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The Metric Is Not The Mission: The End Of The Universal Internet

20 hours 23 minutes ago
The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions around […]
Konstantinos Komaitis

Pope Leo XIV diagnosed with lung cancer after surgery to remove part of right lung

20 hours 56 minutes ago
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV underwent surgery Tuesday that confirmed that he has lung cancer, and doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung, the Vatican said. Tests confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican said in a medical bulletin after the surgery. It said the diagnosis had been suspected by preoperative [...]
NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press

Alton Cuts Health Insurance For Striking Workers, Plans Firings Over Alleged Picketing Behavior

21 hours 4 minutes ago
ALTON – The City of Alton is preparing to fire striking workers over alleged “behavior on the picket line” as union representatives say their members’ health insurance was dropped without warning. Business Agent Jay Steinhauer with Teamsters Local 525 confirmed on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, that union members received a letter the day prior from the city’s third-party attorney, Corey Franklin, stating the city intends to fire striking workers over certain picketing behavio

The Accidental Election Judge

21 hours 27 minutes ago
BETHALTO — Margot Wilfong’s daughter volunteered her to work an election in 1957. Sixty-eight years later, the 98-year-old Bethalto resident is retiring from serving Madison County voters after health setbacks prompted her to step away. Wilfong spent much of her time as an election judge serving Precinct 15, working through the transition from hand-counted paper ballots to modern voting equipment. Following the spring primary election, she considered returning for the November election

St. Louis hosts first-ever Missouri Innovation Week

21 hours 32 minutes ago
Students, educators, entrepreneurs and technology leaders gathered in St. Louis on Tuesday to kick off the first-ever Missouri Innovation Week, a statewide celebration of emerging technology and STEM careers.
Kimberly Young