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AWS says it is experiencing an outage in a North American region that has been ongoing since at least 11:30am ET, affecting Roku, Flickr, Adobe, and others — AWS has been experiencing an outage for hours — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's internet infrastructure service that is the backbone …
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Sources: Salesforce has held talks about acquiring Slack, although a deal is not guaranteed; Slack stock jumps 30%+ while Salesforce falls ~4% — A deal would likely value Slack at more than $17 billion and mark Salesforce's largest acquisition ever — Salesforce.com Inc. is in advanced talks …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo says Apple will introduce redesigned MacBooks with Apple Silicon and an Apple Watch with a new form factor, both in the second half of 2021 — In a report today, reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared his view on Apple's product momentum heading into the holidays.
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Apple stands by head of global security Thomas Moyer, indicted on bribery charges: “We conducted a thorough internal investigation and found no wrongdoing” — Sheriff's office allegedly sought 200 iPads in trade for concealed carry permits. — A grand jury in California's …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says it will end margin trading immediately after revised guidance from the CFTC; the feature will be fully offline by the end of December — Crypto exchange Coinbase plans to end all margin trading effective Nov. 25, 2020, due to recent regulations by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
An inside look at Facebook News Feeds of two baby boomers for three weeks around Election Day showed that comments were a primary source of debunked claims — Many Americans' feeds are nightmares. I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them. — Opinion writer at large.| New York Times: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Analysis of PS5 and Xbox Series X games, like Devil May Cry 5, CoD, and Dirt 5, shows PS5 narrowly outperforming Xbox despite Microsoft's “most powerful” claims — Microsoft has been proudly discussing how powerful its Xbox Series X console is for months now.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
For many AI researchers, OpenAI's GPT-3 has been an unexpected step toward machines that can understand the vagaries of human language — The latest natural-language system generates tweets, pens poetry, summarizes emails, answers trivia questions, translates languages and even writes its own computer programs.
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| Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: |
UK government says it will spend £250M to help carriers replace Huawei 5G tech by 2027, including around £50M in 2021 — The U.K. will spend 250 million pounds ($333 million) to diversify its sources of 5G wireless equipment after banning China's Huawei Technologies Co. from supplying the next-generation technology.
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| Dan Weil / TheStreet: |
Square buys Credit Karma Tax unit from Intuit for $50M and will integrate its free tax filing service into Cash App — Square (SQ) - Get Report shares rose Wednesday after the payments company said it's buying Credit Karma's tax unit for $50 million cash. — Credit Karma Tax …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Interpol arrests three suspected members of Nigerian email scam group TMT and says the group's malware has infected 50K+ organizations in 150 countries — The TMT group has infected more than 50,000 organizations around the world with malware. — Three Nigerians suspected of being part …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it will relaunch account verifications in early 2021 for six categories, including news, companies, and government officials, and asks for feedback — Twitter announced today it's planning to relaunch its verification system in 2021, and will now begin the process …
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