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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday he will retire when his current term ends in January 2029. Speaking at a spring training news conference, Manfred noted he will be 70 years old and will have been commissioner for 14 years when his term ends on Jan. 25, 2029. Manfred, 65, succeeded Bud Selig in January 2015 and was given a five-year term as baseball's 10th commissioner. Tampa Bay hopes to construct a new ballpark adjacent to the current Tropicana Field. “I’m hope that I’m here to go to opening day as commissioner for both Tampa Bay and Las Vegas,” Manfred said.

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☆ We must find ways to cooperate with China and not press until they lash out, says BridgePark's Selig
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWe must find ways to cooperate with China and not press until they lash out, says BridgePark's SeligStefan Selig, BridgePark Advisors founder and managing partner, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss how the deliverables matter in the upcoming Biden-Xi meeting, how Xi plays the country's economic weakness, and more.

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☆ We shouldn't have high expectations from U.S. Commerce secretary's visit to China: Brookings' Dollar
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWe shouldn't have high expectations from U.S. Commerce secretary's visit to China: Brookings' DollarDavid Dollar, Brookings Institute senior fellow, and Stefan Selig, former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, join 'The Exchange' to discuss why the U.S. should 'proceed with caution' in its relationship with China, the important parts of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo's trip to China, and more.

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☆ AI Scams, Spam, Hacking, Are Ruining the Internet
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Shubham Agarwal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

A report from Europol expects a mind-blowing 90% of internet content to be AI-generated in a few years. A report from Europol, the European Union's law-enforcement agency, expects a mind-blowing 90% of internet content to be AI-generated in a few years. And while AI bots have telltale signs now, experts indicate that they will soon get better at mimicking humans and evading the detection systems developed by Menczer and social networks. While misinformation has long been a problem with the internet, AI is going to blow our old problems out of the water. But security researchers have discovered that the AI bots in your apps and devices might steal sensitive information for the hackers.

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☆ America's largest office tenant is embracing remote work, creating more pain for a market already in distress
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Daniel Geiger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The federal government is embracing remote work and cutting back its office footprint nationally. President Joe Biden and Donald Trump might not appear to agree on much, but when it comes to cutting back on office space, they're aligned. Now federal tenants are in for a new phase of belt-tightening as more accept remote and hybrid work, real estate experts say. "The majority of federal offices are still largely vacant on most days," said Darian LeBlanc, the director of government services at Cushman & Wakefield. So far, only the Department of Veterans Affairs has publicly said how it plans to use remote and hybrid work.

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☆ Some Redditors say they're walking away after Apollo app shuts down
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Jyoti Mann | Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some Redditors said they'll no longer use the site after third-party app Apollo shut down. A popular third-party Reddit app shut down Friday – and some of the social network's users are pledging to walk away as a result. The app, which let Redditors access the platform through its own interface, had more than 1.5 million monthly users in June, Selig said, citing data from analytics firm Mixpanel. The Canadian developer previously said Reddit's demands for compensation were unreasonable compared with how much money Apollo made from paid subscriptions. Are you a Reddit user or employee with insight to share?

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☆ People are starting to place bets on Reddit's civil war
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Hundreds of punters have placed a bet on whether Reddit will reverse its API pricing move. BetUS told Insider that people are "undecided" about the site walking back that decision. Almost all bets think Steve Huffman will still be CEO of Reddit by the end of the year. Hundreds of people are putting money on whether the company will back-track on its new API pricing policy or oust its CEO Steve Huffman, BetUS told Insider. Almost all bets have been on Huffman still being CEO by December 31, BetUS added.

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Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAt midnight on Tuesday, the moderators of the Reddit community r/Gaming decided to go dark. "We're talking hundreds of thousands of volunteers putting in hours a day to keep the site safe, entertaining and enjoyable for community members. As a private company, Reddit doesn't have to disclose its financials or provide revenue and profit projections. "You have a lot of people, both professionals and general community members, who are running the numbers on this," Croach said. Jacqueline Sheeran, known as "MCHammerCurls," is the head moderator of r/Fitness, which has more than 10 million members.

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☆ Reddit CEO says app founders who are shutting down in protest over API charges made millions: 'These aren't like side projects or charities'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Will Gendron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told The Verge that popular third-party app developers have made millions. They've made millions," Huffman said. In an interview with The Verge, Steve Huffman, Reddit's CEO, has doubled down on the policy change, which could cost popular third-party apps millions. Additionally, he emphasized that apps like Apollo and RIF, another popular third-party app that gives users access to Reddit, aren't "side projects or charities." Apollo's Selig did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment regarding the "millions" Huffman claims he has made.

Persons: Steve Huffman, They've, Huffman, Christian Selig, Apollo's Selig, Selig, Andrew Shu Organizations: Morning, Reddit's, Ars Technica, Apollo Locations: Reddit

☆ Reddit CEO says the mods leading a punishing blackout are too powerful and he will change the site's rules to weaken them
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman thinks the site's mods are too powerful. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders," he told NBC. Reddit mods hold a lot of power, and many believe it has been earned due to the amount of unpaid labor they put into the site. He told NBC it was "really important" to ensure "protests, now or in the future, are actually representative of their communities." Huffman told NBC there was no set timeline for his proposed changes.

