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5:20 AM ET, August 17, 2023

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Jessica McMaster / KSHB-TV:
The Marion County attorney withdraws the search warrant that served as the basis for the raid on the Marion County Record; all seized items have been returned  —  MARION, Kan. — A search warrant that cleared the way for the raid of a Kansas newspaper last Friday has been withdrawn …
Alex Mahadevan / Poynter:
The AP releases guidance on how the news agency uses generative AI tools and plans to update its stylebook, saying outputs are like “unvetted source material”  —  Weeks after announcing a partnership with OpenAI, The Associated Press urges caution in using — and reporting on — generative AI tools.
Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website:
A deep dive into X's Community Notes, including how the algorithm works, whether the feature actually fights polarization, and its use in high-stakes situations  —  Special thanks to Dennis Pourteaux and Jay Baxter for feedback and review.  —  The last two years of Twitter X have been tumultuous, to say the least.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google adds AI-powered article summaries for free articles, not paywalled ones, to its Search Generative Experience and says publishers can block the feature  —  Google today is rolling out a few new updates to its nearly three-month-old Search Generative Experience (SGE) …
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Struum, an aggregator that used a ClassPass model for streaming content and was backed by Michael Eisner's investment firm, quietly shut down in June 2022  —  The service ran out of cash in June 2022, and quietly dismantled from that point on.  —  The service ran out of cash in June 2022, and quietly dismantled from that point on.
Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
A look at “MovieTok” influencers like Maddi Moo and Straw Hat Goofy, who reach millions of people on TikTok by reviewing, analyzing, or promoting movies  —  On MovieTok, reviewers can reach an audience of millions and earn tens of thousands of dollars per post.  “Critics,” they say, are old news.
Alex Cranz / The Verge:
YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips pauses production after accusations of theft, ethical lapses, and sexual harassment, and plans to hire an outside investigator  —  Linus Sebastian's Linus Media Group YouTube empire is currently in crisis, with accusations of theft, lapses in ethics, and most recently, allegations of sexual harassment.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine / Los Angeles Times:
Jerry Moss, who co-founded A&M Records with Herb Alpert, dies at 88; his label signed the Carpenters, the Police, Styx, Janet Jackson, and more  —  Homepage News  —  Jerry Moss, the record executive who was the “M” in the seminal West Coast label A&M Records, has died.  He was 88.
 
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Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg:
Diamond Sports sues Sinclair, saying it siphoned $1.5B+ from Diamond and cites testimony that Sinclair's top exec planned to “milk” Diamond via management fees
Candice Ortiz / Mediaite:
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck says all Glenn Beck Program episodes were removed from Apple Podcasts, and then restored, “with no explanation”
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Claudia Chiappa / Politico:
Russia expels Eva Hartog, Politico Europe's reporter in Moscow, after 10 years reporting in the country, without giving any details on how the ruling was made
Soraya Amiri / The Walrus:
A female Afghan journalist recounts leaving Kabul after the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan in 2021, as she reflects on life as a journalist in exile
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Joan Meyer, who worked at The Marion County Record for nearly 60 years, died on August 12, a day after the police raided her home and the newspaper's offices
 

 
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Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Google announces Android theft protection features, like Theft Detection Lock, which detects motion indicating theft, and Private Space, to hide sensitive data

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Sam Kessler / CoinDesk:
The US DOJ indicts two brothers for allegedly stealing $25M in crypto via an exploit of the MEV-Boost software used by some Ethereum validators
 
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