@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA spam marketing operation exploited some domains owned by NPR, Nvidia, Stanford, and the US CDC to host AI slop articles redirecting users to an SEO spam site (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/
@servelan@newsie.socialCalifornia weed farm hit with ICE raid owned by Trump fan - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/07/11/california-weed-farm-hit-with-ice-raid-owned-by-trump-fan/
@aral@mastodon.ar.alSounds like you can now pay to have all your data sent through Israeli intelligence if that’s what does it for you.
#expressVPN #VPN #israel
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple delays iPhone Air pre-orders in China, likely over eSIM regulatory issues, replacing the original schedule with "release information to be updated later" (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tec…
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social@… Energy should always be produced as close as possible to where it is consumed, and the equipment owned by the consumers. It is essential to life and should not be used to underpin political or economic power. I cannot understand the farmers of Caithness, whose only thought was to sell underproductive land to the power companies, instead of making it availa…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialJoel Kuwahara, co-founder and president of production at Fox-owned Bento Box, is leaving the animation studio, which produces Bob's Burgers, Hoops, and more (Joe Otterson/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/bento-box-entertai…
@arXiv_econGN_bot@mastoxiv.pageExecutive Accountability Systems and the Environmental Violations of State-Owned Enterprises in China
Lihua Liu, Yi Chen, Mingli Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08797 https://
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgMan, it took me a while to warm up to Costco, but it's really is one of the better corners of capitalism. They pay people fairly, sell only quality stuff, didn't disavow DEI, and aren't owned and run by hedge fund assholes.
It's amazing how nice it is not to have to evaluate every purchase. If it is there, it's usually because it has been proven to make customers happy and thus earned its shelf space.
And, no surprise, the CEO dogfoods himself.
@cdarwin@c.imCongressmember Salud Carbajal showed up to see first hand the ICE raid on the Carpinteria Glasshouse cannabis greenhouse owned by Santa Barbara county grower Graham Farrar.
In an interview afterwards, Carbajal said there were 45-to-50 ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and Homeland Security agents dressed up in military-style scrubs and armed with military-style rifles and weapons.
He saw no members of the National Guard, though it was a chaotic scene.
A former Ma…
@EclecticLee@digipres.clubI made the mistake of reading the comments here on a story about Charlie Kirk yesterday. I like Mastodon because it's not owned by a single entity. I made the mistake of assuming my other values would therefore be shared by those here. But there was a disturbing number who apparently condone murder. I cannot do that.
@paulbusch@mstdn.caThe family owned business that invented the peameal bacon on a bun sandwich is retiring. I've only enjoyed their food a few times while visiting the St. Lawrence Market, but it was pretty much a given that was where we were going for lunch.
https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2025/07/family-behind-torontos-favourite-sandwich-bowing-out/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialToo many keep using WhatsApp while the company, Meta can not be trusted with your data.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/…
@gwire@mastodon.socialTIL that LEON restaurants are owned by the company that owns Asda. So they're 10% Walmart.
@adrianco@mastodon.social#CarsAndCoffee starting off #MontereyCarWeek with our usual gathering at Seaside. My son brought his (recently acquired) 2019 GT3 here for the week, and I drove his matching guards red 1990 C4 that he’s owned for 18years now (same spec as the one on the cover of the Sun perf book I wro…
@richardtol@mastodon.socialPublicly owned gas stations increase competition https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325004542 @…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSling TV debuts shorter-term packages aimed at sports fans: a day pass for $4.99, a weekend pass for $9.99, and a week pass for $14.99 (Austin Karp/Sports Business Journal)
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/08/12/s…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke plans to step down to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors; memo: Microsoft is opting not to directly replace the position (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/11/github-ceo-dohmke-step-down
@cai@mastodon.social“We can’t pay you a fair wage or they’ll all be wanting one” is certainly *a* position for a Labour council managed by Labour-owned commissioners to take.
