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At the scale of the French National Audiovisual Institute, standard fuzzy matching created more noise than answers. So the team did something unexpected: they looked back decades to ancient phonetic algorithms to solve a very modern problem.
Join Pietro Mele and Radu Pop to find out why "sounding right" beats "spelling close", especially for languages like French, where silent letters and homophones make spelling a guessing game.

Q&A with Vox CEO Jim Bankoff on the sale of Vox Media's podcast network, why buyers were interested in that network, and how remaining sites are in "good shape" (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/jim-bankof

Why did James Murdoch buy Vox Media's podcast business, but not some of Jim Bankoff's other properties?
James Murdoch is buying Vox's podcast business, and New York Magazine. Why not the rest?

Sources: England and Wales' attorney general tells his office to stop posting on X, a first for the UK government, amid worries about X inciting violence (Peter Walker/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Attorney general tells department to stop using X amid UK disinformation concerns
Exclusive: Richard Hermer’s office understood to be first in government to restrict use after recent riots

Q&A with Fox podcast exec Chris Balfe on podcasts being synonymous with video and how clipping is shifting ad dollars from creators to short-form platforms (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-podcast…

Fox's podcast chief is keeping a wary eye on TikTok and Reels clips
An update from the front lines of the podcast industry as it grapples with Netflix deals, and how to balance distribution vs. revenue.

"Wenn wir die zentralen Probleme unserer Zeit lösen und dafür die #Demokratie und die offene Gesellschaft verteidigen wollen, dann müssen wir deren Grundlage stärken: Regeln, Solidarität, globale Kooperation, institutionelle Stabilität und fairen Wettbewerb. Nur so lässt sich der mimetische Wettbewerb der Mächtigen bändigen und in .. demokratische Bahnen lenken. Wo sind die Kräfte und Sti…

René Girard: Mit vollem Herzen gegen die Demokratie
Die Ideologen um Donald Trump wollen die Demokratie zerstören. Ihr Vorbild: der Philosoph René Girard. Doch sie verdrehen seine Lehre ins Gegenteil.

Off Script
The Cumming Global Centre for Pandemic Therapeutics, part of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, presents Off Script...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/off-script-2/

Saudi Arabia's millennial crown prince got a rare tour inside Apple's new $5 billion campus
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been visiting with Silicon Valley leaders and top tech executives during his US tour.
He met with Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, and other key players in the technology industry.
He even got…

Saudi Arabia's millennial crown prince got a rare tour inside Apple's new $5 billion campus
Saudi Arabia's millennial crown prince got to see the inside of Apple's new $5 billion campus.

"Por eso prohibir el acceso de los menores es una salida tramposa. Permite a los políticos decir «hemos hecho algo» y buscar el aplauso fšcil y populista de los ignorantes, sin enfrentarse al núcleo del problema: unas plataformas que no deberían poder operar así ni para un niño de trece años, ni para un adulto de cuarenta, ni para un jubilado de setenta." este artículo de Enrique Dans seguro que ya lo ha leído @…

Former staffers at Gawker, which shut down 10 years ago this August, describe the site's legacy of irreverent, humorous reporting and writing (Frank DiGiacomo/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/inside-gawker-lega…

At Gawker, They Battled a Billionaire. 10 Years Later, the Scars Are Still Healing
Their weaponized wit made enemies, minted stars and helped define the internet as we know it. A decade after Peter Thiel engineered the site’s spectacular collapse, Nick Denton’s diaspora is still shaping media — and haunted by what happened.

Q&A with veteran media reporter Peter Kafka on the unbundling of Comcast and NBCUniversal, Versant's future, YouTube, net neutrality, Hollywood's fate, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/962994/co

Comcast is breaking up with NBCU. Why did it ever buy it in the first place?
Business Insider’s Peter Kafka on Comcast splitting off NBCUniversal and why the dream of content plus pipes never works.