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| Google Employees Against Dragonfly: |
In an open letter, 60 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 …
| 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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| Asha McLean / ZDNet: |
Amazon announces AWS Global Accelerator to boost performance across regions and AWS Transit Gateway, a tool to simplify network architecture and reduce overhead — The AWS Global Accelerator is expected to boost performance of global workloads and the AWS Transit Gateway is aimed at simplifying network architecture.
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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 … | 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 … | 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 … | 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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| 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.”Thanks:@katiecollins
| George Avalos / Mercury News: |
Google buys a 51.8 acre Mountain View business park with 12 buildings for $1B, in what is the Bay Area's largest real estate purchase so far in 2018 — MOUNTAIN VIEW — In an unexpected mega-deal, Google has paid $1 billion for a huge Mountain View business park, a head-spinning acquisition …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Watch Party, its group viewing feature where users can see and comment on the same video at the same time, to all profiles and Pages worldwide — Facebook Watch has failed to capture viewers with its content, so it's hoping to differentiate through the company's core strength: social.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says it's making the same machine learning courses it uses to teach its own engineers available for free to all developers through AWS — It's Cyber Monday and Amazon has one deal for its customers that's a little unexpected. The company just announced that it has made available … | Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Investigation: 8 apps with a total of 2B+ downloads from Google Play, including 7 from Cheetah mobile, exploit user permissions in an ongoing ad fraud scheme — Eight apps with a total of more than 2 billion downloads in the Google Play store have been exploiting user permissions as part …
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| Margi Murphy / Telegraph: |
WhatsApp's chief business officer Neeraj Arora announces he is leaving after seven years at the company — WhatsApp's chief business officer is leaving the company, the latest executive to flee since the messaging service was bought by Facebook. — Neeraj Arora, once tipped …
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TechCrunch, Business Insider, MediaNama, and CNBC
Tweets: @neerajarora, @ceciliakang, @vijayshekhar, and @pranavdixit
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Hacker gains access to the repo of Event-Stream, a JS library with 2M+ weekly downloads on npm, to inject BitPay's wallet apps with code that steals funds — Users of BitPay's Copay desktop and mobile wallet apps are affected. An update has been released earlier today that doesn't contain the malicious code.
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The BitPay Blog, GitHub, Ars Technica, CCN, Decrypt Media, The Hacker News, BleepingComputer, Chris Northwood, Coingeek, SiliconANGLE, CoinDesk, The Next Web, The Block, Cointelegraph.com News, The Register, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @shah_sheikh, @bitpay, @gossithedog, @okdistribute, @buttcoin, @sebastiengllmt, and @bad_packets
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
PhishLabs report: in Q3 2018, 49% of phishing sites displayed the padlock security icon next to the site's domain name in a browser address bar, up 25% YoY — Maybe you were once advised to “look for the padlock” as a means of telling legitimate e-commerce sites from phishing or malware traps.
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