A Ukrainian official says the country's hackers carried out a cyberattack that took down the online broadcasts of 20+ Russian broadcasters, including Rossiya 24 (Olesia Safronova/Bloomberg)

Mediagazer: A Ukrainian official says the country's hackers carried out a cyberattack that took down the online broadcasts of 20+ Russian broadcasters, including Rossiya 24 (Olesia Safronova/Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:

A Ukrainian official says the country's hackers carried out a cyberattack that took down the online broadcasts of 20+ Russian broadcasters, including Rossiya 24— - Russian state media reported ‘unprecedented’ cyberattack — Disruption coincided with Russian president's 72nd birthday
Discussion: Reuters and @lukolejnik

Discussion:
Reuters: Russia says VGTRK, which runs Russia's main national and regional TV channels, has been hit by an “unprecedented hacker attack”; radio and TV are still working

Lukasz Olejnik /
@lukolejnik: Major Russian state media are down following to a cyberattack. “Online broadcasting and internal services are not working, there is no Internet or telephony”. Reports of data destruction (including backups) and expectation of long down-time. Rossia 1 and Rossia 24 (TV), in

Wall Street Journal:

eMarketer expects Google's share of the US search ad market to drop below 50% in 2025 for the first time in 10+ years, as Amazon, Apple, and others make gains— A flurry of new offerings for advertisers is hitting the market — Google's grip on the nearly $300 billion search advertising business is loosening.

Discussion:

Joe Armendariz /
Joe Armendariz on LinkedIn: This story is as old as time—one innovation replacing another. It's the “gales of creative destruction,” a term coined by economist Joseph Schumpeter. …

Paul Kedrosky /
@pkedrosky: WSJ: Google's share of the U.S. search ad market is expected to fall below 50% next year for the first time in over a decade Anecdotally, I use it much less than ever. https://www.wsj.com/... [image]

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life@mas.to: Google is on track to dip below 50% of the search advertising market in the US. — While the Wall Street Journal hypes up TikTok & AI search engines like Perplexity as the cause, the largest gainer is Amazon which now has 22.3% share followed by the Apple's App Store search ads. …

Aravind Srinivas /
@aravsrinivas: Yep, search is going to be disrupted big time in the next five years. [image]

Adam Epstein /
@aepstein_: Amazon's meteoric rise in share of search ad revenue this past decade will be matched in the next decade with a meteoric rise in share of tv ad revenue. [image]

John Ballard /
Motley Fool: Billionaires Are Betting Big on These FAANG Stocks, and This $700 Billion Opportunity Explains Why

Ashkan Karbasfrooshan /
@ashkan: Google didn't pioneer search ads, Goto/Overture did, but timing helped their superior search product become the dominant platform, reaping all the benefits. But, like all other disrupters, it's being disrupted by social, AI. https://www.wsj.com/...

Aravind Srinivas /
Aravind Srinivas on LinkedIn: Google search business is going to see big time disruption in the next few years from TikTok and answer engines like Perplexity, as per The Wall Street Journal https://lnkd.in/...

Jess Weatherbed /
The Verge: Google is testing verified checkmarks in search

Brad Pareso /
Adweek: Publisher Traffic Spiked Thanks to Google's Gen AI Overview Tweaks as Ad Rollout Begins

Financial Times:

Sources: New York Sun owner Dovid Efune is close to striking a deal to buy The Telegraph for £550M+, more than what others like National World offered— Offer could end 16-month battle to control the conservative British national newspaper — New York Sun owner Dovid Efune is closing …

Discussion:
The Times, Telegraph, Hindustan Times, Bloomberg and The Guardian

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Tom Saunders /
The Times: New York Sun owner closing in on deal to buy Telegraph Hindustan Times: Business News LIVE Updates Today October 7, 2024: New York Sun owner nears £550 million deal for Telegraph newspaper: Report

The Conversation:

As Congress tries to force carmakers to install AM radios as a matter of public interest, it should push licensed stations to abide by public interest standards— A lament about the demise of AM radio has been rising in the halls of Congress. — Several automakers, most notably Tesla and Ford …

Discussion:
Barrett Media, RADIO ONLINE, Inside Radio and Radio Ink

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Dr. Ed Cohen /
Barrett Media: The “Radio For Every Home” Act of 2025

Lori Lewis /
Inside Radio: State AGs Urge Congress To Protect ‘Life-Saving’ AM Radio Following Hurricane Helene.

