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November 30, 2015, 12:45 PM

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John Cook / GeekWire:
Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and other tech leaders form Breakthrough Energy Coalition to invest in clean energy  —  Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other tech titans form the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to invest in zero-carbon energy technologies … Some of the world's wealthiest …
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
BlackBerry Confirms It Will Exit Pakistan After Rejecting Data Monitoring Demands  —  BlackBerry has confirmed that it is exiting Pakistan entirely in response to the national government's continued demand to monitor user data on the Canadian company's service.
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Amazon shows off new Prime Air drone with hybrid design, is part helicopter, part airplane, can cover over 15 miles, fly over 55 mph  —  Amazon Shows Off New Prime Air Drone With Hybrid Design  —  Amazon delivered a lovely update on its ‘Prime Air’ project.
Troy Hunt / Troy Hunt's Blog:
Inside VTech hack: poorly encrypted passwords, security Q&As in plain text, kid data matched to parent addresses, no SSL, outdated software on many sites, more  —  When children are breached - inside the massive VTech hack  —  I suspect we're all getting a little bit too conditioned to data breaches lately.
VTech:
VTech confirms that data of about 5M customer accounts and related kids profiles in its Learning Lodge app store has been accessed  —  Data Breach on VTech Learning Lodge (update)  —  VTech Holdings Limited noted that an unauthorized party accessed VTech customer data housed …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Thanksgiving/Black Friday Online Sales Hit $4.5B, 34% Of Purchases Made On Mobile  —  The first two days of the holiday sales period have netted $4.45 billion in U.S. online purchases, with mobile devices — led by smartphones — accounting for a record $1.5 billion of that amount …
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft launches PowerApps for businesses to create mobile and web-based apps without writing code on iOS, Android, and Windows  —  Microsoft takes wraps off PowerApps mobile-app creation service  —  Microsoft is opening up a limited preview of its PowerApps service for creating …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Recent cases show that Dropbox is proactively notifying law enforcement about users who upload child porn  —  After Dropbox finds a child porn collector, a chess club stops his knife attack  —  “I failed my mission to kill everyone.”  —  Dustin Brown wanted a secure grip on the two knives he had selected to slaughter the children.
Jason Koebler / Motherboard:
Profile of iFixit, the company helping us continue doing DIY repairs on modern electronics  —  How to Fix Everything  —  It happened suddenly, like most of these stories do.  My alarm went off.  I kicked my leg out as I jolted awake, making solid contact with my new laptop …
Dennis Schaal / Skift:
Interview: Expedia CEO Envisions Direct Competition With Airbnb Over Next Few Years  —  Expedia Inc. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi thinks the competition with Airbnb has been a sideshow but will be increasingly direct in coming years as Expedia and HomeAway build up apartment and home inventory in cities.

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