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Google Discover promotes fake news articles, Boston Globe launches paywall, and more. Publishers have lost hope that traffic will ever bounce back Call it complaining, call it doom and gloom. Whatever you call it, publishers spent the majority of the  closed-door town hall session at the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe in Lisbon, Portugal on Monday …

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AI slop, which we used to simply be called spam, now includes impressive but overwhelming content, muddying the definition as both a technical marvel and a source of digital pollution. While advanced tools like Open AI’s text-to-video generator, Meta Vibes or Sora 2 videos, aren’t slop in themselves, like any generative tool they can flood …

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AI platforms like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude account for a single-digit percentage of Forbes’ monthly referral traffic. That’s nowhere near enough traffic to offset the 40% year-over-year decline in search referral traffic Forbes has seen this year, but the AI platforms are providing something more valuable than simple pageviews.  Forbes is also able to …

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Walmart plans to launch several AI tools for Scintilla, its first-party data platform for suppliers and merchants (previously known as Walmart Luminate before rebranding this year). These announcements come as Walmart Data Ventures — the division of Walmart created about five years ago to capitalize on its customer and inventory data — this week is holding …

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Instead, Meta argued, available evidence “is plainly indicative” that the flagged adult content was torrented for “private personal use”—since the small amount linked to Meta IP addressess and employees represented only “a few dozen titles per year intermittently obtained one file at a time.” “The far more plausible inference to be drawn from such meager, …

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And without the ISS, Russia’s human spaceflight program might be dead today. Ins and outs of HTV-X Yui used the outpost’s robotic arm to grapple the HTV-X spacecraft at 11:58 am EDT (15:58 UTC) on Wednesday. The capture capped a three-and-a-half-day transit from a launch pad on Tanegashima Island in southern Japan. The spacecraft flew …

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Attackers are exploiting a major weakness that has allowed them access to the NPM code repository with more than 100 credential-stealing packages since August, mostly without detection. The finding, laid out Wednesday by security firm Koi, brings attention to an NPM practice that allows installed packages to automatically pull down and run unvetted packages from …

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Steven Hatfill, a senior advisor for the Department of Health and Human Services was fired over the weekend, with health officials telling reporters that he was terminated for giving himself a fake, inflated title and for not cooperating with leadership. For his part, Hatfill told The New York Times that his ouster was part of …

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At yesterday’s meeting, the FCC separately proposed to eliminate a rule that requires Internet providers to itemize various fees in broadband price labels that must be made available to consumers. Public comment will be taken before a final decision. We described that proposal in an October 8 article. “Under the cover of a shutdown with …

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TL;DR: For just $14.97, get a lifetime license to Microsoft Windows 11 Pro (MSRP $199). Still cruising on Windows 10 and pretending nothing’s broken? Relatable—“Remind me later” is muscle memory. But support for Windows 10 just officially ended. With this deal, you can finally make the jump to Windows 11 Pro for just $14.97. That’s a full-fledged, professional-grade operating system for the price …

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