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Best podcasts of the week: Sheridan Smith’s dangerously bingeable Margate murder mystery
In this week’s newsletter: A serial killer strikes the seaside town in The Margate Murders. Plus: in celebration of its 10th anniversary, five of the best Guardian audio long reads • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here This autumn marks 10 years since we launched the Guardian long read. Looking…
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Nagravision, Airties cybersecurity partnership
Nagravision, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection, has announced a partnership with Airties, a provider of managed Wi-Fi solutions for broadband service providers, to integrate the Nagra Scout consumer cybersecurity suite. The collaboration will bring Nagra Scout’s advanced cybersecurity features to the Airties Smart Wi-Fi portfolio, providing homes and small businesses…
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WBD, AEW sign multi-year, multi-platform rights renewal
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) and All Elite Wrestling (AEW) have announced a multi-year renewal of their successful five-year relationship with an expansive multi-platform media rights agreement that they say will provide fans with the widest available access ever to AEW’s programming. WBD’s networks and platforms will remain the exclusive home of AEW Dynamite (Wednesdays on…
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Report: Cybercriminal attacks on telcos accelerating
Nokia has released its tenth Threat Intelligence Report which shows that cyberattacks on telecom infrastructure are accelerating, as cybercriminals increasingly harness Generative AI and automation to increase the speed, volume, and sophistication of their attacks. Among the report’s key findings: DDoS: The number and frequency of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which can overwhelm…
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ITV Studios, TBS partner on Ninja Warrior FAST channel
ITV Studios and Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS) are partnering to create a Ninja Warrior FAST channel dedicated to programming from around the world. The deal is a first, both in terms of ITV Studios’ first FAST channel creation for third party IP as well as TBS’s first foray into FAST. Brokered by Bellon Entertainment…
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Study: Ads served on traditional news can drive higher attention
Advertisers often express brand safety concerns around aligning their ads with traditional news content – like politics or the economy – even on trusted news sites. As a result, media platform Teads investigated whether advertising near traditional versus soft news content impacted attention, brand outcomes and perceptions. This comes at a critical time for advertisers,…
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Report: East Asia leads in subscription bundling
More than a third (34 per cent) of subscribers in East Asia now sign up to services exclusively via third-party bundles and offers — a growing trend of bundling that is already significantly higher than in the US (20 per cent), Latin America (21 per cent) or even Europe (30 per cent). In Japan, nearly…
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Things worth reading: 3rd October 2024
Things we’re reading today include … Bank of America is down: Users report their accounts showing empty balance during widespread outage | The Independent Russian court freezes funds of US banks JP Morgan and Mellon | Reuters Starling Bank fined £29m for ‘shockingly lax’ financial crime controls | The Guardian Starling Bank is simply not……
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Identity? Forget mobile … think eyeballs!
I just spotted a blog by Alan Stapelberg, who is Group Product Manager for Google Wallet. Here’s his opening para: “Imagine starting a vacation like this: You arrive at the airport and breeze through security by tapping your phone to a reader, scanning your boarding pass and ID. While waiting to board, you grab a……
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Everything you don’t understand about money combined with everything you don’t understand about computers
There’s a quote I often use from John Oliver that cryptocurrency is “everything you don’t understand about money combined with everything you don’t understand about computers”. That was 2018. It’s now 2024, and things are a lot worse. I’ve blogged about the confusion of money recently, and it is not only the fragmentation of money……