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Digiday

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Publisher strategies: How publishers are optimizing revenue streams

Direct-sold display ads remain a top revenue driver for publishers since 2020.

Publishers are shifting focus to events and subscriptions due to challenges in ad revenue. [ more ]

AdExchanger

TTD's OpenPath Adds CTV Inventory; News Subscriptions Aren't Extinct Yet | AdExchanger

The Trade Desk is opening up its direct-to-publisher product, OpenPath, to CTV inventory, with early adopters including Cox Media Group and Vizio.

The Trade Desk is trying to handle its relationship with SSPs diplomatically, as it doesn't want to completely disrupt the ecosystem.

Subscriptions are not to blame for news publishers' struggles, as publishers with loyal subscribers tend to outperform those without subscription models. [ more ]

AdExchanger

Tracking The Trackers; Why Advertisers Aren't Sweating The Writers' Strike

How can I track you?Let me count the ... hundreds of thousands of ways.analyzed a spreadsheet linked to a public page on Microsoft-owned Xandr's website, and it was quite the trove of audience data.The spreadsheet contains 650,000 rows of raw data, each populated with the name of an audience segment and the tech company that supplied the data to create it.

Exchangewire

The Big Picture: Measurement in CTV

CTV is booming: consumption is at an all-time high and over the course of recent years, consumers have increasingly embraced connected TV over traditional linear TV.Despite damning headlines of consumers abandoning their subscriptions to cut costs within a gloomy global economy, the ad industry's faith in CTV appears strong, with global ad spend forecast to hit USD$43bn (~£34.4bn)

AdExchanger

Criteo Is Waiting For The Shopify Deal; About Time (To Remove Its Paywall) | AdExchanger

It's not news that'll set the world on fire, but Criteo maintains a drumbeat of Shopify integrations.Criteo's Shopify merchant base grew by 36% in the past year, according to the release.In 2022, Criteo became a Shopify "Certified App Partner" and joined the first-ever Shopify Advertising Technology cohort.

AdExchanger

Google Wants A Judge To Dismiss The DOJ's Ad Tech Suit; Comscore's 'Pulse' Check | AdExchanger

Quelle surprise.On Monday, Google filed a motion to dismiss the Justice Department's antitrust case over Google's dominance over the online advertising market.According to Google, the DOJ's suit defines the ad market too narrowly by excluding some of Google's biggest competitors, including Meta, Amazon and TikTok, WashPo reports .

www.cbc.ca

How dating apps frustrate you into paying for them | CBC News

Dating apps promote more matches with subscriptions.

Some users find dating apps' payment tactics frustrating. [ more ]

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Digital life

Opinion | The Sneaky Sticker-Shock of Subscription Culture

Background spending has become increasingly common, with consumers subscribing to various services without realizing how much they're actually spending each month.

Companies rely on consumers' laziness and forgetfulness to increase revenues through uncancelled subscriptions.

The rise of background spending compromises our agency as consumers and allows capitalism to tilt away from us. [ more ]

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WIRED

ChatGPT vs Gemini: Which AI Chatbot Subscription Is Right for You?

Most people are satisfied with the free versions of AI chatbots.

Users should be cautious and skeptical of the output from AI chatbots. [ more ]

The Verge

Google One hits 100 million subscribers

Google One reaches 100 million subscriptions, showcasing the company's push towards paid plans.

YouTube Premium also hits 100 million subscribers due to ad removal and extra features. [ more ]

New York Post

Google renames Bard chatbot to Gemini: What ChatGPT rival can do and how much it costs

Google has renamed its Bard chatbot to Gemini, after the new AI that powers it, and is offering a subscription plan called Gemini Advanced for $19.99 a month.

The subscription includes a more powerful AI model, two terabytes of cloud storage, and access to Gemini in Gmail and Google's productivity suite, competing with Microsoft and OpenAI's AI subscription offerings. [ more ]

WIRED

100 Million People Pay Google for Extra Storage. Can It Get Them to Pay More for Smarter AI?

Google is expanding its subscription offerings by introducing a new tier in the Google One subscription plan called AI Premium.

Gemini Advanced, Google's most powerful chatbot, is part of the AI Premium subscription and costs $19.99 per month.

Google's move into subscription-based AI tools could potentially create a new revenue stream and help offset the high costs of computing power for AI projects. [ more ]

ReadWrite

moreArtificial intelligence

YouTube unveils 2024 strategy with focus on AI, creators, and home entertainment

YouTube's strategic direction for 2024 includes a focus on AI, elevating content creators, user safety, and expanding into living room entertainment and subscriptions.

YouTube is using AI to simplify content creation and empower creators, and aims to advocate for the recognition of creators in industry forums. [ more ]

advertising

The Globe and Mail

New York Times' fourth-quarter revenue misses expectations on weak ad spending

New York Times Co missed revenue expectations due to a slowdown in advertising sales.

