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X is imploring advertisers who’ve abandoned the platform to return, promising some a sweetheart deal of up to $200,000 in extra value, according to a leaked pitch deck viewed by ADWEEK. On one slide, presented to an ad agency with many clients that have not invested in the platform for a number of months, X suggested it would toss in 50% of added value for every dollar spent, up to $200,000 per advertiser. Details of what constitutes “added value”—whether discounts, free ad credits, rebates, or something else entirely—were unspecified.The incentive was framed as a “return-to-platform incentive” in the slide.The incentive structure is…
A French Navy officer went for a run on the deck of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier and uploaded his workout to Strava, inadvertently leaking the location of the nuclear-powered warship as it heads to the Middle East. First reported by French newspaper Le Monde, the story is not an anomaly — this popular fitness tracking app has proven to be a privacy nightmare before. By default, accounts on the social fitness app are set to public, publishing your route any time you log a workout. Strava data has previously been used to locate military bases around the world.…
Anthropic cannot manipulate its generative AI model Claude once the US military has it running, an executive wrote in a court filing on Friday. The statement was made in response to accusations from the Trump administration about the company potentially tampering with its AI tools during war.“Anthropic has never had the ability to cause Claude to stop working, alter its functionality, shut off access, or otherwise influence or imperil military operations,” Thiyagu Ramasamy, Anthropic’s head of public sector, wrote. “Anthropic does not have the access required to disable the technology or alter the model’s behavior before or during ongoing operations.”The…
Top of the Ticker: CBS News is once again in the midst of layoffs, as editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and president Tom Cibrowski look to restructure the news outlet.The executives reportedly announced the cuts on Friday morning, affecting around 6% of staff. In addition, CBS News Radio is being shuttered, effective May 22. The division provided programming to around 700 affiliated stations across the country, according to The Hollywood Reporter.“It’s no secret that the news business is changing radically, and that we need to change along with it,” Weiss and Cibrowski wrote in a note to staff.This marks the second round…
A civil jury in California on Friday ruled that Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter investors when he tried to back out of his $44 billion acquisition of the platform in 2022. At the time, Musk had tweeted that Twitter had too many bots, which is why he later tried to renege on the acquisition. (Twitter ended up suing Musk to force him to seal the deal.) “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” Musk wrote on the platform that he has since renamed X. Twitter deal temporarily…
United States congressman Jim Himes, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, is privately lobbying colleagues to preserve the FBI’s power to conduct warrantless searches of Americans’ communications, WIRED has learned, arguing that he has seen no evidence that the Trump administration is abusing its authority.In a letter obtained by WIRED, Himes urges fellow Democrats to support the White House’s request to renew a controversial surveillance program that intercepts the electronic data of foreigners abroad. While targeted at foreigners, the program—authorized under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—also sweeps in vast quantities of private messages belonging to…
All three evening shows suffered week-to-week ratings drops in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo for the week of March 9. These declines come despite news that the American economy is still being affected by unrest in the Middle East.Additionally, the switch to Daylight Saving Time could have affected viewership patterns, as the sun sets later.ABC World News Tonight with David Muir remained the most-watched newscast in the country in both measured categories. Meanwhile, CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil fell below 4 million total viewers for the week.The previous rendition of CBS News’ evening broadcast, which John Dickerson…
Q1 has a habit of arriving fast. New campaigns launch. Product updates go live. Traffic spikes. Leadership wants reporting. And suddenly your WordPress platform is under more scrutiny than ever. If you manage an enterprise WordPress estate, performance is not just a technical concern. It directly impacts revenue, search visibility, user satisfaction, and operational efficiency. Before the new quarter begins, now is the time to pressure test your platform. Here is a practical checklist of five performance audits every enterprise team should complete before Q1 kicks off. 1. Full-stack performance benchmarking Before you optimise, you need a clear baseline. Enterprise…
