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1:35 AM ET, August 29, 2013

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Samantha Bomkamp / Chicago Tribune:
Hacked New York Times' website mostly restored  —  Access to the New York Times website has been mostly restored a day after hackers claimed credit for taking over the domain and preventing visitors from accessing news stories for most of the previous afternoon.
Discussion: Reuters
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Brian Fung / The Switch:
Here's why you still might not be able to reach nytimes.com  —  By Andrea Peterson and Timothy B. Lee, Published: August 28 at 7:23 pm  —  Can you access the New York Times website at nytimes.com yet?  For many internet users, including me, the answer to that is still no. The Times …
Discussion: Motherboard and New York Times
Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times:
Twitter, AOL lock down URLs in wake of New York Times hack
Discussion: Gizmodo, The Verge and Hillicon Valley
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Twitter Acquires Social TV Tracker Trendrr  —  Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a social tracking TV service that until today competed with Twitter's own in-house analytics products.  —  After Wednesday's acquisition, the three dominant, stand-alone players in the social TV chatter space are gone.
David Ford / ABC News:
ABC News Reopens Bureau in Beirut  —  ABC News has reopened a bureau in Beirut, Lebanon.  Alexander Marquardt who covers the region for the network will be based there.  The Beirut bureau is in addition to ABC's long-standing base in Jerusalem.  ABC's first Beirut bureau was opened 45 years ago by a young Peter Jennings.
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Reporters Without Borders:
News providers targeted by both government and opposition forces
Discussion: Poynter
Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
Press+ Launches a Service to Make Online Video Profitable (Exclusive)  —  You can start by watching the Microsoft anti-trust trial, but shows from major entertainment companies could be next  —  Press+, which provides paywalls for the websites of several top newspaper chains …
Ted Johnson / Variety:
MPAA: Piracy Hub Hotfile Found Liable for Copyright Infringement  —  Cyberlocker Hotfile has been found liable for copyright infringement for housing movies and TV shows on its site, the MPAA said on Wednesday.  —  The decision from the U.S. District Court in Florida was the first such ruling …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Arianna Goes (Even More) Global: HuffPost Live Launches WorldPost in Berggruen Institute Partnership  —  HuffPost Live Host Ahmed Shihab-Eldin speaking with Mehdi Hasan, political director of HuffPost U.K.  —  HuffPost Live, the Huffington Post's live-streaming network …
Discussion: @blakehounshell, @huffpostlive and @ase
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
BuzzFeed has a Medium problem  —  BuzzFeed ought to thank anti-abortion group Personhood USA, which has exposed a serious flaw in the upstart publication's system.  With a BuzzFeedalicious listicle detailing why Planned Parenthood is the work of a promiscuous, condomless Satan …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
AOL Hires Associated Content's Luke Beatty in Key Strategy Role  —  Luke Beatty — the well-known entrepreneur who created Associated Content and later sold it to Yahoo for $90 million — will be taking a key job at AOL as its head of strategic partnerships.
Cameron Tung / The New Yorker Blog:
How Podcasts Conquered Comedy  —  When Marc Maron recorded his third comedy album, in the summer of 2008, he was a respected standup performer whose commercial prospects were so grim that he was bracing himself for the sputtering end of a twenty-five-year career.  In his bleakest moments, he mulled suicide.
stdout.be:
Cargo cult analytics  —  This is a talk I gave at a Hacks/Hackers meetup in Berlin on August 21, 2013.  —  Thanks for inviting me to speak at this Hacks/Hackers meetup.  My name is Stijn Debrouwere.  I'm a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews fellow and I'm loosely affiliated with the Guardian's data science team in London.
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Verizon Wireless again working on deal to break free of Vodafone, says WSJ  —  We haven't heard much about Verizon's rumored plans to buy out Vodafone's stake in the company for $100 billion for a few months now, but according to the Wall Street Journal those talks have been “rekindled.”
 
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
CO Everywhere Wants To Fill The Hyper-Local News Gap With Its New Mobile App
Discussion: @tomlimongello
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi is out of stock. New e-readers on the way?
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
The Guardian's Android and iPhone apps now offer free ad-supported and premium access
Discussion: The Guardian and Guardian
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Pascale Paoli-Lebailly / Rapid TV News:
France Télévisions to axe 600 jobs, cut spending and boost digital
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and Beet.TV
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Tivo Earnings Hit Positive Post-Settlement Milestone, CEO Says
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