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Despite the devastating loss of over 500 #athletes and the #mobilization of top #competitors like Yurii Anikeiev into the military, Ukraine's checkers #community continues to fight for its global presence.
Find out more about it at the link! https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/war-threatens-ukraines-checkers-champions

If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know

https://jonready.com/blog/posts/claude-fable5-is-allowed-to-sabotage-your-app-if-youre-a-competitor.html

#HackerNews #ClaudeFable #Sabotage #Competitors #TechEthics #AppDevelopment #Innovation

The European Commission has mandated that the US tech giant Meta must grant competitive AI assistants unfettered access to WhatsApp. According to the EU Commiss... https://news.osna.fm/?p=50123 | #news #ai #antitrust #competitors #eu

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The real reason why Jeff Bezos killed the Washington Post. – Slate

The Media

Jeff Bezos Killed the Washington Post

The billionaire wanted the Post to die, because a vigorous, well-resourced newspaper does not help his bottom line.

By Alex Kirshner, Feb 05, 202611:07 AM

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Jeff Bezos killed the Washington Post on Wednesday. The paper survives as a husk, but the institution that became one of the cathedrals of world journalism is gone. The biggest mistake one could make in analyzing this corporate slaughter is to lay the blame solely on the state of journalism. That’d be wrong.

Times are hard in journalism, just like they always are. The big new problem is A.I. swallowing up search traffic, which itself had already sucked up the ad revenue that used to go to newspapers and magazines. Otherwise, all of the things that have been hard for the past 20 years are still hard now. Powerful corporate interests have captured great newsrooms, or run their own old family businesses into the ground. Fox News, social media, and podcasts—in that chronological order—have cocooned a lot of people to want only “news” that isn’t really news. Megyn Kelly is now a red-meat podcaster instead of an occasionally punchy Fox host.

The Post laid off 300 journalists on Wednesday. This included more or less the entire remaining staff of the paper’s legendary sports section, which produced several of the best writers to ever do the job. The days of the superstar columnist with the biggest megaphone in town were long gone, but the section remained tremendous. The paper slashed its international coverage, laying off a journalist who found out as she reported from Kyiv. Many editors across desks lost their jobs. Worst of all, not that it’s a contest, but the Washington Post will now be a lot less Washingtonian. The paper has fired at least a substantial chunk of its metro reporters, who serviced a city and region that have been under a multifront attack from the Trump administration.

In a stiff email, Post executive editor Matt Murray tried to make this move sound like yet another example of a tough business forcing tough decisions. “The ecosystem of news and information, on- and off-platform, is changing radically,” Murray wrote to his staffers, fired and not. He lamented the “serious decline” of search traffic. He wrote of increased competition from other people, other platforms.

He did not write about one specific person: Bezos, who bought the paper from the Graham family in 2013 for $250 million. (Note: Slate is owned by Graham Holdings, the company controlled by the Graham family.)

That is because Murray values his paycheck and didn’t want to point out the Post’s real cause of death—namely, that one of the richest people in human history staged a controlled burn to turn it into ash. Bezos wanted the Post to die, because a vigorous, well-resourced Washington Post does not suit his vision for the world or his own bottom line. The end of the Post is a matter not of journalistic economics but of Bezos’ incentives.

Whatever the Post is worth today is immaterial to Bezos’ wealth. It’s barely even what you’d call a rounding error. Bezos could sustain the Post’s operating losses for hundreds of lifetimes without even threatening his current wealth, let alone the additional wealth he and his heirs will amass passively in years to come from his stakes in Amazon, Blue Origin, and who knows what else.

A man worth more than $240 billion does not care even a little bit, in pure dollar terms, about a $100 million annual loss running a prestige business. When Bezos bought the paper, he made clear to the Post’s prior management that he viewed the paper not purely through a profit lens, the New York Times reported. Bezos wrote to Post employees, “The paper’s duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners.” That turned out to be, at best, incredibly misleading.