The company added 300,000 digital-only subscribers in the quarter and aims to have 15 million subscribers by 2027. [ more ]

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Privacy professionals

To Save the News, We Must Open Up App Stores

This is part four of an ongoing, five-part series.Part one, the introduction, is here.Part two, about breaking up ad-tech companies, is here.Part three, about banning surveillance ads, is here.When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad in 2010, he didn't just usher in a new kind of computing device - the first mainstream touchscreen tablet - he also promised a new model for internet-based publishing: paid subscriptions.

Hubspot

Online marketing

How the Writer's Strike Could Impact Marketing and Advertising

Welcome to HubSpot Marketing News!Tap in for campaign deep dives, the latest marketing industry news, and tried-and-true insights from HubSpot's media team.Hollywood screenwriters are now two weeks into their strike against major networks and streaming companies.The strike, which is expected to last well into summer, began on May 2 after six weeks of failed negotiations between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) which represents over 11,000 working screenwriters, and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) which negotiates on behalf of major entertainment companies including Disney, Paramount, and Amazon.

AdExchanger

Trebel AI Is Using AI-Generated Playlists As a Targeting Signal | AdExchanger

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As Kacey Musgraves sings in "Follow Your Arrow," "Just 'cause you can't beat 'em don't mean you should join 'em."Although most music services prioritize subscriptions over advertising, only around 10% of the global population can afford to pay for music subscriptions, according to Gary Mekikian, CEO and co-founder of Trebel Music, a free, ad-supported service that allows users to download music and play it offline.

TechCrunch

Twitter Blue relaunched has made just $11M on mobile in its first 3 months

Legacy Twitter checkmarks are disappearing on April 1st, Twitter says, and in the future, the only way users will be able to get the coveted blue badge is by paying for a Twitter Blue subscription.That points to a big question for Twitter and owner Elon Musk: will that nail finally drive more take-up of the social network's premium tier?

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Engadget

Web design

Apple is testing a feature to help App Store developers undercut competitors' subscription prices

Apple is piloting a new App Store feature called 'contingent pricing' that offers discounted subscriptions to customers who have subscriptions to other services.

The feature aims to help developers attract and retain subscribers by providing competitive discounts. [ more ]

ComputerWeekly.com

DevOps

Broadcom drops VMware perpetual licences and support | Computer Weekly

Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has led to major changes in the product portfolio, including the end of perpetual licensing contracts.

VMware will now only offer subscriptions and will no longer sell perpetual licenses or support renewals. [ more ]

Theregister

DevOps

Broadcom halves sub price for VMware's flagship hybrid cloud

Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation Division is simplifying its product portfolio by ending perpetual licenses and moving to subscriptions at reduced prices.

The Division will now focus on two main products: the Cloud Foundation hybrid cloud suite and vSphere Foundation, with optional add-ons available. [ more ]

New Relic

DevOps

Instrumenting serverless in AWS

Serverless applications are critical for cloud-native customers, and gaining visibility into their functions can take time and effort.This blog post will offer tips and code examples for Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineers to help set up serverless monitoring easier with New Relic.The example three-tiered application includes API Gateway, Lambda, and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).

www.nytimes.com

The Nation Magazine to Become Monthly

The Nation, a progressive magazine, will publish monthly instead of every other week starting in January.

The magazine will increase its page count to 84 pages from the current 48 pages, focusing on long-form analysis and news from the political left.

Subscriptions have grown 3.8 percent this year, with about 80 percent of subscriptions being for the print edition. [ more ]

time.com

OpenAI Seeks to Expand in Europe as CEO Floats Poland Office

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said part of the reason for his current tour of European cities is to discover a suitable location for a new office.Poland would be an interesting place, Altman said in an interview Tuesday when asked about European offices.We want to do a research and engineering office in Europe, not a regulatory one.

www.nytimes.com

Peloton Shares Slide After It Recalls Two Million Exercise Bikes

Peloton, the maker of home exercise equipment, said on Thursday that it was recalling more than two million exercise bikes, an announcement that sent its stock lower.The company's shares tumbled more than 8 percent in midday trading and have plunged nearly 40 percent in the last month.The company had received 35 reports of seat posts breaking and detaching from the original model of its bike during use, according to a recall notice from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

www.nytimes.com

Apple's Slowdown Eases, but Sluggish Demand Hurts Results

Apple on Thursday provided more evidence for optimists who believe that the worst of the tech industry's slump may be over while reminding investors that there are still plenty of reasons for concern.Although the company said that its revenue shrank 3 percent in its most recent quarter compared to the same period a year ago, the $94.8 billion total well outpaced investor expectations of $92.9 billion.

www.npr.org

Hard times are here for news sites and social media. Is this the end of Web 2.0?

