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9:20 AM ET, October 6, 2015

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Julia Greenberg / Wired:
Reddit to launch voting and comment free news site Upvoted with editorial team curating/creating content that will be added to Reddit forum for voting, comments  —  No comments allowed on Reddit's new news site ‘Upvoted’  —  Reddit's got problems.  It can be a hotbed of hostility and harassment—even for loyal users.
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Jessi Hempel / Wired:
Behind Steve Huffman's return to Reddit as CEO following the moderator revolt and Ellen Pao's departure  —  Inside Reddit's Plan to Recover From Its Epic Meltdown  —  It began on the Thursday night that much of Reddit—the eleventh biggest site on the American Internet …
Discussion: @buzzfeedben and @marcuswohlsen
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Dow Jones to launch free mobile-only news app, will aggregate content from WSJ, Financial News, and The Times; will compete with Financial Times  —  WSJ owner takes battle to FT with City news app  —  Mobile service featuring financial stories from the Times and Wall Street Journal to be free at launch
Derek Mead / Motherboard:
Vice Media's Motherboard is switching off comments, adds letters to the editor section  —  We're Replacing Comments with Something Better  —  As a kid, whenever I'd get some BMX or car magazine in the mail, I'd always dive in first to the letters to the editor.
Jared Newman / Fast Company:
Roku announces Roku 4 with 4K, voice search, and remote locator, and OS 7 with bookmarking and universal search; pre-order now, available Oct. for $130  —  Roku Is Solving The Most Frustrating Thing About Streaming TV Boxes  —  Tell me if this sounds familiar: You're browsing around on a Roku …
Madhu Muthukumar / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter launches Moments, formerly Project Lightning, its event-based curation of tweets, videos, and images, on iOS, Android, and desktop web  —  Moments, the best of Twitter in an instant  —  When you open Twitter today you'll see something new: Moments, the best of what's happening on Twitter in an instant.
Los Angeles Times:
Lionsgate and Starz in advanced merger talks, sources say  —  Movie and television studio Lionsgate cemented its mini-major status in Hollywood with “The Hunger Games,” and now its appetite is being tested.  —  The Santa Monica studio is in advanced talks to merge with movie channel Starz …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Trinity Mirror explores plan to stop readers using ad-blocking software  — Dominic Ponsford's blog -  —  Trinity Mirror is reportedly exploring ways of banning its website readers from using ad-blocking software on iPhones and iPads.  —  The move, by the biggest publisher of regional newspapers …
Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
The Economist deputy editor Tom Standage on mobile, bundled subscriptions, and why display ads are unsustainable as a business model  —  Print is ‘just another device’ at The Economist  —  The weekly publication turned 172 years old in September.  Deputy editor Tom Standage explains …
Los Angeles Times:
Bankruptcy judge backs Relativity Media plan to sell TV assets to creditors  —  A bankruptcy judge Monday gave preliminary approval to a plan to sell the television assets of Relativity Media to a group of secured creditors while the company's flamboyant founder, Ryan Kavanaugh, tries to reorganize the rest of Relativity.
Yuras Karmanau / Associated Press:
Belarusian media claim gov't attack on their websites  —  MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Belarusian independent media outlets on Monday accused the government of blocking their websites less than a week before presidential elections, describing it as an attack against free press.
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
DailyMail.com North America CEO Jon Steinberg to step down at end of 2015, as company focuses on organic growth rather than acquisitions and new partnerships  —  DailyMail.com's North America Chief Is Out  —  Jon Steinberg will step down at the end of the year after 18 months on the job
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
RedState Names Leon Wolf Managing Editor As Erick Erickson Prepares Exit  —  NEW YORK — RedState named Leon Wolf as its new managing editor Monday as longtime editor Erick Erickson transitions out of his role leading the influential conservative news and opinion site.
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
AwesomenessTV partners with Endemol for international expansion, will launch channels in at least five overseas markets including the UK and France
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Kristen Schweizer / Bloomberg Business:
Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins says company is still searching for an original series hit, isn't planning international expansion for now
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Two-thirds of micropayments paywall startup Blendle's users are under 35
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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