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In an open letter, 210+ Google employees join Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel Project Dragonfly, its censored search engine for China — We are Google employees and we join Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel project Dragonfly, Google's effort to create …
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Tweets: @dropdragonfly, @daveyalba, @rj_gallagher, @rj_gallagher, @kevinroose, @monkchips, @theintercept, @daveyalba, @amnesty, @rj_gallagher, @noupside, and @alyssabereznak. Thanks:@dropdragonfly
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: |
Ex-Facebook staffer Mark Luckie posts 2,500-word memo detailing Facebook's “black people problem”, originally shared internally before his last day in November — In a 2,500 word internal memo released publicly this morning, former Facebook employee Mark S. Luckie delivered …
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, AWS Graviton Processor, and 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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| Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed: |
Chair of UK fake news inquiry: seized trove of Facebook docs shows FB engineer flagged Russian “entities” as pulling billions of FB data points per day in 2014 — Facebook claimed engineers later “found no evidence of specific Russian activity”.
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| Katie Collins / CNET: |
UK Parliament says it hopes to publish the internal Facebook documents seized this weekend “within the next week”, after fully reviewing them — The UK's Parliament said on Tuesday that it hopes to publish documents relating to Facebook's business practices “within the next week.”| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple's SCOTUS case is about the plaintiff's standing to sue; Apple may prevail, but that doesn't mean App Store isn't a monopoly or rent-seeking isn't growing — Yesterday the Supreme Court held a hearing in the case Apple Inc. v. Pepper. “Pepper” is Robert Pepper, an Apple customer who … | Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
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Tweets: @linamkhan, @travisbdriver, and @jeffjohnroberts
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says Cyber Monday was the biggest shopping day in its history, topping Prime Day's 100M+ products sold, with the new Echo Dot as the best seller — Amazon said on Tuesday it just had its biggest shopping day in the company's history on Cyber Monday (Monday, November 26), based on the number of products sold worldwide.
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| Elizabeth Schulze / CNBC: |
Uber fined ~$1.17M by British and Dutch authorities for a 2016 data breach and cover-up that exposed the personal details of 2.7M British and 174K Dutch users — - Uber was fined a combined $1.17 million by British and Dutch authorities Tuesday for a 2016 data breach and cover-up that exposed … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Pixel Slate review: nice hardware, including great speakers, but its Chrome OS software is riddled with bugs, and Android app integration still needs work — Great hardware undone by a hundred tiny software indignities — The tricky thing about Google's new Pixel Slate is that it checks …
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @backlon, and @pierce
| 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 …, Ars Technica, Petri, The Register, On MSFT, SecurityWeek, MSPoweruser, and The Register
| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Current and former employees of news orgs sponsored by the blockchain startup Civil say they haven't received the compensation they were promised when hired — Civil was supposed to create a more transparent and democratic model for journalism. But so far, journalists working on its platform … | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Spotify has signed deals with major Indian music labels, clearing a path to enter the major market as soon as Q1 2019 — - Streaming service is said to launch as soon as first quarter — Swedish company seeks faster Asian growth to placate investors| 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 … | Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Bird debuts Bird Platform, which sells scooters to entrepreneurs, who can add their brand and rent them out, using Bird's chargers and mechanics for a 20% cut — Bird announced today that it will sell its electric scooters to entrepreneurs and small business owners, who can then rent …
Tweets: @kateclarktweets, @sameerpatel, @martinsfp, and @jacedeloney
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Stock trading app Robinhood has hired Jason Warnick, an Amazon veteran who joined the company in 1999 and was most recently VP of finance, as its new CFO — Jason Warnick has presumably had a lot of job offers since joining Amazon in the 20th century. — The stock-trading startup Robinhood … | Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Google has blocked gender-based pronouns from its AI-driven text suggestion feature called Smart Compose, after preventing bias proved too difficult — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google in May introduced a slick feature for Gmail that automatically completes sentences for users as they type.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Red Hat announces it has acquired early-stage startup NooBaa, a Tel Aviv-based hybrid cloud data management service, amid Red Hat's own acquisition by IBM — Red Hat is in the process of being acquired by IBM for a massive $34 billion, but that deal hasn't closed yet and in the meantime …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
In late October, Twitter banned “deadnaming” transgender users, deliberately referring to them with the wrong pronoun, as it seeks to crack down on abuse — Twitter now prohibits misgendering or “deadnaming” transgender people, alongside other harassment and abuse tactics.
Tweets: @chipskylvrk and @pronounced_ing
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