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Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch:
Adobe Upgrades Creative Cloud, Adds New Mobile Apps And Creative Hardware  —  Adobe aims to establish itself as more of a service platform today with a focus on mobile first and the largest overhaul of Creative Cloud desktop applications to date.  —  All 14 desktop applications in Adobe's creative suite get an upgrade.
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Live from Amazon's ‘amazing’ new device event  —  Amazon has promised something “amazing” and everybody's expecting a phone with a wild 3D interface.  Amazon's event starts Wednesday morning at 10:30PT / 1:30ET.  Don't miss it.  And let's be honest: we're pretty sure we know what we're going to see.
Nick Summers / The Next Web:
Amazon's first smartphone is finally here: Meet the Fire Phone  —  In a move that will surprise absolutely no-one, Amazon today unveiled its first smartphone.  —  The device has a 4.7 inch IPS LCD HD display, made of Gorilla Glass.  It displays at 590 nits of bringness, and has a circular polarizer to improve viewing angles outdoors.
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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases new cheaper iMac with low-end processor, priced at $1099  —  As rumored last week, Apple has today released a new model of iMac.  These machines are considerably cheaper than their predecessors, priced at $1099.  Previously, the cheapest iMac SKU was priced at $1299 (which is now the mid-range model).
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
People Invested $1 Million In An App That Just Says ‘Yo’  —  It only took 8 hours to build the app, and the only thing it does is allow you to send the word ‘Yo’ to your friends.  To many, it seems like a joke.  But its inventor, Or Arbel, is totally serious.
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
BlackBerry signs deal with Amazon App Store to bring 200,000 Android apps to BlackBerry 10.3  —  BlackBerry has just announced a deal that will see more than 200,000 Android apps made available for BlackBerry devices via the Amazon App Store when the new version of BlackBerry's operating system arrives later in the year.
Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:
Facebook has built its own switch.  And it looks a lot like a server  —  Not content to remake the server, Facebook's engineers have taken on the humble switch, building their own version of the networking box and the software to go with it.  The resulting switch, dubbed Wedge …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Fab Is Buying Helsinki's One Nordic Furniture To Score Original Products  —  Earlier this month Re/code reported that designer portal Fab was eyeing up a European furnishings site to move further into the area of building its own stock and away from reselling others', and today comes news …
More: VatorNews, Mashable and Re/code.  Thanks:@ingridlunden
Kellex / Droid Life:
Samsung Announces Galaxy S5 LTE-A for Korea - Features QHD Display, Snapdragon 805, and 3GB RAM  —  Samsung took the wraps off a brand new variant of the Galaxy S5 this evening in Korea, one that will surely disappoint and excite many of you at the same time.
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
Hackers Seen Using YouTube to Sell Stolen Credit Cards  —  A review of content on Google Inc. (GOOG)'s YouTube service turned up dozens of videos selling stolen credit card data, according to an Internet-safety research group trying to shed more light on an $18 billion illicit industry.
Jackie Reses / Yahoo:
Yahoo the latest to disclose diversity: 62% men globally, and 50% white in US, more diverse than Google  —  Workforce Diversity at Yahoo  —  Here at Yahoo we are committed to attracting, developing and retaining a diverse workforce.  We're in the business of building products for hundreds …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
P.F. Chang's Breach Likely Began in Sept. 2013  —  The recently-announced credit card breach at P.F. Chang's Chinese Bistro appears to have gone on for at least nine months: New information indicates that the breach at the nationwide restaurant chain began on or around Sept. 18, 2013 …
Richard Stiennon / Security Current:
CloudFlare acquires and shutters VPN service CryptoSeal, plans CloudFlare VPN service in 2015  —  CloudFlare Acquires CryptoSeal  —  ClouldFlare, the CDN like DDoS defense and security service, announced the acquisition of CryptoSeal, a personal VPN service, this morning.
James Temple / Re/code:
Spire Launches a Wearable Device That Measures Breathing  —  A San Francisco startup has developed a wearable device that monitors breathing patterns and a mobile app that suggests adjustments, promising to allow users to control stress levels or otherwise improve their states of mind.
Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Disruption is a dumb buzzword.  It's also an important concept  —  Jill Lepore isn't a fan of Clay Christensen's concept of disruptive innovation.  Writing in the New Yorker, she laments the growing ubiquity of the term in business in general and Silicon Valley in particular.
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
Augmented reality matures: Blippar confirms Layar acquisition, no immediate plans to rock the boat  —  UK and US-based augmented reality company Blippar has snapped up its Dutch rival Layar for an undisclosed all-cash sum, the company confirmed today following rumors of the deal last week.
Klint Finley / Wired:
Department of Energy network ESnet is capable of cross-country data transfers at 91 Gbps  —  The Shadow Internet That's 100 Times Faster Than Google Fiber  —  When Google chief financial officer Patrick Pichette said the tech giant might bring 10 gigabits per second internet connections to American homes …
More: DSLreports and The Register.  Tweets: @aarnet
Loek Essers / PC World:
Europe's top court to review personal data exchange between EU and US  —  The Irish High Court has referred to a 14-year-old agreement governing the exchange of personal data between the European Union and the U.S. to the EU's top court.  —  The referral, on Wednesday …

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
60 Minutes' CECOT segment, pulled by Bari Weiss, was mistakenly aired in Canada via an app owned by Global Television, which airs 60 Minutes in the country

Ali Watkins / New York Times:
Channel 4 says Jimmy Kimmel will share a message on Christmas Day as part of its Alternative Christmas Message show, emphasizing the importance of free speech

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