Category: everydayblog


  • Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour on AI, press freedom, and the future of news

    Today, I’m talking with Almar Latour, who is the publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of its parent company Dow Jones, which you can think of as a huge research and data provider for companies of all sizes. Dow Jones itself is part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Latour is a fascinating guy.…

  • Russian Forces Depleted and Stalling on Eastern Front, Ukraine Says

    Ukrainian forces have stalled the Russian offensive in the eastern Donetsk region in recent months and have started to win back small patches of land, according to Ukrainian soldiers and military analysts. Russia still holds the initiative, and conducts dozens of assaults across the eastern front every day, the soldiers and analysts say. But after…

  • Death Stranding 2 is coming on June 26th

    Death Stranding’s sequel continues to look absolutely bonkers. The upcoming game — known as Death Stranding 2: On the Beach — got a fresh trailer and a long-awaited release date of June 26th during a presentation at SXSW. The PlayStation 5 exclusive will cost $69.99 and is available for pre-order starting on March 17th. Those…

  • How Would Peacekeeping Work in Ukraine? These Experts Gamed It Out.

    When military and civilian experts on peacekeeping started meeting in Geneva in the spring of 2022, they insisted on discretion. Their topic was sensitive: how to implement a future cease-fire in Ukraine. Last week, that group of experts went public for the first time, publishing a 31-page paper that delves into the technical details of…

  • Apple’s plans for a smart display suffer a Siri-related setback

    It’s been rumored for months now that Apple was planning to release a device early this year that would serve as a smart home hub with a display, similar to devices that its main smart home competitors, Amazon and Google, have both offered for years. The device is expected to be the first Apple smart…

  • Brush Fires Break Out on Long Island, Prompting Highway Closure

    Multiple wildfires broke out on Long Island on Saturday amid high-risk fire conditions of low humidity and gusty winds, forcing the closure of sections of a highway in Suffolk County and drawing the response of dozens of agencies. At a news conference on Saturday evening, Ed Romaine, the Suffolk County executive, said that one firefighter…

  • Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them

    Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is aware of potential issues affecting select DVD titles manufactured between 2006 – 2008, and the company has been actively working with consumers to replace defective discs. Where possible, the defective discs have been replaced with the same title. However, as some of the affected titles are no longer in print…

  • Opinion | I Wish My Father, Ronald Reagan, Could Remind Trump What America Stands For

    My father spoke only once to me about why he wanted to be president of the United States. It was the night of his inauguration in 1981. I had been assigned to one of the inaugural balls and was supposed to wait there for my parents to arrive. After sitting onstage, on a metal folding…

  • Jim Jordan subpoena pushes YouTube to restore ‘free speech’ like Meta

    Meta may have caved on their content moderation policies for the sake of “free speech”, but there’s a world of other Big Tech companies out there – and more social media platforms for conservatives to de-censor. On Thursday, Rep. Jim Jordan subpoenaed Alphabet, the parent company of Google, demanding documents that show whether YouTube removed…

  • Lawyer Appointed in Adams Case Says Charges Should Be Dropped

    A lawyer who was asked to offer independent arguments on the U.S. Justice Department’s motion to dismiss corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York told a judge on Friday that he should end the prosecution. But the lawyer, Paul D. Clement, said the judge should not allow the Trump administration to use the…