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October 24, 2016, 1:45 PM
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
The New York Times is buying online consumer guide The Wirecutter, founded by former Gizmodo editor-in-chief Brian Lam; sources say NYT will pay more than $30M  —  Brian Lam sells his online consumer guide to the paper of record.  —  Amelia Krales for Recode
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.
Michael Kan / PCWorld:
Hangzhou Xiongmai admits its products were part of Mirai botnet, says it patched the flaws in September 2015 but older devices still vulnerable
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
IDC: Q3 smartwatch shipments were down 51.6% YoY to 2.7M with Apple Watch down 72% YoY to 1.1M units, but the impact of the new Apple Watch remains to be seen  —  Maybe not everyone is convinced they need a smartwatch?  According to a new industry report from IDC out this morning …
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 …
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.
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Ben Sullivan / Motherboard:
Researchers phish their way into a 3D printer-connected computer to sabotage blueprints for a drone propeller, causing the drone to crash 2 minutes into flight  —  It's 2016, and mostly anything is hackable.  And while the ramifications of computer hacks are usually limited to leaks …

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From Mediagazer

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The firings of three Stars and Stripes journalists are on hold until September 4, when a judge set an injunction hearing to pause the firings during litigation

Jem Bartholomew / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Tom Rosenstiel's idea that journalists should “run toward” AI to improve journalism, using it to collect and analyze data, find false claims, and more

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
California lawmakers unveil a bill that changes state film and TV production tax credits to soften the impact of a new tax credit cap set on corporations

Earlier Picks

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
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