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I think that interested people should just read the abstract, introduction and conclusions of the actual paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1409.1837

You will not understand the full implications of it (well, unless you are an astrophysicist), and I didn't bother with the meat of the paper (because I am also not an astrophysicist). But the abstract, introduction and conclusion are rather understandable, and far less hyperbolic than the press release. And even though I can't understand all of it, I'd much rather get a misunderstanding from the original source material, then get a compounded misunderstanding from a press-release.