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December 1, 2016, 2:00 AM
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| Jeff Barr / AWS Blog: |
Amazon debuts AWS Snowmobile, a 45 foot long container and truck capable of transporting 100PB of data securely between locations — Moving large amounts of on-premises data to the cloud as part of a migration effort is still more challenging than it should be!
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Amazon.com, SiliconANGLE, AWS Blog, Fortune, TechCrunch, TheStreet.com, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, Digital Trends, Computerworld, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, ZDNet, and The Verge
Tweets: @curtmonash, @kevinweil, @kennethn, @imkialikethecar, and @joshconstine
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces a simplified virtual private server service called Lightsail, starting at $5/month — AWS fired a shot across Digital Ocean's bow this morning at the AWS re:Invent conference when it announced new virtual private servers starting at just $5 a month.
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SiliconANGLE, AWS Blog, VentureBeat, ITworld.com, The Register, and GeekWire. Tweets: @teabass
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS debuts FPGA instances for EC2 cloud computing service, pricing TBD, for applications which typically run on GPUs lke video processing and machine learning — Amazon's AWS cloud computing service today announced that it is launching a new instance type (F1) with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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Tweets: @steipete, @brianroemmele, and @cloud_opinion
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman apologizes for editing user comments and says the company is working to combat abuse by taking action against “toxic users” — Reddit will start issuing warnings, timeouts and permanent bans to its most abusive trolls, but will also limit …
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Tweets: @redlightvoices, @omnidestiny, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @kevin2kelly, and @nellucnhoj
See also Mediagazer| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Some high-ranking Reddit moderators say they're losing hope in the site's future as users from the pro-Trump subreddit harass others, inflate vote counts, more — For the past 11 years, an eternity in internet time, Reddit has touted itself—repeatedly, and loudly—as the place to have “authentic conversations” online.| TechCrunch: |
Source: Fitbit to buy Pebble for around $34-$40M, close down its products over time; Pebble refused Citizen's $740M offer in 2015 and Intel's $70M offer in 2016 — It looks consolidation is acoming to the wearables space with Fitbit set to acquire smartwatch maker and multi-million-dollar …
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Tweets: @benjamincousins, @semil, @jessicalessin, @bryce, @amir, @justherrick, and @edzitron
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Netflix enables downloading of shows and movies to watch offline on iOS and Android for all streaming plans; selection is mostly limited to Netflix originals — For now, the selection is mostly limited to Netflix originals — You can finally take Netflix with you onto a plane or the subway.
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SiliconANGLE, Computerworld, NPR, MediaNama, Trak.in, Netflix Media Center, BuzzFeed, The Guardian, ExtremeTech, AndroidGuys, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, LarrysWorld.com, International Business Times, Investor's Business Daily, The Drum, GeekTime, CrackBerry.com, tech.co, Mashable, Geek.com, Vox, BGR, Laughing Squid, Breitbart, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Droid Life, SiliconBeat, Motherboard, InfoWorld, Digital Trends, Six Colors, Tubefilter, GeekWire, SlashGear, TalkAndroid.com, PhoneDog.com, Highsnobiety, Refinery29, BetaNews, The Verge, Adweek, Tom's Guide, DSLreports, Consumerist, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Mac Observer, Inquirer, On MSFT, CNET, AOL, Lifehacker, Forbes, CNNMoney, MobileSyrup.com, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, Ubergizmo, Android Central, POPSUGAR, Reuters, New York's PIX11, Android Authority, TIME, TechCrunch, and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @stevesi. See also Mediagazer
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla and Tor release update for Firefox zero-day vulnerability being actively exploited to deanonymize users — Critical code-execution flaw resides in Windows, Mac, and Linux. Patch now. — Developers with both Mozilla and Tor have published browser updates that patch …
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Engadget, Mozilla Security Blog, Motherboard, Softpedia News, bugzilla.mozilla.org, SlashGear, Tom's Hardware, The Verge, Malwarebytes Labs, Android Authority, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @homakov, @ameliasbrain, and @csoghoian
| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Geohot's startup Comma.ai open sources its self-driving software, Open Pilot, and its plans for compatible hardware, Comma Neo — Highway safety regulators called, so Hotz opted to offer a product with less liability. — In Silicon Valley, hacker George Hotz gained fast fame after being the first to unlock an iPhone.
