Google says it won't be "deprecating third-party cookies" in Chrome and will instead keep working on "privacy-preserving alternatives" via Privacy Sandbox APIs (Digiday)

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Digiday:

Google says it won't be “deprecating third-party cookies” in Chrome and will instead keep working on “privacy-preserving alternatives” via Privacy Sandbox APIs— After much back and forth, Google has decided to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser.
Discussion:

Anthony Chavez /
Privacy Sandbox: A new path for Privacy Sandbox on the web

Paul Bannister /
Paul Bannister on LinkedIn: Huge news from Google today that they won't be deprecating 3PC, or at least not without users deciding when they want to do it themselves. …

Alex Cone /
Alex Cone on LinkedIn: Today is a big day for the Privacy Sandbox team. https://lnkd.in/... We announced that we're proposing a new approach to Sandbox on the web …

Lukasz Olejnik /
@LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social: After four years of attempts, Google is backtracking from plans to phase out third-party cookies? https://privacysandbox.com/... [image]

Bloomberg:

Sources: Apple's Eddy Cue has pushed TV+ studio chiefs to exert more control over budgets, hoping to change Apple's reputation as the biggest spender in town— The iPhone maker is starting to exert more control over its production partners — Netflix extended its lead over fellow streaming services …

Discussion:
SlashFilm, The Verge, Business Insider, The Streamable, Cord Cutters News, @pkafka, @lucas_shaw, @carnage4life, @lucas_shaw, AV Club, BGR and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »

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Jess Weatherbed /
The Verge: Apple's original content spending spree might finally be over

Peter Kafka /
Business Insider: Apple quietly admits it's paying too much to run its streaming service

Matt Tamanini /
The Streamable: Apple TV+ Pulling Back Spending Despite Emmy Nomination Success; What Can It Learn From Netflix?

Peter Kafka /
@pkafka: Apple TV+ is 5 years old. It has had one genuine hit, and other shows critics like. But viewer and subscriber numbers are small, and budgets are so big even Apple thinks they need to shrink a bit. So, again: Why does Apple TV + exist? [image]

Lucas Shaw /
@lucas_shaw: A number of people refer to Apple as the ‘new HBO.’ While one could make this case creatively — not my area of expertise — this overlooks that HBO has produced many massive hits. Apple has not. Caveat: It's early. HBO didn't even fund big scripted programs until 20 years in.

Lucas Shaw /
@lucas_shaw: Apple is paying both Reese Witherspoon & Jennifer Aniston more than $2 million/episode for the upcoming season of Morning Show. It spent more than $20M/episode on the new season of Severance. It spent more than $250 million on Masters of the Air. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life: The final nail in the coffin for the streaming wars. After spending $20B on shows and movies since the launch of Apple TV+ to generate less views in a month than Netflix does in a day, Apple plans to cut back on TV spending. It was fun while it lasted. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

Lucas Shaw /
@lucas_shaw: Over the last several years, Apple has spent more than $20B on programs with lots of critical raves but few hits. The company is starting to closely examine its spending, hoping to push back on its reputation in Hollywood. This week's newsletter: https://www.bloomberg.com/...

Mary Kate Carr /
AV Club: Apple is going to stop spending all that money on shows you don't watch, obviously

José Adorno /
BGR: Apple TV+ reportedly has less viewers in a month than Netflix does in a single day

Benjamin Mayo /
9to5Mac: Apple TV+ attempts to rein in budgets on new projects, as The Morning Show season four spends $50 million on cast alone

Sky News:

Source: former UK Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi approached billionaire backers like the Reuben family to prepare a £600M bid for The Daily Telegraph and Spectator— Nadhim Zahawi, who stepped down as an MP at the recent general election, has approached prospective billionaire backers including …

Discussion:
@paulanthonytho6, The Independent, @evandxle, @markkleinmansky, The Guardian and Reuters

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Paul Anthony Thorpe /
@paulanthonytho6: Zahawi is going into journalism now, it seems. Telegraph group, which includes the Sunday Telegraph and Spectator. After his attempted tax swindle, he shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a media platform. Not a fit person. A typical Tory charlatan.

Athena Stavrou /
The Independent: Former Tory chancellor Nadhim Zahawi planning ‘£600m Telegraph takeover bid’

Evan Dale /
@evandxle: Nadhim Zahawi, plots £600m Telegraph bid, Sky News can reveal He stepped down as an MP at the recent general election, and has approached prospective billionaire backers about an offer for the Telegraph and Spectator titles. cc: @MarkKleinmanSky https://news.sky.com/...

Mark Kleinman /
@markkleinmansky: EXCLUSIVE: Nadhim Zahawi, the former Tory chancellor, is sounding out billionaire investors about backing a bid for The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator magazine in a move which could up-end the auction of some of Britain's most influential media assets. https://news.sky.com/...

