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3:06 AM ET, June 11, 2014

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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Amazon Stops Taking Advance Orders for ‘Lego’ and Other Warner Videos  —  The Everything Store is shrinking again.  Amazon customers who want to order forthcoming Warner Home Video features, including “The Lego Movie,” “300: Rise of an Empire,” “Winter's Tale” and “Transcendence,” are finding it impossible to do so.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Fox News pushes back on Gawker report  —  Fox News says it has not retracted its claim that former executive Brian Lewis submitted fraudulent expense reports, despite a Gawker report alleging otherwise.  —  On Tuesday, Gawker unearthed a document filed in court appearing to state that the network …
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Stars from YouTube and Vine capitalize on internet success with live festivals and concerts  —  Performing Without Net: Stars of YouTube Take to the Stage  —  A capacity 12,500 tickets have been sold.  More than 70 performers are appearing on three stages.
Maxim Eristavi / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporter forced to leave Eastern Ukraine after Russian journo accuses him of “spreading lies”  —  In Eastern Ukraine, one journalist turns on another  —  A German reporter is forced to flee after a Russian counterpart denounces him on social media
Discussion: Poynter
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
The Vice-Time Warner deal, HLN, and CNN  —  With the news that Time Warner is seeking a major investment in Vice, the possibility of HLN's involvement raises a number of questions.  —  HLN has been teased as possibly going to Vice as part of the deal, though there was enough wiggle room …
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Mirror group faces new phone-hacking claims  —  Cilla Black, Christopher Eccleston, Alan Yentob and Davina McCall among new claimants for compensation  —  The publisher of the Sunday Mirror is facing compensation claims over alleged phone hacking from at least a dozen new litigants including Cilla Black …
Discussion: @davidfolkenflik and Guardian
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC journalists to ballot for strike action  —  Union members call for overhaul of pay gap with managers, rejecting ‘derisory’ offer of 1% pay rise  —  BBC journalists are to ballot for strike action after rejecting an offer of a “derisory” 1% pay rise.  —  Members of the National Union …
Discussion: Poynter, Press Gazette and mUmBRELLA
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David Kravets / Ars Technica:
Google's university book scanning can move ahead without authors' OK  —  Court gives Google significant fair use protections.  —  A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the right of universities, in conjunction with Google, to scan millions of library books without the authors' permission.
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Top PR Firms Promise They Won't Edit Clients' Wikipedia Entries on the Sly  —  Edelman, Burson-Marsteller Among Those Signing Pledge  —  Smart Marketing Using Big Data  —  Several of the largest public-relations agencies issued a joint statement Tuesday promising to play by the rules of Wikipedia.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
How a credulous media repeated dubious claims of a Turing Test milestone  —  No, A ‘Supercomputer’ Did NOT Pass The Turing Test For The First Time And Everyone Should Know Better  —  So, this weekend's news in the tech world was flooded with a “story” about how a “chatbot” passed the Turing Test for …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Boston Globe launches Capital, a new section for political junkies  —  Boston Globe wants to make political-junkie-style coverage accessible  —  On Friday, The Boston Globe launched Capital, a new section on politics that comes out Fridays in print and updates regularly online.
Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
Sony formally announces PlayStation original sci-fi series ‘Powers’  —  There were reports that it was in the works a few months ago, but Sony has now made it official: the first original television show for the PlayStation is coming, and it is called Powers.
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Chatting with bots: How Slack is changing how newsrooms talk amongst themselves
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Industry body representing Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others opposes Comcast/TWC merger
Discussion: Variety, Techdirt and The Wrap
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Ross Levinsohn Departs Guggenheim Digital Media
Discussion: VentureBeat and Deadline.com
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Time's International Editor Bobby Ghosh joins Quartz as Managing Editor
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Marc Lavallee is NYT's new head of interactive news technology
Discussion: @pmaiorana
Ralph Lee / Guardian:
New D-Rig technology from Channel 4 allows filmmakers to capture their subjects digital lives
Alexander Klöpping / Medium:
Blendle, Dutch startup that charges readers by the article, reaches 60k users, adds Economist
Discussion: @raju
Connor Radnovich / Associated Press:
Journalists killed in 2013 remembered at Newseum
Discussion: Voice of America
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

 
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