The Post itself doesn’t affect Bezos’ vast fortune much, but what it represents does. One of the employees he laid off on Wednesday was the paper’s Amazon reporter, Caroline O’Donovan. More critically, even under Bezos’ ownership, the Post frequently published stories that upset the Trump administration, whose vindictive approach to regulation could pose obvious problems for Amazon and Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin.

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Bezos understood this risk more than a year ago, when he drove away 250,000 paying subscribers by stepping in to prevent the paper from endorsing Kamala Harris. Bezos then transformed the Post’s opinion section, away from a broad-based page and into a propaganda arm devoted to promoting “personal liberties and free markets.”

The paper’s executives and owner punted away from aggressively covering Trump’s second term, bleeding both subscribers and a general share of viral stories that instead went to competitors like the Times and Wall Street Journal. There was money to be made by investing in the paper’s reporting staff, who never stopped doing their best to provide honest (and necessarily adversarial) coverage of Trump. Bezos just didn’t want that money.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: The real reason why Jeff Bezos killed the Washington Post.

The real reason why Jeff Bezos killed the Washington Post. – Slate

The Media

Jeff Bezos Killed the Washington Post

The billionaire wanted the Post to die, because a vigorous, well-resourced newspaper does not help his bottom line.

By Alex Kirshner, Feb 05, 202611:07 AM

Copy Link Share Comment

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily.

Jeff Bezos killed the Washington Post on Wednesday. The paper survives as a husk, but the institution that became one of the cathedrals of world journalism is gone. The biggest mistake one could make in analyzing this corporate slaughter is to lay the blame solely on the state of journalism. That’d be wrong.

Times are hard in journalism, just like they always are. The big new problem is A.I. swallowing up search traffic, which itself had already sucked up the ad revenue that used to go to newspapers and magazines. Otherwise, all of the things that have been hard for the past 20 years are still hard now. Powerful corporate interests have captured great newsrooms, or run their own old family businesses into the ground. Fox News, social media, and podcasts—in that chronological order—have cocooned a lot of people to want only “news” that isn’t really news. Megyn Kelly is now a red-meat podcaster instead of an occasionally punchy Fox host.

The Post laid off 300 journalists on Wednesday. This included more or less the entire remaining staff of the paper’s legendary sports section, which produced several of the best writers to ever do the job. The days of the superstar columnist with the biggest megaphone in town were long gone, but the section remained tremendous. The paper slashed its international coverage, laying off a journalist who found out as she reported from Kyiv. Many editors across desks lost their jobs. Worst of all, not that it’s a contest, but the Washington Post will now be a lot less Washingtonian. The paper has fired at least a substantial chunk of its metro reporters, who serviced a city and region that have been under a multifront attack from the Trump administration.

In a stiff email, Post executive editor Matt Murray tried to make this move sound like yet another example of a tough business forcing tough decisions. “The ecosystem of news and information, on- and off-platform, is changing radically,” Murray wrote to his staffers, fired and not. He lamented the “serious decline” of search traffic. He wrote of increased competition from other people, other platforms.

He did not write about one specific person: Bezos, who bought the paper from the Graham family in 2013 for $250 million. (Note: Slate is owned by Graham Holdings, the company controlled by the Graham family.)

That is because Murray values his paycheck and didn’t want to point out the Post’s real cause of death—namely, that one of the richest people in human history staged a controlled burn to turn it into ash. Bezos wanted the Post to die, because a vigorous, well-resourced Washington Post does not suit his vision for the world or his own bottom line. The end of the Post is a matter not of journalistic economics but of Bezos’ incentives.

Whatever the Post is worth today is immaterial to Bezos’ wealth. It’s barely even what you’d call a rounding error. Bezos could sustain the Post’s operating losses for hundreds of lifetimes without even threatening his current wealth, let alone the additional wealth he and his heirs will amass passively in years to come from his stakes in Amazon, Blue Origin, and who knows what else.

