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The entertainment industry grapples with the same debates over the Israel-Hamas war that are playing out on college campuses, in offices, and among friends — Dave Chappelle spars with a fan; writers union members criticize leaders over silence — A midshow spat between comedian Dave Chappelle and a fan.
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple will update tvOS with a redesigned TV app around December and remove some of its dedicated apps on the Apple TV to steer more users to the TV app — - Company envisions one place for customers to find video — Dedicated apps for buying movies and shows will be phased out
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Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review:
A look at Nightshade and Glaze, UChicago researchers' tools that help artists “mask” or even “poison” their work to break AI models later trained on the data — A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online …
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Tucker Carlson's Last Country signs its first advertising deal, with conservative-friendly shopping app Public Square worth at least $1M — - Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson's new media company signed its first advertising deal. — The agreement is with conservative-friendly …
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Anja Karadeglija / National Post:
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters urges the government to include services beyond Google's and Meta's, like Apple News, in the Online News Act — The association said only Google and Meta are covered by the Online News Act, ‘even though there are other platforms that benefit from the distribution of news content’
The Daily Beast:
Sources: The Messenger staffers push to unionize amid concerns, including its AI partnership with Seekr and its president suggesting the site is “out of money” — Staffers at the struggling media start-up are pushing to unionize as they deal with a slew of new woes …
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Elvira Pollina / Reuters:
DAZN and Sky retain the rights to screen live matches of Italy's Serie A for the next five seasons, after Italian soccer clubs approved bids worth €4.5B+ — DAZN and Sky will keep the rights to screen live Serie A matches in Italy for the next five seasons after Italian clubs …
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify Q3: revenue up 11% YoY to €3.4B, MAUs up 26% to 574M, subscribers up 16% YoY to 226M, and €32M operating income, vs. a €44.6M loss est.; SPOT jumps 9%+ — Spotify Technology SA rose the most since January after the music-streaming giant reported third-quarter results …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Streaming services, including Hulu, Peacock, and Max, are increasingly showing “pause ads”, which appear a few seconds after a viewer pauses the programming — Time for a different sort of commercial break. — Any subscriber to the ad-supported version of Hulu is bound …
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CNN:
Asked about their coverage of the hospital bombing in Gaza, WSJ declines to comment, the AP and Al Jazeera ignore inquiries, Reuters and CNN admit no fault — Most news organizations seem eager to sweep last week's negligent coverage of the Gaza hospital explosion under the rug …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Crunchyroll launches its streaming service on Amazon's Prime Video Channels, starting at $7.99 per month in the US, Canada, Sweden, and the UK — If you're a Prime Video subscriber, beginning today, you can start streaming Crunchyroll, the popular anime service, right from inside the Prime Video app.
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Science:
Science journal eLife fires Editor-in-Chief Michael Eisen for posting an Onion article on X regarding Palestinians; fellow editor Lara Urban resigns in protest — eLife's Michael Eisen ousted for social media posts perceived as siding with Palestinians over Israel
Tyler Cowen / Marginal REVOLUTION:
Tyler Cowen announces econgoat.ai, the first “generative book” that lets readers query the material to create more content, derived from a 100K-word manuscript — I am pleased to announce and present my new project, available here, free of charge.
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