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Competition watchdog to investigate Meta terms for publishers and businesses
The UK's competition watchdog is investigating Facebook owner Meta over whether it is imposing “exploitative terms” on publishers and advertisers which breach competition rules. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Meta's…
Marvin R. Shanken, Longtime Publisher and Editor of Wine Spectator, Dies at 83
Marvin R. Shanken, the longtime editor and publisher of Wine Spectator magazine who was instrumental in elevating the profile of American wine business, died Thursday in Manhattan. He was 83. Shanken started his career in 1972 when he bought a…
Meta Faces U.K. Antitrust Probe Over Publisher Content Use
Platforms faces an investigation from the U.K.'s competition regulator over potential new business terms that would allow the company to collect content from publishers to power its own products such as artificial intelligence tools. The…
KRAFTON Presents Ludi 0.2 for Robots but Publishes No New Scores
KRAFTON, Inc. said its subsidiary Ludo Robotics presented Ludi 0.2, an updated robot intelligence system, at UC Berkeley on Oct. 30, describing gains in human interaction but releasing no scores for the version. The company says the update improves…
Book Piracy Is Going Automated as Publishers Fight Back
In March 2026, thirteen major publishers sued a website that aims to gather every book in the world. The case illustrates the current state of book piracy and explains why it is so difficult to stop. The following offers a simple look at what…
Glassnode Publishes Ninth Strategy Watch on Fund Returns and Capital Flows
Glassnode published Strategy Watch #9 on Oct. 30 as the ninth edition of its monthly report series. The analysis examines digital-asset fund returns, structured-product trends and shifts in allocator positioning. It also tracks capital flows across…
Call of Duty publisher apologizes for using real footage of Itaewon crowd crush
The makers behind the Call of Duty video game apologized Friday for using real footage of the deadly 2022 Seoul crowd crush in its latest installment of the game and agreed to remove the footage. A short clip showing a paramedic performing CPR on a…
UK's CMA opens investigation into Meta's terms for publishers and advertisers
By Thomson Reuters Oct 30, 2026 | 7:16 AM LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Britain's competition regulator on Friday said it has opened an investigation into whether Meta was imposing exploitative terms on publishers and…
People magazine publisher slashes 195 jobs as print and web businesses face shake-up
People Inc., the publishing giant behind People magazine, is laying off 195 employees — roughly 6% of its workforce — with most of the cuts hitting its print and legacy web businesses, according to an internal memo obtained by The…
Meta Faces UK Antitrust Investigation Over Plans to Use Publishers' Content
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Britain's competition regulator has opened an antitrust investigation into Meta over proposed business terms that could allow the company to collect publishers' website content for its own products…
My fight to save the novel from 'progressive' publishers
When Miguel de Cervantes published Don Quixote in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the modern novel was born. One of its defining features was the autonomous individual as the heart of the story. Through printed words on a page, the reader could do…
UK's CMA opens investigation into Meta's terms for publishers and advertisers
30 Oct 2026 07:16PM (Updated: 30 Oct 2026 07:52PM) LONDON, Oct 30: Britain's competition regulator on Friday said it has opened an investigation into whether Meta was imposing exploitative terms on publishers and advertisers to use their content to…
OpenAI Published the Rules for Its Agents and the Alarms That Watch Them
For anyone building or using autonomous software, the latest updates from OpenAI provide a clearer look at how the company intends to govern its models and catch them when they go rogue. An agent is a program that runs tasks on its own; both…
AI-powered game development is 'leading to an explosion of content,' Roblox says, as it brags about 70,000 games published on its platform in the last 5 months alone
Valve recently admitted that it has a problem with AI slop games and clones flooding Steam—it doesn't know what to do about it just yet, but it at least acknowledges that it's an issue. Now we have Roblox, speaking from the other side of…
Publisher of Call Of Duty video game apologises over use of Itaewon crowd crush footage
Sign up now: Get insights on Asia's fast-moving developments Published Oct 30, 2026, 06:32 PM SEOUL – US publisher Activision has formally apologised for using footage from the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush in its latest Call Of Duty: Modern…
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