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TSplus Named a Top 100 Publisher in ComponentSource Awards 2026
[Paris, France – September 11, 2026] - The recognition reflects TSplus's strong global sales performance through ComponentSource, one of the world's leading software distributors and resellers. TSplus, French developer of secure remote…
Roblox creators will soon be able to publish games on multiple platforms as standalone apps
Roblox will enable creators to publish their games on mobile, PC, and console through the Roblox Everywhere initiative. Announced at this year's Roblox Developers Conference, the company said creators will be able to make their games available as…
Ziff Davis CEO: if OpenAI can find $750 billion for data centers, it can find money for publishers, too
Recently, the Justice Department issued a Statement of Interest about copyright infringement litigation in the Southern District of New York. The company I lead, Ziff Davis, is one of the plaintiffs in the case. This opinion piece is not about…
Google Search Console Testing Paying Publishers For Use Of Content In AI - Al Contribution Pilot
Google is doing a small test where it is paying publishers for using their content within the Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini and other AI search features. This is called the AI contribution pilot, something we actually spotted back in April…
Microsoft Publisher is shutting down in October 2026 - here's how to save your files
Microsoft Publisher retires Oct 2026; Microsoft 365 access ends Oct 1; Office 2021 support ends Oct 13. Convert.pub files now — save PDFs for archive and export to Word for edits; compare layouts after conversion. For complex layouts…
Independent Yorkshire publisher launches first children's book
Shannon Publishers, based in Eastrington, opened its doors and released its first book, Pony Tales, a short children's title which tells the story of a young horse at her first show. The publishing house was founded by Emma Swaine, from Cliffe…
Socialist Hotels is Fuel Publishing's newest study of a fast vanishing design aesthetic
Fuel's latest foray into the crumbling ruins of architectural good intentions is Socialist Hotels, a photographic monograph by Elena Amabili that traces the state-sponsored holiday industry in the former Eastern Bloc. It follows on from works like…
Fontana to publish Nobel-prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's unfinished novel
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1970 © Nobelstiftelsen Fontana Books will publish Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's unfinished novel, written while he was imprisoned in the USSR. Join thousands of book industry professionals who rely on The…
Google rolls out pay-per-value AI licensing program to publishers
Once a publisher joins the “AI contribution pilot,” they receive an extra AI earnings widget via their Search Console dashboard. This displays a monthly earnings number (with some history), though no other detailed information on how…
XII St. Petersburg International United Cultures Forum Program Published
Russia's Roscongress Foundation will organize the XII St. Petersburg International United Cultures Forum with the support of the Russian government, including the Ministry of Culture and the St. Petersburg local government, from September 24 to 26…
MUP to publish Allison Leigh's 'riveting' account of how misogyny shaped six giants of modern art
Allison Leigh (with paintings by John Hathorn) Manchester University Press will publish Allison Leigh's “riveting” account of how misogyny shaped six giants of modern art. Join thousands of book industry professionals who rely on The…
Building Distributed Systems in Elixir: Part 8 - Publish / Subscribe
In the previous part of this series, we built a Worker Pool from scratch. We saw how a coordinator process could distribute pending jobs one by one to a pool of available workers, strictly bounding concurrency and establishing demand-driven…
What's behind the AI industry's latest warnings of doom?
The AI industry seems to be having its loudest debate yet about whether its technology poses an existential threat to humanity. The current discussion began after AI researcher Jacob Coxon said that he's resigned from Anthropic because he's worried…
Microsoft sets limits for future AI models as industry throttles frontier development
Microsoft issued a code of conduct that sets limits on its future artificial intelligence models. The company will listen to outside input before rolling out an update. The release comes as AI figureheads propose slowing the pace of AI evolution…
Artificial Intelligence: Who Is Giving Birth to the Future?
Andrea Arroyo is co–art director of Opp-Art. She is an award-winning artist working in fine art, site-specific installation, public art and illustration. Her work is published widely (including in The New Yorker and The New York Times) and…
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