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Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Critics say Microsoft 365's productivity score feature is enabling workplace surveillance by letting managers track employee activity at an individual level  —  Tool allows managers to use Microsoft 365 to track their employees' activity  —  Microsoft has been criticised for enabling …
Yimou Lee / Reuters:
Source: Foxconn is moving some iPad and MacBook assembly from China to Vietnam at the request of Apple, which is diversifying production amid US-China trade war  —  TAIPEI (Reuters) - Foxconn is moving some iPad and MacBook assembly to Vietnam from China at the request of Apple Inc …
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon says it will give its US full-time frontline workers a $300 bonus and part-time staff $150 in December, totaling $500M+ for the one-time holiday payments  —  - Amazon said Thursday it's giving its front-line employees a one-time bonus in time for the holidays.
Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE:
Thousands of Amazon workers in 15 countries, including call center workers, warehouse workers, and garment makers, to stage coordinated Black Friday protests  —  The day of action includes strikes and protests from garment manufacturers in Bangladesh to call center workers in the Philippines …
The Coinbase Blog:
Coinbase shares an internal email on an upcoming NYT story alleging several Black employees had negative experiences, says it “will paint an inaccurate picture”  —  In the spirit of transparency, we're sharing an internal email that was sent to our employees earlier today: … All,
Financial Times:
200+ Chinese apps are now blocked in India after the government banned another 43 apps on Tuesday, leaving Chinese tech companies facing huge losses  —  Five months after his business was banned in India, Aaron Li has resigned himself to being locked out of the country forever.
New York Times:
Staff and patients at the University of Vermont Medical Center describe devastating effects of treatment and test delays after a TrickBot ransomware attack  —  A wave of damaging attacks on hospitals upended the lives of patients with cancer and other ailments.  “I have no idea what to do,” one said.
FinSMEs:
Tehtris, a Paris-based startup that offers an XDR service that monitors IP addresses in 60 countries to stop cyber attacks, raises €20M Series A  —  Tehtris, a Paris, France-based provider of cybersecurity solutions, raised €20M in Series A funding.
Sam Shead / CNBC:
UK to launch the Digital Markets Unit, a division of CMA, in April to “govern the behavior” of platforms that dominate the market, including Google and Facebook  —  - The U.K. government said it plans to create a Digital Markets Unit (DMU) to enforce “a new code to govern …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
With Snapchat adding TikTok-like Spotlight, Twitter adding Snapchat-like Fleets, and Stories now ubiquitous, all social media apps are starting to look the same  —  Snapchat on Monday launched Spotlight, a video tab within its app that, like TikTok, distributes videos based more on how popular they are than on who created them.

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

More News

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
David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg:
Court filing: CFIUS extends the deadline for ByteDance to complete its sale of TikTok by seven days, until December 4

Earlier Picks

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
Jay Peters / The Verge:
AWS experienced an outage in North America Wednesday that affected many sites and services including Roku, Flickr, Adobe, and others
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
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”
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
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