the pantry. Much blue air was created. But before that had a magical few minutes when a pīwakawaka flew into the house, happily flew around a bit, & happily flew back out again.
Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $1B, vs. $966M est., MAUs up 11% YoY to 631M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 17% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/04/pinterest-pins-q1-earnings-report-2026.html…