Members of the BuzzFeed News team work at their desks at BuzzFeed headquarters, December 11, 2018 in New York City.Drew Angerer/Getty Images Vice is slashing staff and closing its flagship broadcast program, Vice News Tonight.BuzzFeed News is shutting down.Vox recently laid off nearly 10% of its staff.

www.mercurynews.com

Apple sets June 5 WWDC where it plansmixed-reality headset debut

By Mark Gurman | Bloomberg Apple Inc. set a June 5 date for the event where it plans to unveil a mixed-reality headset, the first major new product since its smartwatch debuted eight years ago.The company scheduled its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, better known as WWDC, to kick off on that Monday and run through Friday, June 9.

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www.nytimes.com

Twitch Star Signs $100 Million Deal With Rival Platform

One of Twitch's most popular streamers said on Friday that he was joining a rival streaming platform, Kick, in a significant blow to the Amazon-owned site and a sign of its increasingly strained relationship with content creators.Felix Lengyel, a Canadian known online as xQc, is signing a two-year, roughly $70 million contract, with incentives that could push the total to about $100 million, said his agent, Ryan Morrison.

www.nytimes.com

NYC music

After a Scary' Fall, Audiences Are Coming Back to Orchestras

Puccini's opera La Fanciulla del West ends with heartbreaking wistfulness, as a crowd of Gold Rush miners bids a sad farewell to the life they've known.But for the superb Cleveland Orchestra, which recently finished a short run of concert performances of the piece, the 2022-23 season is ending happily, with little nostalgia for how things were going just a few months ago.

Exchangewire

Taboola Drives AI-Powered Personalisation For Top Publishers

Taboola, a global leader in powering recommendations for the open web, has announced a new milestone for Homepage For You, its publisher platform offering that adds Artificial Intelligence (AI) to power editorial recommendations on publisher homepages.Homepage For You is part of Taboola Newsroom, a real-time analytics platform that provides unique insights, sourced from Taboola's dataset of nearly 600 million daily active users, which inform how to create more engaging content and discover new coverage areas that drive loyal readership.

Ars Technica

Games

Amazon originals no longer have to be Amazon exclusives

Following its acquisition of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM) film studio, Amazon is launching the Amazon MGM Studios Distribution unit, which will be responsible for distributing Amazon original movies and TV shows, including the massive library it got through MGM.In March 2022, Amazon closed its $8.5 billion purchase of MGM, giving it power over 4,000 movies, including 12 Angry Men, Creed, Robocop, Rocky, and Stargate and 17,000 TV shows, including The Handmaid's Tale, which has been a hit for Hulu, and Fargo, which has aired on FX, plus upcoming releases.

Digiday

Acquisition, engagement and retention: Using marketing to take on streaming's top challenges

Streaming is having its moment in the spotlight.Last year, streaming surpassed cable viewing for the first time.Meanwhile, the number of adults accessing streaming video platforms has outpaced those with cable or satellite service.With audiences continuing to flock to Internet-enabled viewing, the opportunity for streamers and content publishers has never been stronger.

AdExchanger

Why Ads vs. Subscriptions Is Wrongheaded; Farm-To-Table Advertising | AdExchanger

The natural state for digital media monetization isn't 100% advertising or all subscriptions, but some balance of both.Although The New York Times focuses on subscriptions, that data powers the ads business.Another example is YouTube, which is an advertising behemoth, of course.But since the 2015 launch of YouTube Red (now YouTube Premium), it's offered ad-free subscriptions.

www.nytimes.com

My Father's Day Plan

Image Credit...Gentl and Hyers for The New York Times (Photography and Styling) Good morning.I had an exceptional lobster roll the other day, sitting with my family on the dock at Archie's Lobster in Bass Harbor, Maine, as gulls soared on a southwest breeze.Some very good steamed clams, too.But it was the crab roll we ate there that's been haunting my dreams, that makes me want to cook this weekend, to bring that flavor back into my life: sweet and saline meat, ever so lightly dressed, on a warm, buttered bun.

www.nytimes.com

New to Grilling? Here's Where to Start.

Image Credit...David Malosh for The New York Times Good morning.There are probably two dozen ways to cook food on a grill, most of them good, but in the end the question is going to be whether the fuel is gas or charcoal.A propane grill is a marvelous thing, but I don't like using one for anything I want a hard sear on for me, a gas grill never gets hot enough.

www.nytimes.com

A Superquick Sicilian Pasta With Anchovies and Cauliflower

Image Credit...David Malosh for The New York Times.Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.Good morning.Anna Francese Gass has a fine new recipe for pasta with anchovies, cauliflower and nutty bread crumbs (above), her adaptation of a Sicilian pasta alla Paolina con cavolfiore from Palermo, in which you melt oil-packed anchovies in a hot pan, then combine them with tomato sauce and a blend of cinnamon and cloves.