New York Times:

Former NYT investigative reporter David Burnham, whose work uncovering corruption in the NYPD during the 1970s inspired the movie Serpico, dies at the age of 91— Tipped off by the detective Frank Serpico, he wrote an explosive series on police corruption in New York City, sparking an investigation by the Knapp commission.

Discussion:
@schwellenbach, @sergenyt, @proflhunter, @carlmalamud@official … and Deadline

Discussion:

Nick Schwellenbach /
@schwellenbach: David had a huge influence on my approach to journalism, namely how important it is to take a systematic approach to covering government agencies. He was a generous and no-bullshit guy. We need more David Burnhams. R.I.P. David. https://www.nytimes.com/...

Serge Kovaleski /
@sergenyt: David Burnham, Times Reporter Who Exposed Police Graft, Dies at 91 Tipped off by the detective Frank Serpico, he wrote an explosive series on police corruption in New York City, sparking an investigation by the Knapp commission. https://www.nytimes.com/...

Larry Hunter /
@proflhunter: Sad to hear the great David Burnham died. In addition to his spectacular reporting, he founded the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, one of the first great sources of open data. A true hero. https://www.nytimes.com/...

Carl Malamud /
@carlmalamud@official.resource.org: I knew David fairly well. We were both working out of the ACLU offices next to the Supreme Court in Washington. He was a total curmudgeon but also totally sweet and generous with his time. He went on from there to create a wonderful FOIA center in New York, I did a deep dive into the Internet. …

Variety:

Amazon India completes its MX Player acquisition and merges it with Amazon miniTV to create new free streaming service Amazon MX Player— STREAMING SYNERGIES … The merged platform has over 250 million unique users in India, according to Amazon. — The service offers original shows like …

Discussion:
Advanced Television, Deadline and YourStory.com

Discussion:

Jesse Whittock /
Deadline: Amazon Completes Deal For Indian Streamer MX Player

Semafor:

Substack, which still isn't profitable but has added 1M+ paid subscribers over the past year, is trying to become a primary way creators of all mediums get paid— Seven years since its launch, the newsletter platform Substack has consolidated its dominance of the independent news business.

Discussion:
@semaforben, @emily_sundberg, Jason Whittaker on LinkedIn and @semafor, more at Techmeme »

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Ben Smith /
@semaforben: .@maxwelltani mustread on what is going on with Substack, which seems to have won its lane — newsletters — but needs to move into others to succeed as a business and sell to ... Stripe? https://www.semafor.com/...

Emily Sundberg /
@emily_sundberg: Feed Me in @semafor tonight (thanks @maxwelltani) https://www.semafor.com/... [image]

Jason Whittaker /
Jason Whittaker on LinkedIn: The “remarkable” rise of Substack, writes Maxwell Tani at SEMAFOR, with a million new subs in the last year - half via its recommendation engine, most news-based products: … @semafor: 🟡 NEW: Seven years since its launch, Substack has consolidated its dominance of the independent news business. Now, it's trying to position itself as something more, @maxwelltani reports. https://www.semafor.com/...

