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3:40 AM ET, August 16, 2015

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New York Times:
Amazon tests how far to push white-collar workers to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions, creating a bruising, data-driven workplace  —  Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace  —  SEATTLE — On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult …
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Jessamyn West / Medium:
A look at why comment sections fail as sites like The Verge and Daily Dot give up on them  —  Bad comments are a system failure  —  So why can't you fix them like any other bug?  —  Internet comments are awful.  Recently sites [like Popular Science, Bloomberg Business, Reuters, Mic …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
The Wall Street Journal plans to personalize push alerts through human curation, algorithms, and customization options  —  Push it: How The Wall Street Journal plans to make its push alerts more personal  —  Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of stories on how news organizations manage their mobile news alerts.
Discussion: @elanazak
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Journalists covering Tianjin explosion meet with interference  —  Foreign journalists reporting on the aftermath of an enormous explosion in the Chinese city of Tianjin have been subjected to harassment at the hands of authorities and bystanders on multiple occasions, according to a recent bulletin from an overseas press association.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Rachel Raudenbush / Digiday:
Mobile news app Wildcard bets on a card-based design to attract users  —  Just months after Circa folded, Wildcard is betting on card-based mobile news.  —  On Tuesday, the company released version 2.0 of its mobile news app, which, like Circa, uses card-based design and allows users to “follow” stories of interest.
Kaelyn Forde / Refinery29:
How New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi reported on the Islamic State's new theology of sexual slavery  —  How One Woman Exposed The Way ISIS Uses Rape As a Weapon  —  Photo: Mauricio Lima/ The New York Times/ Redux.  —  New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi …
Lance Ulanoff / Mashable:
HBO deal saved Sesame Street from falling licensing revenue, which dropped over 50% since 2008  —  Inside the HBO deal that saved Big Bird and ‘Sesame Street’  —  Rubber Ducky, you were almost sunk.  —  There's a good chance that without HBO stepping in to fund and air Sesame Street …
Discussion: Variety, Thanks:@steverubel
William Branigin / Washington Post:
U.N. human rights experts call for ‘immediate release’ of Post's Jason Rezaian  —  U.N. human rights experts expressed grave concern Friday about Iran's continued detention of Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian and called on authorities in Tehran to release him immediately.
Discussion: @postbaron, @katz and Poynter
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Live Streaming Platform Firetalk Teams Up With The Young Turks  —  Firetalk, which aims to be a kind of Periscope for YouTubers and other creatives, has teamed up with the Young Turks to provide some interactivity for the live stream of the long-standing progressive political program.
Discussion: Tubefilter and VideoInk
Miranda Ward / mUmBRELLA:
News Corp CEO lashes Google for piracy, zealotry and kleptocracy at Lowy Institute event  —  News Corp CEO Robert Thomson has accused Google of “piracy, zealotry and kleptocracy”, labelled LinkedIn a “pretender” and described the redistribution of content created by journalists as “unnatural”.
 
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Kate Kelly / New York Times:
Congress considers legislation to block DJI drones from running on US communication networks, effectively killing the Chinese company's US commercial business

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Apple removes three AI image generation apps from the App Store after a 404 Media probe found the apps advertised being able to create nonconsensual nude images

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Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure

 
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