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Many journalists say the FBI raid on a WaPo reporter's home is a jarring new step to limit media's ability to gather information the government wants to hide (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/15/fbi-search-reporters-r…

Journalists confront new reality in reporting after FBI raid
Many saw the FBI search of a Washington Post reporter’s home as a jarring new step aimed at limiting their ability to gather information.

Oh dear, the new Observer can't manage responsiveness, i.e. the ability of a web page to adjust to the user's screen. Not possible to fix it at the reader end.
A pity, I wanted to skim it.
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/a

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Letter from the trenches:
Some minor things aside I could totally switch to Cosmic. A fresh whiff of air, solid, very snappy and, at heart, I'm a GTK guy. Only dealbreaker for me now: no window rules. They'll come, but at a later stage. I do expect this whole applets ecosystem to take off though. Improvement from alpha 7 to beta 1 is stellar!
NixOS has the specific feature to exclude packages from an environment, which is great for me. I don't need cosmic-edit or cosmi…

Footballco says it is aiming for $100M in revenue in 2026, a World Cup year, despite traffic declines, as revenue from affiliates and YouTube sponsorships grows (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/foot…

Footballco gears up for World Cup in 2026 with Youtube and affiliate revenue drivers
Footballco is targeting $100m (about £76m) in revenue for the World Cup in 2026 as affiliates and sponsored content on Youtube see growth.

A silent ocean pandemic is wiping out sea urchins worldwide #ocean

A silent ocean pandemic is wiping out sea urchins worldwide
A sudden, unexplained mass die-off is decimating sea urchins around the world, including catastrophic losses in the Canary Islands. Key reef-grazing species are reaching historic lows, and their ability to reproduce has nearly halted in some regions. Scientists suspect a pathogen but haven’t yet confirmed the culprit. The fate of these reefs may hinge on solving this unfolding pandemic.

ChatGPT is useful for getting the average of the information in its weights on a given topic
Grok (Expert) is useful for filtering search engine slop into a summary with relevant, sourced, checkable web links
Neither of these necessarily produce The Truth, but in this example, Grok generates significantly more reliable output when precision matters. As time goes on and the volume of hallucinated nonsense on the Web mounts higher, Grok's ability to attribute its assertions t…

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Scientists shocked as bumblebees learn to read simple “Morse code” #bee

Scientists shocked as bumblebees learn to read simple “Morse code”
In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, much like recognizing Morse code. The insects learned which signal led to a sweet reward, demonstrating an unexpected sense of timing. This ability may stem from a fundamental neural process, suggesting that even tiny brains have complex time-tracking mechanisms relevant to evolution and AI.