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Trump’s national security advisers warned him not to congratulate Putin. He did it anyway. – The Washington Post

Carol D. Leonnig, David Nakamura and Josh Dawsey7 years ago015 mins

President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers Tuesday when he congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his reelection — including a section in his briefing materials in all-capital letters stating “DO NOT CONGRATULATE,” according to officials familiar with the call. Trump also chose not to heed talking points from aides instructing him…

Commercial Surveillance State | Online Only | n+1

Matthew Crain, Anthony Nadler7 years ago049 mins

The tactics of carefully targeted, data-driven manipulation—though innovative and destabilizing—are not entirely new. They predate the existence of Cambridge Analytica, and Facebook, and the contemporary notion of “fake news” itself. For decades, digital marketers—working in both commercial and political domains—have been perfecting models for using consumer data to identify and manipulate decision-making vulnerabilities. Blame the…

$25,000 HQ Trivia Game Contestant Booted From Game, Accused of Cheating

Gita Jackson7 years ago05 mins

Popular live trivia app HQ Trivia usually pays out a cash prize after 12 questions, but last night, for the second time, they’ve tried a “winner takes all” approach. After 27 minutes of trivia, with $25,000 on the line, two players remained—then the game abruptly ended as one of them reportedly got kicked from the…

Nintendo Reveals The 10 Best-Selling Indie Games On Switch

Chris Kohler7 years ago05 mins

Celeste. Players of indie games on Switch are driven in great part by “nostalgia,” Nintendo said today at a Game Developers Conference event at which it revealed the top 10 best-selling Switch indie games, a list that includes Celeste, Stardew Valley, and Shovel Knight. “Nintendo fans really tap into those games that share inspiration, or…

The Paul Brothers’ Attempt To Bandwagon Fortnite Turns Messy

Gita Jackson7 years ago07 mins

Infamous YouTuber Logan Paul started a Twitch channel yesterday, and he reached 100,000 followers without streaming once. If you go to the channel right now, the chat alternates between spamming racial slurs and ascii penises. Following the Fortnite bandwagon has turned into a mess for the Paul brothers. The Paul brothers have a reputation for…

Vivendi’s Attempt At A Hostile Takeover Of Ubisoft Is Over

Ethan Gach7 years ago06 mins

Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft appears to have avoided the hostile takeover the company’s bosses and workers have been fearing from the conglomerate Vivendi for the past three years.The mega-publisher announced today that Vivendi will sell off all its existing shares in Ubisoft and agreed to not acquire any more for the next five years. In another…

Someone Made 400 School Bomb Threats Because They Were Mad About Minecraft

Ethan Gach7 years ago05 mins

Hundreds of schools across the U.K. closed today after receiving bomb threats via email. The threats were later discovered to be a hoax tied to a Minecraft server rivalry. Over 400 institutions were affected, according to the newspaper Express, which reported that many schools evacuated their students upon receiving the emails threatening bombings.The Northumbria Police…

#GameWorkersUnite

Nathan Grayson7 years ago01 mins

Game Workers Unite is a fledgling effort to get game devs unionized that’s formed around this year’s Game Workers Unite is a fledgling effort to get game devs unionized that’s formed around this year’s GDC. The organization was born of discussion surrounding an upcoming roundtable on unionization to be hosted by the International Game Developers…

Were you a victim of Cambridge Analytica’s dirty tricks? The fact you don’t know is the problem. – The Washington Post

Anne Applebaum7 years ago08 mins

Why we must end anonymity for online political ads. “We just put information into the bloodstream of the internet, and then … give it a little push every now and again … like a remote control. It has to happen without anyone thinking, ‘that’s propaganda,’ because the moment you think ‘that’s propaganda,’ the next question…

How to Be a Responsible Music Fan in the Age of Streaming | Pitchfork

Damon Krukowski7 years ago030 mins

In 2012, I wrote a piece for this website breaking down the payments my first band, Galaxie 500, was receiving from streaming services, which were just starting to become a dominant force in the music industry. Spotify had sent songwriting royalties of $1.05 for the 5,960 times our single “Tugboat” was played that quarter—split between the group’s three…

What Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, and Others Are Learning From Curtis Yarvin and the New Right | Vanity Fair

Mark Zuckerberg Finally Admits Facebook Content Is Worthless, Glasses are the new phones or whatever

Is That AI? Or Does It Just Suck?

Retailers Are Opening Themselves To Programmatic – But Will They Regret It? | AdExchanger

What we know about Google’s upcoming adtech antitrust trial – and how it might play out | The Drum

Fortune 500 brand ads seen next to porn & racial slurs, with IAS & DoubleVerify in the mix | The Drum

August 2024

Trump’s national security advisers warned him not to congratulate Putin. He did it anyway. – The Washington Post

Commercial Surveillance State | Online Only | n+1

Nintendo Reveals The 10 Best-Selling Indie Games On Switch

The Paul Brothers’ Attempt To Bandwagon Fortnite Turns Messy

Vivendi’s Attempt At A Hostile Takeover Of Ubisoft Is Over

Someone Made 400 School Bomb Threats Because They Were Mad About Minecraft

#GameWorkersUnite

Were you a victim of Cambridge Analytica’s dirty tricks? The fact you don’t know is the problem. – The Washington Post

How to Be a Responsible Music Fan in the Age of Streaming | Pitchfork