www.nytimes.com

The Best Blueberry Muffins in Boston

Image Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York Times Good morning.In 1985, we published a recipe for the blueberry muffins that the pastry chef Gunther Moesinger served at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Boston.Marian Burros, who adapted the recipe, judged them among her favorite muffins in the city.A few years later, a reader wrote to Marian to say that, actually, the best blueberry muffins in Boston were the ones once served at the now-closed Jordan Marsh department store.

www.nytimes.com

Creamy, Spicy Poached Eggs for an Easy Sunday Morning

Image Credit...Christopher Testani for The New York Times.Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.Good morning.There's no better breakfast than the one you make on the Sunday morning of a three-day weekend, at least if you're not working.There's nothing elegiac about the meal it's neither the first one you've cooked after a long week, nor the last one you're making before getting back on the hamster wheel.

www.nytimes.com

Roasted Potato Salad, Crisp-Edged Smash Burgers and Smoked Cabbage Slaw

Image Credit...Joe Lingeman for The New York Times.Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne.Good morning.It's Memorial Day weekend already?Time's a flat circle, a record spinning, always and forever returning to its start.Summer holidays, Labor Day, the rush of early fall it's all coming around faster and faster.

AdExchanger

Is Netflix's Anti-Password Sharing Too Unpopular? | AdExchanger

Has anyone gotten kicked off a shared Netflix account yet?I'll admit it, I'm a moocher, and despite Netflix's recent threats against anti-password sharing in the US, I'm still safely watching "Extraordinary Attorney Woo" and "Is It Cake?" every week using my aunt's login.Is Netflix all bark and no bite?

AdExchanger

Streamers Fight For Subs On National Streaming Day | AdExchanger

Over the long weekend, the weather in New York City was beautiful ... but rather than taking in the sunshine, some of us (yes, me) spent most of their time in bed taking advantage of big discounts on streaming services.In honor of National Streaming Day - an informal holiday cooked up by Roku in 2014 that takes place every May 20 - several streaming services celebrated by slashing the price of their subscriptions.

AdExchanger

Maximizing Performance With Personalized Subscription Data

Subscription businesses are unique in that the business model, by its very nature, gathers this valuable data to build an initial profile and, ultimately, nurture lasting relationships over time.Of course, regulatory requirements must be followed, but with the appropriate consent, businesses can consider customer behaviors to deliver an intuitive, personalized advertising and shopping experience.

english.elpais.com

Apple puts pressure on US banking sector by offering higher rate of return

Logo of an Apple store in Washington.JOSHUA ROBERTS (REUTERS) Apple has launched a savings account offering a 4.15% interest rate four times the average annual return of an American account.The technology giant launched this offer when the markets still haven't recovered from the turmoil caused by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

Medium

10 Common Mistakes in Angular Development: Avoiding Pitfalls

Introduction:Angular, a powerful JavaScript framework, has gained immense popularity among developers due to its robust features and ability to build scalable web applications.However, like any technology, Angular development comes with its own set of challenges.In this article, we will explore 10 common mistakes that developers often make while working with Angular and provide code examples to help you avoid these pitfalls.

Medium

useEffect Explained: Managing Side Effects in React Applications

As experienced professionals in the field, we understand the importance of utilizing hooks to enhance your React applications.In this blog post, we will explore the role of hooks in React, with a particular focus on the useEffect hook.We'll delve into the significance of the dependency array within useEffect, providing real-world examples to demonstrate its versatility.

MUO

Graphic design

12 WordPress Plugins That All Beginner Bloggers Should Install

WordPress powers millions of blogs worldwide, and the service-particularly WordPress.org-hassome of the best customization options you'll find on the web.You can choose from numerous themes to make your website look how you want it to, and you can install several plugins to enhance the site's functionalities.

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Graphic design

Things Your Web Design Clients Should Manage Themselves

Freelance web designers have a lot of responsibility.It goes beyond building beautiful and functional websites.We must also think about things like accessibility, performance, and security.Not to mention the challenge of keeping clients happy.Because we juggle so many moving parts, we tend to take on more than we should.

RAIN News

Music

YouTube stars in weighty Cumulus/Signal Hill podcast study - RAIN News

The word "YouTube" appears 108 times in a newly released 89-page study from Cumulus Podcast Network and Signal Hill Insights.It is called Podcast Download - April 2023 Report.Get it HERE.In this substantial piece of work, conducted by MARU/Matchbox in April, the focus is on profiling heavy podcast consumers who listen weekly.

Nieman Lab

Less than a year after launch, The Baltimore Banner says it has 70,000 subscribers

When the buzzy philanthropist-backed nonprofit newsroom Baltimore Banner launched last summer, executives set the ambitious goal of 100,000 subscribers by 2025.Almost exactly one year later, they're reporting they're already well on their way.As outgoing CEO Imtiaz Patel announced his departure last week, he told a Banner reporter the news organization had "more than 70,000 subscribers with paid access."

www.aljazeera.com

News you consume is a lie': Tucker Carlson relaunches on Twitter

Conservative commentator rails against mainstream media in clip announcing new version of his top-rated show.Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has announced he will bring a new version of his top-rated show to Twitter.Carlson made the announcement in a clip posted on Twitter in which he railed against the mainstream media in the United States and hailed the social media site as the last remaining major platform that allows free speech.

