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Trump’s Relentless Push to Axe Kimmel: From Truth Social Tirades to FCC License Probes
President Donald Trump fired off another salvo on Truth Social Thursday morning. "When is ABC Fake News Network firing seriously unfunny Jimmy Kimmel, who incompetently presi...
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Spotify Draws Line on AI Music with New Verified Badge for Human Artists
Spotify just fired a shot across the bow of AI music floods. A light green checkmark. "Verified by Spotify" stamped next to it. This badge hits artist profiles and search res...
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YouTube’s Free PiP Rollout and Premium Lite Upgrades Squeeze Full Subscribers as Prices Climb
YouTube users worldwide can now multitask with videos floating over other apps. Picture-in-picture mode, or PiP, rolled out globally to free accounts on April 29. Previously lim...
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YouTube Opens Picture-in-Picture to Free Users Worldwide, But Premium Keeps the Edge
YouTube's mobile app just got a lot more flexible for the world's two billion users. Picture-in-picture mode—PiP to insiders—is no longer locked behind a Premium paywall everywh...
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John Oliver’s Pipe Wrench to AI Hype: Chatbots’ Hidden Perils Exposed
John Oliver swung hard at the AI industry on the April 26 episode of Last Week Tonight. He called out chatbots for saving 'significant time writing emails,' at the cost o...
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Divine Rises: Jack Dorsey Funds Vine’s Decentralized Comeback, Outpacing Musk’s AI Vision
Jack Dorsey just handed social media a six-second blast from the past. Divine, his latest project, resurrects Vine's looping videos on a decentralized backbone. The app hit a...
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Media Mogul Diller Hands Reins to Vogel as Google Zero Forces Publishers into AI Alliances
Barry Diller, the veteran media dealmaker, has renamed his IAC empire People Inc. and tapped Neil Vogel as CEO. This move comes amid a brutal traffic drought from Google, dubbed...
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Paramount’s High-Stakes FCC Pitch: Nearly Half Foreign-Owned in $110 Billion Warner Bros. Takeover
Paramount Skydance filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission on April 27, seeking a declaratory ruling to permit nearly half its equity—49.5%—to be held by...
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FCC’s Dusty News Distortion Rule Becomes Carr’s Broadcast Battleground
A bipartisan band of former Federal Communications Commission officials is pressing a federal appeals court to pry open a long-dormant agency policy that Chairman Brendan Carr h...
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TARDIS in Limbo: Disney Exits Doctor Who as HBO Door Cracks Open for BBC Revival
The TARDIS has landed in uncertain territory. Disney+ has pulled the plug on its co-production deal with the BBC for Doctor Who, leaving the 63-year-old sci-fi staple scr...
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Radio’s Big Bet: Sirius XM and iHeartMedia’s High-Stakes Merger Push Amid Streaming Siege
Whispers turned to shouts last week when Bloomberg revealed that iHeartMedia and Sirius XM Holdings are circling each other in preliminary merger talks, a move that could forge...
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YouTube’s Instant Autoplay Assault: Why TV Viewers Are Grabbing the Remote in Fury
Andy Boxall sits on his couch, Apple TV remote in hand. He finishes a video. No pause. The next one blasts immediately. That's YouTube's new instant autoplay on televisions—a co...
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YouTube’s Watch History Ultimatum: No Tracking, No Recommendations
YouTube users open the app. Blank homepage stares back. No videos. Just a nagging prompt: Turn on watch history to populate your feed.This isn't a glitch. It's policy....
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YouTube’s Split-Screen Livestream Ads Mute the Hype: Revenue Gains Clash with Viewer Frustration
YouTube viewers tuning into live streams on mobile now face a divided screen. An ad pops up beside the ongoing broadcast. The stream shrinks. Its audio vanishes. Only the commer...
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Valve’s Steam Machine Revival: Why Ditching Windows Clutter Could Redefine Living-Room PC Gaming
Valve's long-awaited Steam Machine isn't just a reboot of a failed 2015 experiment. It's a compact cube-shaped PC designed to slip under your TV, delivering six times the power...
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