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NPR plans to move its public editor partnership from the Poynter Institute to the University of Maryland in 2027, as public editor Kelly McBride leaves the role (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2026/10/npr-to-move-public…

NPR to move public editor partnership to University of Maryland
Kelly McBride, the current public editor, will leave the role at the end of this year.

"Open Access publizieren für Dummies" von Bodo Rödel
https://wiley-vch.e-bookshelf.de/open-access-publizieren-fr-dummies-29775361.html &

Quad9 is retracting from France by 2026-11-24 to avoid having to censor DNS.
(They will continue to fight in court in the meantime.)
"Quad9 is a Swiss public-benefit, nonprofit foundation established for the explicit purpose of protecting the cybersecurity of internet users" and operates a public DNS resolver at 9.9.9.9
#Quad9

Trump-Linked Crypto Company Accused of
‘Public Corruption’ in New Lawsuit
Donald Trump and a cryptocurrency company linked to his family members were sued Thursday over accusations that the president has
“corruptly” profited off of more than $2 billion in payments from a foreign government.
The lawsuit, filed by a shareholder for another crypto venture, centers two transactions between
World Liberty Financial,
a cryptocurrency company founded by Trump and …

Trump-Linked Crypto Company Accused of ‘Public Corruption’ in New Lawsuit
The lawsuit takes issue with transactions between the Trump-linked cryptocurrency company World Liberty Financial and entities linked to the United Arab Emirates.

I found the NESO winter outlook report for generation, and also stumbled across a couple of their others;
The winter outlook one is top left of https://www.neso.energy/publications/winter-watch (We're probably fine this year, but there will be a few tight bits in December an…

Winter Watch | National Energy System Operator
NESO has published its Winter Outlook for 2026/27, setting out its latest view of how Britain’s electricity system is expected to operate over the coming winter.

Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy is considering going public in December or possibly waiting until next year as it monitors Anthropic's IPO, expected next month (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sb-energy-considers-waiting-d…

SB Energy Considers Waiting Until December or Later for an IPO
SB Energy, the SoftBank Group–controlled developer of a massive planned Ohio data center project for OpenAI, is considering going public in December or possibly waiting until next year, according to people familiar with the discussions. That is a later timeline than previously expected. The data ...

heise | 25 Jahre iPod: 1000 Songs und ein goldener Käfig
Der iPod machte Apple einem breiten Publikum bekannt und etablierte ein Geschäftsmodell, das den Konzern bis heute prägt. 25 Jahre iPod – Happy Birthday!
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25 Jahre iPod: 1000 Songs und ein goldener Käfig
Der iPod machte Apple einem breiten Publikum bekannt und etablierte ein Geschäftsmodell, das den Konzern bis heute prägt. 25 Jahre iPod – Happy Birthday!

An article on the Fall of Scientific American.
Scientific publishers should be independent. But:
"Springer Nature felt that Scientific American’s criticism of Trump was threatening their broader business—selling subscriptions to their scientific journals. The federal government was a major client."
Scientific American will be for many Semantic Web researchers a special place because of that one article by Tim Berners-Lee, Jim Hendler and Ora Lassila. Thus it's…

The Fall of “Scientific American”
When the beloved science publication got too political, its corporate owners stepped in. Now its future is uncertain.

A Quebec publisher cuts ties with author Thélyson Orélien and will not reprint his novel It Was Either That or Die after an analysis found evidence of AI use (Zane Irwin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/wo…

Thélyson Orélien's Quebec Publisher Cuts Ties Over A.I. Accusations
Thélyson Orélien, a celebrated novelist, used artificial intelligence while writing a breakout book, his publisher says.

Hyphen, a news outlet focused on Muslim life in the UK and Europe, is set to close after its UAE-based backers withdrew funding, affecting around 18 journalists (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Lifestyle and news site for British Muslims Hyphen set to close
UAE-based backers of the site have withdrawn funding.