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2:40 AM ET, November 5, 2025

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Clare Armstrong / ABC:
Australia broadens its social media ban for under-16s to include Reddit and Kick, which join Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Snapchat, TikTok, X, and YouTube  —  In short:  —  Reddit and Kick will be included in Australia's social media ban for children under 16.
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Jake Evans / ABC:
Australia plans to introduce legislation this week requiring streamers with 1M+ Australian subscribers to spend 10%+ of their local expenditure on local content  —  In short:  —  Streaming platforms such as Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime will be required to spend a share of their local revenue on making Australian programs.
Julian Wyllie / Current:
PBS SoCal laid off 10% of staff, amounting to 10 positions, in October, citing the loss of $4.3M in federal funding  —  PBS SoCal in Los Angeles laid off 10% of staff last month, amounting to 10 positions across the organization.  —  “Over the past several months, we have carefully reviewed …
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
Google removed 749M URLs linked to Anna's Archive, a popular shadow library for pirated books, over copyright claims, representing ~5% of all takedown requests  —  Popular shadow library Anna's Archive has become a top target for copyright holders.  In just three years …
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Anthony Vargas / AdExchanger:
IAB announces a tool that lets device manufacturers confirm that ad impressions are associated with real devices; Google, Apple, and Amazon have signed on  —  How do you make sure you're serving ads to real connected TVs and not spoofed devices?  Get the manufacturers to confirm they're legit.
Discussion: TV Tech
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: the 60 Minutes interview with Trump on November 2 drew 13.2M viewers, according to early Nielsen data, the highest-rated episode since January 2021  —  CBS News' sit-down interview with President Trump Sunday night drew a whopping 13.2 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen data shared …
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
The Philadelphia Citizen, a decade-old nonprofit dedicated to solutions journalism, acquires Philadelphia Magazine, another instance of nonprofit consolidation  —  The Philadelphia Citizen, the decade-old nonprofit dedicated to solutions journalism and civic engagement, has acquired Philadelphia Magazine.
Simon Goodley / The Guardian:
Sources: some Telegraph directors alerted the UK government that RedBird's Gerry Cardinale may have breached rules protecting the paper's editorial independence  —  UK government alerted after RedBird Capital's boss allegedly threatened to ‘go to war’ with the title's newsroom
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Vox Media's board has discussed spinning off its podcast network due to active interest; Penske may be interested in Vox's digital publishing assets  —  - Vox Media's largest shareholder, Penske Media Corporation, is possibly interested in the company's digital publishing assets …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify says it now has nearly 500K video podcasts and more than 390M users have now streamed a video podcast on its platform, up 54% YoY  —  Spotify says its video podcasts are seeing increased consumer adoption.  In its third quarter earnings report, the company shared that its video podcast catalog …
Discussion: MacRumors
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to €4.3B, above €4.23B est., subscribers up 12% YoY to 281M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 713M, and a €582M operating income
Peter White / Deadline:
Fox acquires five-year-old rom-com podcast company Meet Cute, the latest in a series of audio acquisitions; Meet Cute has produced over 300 shows  —  Fox is in a listening phase as the company continues to acquire companies in the audio space.  —  Fox Entertainment has acquired rom-com …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
OpenAI launches its Sora app on Android, including in the US, Canada, and Japan; the app got 1M+ downloads in the five days after its September iOS launch  —  Now, more people can create and share AI-generated videos on the app's social feed. … OpenAI has brought its AI video app, Sora, to Android.
 
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
AI companion tech company Genies launches a tool for celebrities and their agents to develop “expressive AI identities” that can interact with fans
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Xander Elliards / The National:
Jimmy Wales says Wikipedia's “Gaza genocide” article violates its neutrality standards, as it states, “in Wikipedia's voice, that Israel is committing genocide”
Sam Tobin / Reuters:
The UK's High Court rules against Getty in its lawsuit against Stability AI over its image generator; the judge calls the ruling “extremely limited in scope”
Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
Coca-Cola releases new AI-generated ads for the 2025 holidays, after finding people didn't know or care about the use of AI, despite criticism for its 2024 ads
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube rejects Disney's request to restore ABC on November 4, Election Day, amid an ongoing blackout caused by a dispute over rate hikes and pricing
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities

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