It “disguises photos with pixel-level changes that confuse facial recognition systems…If deployed across millions of images, it would be a broadside against facial recognition systems, poisoning the accuracy of the so-called data sets they gather from the web.” One downside: “Women get mustaches, and guys get extra eyelashes or eye shadow.”

“Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters at a daily briefing that no Chinese journalist in the United States had been granted a visa extension since the United States, on May 11, limited their stay to 90 days, with an option to extend.”

Bloomberg began a similar deal with The Information in February. “The subscription landscape is growing so competitive that news companies banding together to sell joint subscription packages may be the next big trend.”

“Although we have a 50:50 gender representation policy in place, which means that we want at least half of our speakers to be women and avoid ‘manels,’ we have not been equally intentional about the proportion of non-white experts. That is set to change.”

“In the previous system, editions over the course of the day were overwritten when the latest update was published. This meant throwing a lot of useful data away, a lot of which we were technically paying for in terms of journalistic decision making.”

“We envision the long-term future of work at the FT to be more flexible and involve remote working, at least part of the time.”

“The new Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media…says it wants to ‘advance and protect’ ad companies’ ability to serve personalized digital ads and collect data used for analytics, while also ‘safeguarding privacy and improving the consumer experience.'”

“Russia’s state censor has filed administrative cases against the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and its editor-in-chief, Dmitry Muratov, for supposed “fake news stories” about coronavirus outbreaks in Chechnya and inside the Russian Army.”

“When a guy was killed in Vietnam, there was a big hoopla as he came home. The flag-draped coffin, and the bugler playing taps. The family was given the flag, and everybody would gather around for the burial. It was a very traditional way of mourning. COVID, you take your loved one to the hospital, and you never see them again.”

“The effort was so successful that it was recognized as the Best New Digital Initiative in the Local Media Association’s Digital Innovation Awards, for news organizations under 750,000 unique users.”