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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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| 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, Insider, Forbes, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @heychelseatroy, @teamcoworker, @stevekovach, @nomadicmatt, @jason_koebler, @josephfcox, @laurenkgurley, @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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Ars Technica, MacRumors, Reuters, The Hill, PhoneArena, Pixel Envy, Not the Bee, Ubergizmo, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Washington Times, Daily Mail, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, iMore, iThinkDifferent, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iMore, Fortune, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Insider, CNET, Livemint, TheStreet, and iClarified
| 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.
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YouTube, Ubisoft, VentureBeat, Blockworks, HotHardware.com News, CoinDesk, IGN, Dexerto, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, Protocol, VICE, Game Developer, Polygon, GamesIndustry.biz, thegamer.com, and Video Games Chronicle
Tweets: @ubisoft, @innesmck, @futterish, @mitchyd, @tezos, @daveweigel, @dippizuka, @chrisbratt, @genepark, @sayemahmd, @kevinlasean, @tezos, @alexhern, @alexhern, @chrisbratt, @chrisbratt, @nftyq, @jasonschreier, @joshbusker, and @stroughtonsmith
| 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, CNBC, Insider, The Verge, Bloomberg, Engadget, New York Post, TheStreet, CNET, PetaPixel, and Protocol
Tweets: @senblumenthal, @senblumenthal, @amyklobuchar, @senblumenthal, @instagram, @mosseri, @jeremarketer, @jason_kint, @slpng_giants, @mango_press_, @roncharles, @karaswisher, @rmac18, @dmccabe, @alexvoica, @swodinsky, @stevekovach, @steveschmidtses, @andymstone, @slpng_giants, @gregorynyc, @hypervisible, and @metanewsroom
| 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, Social Media Today, Engadget, TechSpot, TechCrunch, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @ludwig, @jonty, @mattbirchler, @robinwauters, @licuende, @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, Livemint, ZDNet, Engadget, TechCrunch, Dark Reading, BleepingComputer, cybernews.com, The Record, Slashdot, and The Hill
Tweets: @kent_walker, @business, @briankrebs, @shanehuntley, @robleathern, @karolcummins, and @josephmenn
| 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.| 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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Tweets: @adamserwer, @sensherrodbrown, @jeneps, and @helaineolen
| 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| 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, Platformer, Engadget, Protocol, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @jank0, @alexeheath, @scobleizer, @martinsfp, @alexeheath, @roberee, @thedextriarchy, @stevekovach, and @edzitron
| 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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| 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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Facebook: Stan Chudnovsky. Tweets: @sal19, @kurtwagner8, @harrymccracken, @mattnavarra, @newsynick, @stevekovach, and @alexeheath
| 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.”| 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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Gizmodo, GeekWire, Raw Story, Axios, and Slashdot
Tweets: @sarafischer, @damianradcliffe, @thomaswheatley, and @rajgopal88
| 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 …
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US English, ZDNet, afrotech.com, and Quartz
| 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 … | 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, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Protocol, and PCMag
Tweets: @heckscaper, @starfire2258, @blitzrick, and @makinakid
| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung merges its mobile and consumer electronics divisions into one business unit led by JH Han, and names Kyehyun Kyung as the CEO of its semiconductor unit — The Galaxy-device maker's smartphone and TV divisions will now be run by a single CEO. — Samsung said on Tuesday it has merged …
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| 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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PhoneArena, MSPoweruser, and SamMobile
| Lizzy Lawrence / Protocol: |
Q&A with Julien Codorniou, the outgoing head of Meta's Workplace, on expanding into enterprise services, maintaining privacy, the future of Workplace, and more — As a parade of executives have announced plans to leave Meta (formerly known as Facebook), employees know exactly where to look …
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| 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 … | Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Anyscale, which helps apps run efficiently across distributed infrastructure with the open-source project Ray, raises a $100M Series C led by a16z and Addition — The UC Berkeley computer science labs, from which seven academics formed $38 billion data startup Databricks, have minted a second billion-dollar business.| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Blockchain analysis startup TRM Labs raises a $60M Series B from Tiger Global, Amex, Visa, Citi, Block, PayPal, after Mastercard's CipherTrace acquisition — Blockchain investigations firm TRM Labs said Tuesday it raised $60 million in a round whose diverse backers highlight the crypto analytics industry's influential reach.
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SiliconANGLE, TRM Labs, FinSMEs, Finovate, Business Wire, Crypto Briefing, and Reuters. Tweets: @coindesk
| Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
Stitch Fix reports Q1 revenue of $581M vs $571M est. and cuts its revenue outlook for the fiscal year, citing ongoing supply chain pressures; stock drops 15%+ — - Stitch Fix reported a narrower-than-expected fiscal first-quarter loss and beat analysts' sales expectations.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Portland-based Torq, which offers no-code security tools that automate workflows, raises a $50M Series B led by Insight Partners — The news: Portland, Ore.-based startup Torq landed a $50 million Series B round. Founded last year, the 71-person company helps customers automate their security processes.
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Oregonian, Portland Business Journal, TechCrunch, Torq, CTech, and VentureBeat
| Thomas Black / Bloomberg: |
Quantinuum, recently spun off from Honeywell, offers the first product created solely by a quantum computer, encryption keys that it claims can't be predicted — - Company says quantum computing's power improves security — Product to compete against offerings from Amazon, MicrosoftSponsor Posts
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