Pinterest’s CEO, Bill Ready, has called for governments to ban social media for users under 16 in a new Time op-ed. He’s now one of the few top CEOs to call for such a restriction, as nations worldwide begin to implement or consider ways to limit children’s online time, and exactly how to verify ages. Ready wrote that children today were “living through the largest social experiment in history,” as they have been given “unfiltered access to social media platforms.” Research shows the damage this unfiltered access has done, with today’s youth seeing increased rates of depression, anxiety, and lower…
“This is not a consumer device company that takes privacy very seriously,” Gamero-Garrido says. Since people use smartphones far more than Alexa or a Kindle, he says an Amazon smartphone today would “significantly increase the scale of the potential privacy harms.”Gamero-Garrido thinks Amazon could use Transformer as a data-gathering tool to glean how people use its devices, build its advertising network, and compete with the likes of Alphabet and Meta, which are facing regulatory scrutiny in the European Union and California.One way it could do this is through the Fire TV approach. This is Amazon’s TV streaming platform integrated into…
Chuck Norris, the martial-arts meister turned actor—and, later in life, entrepreneur and ambassador for brands from Toyota to Glock—died on March 19 in Hawaii. He was 86.While Norris never quite reached the stratospheric fame of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone—two other muscle men who found their way to Hollywood stardom—his tough-as-nails persona, heroic roles, and eviscerating roundhouse kick turned him into a pop-culture giant. It was an image that Norris, largely retired from acting by the early 2000s, would trade on for the last 25 years of his life. In a sense, he still is. As California music producer DJ Ill Will…
At WP:26, Human Made’s virtual event exploring the future of WordPress, we asked a simple question: What patterns are shaping the web in 2026? To help answer that, Chris Reynolds, Senior Developer Advocate at Pantheon, stepped back from the day-to-day tooling conversations and looked at the bigger picture. While many discussions about the future of the web focus on disruption, Chris framed the moment differently. The web isn’t being replaced. It’s accelerating. AI is speeding up how teams build and publish. Expectations around digital experiences continue to rise. And organisations are under increasing pressure to deliver faster, smarter, and more…
Microsoft announced on Friday a series of changes focused on improving the quality of its Windows 11 operating system, which notably includes dialing back the number of entry points to its AI assistant, Copilot. The company said it will reduce Copilot AI integrations in some apps, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and its Snipping Tool. Under the heading of “integrating AI where it’s most meaningful,” Pavan Davuluri, EVP of Windows and Devices, wrote on the company’s blog that Microsoft is becoming more intentional about “how and where Copilot integrates across Windows.” Its goal, he explained, is to focus on AI…
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour posted a video on Wednesday of six men decked out in business casual doing push-ups on the sidewalk. “This is how Kalshi Q1 board meeting ended,” he wrote on X. The board members are laughing and smiling in the video after their impromptu cardio session, and the mood is jubilant. The next day, it became clear that the team had ample reason to celebrate: Kalshi had just raised $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation, making the company worth on paper roughly double what it was only a few months ago.The funding round represented a bright…
This is TVNewser’s basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of March 9, 2026.Despite the war in the Middle East affecting the economy, viewers have been less glued to their screens as the conflict continues. This has contributed to double-digit declines in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo for all three cable news networks in the just-concluded week. The switch from Standard Time to Daylight Saving Time could have also affected viewership.NETWORKS:According to Nielsen big data + panel for the week of March 9, Fox News averaged 2.791 million total viewers and 285,000 A25-54 viewers during…
At WP:26, Human Made’s virtual event exploring the future of WordPress, much of the conversation focused on what’s changing across the web. AI is accelerating workflows, enterprise platforms are becoming more complex, and expectations around digital experiences continue to rise. But in the middle of all that change, one session brought the conversation back to something more fundamental. In a conversation with Rian Rietveld, we explored accessibility not as a compliance exercise or a checklist, but as a core part of how we design and build for the web. It quickly became clear that while the tools and technologies around…