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In a comment on the BBC's charter, Reach says the BBC's "aggressive expansion" into local news and strong visibility in Google Search hurts local publishers (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/re…

Reach attacks BBC’s ‘aggressive expansion’ into local news
Reach has accused the BBC of damaging the local news ecosystem and urged the broadcaster to work with journalists outside of the company.

The administration has reduced legal entries far more than illegal ones. 
Although the full data won’t be in for months, mwe can assess that the cuts to illegal entries are likely less than half of the total cuts to immigration on a monthly basis. 
Put differently, the cut to legal entries was 2.5 times as large. 
Asylum seekers entering legally fell 99.9 percent

A bit of movement on this vexatious problem at last.
New local powers to keep pavements clear for those who rely on them most - GOV.UK
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-local-powers-to-keep-pavements-clear-for-those-who-re…

New local powers to keep pavements clear for those who rely on them most
Local councils will be given the power to crack down on problem pavement parking.

Africa’s Data Protection Reforms: A Continental Perspective on the Drivers of Change in Legal Frameworks
https://fpf.org/blog/africas-data-protection-reforms-a-continental-perspective-on-the-drivers-of-change-in-lega…

Run your own local chat on your laptop. Plus add web search like Perplexity. I do this on my Mac to to save a few AI DC BTUs and to learn stuff based on real web pages rather than hallucinated LLMs.
•⁠ ⁠Run your own chat: https://carlosvaz.com/posts/running-ll

Anna's Archive has quietly begun releasing millions of music files from its scrape of Spotify, despite an injunction against distribution of copyrighted works (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive

"Flexibiliteitspotentieel groot en voordeliger ten opzichte van grootverbruikers."
Prettig dat er eindelijk ook een CE Delft-rapport ligt dat deze conclusie trekt over de flexibiliteit bij kleinverbruikers, zoals huishoudens.
https://ce.nl/publicaties/zoveel-kan-met-lok…

Zoveel kan met lokale flex! - CE Delft
Flexibiliteit in elektriciteitsverbruik (ook wel DSR – demand side response) is wanneer partijen als huishoudens of bedrijven op basis van een signaal hun elektriciteitsverbruik verschuiven in de tijd. Lokale flexibiliteit kan daarmee significant bijdragen aan het verhelpen van netcongestie, het verlagen van energiekosten en het voorkomen van curtailment van hernieuwbare elektriciteit. In deze studie is […]

"No field of science should be associated with a face." Sabrina Imbler on what happens with a scientific field is overrun by charismatic megafauna.
https://defector.com/vibrations-from-interstellar-meteor-ac…

Vibrations From 'Interstellar Meteor' Actually From Local Truck; Or, Fact-Checking The Celebrity Scientist | Defector
On Jan. 8, 2014, an extraordinarily bright meteor plummeted from space to Earth and crumbled into confetti over the ocean near Papua New Guinea. Sensors from the U.S. government that track bright meteors called fireballs dutifully recorded this fireball’s breathtaking speed—nearly 28 miles per second. NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies logged this fireball,…

Road to the Draft: Pre-draft prep continues with Raiders’ local pro day https://www.raiders.com/news/road-to-the-draft-pre-draft-prep-continues-with-raiders-local-pro-day

Some local TV stations are ending their network affiliations, freeing up money for new hires and programming, as network fees rise due to sports rights costs (Amos Barshad/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/unaffiliated-local-…

Some TV news stations are breaking their national network affiliations, and leaning into local programming.
Some TV news stations are breaking their national network affiliations, and leaning into local programming.