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12:30 AM ET, January 2, 2016

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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 …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post drops progressive columnist Harold Meyerson, claiming poor social media metrics and excessive discussion of two topics  —  Washington Post Claims It Dropped A Progressive Columnist Because Of Poor Readership.  Readers Aren't Happy.  —  Bernie Sanders says the columnist's “insights will be sorely missed.”
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.
Agence France-Presse:
Fifth man working for Hong Kong publishers critical of Chinese government goes missing, wife says  —  Another Hong Kong bookseller goes missing: wife  —  Hong Kong (AFP) - A Hong Kong employee of a publishing firm known for producing books critical of the Chinese government has gone missing …
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
The Atlantic's “What ISIS Really Wants” held readers' attention the longest among 2015 stories from publications using Chartbeat  —  The best-read digital story of 2015?  It's The Atlantic's ‘What ISIS Really Wants.’  —  Metrics now allow a fairly exact measure of which stories attract …
Discussion: @1bobcohn
Allison Lampert / Reuters:
Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi's health deteriorating, wife says  —  Imprisoned Saudi blogger's health deteriorating, wife says  —  Imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, recent recipient of a prestigious European human rights award, has suffered fainting spells and deteriorating health …
Discussion: presstv.ir, Newsweek and The Next Web
Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:
Authors Guild asks US Supreme Court to consider its case against Google's book scanning without copyright fees; appeals court ruled in Google's favor in October  —  The Authors Guild files to take Google to the Supreme Court  —  The Authors Guild has officially asked the Supreme Court …
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.
Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
LexisNexis Sells Law School Publishing Business To Carolina Academic Press  —  As a LexixNexis author, I received the following email: Law School Publishing News from LexisNexis Matthew Bender and Carolina Academic Press (posted with permission of LexisNexis):
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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Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business:
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Andrew Bounds / Financial Times:
UK's CHF Media creates investment fund so private investors can finance children's TV shows
Press Gazette:
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Rebekah Brooks and other members of UK's media and politics clique, the Chipping Norton Set, rebuild reputations and network after phone-hacking scandal
 

 
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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

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

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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