Financial Times:

The BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5 agree a deal with Amazon to put free streamer Freely, developed by joint venture Everyone TV, on Amazon's US smart TVs— Agreement with US tech company is set to provide a boost to broadcasters' new platform Freely — BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 …

Discussion:
Reuters, Advanced Television, The Sun, RXTV, Broadband TV News, The Media Leader and Deadline

Discussion:

Colin Mann /
Advanced Television: Freely on Fire TV

Jamie Harris /
The Sun: Amazon reveals major shake-up for Fire TVs with new free UK streaming service coming in days

Marc Thornham /
RXTV: Freeview replacement Freely coming to Amazon Fire TVs

Julian Clover /
Broadband TV News: Freely agrees distribution deal with Amazon

Jack Benjamin /
The Media Leader: Freely comes to Amazon Fire TV

New York Times:

How SmartLess, a podcast by Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes, became a rare cultural tent pole that continues to thrive after its pandemic birth— Started during the pandemic, this venture is the first step in a media empire being built by the actors Sean Hayes, Will Arnett and Jason Bateman.

Discussion:
@frankdigiacomo, @stuartemmrich and Deadline

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Frank DiGiacomo /
@frankdigiacomo: Super interesting and informative piece about ‘Smartless’ and the podcasting business by my friend @SridharPappu https://www.nytimes.com/...

Stuart Emmrich /
@stuartemmrich: The actors ⁦@SeanHayes⁩, ⁦@arnettwill⁩ and ⁦@batemanjason⁩ started the ⁦@SmartLess⁩ podcast in the middle of the pandemic. It's now a $100 million media business. Read the cover story in the ⁦@nytimes⁩ Sunday Business section https://www.nytimes.com/...

Wall Street Journal:

A look at Google NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature, which was built by Google Labs and has gone viral for its AI-generated “deep dive” podcasts with two hosts— With this Google tool, you can now listen to a show about any topic you could possibly imagine. You won't believe your ears.

Discussion:
Business Insider, @ambermac, @cnbctechcheck, @ericjorgenson, @stevenbjohnson, @omarsar0, @karpathy, @omartosca, @davetroy, @elonmusk, @firstadopter, @stevenbjohnson, @karpathy, Barron's Online, MIT Technology Review, Forbes, MIT Technology Review, Axios and Hard Fork on YouTube

Discussion:

Ana Altchek /
Business Insider: I tried Google's viral new tool that creates an AI podcast about topics you feed it. It's worth the hype.

Amber Mac /
@ambermac: These are not real people doing a podcast chat about my newsletter intro. Instead, I dropped my 200-word essay text into Google's NotebookLM (a virtual research assistant) and chose the little button at the top that says - Deep dive conversation: Two hosts (English only). Now [video] @cnbctechcheck: We tested out $GOOGL's viral NotebookLM tool using CNBC and Wall Street's favorite study tool: an analyst note. Powered by Google's most advanced AI model, Gemini 1.5 Pro, could this be the next killer app for generative AI? @dee_bosa reports [video]

Eric Jorgenson /
@ericjorgenson: @karpathy How do you fact-check generations like this?

Steven Johnson /
@stevenbjohnson: Love that you're doing this, @omarsar0! Sounds like a great intro (and beyond) to the product.

Elvis /
@omarsar0: 🎓Introduction to NotebookLM Very excited to announce @dair_ai's first FREE course, Introduction to NotebookLM! As an AI educator, researcher, and engineer, NotebookLM unlocks a wide range of use cases. It's not just the podcast generation feature (which is amazing), it's [image]

Andrej Karpathy /
@karpathy: @EricJorgenson Good q worth noting that the Wikipedia page is in the context window when the pod is generated, this increases the accuracy a lot provided original material is ok. It's when you try to “zero shot” prompt straight up you'd expect a hazy recollection, quite possibly hallucinations. @omartosca: Many people have praised NotebookLM for their approach to genAI podcasting, even the UI for researching, but they all forget to praise the model behind. Gemini is more powerful and impressive than people think, they just need to get out of the gpt and Claude bubbles.

Dave Troy /
@davetroy: Google's NotebookLM is by far the most actually useful AI product of the current generation, for people that actually need to augment their own capacity. Being able to process multiple large and complex sources and pull out key details (names, organizations, key themes, etc) is

Elon Musk /
@elonmusk: @karpathy Interesting

Tae Kim /
@firstadopter: Congrats to Google Labs and the NotebookLM team for creating one of the most compelling AI products yet. Great stuff. It offers a glimpse of AI's future with Gemini's longer context window capabilities and unlocking the siloed knowledge inside corporate internal databases [image]

Steven Johnson /
@stevenbjohnson: Wow. Such a great case study in why we designed NotebookLM from the beginning around curated sources It's basically the foundation of the product: curate the information you need the AI to have expertise in—and then transform it into whatever form you want.