A man worth more than $240 billion does not care even a little bit, in pure dollar terms, about a $100 million annual loss running a prestige business. When Bezos bought the paper, he made clear to the Post’s prior management that he viewed the paper not purely through a profit lens, the New York Times reported. Bezos wrote to Post employees, “The paper’s duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners.” That turned out to be, at best, incredibly misleading.

The Post itself doesn’t affect Bezos’ vast fortune much, but what it represents does. One of the employees he laid off on Wednesday was the paper’s Amazon reporter, Caroline O’Donovan. More critically, even under Bezos’ ownership, the Post frequently published stories that upset the Trump administration, whose vindictive approach to regulation could pose obvious problems for Amazon and Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin.

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Mary ZieglerHow Trump Used a Law Meant to Protect Abortion Seekers to Arrest Members of the Press Read More

Bezos understood this risk more than a year ago, when he drove away 250,000 paying subscribers by stepping in to prevent the paper from endorsing Kamala Harris. Bezos then transformed the Post’s opinion section, away from a broad-based page and into a propaganda arm devoted to promoting “personal liberties and free markets.”

The paper’s executives and owner punted away from aggressively covering Trump’s second term, bleeding both subscribers and a general share of viral stories that instead went to competitors like the Times and Wall Street Journal. There was money to be made by investing in the paper’s reporting staff, who never stopped doing their best to provide honest (and necessarily adversarial) coverage of Trump. Bezos just didn’t want that money.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: The real reason why Jeff Bezos killed the Washington Post.

#cortex #neocortex #crashbandicoot #owl #owl #bankruptcy #money #credit #competitors #players #quiz #television #tv #game #wheeloffortune #schadenfreude #joy #laugh #photomontage #badomen #badluck #unlucky #meme #hoax #hoot #gameshow #mocking #smug

Whenever I present #syslog_ng at a conference or at a booth, people often ask me why should they use syslog-ng instead of one of its #competitors. So let me summarize what the users and developers of syslog-ng consider as its most important #values.

https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/the-core-values-of-syslog-ng

#LogManagement

According to Reuters, a major shift is underway as Google plans to cut ties with Scale AI, its largest data-labeling partner, following Meta's acquisition of a 49% stake in Scale. This strategic move aims to protect proprietary interests amid rising competitive threats. As Google explores alternatives for AI services, this could significantly impact Scale's revenue and open doors for new competitors. Read more about the implications [here](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/14/google-scale-ais-largest-customer-plans-split-after-meta-deal.html). Kudos to Reuters for the insightful coverage! #Google #ScaleAI #Meta #AI #DataLabeling #MachineLearning #BusinessStrategy #Technology #Competitors

#Development #Approaches
Designing a new web performance score · CrRRUX simplifies competitor analysis into a single number https://ilo.im/16139y

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#Business #Competitors #WebPerf #Scores #Metrics #CrRRUX #CrUX #WebVitals #WebDev #Frontend

#Sexism in #Politics: It’s the Same Old Story.

Here is a list of the #gender-#based #challenges the 45 #male #presidents and their male #competitors (including those with young children) have had to overcome:

[This space was intentionally left blank]

There was not a single item on the list.

https://msmagazine.com/2024/11/04/sexism-politics-kamala-harris-first-woman-president/

#TomBrady reflects on watching "the most #powerful #women I've ever seen" at #Olympics with his #daughter.

Brady and his youngest child Vivian, whom he shares with ex-wife #GiseleBundchen, were in the stands for several events including #womensdiving, #beachvolleyball and the individual #women's #gymnastics #finals, where the pair cheered on #SimoneBiles and the other #American #competitors.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/tom-brady-olympics-daughter-women/

Own #resource constraints and the desire to gain an early knowledge advantage over #competitors are primary motives why #Mittelstand enterprises, with regard to the #circular economy, initiate innovative projects together with other businesses.
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2024/06/26/together-more-innovative

Own #resource constraints and the desire to gain an early knowledge advantage over #competitors are primary motives why #Mittelstand enterprises, with regard to the #circular economy, initiate innovative projects together with other businesses.
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2024/06/26/together-more-innovative

#Seattle #gym’s #LGBTQ-#inclusive #competition #parties on, despite #Conservative #trolls.