Persons: Steve Huffman, subreddits, Reddit, Christian Selig, Huffman, We've Organizations: NBC, Ars Technica, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Northwestern University Locations: Reddit

☆ Thousands of Reddit communities go dark to protest company’s controversial new policy
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Thousands of Reddit forums are going dark Monday in one of the largest user-driven protests ever to hit the social media platform. For years, Reddit users could browse posts, write comments and share pictures and video on Reddit from third-party apps. Some users have said they were not even aware it is possible to access Reddit from third-party apps. Twitter’s move prompted an outcry from third-party app makers, misinformation researchers and public service account-holders who said the move would harm transparency and accessibility. For Reddit and its future shareholders, the company’s value derives from the infrastructure the site provides for conversation.

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☆ Reddit API charges spark community outrage, dayslong blackout
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, delivers remarks on 'Redesigning Reddit' during the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 8, 2017. More than 6,000 Reddit communities have gone dark and are restricting access to protest the changes to the company's developer billing structure, beginning Monday morning. The blackout comes after Reddit told developers that it would begin to charge thousands of dollars for access to an application programming interface, or API. Among the concerns for the blackout organizers is allowing third-party apps to run advertising for the third-party developer's benefit. Developers use APIs to communicate directly with a website's software or infrastructure, and they allow Reddit's third-party developer ecosystem to build applications and services for users.

Persons: Steve Huffman, Reddit, Condé Nast, Elon Musk, Christian Selig Organizations: Advance Publications, Charter Communications, Warner Bros ., Twitter Locations: Lisbon, Portugal

☆ Explainer: Reddit protest: Why are thousands of subreddits going dark?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Subreddits such as r/Music, r/gaming, r/science and r/todayilearned - all with more than 30 million subscribers - are participating. Unlike most other social media platforms, Reddit is heavily dependent on community moderators, "or mods", who police their subreddits for free to weed out offensive or illegal content. What are third-party app developers saying? Elon Musk's Twitter in January restricted all third-party clients and apps and updated their rules for developers accessing its APIs. Reporting by Tiyashi Datta, Akash Sriram and Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika SyamnathOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ Reddit users are planning a 48-hour blackout to protest its new pricing policy
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Users are protesting Reddit's new pricing policy that charges third-party apps for using its API. Nearly 3,500 subreddit forums are set to go private for 48 hours on Monday to protest Reddit's new pricing policy, BBC News reported. The user also wrote that if Reddit didn't "fix what they've broken" then the community would take further action. Its developer, Christian Selig, said in a Reddit post that it's being asked by the platform to pay $0.24 for every 1,000 requests to its API. The pricing policy will take effect from July 1.

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☆ Popular Reddit client Apollo will shut down after talks over new developer fees got 'ugly,' with allegations of blackmail
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Apollo, a popular third-party app for accessing Reddit, announced it will shut down June 30. The creator of Apollo said the new pricing policy would cost his app $20 million a year. The Apollo app has been swept up in this battle, which technically revolves around access to Reddit's application programming interface. Elon Musk has cracked down on API access, tooReddit is not the only company that's had enough of this. Twitter began clamping down on API access after Elon Musk acquired the company for $44 billion.

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☆ As Reddit battles OpenAI and sees its pre-IPO valuation fall, I can't help quoting Taylor Swift: Karma's gonna track you down
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Julie Bort | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Fidelity marked down the value of Reddit shares, a developer revealed details about new fees. Insider previously reported that Fidelity's Growth Company Fund had already marked down its Reddit stock in January disclosures. OpenAI disclosed in research that Reddit was among its massive number of sources used to train the underlying AI models. I asked ChatGPT if it is going to pay for Reddit dataI asked ChatGPT if it is going to pay for Reddit data. With its new battle against OpenAI, it's clear that Reddit feels similarly about misuse of online content.

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☆ Reddit sparks outrage after a popular app developer said it wants him to pay $20 million a year for data access
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Now, a similar revolt against Reddit may be gaining steam after a popular app developer said Wednesday the social media company wants to charge him $20 million a year to continue offering software that lets Reddit users view and interact with the platform. Reddit’s API is what allows Reddit content to be displayed to the Apollo app’s 900,000 daily active users. Reddit’s initial announcement had been light on pricing details, leaving many to speculate about the future of third-party access to Reddit. According to Selig’s post Wednesday, Reddit intends to charge $12,000 for every 50 million attempts to access the company’s data. Selig isn’t the only app developer crying foul.

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☆ (foto) „Nu a fost alegerea mea să fiu sărutată…” Cele mai importante șapte săruturi din istorie
▼ + stars: | 2020-07-06 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +4 min

(foto) „Nu a fost alegerea mea să fiu sărutată…” Cele mai importante șapte săruturi din istorieDeși piesa spune că un sărut nu este întotdeauna doar un sărut, acesta poate fi politic sau poate avea un impact social puternic. Un sărut poate deveni iconic atunci când este într-un film sau chiar dacă sărutul în sine a fost nedorit. De ziua mondială a sărutului, v-am pregătit mai jos o listă care conține șapte dintre cele mai importante săruturi din istorie. Zimmer însăși a spus într-un interviu oferit Bibliotecii Congresului în 2005: „Nu a fost alegerea mea să fiu sărutată… tipul tocmai a venit și m-a sărutat!”. Sărutul a avut loc când Brejnev a vizitat Berlinul de Est pentru a sărbători cea de-a 30-a aniversare a Republicii Democrate Germane (adică Germania de Est).

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