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YouTube rolls out a new in-app messaging system for sharing videos and having 1:1 conversations; it discontinued its previous Messages feature in 2019 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/06/10/youtube-new-messaging-chat/

YouTube rolling out new in-app messaging with invite-only chats
After testing got underway last year, YouTube is now more widely rolling out a new in-app messaging system...

France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging
Seems every "democratic" government is jealous of the totalitarians. And totally tech ignorant.
https://reclaimthenet.org/france-moves-to-break-encrypted-messaging

France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging
France's parliament just endorsed the one idea every cryptographer on earth has already debunked and they're calling it a compromise.

A profile of W magazine EIC Sara Moonves; it hit profitability in December 2025, has 450K subscribers, and plans to launch biannual teen print magazine WYouth (Jada Yuan/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/styl…

Moonves Landing: How a Star Editor Saved W Magazine
Sara Moonves’ trick for resurrecting a near-dead glossy — A-list allies, analog ambition, extravagant style, and a sexy cameo from Brad Pitt.

Mexico will request criminal charges over 17 Mexicans who died in ICE custody or during immigration enforcement operations by the Trump administration, officials said Thursday.
Mexican Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco’s announcement Thursday morning further escalated tensions with the United States,
as Mexico’s government has sharply criticized the treatment of its citizens under U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to increase deportations.
The request, which carries no lega…

Mexico to request criminal charges over deaths following shooting of Houston man by ICE
Mexico plans to request criminal charges over the deaths of 17 Mexicans in ICE custody or during immigration operations under the Trump administration. Mexican Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco announced this Thursday, escalating tensions with the U.S. The request, which carries no legal weight, will be submitted to state prosecutors and the U.S. Department of Justice. It will be accompanied by civil lawsuits against the companies that operate the detention centers. President Claudia Sheinbaum s…

Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations? | Quanta Magazine
Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations? | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/will-we-ever-find-alien-civilizations-20260709/

Pro-Israel Group Pushes for Haley Stevens in Michigan Senate Race (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/us/politics/aipac-haley-stevens-michigan-senate.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260609/p96#a260609p96

An expert panel with Daron Acemoglu, Dean Ball, Ethan Mollick, and Clara Shih discusses AI's impact on jobs and how to prepare for the future of work (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/magazin

In the Hybrid A.I.-Human Work Force, Who Will Actually Thrive?
A panel of experts explains how job seekers should prepare for the future of work.

Federal agents did not have body-worn cameras when a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a Mexican homebuilder who was driving a work van they tried pulling over in Houston, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday.
Prosecutors in Houston said they are investigating the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo,
whose family has joined Democrats in calling for an independent probe over Tuesday’s early morning shooting in one of the city’s heavily Hispanic …

Mexican man killed in Houston ICE shooting was not the target, lawmaker says
A Texas congresswoman says a Mexican man living in the U.S. who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was not the person federal authorities had been targeting in a Houston operation. Democratic U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia said Thursday that the acting ICE Director told her the agency has confirmed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo “was not a target.” A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately return an email seeking comment late Thursday. The dep…

Department of Justice indicts eight conspirators who threatened University of Michigan officials, businesses, and the Jewish Federation (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/department-justice-indicts-eight-conspirators-who-threatened-university-michigan
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p97#a260610p97

How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books (Rose Horowitch/The Atlantic)
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The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.