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Spotify-owned outlet The Ringer moves newsletters by some of its most popular staff to Substack; Spotify declines to explain the strategy behind the move (Owen Lewis/Defector)
https://defector.com/nobody-wants-to-talk-about-why-the-ringer-is-pivoting-to…

Nobody Wants To Talk About Why The Ringer Is Pivoting To Substack | Defector
A media company launching a series of paywalled newsletters is not, on its own and on its face, a strange thing to do. AI’s ongoing cannibalization of online search is ravaging website traffic, and programmatic advertising doesn’t provide the kind of revenue it used to. If you were running a website like The Ringer, you…

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Given that cherries are extremely perishable, a picked cherry loses quality by the hour.
Vision-based dynamic class segmentation enables shipping
first-class cherries with dark color, perfect stems, and high firmness,
and airfreighting them to China or Vietnam, where consumers pay $15-$25 per pound for a high-status gift.

The second most photographed fruit in the world
And how vision systems impact Chinese New Year celebrations

Is the chasm between the billions tech is spending on data centers and its scant AI earnings a bet on a shiny future? Or is it a convenient mask for an even less popular agenda?
I run the numbers https://jonippolito.substack.com/p/what-if-data-centers-arent-really…

SK Hynix says its SSD subsidiary Solidigm has halted a review of a potential US IPO to fund a new US chip fab, citing "market conditions and share price trends" (P.R. Venkat/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.…

Substack adds optional dynamic ad insertion to the podcasts it hosts, the latest step in a sponsorship push the company has been building since June (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/substack-dynamic-podcast-ads/

Substack Brings Dynamic Ad Insertion to Podcasts
Podcasters will be able to sell their own campaigns or fill ad breaks through third-party marketplaces, with monetization slated for 2027.

Screen tests for the next James Bond supposedly include three elements:
stunts, camera presence and dialogue.
Reports are that between three and five actors are finalists for the role,
which was vacated by Daniel Craig after 2021’s No Time to Die.
The candidates, reportedly including Callum Turner and Slow Horses’ Jack Lowden, will appear in front of cameras as the secret agent this weekend in London.
Despite speculation to the contrary, Sinners’ Jack O’Connell…

James Bond finalists to screen-test for role this week – reports
Actors in the mix to play 007 in Denis Villeneuve’s installment include Callum Turner and Jack Lowden

Top Democrats in Congress have joined a California immigrant and the Nevada State Democratic Party in
suing the Trump administration over its unprecedented voter fraud probes in both states
and broader efforts to meddle in state-run elections nationwide
— alleging they are a
“pretext to seize control over elections.”

A California immigrant and a Nevada group, joined by top Democrats, sue over federal election probes
The lawsuit accuses Trump and his administration of using “shoddily compiled lists of supposed noncitizens” and “coercive threats" against state officials to assert federal control over the midterms.