Techmeme: 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 (Shara Tibken/CNET)

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In an open letter, 180+ 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 …

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Tweets: @daveyalba, @dropdragonfly, @rj_gallagher, @kevinroose, @monkchips, @theintercept, @daveyalba, @alyssabereznak, @noupside, @amnesty, and @rj_gallagher. Thanks:@dropdragonfly

Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:

Chair of UK fake news inquiry: seized trove of Facebook docs shows FB engineer flagged Russian “entities” as pulling billions of FB data points per day in 2014 — Facebook claimed engineers later “found no evidence of specific Russian activity”.

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Tweets: @damiancollins, @markdistef, @passantino, and @caseynewton

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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.”

Tweets: @damiancollins and @profcarroll. Thanks:@katiecollins

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.

More: AWS News Blog, Perspectives, AWS News Blog, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Register, Beyond Search, TechCrunch, bit-tech.net, MSPoweruser, and SiliconANGLE

Tweets: @ajassy, @ow, @alexschleber, and @jwangark

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.

More: AWS News Blog, AWS News Blog, The Register, GeekWire, TechCrunch, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @nitin

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 …

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Tweets: @iconews and @iconews

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Pixel Slate review: nice hardware, including great speakers, but its Chrome OS software is riddled with bugs, and Android app integration still needs work — Great hardware undone by a hundred tiny software indignities — The tricky thing about Google's new Pixel Slate is that it checks …

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Tweets: @tomwarren, @backlon, and @pierce

Ben Thompson / Stratechery:

Apple's case before SCOTUS is about standing, and its argument is strong, but that doesn't mean App Store isn't a monopoly and rent-seeking isn't on the rise — Yesterday the Supreme Court held a hearing in the case Apple Inc. v. Pepper. “Pepper” is Robert Pepper, an Apple customer who …

More: Philip Elmer-DeWitt and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @reckless

Andrew Chung / Reuters:

During a hearing SCOTUS justices appeared open to letting Apple App Store antitrust lawsuit proceed; the plaintiffs have backing from 30 state attorneys general

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Tweets: @linamkhan, @travisbdriver, and @jeffjohnroberts

Ben Fox Rubin / CNET:

Adobe: total sales through phones on Cyber Monday hit $2.2B, up from $1.4B last year, as total traffic to online stores from mobile phones rose to 47% — The darling of retailers this holiday season is the smartphone. — Following years of less-than-stellar sales through mobile devices …

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon says Cyber Monday was the biggest shopping day in its history, topping Prime Day's 100M+ products sold, with the new Echo Dot as the best seller

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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.

More: Microsoft Azure Cloud …, Ars Technica, Petri, The Register, On MSFT, MSPoweruser, The Register, and SecurityWeek

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's multi-factor authentication service goes down for the second week in a row, causing problems for a number of Office 365 and Azure users

More: GeekWire and On MSFT

Tweets: @maryjofoley and @maryjofoley

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 …

More: The Block. Tweets: @nathanielpopper, @jcassano, @coindesk, @davidklion, and @digiphile

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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 …

More: Apple, ProgrammableWeb.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Silicon Valley Business …, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, Yourstory.com, O'Grady's PowerPage, International Business Times, 9to5Mac, Neowin, The Mac Observer, and MacRumors

Tweets: @tim_cook and @jonyiveparody

Theodore Schleifer / Recode:

Stock trading app Robinhood has hired Jason Warnick, an Amazon veteran who joined the company in 1999 and was most recently VP of finance, as its new CFO — Jason Warnick has presumably had a lot of job offers since joining Amazon in the 20th century. — The stock-trading startup Robinhood …

More: CNBC and Under the Hood

Tweets: @teddyschleifer and @alexeheath

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

In late October, Twitter banned “deadnaming” transgender users, deliberately referring to them with the wrong pronoun, as it seeks to crack down on abuse — Twitter now prohibits misgendering or “deadnaming” transgender people, alongside other harassment and abuse tactics.

More: The Next Web

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

Sources: Spotify has signed deals with major Indian music labels, clearing a path to enter the major market as soon as Q1 2019 — - Streaming service is said to launch as soon as first quarter — Swedish company seeks faster Asian growth to placate investors

More: Forbes, Variety, MediaNama, and RAIN News

Paresh Dave / Reuters:

Google has blocked gender-based pronouns from its AI-driven text suggestion feature called Smart Compose, after preventing bias proved too difficult — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google in May introduced a slick feature for Gmail that automatically completes sentences for users as they type.

More: Engadget, The Verge, CNET, KnowTechie, The Next Web, TechSpot, and Neowin

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.

More: The Verge and Engadget. Tweets: @joshconstine

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