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8:15 AM ET, February 17, 2016

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
CBS Touts Record-Breaking Grammys Streaming, Despite Technical Glitch  —  CBS said its live Internet stream of the 58th Annual Grammy Awards via its All Access subscription service registered record highs — even though the Eye suffered a glitch Monday night that prevented some users from temporarily accessing the show.
Discussion: SocialTimes, Forbes, Ad Age and Techdirt
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Cablevision customers can now live stream CBS when away from home  —  Cablevision and CBS have just announced a deal that, effective immediately, lets the cable company's subscribers watch a live stream of CBS both in and out of the home.  Under traditional TV Everywhere deals …
Bryan Clark / The Next Web:
Kanye West's new album downloaded 500K times on pirate sites, calls into question value of Tidal-only release  —  Kanye West's ‘Life of Pablo’ already pirated 500,000 times  —  Kanye West's new album ‘The Life of Pablo’ may have been released as exclusive to Jay-Z's streaming music service Tidal, but it didn't stay that way for long.
Sean Captain / Fast Company:
Cable and tech companies line up political allies and fund consumer coalitions ahead of FCC vote Thursday on TV set-top box rules  —  The Future Of How You Watch TV Could Change This Week  —  Behind an FCC proposal to lower cable equipment fees is a fight for control of television involving Google, pay-TV services, and Hollywood.
Owen Williams / The Next Web:
The original Popcorn Time is back from the dead — but nobody knows who's running it  —  Popcorn Time suddenly went offline last year with the Motion Picture Association of America claiming it had successfully shut down the service by catching the people behind it.  Now, it's suddenly back from the dead.
Discussion: TorrentFreak
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch:
Reddit Hires Twitter's Former News Manager, Mark S. Luckie, As Head Of Journalism And Media  —  Reddit Hires Twitter's Former News Manager As Head Of Journalism And Media  —  Reddit has hired Mark S. Luckie, the former news manager at Twitter and the person behind Today in Black Twitter …
Press Gazette:
Barclay family says Telegraph is not for sale amid staff uncertainty over ‘strategic review’  —  The owners of the Telegraph have emphasised the company is not for sale amid staff uncertainty over future plans for the group.  —  Telegraph Media Group staff were sent a letter …
Discussion: Guardian
Tim Baysinger / Adweek:
Old New Yorker Stories Are Being Turned Into Compelling Short Films for Amazon Prime  —  How did David Remnick feel when he saw Burkhard Bilger's 2014 story, “The Ride of Their Lives”, about young Texas bull riders, turned into a film?  —  “In a way, it was more emotional,” said Remnick …
Justin McCurry / Guardian:
Japanese TV anchors lose their jobs amid claims of political pressure  —  Supporters of the three news broadcasters say prime minister had private dinners with top media executives before the departures  —  Many British politicians would doubtless rejoice at the news that Andrew Marr …
Discussion: @kishakishi
Noah Robischon / Fast Company:
BuzzFeed generates 5B monthly views across platforms with its global news team, video studio, ad agency, and sophisticated data team focused on social sharing  —  How BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti Is Building A 100-Year Media Company  —  Once the “bored at work” network, BuzzFeed …
Haaretz:
Israeli police briefly detain Washington Post Jerusalem Bureau Chief William Booth, accusing him of ‘incitement’ as he interviewed people on street  —  Israel Police Arrest Washington Post Jerusalem Bureau Chief for ‘Incitement’  —  Israeli police forces detained Washington …
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Beatrice Verhoeven / The Wrap:   Israeli Foreign Ministry says arrest of Washington Post Jerusalem Bureau Chief William Booth “an unfortunate misunderstanding”
Om Malik:
Increasing frequency and decreasing quality of Instagram ads ruin user experience, falling far short of co-founder Kevin Systrom's promises  —  Instagram Ads: Too much?  —  There is no denying that I am obsessed with Instagram.  I check the app as often as I drink water, which is a lot.
Discussion: Digiday
 
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Scott Moritz / Bloomberg Business:
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Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
LA Times reorganizes newsroom, creates news and enterprise hub, separate desk for print coverage
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Hannah Ellis-Petersen / Guardian:
Youth-focused BBC Three's transition to an online only channel is complete as it takes a budget cut from £85M to £30M
 

 
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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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