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9:10 AM ET, December 31, 2015

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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 …
BBC:
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”.
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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 …
Sean O'Kane / The Verge:
Facebook tests multiple, topic-based feeds on its mobile app in place of one main News Feed, also tests wider rollout of Marketplace feature with its own tab  —  Facebook is testing multiple news feeds on mobile  —  Facebook is testing multiple, topic-based feeds on its mobile app in place of one main News Feed.
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  —  Egypt Shuts Arts Venues Amid Signs of Clampdown  —  CAIRO — Over the past two days, the Egyptian authorities have shut down an internationally respected art gallery …
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
In farewell, veteran Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus says rush to be first is leaving facts behind, newsmakers have become better at influencing media  —  A farewell to The Washington Post  —  For more than 40 years I have been lucky enough to be part of The Washington Post.
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Spotify sued over mechanical rights that cover songwriters' royalties for reproduction of a musical work  —  David Lowery Sues Spotify for Copyright Infringement  —  Spotify has been sued for copyright infringement in a case that accuses it of failing to properly license songwriting rights in the United States.
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter cracks down on harassment by rearranging paragraphs in its terms of service  —  In the wake of former CEO Dick Costolo admitting the company “suck[s] at dealing with abuse,” Twitter has devoted many blog posts to explaining how seriously it takes the issue.
Howard Stutz / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada gaming regulators monitoring Adelson Review-Journal buy  —  State gaming regulators are monitoring the issues surrounding the purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal by the family of Sheldon Adelson, the majority shareholder in casino giant Las Vegas Sands Corp.
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 …
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.
 
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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
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Andrew Bounds / Financial Times:
UK's CHF Media creates investment fund so private investors can finance children's TV shows
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ESPN:
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Noor Zahid / Voice of America:
Afghan journalist, heard on ISIS radio, issues threats against ex-colleagues, journalists working in the province
Discussion: @harunmaruf
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Interview with Mark Thompson, former director general of the BBC and current CEO of the New York Times, on the BBC funding battle
Susannah Nesmith / Columbia Journalism Review:
AP's collaboration with Florida papers on charter-school stories serves as model to match data research with local reporting
 

 
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Exploring the scaling challenges of transformer-based LLMs in efficiently processing large amounts of text, as well as potential solutions, such as RAG systems

 
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