📺 Netflix Loses 200,000 Customers, Its First Decline in a Decade

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Netflix Loses 200,000 Customers, Its First Decline in a Decade. After a decade of meteoric growth that shook Hollywood to its core, Netflix Inc. has run into a wall. The streaming service lost 200,000 customers in the first quarter, according to a statement Tuesday, the first time it has shed subscribers since… (Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg)

Lucas Shaw @Lucas_Shaw

There is a very hard solution for Netflix’s problem: make better shows.

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order. An MIT Technology Review series investigates how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before. (Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review)

Karen Hao 郝珂灵 @_KarenHao

Two years ago I discovered scholarship arguing that AI is creating a new colonial world order. The idea haunted me & pushed me to investigate. Today I begin to release my findings: a culmination of reporting across five continents. Here’s my introduction.

technologyreview.comArtificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world orderAn MIT Technology Review series investigates how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before.

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The Fake Federal Agents Case Baffling US Intelligence Experts. Two weeks after FBI agents surged through a luxury apartment building in Washington, DC, and arrested two men who allegedly spent years pretending to be Homeland Security officers, the case continues to baffle even some of the nation's most… (Garrett M. Graff / WIRED)

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg

I spent some time this week asking some counterintelligence veterans about this strange DC case involving fake federal agents: Who were the suspects working for—and why? The theories range from strange and worrisome to, well, sinister and worrisome.

WIRED @WIRED

Did US investigators stumble onto an Iranian assassination plot or a case of two bozos whose alleged cosplay went horribly wrong? https://t.co/W5BZScGf7G

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Florida Gov. DeSantis Seeks to End Walt Disney World's Special Tax District. Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis asked the state's legislature on Tuesday to consider ending special tax districts established before 1968, including one that effectively lets the Walt Disney Co. govern the land its Walt Disney World theme… (Joseph Pisani / Wall Street Journal)

John McCormick @McCormickJohn

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis asked the state’s legislature on Tuesday to consider ending special tax districts established before 1968, including one that effectively lets the Walt Disney Co. govern the land its Walt Disney World theme parks are built on: wsj.com/articles/flori…

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Chipotle launches $50M venture fund in bid to foster new restaurant tech. In a bid to position its brand as more tech-forward — and, in the process, foster new culinary innovations — Chipotle today announced the launch of Cultivate Next, a venture fund… (Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch)

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

Chipotle launches $50M venture fund in bid to foster new restaurant tech tcrn.ch/3jSyAvo by @Kyle_L_Wiggers

tcrn.chChipotle launches $50M fund in bid to foster restaurant tech – TechCrunchChipotle is launching a new fund, Cultivate Next, focused on funding startups in the food and restaurant space.

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