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7:50 PM ET, November 11, 2015

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 Top News: 
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Facebook launches Notify, an iOS app that sends notifications for news and other timely content, with 70 media partners, including CNN, NYT, Hulu, and Techmeme  —  Here's Notify, Facebook's New Twitter-Like App for Following Publishers  —  Facebook is already dominating peoples' phone time …
New York Times:
New York attorney general says that DraftKings and FanDuel games constitute illegal gambling under state law, orders them to stop accepting bets in New York  —  Attorney General Tells Daily Fantasy Sports to Stop Taking Bets in New York  —  The New York State attorney general on Tuesday ordered …
Sam Biddle / Gawker:
Sources share the inside story of the Lerer family's The Dodo, with low morale, meddling family members as editors, and purchased Facebook traffic  —  How an Animal Lover Turned Her Father's Investment Into The Dodo, a Money-Burning Website With a Miserable Staff
Judah Robinson / The Huffington Post:
Univision, The Atlantic To Launch Spanish-Language CityLab Latino  —  The site is slated to launch on Univision.com in early 2016.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Refinery29 doesn't want to be “CNN for women,” but it's finding new paths into hard news  —  Refinery29 is 10 years old.  And as the site expands, one of the things it's keeping in mind is that age is only a number.  —  The site is generally perceived as being aimed at millennial women — and it is, kind of.
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: publishers struggle to extract as much ad revenue from Facebook's Instant Articles as they do from their own sites; Facebook mulls changes to ad rules  —  Facebook Mulls Ad Changes for Instant Articles After Publisher Pushback  —  Publishers encountered challenges because of restrictions imposed by the social network
Discussion: @martinsfp, @sims and @abrams
Andrew Russell / Time Warner Cable Untangled:
Time Warner Cable confirms TWC TV trial in NYC area, gives participants Roku 3 to access 300+ live TV channels and 20K+ on demand programs  —  Time Warner Cable Launches TWC TV® Roku Trial in NYC  —  The home screen for the TWC TV Roku Trial enables customers to easily navigate between live TV …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Student journalists at University of Missouri talk about covering a local story that has become national  —  How student journalists at Mizzou are telling a local story that's become national  —  Missourian newsroom.  Photo by David Rees/Missouri School of Journalism
TodaysZaman:
Turkish police raid printing plant of Today's Zaman over claims it was printing opposition newspaper Ozgur Bugun, labeled propaganda by government  —  Police raid Zaman daily headquarters over claims of printing Özgür Bugün  —  Police arrived at the headquarters of the Zaman daily …
Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
HarperCollin's HarperOne division starts digital-first fiction imprint, HarperLegend, manuscripts can be submitted online today  —  HarperOne Starts Digital-First Fiction Imprint  —  HarperCollins's HarperOne division has launched a new digital-first imprint, HarperLegend.
Tom Odula / Associated Press:
Kenyan newspaper editor questioned and released over source on security spending  —  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A leading Kenyan newspaper said Tuesday its parliamentary editor was taken in for questioning and then released over a story on how the security ministry spent $3.8 million in a day.
Discussion: Reuters
 
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Ilaria Maria Sala / Guardian:
Four Hong Kong publishers known for books critical of Chinese regime missing
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Agence France-Presse:
Turkey criticised over media freedoms and judicial independence in EU report
Tyler Kingkade / The Huffington Post:
University of Missouri communications professor Melissa Click apologizes for her behavior after watching video of herself
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:
Sources: Pandora seeks rights to play songs outside US as it plans to push into global markets, prioritizing the UK
Discussion: RAIN News and Concurrent Media
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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
The inside story of Business Insider's $442 million sale to Axel Springer
Discussion: Poynter
Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:
T-Mobile unveils Binge On free streaming service from 24 providers excluding YouTube; exempts video from data caps, resolution lowered to DVD-like quality
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Beta version of Apple Music for Android now available
 

 
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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

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Europol and 19 countries make 37 arrests and disrupt phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost in a year-long operation with help from Microsoft, Intel, and others
 
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