Hiab Agrees to Acquire Truck Maker Labrie for $1.04 Billion — Finnish-listed Hiab Oyj has agreed to acquire refuse collection vehicle manufacturer Labrie Environmental Group at an enterprise value of $1.04 billion, as it aims to strengthen its foothold in the North American waste
A bookbinder started lettering spines backwards so they'd read correctly when the book was shelved. Now she can't stop seeing every other designer's choice as a silent scream.
Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism — “Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so.”
Eight Books to Read If You’re Still Thinking About the Roman Empire — Now that our president is minting gold coins with his face on them, building a triumphal arch, and sponsoring blood sport in the capital, it seems like a good time to read up on ancient Rome. That’…
New era for Gibraltar with removal of 118-year-old border controls with Spain — It is hoped that free movement between the UK territory and Spain will provide an economic boost.
Best headphone deal: Save $70 on the Skullcandy Crusher ANC 2 headphones at Amazon — Block out the world and get down with these cans.
Big Take: What Is the US Economy Trying to Tell Us? — On today’s Big Take podcast, editors Matt Boesler and Cristina Lindblad join Sarah Holder to unpack what the data says is happening in the US economy and why consumer sentiment tells another story. (Source: Bloomberg)
Show Me The Body Bring The Real Freak Shit To Town — A review of the experimental hardcore band's latest package tour. Plus: the best new hardcore tracks of the month.
The Weasel and the Meaning of It All: Annie Dillard on How to Live — Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative. There is then only one question remaining: How shall we live this life? Despite all the technologies of thought and fe…
Republican congressman tries to outrun a potential blue wave in New York toss-up seat — Rep. Mike Lawler, R-NY, is in a tight race for re-election in a toss-up district that could help determine control of Congress in November.
iPadOS 27 launches on September 14, here are the compatible devices - 9to5Mac — During its “Surprise and Shine” event today, Apple confirmed that iPadOS 27 will be released in just a few days, on September 14.
Trump ramps up third-country US deportations despite global rights outcry — Official data shows tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers have been sent to countries they have no ties to.
What this year's MLB playoffs say about baseball's future — The No. 1 payroll in baseball -- and three others that barely add up to L.A.'s combined -- are left standing this October.
Best gaming monitor deal: Asus ROG Strix monitor now $100 cheaper — 1440p gaming at 320Hz for only $250.
Lit Hub Daily: October 1, 2026 — What should your kids read in October? We think these 10 new children’s books should be on your radar. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Marcia Chatelain tells the stories of the women who brought the …
Chris Mason: Rachel Reeves' summer savings drive won't stretch to energy bills — The chancellor is announcing measures aimed at easing the cost of living - but no help yet with energy bills.
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …
A new font promises to hide your text from AI. — Can you read the text above? Because large language models can’t. The design and tech company Mixfont has created Decoy Font, which promises to hide your text from AI crawlers. As covered in Dezeen…
‘We’re Traders, Not Nuns’: Embattled Brazil Hedge-Fund Plots Turnaround — Rogerio Xavier wants to set some things straight.
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our quintet of quality reviews this week includes Lauren LeBlanc on Téa Obreht’s Sunrise, Jane Hu on Chang-Rae Lee’s A Tender Age, Stephanie Burt on Marlon James’s The Disappearers, Laura Miller on…
Madrid's Renewed and Expanded Sorolla Museum Lets the Paintings of the Spanish 'Master of Light' Re-emerge Into Public View — Dedicated to the works of Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, the museum is centered around his historic home and studio. The first phase of its yearslong…
The Importance of Outdoor Education | Colette Rossow | TEDxEncinitas Blvd — This talk from Colette Rossow at TEDxEncinitasBlvd explores how outdoor education can improve mental health and appreciation for the natural world. With a thought-provoking presentation, this talk asks…
Here’s the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. — The Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation has announced the shortlist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which annually awards $25,000 to the author of a book who best represents the legendary wri…
GTA 6 is reportedly coming to PC in early 2027 — That would be a much smaller port time than GTA 5.
NVIDIA RTX Spark 7 Good and Bad Things — Linus goes hands on with the new NVIDIA RTX Spark and the MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI+ to share his first impressions! Thanks MSI for sponsoring this short!
Korea’s $1.4 Trillion Pension Posts 27% Return in First-Half — South Korea’s National Pension Service reported a 27.2% return in the first half of the year, its best performance for the period since at least 2022, as a powerful domestic equity rally boosted performance at one…
Jalen Hurts' health bigger than football, as teammates, coach detail QB concern — Eagles coach Nick Sirianni declined to offer much detail about Jalen Hurts' health, instead focusing on his connection with the quarterback.
Baldwin’s queer loves! K-Pop! Sapphic thrills! 20 noteworthy books out in paperback this July. — July, incredibly, is already here, a midpoint month in a madcap year unlike any other, and it takes little Holmesian ratiocination to deduce that you, Dear Reader, could almost…
The Literary Agent Who Lost the Narrative Thread — As a literary agent, I’ve spent years shaping the stories of other people’s grief. There was the Pulitzer-nominated journalist who’d lost her only child when he was seven. And the Black descendent …
Proposing five big trades during 2026 NFL training camps — NFL rosters are mostly locked in for 2026, but we crafted five potential win-win deals that teams should consider making before Week 1.
Found a vintage Carhartt jacket at a swap meet with the original price tag still on: $28. Someone paid full retail and never wore it. The seams are perfect.
