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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Amazon resolves the underlying issues that caused an AWS outage that started around 10:45am ET and is “working towards recovery of any impaired services” — Amazon says “many services have already recovered” — Problems with some Amazon Web Services cloud servers …
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status.aws.amazon.com, Insider, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, TechRadar, Bloomberg, Detroit News, iTnews, PC Gamer, The Economic Times, Insider, Kotaku, Smartsheet Status, Cord Cutters News, Associated Press, iMore, SiliconANGLE, HotHardware.com News, AFTVnews, Newser, Tom's Guide, Polygon, dot.LA, Bloomberg, iPhone in Canada Blog, Game Rant, Engadget, MobileSyrup, Australian Financial Review, The Register, govtech.com, The Sun, and The Hill
| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Delivery companies and hundreds of Amazon workers say the company's Flex and Dolphin apps for logistics and time tracking are down, halting some deliveries — There's a mix of frustration and joy from workers as AWS outages cause chaos with Amazon's delivery infrastructure during its busy season.
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CNBC, Forbes, Forbes, Insider, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @teamcoworker, @stevekovach, @nomadicmatt, @jason_koebler, @josephfcox, @laurenkgurley, @heychelseatroy, @vice, and @motherboard
| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Tim Cook brokered a secret five-year deal with China in 2016, paving the way for Apple's success by promising to invest $275B+ in the country's economy — Interviews and internal Apple documents provide a behind-the-scenes look at how the company made concessions to Beijing and won key legal exemptions.
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MacRumors, Reuters, Benzinga, The Signal, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Pixel Envy, Not the Bee, PhoneArena, Daily Mail, The Hill, Washington Times, iMore, Fortune, Insider, Ubergizmo, CNET, TheStreet, iPhone in Canada Blog, iClarified, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @waynema, @caseynewton, @benthompson, @niubi, @elliosch, @carnage4life, @amir, @mikesington, @bgurley, @benthompson, @benthompson, @parismartineau, @zeyiyang, @alexeheath, @marcoarment, @amir, @thurrott, @joshdcaplan, @willoremus, @caseynewton, @brianfishman, @johnlmacfarlane, @palmerluckey, and @carnage4life
| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Ubisoft will add NFT items into its games, starting with Ghost Recon Breakpoint on the Tezos blockchain, becoming the first major gaming company to do so — In brief — Major game publisher Ubisoft will implement in-game NFT items into its games, starting with Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter acquires messaging app Quill, which will shut down and delete all user data on December 11 after launching in February to challenge Slack — In February 9to5Mac reported on the launch of a focus-focused Slack competitor called Quill. Today Twitter is bringing Quill under its wing …
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quill.chat, TechCrunch, Engadget, Social Media Today, TechSpot, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @ludwig, @jonty, @robinwauters, @licuende, @mattbirchler, @martinsfp, @chrismessina, @carnage4life, @kayvz, @can, @justjake, @caseynewton, and @dr
| Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: |
Google sues two Russians it claims help run a botnet that has infected 1M+ devices and uses command-and-control server addresses stored on Bitcoin's blockchain — - Complaint says the two created a sophisticated ‘botnet’ — Glupteba sells stolen logins, credit cards, Google says
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The Keyword, Google, Agence France-Presse, Engadget, TechCrunch, BleepingComputer, cybernews.com, The Record, The Hill, and Dark Reading
Tweets: @business, @briankrebs, @shanehuntley, @robleathern, @karolcummins, @josephmenn, and @kent_walker
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter is testing a new process for reporting harmful tweets that lets US users describe what happened, and will use this data to improve its responses — Twitter is trying out some changes to the way that users report tweets that they believe might break Twitter's rules.
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Twitter, The Economic Times, Social Media Today, MobileSyrup, Engadget, and The Verge
Tweets: @twittersafety, @twittersupport, @wongmjane, @b_fung, and @mmasnick
| David McCabe / New York Times: |
Ahead of a congressional hearing, Adam Mosseri outlines Instagram parental controls coming in March, including monitoring time spent and bulk deleting posts — Adam Mosseri, the head of the company, is expected to face questions from lawmakers this week about whether social media harms children.
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Instagram, Senate Commerce Committee, Tech Transparency Project, NBC News, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, TheStreet, New York Post, PetaPixel, Insider, Protocol, and The Verge
Tweets: @senblumenthal, @instagram, @mosseri, @congressmanraja, @senblumenthal, @senblumenthal, @amyklobuchar, @jeremarketer, @jason_kint, @slpng_giants, @mango_press_, @roncharles, @karaswisher, @rmac18, @rmac18, @dmccabe, @rmac18, @stevekovach, @donie, @steveschmidtses, @slpng_giants, @gregorynyc, @rmac18, @hypervisible, @metanewsroom, @rmac18, @swodinsky, @alexvoica, and @andymstone
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches AWS Top Secret-West, its second Top Secret Region designed for government workloads requiring Top Secret US security classification level — “Amazon's cloud arm, AWS, announced a new ‘top secret’ region this week, designed specifically for the U.S. government. It is Amazon's second such region.| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Parag Agrawal was Jack Dorsey's only serious candidate to replace him as Twitter CEO and Elliott Management did not demand that Dorsey resign — Activist investor Elliott Management cranked up pressure for the social network's board to set a succession plan
Tweets: @teddyschleifer
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Report details the supply chain issues that forced Apple to significantly scale down its iPhone and iPad production plans — As Apple's ever-important holiday shopping season continues, the company is facing what a new report from Nikkei Asia describes as the “nightmare before Christmas.”
