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Many large websites went down Tuesday, including Amazon, Twitch, BBC, NYT, Spotify, Reddit, and FT, due to an issue at the Fastly CDN, which has now been fixed — Countless popular websites including Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal …
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple debuts iCloud+ as part of iCloud plans, featuring Hide My Email, Private Relay for encrypting device traffic and bouncing it through relays, and more — During its WWDC keynote today, Apple unveiled a new iCloud+ service with new features alongside iCloud storage. iCloud+ includes three new features …
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Sara Morrison / Vox:
Apple's iOS 15 to add Mail Privacy Protection to Mail app, which will hide info, like when an email is opened, from senders, impacting newsletters and marketers
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@ranjanxroy, @saramorrison, MediaNama, The Indian Express, @adweek and Gizmodo
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Facebook says it will show creators who are using its new tools how much Apple, Google, and others take as a cut of their earnings, through a payout interface — The company will launch a new interface showing how fees affect earnings — Less than two hours before Apple's big Worldwide …
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The Information and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
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Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired:
As Twitch turns 10, a look at how the service pioneered the patronage system that is prevalent across the internet's creator economy today — The livestreaming platform for gamers helped pioneer the patronage systems that prop up so much of the internet today.
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@cecianasta, @xoxogossipgita and @cecianasta, more at Techmeme »
Thomas Grove / Wall Street Journal:
Russia has been pressuring social media platforms like YouTube and Twitter to remove anti-government content and police its critics, and it seems to be working — Kremlin uses Twitter and other platforms to advance its goals overseas, but is now trying to prevent its opponents from using the same tools
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@mattnavarra
Kerry Flynn / CNN:
Staff at The Atlantic announce an intent to unionize; EIC appears to agree to voluntarily recognize the union, announcing intention to work with its organizers — New York (CNN Business)In a 1916 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, John D. Rockefeller Jr. wrote about workers' right to organize.
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FiveThirtyEight:
FiveThirtyEight launches an interactive tool to evaluate its major forecasts in politics and sports from 2008 onwards and plans to update forecasts as evaluated — Forecasts have always been a core part of FiveThirtyEight's mission. They force us (and you) to think about the world probabilistically, rather than in absolutes.
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@mattgrossmann
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
10-month-old startup Column offers local governments self-service placement for public notices via WaPo, McClatchy, Ogden, and eight state press associations — Column, a digital startup, aims to improve the placement process for public notices, which remain a reliable revenue stream for newspapers.
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Manhattan Mercury, @newspaperworld and @michellemanafy
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
PwC survey: of time spent watching streaming services in 2020, people in the US spent 62% of their time on subscription-based and 32% on ad-supported services — Ad-supported streaming services have some catching up to do. Subscription-based streaming services, which are largely ad-free …
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The Wrap
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish says Pluto TV ad revenue is expected to cross $1B in Q4 2021 — “Everyone thought we were nuts” when his team first mentioned that figure, Bob Bakish tells an Evercore ISI investor conference. He also forecast an ad-supported version of Paramount+ would end …
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with GM of Axios Local Ted Williams about his plans to replicate the success he had with acquiring The Charlotte Agenda, publishing opinion content, more — “As time goes on, even when you're financially successful in media, the tendency is to do more and more stuff.
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@teddyamen, @djtweets, @sarafischer, @niemanreports and Editor and Publisher
New York Magazine:
Choire Sicha, most recently the editor of the NYT Styles section, is joining New York Magazine as an editor-at-large — New York Magazine editor-in-chief David Haskell announced today that Choire Sicha is joining as an editor-at-large. He will regularly write short-form pieces for Intelligencer …
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@katierosman, @nymagpr, Talking Biz News, @cliffordlevy, @choire, @flitteronfraud, @rachelsklar, @nichcarlson, @jyarow, @caityweaver, @samdolnick, @choire, @clockwerks, @samsifton, @mikeisaac, @karaswisher, @bradfordpearson, @lauraolin, @_alastair, @taylorlorenz, @froomkin, @froomkin, Today in Tabs, Daily Front Row and @sarafischer
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