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Wall Street Journal:
Samsung's rushed replacement of Galaxy Note7 before finding the root cause of fires doomed the smartphone  —  On the verge of challenging Apple's mobile phone dominance, the South Korean company made a rushed decision, based on incomplete evidence, that later forced it to kill the model.
AT&T:
AT&T announces a half-stock, half-cash deal to acquire Time Warner, valuing the company at $85.4B  —  - New company with complementary strengths to lead the next wave of innovation in converging media and communications industry.  —Combination unlike any other …
Kara Swisher / Recode:
Resistance from Time Warner execs like Jeff Bewkes, head of HBO at the time, doomed the AOL merger, which raises questions about the prospects of the AT&T deal  —  The 2000 merger with AOL made Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes nauseated, so what's different now?  —  In the end, I guess you could finally say Steve Case was right.
New York Times:
AT&T-Time Warner deal will likely face tougher regulatory scrutiny and higher political hurdles than earlier Comcast-NBCUniversal deal  —  A cable and internet provider decides to buy an entertainment conglomerate.  —  The merger is met with skepticism by industry analysts and outrage …
Brendan I. Koerner / Wired:
Inside the discovery, investigation, and attempted mitigation of the devastating OPM breach last year  —  The US OFFICE of Personnel Management doesn't radiate much glamour.  As the human resources department for the federal government, the agency oversees the legal minutiae of how federal employees …
Michael Kan / PCWorld:
Xiongmai admits its products were part of Mirai botnet, says it patched the flaws in September 2015 but older devices still vulnerable  —  Botnets created from the Mirai malware were involved in Friday's cyber attack.  —  A Chinese electronics component manufacturer says its products inadvertently played …
Jessica Guynn / USA Today:
Study: share of women in the US computing workforce on pace to decline from 24% to 22% by 2025 if nothing is done  —  SAN FRANCISCO — New research warns that the number of women in the computing workforce will decline to 22% from 24% by 2025 if nothing is done to encourage more of them to study computer science.
Kevin Marks / Backchannel:
How a design trend to reduce the contrast between text and its background, driven by Apple's and Google's guidelines, is making text harder to read online  —  I thought my eyesight was beginning to go.  It turns out, I'm suffering from design.  —  It's been getting harder for me to read things on my phone and my laptop.

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Alex Ritman / Variety:
In Channel 4's 2025 Alternative Christmas Message, Jimmy Kimmel said “tyranny is booming” in the US and, on his ABC suspension, “We won, the president lost”

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
As the BBC fights Trump's $10B lawsuit and ITV plans to combine its broadcasting business with Sky in 2026, a look at the slow death of the UK's TV channels

Henry Blodget / Regenerator:
Bari Weiss' 60 Minutes decision may have been a way to both signal that she's serious about shifting CBS' sensibility to the right and “improve” a story

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