media-news-daily:-top-stories-for-12/02/2025

This page hosts daily news stories about the media, social media, and the journalism industry. Get the latest Hirings and Firings, Media Transactions, Controversies, and more. Journalists Demand Ethical Use of AI in Newsrooms Unionized journalists from the NewsGuild-CWA have launched a nationwide “AI Week of Action” (Dec. 1–5) callingContinue Reading

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Back on November 13, Google launched Code Wiki in public preview. The platform automatically generates and maintains documentation for code repositories using Gemini. The tool addresses what Google calls software development’s biggest, most expensive bottleneck, “reading existing code”. In simple terms, Code Wiki keeps documentation constantly updated as the codebaseContinue Reading

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The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As part of the ongoing study of pristine samples delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft, threeContinue Reading

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The South African-born English cricketer, who played from the late-1980s, scored more than 4000 test match runs., The South African-born English cricketer, who played in the late 1980s and 90s, scored more than 4,000 Test runs. Former batter Robin Smith has died at the age of 62, his former clubContinue Reading

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analysis The comforting story that The Traitor’s power is fading obscures the risks facing us Published December 2, 2025 6:30AM (EST) President Traitor 47 speaks to the press aboard Air Force One on Nov. 30, 2025. (Pete Marovich/Getty Images) The last few weeks have not been very kind to TraitorContinue Reading

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As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that helped release long-stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Deep-sea sediments show that ancient Antarctic waters once trapped vast amounts of carbon, only to release it during two major warming pulses at theContinue Reading