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The Verge, GitHub, GitHub, Reuters, TechRadar.com, Autoblog, VentureBeat, Brad Ideas, The Truth About Cars, Business Insider, CNET, Quartz, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Engadget, The Mac Observer, and Electrek
Tweets: @stevecheney, @laurengoode, and @csoghoian
| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Opendoor raises $210M led by Norwest Venture Partners to expand to new cities next year, sources say at a valuation of at least $1B — Silicon Valley's club of unicorn startups hasn't been growing as fast as it once was, and its newest member is unlike most of is venture-backed peers.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Gooligan, new Android malware found in 86 apps in 3rd-party marketplaces, has compromised 1M+ Google accounts to date, targeting versions 4 and 5 of Android — 86 apps available in third-party marketplaces can root 74 percent of Android phones. — Researchers say they've uncovered a family …
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Adrian Ludwig, Check Point Software, Check Point Blog, eWeek, AppleInsider, CNET, CNNMoney, New York's PIX11, Redmond Pie, SecurityWeek, Patently Apple, SlashGear, Tom's Hardware, Neowin, NBC Bay Area, Forbes, TalkAndroid.com, BGR, gHacks Technology News, Mashable, SiliconBeat, Engadget, International Business Times, Pocketnow, Silicon Valley Business …, Fortune, Android Authority, Business Insider, Digital Trends, Inquirer, The Verge, and BetaNews. Thanks:@ravichandrans25
| Lory Gil / iMore: |
Apple working on fix for recent spate of invite spam affecting iCloud calendar users, says it is identifying and blocking suspicious senders — Have you been receiving spam calendar invites? Apple knows about the problem and is working on a solution. In the meantime, we've got a workaround that will ease your burden.
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Tweets: @reneritchie and @beninato
| John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
Amazon and Techstars partner on 13-week conversational AI startup accelerator offering $20K initial investment and $100K convertible note option upon completion — Big tech companies have been creating accelerators left and right to evangelize their brands and get developers engaged with APIs and other open-source efforts.
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Amazon Developer Services, Techstars, SiliconANGLE, and GeekWire
| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
FBI gains ability to hack computers in any jurisdiction with warrant, as Senator Wyden's attempts to block changes to the criminal procedure rules failed — A last-ditch effort in the Senate to block or delay rule changes that would expand the U.S. government's hacking powers failed Wednesday …
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Gizmodo, Engadget, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, The Hill, International Business Times, The Register, and ZDNet
Tweets: @aprilaser and @geminiimatt
Thanks:@dnvolz| Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
Report: ad tech company AppNexus has filed confidentially for an IPO, expected around Q2 2017, valuing the company between $1.5B and $2B — AppNexus' long-awaited IPO is about to happen. — The ad tech company has filed paperwork confidentially for an initial public offering …
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Wall Street Journal, AdExchanger, and The Drum
Tweets: @telisdemos, @scottmaustin, @nickstatt, and @ajs
See also Mediagazer| Hugh McIntyre / Forbes: |
Spotify unveils Singles, a new weekly series featuring exclusive recordings, replaces Sessions with Live — Throughout the year, Spotify has seemingly focused its vast resources on several areas: playlists, acquisitions, and original content. The latter of the three has only been a topic …
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| Elissa Murphy / Google: |
Google debuts App Maker, a drag-and-drop app development platform for G Suite users, aimed at speed and ease of use — G Suite is designed to help you do your best work, whether that's through real-time collaboration that brings your teams together or machine intelligence that speeds up everyday tasks.
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Angry Birds maker Rovio spins off Hatch, a freemium subscription video game streaming service, which will launch an invite-only beta for Android early next year — Finland's Rovio announced today that it has created a new company called Hatch Entertainment that is developing a Spotify-like service for mobile video games.Sponsor Posts
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