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/chicagos-social-network-is-a-huge-bet-for-news-i-think-its-the-future/
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">Chicago's social network is a huge bet for news. I think it's the future.</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">Chicago Public Media is building a social network for America's third largest city. Forget AI - this is the thing I'm most excited about in news technology.</p>
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">Change is fractal. It starts with leaders</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">"Leaders are leverage. Every leader is a multiplier, if they choose to be."</p>
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">Don't bring sensitive data to a border crossing</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">The DOJ is trying to prosecute Sam Tunick for allegedly using a duress passcode. It's a lesson in why your best protection is having nothing to protect.</p>
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/can-data-collectives-help-strengthen-vulnerable-cultures-in-the-face-of-ai/
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">Can data collectives help strengthen vulnerable cultures in the face of AI?</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">"Data collectives and cooperatives, which let creators control the collection and distribution of their data, are emerging as preferred alternatives to big tech companies."</p>
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/ai-vendors-cant-be-trusted-to-secure-their-systems-newsrooms-need-to-act-accordingly/
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">AI vendors can't be trusted to secure their systems. Newsrooms need to act accordingly</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">There were two big lapses in the Hugging Face / OpenAI hacking story: the lack of security protections on OpenAI's end, and Hugging Face's vulnerable production database. That should worry anyone who uses AI with sensitive data.</p>
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change.</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">1 in 4 American workers stay in their jobs because of the healthcare. It suppresses wages and working conditions - and prevents innovators from heading out on their own.</p>
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/people-are-transcribing-your-conversations-without-asking-that-puts-you-at-risk/
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">People are transcribing your conversations without asking. That puts you at risk.</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">Apps like Granola make it easy to transcribe conversations without asking for consent. Those transcripts are a subpoena honeypot.</p>
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing.</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.</p>
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">To innovate, news needs allies</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">"Allies, archives and infrastructure in the AI age" - a list of people with the potential to push news forward.</p>
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/the-sfpd-leaked-its-drone-footage-it-shouldnt-be-surveilling-to-begin-with/
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">The SFPD leaked its drone footage. It shouldn't be surveilling to begin with.</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">Surveillance doesn't improve crime or make anyone safer. It wastes civic dollars and creates new risks for vulnerable communities. The SFPD's leak demonstrates one reason why.</p>
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/we-need-a-pit-crew-for-news/
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">We need a PIT Crew for news</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">Zohran Mamdani has unveiled a radically collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach to building internal technology capacity. News has a lot to learn from it.</p>
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it.</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">"After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a pivotal resource the Trump administration took offline."</p>
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/the-trump-administration-is-subpoenaing-journalists-to-reveal-sources-their-data-security-is-more-important-than-ever/
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">The Trump administration is subpoenaing journalists to reveal sources. Their data security is more important than ever.</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">"Historically, the Justice Department has sought to subpoena reporters only as a last resort after other reasonable options have been exhausted." Now the FBI is doing it to satisfy an angry President.</p>
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/communities-will-build-trust-and-loyalty-for-local-public-media-chicago-public-media-is-taking-a-big-leap-forward/
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">Communities will build trust and loyalty for local public media. Chicago Public Media is taking a big leap forward.</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">Chicago Public Media is launching a region-wide social platform as a way to bolster its journalism. I believe it represents a path to the future.</p>
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/as-social-networks-fill-up-with-ai-slop-trusted-relationships-and-communities-will-win/
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">As social networks fill up with AI slop, trusted relationships and communities will win.</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">Long-form LinkedIn posts are 41% slop. Other social networks are not far behind.</p>
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">Startups track business metrics. Newsrooms should learn from them.</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">I've rarely seen newsroom business teams discuss metrics like LTV, CAC, and even ARR outside fundraising or finance. They should be commonly known.</p>
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<h3 class="gh-card-title is-title p-name">CNN and CNBC promote gambling to make a cheap buck</h3>
<p class="gh-card-excerpt is-body p-summary">Some newsrooms are making money from deals with prediction markets. It will only serve to further destroy the public's trust in news.</p>
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