Poynter

Are news sites focused on the wrong metrics? Why pageviews and time spent on site may be misleading. - Poynter

News organizations seeking to measure their websites' success typically have focused on two metrics: pageviews and time spent on the site.But data collected and analyzed from the Medill Subscriber Engagement Index indicates that such an approach is misguided.The data, collected from 106 outlets in various-sized markets, shows that the most important factor in trying to get people to pay for news is reader regularity.

www.aljazeera.com

Google, Meta threaten to limit services in Canada over news bill

Proposed legislation would force tech giants to pay Canadian news publishers for their content.Google and Meta would withdraw access to news articles in Canada if legislation compelling internet companies to pay news publishers is passed, company executives have told Canadian legislators.Canada's proposed legislation would force platforms such as Google's parent Alphabet and Facebook's parent Meta Platforms to negotiate commercial deals and pay Canadian news publishers for their content, part of a broader global trend to make tech firms pay for news.

What's New in Publishing | Digital Publishing News

Publishers: Make the user great again | What's New in Publishing | Digital Publishing News

This is a series of articles that explores where creators and publishers are today - and where the media as we know it needs to go in the short term.The author will provide solutions and concepts for how to change the status quo at the end of the series.Part 1: Beyond the paywall: Why now is the time to reimagine earning from digital content
Part 2: The attention economy: Why news publishers are losing
Part 3: Subscription fatigue: Why everybody loses (I)
Part 4: Subscription fatigue: Why everybody loses (II)
Part 5: Subscription Nomads: A warning
Part 6: Subscription Cannibalization is here.

Nieman Lab

Micropayments . Elon Musk thinks he's got a "major win-win" for news publishers with... micropayments .

One of the remarkable things about watching Elon Musk "run" Twitter is the ability to observe his learning curve in real time.People have been running social platforms and media companies for literal decades, after all, all while Musk was busy with cars and spaceships and whatnot.A fair number of lessons have been learned!

www.amny.com

Brooklyn

FIRST ON amNY | Over 100,000 NYCHA households have signed up for city's free broadband and cable program | amNewYork

More than 100,000 households have signed up for a city program that offers public housing residents free internet and basic cable, Mayor Eric Adams' office is set to announce Monday.City Hall is taking a victory lap since more than 220,500 New York City Housing Authority residents equating to over 100,000 households across 202 developments have enrolled in the program, known as Big Apple Connect, since it was launched last fall.

Pinstripe Alley

New York Yankees

On the future of broadcast rights distribution

Earlier this week, United States Bankruptcy Judge Christopher M. Lopez ruled that Diamond Sports Group (DSG) - a subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group and operator of the Bally Sports network of regional sports networks (RSNs) - is required to pay the full value of their TV contracts with the Rangers, Twins, Guardians, and Diamondbacks.

www.france24.com

France news

French parliament expected to pass law regulating 'jungle' of social media influencers

The upper house Senate of France's parliament was Thursday due to pass a law that will better regulate social media influencers by limiting and regulating their ability to endorse products and encourage betting.Issued on: 01/06/2023 - 17:01 1 min This file photo taken on April 7, 2015 shows a general view of the Senate's empty assembly room prior to a session in Paris.

Mashable

From Twitter

Twitter is now worth one-third what Elon Musk paid

Ever since Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion last year, it's been a widely agreed upon stance that he greatly overpaid for the social media platform.However, the amount in which he overpaid seems to be widening post-acquisition.According to Fidelity(opens in a new tab) , Twitter is now worth around 33 percent what the billionaire originally paid for it.

BBC News

Soccer (FIFA)

TV fraud gang jailed for illegally streaming Premier League games

Five men who illegally streamed Premier League football matches to tens of thousands of people have been jailed.The gang sold cut-price £10-a-month subscriptions, bragging they made money showing games not otherwise available to watch live in the UK because of "blackout" broadcasting rules.

Chicago Tribune

Chicago

Chicago summer events guide: Movies, music, TV and more

All of the Tribune's guides for summer 2023 dance, art, movies, music, TV, theater and more."The summer of '23 may be reliant on the customary franchises and name brands," Tribune critic Michael Phillips writes."But if a film as lovely and near-perfect as Celine Song's debut feature 'Past Lives' can likewise qualify as a summer picture, going by the June-August calendar, then a summer place sounds pretty good to me."

