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3:25 PM ET, November 10, 2017

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Associated Press:
Louis C.K. Says Sexual Misconduct Allegations Are True  —  NEW YORK — Comedian Louis C.K. says the allegations of sexual misconduct against him are true.  —  The comedian also issued a statement a day after The New York Times detailed five women's allegations of sexual misconduct by C.K. …
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Variety:
Release of Louis C.K.'s movie, “I Love You, Daddy”, is scrapped by The Orchard after allegations of sexual misconduct against the comedian  —  The release of Louis C.K.'s new film “I Love You, Daddy” has been scrapped in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations levied against the comedian.
Patrick Hipes / Deadline:
HBO drops Louis C.K. from November 18 special show, Night of Too Many Stars, and removes his past projects from its on-demand services  —  Louis C.K., the topic of a new New York Times exposé today detailing the allegations of five women who claimed to have been sexually harassed …
New York Times:
Five women accuse Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct; premiere of his new movie was canceled, along with appearance on Late Show with Colbert
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Guardian digital editor Ian Prior and two other journalists are absent from work due to investigations into harassment claims  —  Sources have told BuzzFeed News that digital editor Ian Prior has been suspended pending an investigation by management.
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Mary Ann Georgantopoulos / BuzzFeed:
Writer claims Jann Wenner offered him writing assignments in exchange for sex in 2005, Wenner denies any quid pro quo  —  Ben Ryan says the offer was made in the publisher's Upper West Side townhouse on August 11, 2005.  “There was that moment where it's like time stood still,” he recalled.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Musical.ly acquired for as much as $1B by Beijing Bytedance Technology Co., maker of news app Toutiao  —  With 60 million monthly users, startup sells to Chinese maker of news app Toutiao  —  Musical.ly Inc., the maker of a lip-syncing app popular among teens and tweens …
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CHINAdaily:
Beijing Bytedance Technology Co. to invest $50M in Cheetah Mobile's Live.me streaming service and buy Cheetah Mobile's news aggregator News Republic for $86.6M
more at Techmeme »
Julia Angwin / ProPublica:
How three ProPublica reporters were attacked with cheap Twitter bot swarms and “email bombs” that forced the shutdown of all email accounts  —  It was 10 a.m. on a hot, humid Tuesday in August when I decided I could finally relax.  After a frantic weekend of finishing a big story …
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Disney misses with Q4 net income of $1.75B, down 1% YoY, on $12.78B in revenue, down 2.8% YoY and below $13.2B estimated  —  Shares of Disney rose prior to the closing bell on Thursday but are roughly flat for the year, even as Wall Street in general has been in rally mode.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Playboy sues Boing Boing for a 2016 post that linked to a collection of centerfold pictures on Imgur and YouTube, which has since been taken down  —  Playboy apparently has lawyers with itchy trigger fingers.  As first spotted by Law360, Playboy Entertainment Group has sued the BoingBoing …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Since 2010, the Drudge Report has linked to Infowars, RT, and Sputnik more than 1,000 times  —  By July 2016, according to the analysis site SimilarWeb, Matt Drudge's link-aggregation site Drudge Report was the second-most-visited on the Internet in the United States.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK's National Union of Journalists is pursuing equal pay for 100+ female members at the BBC; NUJ survey says 8 out 10 women members believe pay disparity exists  —  Eight out of ten women journalists at the BBC believe they are paid less than male counterparts, according to a survey carried out by the National Union of Journalists.
 
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Katherine Cowdrey / The Bookseller:
BBC releases its first interactive audio story, The Inspection Chamber, on Amazon Echo; listeners insert themselves in the story and steer the plot via voice
Discussion: bbc.co.uk and CNET
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sean Parker says social media networks like Facebook exploit a vulnerability in human psychology and wonders about effects on productivity and children
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MIT Technology Review:
MIT Technology Review names Gideon Lichfield, a founding Quartz editor, as editor in chief
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times is launching a monthly kids' print section with puzzles, an advice column, and stories starting November 19 and lasting through 2018
 

 
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
US prosecutors charge two founders of Samourai Wallet, saying the crypto mixing service facilitated more than $100M in money laundering transactions
 
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