Creating a #safe, #inclusive #space for all #competitors was one of #RCF’s goals, especially in the heat of #politicaldebates about #transrights.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Washington #Fitness #Entertainment #Sports #Representation #Culture

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/culture/seattle-gyms-lgbtq-inclusive-competition-parties-on-despite-trolls/

“The International #Olympic Committee (#IOC) has released an #advisory #update to their #media #guidelines for coverage of the #Olympics by #journalists, specifically regarding the sort of #language journalists use to discuss #trans #competitors.”

#IOC Backs #Trans #Competitors When it #DoesntCount.

Considering trans competitors are few and far between thanks to the IOC’s #handsoffapproach to #participation #rules and multiple de facto #bans on trans #competitors, their words ring hollow.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Sports #Olympics #Media #Representation #Culture

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/ioc-issues-trans-media-guidelines

"The #rodeo ended up supporting him too as the #attendees and #competitors there #raised #money to help him #buy a #lightweight #assistive #walking #device with special, puncture-proof all-terrain #tires to help him #walk over rocky and uneven surfaces."

Invasive Harlequin #Ladybug Carries Biological #Weapons Against Native #Competitors

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1234032

not #openaccess

#IrishDancers #standup for #trans #competitors amid #backlash against #teen #trans #dancer

"We #celebrate their #right to #succeed." The Hatemongers also laughingly attempted to claim trans women have an advantage in #Irish #dancing

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Dance #Allies #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/12/irish-dancers-stand-up-for-trans-competitors-amid-backlash-against-teen-trans-dancer/

#Trans #woman becomes #croquet #worldchampion at 23 in #historic #win.

Predictably, not everyone was happy for Gumbrell and her #win, with some of her #Transphobic #competitors #arguing that she had an #Unfair #advantage. Backlash to Gumbrell’s win comes amid a wave of #unscientific #antitrans sentiment in relation to #womenssports.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Sports #Croquet #Representation #Culture

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/12/14/trans-woman-world-croquet-federation-champion/

#US sues #Amazon in a #monopoly case that could be existential for the retail giant

The #FTC & a bipartisan group of state attorneys general filed a sweeping #antitrust #lawsuit on Tues. It paints Amazon as a #monopolist that suffocates #competitors & raises #costs for both #sellers & #shoppers.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/26/1191099421/amazon-ftc-lawsuit-antitrust-monopoly?origin=NOTIFY

A list of #Twitter #Competitors

https://qz.com/social-media-platforms-competing-with-twitter-1850605406

#XParrot #Threads #Mastodon #BlueSky #Spill #HiveSocial #CounterSocial #Clubhouse #TruthSocial #News #Lists

#Cyclist who lost #race to #trans #woman says she ‘couldn’t care less’ if #winner was #trans, #debunking #rightwing #socialmedia and #conservative #media #reports that the trans woman's #female #competitors #boycotted the #podium because she won.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #Entertainment #Sports #Cycling #Conservatives #Media #Farright #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia #Disinformation #MoralPanic #HateSpeech #StochasticTerrorism #Hatecrimes

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/22/lesley-mumford-lindsey-kriete-cycling-race-trans/

Tether’s Market Cap Inches Towards All-Time High as Competitors Struggle With Redemptions - Despite several U.S. dollar-pegged digital tokens experiencing notable redemptions... - https://news.bitcoin.com/tethers-market-cap-inches-towards-all-time-high-as-competitors-struggle-with-redemptions/ #marketcapitalization #marketvaluation #cryptoeconomy #digitaltokens #usdtmarketcap #competitors #redemptions #stablecoin #growth #supply #tether #tokens #news #gusd #usdc #usdp #usdt #ath