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The Verge:

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back in a “provisional, read-only manner”, after a DDoS attack on the Internet Archive on October 9 and a data breach— The Internet Archive is back online in a read-only state after a cyberattack brought down the digital library and Wayback Machine last week.
Discussion: @brewster_kahle, Tom's Hardware, Ars Technica, Engadget, @brewster_kahle, @internetarchive, Neowin, Fast Company, ZDNET, @tariqkrim, AV Club, Mashable, Cord Cutters News, PCMag and TechRepublic, more at Techmeme »

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Brewster Kahle /
@brewster_kahle: The @internetarchive's Wayback Machine resumed in a provisional, read-only manner. Sorry, no Save Page Now yet. Safe to resume but might need further maintenance, in which case it will be suspended again. Please be gentle https://web.archive.org/ More as it happens.

Christopher Harper /
Tom's Hardware: Internet Archive is back up in a provisional “read-only” state since cyberattack

Jon Brodkin /
Ars Technica: The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back online

Will Shanklin /
Engadget: Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back online after last week's DDoS attacks

Brewster Kahle /
@brewster_kahle: @waybackmachine volume is back to normal: 1,500 requests per second. Sorry we don't have other services yet. (Your good wishes have helped a good team @internetarchive ) more as it happens.

John Callaham /
Neowin: The Internet Archives' Wayback Machine site is back online but in a read-only mode for now

Jessica Bursztynsky /
Fast Company: The Internet Archive is back online after a cyberattack

Lance Whitney /
ZDNET: Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back up after data breach - with a catch @tariqkrim: The Internet Archive is the closest thing to a public service for the Internet. Its hacking is a sad day for the online world.

Mary Kate Carr /
AV Club: The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back up after hack

Shannon Connellan /
Mashable: Internet Archive is back up as read-only after data breach

Luke Bouma /
Cord Cutters News: The Internet Archive is Back Online After Massive Hack Exposed 31 Million users Information

Variety:

Fox Deportes and NBCUniversal's Telemundo will each produce separate Spanish-language broadcasts of Super Bowl LIX in 2025, an unusual arrangement— Each year, Spanish-speaking sports fans can usually find one Spanish-language simulcast of the Super Bowl. This year, there will be two.

Discussion:
@jeremydstanley.com, Sports Media Watch, The Desk, Deadline, TVNewsCheck, The Hollywood Reporter and Barrett Media

Discussion:

Jeremy Stanley /
@jeremydstanley.com: when I lived there, I loved how Mexico had two separate broadcasts of the World Series — one on Fox Sports and one on ESPN. Fox had Fox graphics, ESPN took MLB Network's world feed. glad we're getting some diversification here! give the rights to everyone! [embedded post]

Matthew Keys /
The Desk: Fox to license Super Bowl LIX to Comcast's Telemundo

Dade Hayes /
Deadline: Super Bowl Poised To Reach Its Biggest Spanish-Language Audience Ever Due To Fox Deportes-Telemundo Rights Deal

Mark K. Miller /
TVNewsCheck: Fox Deportes & Telemundo's 2025 Super Bowl Spanish-Language Distribution To Be Largest Ever

Alex Weprin /
The Hollywood Reporter: Fox and NBCUniversal Cut Deal to Bring 2025 Super Bowl to Telemundo

Press Gazette:

Filing: the UK's PA Media Group reports 2023 revenue up 6% YoY to £112.1M and operating profit up 53% YoY to £8.3M, as it grows through revenue diversification— PA Media Group has grown its revenues every year since 2016 helped by a series of acquisitions.

PetaPixel:

Adobe says its Firefly Video Model is the first “commercially safe” text-to-video generative AI model that was trained on licensed and public domain content— Adobe unveiled its Firefly Video Model last month, previewing a variety of new generative AI video features.

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Stephen Nellis /
Reuters: Adobe starts roll-out of AI video tools, challenging OpenAI and Meta

Karthik Mudaliar /
Neowin: Adobe is making sure all of its products have AI features with these new announcements @joematoske: @EstebanToroM Hi Esteban. Branding Firefly as “commercially safe” repositions Adobe from a creators toolkit to a b2b service- which increasingly seems to be Adobe's prerogative.

