Nepalese "Gen Z" protestors set fire to the offices of daily newspaper Annapurna Post and of Kantipur Media Group, housing its print, TV, and radio divisions (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/09/nepal-protests
The Privacy Paradox
Hadn’t realised that this short piece on privacy by Al Jazeera that I contributed to had aired. Apparently did mid August :)
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/aljazeerauntangles/2025/8/13/the-privacy-paradox
Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-esta…
Great to see @… running with #ProtocolsForPublishers
Chad is a huge open protocols advocate, and fortunately he's not completely engineering brained and has been spending time at the Internet Governance Forum and other important venues that are m…
Judge poised to issue TRO protecting reporters, protesters from ICE force | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-poised-to-issue-tro-protecting-reporters-protesters-from-ice-force/
A longtime TV news produced at Chicago-based station WGN on Friday was forcefully pinned to the ground and then hauled off in an unmarked van by masked federal agents.
As reported by the Chicago Tribune, WGN producer Debbie Brockman was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a law enforcement action in the city’s Lincoln Square neighborhood on Friday morning, purportedly on the grounds that she was obstructing their work.
Video of the arrest taken by …
Q&A with Square product chief Willem Avé on Block's restructuring in 2024, AI automation, investing in crypto, the Lightning Network, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/839062/square-product-ch…
Betting exchange Matchbook plans to launch a prediction market platform in the UK in January 2026 as a "road test" before a planned US launch as early as March (Justina Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts (Lauren Johnson/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/commerce/shopify-product-network-merchant-ads/