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The Economic Times, AppleInsider, iMore, Softpedia News, and MacRumors
Tweets: @dnystedt and @counternotions
| Bloomberg: |
Crypto critic Saule Omarova, who was Biden's pick to lead the OCC, withdraws her name from consideration following Senate fights over her background — President Joe Biden's pick to lead a key U.S. banking regulator has withdrawn her name from consideration, according to a statement from the White House.
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New York Times, CoinDesk, The White House, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, NPR, Washington Post, HuffPost, Financial Times, Reuters, The Independent, New York Magazine, The Week, Axios, American Banker, CNBC, Politico, The Hill, The Daily Beast, MarketWatch, and Mediaite
Tweets: @adamserwer, @jeneps, @helaineolen, @coindesk, and @sensherrodbrown
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Stan Chudnovsky, Meta's Messenger chief who is also leading the integration of Meta's messaging services, will leave the company, plans to stay until Q2 2022 — The executive has been overseeing efforts to integrate the company's messaging services — Stan Chudnovsky, the Meta Platforms …
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CNBC, Wall Street Journal, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Protocol, Reuters, and TheStreet
Facebook: Stan Chudnovsky. Tweets: @sal19, @kurtwagner8, @harrymccracken, @mattnavarra, @newsynick, @stevekovach, and @alexeheath
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
The Senate confirms Jessica Rosenworcel to lead the FCC, the first female chair in the agency's history, in a 68 to 31 vote — She will be the first female chair in FCC history — On Tuesday, the Senate voted 68 to 31 to confirm Jessica Rosenworcel's re-appointment to the Federal …
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Axios, CNBC, CNET, Engadget, Ars Technica, Reuters, Variety, Common Dreams, The Hill, Android Central, and Fast Company
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Snap Spectacles, announced in May: lightweight, bold design, and impressive AR, but overheating and a 30-minute battery is why they aren't on sale — Mainstream AR glasses are still years away — It doesn't take long to realize why Snap's first true AR glasses aren't for sale.
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Social Media Today, Protocol, Platformer, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @alexeheath, @scobleizer, @martinsfp, @alexeheath, @roberee, @jank0, @thedextriarchy, @stevekovach, and @edzitron
| Gijong Lee / The Elec: |
Sources: Samsung partnered with Microsoft this summer on a HoloLens project slated to launch in 2024; Samsung will likely be the hardware manufacturer — Samsung Electronics has started an augmented reality (AR) HoloLens project with Microsoft, TheElec has learned.
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Wall Street Journal, PhoneArena, and MSPoweruser
| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Equinix acquires West African data center company MainOne, which services businesses in more than 10 African countries, for $320M — The African tech scene woke up today to exciting news about the landmark acquisition of MainOne, one of the region's most important and pivotal tech companies … | Axios: |
Seventeen groups representing ~150 newspapers quietly filed antitrust lawsuits in the past year against Google and Meta for monopolizing the digital ads market — Newspapers all over the country have been quietly filing antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook for the past year …
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Axios, Gizmodo, Raw Story, Slashdot, and GeekWire
Tweets: @sarafischer, @damianradcliffe, @thomaswheatley, and @rajgopal88
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers discover 27 vulnerabilities in the Eltima SDK, a library used by numerous cloud providers including AWS to remotely mount a local USB device — Researchers have discovered 27 vulnerabilities in Eltima SDK, a library used by numerous cloud providers to remotely mount a local USB device.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches a website that lets fans buy digital tokens called Stars to tip Facebook creators using Facebook Pay, avoiding app store payment commissions — Meta (formerly Facebook) has found a new way to avoid the app stores' commissions on in-app purchases with the launch of a new website …
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Facebook, Adweek, Social Media Today, 9to5Mac, and Meta
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Discord begins testing Premium Memberships, letting creators monetize servers through tiered perks, make channels or servers exclusive to paying users, and more — You'll soon be able to subscribe directly to Discord servers — Discord is starting to test a new Premium Memberships feature …
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The Information, PCMag, and Protocol
Tweets: @starfire2258, @heckscaper, @blitzrick, and @makinakid
| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
Hong Kong-listed shares of Weibo opened down 6% in their trading debut, after the company raised ~$385M in its secondary listing — - Hong Kong-listed shares of Weibo opened down 6% in their trading debut on Wednesday. — Shares opened at 256.20 Hong Kong dollars ($32.85) … | Financial Times: |
Uber is being challenged on multiple fronts in Europe, as European Commission proposals and a UK High Court decision threaten to drive up labor costs — Brussels proposals and UK court ruling put pressure on ride-hailing app — Uber's business model is being challenged on multiple fronts in Europe …
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The Guardian, TechCrunch, London Evening Standard, euronews, The Times, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, and Financial Times
Tweets: @georgemaier and @financialtimes
| Bloomberg: |
Meta's head of research says Meta is restructuring its research department, bringing ~50 employees from teams like WhatsApp and Instagram into a central group — - Shake-up will affect 50 employees studying politics, health — Meta faces pressure over leaked research on hate speech, teens
Tweets: @ubiquity75, @ubiquity75, @ubiquity75, @ubiquity75, and @mer__edith
| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Switzerland's federal data protection and information commissioner opens a probe into text message provider Mitto after a report alleged it surveilled users — Switzerland's federal data protection and information commissioner opened an investigation focusing on a company … Sponsor Posts
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