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How to Enable Advanced Data Protection on iOS, and Why You Should by #EFF

#security #Apple #edtechSR #MediaLit #InternetSafety

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Privacy professionals

How to Enable Advanced Data Protection on iOS, and Why You Should

Apple has long used end-to-end encryption for some of the information on your iPhone, like passwords or health data, but the company neglected to offer a way to better protect other crucial data, including iCloud backups, until recently.This came after years of a hard fought battle pushing Apple to encrypt backups and drop its plans for client-side scanning.

www.vice.com

Privacy professionals

Homeland Security Uses AI Tool to Analyze Social Media of U.S. Citizens and Refugees

Hacking.Disinformation.Surveillance.CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using an invasive, AI-powered monitoring tool to screen travelers, including U.S. citizens, refugees, and people seeking asylum, which can in some cases link their social media posts to their Social Security number and location data, according to an internal CBP document obtained by Motherboard.

TechRepublic

E-Commerce

Get a complete online store starter pack for $39.97 this Memorial Day

Take payments, manage your inventory, provide support, and track every sale.For any retail business, selling online is almost essential.But if you don't have experience in ecommerce, figuring out how to set up and optimize your own digital storefront can be a daunting task.Gigrove provides a surprisingly simple solution.

Hubspot

Online marketing

11 Stress Management Apps to Relax Your Mind & Body

We all face disruptions to our peace of mind - work stressors, parenting pressures, and even smaller hurdles like running out of shampoo.Stress management apps can help ease anxieties that could otherwise pile up and make life feel out of control.Monitoring and managing your emotional health is a wise choice for both today and down the road.

PARIS BY MOUTH | Where to eat in Paris

Paris

Where to Eat on Sunday in Paris | PARIS BY MOUTH

Did you know that the majority of Paris restaurants are closed on Sunday?There are still plenty of great options, but it helps to have a guide to where to eat on Sunday in Paris.This is a free article in our newsletter.Your subscriptions - nearly 50k and climbing!- enable us to visit anonymous, pay full price, and tell you what we honestly think.

PARIS BY MOUTH | Where to eat in Paris

Paris

Paris Restaurants That Are Good for Groups | PARIS BY MOUTH

In Paris, where restaurants are tiny and can sometimes contain only a handful of tables, dining en masse requires a certain level of strategy.If you're trying to book dinner for a large group (more than six people) or are planning a special event, we've found a selection of restaurants that can welcome a crowd.

PARIS BY MOUTH | Where to eat in Paris

Paris

Where to eat in the marais | PARIS BY MOUTH

The Marais is beautiful, but there are a lot of dining duds in this historic neighborhood.We visited 21 restaurants in the last 18 months and categorized them all as Great, Good, Fine or Not Recommended.This is a free article in our newsletter.Your subscriptions - nearly 50k and climbing!- enable us to visit anonymous, pay full price, and tell you what we honestly think.

Medium

Powering Your React Application with Apollo Client

Building React applications that interact with GraphQL APIs can significantly simplify with Apollo Client.This feature-rich library enables effortless GraphQL query management, ensures automatic UI updates, and comes packed with handy tools.Let's delve deeper into how we can harness the power of Apollo Client within a React application.

blog.bitsrc.io

How DestroyRef made my life easier with Angular 16

Photo by Kevin Ku on Unsplash We all know the story behind the necessity of completing subscriptions when the component is being destroyed, otherwise, we will introduce memory leaks and our application/browser/client's machine will become slower and slower, due to loads of garbage within the memory.

www.nytimes.com

The Secret to Better Salmon Is Salt

Image Credit...Gentl and Hyers for The New York Times.Food stylist: Hadas Smirnoff.Prop stylist: Rebecca Bartoshesky.Good morning.J. Kenji Lopez-Alt went full Kenji recently and dove deep into the process of dry-brining salmon to achieve firmer, juicier, less albumin-stained cooked fillets.I admire the tenacity of Kenji's reporting, and I'm absolutely thrilled to report that while he calls for an overnight cure on the fish, I've achieved excellent results in just an afternoon's time.

Know Your Mobile

Mobile UX

Verizon Unlimited Plans 2023: What You Need To Know...

How much are Verizon's Unlimited Plans?How many plans does it have?Which is best for you?Read on to find out everything you need to know about Verizon Unlimited Plans...KEY TAKEAWAYS: Verizon's New Unlimited Data Plans

Simplification of Verizon's Unlimited Plans: Verizon has streamlined its unlimited plans, moving away from its previously confusing range to offer two main choices: Unlimited Welcome and Unlimited Plus.

Know Your Mobile

Mobile UX

Understanding Apple Services Charges: A Comprehensive Guide

If your deep into Apple's ecosystem, you need to get au fait with its Services Charges because, left unchecked, they can soon add up.Here's everything you need to know about Apple Services Charges...As an Apple user, you've probably seen charges from Apple on your bank or credit card statement labeled as "Apple Services" and these, most of the time, are pre-planned, meaning you subscribed to something and are fully aware that you'll be billed - if you're organized.

