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October 24, 2016, 4:15 AM

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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 …
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 …
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Why AT&T would want to buy Time Warner: content packaged with data connections, a shrinking DirecTV business, and competition with Verizon, Facebook, and Google  —  AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is busy, so we'll answer for him.  —  More than 16 years ago, AOL bought Time Warner for $160 billion …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Researchers: Friday's internet outage, caused by DDoS attack on DynDNS, was powered in part by a Mirai-based botnet of DVRs and cameras with Xiongmai components  —  A massive and sustained Internet attack that has caused outages and network congestion today for a large number of Web sites …
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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 …
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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