His employer, The Wall Street Journal, has been advocating for his release and called the verdict a “disgraceful, sham conviction.” The BBC reports that “Russian observers say a quick conviction could mean that an exchange is imminent. According to Russian judicial practice, an exchange generally requires a verdict to already be in place.”

“The data, collected by BrightEdge and reported on by Search Engine Land, suggests that Al Overviews dropped from appearing in 11 percent of queries on June 1 to 7 percent of queries on June 30. BrightEdge’s data also indicates that Al Overviews cite Reddit and Quora dramatically less than they did before.”

“We give the people what they want. We don’t take ourselves too seriously when appropriate. I think it’s Metro’s role to provide the UK with access to free, impartial and trustworthy news. But it’s news and entertainment.”

“Researchers will gain access to Instagram data for up to six months, which may include information on how many accounts a teen follows, how much they use Instagram, their account settings, and more. However, Meta notes it won’t provide access to a user’s demographic information, nor will it include the contents of their posts, comments, or messages.”

“Axios analyzed the home pages and lead stories of the largest news website in each U.S. state from 9:30p.m. to midnight on Saturday. Many local outlets posted the same stories, photos and headlines aggregated from a central desk at their parent company, such as Gannett, Lee Enterprises or Advanced Publications.”

The proposed rules “would bring Spain in line with the European Media Freedom Act approved in March. That act is designed to regulate the media but also shield journalists from state spying or being forced to reveal their sources.”

“With its lines of merch, games, and hot sauces, Hot Ones is playing all the BuzzFeed hits, but with one crucial difference—it’s relevant. But that relevance isn’t worth the cost of BuzzFeed’s debt, which threatens to obliterate the husk of BuzzFeed that’s leftover from the last seven years.”

“Given the enormous stakes involved in Saturday’s shooting, reporters generally exercised discipline, limiting themselves to what they could see and hear….Few of the initial accounts of the shooting — which injured Trump slightly; killed a Pennsylvania man, Corey Comperatore; and critically wounded two others — were outright wrong. Instead, readers jumped on the stories’ hesitant approach.”

“Our investigation found that subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos, siphoned from more than 48,000 channels, were used by Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforce. The dataset, called YouTube Subtitles, contains video transcripts from educational and online learning channels like Khan Academy, MIT, and Harvard. The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and the BBC also had their videos used to train AI, as did The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

“Worker-run newsroom: When?” Maddie Poore asked her old co-workers on the night they gathered to commiserate over the closure of DCist. “When are we going to do this? We need this as a city.”