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Yayoi Kusama, who spent seventy years painting the hallucinations she had experienced since childhood and became one of the most widely seen artists alive in the process, died on August 14 at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 97. Her studio announced the death on …
For two years the argument about AI scraping has been mostly rhetorical. Publishers complained, lawyers filed, everyone waited. On September …
The headline that moved the stock was a fiscal 2027 non-GAAP EPS guide of $22.88 to $23.12 against a consensus of $27.30, and the headline …
The classic image of censorship is a blacked-out column and a man with a stamp. It’s a useful image and an outdated one. Look at what …
Nielsen is paying 2.15 billion dollars for DoubleVerify, and if you work anywhere near digital advertising the deal deserves more attention …
OpenAI is building an advertising business, and the notable part isn’t that it’s selling ads. Everyone with attention eventually sells ads. …
Two deals, one week, opposite ends of the size range. Paramount’s 111 billion dollar combination with Warner Bros. Discovery is stuck in …
The headline number everyone repeats is that Google search traffic to publishers fell by about a third over the past year. It’s the wrong …
Nilay Patel coined “Google Zero” in 2024 to describe a hypothetical: the moment search stops sending traffic anywhere except back into …
I run about sixty-five sites. Most of them are static. Hugo builds them, Cloudflare serves them, and I paste content into a text editor like …