GSMArena.com

Mobile UX

Apple's Q1 saved by record iPhone sales

Apple reported its fiscal quarter results, and they are better than analysts expected.Cupertino gained $94.8 billion in revenue between January and March 2023, 3% down from last year's $97.2 billion.The company posted record sales of iPhones for the first three-month period of the year and an all-time record for services, including App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud.

www.nytimes.com

Braised Pork Shoulder, Heady with Garlic

Image Credit...David Malosh for The New York Times.Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.Good morning.Sister, I do what I do, and I do it better than most, and I take some satisfaction in that, John D. MacDonald wrote in One More Sunday.(The novel is, I think, out of print, but available at your more discerning libraries.)

Digiday

Future of TV Briefing: How TV and streaming businesses fared in the first quarter of 2023

YouTube's TV market fit
TV, streaming watch time slips some more
NBCU's ad chief and Apple's top TV exec exit, Netflix's and Warner Bros. Discovery's upfront plans and more

Earnings recap
The period of correction for traditional TV and streaming video businesses isn't over.The trend of slowing subscriber growth and ebbing ad revenue from last year continued in the first quarter of 2023, as did companies' cost-cutting efforts.

Entrepreneur

4 Subscription Marketing Mistakes to Avoid | Entrepreneur

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.The subscription economy has been on the rise and will only continue to grow.With the global subscription eCommerce market expected to exhibit a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 65.5% between 2023 and 2028, it's not a surprise that so many businesses are looking to pivot to the subscription model.

Rolling Stone

Want to Make Cash As a Creator? Here's How

In the early days of social media, people scoffed at the idea that posting content could be a way to make a living.Today, the creator economy has exploded, with YouTube, TikTok, and OnlyFans stars earning as much money as bankers, doctors, and lawyers."[The industry] is at the point where there are more road maps, there's more credibility," says Samir Chaudry, one half of Colin and Samir, whose YouTube channel features creators going deep on their craft.

Mashable

Coffee

Crowdfunding platform Buy Me a Coffee removes far-right influencers and QAnon accounts

Buy Me a Coffee, an online crowdfunding service for creators, has immediately reacted to a new report showing how far-right influencers were raising money on its platform.Dozens of influential figures in the QAnon conspiracy community have been banned from the Buy Me a Coffee platform, which allows users to drop one-off payments as well as recurring subscriptions in order to support their favorite creators.

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Silky Scrambled Eggs With a Carbonara Complex

Image Credit...Sang An for The New York Times.Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.Good morning.Happy Mother's Day to all who celebrate.My mom sure didn't.She called it a Hallmark holiday and resisted all efforts to take her to brunch, a meal she loathed with passion and eloquence.Once I tried serving her a mimosa.

Trusted Reviews

AI is about to make Google Search unrecognisable

OPINION: Google's shift change to AI in search could forever change the online economy.Right now few can predict the consequences.Google this week revealed the biggest change to its core Search platform since its inception.Pretty soon, the web's vast archive of knowledge on the user's query will be distilled down into a couple of AI-generated paragraphs atop the search results.

Theregister

AI makes PCs relevant and subscriptions look shabby

Column This time last year the latest trend in computing became impossible to ignore: huge slabs of silicon with hundreds of billions of transistors - the inevitable consequence of another set of workarounds that kept Moore's Law from oblivion.But slumping PC sales suggest we don't need these monster computers - and not just because of a sales shadow cast by COVID.

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Snap's Sales Fall for First Time as a Public Company

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, reported on Thursday that its revenue had fallen for the first time since it went public as the app maker struggled to adjust to a difficult economic environment.Revenue for the first quarter was $989 million, down 7 percent from the same period last year.That was below Wall Street estimates of $1 billion.

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Snap's Sales Fall for First Time as a Public Company

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All the Asparagus

Image Credit...Ryan Liebe for The New York Times.Food Stylist: Maggie Ruggiero.Good morning.Is there an American cuisine?My friend Ned says there is: It's the food Americans eat.That's kung pao chicken and spaghetti with meat sauce.It's fried chicken, cheese enchiladas, latkes and blueberry muffins.

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Arts

Disney's Q2 earnings: increased profits but a mixed picture

The Walt Disney Company released Q2 earnings results on Wednesday.Disneyland Resort/Christian Thompson/The Walt Disney Company The Walt Disney Company reported a 13% increase in quarterly earnings on Wednesday to $21.8 billion.Disney's vast, global portfolio includes theme parks, resorts, movies, streaming and broadcast channels including Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and ABC.

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US politics

Disney's Losses From Streaming Narrowed in the Last Quarter

To understand the forces that have been roiling the biggest media companies, look no further than Disney's earnings.Streaming economics are improving considerably so.But not fast enough to offset declines in traditional television, which is in free fall.Disney said on Wednesday that losses in its streaming business for the most recent quarter totaled $659 million, an improvement from a year earlier (and a vast improvement from the October-to-December period, when losses totaled $1.1 billion).

