When Spotify started to commission hundreds of podcasts globally in 2019, its impact was perhaps felt most in Latin America, where it held as much as 90% of the podcasting market. However, when the streaming giant decided to pull the plug on podcast funding, almost as quickly as it had piled it in, a burgeoning industry was left struggling to know what was next. @npub1qt7k...dgeq has spoken to some of those affected.
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How Spotify started — and killed — Latin America’s podcast boom
In Latin America, “podcast” and “Spotify” became synonymous; now the audio industry is reckoning with the company’s retreat.
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The EU has warned X owner Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino that the company may face penalties and restrictions in Europe if it doesn’t address the spread of illegal content on its platform, reports CNBC. In a letter posted on X, Thierry Breton, European commissioner for the internal market, said the EU was monitoring the potential risks “associated with the dissemination of content that may incite violence, hate and racism,” and warned his team were prepared to “make full use of our toolbox” to protect EU citizens from “serious harm.” Here’s more.
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EU warns Elon Musk ahead of Trump interview to keep hate speech off X
European Commissioner Thierry Breton warned X owner Elon Musk the company may face penalties if it doesn’t address the spread of illegal and dang...
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Longtime Google rivals like Yelp and DuckDuckGo received a huge victory Monday when a U.S. federal judge ruled that Google is an illegal monopoly. The judge has yet to decide how to restore competition, and Google’s competitors are pushing for changes they believe will help their businesses. Which might be harder than it sounds. Read more from The Verge:
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What Google rivals want after the DOJ’s antitrust trial win
The fight isn’t over as the trial enters the remedies phase.
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Receiving some awards just isn’t going to feel good. Ask CrowdStrike president Michael Sentonas, who took the stage at the security industry's Pwnie Awards to accept an oversized trophy for the Most Epic Fail. The fail, of course, being CrowdStrike’s ill-fated software update that triggered a global IT meltdown. “Definitely not the award to be proud of receiving,” Sentonas gamely said to an appreciative crowd. TechCrunch has more:
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CrowdStrike accepts award for ‘most epic fail’ after global IT outage | TechCrunch
CrowdStrike's president said he'll take the trophy back to headquarters as a reminder that "our goal is to protect people, and we got thi...
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Many of the car world’s most popular YouTube creators are fleeing the channels they helped make famous. Is this a new trend or a tale as old as venture capital? Read more from The Verge:
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Why are so many car YouTubers quitting?
A veritable pileup of ‘Why I Quit’ videos.
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The tech world has lost one of its key visionaries following the death of Susan Wojcicki, the former YouTube CEO who died Friday after a two-year battle with non-small cell lung cancer. "Susan was not just my best friend and partner in life, but a brilliant mind, a loving mother, and a dear friend to many," her husband, Dennis Troper, wrote on Facebook. “Her impact on our family and the world was immeasurable.” Read more from TechCrunch:
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Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has passed away at age 56 | TechCrunch
Tragedy has again struck a famous Silicon Valley family. Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki just passed away, according to social media posts by her
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Bill Gross made his name in the 1990s, when he developed the “pay-per-click” advertising model as a way for search engines to make money. Now, he wants to do the same with AI. Having already signed deals with the likes of Time and Universal Music Group, Gross’ new company looks to create revenue-sharing deals so publishers and individuals get paid when AI companies use their work. Here’s more from [@WIRED](
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Generative AI Has a 'Shoplifting' Problem. This Startup CEO Has a Plan to Fix It
The guy who invented "pay-per-click" advertising is back—this time, he wants to address generative AI's tendency to "shoplift" information from c...
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Did a viral moment get Governer Tim Walz the call up as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate? Walz was catapulted from not being under serious consideration to front and center of the Harris campaign radar, after several media appearances were shared heavily online. [@fwiwnews](
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A Stanford University psychologist has claimed he has built AI that is capable of detecting things like your intelligence, sexual preferences, and political leanings with a great degree of accuracy — just by scanning your face. If this sounds like a recipe for disaster, it’s supposed to. Kosinski says he has created it as a warning that facial recognition technology could have implications for our privacy and civil liberties in the age of artificial intelligence — but why does his research feel like it's just opening Pandora’s Box? Futurism has more.
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Scientist Claims His AI Can Tell Disturbing Things About You Just by Looking at Your Face
Michal Kosinski, Stanford psychologist, claims that AI programs can detect people's IQ, sexual orientation, and politics by scanning faces.
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Google and Meta reportedly made a secret deal to target teenagers with adverts for Instagram on YouTube, breaking the search company’s own rules on personalizing and targeting ads to minors. According to people close to the deal, Google worked on a marketing project for Meta that was specifically designed to target 13- to 17-year olds, and took steps to deliberately “disguise” the true intent of the campaign. @Ars Technica has more.
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Google and Meta ignored their own rules in secret teen-targeting ad deals
Project disregarded Google rules barring personalizing and targeting ads to minors.
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