Joshua Sun /
@joshgong10: Adobe released Adobe Firefly Video today, and it is as clean as videos from Meta. They trained the model on in-house data, claiming it to be commercially safe. The videos mainly rely on two techniques: 1) panning or moving from a large tiled initial image; and 2) using a close-up [image]

Andrew Tarantola /
Digital Trends: You can now generate AI videos right in Premiere Pro

Vishal Mathur /
Hindustan Times: Video Gen AI battles begin, as Adobe releases Firefly Video model into the world

Paul Thurrott /
Thurrott: Adobe Announces Firefly Video Model, More AI Advances

Prakhar Khanna /
Forbes: ‘We Do Not Scrape The Internet’: Adobe Firefly Debuts With Focus On Responsible AI Training

Alexandru Costin /
@acostin: Our @Adobe Firefly Video model, the first designed for commercial use, will help our creative community tell a lot of stories. Couldn't be happier for the team that make it happen. Also, I've been to #AdobeMAX since 2003 and I love our customer reaction to magical tech ;). Drives [video]

Pradeep Viswanathan /
Neowin: Adobe announces Firefly Video Model that can generate commercially safe videos

Maxwell Zeff /
TechCrunch: Adobe invites you to ‘embrace the tech’ with Firefly's new video generator

Anthony Duignan-Cabrera /
Silicon Valley Business …: Adobe rolls out extensive AI features, including a video model, for Firefly

Liz Miller /
@lizkmiller: “We all know that AI is only as good as the data on which it's trained. We took on the technical challenge of training our #Firefly generative AI models only on licensed and public domain content so that we can design a commercially safe solution.” @snarayen @Adobe #AdobeMAX [image]

Jess Weatherbed /
The Verge: Adobe's AI video model is here, and it's already inside Premiere Pro

Poynter:

The Poynter Institute partners with Knight Foundation to educate philanthropic funders, who are interested in supporting local news, about journalism ethics— Partnership with Knight Foundation aims to help strengthen local news ecosystem — Today, Maribel Pèrez Wadsworth …

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Knight Foundation

New York Times:

A look at George magazine, which stopped publication in 1999 after co-founder John F. Kennedy Jr.'s death and was revived by a QAnon proponent in 2022— It is a reanimation story strange enough for a zombie movie, made possible by the fact that the original George trademark lapsed, only to be secured by a conservative lawyer.

Semafor:

Yashica Olden, who was Condé Nast's first head of diversity, equity, and inclusion, quietly left in June 2024, after internal tensions over the Israel-Hamas war— The Scoop — Condé Nast's high-profile head of diversity quietly stepped down in June amid bitter internal tensions …

Discussion:
The Daily Caller, @jessesingal, @semaforben, New York Post and @maxwelltani

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Robert McGreevy /
The Daily Caller: Jewish Employees Accuse DEI Chief Condé Nast Of Antisemitism

Jesse Singal /
@jessesingal: Who woulda thunk it https://t.co/...

Ariel Zilber /
New York Post: Jewish staffers at Condé Nast accuse ex-DEI chief of antisemitism: report

The Guardian:

BBC DG Tim Davie says funding cuts to BBC World Service have helped state-funded media operators from Russia and China broadcast “unchallenged propaganda”— BBC director-general Tim Davie to warn world facing ‘all-out assault on truth’ as state-funded media operators broadcast unchallenged

Discussion:
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

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The Guardian:
The BBC launches an independent review of its workplace culture after scandals around presenters like Huw Edwards; DG Tim Davie says no one is “indispensable”

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Felicity Cross /
The Sun: Major change at BBC as commonly used term to refer to top stars is BANNED after series of scandals

Max Goldbart /
Deadline: BBC Boss Bans The Word “Talent”

Financial Times:

An interview with IAC chair Barry Diller on his Paramount bid being “more of a duty than a desire”, why Hollywood's hold on entertainment is “gone”, and more— IAC chair hits out at Trump and warns of power shift to Big Tech in film and TV

Discussion:
@arogdc, Benzinga, @jonthn_wheatley, @tvgrimreaper, @tonytassell and Business Insider

