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An interview with Audrey Cooper, EIC of The Baltimore Banner, on local news decline, growing regionally, paywalls, experimenting with AI, and more (Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories

The Baltimore Banner enters a new year — and a new chapter — with a new editor-in-chief
Local journalism is shrinking in much of the country — but The Baltimore Banner is moving in the opposite direction. In just two years, the nonprofit newsroom has grown into Maryland’s largest reporting operation, expanded beyond Baltimore, and built a fast-growing base of paying subscribers. Now, with their new editor-in-chief, Audrey Cooper, at the helm, The Banner is doubling down on a belief that many in the industry have quietly abandoned: scale still matters. In this wide-ranging conv…

Poisoning AI training data is, unfortunately, really not that hard.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/poisoning-ai-training-data.html

Internet-Anbieter-Wechseltag. In der Zwischenwelt reden dank Alternative zwar die wirklich wichtigen Geräte noch mit der Welt da draußen, das robotische Reinigungspersonal meldet sich allerdings in den offline-Urlaub ab. Zum Glück geht‘s inzwischen wieder, und R2D2 hat die nachträglich eingeschobene Reinigungsfahrt dann noch brav absolviert.

Who will be the Cowboys' next DC? Ranking the candidates from most to least likely https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6989676/2026/01/22/cowboys-defensive-coordinator-candidate-rankings/

Ransomware gangs advancing Moscow’s geopolitical aims, Romanian cyber chief warns https://therecord.media/ransomware-gangs-advancing-moscow-geopolitical-interests-warns-romania

#TrevorNoah has a podcast I’ve been watching on his YT channel. Here’s a discussion with #JoshJohnson. It’s 2 hours long🙁 but wide-ranging and interesting: his history;methods; goals; motivation; privilege of comedians; media have always had algorithms to program us but now it’s automated by AI; “T…

kangaroo: Grey kangaroo dominance
Dominance relations among a group of free-ranging grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus). Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 17 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/kangar…

So much cybersecurity news, so little time. Check out today's Metacurity for a quick run-down of the most crucial infosec developments you should know today, including
--Hackers claim to be selling Target's internal source code,
--Poland thwarted power system cyberattack,
--Hackers accessed the systems of Spanish energy provider Endesa and Energía XXI,
--Personal finance platform Betterment was hacked through third-party,
--Dutch national sentenced to sev…

Hackers claim to be selling Target's internal source code
Poland thwarted power system cyberattack, Hackers accessed the systems of Spanish energy provider Endesa and Energía XXI, Personal finance platform Betterment was hacked through third-party, Dutch national sentenced to seven years for hacking, Korea's Kyowon Group hit with ransomware, much more

By not airing Colbert's interview with Talarico, CBS bowed to FCC pressure preemptively as the agency hasn't formally eliminated talk show equal time exemptions (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/steph

Stephen Colbert Says CBS Blocked James Talarico Interview
Stephen Colbert revealed CBS lawyers blocked his 'Late Show' interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico over FCC equal time rule concerns.

Yet another major Korean cyber incident
Kyowon Group shuts down internal network after suspected ransomware attack
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-01-12/business/tech/Kyo…

Kyowon Group shuts down internal network after suspected ransomware attack
Kyowon Group said on Monday it had shut down parts of its internal network after detecting what it believes to be a ransomware attack and is investigating whether any customer data was compromised.