Mark Sweney /
The Guardian: Former Tory chancellor Nadhim Zahawi ‘seeks backers for £600m Telegraph bid’

The Hollywood Reporter:

WBD says it intends to match one of the offers for NBA rights; a source says it is targeting the package from Amazon, which is for about $1.8B per year— TNT has held NBA rights for 35 years. What happens next will determine if they keep them. … The company said in a statement Monday afternoon …

Discussion:
Variety, The Streamable, Awful Announcing, @mattbelloni, TVNewsCheck, Front Office Sports and Next TV

Discussion:

Brian Steinberg /
Variety: Warner Aims to Match Amazon's $1.8 Billion Per Year NBA Package in Sports-Rights Showdown

Matt Tamanini /
The Streamable: WBD Can Match Amazon's NBA Rights Offer Today, Does It Actually Have a Chance to Keep NBA Games?

Ben Axelrod /
Awful Announcing: Bill Simmons: Amazon NBA deal has ‘poison pill’ to make it difficult for WBD to match

Matthew Belloni /
@mattbelloni: lol Warner Discovery is gonna try to match an NBA rights bid. Game on! [image]

Daniel Frankel /
TVNewsCheck: Warner Bros. Discovery Faces Monday Deadline To Match NBA Bids From NBCU, Amazon

Alex Schiffer /
Front Office Sports: Today's the Day for WBD to Match Amazon's NBA Offer

Bloomberg:

Sources: AMC Entertainment reached an agreement with creditors that includes restructuring its debt and moving US theaters into a different unit of the company— The asset shift would move the theaters' value out of the reach of some creditors and allow the company to exchange existing debt …

Discussion:
Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline and @lucas_shaw

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Rebecca Rubin /
Variety: AMC Theatres Refinances Debt in Deals Extending Due Dates by at Least Three Years

Etan Vlessing /
The Hollywood Reporter: AMC Theatres Secures Refinancing Deal to Push Debt Maturities to 2029

Jill Goldsmith /
Deadline: AMC Entertainment Inks Key Refinancing Deal With Lenders, A Relief For Chain And Its Shareholders

The Bookseller:

Academics say publisher Taylor & Francis hadn't told them about selling access to authors' research as part of a $10M+ Microsoft AI deal, nor let them opt out— Authors have expressed their shock after the news that academic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge …

Discussion:
Gerard Shields on LinkedIn, @nosword@localization.cafe, Christopher Steven Marcum on LinkedIn, Music Ally, Lydia Khalil on LinkedIn, @leaton01@scholar.social, Ariel Guersenzvaig on LinkedIn, Rebecca Clements on LinkedIn, Vicky Nagy on LinkedIn, @koutropoulos@social.ds106.us, @JorisMeys@mstdn.social, @BenPatrickWill@mastodon …, @Zeb_Larson@zirk.us, @Samuelmoore@hcommons.social, @rwg@aoir.social, Pivot to AI and Flaming Well

Discussion:

Gerard Shields /
Gerard Shields on LinkedIn: I know most of my network won't follow news from the Publishing world that closely, but this article from The Bookseller warrants close attention. …

Matt T. /
@nosword@localization.cafe: I think what I find most aggravating about this story is how cheaply Taylor & Francis sold out. Surely this, etc. — https://www.thebookseller.com/ ...

Christopher Steven Marcum /
Christopher Steven Marcum on LinkedIn: Y'all shouldn't be shocked. Y'all freely give away your rights to for-profit publishers and now they control the copyright and the licensing to your intellectual property.

Stuart Dredge /
Music Ally: Authors protest after Taylor & Francis signs Microsoft AI deal

Lydia Khalil /
Lydia Khalil on LinkedIn: This is pretty outrageous though not surprising. Academic publishing has always been a total scam. …

Lance Eaton /
@leaton01@scholar.social: Academic publisher sells their library access to AI....expect more of it in the future; most of the contracts that authors sign are giving over the rights and often clauses about future and unidentified uses. — The big publishers continue to rent-seek & exploit scholars...expect all the other major academic publishers. …

Ariel Guersenzvaig /
Ariel Guersenzvaig on LinkedIn: Academic publishers were already ripping us off. I have a chapter in an edited book published by T&F, and I didn't even receive a hard copy when the book was released. …

Rebecca Clements /
Rebecca Clements on LinkedIn: This is so egregious & unethical. Academic publishing is already broken but even that doesn't make selling the work of authors to AI training models without …

Vicky Nagy /
Vicky Nagy on LinkedIn: “Shocked” is a mild response. Outraged is better. — The treatment of academics by successive governments around the world …

Apostolos K. /
@koutropoulos@social.ds106.us: I am shocked! Shocked I tell you! (NOT!) Academic authors ‘shocked’ after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI https://www.thebookseller.com/ ...

