https://mediaforum.net/tags/digests/ Recent content in Digests on Media Forum Hugo en-us Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mediaforum.net/tech-digest-googles-1.2b-play-store-case-toshibas-ai-hard-drive-push-geminis-free-tier-cut-and-valleys-340m-bluevine-deal/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mediaforum.net/tech-digest-googles-1.2b-play-store-case-toshibas-ai-hard-drive-push-geminis-free-tier-cut-and-valleys-340m-bluevine-deal/ <p>Google is preparing to defend itself in London against a £1.2 billion class action claiming it charged excessive fees on Android apps downloaded from Google Play since 2015. The fight is over Google&rsquo;s cut of app sales and in-app purchases (up to 30%) and whether a store facing real competition could have kept it that high. Google denies the claims. The sum is big for a British court and small for Alphabet. What matters is the fee, because a finding that 30% was excessive would travel well beyond Britain.</p> https://mediaforum.net/osint-digest-palantir-contracts-rt-mirror-domains-ai-debt-and-russias-retreat-from-syria/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mediaforum.net/osint-digest-palantir-contracts-rt-mirror-domains-ai-debt-and-russias-retreat-from-syria/ <p>Ten recent pieces, grouped by the thread that actually connects them rather than the order they went out. Some of it is procurement, some of it is money, and a surprising amount of it is the same story told at different layers of the stack.</p> <p>The picture below is a decent illustration of the problem this site keeps circling. Two men stand at a wrought-iron railing above a dense hillside city, backs to the camera, everything in front of them thrown soft by a long lens. One is shooting stills handheld. The other has a Sony video body on a fluid-head tripod, shotgun mic on top, a phone clamped above the monitor, presumably running a second angle or a live feed. Between them they are operating four recording devices pointed at the same view. None of that tells you what is happening down in the streets. It tells you where they were allowed to stand, what focal length they brought, and which slice of the city fits in the frame from that terrace. Open-source work runs on the same constraint. The material is abundant, the vantage point is not neutral, and most of the analytical effort goes into working out what the position itself is excluding.</p>