Minnesota Star Tribune / Steve Grove
The Minnesota Star Tribune is now accepting donations from readers →“Our owner, Glen Taylor, has never taken a penny of profit from the company since he bought it in 2014, and he never will. He bought the Star Tribune because he felt it was an essential Minnesota institution worth preserving. It’s in that same spirit that we’re asking others who can to donate now.”
TechCrunch / Kyle Wiggers
Google-style AI-generated search summaries are now in Bing, too →“Underpinned by a mix of Al models, Bing Generative Search aggregates information from around the web to generate a summary in response to search queries. For example, when a user searches ‘What’s a spaghetti western?’ Bing Generative Search will show a summary of the genre’s history and examples, along with links to sources.”
New Lines Magazine / Melissa Gronlund
Archiving the ephemera of war →“The war in Gaza comes at the tail end of this 15-year process of understanding and developing uses for open-source information in conflict. Thus, although social media appears to have been disproportionately powerful in this war, much of its ability to effect change stems from open-source information protocols that were already in the process of being established — and the sheer amount of killing in the small territory of the Gaza Strip.”
User Magazine / Taylor Lorenz
Foreign Affairs / Thomas Rid
An unprecedented leak gives new insight into Russia’s disinformation campaigns →“…the documents reveal that the biggest boost the Doppelganger campaigners got was from the West’s own anxious coverage of the project. That revelation, in turn, demonstrates that those who wish to fight disinformation — whether it originates from Russia or elsewhere — need to start thinking very differently about how to counter campaigns.”
The New York Times / Mark Landler
The world’s oldest Jewish newspaper is in crisis over questions of ownership →“To Mr. Freedland and his fellow contributors, the episode was not an aberration but the troubling culmination of a period in which, they say, The Chronicle has evolved from a beloved community paper — albeit one that did not hesitate to weigh in with a conservative slant on the thorny geopolitical issues of the day — into a mouthpiece for right-wing Israeli politicians.”
Media Voices / Peter Houston
The Wall Street Journal / Jeff Horwitz
Press Gazette / Dominic Ponsford
The Guardian / Amanda Meade
Associated Press / Sylvia Hui, Pascal Bastien, and Barbara Surk