“The group said the initiative is a form of public advocacy aimed at defending freedom of expression and supporting what remains of independent journalism in Afghanistan, where media outlets face severe restrictions and mounting threats.”

“So many people didn’t even know you could still get a newspaper subscription.”

“I do think that episodes like this pone of Pablo Torre Finds Out, the first season of Serial, and the way the former echoes the later, can be instructive. It’s a reminder that there is not one form of journalism that matters. It’s a reminder that there’s not one approach to journalism that can work.”

“At donor retreats and in pitch documents seen by The New York Times, liberal strategists are pushing the party’s rich backers to reopen their wallets for a cavalcade of projects to help Democrats, as the cliché now goes, ‘find the next Joe Rogan.'”

“Google wants to do more Googling for you in other places, too — thanks in large part to Project Mariner, Google’s tool that you can specifically instruct to do tasks on the web for you. It can now manage up to 10 simultaneous tasks.”

“What should be excruciatingly clear to any parent: Instagram’s Teen Accounts can’t be relied upon to actually shield kids. The danger they face isn’t just bad people on the internet — it’s also the app’s recommendation algorithm, which decides what your kids see and demonstrates the frightening habit of taking them in dark directions.”

“Only large media companies are eligible to have their headlines displayed on Discover, for the most part. If you’re an independent creator who publishes on a platform like Substack or BeeHiiv, then you probably won’t see any benefit from this tool, even if the content you publish is just as good as anything uploaded to mainstream websites.”

“Rather than standing firm on its principles and defending its practices, CBS’s parent company, Paramount, has been busy negotiating with Trump’s people. It sounds like they’re getting close to settling the case for tens of millions of dollars — something they absolutely should not be doing.”

“Journalists and open source researchers have been pointing out the privacy concerns linked to Strava for years. And this very same ability to share has given journalists — and others — the ability to pinpoint movements of soldiers in European and Israeli military bases, of French nuclear submarine crews, and of the security teams of a number of world leaders. Although these scandals linked to Strava have been making headlines since 2017, recent investigations reveal how use of the app by people who should be keeping a lower public profile have left them, and even top secret institutions, vulnerable.”

“His perspective may truly be that every woman in his life has a romantic or sexual interest in him, but that doesn’t make it true. His inability to see the damage he’s caused—much less change his behavior—makes me gravely concerned for all young women around him.”

“Venture capitalists speak of a future in which AI agents will sort through the drudgery of daily busywork and free us up to live our best lives. Such a future could come to pass. The present, however, offers ample proof of a different kind of transformation, powered by laziness and greed. AI usage and adoption tends to find weaknesses inside systems and exploit them.”

“Speech translation in Meet translates spoken words into the listener’s preferred language in real time. Voice, tone, and expression are all preserved in the translation.”