Andrej Karpathy /
@karpathy: Deep Dive is now my favorite podcast. The more I listen the more I feel like I'm becoming friends with the hosts and I think this is the first time I've actually viscerally liked an AI. Two AIs! They are fun, engaging, thoughtful, open-minded, curious. ok i'll stop now.

Andrej Karpathy /
@karpathy: Over the last ~2 hours I curated a new Podcast of 10 episodes called “Histories of Mysteries”. Find it up on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/... 10 episodes of this season are: Ep 1: The Lost City of Atlantis Ep 2: Baghdad battery Ep 3: The Roanoke Colony Ep 4: The Antikythera [image]

Rhiannon Williams /
MIT Technology Review: The Download: Google's AI podcasts, and protecting your brain data

Melissa Heikkilä /
MIT Technology Review: People are using Google study software to make AI podcasts—and they're weird and amazing

Scott Rosenberg /
Axios: Google's AI podcast hosts draw crowds

New York Times:

Watches of Switzerland Group, one of the world's largest watch retailers, buys watch enthusiast website Hodinkee and says its coverage will remain independent— Neither Benjamin Clymer, its founder, nor the Watches of Switzerland Group would disclose terms, but they stressed that coverage would continue to be independent.

Discussion:
@reb40, @ilyakan2004, @kstahl, @hiddenvaluegems, @penttijokinen, @will__stern, @cllctmedia, @aspeciale, @rafat, @robbreport, @etkeld, London Evening Standard, The Mirror, City A.M., MarketWatch, Fortune, Forbes Australia, Bloomberg, cllct, Hodinkee, Daniela Morena on LinkedIn, Benjamin Clymer on LinkedIn, Lorcan McCabe on LinkedIn, Katie Reed on LinkedIn, Adam Schoenberg on LinkedIn and Coverager

Discussion:

Aston Girl /
@reb40: #WOSG Acquisition of Hodinkee, a ‘leading platform for luxury watch enthusiasts’ We're not allowed to know what they paid or any financials except that “The acquisition will be funded out of existing financing facilities and will not materially impact our leverage position” 🤷🏻 ♀️ [image]

Ilya Kan /
@ilyakan2004: @Billhuang1223 @FundamentalGoob I think they overpaid vs other cash allocation opportunities. And from what I remember listening to a podcast with Hodinkee's founder it's a nice distribution platform but as a biz maybe just OK. Really depends on what they paid. Probably marginally profitable if even profitable

Kevin Stahl /
@kstahl: How much do you think John Mayer and Tom Brady just made in this Hodinkee / Watches of Switzerland deal?! @hiddenvaluegems: $WOSG.L acquires @Hodinkee - online watch reviews and a digital retailer of luxury watches. Congrats to Ben Clymer, the founder of Hodinkee. The price is not disclosed but according to WOSG, the deal “ will not materially impact [its] leverage position.” Looks like a good move [image]

Pentti Jokinen /
@penttijokinen: Opportunistic move in the watch industry slump, $WOSG Watches of Switzerland picks up Hodinkee. [image]

Will Stern /
@will__stern: Major news in the watch space. Hodinkee is one of my favorite reads, period. @cllctmedia: NEW: Hodinkee acquired by Watches of Switzerland. The site is the most widely read watch publication on earth with 20m readers per month. https://www.cllct.com/...

Alessandro Speciale /
@aspeciale: Watches of Switzerland is acquiring Hodinkee, the US watch site backed by LVMH and Tom Brady, following its losses from a move into selling pre-owned models online https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @business @iamandyhoffman #Switzerland @rafat: The lesson here is same as always: even in vertical media, if you raise too much money, chances are you will trip up with overambition and overspending much like consumer media startups and suffer the same fate. Likely a mercy buy, even if decent buyer. https://www.nytimes.com/... @robbreport: The Watches of Switzerland Group just acquired the watch media company Hodinkee. The two hope to work together to benefit the watch community. https://robbreport.com/...

