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6:05 PM ET, July 26, 2024

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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Mail Online, The Independent, Daily Mirror, and Daily Express roll out “consent or pay” walls charging users £1.99 to £4 per month for cookie-less access  —  Mail Online, The Independent and the websites of the Daily Mirror and Daily Express have begun requiring readers …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD sues the NBA over the league's “unjustified” decision to sell a package of media rights to Amazon, to which WBD claims to have a “contractual right”  —  The company had sought to match a proposal from Amazon Prime Video, but the league said that it “did not match the terms” of the deal.
CBC News:
Canada's Postmedia plans to buy the SaltWire newspaper chain, which has been under protection from creditors since March, and hopes to close the deal in August  —  SaltWire would remain committed to local journalism, Postmedia says  —  Postmedia has entered an agreement to purchase SaltWire …
Discussion: Canadian Press and Postmedia
Bloomberg:
A look at Joe Rogan's comedy club in Austin, called The Mothership, and the network of comedians and podcast hosts he has supported and attracted to the city  —  The world's most controversial podcaster opened a comedy club there, snatched the stand-up title from Los Angeles and shook up an entire industry.
Discussion: Mediaite and Newser
George Hammond / Financial Times:
Freelancer.com, iFixit, and others say Anthropic's crawler has aggressively scraped their websites, potentially breaching their terms of service  —  Web publishers say developer is swarming their sites, collecting content to train models and ignoring orders to stop
Carl Sullivan / Flipboard:
Flipboard adds feeds for 60+ US-based local and regional publications to the fediverse, including Texas Monthly, Honolulu Civil Beat, and CalMatters  —  Has local news ever been more important?  Journalists who live in the communities they serve don't just keep residents informed on everything …
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Journalists strike at outlets owned by Australia's Nine; ~20 of the company's journalists who traveled to Paris to cover the Olympics are among those striking  —  Age reporter questions expense of flying TV personality to Europe while up to 90 staff are cut from newsrooms.  Plus: Murdoch's real-life succession drama
Bloomberg:
How TikTok is trying to fend off a potential US ban, including through ad campaigns, lobbying, and funding lawsuits by creators  —  - Lobbying, lawsuits and ad campaign are deployed to fight law  — Popular app seeks to avoid US ban over its Chinese ownership
Discussion: CNBC and The Desk, more at Techmeme »
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
A US judge rules Disney must face Gina Carano's wrongful termination lawsuit, denying Disney's claim of a 1A right to employ actors to promote certain values  —  Carano sued Disney earlier this year over her termination from the Disney+ series, with Elon Musk backing the effort.
 
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Washington Post:
A look at the flood of “fancam” Kamala Harris videos and memes on short-form video platforms, echoing the “meme armies” that backed Donald Trump's campaigns
Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg:
Russia says it will throttle YouTube download speeds on computers by 70% by the end of next week, as “a consequence of the anti-Russian policy of the host”
Discussion: Reuters and Politico
Sarah Parvini / Associated Press:
SAG-AFTRA announces a strike starting on Friday against major video game studios, including EA, after talks for a new contract broke down over AI protections
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI says it partnered with publishers such as News Corp and The Atlantic to build its SearchGPT search tool; publishers can manage how their content appears
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Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Source and doc: Runway scraped thousands of videos from YouTube creators and brands, including Disney and VICE News, to train its Gen-3 AI video generation tool
Kendra Barnett / The Drum:
Publicis Groupe announces it will acquire Influential, the world's largest influencer agency by measure of revenue; Influential has a network of 3.5M+ creators
David Gilmour / Mediaite:
The AP removed a fact check debunking the claim that JD Vance admitted he had sex with a couch; AP said the post didn't go through its standard editing process
Cagan Koc / Bloomberg:
UMG shares fell as much as 30% on Thursday, the biggest decline since company's IPO, and closed down 21%, after revenue growth disappointed investors
 

 
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Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
Mac mini (2024) review: the M4 Pro is incredibly fast, 16GB+ of RAM, front USB-C, smaller design, and Thunderbolt 5 with M4 Pro, but overpriced spec upgrades

New York Times:
Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and more quietly courted Trump before the election, laying the groundwork for improved Silicon Valley and DC relations

Bloomberg:
France's gambling regulator says it is “aware” of Polymarket and is “currently examining its operation and compliance”, after user Fredi9999 made a ~$48M profit
 
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