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Via Gamasutra: “I used to work at [company], and it paid well and advanced my career,” the person told me. “But I recognize that [company]’s games cause great harm to people’s lives. They are designed for addiction. [company] chooses what to add to their games based on metrics that maximize players’ investments of time and money. [company]’s games find and exploit the right people, and then suck everything they can out of them, without giving much in return. It’s not hard to see the parallels to the tobacco industry.”

via MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/130294/Chasing-the-Whale-Examining-the-ethics-of-freetoplay-games

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office is looking into how much access Bloomberg news reporters may have had to information about the media and technology company’s customers.

via WSJ.com: What’s News US http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323610704578625472850004366.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us

“There is no truth to the rumor,” Lucasfilm said in a statement issued Monday. “J.J. is having a great time working on the script and is looking forward to going into production.”

via L.A. Times – Entertainment News http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-hc-jj-abrams-not-dropping-out-of-star-wars-sl,0,266812.storylink?track=rss

Third Point hedge fund sold 40 million shares for more than twice what it paid for them about two years ago.

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via Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/daniel-loebs-wild-yahoo-ride-590390

Dan Loeb’s profits on his two-year play on Yahoo! reached $1.2 billion yesterday — one of the largest scores in Wall Street history on trades of a single company’s shares.
The New York hedge fund mogul, whose Third Point fund started accumulating its 7 percent stake in the…

via NY Post: Business http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/dan_profit_UnvVTGOMTSBFNSmkUlE33I?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business

DreamWorks Animation SKG fell 4.5 percent after an analyst predicted a writedown of as much as $50 million on the new movie “Turbo,” citing a disappointing opening at the box office.
DreamWorks Animation declined to $23.77 at the close. Shares of the film studio, which fell 6 percent…

via NY Post: Business http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/dreamworks_shares_hold_wake_as_turbo_uqyxBR618tYPgqIXrRR3FK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An eight-month construction standstill at a North Korean site meant to launch bigger and better long-range rockets may signal Pyongyang is slowing or even stopping development of larger rockets, according to a new analysis of recent satellite imagery….

via AP Top Headlines At 2:48 a.m. EDT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_NKOREA_ROCKET_WORK?SITE=FLROC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

One of the world’s richest men wants to save the program for the poor.

via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/tracphone-lifeline-phone-94594.html

Control of Congress could be decided next year by the fewest number of states in a decade or more.

via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/2014-elections-the-incredibly-shrunken-battlefield-94519.html

Even without getting into slippery-slope arguments about censorship, proposals to force porn viewers to register with their internet service providers fail miserably on a technical level.

via paidContent http://paidcontent.feedsportal.com/c/35063/f/648056/s/2efd873d/l/0Lpaidcontent0Borg0C20A130C0A70C220Cthe0Euks0Eopt0Ein0Esystem0Efor0Eporn0Eis0Ea0Eterrible0Eidea0Eand0Eheres0Ewhy0C/story01.htm