#BirminghamUK
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Murdoch-Owned TalkRadio Airs Anti-Climate Attacks Six Times a Day"
#Climate #ClimateChange
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon's Kuiper launches 24 satellites via SpaceX's Falcon 9 after four launch attempts were delayed by weather issues, taking its total to 102 in orbit (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/amazon-kuiper-internet-satellites-launch.html
@arXiv_csGT_bot@mastoxiv.pageSocial Welfare in Battery Charging Games
Simon Krogmann, Pascal Lenzner, Alexander Skopalik, Tobias Str\"aubig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06320 https://
@emd@cosocial.caAtlantic article about phone addiction from someone who doesn’t own one. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/06/smartphone-never-owned/683267/
@samerfarha@mastodon.socialSomeone stopped me today to tell me she owned the same shirt and that it’s finally mayo and tomato season. That’s lunch sorted!
Also her dog was great but kept trying to eat my AirPod as a treat!
https://bsgeneralstore.com/products/the-tomato-sandwich-t-shirt
@lilmikesf@c.imRotten decomposed body found in touring Texan's #TESLA trunk owned by 20 yr old singer of Spotify hit song #RomanticHomicide.
The fetid as yet unidentified #corpse wrapped in plastic was discovered in rising music sc…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGood article how reinforcement learning improved current AI models. Also illustrates that LLMs today are not just imitating.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/how
@timbray@cosocial.caHeh, got pitched based on my Quamina open-source GitHub repo on behalf of “Fabinvest” which turns out to be a PE fund owned by Qatari royal Jassim Al-Thani. A polite and restrained pitch, not pushy or scammy.
There’s too much money in the world and its owners are increasingly desperate in their search for a place to invest it. I suppose prospecting popular GitHub repos is less crazy than other things that I see going on.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itThe silver lining about this extremely corrupt administration is that the huge windfall congress gave to ICE will likely be squandered quickly.
https://kolektiva.social/@KevinCarson1/115159603919028589
@newsie@darktundra.xyzAirline-Owned Data Broker Selling Your Flight Info to DHS Finally Registers as a Data Broker https://www.404media.co/airline-owned-data-broker-selling-your-flight-info-to-dhs-finally-registers-as-a-data-broker/…
@cdarwin@c.imCircle the Continental Divide, Wyoming
The drive: On the 480-mile loop, join the club of adventurers who have crossed the Continental Divide not once but twice
— at the scenic Togwotee Pass and the point between Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks.
After traversing the natural landmark,
you still have hundreds of miles to explore.
On the Wind River Indian Reservation, cue up the TravelStorys audio tour
and spend a night in a furnished tepee owned and o…
@vosje62@mastodon.nlTimeline of Trump's Creepiness While He Owned Miss Universe - #RollingStone
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/poli
@Adam@social.lein.usGame Pass is specifically designed for enshittification (obviously). https://www.ign.com/articles/in-the-wake-of-xbox-layoffs-founder-of-dishonored-and-prey-dev-arkane-slams-game-pas…
@brentsleeper@sfba.socialNever forget that “Capitalists’ misdeeds are often dumb rather than sinister.” https://defector.com/how-we-got-here?giftLink=4c0709d22c394a90b5e8bf4412f737c6#:~:text=Capitalists%E…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSite of Midtown Shooting Is Owned by Rudin Management and Houses NFL and Blackstone https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/nyregion/midtown-shooting-nyc-blackstone-nfl-rudin.html
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyGood news. Onward to zero now!
https://kyivindependent.com/russias-oil-and-gas-revenues-fall-for-third-consecutive-month/
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialAre you watching a #MAGA TV/radio station in California? If it's owned by Sinclair Broadcasting, you are.
https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/Q5n5WBdo1noR3bxuHg7Eu
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMartin Sorrell's S4 says it is in early talks to combine with private equity-owned MSQ; S4 has a ~£130M market cap after its stock has declined ~35% in 2025 (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageFoundational Models and Federated Learning: Survey, Taxonomy, Challenges and Practical Insights
Cosmin-Andrei Hatfaludi, Alex Serban
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05142 https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMemo: Indeed and Glassdoor, both owned by Recruit, will cut ~1,300 US jobs amid an AI-focused consolidation; Glassdoor's operations will be merged into Indeed (Brunella Tipismana Urbano/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@colgrave@social.linux.pizzaI'm sad..
I been follow them basically since day one. And they been the most exciting stories in my rss feed
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/with-need-for-speed-devs-working-on-battlefi…
@timfoster@mastodon.social
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHochul throws shade on Mamdani's NYC-owned grocery store plan: 'I favor free enterprise' (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/16/us-news/hochul-throws-shade-on-mamdanis-nyc-owned-grocery-store-plan/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250816/p64#a250816p64
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThere was a Mac monitor that did that in the `90s...
