I wish California politicians, including Newsom, cared about journalists looking out for constituents. Instead, they protect colossal tech corps from paying for the media they profit off of.

This may be a little self-indulgent, but in honor of my 3-year CNET anniversary, (which is this week!) I’m sharing a thread of some of my favorite stories. Starting with this scoop from June about Samsung testing an AI-powered health chatbot: cnet.com/tech/mobile/sa…

I like the optimism but these vocal, toxic fans don’t want Star Wars to grow. They want the OT, over & over. A changing Star Wars scares & angers them. And it’s surely because they don’t want to grow as people.

Jesus — yeah, this hits.

Polygon is hiring a games writer!!! 👀👀 job-boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/…

It is my pleasure to introduce Inverse's Game Changers, a new interview series, with a huge profile of Final Fantasy's creator, Hironobu Sakaguchi. We talk his retirement plans, next game, the DNA of Final Fantasy, which FF is "most complete," and more inverse.com/gaming/hironob…

News from the greatest website ever: gameuidatabase.com shows you the overall color palette of a game! I'm obsessed!!

Endlessly depressing that Marvel’s entire history is defined by exploiting artists in denying residuals while profiting off their art for decades. A black stain on the company in every medium it expands into. Compensate the artists making you money!!!

Okay maybe games can be good

End of an era. Sad to see a publication with such expertise ride off into the sunset, but glad the site and forums will stay up, while some editors have migrated to other sites. Great silicon expertise is a rarity, and AnandTech’s deep dives were tops 🫡

there need to be more scenes in scifi where characters try to look up plot-critical information on a chatbot and it gives them confidently wrong information that leads to them wasting 45 minutes of screen time

Love seeing tech media diversify their businesses ☺️ next time you’re in Greenpoint, NYC… ☕️✅

Consumers Lost $114 Million to Bitcoin ATM Scams in 2023, FTC Says cnet.com/tech/services-… via CNET

At VICE News we built an extremism desk with some of the best beat reporters in the business who covered this topic in a way no other publication was even coming close to. Then the bosses paid themselves huge bonuses a day before firing everyone. Great industry.

Our members at Thrillist Union and The Dodo Union are on STRIKE today 🚨 Don’t cross the digital picket line - Don’t click on, read, or share content from The Dodo or Thrillist during the one-day strike. #UnionStrong #1u #OneUnionOneContract now, Vox Media!

We have some exciting news to share: We have a deal!! More than two years after our union was recognized, we’ve finally come to a tentative agreement with the Financial Times and will put it to our members for a vote.

every time i see a child perpetrator of a mass shooting, I think of Kip Kinkel who, as an undiagnosed/untreated schizophrenic 15-year-old, killed 4 people and wounded 25 others. He was tried as an adult and sentenced to 112 years w/o possibility of parole huffpost.com/entry/kip-kink…

A perfect game for mobile. Goodbye time. Goodbye projects. Anywhere, everywhere, there will only be Balatro.

Are flashy new AI features enough for you to upgrade your phone? Just 18% of people say yes, according to a new CNET survey. So, what's the biggest motivator to get a new device? The results and why they matter, as we head into the iPhone 16 release: cnet.co/4cQIZ3O