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- Dec 1: Chances are that your podcast uses the open, free software ffmpeg during its publish process. The ffmpeg team are volunteers, but are being pressured by an AI tool run by Google that spots obscure security bugs and demands that they’re fixed within 90 days. Google, which now has a market cap bigger than Microsoft, pays nothing for ffmpeg’s upkeep.
- Nov 12: TuneIn has been acquired by Canadian broadcaster Stingray for as much as US $175mn. TuneIn maintains live radio and podcast databases used by companies like Apple, Google and auto manufacturers, but has made multiple layoffs over the past few years, and removed the ability for podcasters to submit new podcasts into its database in February 2024.
- Nov 10: Google is removing XSLT support from Chrome. XSLT makes podcast RSS feeds look nice enough - like this one - if a user visits them by mistake. However, XML feeds also support standard CSS. So, if all you want to do is to put a little message at the top with some help text, and perhaps make the RSS itself slightly less scary, this stylesheet is now styling this RSS feed. Feel free to use it.
- Oct 27: Libsyn has reported another big jump in web browsers downloading its shows. Perplexity was called-out earlier in the year by Cloudflare for using “a generic browser intended to impersonate Google Chrome on macOS”.
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