Truthout

Left-wing politics

Tucker Carlson Accuses Fox of Fraud, Announces Plan to Bring His Show to Twitter

Tucker Carlson speaks during 2022 Fox Nation Patriot Awards on November 17, 2022, in Hollywood, Florida.Jason Koerner / Getty Images Former Fox New s host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday accused the network of breaching his contract and announced plans to re-launch his show on Twitter.Carlson announced that he would bring his show to Twitter two weeks after he was ousted from Fox.
"Starting soon we'll be bringing a new version of the show we've been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter," he said in the video.

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Oyakodon Is Bliss in a Bowl

Image Credit...Chris Simpson for The New York Times.Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero.Prop stylist: Sophia Pappas.Good morning.Bryan Washington has a lovely column in The New York Times Magazine this week about the joys of oyakodon (above), the Japanese rice bowl with chicken and egg.The name translates to parent-and-child bowl.

GitHub

JavaScript

GitHub - state-less/clean-starter: Explore the power of React Server with this collection of essential backend examples. Get started quickly and learn the best practices for implementing a wide range of functionalities with React Server. Dive into real-world use cases and discover how to build modular, component-driven server-side applications with ease. Happy coding!

The @state-less/clean-starter repository is designed to provide a starting point for developers exploring React Server.It includes essential backend components, utilities, and examples that illustrate the fundamental concepts and capabilities of React Server.React Server allows the creation of server-side React components using TSX, promoting a component-driven architecture for building robust and maintainable backend solutions.

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Chicken Salad and Mint Juleps, Hot Browns and Earl Grey

Image Credit...David Malosh for The New York Times.Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.Good morning.Tomorrow brings the coronation of King Charles III.Also, the Kentucky Derby.What a weekend for women's hats!I'm thinking of pairing mint juleps (above) with coronation chicken sandwiches if I don't make Hot Browns and strong cups of tea.

TechRepublic

Information security

Ubuntu Pro now available on Amazon Web Services

Canonical announced on Tuesday that Ubuntu Pro is available in a subscription-included model on Amazon Web Services.With Ubuntu Pro on AWS, users can launch Ubuntu Pro on-demand instances and purchase Ubuntu Pro compute savings plans directly from the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud console.The new product is available in all AWS regions, including AWS GovCloud (U.S.) regions.

IndieWire

Independent films

'Yellowjackets' Season 2 Is Indeed a Hit - Even If It Doesn't Seem Like It

Despite growing ratings and social buzz, the horror-drama's sophomore season is at risk of disappearing into a deluge of spring TV.Has the " Yellowjackets" buzz cooled?Showtime's prized drama about a high-school soccer team turned cannibals after a catastrophic plane crash is halfway through its second season, boasting a passionate fanbase, impressive numbers, and positive reviews - but that's not the whole story.

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You Don't Always Need a Recipe

Image Credit...David Malosh for The New York Times.Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.Prop Stylist: Paige Hicks.Good morning.Spend enough time with New York Times Cooking and eventually you're going to deviate from a recipe, or cook without one entirely.Some will do so out of necessity.The recipe calls for chicken, shallots, smoked paprika and cream, but what you have is pork chops, onions, flour, white wine and Lawry's seasoned salt.

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UK politics

What challenges await the new SNP leader and first minister of Scotland?

Humza Yousaf's confirmation as Scotland's new first minister, the sixth since the devolved parliament was convened in 1999, may well be the easiest task he faces during his first week in charge.Putting the vexed decisions about his policy agenda and spending plans to one side, he has a number of urgent and challenging tasks in the days ahead, within the party he now leads and the government he now has to establish.

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Real estate

Rocket launches its first credit card to attract buyers, homeowners

Rocket Companies has rolled out its first credit card in order to attract potential homebuyers and existing homeowners into its ecosystem amid one of the most challenging mortgage markets in decades.Those looking to buy a home can earn 5% back by using the Rocket Visa Signature Card for up to $8,000 that can be used toward closing costs and down payments.

Exchangewire

EX.CO Expands Video Tech Platform to Support Premium Video Libraries for Publishers

EX.CO - The Experience Company, the world's leading publisher-first video technology platform empowering publishers to own their video content and monetisation strategies, today (March 28th, 2023) announced the launch of AI-driven recommendations and premium video libraries for publishers.The technology leverages AI-based algorithms to find the most contextually relevant video for each article as well as the highest-yielding feed for a webpage.

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Podcast

Will Crime Decide Chicago's Mayoral Race?

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What to Cook This Week

Image Credit...Johnny Miller for The New York Times.Food Stylist: Sue Li.Good morning.Lately I've been making a cherry tomato salsa to accompany my Sunday carne asada (above): the tomatoes (halved), a small red onion (sliced), a fistful of cilantro (chopped) and a couple of limes (juiced).I salt the mixture and allow it to sit while I sear the flap meat I buy instead of more expensive skirt or hanger steak.

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