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8:45 PM ET, October 10, 2024

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Agence France-Presse:
Ukrainian reporter Victoria Roshchyna, who disappeared in August 2023 in occupied east Ukraine, has died in Russian detention, according to Ukrainian officials  —  Victoria Roshchyna disappeared in August last year after travelling to Russian-held east Ukraine for a report
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Bloomberg:
Amazon says Apple TV+ will be available as a $9.99/month subscription add-on in Prime Video Channels later this month in the US, joining 100+ streaming services
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Study: five major US newspapers gave the latest filing in Trump's indictment over the 2020 election a small fraction of the coverage they gave Clinton's emails  —  In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, major newspapers are giving former President Donald Trump's federal criminal indictment …
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
PayPal formally launches PayPal Ads, which looks to help US marketers tap into data about transactions across PayPal's platforms, including Venmo and Honey  —  - PayPal is set to launch an ads business, starting in the US.  — The company intends to offer ads across its own properties, as well as retailers.
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Google tests a “quick view” feature that displays full recipes without leaving Search; the company says it has agreements with participating recipe bloggers  —  Google is testing yet another feature aimed at keeping users on search results pages — this time targeting the popular recipe blog industry.
Sacha Biazzo / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at issues at Global Press, which trains women journalists in the developing world and is terminating 37 reporters' contracts amid a fundraising crunch  —  A nonprofit that trains women journalists in the developing world is recalibrating its model amid a fundraising crunch.
Discussion: Global Press Journal
Bloomberg:
Sources: Legendary Entertainment is in advanced talks to buy out Dalian Wanda's stake in the studio; Legendary and Apollo would take control after the deal  —  - Wanda acquired Legendary for about $3.5 billion in 2016  — An announcement could come as soon as in coming days
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Filing: the FT reports 2023 revenue up 5% YoY to £444M, operating profit down 33% YoY to £9M, and 1.4M paid subscribers, of which 1.3M were digital subscribers  —  The Financial Times made more than half a billion pounds in revenue for the first time in its history in 2023.
Tim De Chant / TechCrunch:
Scope3, which makes tools to monitor the carbon footprint of digital ads, raised $25M led by GV to expand into tools for tracking the environmental cost of AI  —  It was the banana that did it.  —  Brian O'Kelley, who had recently sold his previous startup, ad platform AppNexus …
Liam Reilly / CNN:
The FCC's chair denounces Trump's “threats against free speech” after he called for CBS to lose its license, the second time this week she defends broadcasters  —  New York CNN —  —  Federal Communications Commission chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel denounced former President Donald Trump's …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Yahoo Sports and The Athletic partner to launch a hub with free coverage of women's sports on the Yahoo Sports site and, “in the coming months”, on the app  —  - With women's sports, “there's a ton of attention, but there's still room to grow in terms of distribution and audience,” he added.
 
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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
The Boston Globe reports 281K digital subscribers, up 6.5% YoY; paid print circulation in the year to September 2024 was 57K on weekdays and 102K on Sundays
Todd Spangler / Variety:
DirecTV plans to launch a free, ad-supported streaming service called MyFree DirecTV on November 15 as a mobile app and on some streaming devices and smart TVs
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Guardian launches product recommendation site The Filter following a trial lasting several months, as it chases affiliate revenue
Discussion: The Guardian
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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
A threat actor hacked the Internet Archive and stole a user authentication database with 31M unique records; a DDoS attack took the site offline on October 9
Gary Miles / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pulitzer winning investigative reporter and author Donald L. Barlett, half of the famous Barlett and Steele team at The Philadelphia Inquirer, dies at age 88
 

 
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Bloomberg:
iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reaches a restructuring agreement to hand over control to its secured lender and main Chinese supplier Shenzhen Picea

Emilia David / VentureBeat:
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3, a family of AI models using a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture and the Mamba-Transformer design, in 30B, 100B, and ~500B sizes

Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters:
Nvidia announces it has acquired SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for HPC and AI
 
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