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4:10 PM ET, April 11, 2023

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Jody Serrano / Gizmodo:
David Pierce / The Verge:
YouTube says NFL Sunday Ticket packages will cost between $249 and $489 depending on the user's subscription; the company reportedly pays the NFL $2B per year  —  Football fans, start saving those pennies.  YouTube just announced pricing for its new Sunday Ticket package …
Neil Genzlinger / New York Times:
Al Jaffee, who retired from Mad Magazine in 2020 and was the longest-working comic artist ever, dies at 102  —  For 55 years he created the fold-in (as opposed to, say, Playboy's fold-out), giving readers a satirical double-take on whatever was going on in the news or elsewhere.
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Substack rolls out Notes, its Twitter-like service, to all users; writers have used Notes in beta to talk with their readers, promote newsletters, and network  —  Notes, the platform's new feature, functions similarly to its rival social app  —  LOS ANGELES — The newsletter platform Substack's …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Nieman Lab shuts down Fuego, its project launched in 2011 to track the most popular links on Twitter, after Twitter started charging $42K/month for API access  —  Back in 2018, the far-right influencer Steve Bannon shared his theory of American politics.  “The Democrats don't matter,” he told journalist Michael Lewis.
Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
The US designates Evan Gershkovich as “wrongfully detained”, enabling the State Department to exert more pressure on Russia and unlocking other resources  —  Official designation enables U.S. to press a foreign government, unlocks other resources to free detainee
Angela Fu / Poynter:
A look at The Coronado News, a free weekly debuted in January 2023 by Salt Lake Tribune chair Paul Huntsman for the resort city's 9,500 residents and businesses  —  The Coronado News is a free weekly delivered to 9,500 of the resort city's residents and businesses.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Twitter shadowbanned Matt Taibbi's account for a while after a spat with Elon Musk, preventing users from finding his tweets and the Twitter Files in search  —  The refrain to remember with Twitter under Elon Musk: it can always get dumber.  —  Quick(ish) recap:
Janko Roettgers / @jank0:
[Thread] Janko Roettgers, formerly at Protocol, launches Lowpass, a newsletter on tech and entertainment, and explains how he chose a newsletter platform  —  I've got some exciting news to share: I'm going pro with my newsletter! This Thursday, I'm officially launching Lowpass as an independent newsletter publication. https://www.lowpass.cc/...
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Citizen Lab and Microsoft detail mercenary spyware from Tel Aviv-based QuaDream used to hack iOS 14-based iPhones of journalists, politicians, and an NGO worker  —  Microsoft and Citizen Lab have new reports out about QuaDream, a little-known Israeli mercenary spyware provider.
 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Katie Cotton, who was Apple's VP of worldwide communications for 18 years and mostly worked directly for Steve Jobs before retiring in 2014, died on April 6
Chris Moran / The Guardian:
The Guardian forms a working group to learn about generative AI after readers inquire about articles never written or published but that ChatGPT claims exist
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Morgan Sung / TechCrunch:
Sex workers and others criticize Meta's Verified program for requiring creators to use their legal name as their profile display name without a way to change it
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube adds Premium features: enhanced bitrate 1080p support on iOS and the web for “extra crisp and clear” videos, support for Apple's SharePlay, and queuing
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Sources: Bret Baier repeatedly proposed devoting an hour-long special to debunk US election fraud myths in November 2020, but never got an answer from Fox News
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Sources: The White House is weighing giving social media influencers a dedicated briefing space, an unprecedented move that would give them more access to Biden
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

Karen Weise / New York Times:
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending

 
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