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Alex Rogers /
@arogdc: As media companies have consolidated and tech companies have moved on to Tinsel Town turf, “you can't even find the whites of the eyes of the person who makes the decision,” says Barry Diller. https://www.ft.com/... -@MattGarrahan

Chris Katje /
Benzinga: Billionaire Trump Supporters ‘Refuse To Talk About The Character Of...Rotten Person’: Media Mogul Barry Diller Sounds Off On Elon Musk, Others

Jonathan Wheatley /
@jonthn_wheatley: Finding it hard to concentrate beyond the third para para: Forbes estimates his net worth is $4.6bn, allowing him luxuries such as a big boat...as well as the funds to clone his late dog — a Jack Russell mix called Shannon — five times over. https://www.ft.com/... via @ft @tvgrimreaper: I don't remember the last time I agreed with Barry Diller, but here we are. (although including Apple in that list of “controllers” is 🤦🏻 ♂️) [image]

Tony Tassell /
@tonytassell: Terrific interview here by @MattGarrahan with Barry Diller on the fading grip of Hollywood and much more, including some acerbic critiques of Trump and those plutocrats who support him and what went down with Bianca Jagger at Studio 54 https://www.ft.com/...

Variety:

Sources: Disney plans to simulcast six broadcasts of Monday Night Football, typically a mainstay of ESPN, on the ABC broadcast network— Disney is taking a strategy that lent it a boost during the recent Hollywood labor strikes and working to apply it to its normal course of business.

Discussion:
NBCSports.com, Cord Cutters News, Adweek, Inside Radio, USA Today, The Desk and Associated Press

Discussion:

Luke Bouma /
Cord Cutters News: ABC Expands “Monday Night Football” Simulcasts, Bringing More NFL Action to Network Television

Brad Pareso /
Adweek: ABC Adds 6 More MNF Simulcasts for 2024 Inside Radio: Trump's Call For FCC License Revocations Should Be ‘A Wake-Up Call For All Broadcasters.’

Mike Snider /
USA Today: ‘Threats against free speech’: FCC chair condemns Trump's call for CBS to lose license

Matthew Keys /
The Desk: ABC to simulcast more “Monday Night Football” games

Press Gazette:

The Evening Standard reports revenue down 15% YoY to £26.8m in the FY ending October 1, 2023 and a loss of £20.6M, its highest loss since going free in 2009— The Evening Standard has reported its highest losses since going free in 2009, for the year before it decided to drop its daily print edition.

Discussion:
Financial Times, @baekdal and The Guardian

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Daniel Thomas /
Financial Times: Evening Standard kept afloat with £44mn in loans from Evgeny Lebedev and other investors

Thomas Baekdal /
@baekdal: Ouch... [image]

The Wrap:

Legendary Entertainment buys out Wanda Group's remaining 60% equity stake in the studio; Legendary board will be evenly split between management and Apollo— As part of the move, the “Dune” and “Godzilla” studio's board will be evenly split between management and private equity firm Apollo …

Discussion:
Bloomberg, @xpangler, @mtfiii, Los Angeles Times, Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter and Reuters

Discussion:

Thomas Buckley /
Bloomberg: Apollo-Backed Legendary Entertainment Buys Out Wanda Group Stake

Todd Spangler /
@xpangler: The pact leaves Legendary and Apollo Global Management in control https://variety.com/...

Michael T Ford III /
@mtfiii: Legendary Entertainment Buys Out Wanda, With An Eye Toward M&A The ‘Dune’ and ‘Godzilla’ studio had been owned by Wanda since 2016, with Apollo joining as a minority investor in 2022. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...

Samantha Masunaga /
Los Angeles Times: Legendary buys out China's Wanda ownership stake

Jill Goldsmith /
Deadline: Legendary Entertainment Buys Out Wanda's Remaining Ownership Stake In New Era For Studio

Alex Weprin /
The Hollywood Reporter: Legendary Entertainment Buys Out Wanda, With An Eye Toward M&A

Semafor:

Q&A with ATTN co-founder and co-CEO Matthew Segal on the current social ecosystem, vertical video optimization, trying to be the “HBO of short-form”, and more— The News — Born in 2014, the media company ATTN is the product of the Facebook video age …