Eric Kelderman /
@etkeld: Hodinkee, the Watch Fan Site, Is Sold to a British Retailer 1) HOLY COW 2) given the topic and audience, seems like the NYT should have identified what watches appear on their subjects' wrists - I see a Rolex Daytona on Clymer... https://www.nytimes.com/...

Anna Wise /
London Evening Standard: Watches of Switzerland buys US luxury watch enthusiast platform

Maria Ward-Brennan /
City A.M.: Watches of Switzerland snaps up US media firm in online luxury push

Christian Moess Laursen /
MarketWatch: Watches of Switzerland Group Adds to Online Presence with Hodinkee Acquisition

Anthony DeMarco /
Forbes Australia: Watches of Switzerland acquires popular watch website Hodinkee

Andy Hoffman /
Bloomberg: UK Rolex Dealer Buys Watch Site Backed by LVMH, Tom Brady

Benjamin Clymer /
Hodinkee: Hodinkee Joins Forces With Watches Of Switzerland

Daniela Morena /
Daniela Morena on LinkedIn: It is an exciting day for the team at HODINKEE, Inc. as it was announced that the company was acquired by the Watches of Switzerland Group. …

Benjamin Clymer /
Benjamin Clymer on LinkedIn: 17 years in the making, I am proud to say that we have sold HODINKEE, Inc. to Watches of Switzerland Group PLC - joining forces with an iconic, century-old partner to the entire industry. …

Lorcan McCabe /
Lorcan McCabe on LinkedIn: Beyond thrilled for the announcement today - a partnership a decade in the making. Huge congratulations to Benjamin Clymer and welcome to the team …

Katie Reed /
Katie Reed on LinkedIn: Welcome to the team Hodinkee! A very big thank you to Victoria Gomelsky for delivering this story with such care.

Adam Schoenberg /
Adam Schoenberg on LinkedIn: I'm thrilled to share that Hodinkee is officially joining the Watches of Switzerland Group! This is a monumental step for our team …

Shefi Ben-Hutta /
Coverager: Watches Of Switzerland acquires watch site Hodinkee

Bloomberg:

Meta unveils Movie Gen, which creates up to 16-second videos from a text prompt, available to some staff and partners; Meta plans to add it to its apps in 2025— Movie Gen tool can create short videos from a text prompt — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. debuted a new artificial intelligence tool …

Discussion:
Meta, Andrew Weld-Moore on LinkedIn, Mike Hollander on LinkedIn, Siddharth Bhattacharya on LinkedIn, @jimclydego, @soumithchintala, @dr_cintas, @prashant_1722, @ahmad_al_dahle, @koltregaskes, @prashant_1722, @nearcyan, @kimmonismus, @reece___rogers, @arankomatsuzaki, @soumithchintala, @prashant_1722, @_akhaliq, ZDNET, Ars Technica, The Wrap, Neowin, The Verge, New York Times, @aaldahle@threads.net, @jakebailey@threads.net, @aiatmeta@threads.net, @evolving.ai@threads.net, @chriscox@threads.net, Wired and TechCrunch

Discussion:

Andrew Weld-Moore /
Andrew Weld-Moore on LinkedIn: Exciting news! — We're proud to introduce Meta Movie Gen, our latest breakthrough in generative AI for media. …

Mike Hollander /
Mike Hollander on LinkedIn: this is wild. not too long ago, you had to spend $$ on high-end video editing software and even more $$$ on hardware that could run that software. …

Siddharth Bhattacharya /
Siddharth Bhattacharya on LinkedIn: Today's big news is the launch of Meta's MovieGen, and it's an announcement I feel very proud of. — I have worked in highly impactful products …

Jim Monge /
@jimclydego: @AIatMeta introduces “Movie Gen”. A brand new AI video and sound generator. This is mind-blowing. [video]

Soumith Chintala /
@soumithchintala: yes, Meta released a full scientific paper on MovieGen, with a lot of details that'll help the field move forward.