Joris Meys /
@JorisMeys@mstdn.social: So one of the big scientific vampir... publishers sold their portfolio to train AI. No author had any say in that, or was paid for it. — https://www.thebookseller.com/ ...

Ben Williamson /
@BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social: As an editor of a journal publishing critical work on tech, and an editor of a Routledge collection on AI in education, I'll be writing to our publisher on Monday about its $10m deal with Microsoft for AI training data https://www.thebookseller.com/ ...

Zeb Larson /
@Zeb_Larson@zirk.us: Predictable grotesque behavior by Taylor and Francis. Academic authors get robbed left and right, but this is a new low: it's selling off allegedly valuable knowledge for what feels like two pieces of stale bread. https://www.thebookseller.com/ ...

Samuel Moore /
@Samuelmoore@hcommons.social: Lots of academics wondering what they should do about this and the answer is as simple as not publishing your monograph with Taylor & Francis or any of their imprints. There are so many other publishers who will do a better job and won't sell your data to Microsoft. — https://www.thebookseller.com/ ...

Robert W. Gehl /
@rwg@aoir.social: After 15+ years of hustling to publish #academic journal articles and books, a significant proportion of my work is now being sold off to #Microsoft to train #LLMs. I never consented to this, and of course when I started my career, I never predicted this. — https://www.thebookseller.com/ ... …

Press Gazette:

Free London paper City AM says Christian May will return as EIC after four years away, and signs a deal to provide business and financial news to Reach titles— City AM will provide business and financial news for many of Reach's biggest newspaper titles including the Daily Express.

Discussion:

Charlotte Tobitt /
Charlotte Tobitt on LinkedIn: Double bubble big news from City AM this morning as Christian May returns as editor and it signs a major content sharing deal with David Higgerson and co at Reach plc. …

Christian May /
Christian May on LinkedIn: I'm absolutely thrilled to be returning as City A.M.'s Editor at such an exciting time. — https://lnkd.in/...

New York Times:

A Florida judge refuses to dismiss Donald Trump's libel lawsuit against the Pulitzer Board over its 2022 statement reaffirming awards for Russiagate coverage— Donald Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize Board over its 2022 statement reaffirming its decision to award a prize for coverage of the 2016 Trump campaign's ties to Russia.

Discussion:
@jeffjarvis and Politico

Washington Post:

A profile of John Paul Vranesevich, the owner and only full-time reporter for the Beaver Countian who beat the national media on a Donald Trump shooting scoop— The owner of the Beaver Countian is the western Pennsylvania news site's only full-time reporter.

Discussion:
@seungminkim, @weldpond, @cdarwin@c.im, @jackiegardina … and TVNewsCheck

Discussion:

Seung Min Kim /
@seungminkim: Why local news matters: “What they know about me is I was here before the big story happened, and I'll be here after the big story happened.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @weldpond: I'm sure some of remember John Vraneshevich from AntiOnline, one of the first hacker news sites. How a one-man news site beat the national media on a Trump shooting scoop https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Chuck Darwin /
@cdarwin@c.im: How a one-man news site beat the national media on a Trump shooting scoop — The owner of the Beaver Countian is the western Pennsylvania news site's only full-time reporter. — He says there are reasons why his sources wanted to share certain details with a local journalist. …

Jackie Gardina /
@jackiegardina@awscommunity.social: This is (another reason) why local newspaper and journalist are so important. We have lost so much with the consolidation and corporatization of media. — #media #journalism #democracy — https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... [image]

Financial Times:

WPP-owned ad agency Ogilvy unveils Influence Shield, a new service that aims to help clients deal with reputational issues arising from social media influencers— WPP-owned advertising agency claims new product will prevent reputational damage — Ogilvy, the WPP-owned advertising agency …

Discussion:
El País

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The Information:

Condé Nast sends a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity, accusing it of plagiarizing its content, a month after Forbes sent a similar letter to the AI company— Magazine giant Condé Nast has sent a cease-and-desist letter to artificial intelligence search engine Perplexity …

Discussion:
Engadget and @steph_palazzolo

Discussion:

Pranav Dixit /
Engadget: Condé Nast has reportedly accused AI search startup Perplexity of plagiarism

Stephanie Palazzolo /
@steph_palazzolo: Scoop w/ @sizpatel: Conde Nast is the latest publisher to send a cease-and-desist letter to AI search engine Perplexity. It highlights the legal dangers that await AI startups, even those that don't develop their own LLMs. More here: https://www.theinformation.com/ ...

Australian Financial Review:

Google has quietly renewed deals with Australian outlets, sources say as year-long deals, worth tens of millions of dollars under the News Media Bargaining Code— Google has been quietly renewing deals worth tens of millions of dollars with Australian publishers under the News Media Bargaining Code …

Discussion:
Mumbrella

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Nathan Jolly /