“I believe Darman felt that because we were such close friends he could say anything and I would protect him from news where he was the subject. My constitution, however unfortunate, is to report good, verifiable information no matter who you are.”

“If Theranos’ technology didn’t quite work yet, well, that’s a core tenet of Silicon Valley: Fake it till you make it.

And for a long time, Wired helped. The magazine touted big ideas, and sometimes those ideas turned out to be dumb. Sometimes we were too early; sometimes we were wrong. Pitch meetings for stories big and small were a bit of a Thunderdome, actually. Eventually we developed some heuristics to encode skepticism in the process.”

“Prosecutors say the 43-year-old targeted [Mail Online] reporters Andrew Young and Jacob Dirnhuber with social media posts, direct messages and a phone call in August 2024 after the outlet published a report about his holiday in Cyprus.”

“Today, after experimenting with a soft paywall for the past year, Boston.com will be converting to a mostly paid outlet. The change is indicative of how digital advertising has lost much of its value and of how the rise of AI search has deprived news organizations of click-throughs.”

Low navigated the pandemic, layoffs, and federal defunding during her seven-year tenure.

“What I tried to put forth in this essay is a woman who was humbled, right? Is a woman who still believes in the rightness of what I tried, but also said, man, was it hard. And I don’t know that I got it quite right. No, actually, I know I did not get it quite right because my child has told me this.”

“C-SPAN2 will simulcast election-night coverage from The Young Turks, featuring progressive commentators Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola. C-SPAN3 will carry a separate livestream hosted by conservative commentator Patrick Bet-David, the host of the PBD Podcast and founder of the Valuetainment Streaming Network.”

“Revenues generated in the U.K. fell 7% from £75.9M to £70.6M, newly filed accounts showed. However, an 18% increase in international revenues, to £29.7M, helped keep the company’s total revenues almost flat, at £100M.”

“If the idea is to intimidate protesters into not protesting, the attacks on reporters — rough handling, groping, detention — is a corollary. Both the government and Delhi Police want to work in the shadows, and here, the attack on freelancers and alternative media is inevitable. They are the only ones doing any meaningful work on the ground.”

“One draw for lenders and investors is that they can see how much creators make on YouTube. The AdSense software enables financiers to track audience viewing data and advertising revenue. Specialist financiers may offer funding in exchange for a share of future earnings. They sometimes collect creators’ gross monthly revenue and send them the net income once financing fees are deducted.”