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mediabistro.com - Mediabistro Team - Independent Media and Niche Publishing Jobs Hiring Now
Independent Media and Niche Publishing Jobs Hiring Now
Mediabistro

Generalists have dominated media hiring for the better part of a decade. Companies wanted Swiss Army knives: people who could write, shoot, edit, manage a CMS, and run a social calendar before lunch. That era isn't over, but something is shifting.

arstechnica.com - Ars Staff - After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name
After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name
Ars Technica

On Monday, a pull request executed by an AI agent to the popular Python charting library matplotlib turned into a 45-comment debate about whether AI-generated code belongs in open source projects. What made that debate all the more unusual was that…

nextgov.com - Alexandra Kelley - GSA aims to publish results on USAi program, official says
GSA aims to publish results on USAi program, official says
Nextgov/FCW

The General Services Administration is moving to analyze the impact of the USAi program in order to better understand how agencies are using artificial intelligence tools in their daily operations. GSA Chief AI Officer and Chief Data Scientist Zach…

techdirt.com - Mike Masnick - News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It
News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It
Techdirt

Last fall, I wrote about how the fear of AI was leading us to wall off the open internet in ways that would hurt everyone. At the time, I was worried about how companies were conflating legitimate concerns about bulk AI training with basic web…

marketwatch.com - MarketWatch Automation - Melrose Industries rises Friday, outperforms market
Melrose Industries rises Friday, outperforms market
MarketWatch

Melrose Industries PLC MRO shares rallied 3.05% to £6.42 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the FTSE 100 Index UKX rising 0.42% to 10,446.35. Melrose Industries PLC closed 9.22%…

marketwatch.com - MarketWatch Automation - CCL Industries Inc. Cl B stock rises Friday, still underperforms market
CCL Industries Inc. Cl B stock rises Friday, still underperforms market
MarketWatch

Shares of CCL Industries Inc. Cl B CCL.B rose 1.08% to C$86.34 Friday, in what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the Canadian market, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index GSPTSE rising 1.87% to 33,073.71. CCL Industries Inc. Cl B…

thenyledger.com - News Room - Pentagon publishes, then withdraws, new list of Chinese military companies
Pentagon publishes, then withdraws, new list of Chinese military companies
The New York Ledger

The Pentagon on Friday published an expanded list of Chinese military companies linked to the People's Liberation Army and operating in the U.S., including those linked to Beijing's civilian-military fusion program. However, shortly after the list…

marketwatch.com - Industrials Up on Muted Inflation Data - Industrials Roundup
Industrials Up on Muted Inflation Data - Industrials Roundup
MarketWatch

Shares of industrial and transportation companies rose after muted inflation data. Economists at brokerage Bank of America said falling rents could offset likely increases in other categories of inflation later this year. U.S. Immigration and…

marketwatch.com - MarketWatch Automation - Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. stock outperforms competitors on strong trading day
Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. stock outperforms competitors on strong trading day
MarketWatch

Shares of Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. HII rose 2.96% to $418.78 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX rising 0.05% to 6,836.17 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average…

dev.to - UpdatedAI - An AI agent published a hit piece on me - A Real-World AI Experience
An AI agent published a hit piece on me - A Real-World AI Experience
DEV Community

Imagine waking up to find an AI-generated article painting you in a negative light. Sounds like science fiction, yet it happened to me, and it's a compelling reminder of AI's power and pitfalls. An AI agent, designed for content generation…

marketwatch.com - Joseph Adinolfi - The stock market is reflecting fears of an AI apocalypse for white-collar jobs
The stock market is reflecting fears of an AI apocalypse for white-collar jobs
MarketWatch

Artificial intelligence could replace factory workers. It's already starting to replace some low-level coders. But what about financial advisors and commercial real-estate brokers? What started as a somewhat academic fear of an AI reckoning for…

nytimes.com - The Editorial Board - Opinion | Bondi's Incompetence Is the Latest Insult for Epstein's Victims
Opinion | Bondi's Incompetence Is the Latest Insult for Epstein's Victims
The New York Times

|Bondi's Incompetence Is the Latest Insult for Epstein's Victims https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/opinion/bondi-epstein-justice.html The hearing in the House Judiciary Committee room this week offered a grim tableau of the state of American…

bbc.co.uk - Emily Johns - Plymouth Literary Festival return to be 'major cultural moment
Plymouth Literary Festival return to be 'major cultural moment
BBC

A Devon literary festival is returning for the first time in almost a decade, with organisers saying it is 'set to become a major cultural moment' for the city. Taking place over Saturday and Sunday, the Plymouth Literary Festival aims to welcome…

marketwatch.com - Philip van Doorn - How to make money in the stock market amid AI disruptions
How to make money in the stock market amid AI disruptions
MarketWatch

It seems that, every day, a different industry is hammered in the stock market over fears springing from the adoption of generative-artificial-intelligence technology. On Thursday, the Dow Jones Transportation Average DJT declined 4%, and shares of…

marketwatch.com - MarketWatch Automation - BP PLC ADR rises Friday, outperforms market
BP PLC ADR rises Friday, outperforms market
MarketWatch

The BP PLC ADR BP rose 1.26% to $37.66 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.10% to 49,500.93 and the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP falling 0.22% to…

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