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1:20 AM ET, November 28, 2013

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The Huffington Post:
Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit ‘Radicalizers’  —  WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Norman Pearlstine Defends Lara Logan, Suggests Editor More To Blame For Benghazi Story  —  NEW YORK — On Tuesday night, the Committee to Protect Journalists honored four individuals with the organization's 2013 International Press Freedom Awards: Egypt's Bassem Youssef, Turkey's Nedim ener …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘60 Minutes’ and Benghazi: Five hard realities  —  Today, CBS News distributed a summary of findings from an internal investigation into the discredited Oct. 27 “60 Minutes” report on Benghazi.  The investigation was conducted by Al Ortiz, executive director of standards and practices at CBS News …
Wall Street Journal:
Charter Arranging $25 Billion in Debt for Time Warner Cable Bid  —  Debt Will Allow Charter To Include Large Cash Consideration  —  Charter Communications Inc. is arranging about $25 billion of debt financing as it pursues an acquisition of Time Warner Cable Inc., allowing it to include …
Discussion: Deadline.com
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Liana B. Baker / Reuters:   Incoming Time Warner Cable CEO could exit with $50 mln-plus after deal
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
McClatchy updates policy on handout photos: 'it's important to take a stance'  —  “The editors of McClatchy newspapers have agreed not to publish photography issued by the White House,” McClatchy Vice President for News/Washington Editor Anders Gyllenhaal told staffers in an email Tuesday night.
Reuters:
Vietnam announces big fines for social media ‘propaganda’  —  HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam will hand out fines of 100 million dong ($4,740) to anyone criticizing the government on social media, under a new law announced this week, the latest measure in a widening crackdown on dissent by the country's communist rulers.
Discussion: VentureBeat
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Facebook Testing Instapaper-Like “Save for Later Reading” Feature  —  Facebook wants you to spend more time reading news on Facebook.  —  The company is testing a feature that would allow users to save links shared inside Facebook to a list for later reading, according to recently surfaced mobile screenshots.
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
YouTube may be getting ready to launch its music subscription  —  There have long been rumors that Google is planning to launch a separate music subscription service for YouTube, and it looks like those plans are now starting to come together: The folks over at Android Police found a number …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Telegraph group shelves ‘five pillars’ restructure plan  —  The Telegraph Media Group's planned reorganisation, known as “five pillars”, has been put into cold storage.  —  News of the initiative was reported by Media Guardian in September the day after TMG announced the appointment …
John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC chief wants corporation to be ‘less British’ defending the licence fee  —  Tony Hall says the broadcaster must be more aggressive in promoting its cause before charter and licence fee renewal  —  Read Tony Hall's Voice of the Listener and Viewer speech
Discussion: bbc.co.uk
The Washington Post Company:
Graham Holdings Company to Sell Headquarters Building to Carr Properties  —  WASHINGTON — THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY (effective November 29, 2013, Graham Holdings (NYSE: GHC)) announced today that Carr Properties will purchase the Company's headquarters building in downtown Washington, DC.
Erik Wemple:
NYT design boss: consensus to run breast pic  —  The photo on the front of today's New York Times, depicting a woman showing more breast than commonly bared in newspaper photos, kicked up a great deal of reaction this morning on social media. … A commenter in the adjoining story complained:
 
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Ben Fritz / Washington Wire:
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From Techmeme:

Emilia David / The Verge:
Microsoft launches Phi-3 Mini, a 3.8B-parameter model that competes with GPT-3.5, and plans to release Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium with 7B and 14B parameters

Scott Stein / CNET:
Meta opens its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties, and says Asus and Lenovo plan Horizon OS-compatible headsets; Meta plans an Xbox branded Quest

James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
Source: UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare was compromised on February 12, nine days before the ransomware attack; the company paid a ransom to the hackers

 
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