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Moving on. I have news: I am leaving CUNY’s… | by Jeff Jarvis | Whither news? | Sep, 2023 | Medium - https://medium.com/whither-news/moving-on-4eecb1c76ce3

I have news: I am leaving CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the end of this term. Technically I’m retiring, though if you know me you know I will never retire. I’m looking at some things to do next and I’m open to others. More on that later. Now, I want to recollect — brag — about my time there.

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Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting • The Register - https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/06/google_privacy_popup_chrome/

he popup is a notice that you've been opted in with a little link to your settings to disable the tech if you so wish.

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Caffeine-Infused Noodles Soon Available for Japanese Gamers - The Messenger - https://themessenger.com/business/caffeine-infused-noodles-soon-available-for-japanese-gamers

The noodles, sold under the “Nissin Gaming Curry Mesh Energy Ginger Keema Curry” name, will come in two flavors, both of which include caffeine and are made “without soup, so you don’t have to worry about getting your hands or peripherals dirty.”

The first flavor will be garlic and black pepper yakisoba, and will include “mysterious meat,” or pork, shrimp, egg and cabbage.

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Britain Admits Defeat in Controversial Online Safety Bill | WIRED - https://www.wired.com/story/britain-admits-defeat-online-safety-bill-encryption/

“It’s absolutely a victory,” says Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, which operates the Signal messaging service. Whittaker has been a staunch opponent of the bill, and has been meeting with activists and lobbying for the legislation to be changed. “It commits to not using broken tech or broken techniques to undermine end-to-end encryption.”

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Here’s Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s public memo on Google at 25 - The Verge - https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/5/23860683/google-25-memo-sundar-pichai

Google usually celebrates its birthday on September 27th for no particularly obvious reason, but for its 25th anniversary, the company’s getting out ahead — with CEO Sundar Pichai “kicking off celebrations” with a 2,400-word public memo reflecting on where the company’s been.

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Cocoon. At Isabelle’s, Auch, France, August 2023.
📷 Emmanuel Veneau (cc by-nc-sa) #AmbulationsPhotographiques #AsTheDaysGoBy
#photography #cotton #twig #window #BlackAndWhite

#hilda #netflix dressed #twig

OpenAI Passes $1 Billion Revenue Pace as Big Companies Boost AI Spending — The Information - https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-passes-1-billion-revenue-pace-as-big-companies-boost-ai-spending?rc=lykptg

OpenAI is currently on pace to generate more than $1 billion in revenue over the next 12 months from the sale of artificial intelligence software and the computing capacity that powers it. That’s far ahead of revenue projections the company previously shared with its shareholders, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation.

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4 Big Tech Giants Spent Over $1 Trillion on Stock Buybacks in 10 Years - https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/big-tech-stock-buybacks-apple-google-meta-microsoft-tesla-buffett-2023-8

Apple spent an unmatched $621 billion on its own stock in the 10 years to March 31. Google-parent Alphabet ranked second with $193 billion of share repurchases over the same period. Microsoft and Meta Platforms splurged $180 billion and $130 billion respectively, the S&P Global data shows.

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X to allow paid political ads, lifting Twitter’s earlier ban | TechCrunch - https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/30/x-to-allow-paid-political-ads-lifting-twitters-earlier-ban/

X this week confirmed it’s lifting its ban on paid political ads — a move it committed to earlier this year, shortly after Elon Musk took over the social network previously known as Twitter. The company had originally banned such ads back in 2019 under then-CEO Jack Dorsey’s management, claiming at the time that “political message reach should be earned, not bought.”

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Google Workspace Updates: Write emails, documents and more with ease and speed using Duet AI in Google Docs and Gmail - https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/08/write-emails-documents-duetai-google-docs-gmail.html

We’re introducing AI-powered writing features that help you quickly refine existing work or get you started with something new in Google Docs and Gmail using Duet AI for Google Workspace.
On web and mobile, you can draft and reply to messages in Gmail.

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Google sets its Pixel 8 launch event for October 4th - The Verge - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/30/23852400/pixel-8-google-event-announced-date

We’ll meet Google’s newest Pixel devices in just over a month now that the company is sending out invitations for an in-person launch event on Wednesday, October 4th, at 10AM ET in New York City. The invites are going out just one day after Apple invited the media and others to check out its iPhone 15 hardware at an event on September 12th, as the fall calendar quickly fills with events.

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NFL, NBA, and UFC want accelerated DMCA takedowns of illegal livestreams - The Verge - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/29/23850343/dmca-takedown-nfl-nba-ufc-uspto-letter-streams

DMCA was signed during the Clinton administration in 1998 and specified that takedown notices be processed “expeditiously,” as written in Section 512 of the act. In the letter sent to the USPTO, dated August 23rd, the NFL, NBA, and UFC urge the government to change the “expeditiously” verbiage to “instantaneously or near-instantaneously.”

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(VIDEO) Another fun chat on #TWiG. Thanks for checking out this week's discussions and subscribing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Cij-3Qdoc via TWiT Tech Podcasts #podcast #TWiG

Almost 30 minutes into #twig on Spotify and everyone seems to have a lower voice @chieftwit

"News should be like public schooling"

--Stacey Higgenbotham, #twig #729

I wish Stacey wasn't so confused by Mastadon so I could @ her, but somone on X-itter should tell her that news is exactly like public schooling -- Both are currently being torn down in service of our economy. Come to Florida and watch it with me in real time.

Day off today. Should I be productive? Or watch this week’s #TWiG and #SecurityNow

so happy for Stacey and hopeful for how she can help influence US policy but deeply saddened to not have her in my ears every week on #TWiG Hard to believe it’s been 7 yrs, don't know how she lasted so long w the old guys but so glad she did

Boston University hires disinformation expert Joan Donovan after Harvard dismissal - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/joan-donovan-hired-boston-university-harvard-dismissal/

“BU is a great place to do this kind of work,” Donovan said. “BU is not as tied up with tech company money as other university systems.”

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