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9:15 AM ET, October 17, 2024

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Emma Roth / The Verge:
The US FTC adopts its final “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up, after proposing the rule in 2023  —  The US Federal Trade Commission is taking action against subscriptions that are difficult to get rid of.
Paul Linford / HoldtheFrontPage:
The National Union of Journalists calls the BBC's cuts “a damaging assault on journalism”; cuts include a net loss of 130 jobs and the end of tech show Click  —  The BBC has been accused of an “assault on journalism” after announcing a further raft of cuts to its services.
Ken Ritter / Associated Press:
A US judge sentences former elected official Robert Telles to at least 28 years in prison for killing Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German in 2022  —  A former Las Vegas-area Democratic elected official was sentenced Wednesday to serve at least 28 years in Nevada state prison …
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Social media users criticize TMZ for publishing a photo purportedly showing the body of ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne, who died in a fall; TMZ removed it  —  After a torrent of criticism, TMZ removed the image of a body without explanation.  —  TMZ, the Hollywood-obsessed news outlet known …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The UK's Sun begins rolling out a registration wall asking users to create an account and seems to be applying it mainly to content by its best-known writers  —  The Sun appears to be using the new feature mainly on its biggest columns and sport analysis.  —  The Sun has begun rolling …
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
An independent report finds Australia's Nine has systemic issues with abuse of power, discrimination, and sexual harassment; Nine pledges to make changes  —  Nine board commits to implementing all recommendations for a ‘reset of culture’  — Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
Press Forward awards $20M to 205 small local newsrooms across the US over two years and doubles the available funds and number of grantees due to high interest  —  In response to the volume and quality of applications, Press Forward doubled the funding and number of grantees for this open call.
New York Times:
Filings: Trump's campaign hasn't bought an ad on Snapchat this election cycle; Trump's personal Snap account, banned after January 6, 2021, remains banned  —  The former president, whose personal account was banned after the Capitol riot, has refused to spend campaign money on Snapchat ads …
David Pierce / The Verge:
Q&A with Kevin Rose on Digg, what Reddit got right, the rise of news feeds, why there is no universal internet homepage like Techmeme is for tech, and more  —  a couple of years, there was nothing on the internet so simultaneously thrilling and terrifying as having your website hit the front page of Digg.
 
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The Economist VP of Performance Marketing Tom McCave says the magazine has rolled out free student subscriptions as part of a bid to “future-proof” the business
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David Pierce / The Verge:
Amazon unveils the $280 Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, its first color e-reader with a Paperwhite-like design and color E Ink display, shipping October 30
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Regional UK news publisher Iliffe Media rolls out metered paywalls across its network, moving from an in-house system to the Piano platform
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Filings: Ryan Lizza denied ex-fianceé Olivia Nuzzi's accusations against him and accused her of “catastrophically reckless behavior” in her affair with RFK Jr.
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Databricks is raising $10B from a16z, Thrive, others at a $62B valuation, among the largest VC raises in history; documents show Databricks has $2.6B in revenue

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
The Irish Data Protection Commission fines Meta €251M over a Facebook breach that affected ~29M users globally and ~3M in the EU and EEA in September 2018

Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Framework releases a $39 modular component to add two extra M.2 slots to the Laptop 16, letting users have 26TB+ of storage, and updates the Laptop 16's cooling
 
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