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Straight to your inbox: meet the journalists shaking up local UK news

Local newspapers in the UK are disappearing fast, creating news deserts and leaving councils unscrutinised. Enter a new generation of online reporters…

The Guardian - UK

A new era of Kilmarnock FC coverage - introducing the Killie Chronicle

Welcome to an exciting, new era of media coverage for the club you love, Kilmarnock FC.

The National (Scotland)

Ted and Courtney Balaker: College Students Are Rejecting Wokeness

The filmmakers who brought The Coddling of the American Mind to the big screen discuss the students whose stories inspired the film and the state of the media, Hollywood, and storytelling.

Reason

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Hydrogen Hyped by Lobbyists and Lawmakers Across the Country, Despite Concerns

Here are the most environmentally friendly banks in the U.S. — is yours on the list?

Capital & Main

From Dua Lipa’s book club to George Saunders’ Substack: a guide to the online books world

From BookTube to podcasts, newsletters and tweets, literature is finding ever-more new homes. Here are some you should definitely be browsing

The Guardian - UK

Trump self-immolator dies from injuries

Max Azzarello, 37, posted what seems to be a manifesto to Substack shortly before his death

Salon

The big tech firms want an AI monopoly – but the UK watchdog can bring them to heel

Microsoft, Meta and Google are snapping up small players in the burgeoning industry – but the Competition and Markets Authority is demanding fair play

The Guardian - UK

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Homicides in major US cities falling at ‘one of fastest rates ever’ – report

Nearly all crime, including violent and property offenses, was down ‘a considerable amount’ in 2023 compared with 2022

The Guardian - US

Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them

Last week the six biggest operators – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and ByteDance – were forced to toe the line on competition, advertising, interoperability and more. It was a gamechanger

The Guardian - UK

Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journal

Christopher Rufo recommends a newsletter to his readers that has published several supporters of discredited genetics theory

The Guardian - US

TechScape: Why big tech could learn big lessons from the Post Office Horizon scandal

In this week’s newsletter: To see where an IT flaw became a crisis, you have to look past the technology altogether. Plus, Substack’s biggest names jump ship

The Guardian - UK

Leading tech journalist quits Substack over platform’s Nazi newsletters

Reporter Casey Newton takes more than 170,000 subscribers elsewhere over company’s failure to police extremist content

The Guardian - US

Empire AI

Plus: Adult activists, Fani Willis' love life, Catholic crackdown, and more...

Reason

TechScape: Is the Consumer Electronics Show still relevant?

The world’s largest tech event has cutting-edge TVs and even a VW with ChatGPT – but cheap gadgets and big tech have dented its influence. Plus, HMRC comes for side hustlers

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Publish Nazi newsletters on your platform, Substack, and you will rightly be damned

The online publishing service has been criticised for the way it has allowed extremist propaganda to flourish on the site

The Guardian - UK

Substack faces user revolt over anti-censorship stance on neo-Nazis

Newsletter writers with thousands of subscribers threaten to leave platform, which says banning extremists makes things worse

Reason

Substackers Battle Over Banning Nazis

Some Substack writers are pressuring the platform to change its moderation policies. Others are urging Substack not to listen.

The Guardian - UK

Killing Eve ended with Villanelle’s death. This is why I’m bringing her back to life

When my transgressive heroine came to a sticky end on screen, many Killing Eve fans felt cheated. Now they can pick up her story again – this time for free

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Reason

Irish Prison for Edgelords and Hotheads?

Plus: Repealing tobacco bans, UN pointlessness, Substack's "Nazi problem," and more…

The National (Scotland)

Pat Kane: Matheson shows how technology should be enhancing not frazzling

THERE’S a human, all-too-human element to the Michael Matheson Apple iPad scandal...

Evening Standard

What is a decel? The term that encapsulates the dueling ideologies in AI

Influential tech investors and online crackpots alike are convinced there's a battle being waged between AI doomsayers and futurists

Evening Standard

Dominic Cummings gloats about HS2 cancellation and settles old scores

Boris Johnson's former adviser has also drawn up a list of enemies

Reason

The Canceling of the American Mind, by FIRE's Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott

I just read and much enjoyed this new book, and highly recommend it: It's readable, factually detailed, and thoughtful in its analysis and recommendations. For a taste of the argument, see this Substack post. And here are a few of the jacket blurbs from others: This riveting book presents compelling…

The Guardian - US

‘An end of American democracy’: Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s historic threat

The historian and Substack superstar says the US is in peril not seen since the civil war – and Joe Biden is its best defender

The Guardian - UK

Has Google’s monopoly on the search engine market finally timed out?

The US justice department is belatedly addressing the company’s stranglehold on digital advertising technologies in the most significant antitrust case for more than two decades

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