No OLED needed then, either. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115153251550183220
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialWent to the bike shop last night (the family owned shop where I know the guy) and he showed me a flyer I made like 35 years ago and said it's been on the wall there for decades!
#bikeTooter
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPeople CEO Neil Vogel calls Google a "bad actor" for refusing to pay publishers for AI content and says Google Search drives 25%-30% of visits to People sites (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/09/11/media-in…
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialThe local-first paradigm provides transformative advantages, such as user-owned data, seamless offline capabilities, and instant interactions. But how can you get started? At Berlin Buzzwords, Miloš Sutanovac discussed the core concepts and demonstrated how to begin your local-first journey.
Watch the full session: https://
@primonatura@mstdn.social"A former oil field in Fullerton, California, could become a rare sanctuary for wildlife"
#US #USA #America #California
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social“Life evolves,” said Mr. Epelboym, who ran a successful dental practice in Brooklyn for three decades. His license was revoked in 2018 after he pleaded guilty to insurance fraud.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/realest…
@ruario@vivaldi.net@… @… Side note yes, I own a Lightphone II, Lightphone III and I have owned 3 Punkts (2 of the first model and 1 of the second).
@pre@boing.worldWell Zack's won, convincingly, 20k votes to 3k votes for the others.
So that's good.
Now lets see if he can make the media actually reflect the message like they reflect Farage constantly.
Gonna be harder for anti-capitalists than pro-capitalists, what with the media all being owned by the capital.
#ZackPolanski #green #uk
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgAlso, sidenote: the Sennheiser HD650 have the best low-end representation of any headphone I've ever owned. Present but not overwhelming. Finally some headphones that sound "right".
Also they are really precise, so I am able to clearly hear details of guitar parts that are subdued in the mix.
@benb@osintua.euUnder EU sanctions pressure, Indian shippers reportedly seek to exit contracts with Russian-linked refiner: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/under-eu-sanctions-pressure-indian.html
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizzaVad gör en inte för att få ett kul filter till sin tik tok eller en öppningsfras i svaret på ett email (ett svar som åtminstone jag alltid raderar)? https://www.newsweek.com/texas-data-center-water-artificial-intelligence-2107500
@StephenRees@mas.toMV Zaandam headed North to Alaska this evening
@cdarwin@c.imTwo data centers in San Antonio have used 463 million gallons of water in the past two years.
The Alamo City facilities,
owned by Microsoft and the Army Corps,
have drained water from the surrounding area despite difficult drought conditions throughout Texas.
In 2025, data centers across the state are projected to use 49 billion gallons of water,
⚠️ enough to supply millions of households,
primarily for cooling massive banks of servers that power generativ…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzapervasive and belligerent
tics and palpitations.
perverse and fallow,
metallic smallpox grows.
fifteen minutes from me,
every chevy is a galaxy,
the road owned by the wind.
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialAre you watching a #MAGA TV/radio station in California? If it's owned by Sinclair Broadcasting, you are.
https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/Q5n5WBdo1noR3bxuHg7Eu
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialNew York City ought to immediately initiate eminent domain proceedings and seize every trump or trump org family owned building in the city.
On what grounds:
Because of false statements and failure to abide by agreements with the city.
For instance, tromp-tower was built in violation of an agreement to preserve aspects of the Bonwitt-Teller building.
And the city does have need of space for homeless and low income housing.
If the maga's can fire people based…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caa huge moment for sovereign Aboriginal title in Canada.
How it will impact private property owned by non-Indigenous is unclear at least to me right now. But the Conservatives are freaking out insisting people will be evicted from their land.
Which is... of course.... VERY IRONIC
#bcpoli #haidagwaii #haidanation #canpoli #indigenousRights
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/news/bc-supreme-court-rules-haida-nation-has-sovereignty-over-haida-gwaii-8240806
@compfu@mograph.socialQuick, stop all your radio transmissions and stay silent. Or maybe it's something that's using our sun for a slingshot maneuver so it looks like it originated from our solar system.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114783914909043005
@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.pageEvaluating Security Properties in the Execution of Quantum Circuits
Paolo Bernardi, Antonio Brogi, Gian-Luigi Ferrari, Giuseppe Bisicchia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03306 https:…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caImagine if the Federal Government actually invested in #AffordableHousing. Building government owned rent controlled apartments, providing land for leasehold housing where property value are not driven by the market or providing funding for multiplexes development where individual families hold shares in the building. Imagine a federal housing factory in every province or territory that builds modular homes that can only be purchased by families, not investors.
