Nieman Labby Hanaa' Tameez18 Aug 2026
Whether you’re a reporter or an editor, your inbox has probably seen an influx of pitches, increasingly written with artificial intelligence.
Lifehackerby Emily Long18 Aug 2026
Firefox users on iOS can now get rid of a lot of ad noise when browsing on their mobile device. Mozilla is slowly rolling out native ad blocking, which you can enable once the tool is available on...
Good Good Goodby Jessica Kutz18 Aug 2026
This story was originally published by The 19th and was republished with permission. Jenny McBurney, a librarian specializing in government publications, was in Washington, D.C., in June when she...
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler18 Aug 2026
Earlier this month, Anthropic announced that future versions of Claude will generate text that includes watermarks showing it was AI-generated.
Nieman Labby Hanaa' Tameez18 Aug 2026
Last month at the National Sports Card Convention in Chicago, creator Brandon Pereira, who posts as Coach Koe, met a kid named Dominic.
Cult of Macby Luke Dormehl18 Aug 2026
August 18, 2007: A video goes viral on YouTube when 23-year-old internet personality Justine Ezarik, aka iJustine, posts a 300-page iPhone bill mailed to her in a box by AT&T.
Vanity Fairby Chris Murphy18 Aug 2026
John Early is no stranger to the adoration of the internet. The actor and comedian, who starred on five seasons of Search Party and released the 2023 HBO comedy special Now More Than Ever, has a...
404 Mediaby Matthew Gault18 Aug 2026
X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
404 Mediaby Joseph Cox18 Aug 2026
The National Park Service (NPS), the agency tasked with managing the U.S. national parks and monuments, has purchased Flock cameras and had them installed at parks including in Yosemite.
The Conversation (US)by Julianna Pillemer, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, New York University18 Aug 2026
If given the chance to gain thousands of admirers for your work, would you take it? The artists who my colleagues and I interviewed as part of our research on content creators did – and many went...
The Moscow Timesby The Moscow Times18 Aug 2026
The head of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, Rodney Mims Cook Jr., who is the key official overseeing President Donald Trump’s controversial White House ballroom extension, held private diplomatic...
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren18 Aug 2026
Former Rockstar staff currently embroiled in a legal battle with the company over their firings last year have asked supporters not to boycott GTA 6, but instead to consider helping cover the costs...
Alt Newsby Shinjinee Majumder18 Aug 2026
Within minutes of the BJP announcing its new social media team on Monday, August 17, a search on X revealed that the accounts of the four newly appointed social media co-convenors had either...
Poynterby Alex Mahadevan18 Aug 2026
Prism News has suspended its network of more than 200 AI-generated “local news” sites following investigations from multiple outlets that exposed plagiarism and falsehoods.
Poynterby Cristina Silva18 Aug 2026
There was the time I addressed a cover letter to a hiring editor with “Dear Matt.” His name was Mark.
Poynterby Madison Czopek18 Aug 2026
President Donald Trump has called for big changes for how U.S. children are vaccinated. As he signed an executive order recommending a new schedule for vaccines, the president said the new plan...
Longreadsby Longreads18 Aug 2026
Thoughtful stories for thoughtless times. Longreads has published hundreds of original stories—personal essays, reported features, reading lists, and more—and more than 14,000 editor’s picks.
Mozby Chima Mmeje18 Aug 2026
Last week, we announced the first batch of speakers for MozCon London, including Mark Williams-Cook, Beatrice Gamba, Pete Meyers, Miracle Inameti-Archibong, and Katy Powell.
MIT Newsby Peter Dizikes | MIT News18 Aug 2026
You’ve heard of gig workers, freelancers, and temporary employees. But do you know about marginal workers? Accounting for about one in six U.S.
Daring Fireballby John Gruber18 Aug 2026
By John Gruber Some follow-up to this weekend’s stemwinder “Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing”: Contra a bunch of idiots at Hacker News and elsewhere, I...
top 66%