The Tree and the River: A Wordless Love Letter to How Nature Always Wins — Nested between two giant cedars in the remote old-growth forest where I live much of the year are the rusted remains of boxy car. A tree root has seized one of the rear wheels. A sapling has growth…
The Black List and Zando are hunting for the next great horror novel. — Attention, thrill-seekers. The Black List and Zando are teaming up on a mission to identify the next great horror novelist. Could it be you? The inaugural Evil Twin Manuscript Initiative will selec…
Delta Slides on FY Outlook; Humana Surges on Quality Ratings | Stock Movers — On this episode of Stock Movers: - Delta (DAL) shares are sliding after the company reduced its full-year earnings outlook due to high jet fuel prices stemming from the war in the Middle East. -…
Jenny Jackson on the Literary Potential of Gossip — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I am an unapologetic collector of gossip. Bring me your tales of accidental reply-all, familial faux-pas, sartorial misadv…
The Archive Talks Back: Eight Books That Wrest Humanity From the Record — Genre-bending books have greatly influenced my own work. I’ve written about my mother’s self completed death in a new memoir called O Mother, out with McSweeney’s on September 1. In it, I us…
How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life — “Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.”
Solar power booms in Philippines as war on Iran spikes energy costs — With Southeast Asia's largest electricity bills rising even higher, Filipinos invest in rooftop panels.
10 Great New Children’s Books Out in September 2026 — The start of every school year feels full—too full—of haircuts and back-to-school nights, last-minute trips to the store for sneakers that aren’t a size too small, and last-gasp-of-summer ice cream…
Men who allegedly helped rapist drug and abuse wife named — 13 men are accused of helping a man abuse his wife over a period of years.
The Rhyl Poster — They’d ‘met’, then, in Switzerland: in the Italian part, Ticino, beside Lake Maggiore. To be precise: above it, on a mountain. The International Association for Emergent Legal Theory had convened a…
A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety — “There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
Hometown hero Gunner Stockton back in spotlight for Georgia — The Bulldogs QB is a quiet leader, but those who have known him over the years eagerly sing his praises.
In Praise of Lost Time: On a Poetics That Subverts Linear Chronology — In this year’s heteropessimist horror movie Obsession, boyfriend Bear pleads with his possessed girlfriend Nikki, “Stop moving so weird!” It’s a funny, fourth-wall-tapping wink to the audience, not…
Which rich country is the most screwed? — Bond yields have jumped in recent weeks as investors punish rich-world countries for high debt, inflation and populist policies.
Apple Seeds Fourth macOS Golden Gate 27.2 Beta to Developers — Apple is testing the next macOS Golden Gate update, and developers can download the fourth macOS Golden Gate 27.2 beta. The fourth beta comes a week after Apple released the third beta. Registered developers can…
A Poet’s Account of the Power of the Yodel — The yodel: the perfect acknowledgment of that which cannot be hidden anymore and therefore also that which we have always had to hide. The yodel: the flickering Adam’s apple. Not unlike a sound we …
For a Historian, the Facts of Any Given Life Disappear the Moment They Occur — Caked calcium to be strip-mined from Dad’s bathtub and sink. Thick snowdrifts of dust to plow from his bedside tables. Looming towers of credit card statements and tax documents to audit and shred…
Watch: Inside Katie Zacharia's very brief White House briefing — The BBC's Sarah Smith reports on the the briefest briefing she has ever seen at the White House. Katie Zacharia took questions from three journalists on her first day on the job.
Veritas expands its anti-counterfeit chip to jewelry, trophies, and fragrance bottles | TechCrunch — Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands' marks and passing off dupes, known as "superfakes," as genuine items. A startup called Veritas wants to tackle the…
Humans Watched This Supernova Explode Nearly a Millennium Ago. Now You Can See It in High Definition — The new image isn’t just stunning—it may also provide clues about how this star survived its own explosion.
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently — “Just how charitable are you supposed to be when criticizing the views of an opponent?”
Matter, Memory, and the Paradox of Perception: Henri Bergson on How to See Reality — In 1896, decades before Santiago Ramón y Cajal pioneered neuroscience, more than a century before Oliver Sacks showed us how perception phosphoresces in the 100 milliseconds between the world…
I refused to install Meta Muse after finding 4 critical security flaws that Meta won't acknowledge — Meta wants Muse to manage your daily workflow, but bypassing OS permissions and leaking home addresses made me draw the line.
Nord Stream trial: How German police followed the evidence - to Ukraine — After four years, a Ukrainian man is set to stand trial in Hamburg accused of sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines.
On the Secret Three-Man Mission Deep in Nazi Europe That Won WWII — “Territorial male flies toward intruder, erects crown feathers, puffs chest, and sings loudly.” –“White-crowned Sparrow,” Birds of the World * March 15, 1944—the southeast coast of Italy Colonel Fl…
Final Parking Space: 1986 Chrysler Laser XT Turbo — If you want to buy a new 2027 Chrysler, there is but one choice: the Pacifica minivan. Time-travel back 40 years, though, and you’d find that American Chrysler dealers offered sedans with both front- and…
MLB playoffs 2026: Why Dodgers-Brewers NLCS will be epic — This matchup is everything we could ask for and a reminder to savor it while you can.
Nix wrote half of my debugger — A few days ago I wrote about Rewind VM, a deterministic VM where every run of a Nix build is a pure function of its inputs, thread schedule included! I have been using it to find, reproduce and solve numerous race conditions in Nix builds, but…
Children asked to name Ealing's new beavers — Londoners aged four to 18 can suggest names for the kits, born at Paradise Fields, until 7 December.