@newsie@darktundra.xyzMitsubishi Electric to acquire Nozomi Networks for $883 million https://therecord.media/nozomi-networks-mitsubishi-electric-acquisition
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBit Digital-owned AI infrastructure company WhiteFiber closed down 4.59% in its Nasdaq debut, after raising $159.4M in an IPO, valuing the company at $619M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-06/whitefiber…
@johl@mastodon.xyzSince 2018, the project “Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade” https://enslaved.org/ at Michigan State University has collected and linked datasets about the lives of people involved in the historical slave trade to create visualizations and let people explore biographies.
It was one of the f…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyThe Trumpification of social media continues. This time it's LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft.
https://www.advocate.com/news/linkedin-transgender-deadnaming-misgendering-policy
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThe shit CA involved is only trusted by Windows.
Because of course they are.... https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115141832837667861
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIndependent music company Reservoir Media acquires the majority of the Miles Davis estate's music rights; Reservoir has spent $876M on acquisitions since 2007 (Ben Sisario/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/arts/music/miles-davis-esta…
@cdarwin@c.imThis year's federal budget runs out September 30,
and although lawmakers from both parties have signaled they will reject most of Trump's cuts, it's far from certain that Congress will pass a budget for the next fiscal year before the looming deadline.
The Trump administration, meanwhile, has directed NASA managers to make plans to close out missions tagged for cancellation.
Without specific congressional direction, the White House would have a clear hand at imp…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itPropublica and HellgateNYC are on the list; consider supporting both! https://mastodon.social/@kottke/114853682976993217
@newsie@darktundra.xyzKazakh oil giant denies cyberattack, says incident was 'planned' phishing drill https://therecord.media/kazakstan-oil-company-kazmunaygas-phishing-simulation-not-cyberattack
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFox Nation is expanding to include live sports for the first time through an exclusive Friday night broadcast partnership with Professional Bull Riders (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgVery cool looking company! Gorgeous microphones, audio geekery. Glad to have them on my radar 🧐 https://musicians.today/@arendleejessurun/114792116804285326
@cdarwin@c.imAs Russia wages its full-scale war against Ukraine, one of its most important missile plants is quietly expanding -- bypassing international sanctions.
The Votkinsk Plant, also known as the Votkinskiy Plant,
— a strategic, state-owned facility serving Russia’s nuclear forces
— has hired thousands of new workers,
added new buildings,
and brought in advanced machinery to significantly increase its missile production.
Ukrainians have felt it firsthand.
Is…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caAnd yes, some of you might know that this greenhouse (with 2 locations) is owned by the Ferragine family and they got a significant amount of free publicity via Frank Ferragine who was a host on the morning show for #CityTV in Toronto.
https://shop.bradfordgreenhouses.com/pages/about-us
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Rumble founder Chris Pavlovski, who declined an offer to become CEO of Truth Social and opted to provide services to the platform through Rumble (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-wh
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIn its Q4 earnings report, News Corp warned President Trump that his books "are being consumed by AI engines which profit from his thoughts" (Lauren Aratani/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/05/news-corp-trump-ai-art-of-th…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialTIL: “privately owned fighter jets” are a hazard to commercial aviation in the Southwest, to Southwest…
@cdarwin@c.imSeven people are missing
after multiple explosions
at a warehouse in Northern California that sent bright fireworks across the area
and ignited a brush fire.
The location is owned by an active pyrotechnics license holder, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Emergency crews were searching the property for the missing individuals Wednesday,
and investigators were also surveying the area with drones.
Authorities ha…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Chinese streamer iQiyi is seeking to raise $300M in a Hong Kong IPO later in 2025; the Baidu-owned company went public in the US in 2018 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-06/netflix-style-iq…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTrump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K and a net loss of $20M, and says it accumulated ~$2B in bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities in July (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-truth-social-tmtg-q2-2…
@cdarwin@c.imIn what Public Citizen called
"the greatest corruption in presidential history,"
Donald Trumpand his family added $5 billion in cash to their fortunes this Labor Day
as his new cryptocurrency was opened to the public market.
