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Today’s highlights
- Vicariously hike the Appalachian in the gorgeous A Trail Tale — 2026-08-29
- I used to be an avid hiker and would try to go backpacking a few times a year. I always dreamed of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, but life kind of got in the way. (Turns out jobs, wives, and children aren’t thrilled
- Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported — 2026-08-29
- Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by ICE on Thursday, and today the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Reuters and the Washington Post that he had been deported to the UK. Yiannopoulos came to the
- Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft — 2026-08-29
- This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.
- Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic — 2026-08-29
- Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for “tens of thousands” copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up
- At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control? — 2026-08-29
- Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.
- “We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z — 2026-08-29
- Vijay Pande — who left a16z’s roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a “discovery” science to an “engineering” one, why
- Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps — 2026-08-29
- Several Hollywood celebs are ditching the massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets for a rising format: microdramas.
- Distraction-free writing gadget BYOK is adding custom extensions — 2026-08-29
- BYOK is a no-frills, single-purpose gadget that 90 percent of people will find absolutely frivolous. But for those who spend a significant chunk of their lives putting words to virtual paper, there is an obvious allure.