The New Yorker joins Substack, which it sees as a social platform for "cultivat[ing] a community of readers"; the newsletter will share one free article/week (Emily Sundberg/Feed Me)
https://www.readfeedme.com/p/why-did-the-new-yorker-join-substack
(IEEE Spectrum) 11 Amazing engineering events in 2026: Brain chip helps blind people see https://spectrum.ieee.org/new-technology-2026 on Elon Musk and Neuralink Blindsight: "some experts worry he is overpromising on the quality of the brain-computer interface";
Substack hires former Google exec Mark Swierszcz as its head of partnerships in Canada, its third-largest market worldwide, as it expands beyond the US and UK (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Substack notifies users about a "limited" data breach in October 2025, found on February 3 and now patched; a threat actor leaked a database of ~697K records (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
Substack-based investigative outlet Democracy for Sale says it now has nearly 50,000 subscribers and 1,500 paying readers; its stories had 3M views in 2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters