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AWS introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, AWS Graviton Processor, claims 45% lower costs for some workloads — After years of waiting for someone to design an Arm server processor that could work at scale on the cloud, Amazon Web Services just went ahead and designed its own.
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AWS News Blog, CNBC, AWS News Blog, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, The Register, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @ajassy
| Asha McLean / ZDNet: |
Amazon announces AWS Global Accelerator to boost performance across regions and AWS Transit Gateway, a tool to simplify network architecture and reduce overhead — The AWS Global Accelerator is expected to boost performance of global workloads and the AWS Transit Gateway is aimed at simplifying network architecture.| George Avalos / Mercury News: |
Google buys a 51.8 acre Mountain View business park with 12 buildings for $1B, in what is the Bay Area's largest real estate purchase so far in 2018 — MOUNTAIN VIEW — In an unexpected mega-deal, Google has paid $1 billion for a huge Mountain View business park, a head-spinning acquisition …
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Tweets: @jrbinsv, @rolandlisf, and @louisgray
| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Investigation: 8 apps with a total of 2B+ downloads from Google Play, including 7 from Cheetah mobile, exploit user permissions in an ongoing ad fraud scheme — Eight apps with a total of more than 2 billion downloads in the Google Play store have been exploiting user permissions as part …
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Android Authority, XDA Developers, The Verge, and Android Police
Tweets: @craigsilverman, @marypcbuk, @buzzfeedben, and @profcarroll
| Margi Murphy / Telegraph: |
WhatsApp's chief business officer Neeraj Arora announces he is leaving after seven years at the company — WhatsApp's chief business officer is leaving the company, the latest executive to flee since the messaging service was bought by Facebook. — Neeraj Arora, once tipped …
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Business Insider, TechCrunch, MediaNama, and CNBC
Tweets: @neerajarora, @ceciliakang, @vijayshekhar, and @pranavdixit
| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
During a hearing SCOTUS justices appeared open to letting Apple App Store antitrust lawsuit proceed; the plaintiffs have backing from 30 state attorneys general — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared open to letting a lawsuit proceed against Apple Inc …
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Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts and @travisbdriver
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says it's making the same machine learning courses it uses to teach its own engineers available for free to all developers through AWS — It's Cyber Monday and Amazon has one deal for its customers that's a little unexpected. The company just announced that it has made available … | Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Apple unveils Entrepreneur Camp to help female founders of app-driven companies with training, support, and more, hosted at Apple Park for two weeks quarterly — Apple wants to help give female developers a boost when it comes to iOS apps. — The company on Monday unveiled …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Hacker gains access to the repo of Event-Stream, a JS library with 2M+ weekly downloads on npm, to inject BitPay's wallet apps with code that steals funds — Users of BitPay's Copay desktop and mobile wallet apps are affected. An update has been released earlier today that doesn't contain the malicious code.
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CCN, Chris Northwood, Ars Technica, GitHub, SiliconANGLE, The Hacker News, The Register, The Block, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @gossithedog, @okdistribute, @buttcoin, @sebastiengllmt, @bad_packets, and @shah_sheikh
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft details three independent root causes behind last week's worldwide MFA outage that affected Azure, Office 365, Dynamics, and other Microsoft users — Microsoft has posted a root cause analysis of the multifactor authentication issue which hit a number of its customers worldwide last week.
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Microsoft Azure Cloud … and The Register
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook disbands its widely publicized “War Room”, says it wasn't a permanent solution, touts Strategic Response Team as its way to handle future crises — COO oversaw social-media company's meteoric rise, but her leadership is being questioned now
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TechCrunch, Washington Post, Financial Times, SiliconANGLE, Politico, Mashable, Fast Company, Gizmodo, CNBC, The Guardian, Forbes, Slate, The Hill, and Neville Hobson
Tweets: @jamesrbuk, @sarahfrier, @sarahfrier, @guyro, @sheeraf, @caseynewton, @sarahfrier, @raju, @jessefelder, @joshconstine, @mikalfm, @sheeraf, @caseynewton, @sarahfrier, @sarahfrier, @joshconstine, @rmac18, @mccarthyryanj, @austinbaze, @mattzeitlin, @jason_kint, @onewordlouder, @brizzyc, @dlberes, @justinhendrix, @tonyromm, @kevin_raposo, @nytimesbusiness, @nytimesbusiness, @wadhwa, @truefactsstated, @jmpalmieri, @jason_koebler, and @zenobiazag
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook confirms that older messages are resurfacing as new and unread in the Messenger tab on Facebook.com for some users, says it is working on a fix — The company is investigating the issue — Facebook users are reporting one of the stranger bugs to plague the platform of late …
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The Next Web, Neowin, and Mashable
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