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October 28, 2015, 10:15 AM
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Senate passes cybersecurity bill CISA by a vote of 74-21, remaining differences still to be resolved between House and Senate  —  CISA Security Bill Passes Senate With Privacy Flaws Unfixed  —  For months, privacy advocates have asked Congress to kill or reform the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act …
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
US regulators grant exemptions to DMCA's DRM rules for jailbreaking, remixing DVDs and Blu-rays, preserving video games, researching and modifying car software  —  Victory for Users: Librarian of Congress Renews and Expands Protections for Fair Uses  —  The new rules for exemptions …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Message Requests will replace Other Inbox for receiving messages from users outside your network of friends  —  Facebook Messenger Wants To BE Your Phone Number With New Message Requests  —  Phone numbers are dumb.  Once someone has yours, you can't stop them from contacting you.
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter reports 320M MAUs in Q3, an increase of just 4M, and EPS of $0.10 against $0.05 expected; stock down more than 12% in after-hours trading  —  Twitter Stock Tanks on Stagnant User Growth, Lowered Expectations  —  Twitter's user growth has clearly started to slow down, and that continues to hurt the business.
Mark Bergen / Re/code:
Google brings podcasting to Play Music's free and paid tiers, to be available to listeners in coming months  —  Google Brings Podcasting to Play Music, Swinging at Apple's Dominance  —  From their earliest days, podcasts were linked closely to Apple.  Their very name came from an Apple product: iPod.
Glyn Moody / Ars Technica UK:
Net neutrality: EU votes in favour of Internet fast lanes and slow lanes  —  MEPs confused by false claims, tired of the arguments, keen to conclude the file.  —  The European Parliament has passed the flawed flawed compromise text on net neutrality without including any of the amendments that would have closed serious loopholes.
Julie Bort / Business Insider:
ADP drops its defamation lawsuit against Zenefits after judge asks parties to work it out  —  ADP drops its strange defamation lawsuit against Zenefits and both companies agree to talk nice  —  After a judge flat-out told HR software giant ADP that “it seems clear to me that ADP has no claim for defamation …
Scott Soshnick / Bloomberg Business:
Michael Jordan, Mark Cuban, and Ted Leonsis invest $44M in sports data tech firm Sportradar  —  Jordan, Cuban, Leonsis Put Millions on Sports Betting's Future  —  Sportradar provides data to leagues, media and betting houses  —  ‘If the U.S. market opens up for gaming we are ready to shoot’
Slack:
Slack introduces group messages for up to nine people, private groups become private channels  —  Group Messages Come to Slack  —  We've all been there: you're late to your meeting with Judy and Tomiko and you need to quickly DM them at the same time to let them know.

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From Mediagazer

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
The North American box office records its biggest weekend ever with ~$430M in total, driven by Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
A bootleg of Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day remained on X for over seven hours, reaching 5.9M+ accounts and receiving 143K+ likes before being removed

Justin Fox / Bloomberg:
US federal statistics show that Manhattan had 8.3% of newspaper jobs in 2025, despite accounting for just 0.5% of the US population

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