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4:35 PM ET, December 31, 2015

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Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:
BBC online services back up after widespread outages took its website and iPlayer offline for several hours  —  BBC suffers widespread outages taking website and iPlayer offline  —  UK public broadcaster apologises as its internet services are taken down by ‘technical issue’ affecting its website …
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Sources: BBC websites hit by DDoS attack  —  ‘Technical issue’ hits BBC websites  —  “Technical issues” made the BBC's websites intermittently unavailable on Thursday morning.  —  The problems began about 0700 GMT and meant visitors to the site saw a message informing them about an “internal error”.
Rob Price / Business Insider:
Twitter is reversing its ban on political watchdog Politwoops  —  Four months after being banned by Twitter, Politwoops is coming back.  —  If you're not familiar with it, Politwoops is a kind of social media watchdog.  It automatically monitors the Twitter feeds of politicians and highlights whenever they delete a tweet.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Crowdfunded ‘Star Trek’ Movie Draws Lawsuit from Paramount, CBS  —  ‘Axanar’ aims to be a professional-quality prequel and has raised more than $1 million.  —  For decades, Paramount and CBS have tolerated and even encouraged fans of the Star Trek franchise to use their imagination at will …
Agence France-Presse:
Two Bangladeshi students sentenced to death over blogger murder  —  A Bangladesh court sentenced two students to death on Thursday for the 2013 murder of a secular blogger, delivering the first convictions over a series of brutal killings that have rocked the Muslim-majority nation.
Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Q&A with Huffington Post founding editor Roy Sekoff, whose last day is December 31, on experimentation and innovation, cultivating readers, and taking a break  —  Q&A: The Huffington Post's Founding Editor Gets Ready to Move On  —  Roy Sekoff Last's Day, After 11 Years, is Dec. 31
Discussion: @jeremymbarr and @kzaleski
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business:
Sources: Nexstar to finalize new offer for Media General, at about $2.2B, or $17.50 per share, as soon as Thursday  —  Nexstar Said to Finalize Media General Proposal Soon as Thursday  —  Offer would trigger at least 4-day window for Meredith counter  —  Nexstar tapping three banks for $4.5 billion in debt financing
Discussion: Folio, FishbowlNY and @sherman4949
Agence France-Presse:
Charlie Hebdo to release million copies of special issue one year after attack  —  Satirical magazine to release double issue on 7 January to mark a year since 12 people were killed in jihadi killings on its Paris office  —  French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday …
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
In the age of Amazon, used bookstores are making an unlikely comeback  —  Early next month, Pablo Sierra is opening a used bookstore in Northwest Washington — an unlikely bet in the digital age made even more inconceivable, given that his only experience with books is reading them.
Brian Rohan / Associated Press:
Egypt shuts down Facebook's Free Basics internet service on telco provider Etisalat, reasons unclear  —  Free Internet service for over 3 million Egyptians shut down  —  BEIRUT (AP) — Social media site Facebook says a program that had been giving free basic Internet services to over three million Egyptians has been shut down.
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New York Times:
Egyptian authorities shut down art gallery and raided an independent publishing house, raising concerns about continued free speech issues
Associated Press:
Poland's lawmakers approve new law on state media control  —  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's parliament on Wednesday approved new legislation that gives the government control of state radio and television stations in a move that has raised EU concern.  —  Following a heated debate …
Reuters:
Russian court jails blogger for five years for ‘extremist’ posts  —  A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a blogger to five years in jail for what it said was his extremist activity on the Internet after he urged people to attend a protest against high transport fares and criticized Russian intervention in Ukraine.
Andy / TorrentFreak:
How Hollywood Caught the UK's Most Prolific Movie Pirates  —  Following a three year investigation by Hollywood-backed anti-piracy group the Federation Against Copyright Theft, last week five of the UK's most prolific movie pirates were sentenced in the West Midlands.
Discussion: @simoncarless
 
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