Alvaro Cintas /
@dr_cintas: 🚨 Meta just announced Meta Movie Gen. It can generate high-quality AI videos from text, sync audio to the video, and even perform video editing. Look at these 10 crazy examples: 1. Fluffy koala bear surfing [video]

Prashant /
@prashant_1722: EXCLUSIVE! The BIGGEST META MOVIE GEN thread.. Best in class video quality now available in the AI video offering. I have compiled the incredible video collection shared by Meta here. Follow and share the thread. Tell me if you have seen anything better. Meta beats KlingAI, [video]

Ahmad Al-Dahle /
@ahmad_al_dahle: I couldn't be more excited to share our latest AI research breakthrough. We call it Meta Movie Gen and it's a collection of state-of-the-art models that combine to deliver the most advanced video generation capability ever created. Check it out: https://ai.meta.com/... [video] @koltregaskes: Meta AI Announces Movie Gen A model that can generate images, video, audio and can edit video with text! This is a full suite AI content generator. [video]

Near /
@nearcyan: meta movie gen announced this morning • 30B video model, 7B upsampler • 1080p 4-16s videos • info on sampling, training, basic dataset curation pipeline details less frequently shared • ‘potential release’ after much time and feedback... page: https://ai.meta.com/... [video] @kimmonismus: Meta has landed an absolute hit today with Meta Movie Gen. Not only is the video quality at Sora level, you can even upload your own photo and integrate it into the video. Here are a few examples. [video]

Reece Rogers /
@reece___rogers: It will be interesting to see how long it takes Meta to make Movie Gen broadly available. The announcement blog vaguely gestures at a “potential future release.” https://www.wired.com/... @WIRED

Aran Komatsuzaki /
@arankomatsuzaki: 🎬 Meta introduces Movie Gen: A Cast of SotA Media Foundation Models - 30B params, 16-second video at 1080p 16fps with synchronized audio - Text-to-video, video personalization, and video editing - Supports personalized video creation using user images - Innovations in [video]

Soumith Chintala /
@soumithchintala: the MovieGen stack got a huge upgrade. compared to others, the Editing and Personalization features are really on a different level! producing personalized videos from a single photo of a person was quite mind-blowing to me. @_akhaliq: Meta announces Movie Gen A Cast of Media Foundation Models We present Movie Gen, a cast of foundation models that generates high-quality, 1080p HD videos with different aspect ratios and synchronized audio. We also show additional capabilities such as precise instruction-based [video]

Benj Edwards /
Ars Technica: Meta's new “Movie Gen” AI system can deepfake video from a single photo

Pradeep Viswanathan /
Neowin: Meta unveils Movie Gen, claiming the most advanced video generation model yet

Ahmad Al-Dahle /
@aaldahle@threads.net: I couldn't be more excited about our latest AI research breakthrough in video generation. We call it Movie Gen - it's a collection of SOTA models that combine to deliver the most advanced video generation capability ever created. • Up to 16s of continuous video generation. …

Jake Bailey /
@jakebailey@threads.net: Pretty insane work by our @aiatmeta team. Wow https://ai.meta.com/... @aiatmeta@threads.net: As part of our continued belief in open science and progressing the state-of-the-art in media generation we've published more details on Movie Gen in a new research paper for the academic community 👉 https://go.fb.me/3qapq2 @evolving.ai@threads.net: @aiatmeta just dropped a bombshell! Meet Meta Movie Gen - introducing their research for the most advanced media foundation AI models.

Chris Cox /
@chriscox@threads.net: We're sharing our progress today on Movie Gen, our project to develop the state of the art for AI video generation. As of today our evals show it's industry-leading on text-to-video quality across a number of dimensions, with 16s of continuous length, plus a leap forward for the state of the art on video-matched audio …

Reece Rogers /