The currency, known as WLFI,
is owned by World Liberty Financial,
a company founded by the president's sons, Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric Trump.
A Trump business entity owns 60% of the company and is entitled to 75% …
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThe remotes of that era are why we call remotes "clickers."
They operated by sound, with tuned rods being tapped in a reproducible way that always made the same 'clicks' at specific tones that the TV could detect across a room.
#IAmOld
@newsie@darktundra.xyz‘Critical’ firmware-level vulnerabilities found in laptops commonly used by security specialists https://therecord.media/critical-firmware-vulnerability-security-professionals
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI launches Stargate Norway, the first Stargate-branded initiative in Europe, to build a 230MW data center owned by a joint venture between Nscale and Aker (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA revamped Inside the NFL, produced by NFL Films, will debut September 8 on Elon Musk's X, with at least 10 short episodes airing weekly on the platform (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNeuralink filed on April 24 as a "small disadvantaged business" that could give it preferential access to federal opportunities, before being valued at $9B (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/17/elon-musks-neurali…
@cdarwin@c.imIn April, shortly before being valued by venture investors at $9 billion, Elon Musk’s Neuralink labeled itself a
“small disadvantaged business” in a federal filing
The filing would have reached the Small Business Administration at a time when Musk was leading the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFormer Polygon employees launch worker-owned video game website Rogue; Valnet laid off Polygon staff in May after buying the outlet from Vox (Rogue)
https://www.rogue.site/news/welcome-to-rogue/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDirecTV strikes a distribution agreement with Paramount Global, and unveils a $20/month MyKids plan with content from Paramount, Disney, WBD, and more (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/06/directv-mykids-plan-paramount-global-channels/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndia's largest telco Reliance Jio, owned by Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani, says it aims to list its shares through an IPO in India by the first half of 2026 (Chandini Monnappa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/reliance-jio-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA profile of Rumble founder Chris Pavlovski, who declined an offer to become CEO of Truth Social and opted to provide services to the platform through Rumble (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-wh
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s MAGA agenda is increasingly at odds with free market economics, and some key conservatives are beginning to notice.
At least one Republican—Texas Representative Chip Roy—has harpooned the president’s Intel deal, reminding CNBC Thursday that government stakes in private entities defies conservative values.
Roy also challenged the Trump administration’s intent to develop a state-owned investment fund known as a "sovereign wealth fund".
“I think the problem he…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSupercell makes Brawl Stars available on WeChat and says Clash Royale is "currently being developed" for a September launch on the WeChat mini-game platform (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3315…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWalmart-owned Indian e-commerce company Flipkart acquires a majority stake in digital content platform Pinkvilla; source: the deal values Pinkvilla at ~$15M (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/te…
@cdarwin@c.imIn this book, Theoharis introduces us to the people leading the movement to end poverty, including:
multiracial groups of homeless people rising up from the streets and seizing empty, federally-owned homes;
mothers on welfare shutting down entire city blocks and going toe-to-toe with some of the most powerful people in the country;
farmworkers busting modern-day slave rings and winning living wages from multinational fast-food companies; and
coal miners, veterans,…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTrump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K, a net loss of $20M, vs. a $16.4M net loss in Q2 2024, and $3.1B in cash and investments, up ~800% YoY (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-truth-social-tmtg-q2-2…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDallasNews Corporation board rejects Alden-owned MediaNews's bid and accepts an improved merger deal from Hearst, which raised its offer from $14 to $15/share (Amy Hollyfield/Dallas Morning News)
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/07/2…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialYouTube TV and Fox reach a new carriage deal for Fox News, local Fox stations, Fox Sports, and other channels (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/youtube-tv-fox-corp-deal-extension-fox-news-blackout-1236498996/…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialYouTube says that Fox is asking for payments "far higher than what partners with comparable content" receive; YouTube TV's renewal date with Fox is Wednesday (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/google-youtub…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe FCC approves the Paramount-Skydance deal, granting the transfer of licenses for 28 CBS-owned local TV stations to the Skydance-led ownership group (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/fcc-approves-paramount-skydance-…
