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27 votes
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Six months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable
61 votes -
A startup allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then came the censorship—and now the backlash
27 votes -
An AI-generated image of a Victorian MP raises wider questions on digital ethics
9 votes -
The New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft over the use of its stories to train chatbots
62 votes -
Startup Channel 1 creates news service presented by AI
10 votes -
Opinion - journalism needs to lose its dependent relationship with big tech companies
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Sports Illustrated published articles by fake, AI-generated writers
29 votes -
After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine
21 votes -
Elon Musk’s poisoned platform
18 votes -
Advertisers want to place ads next to content that is 'Brand Safe'. The end of Jezebel is a case study of how that impacts hard hitting news sites
44 votes -
In Canada’s battle with Big Tech, smaller publishers and independent outlets struggle to survive
15 votes -
Thomson Reuters AI copyright dispute must go to trial, judge says
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Gannett stops using AI to write articles for now because they were hilariously terrible
20 votes -
Four former VICE Motherboard journalists founded an independent news company
41 votes -
Canada demands Facebook lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing
51 votes -
CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking
29 votes -
It's time to change how we cover Elon Musk: After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach
96 votes -
The BBC on Mastodon: Experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
31 votes -
World of Warcraft players trick AI website into covering fictional update known only as 'Glorbo'
63 votes -
‘Not for machines to harvest’: Data revolts break out against AI
40 votes -
Looking for a replacement of Shira Ovides OnTech newsletter
I subscribed to NY Times for years mostly because of the OnTech email newsletter. I liked it for the critical analysis of the tech world with lots of references and perspectives. Shira has since...
I subscribed to NY Times for years mostly because of the OnTech email newsletter. I liked it for the critical analysis of the tech world with lots of references and perspectives. Shira has since moved to Washington Post and her work there is more on the side of consumer advice and less critical journalism. And NY Times so far haven't found a replacement.
Can anyone recommend another source worth following instead? Another newspaper, a substack, blog or whatever. The podcast Tech Won't Save Us is in the ballpark, though I find it sometimes overly critical and I prefer something to read. I do like the tech coverage done by The Atlantic but is not a consistent source.
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Boring Report: An app that aims to remove sensationalism from the news and make it boring to read, by utilizing the power of advanced AI language models
66 votes -
Canadians will no longer have access to news content on Facebook and Instagram, Meta says
50 votes -
BuzzFeed says it will use AI to help create content, stock jumps 150%
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My journey down the rabbit hole of every journalist’s favorite app, Otter.ai
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Paywalls everywhere you go? Get to the goodies with these two Paywall Ladder bookmarklets.
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The Verge is updating their public ethics policy "to be clearer in our interactions with public relations and corporate communications professionals"
11 votes -
Twitter expands its subscription service to news articles
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CBC is keeping Facebook comments closed on news posts
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Is it me or are "news" articles on the web getting more and more irritating to read
I've recently experienced something multiple times and wanted to see if others are seeing this. I'm seeing various news articles where the first few paragraphs basically say the exact some...
I've recently experienced something multiple times and wanted to see if others are seeing this. I'm seeing various news articles where the first few paragraphs basically say the exact some information over and over again 3 or 4 times in slightly different ways. My most recent experience was this article about some hackers selling information on billions of Facebook users.
The article starts off with the title "Personal Information of More Than 1.5 Billion Facebook Users Sold on Hacker Forum". Straightforward and to the point. Next we get this paragraph in bold:
The private and personal information of over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a popular hacking-related forum, potentially enabling cybercriminals and unscrupulous advertisers to target Internet users globally.
Next is a bullet list of the highlights of the incident:
Highlights:
- Data scrapers are selling sensitive personal data on 1.5 billion Facebook users.
- Data contains users’: name, email, phone number, location, gender, and user ID.
- Data appears to be authentic.
- Personal data obtained through web scraping.
- Data can be utilized for phishing and account takeover attacks.
- Sold data claimed to be new from 2021.
This rehashes the number (1.5 billion) and place (Facebook), but does contain new information like what was leaked, and some unsubstantiated claims about whether it's authentic and how it was obtained.
The next paragraph repeats the 1.5 billion number a fourth time, and repeats that the data is available on a hacker forum. Two paragraphs later, we get another list of bullet points which are identical to the 2nd bullet point above; namely that the info contains:
According to the forum poster, the data provided contains the following personal information of Facebook users:
- Name
- Location
- Gender
- Phone number
- User ID
At this point I stop reading because I mistakenly think that I'm re-reading the same paragraph over and over again. It's an incredibly unpleasant experience.
Is anyone else seeing this? I've been seeing this not just on smaller sites like the one linked here, but on major news sites like CNBC and CNN, too. I know that news sites are having their budgets slashed, etc., but I literally can't read articles like this. I mean my brain just won't let me complete them because it thinks it's caught in a loop or something. It's hard to describe.
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Sophisticated exploits used to breach fully-patched iPhones of journalists, activists, as detailed by Amnesty International's Security Lab
24 votes -
The day I almost decided to hold the press to account
8 votes -
Scroll has been acquired by Twitter
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Substack is selling soap operas
8 votes -
Substack paid a secret group of writers to make newsletter authorship seem lucrative
9 votes -
Teen Vogue editor resigns after fury over racist tweets
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Techworker.com launches, a new reader-funded site focusing on employees at tech companies
10 votes -
Facebook to lift Australia news ban after government agrees to amendments to proposed legislation requiring them to pay publishers
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Facebook will ban Australian users from sharing or viewing news
18 votes -
Google threatens to pull search engine in Australia
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The world's first internet bench
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Twitter won’t let The New York Post tweet until it agrees to behave itself
13 votes -
Facebook and Twitter take unusual steps to limit spread of New York Post story
16 votes -
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
21 votes -
Amazon deletes 20,000 product reviews written by seven of its top ten UK reviewers after a Financial Times investigation found they were written for profit
18 votes -
Can killing cookies save journalism? A Dutch public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads and its revenues went up 62-79%.
31 votes -
Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles
7 votes -
Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s war against the media
16 votes -
Spies, lies, and stonewalling: What it’s like to report on Facebook
5 votes