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fromThe New Yorker
2 hours ago

Inside the Destruction of the Washington Post

The Washington Post eliminated roughly 300 of about 800 newsroom positions, severely weakening local coverage and threatening the paper's future and democratic accountability.
fromFast Company
1 month ago

How Cloudflare, 'the most important internet company you've never heard of,' took center stage

But for the better part of 2025, cofounder and CEO Matthew Prince has been trying to change that. The company's core business is to improve the performance and enhance the security of websites and online applications, protecting against malicious actors and routing web traffic through its data centers to optimize performance. "Six billion people pass through our network every single month," Prince says. If Cloudflare is doing its job well, no one notices.
Information security
Media industry
fromFortune
4 months ago

Cloudflare CEO warns of a 'Black Mirror' outcome if Sam Altman or other AI people control the media | Fortune

AI-powered answer engines are decimating web traffic that funded publishers, risking concentration of information control by a few tech billionaires.
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