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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Amazon says it resolved the underlying issues that caused an AWS outage starting around 10:45am ET and is “working towards recovery of any impaired services” — Amazon says “many services have already recovered” — Problems with some Amazon Web Services cloud servers …
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Insider, AWS Status, Washington Post, Financial Times, Gizmodo, TechRadar, Detroit News, Cryptonews, ComputerWeekly.com, MediaNama, PC Gamer, Reuters, Newser, BGR India, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Bagheera’s Newsletter, iTnews, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Insider, govtech.com, Cord Cutters News, Kotaku, SiliconANGLE, HotHardware.com News, Australian Financial Review, Bloomberg, Smartsheet Status, EdScoop, Game Rant, AFTVnews, Associated Press, IGN, Polygon, The Register, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, and iMore
| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
The AWS outage took down Amazon's Flex and Dolphin apps for logistics and time tracking, halting some deliveries — There's a mix of frustration and joy from workers as AWS outages cause chaos with Amazon's delivery infrastructure during its busy season. — Websites and online services …
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CNBC, Silicon Republic, The Guardian, Coinspeaker, BleepingComputer, Forbes, Insider, and TechCircle
Tweets: @teamcoworker, @stevekovach, @nomadicmatt, @jason_koebler, @josephfcox, @laurenkgurley, @heychelseatroy, @vice, and @motherboard
| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Ubisoft will add NFT items into its games, starting with Ghost Recon Breakpoint on the Tezos blockchain, becoming the first major gaming company to do so — In brief — Major game publisher Ubisoft will implement in-game NFT items into its games, starting with Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint.| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter is testing a process for reporting harmful tweets that lets US users describe what happened and will use the data to improve its responses — Twitter is trying out some changes to the way that users report tweets that they believe might break Twitter's rules.
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Twitter, Social Media Today, Pocket-lint, The Verge, MobileSyrup, and Engadget
Tweets: @twittersafety, @wongmjane, @b_fung, @mmasnick, @mspec_positive, and @twittersupport
| Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: |
Google sues two Russians it claims help run a botnet that has infected 1M+ devices and uses command-and-control server addresses stored on Bitcoin's blockchain — - Complaint says the two created a sophisticated ‘botnet’ — Glupteba sells stolen logins, credit cards, Google says
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The Keyword. More:
Google, infosecurity-magazine.com, Engadget, ZDNet, fossbytes.com, Livemint, Dark Reading, TechCrunch, cybernews.com, and The Record
Tweets: @business, @briankrebs, @shanehuntley, @robleathern, @karolcummins, @josephmenn, and @kent_walker
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Report details the supply chain issues that forced Apple to significantly scale down its iPhone and iPad production plans — As Apple's ever-important holiday shopping season continues, the company is facing what a new report from Nikkei Asia describes as the “nightmare before Christmas.”
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iThinkDifferent, TechRadar, PhoneArena, Financial Times, iMore, Reuters, Softpedia News, MacRumors, and iClarified
Tweets: @nikkeiasia and @ericjhonsa
| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple's first AR headset, weighing 300g-400g, will enter mass production in late Q4 2022; Apple is planning a lighter second-gen headset for launch in 2024 — Apple is already working on its second-generation AR headset, which will feature a lighter design, adopt a new battery system …
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iThinkDifferent, iMore, and iPhone Hacks
| David McCabe / New York Times: |
Ahead of a congressional hearing, Adam Mosseri outlines Instagram parental controls coming in March, including monitoring time spent and bulk deleting posts — Adam Mosseri, the head of the company, is expected to face questions from lawmakers this week about whether social media harms children.
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Meta. More:
Senate Commerce Committee, Tech Transparency Project, NBC News, Washington Post, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Insider, PetaPixel, New York Post, and The Verge
Tweets: @senblumenthal, @senblumenthal, @instagram, @mosseri, @slpng_giants, @mango_press_, @senblumenthal, @karaswisher, @rmac18, @rmac18, @dmccabe, @amyklobuchar, @mattnavarra, @rmac18, @donie, @steveschmidtses, @slpng_giants, @congressmanraja, @rmac18, @hypervisible, @rmac18, @metanewsroom, @jason_kint, @jeremarketer, @roncharles, @gregorynyc, @stevekovach, @swodinsky, @alexvoica, and @andymstone
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Parag Agrawal was Jack Dorsey's only serious candidate to replace him as Twitter CEO and Elliott Management did not demand that Dorsey resign — Activist investor Elliott Management cranked up pressure for the social network's board to set a succession plan
Tweets: @abebrown716 and @teddyschleifer
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter acquires messaging app Quill, which will shut down and delete all user data on December 11 after launching in February to challenge Slack — In February 9to5Mac reported on the launch of a focus-focused Slack competitor called Quill. Today Twitter is bringing Quill under its wing …
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Quill, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Social Media Today, Waivly, TechSpot, Engadget, iTnews, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @ludwig, @jonty, @mattbirchler, @can, @chrismessina, @licuende, @kayvz, @justjake, @dr, @caseynewton, @robinwauters, @martinsfp, and @carnage4life
| Bloomberg: |
Crypto critic Saule Omarova, who was Biden's pick to lead the OCC, withdraws her name from consideration following Senate fights over her background — President Joe Biden's pick to lead a key U.S. banking regulator has withdrawn her name from consideration, according to a statement from the White House.
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New York Times, The White House, CoinDesk, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, NPR, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, HuffPost, Financial Times, Reuters, The Independent, Mediaite, New York Magazine, The Week, Axios, Politico, CNBC, MarketWatch, and The Hill
Tweets: @adamserwer, @mattdizwhitlock, @jeneps, @helaineolen, @coindesk, and @sensherrodbrown
| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Equinix acquires West African data center company MainOne, which services businesses in more than 10 countries, for $320M — The African tech scene woke up today to exciting news about the landmark acquisition of MainOne, one of the region's most important and pivotal tech companies in the past decade … | Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Tim Cook brokered a secret five-year deal with China in 2016, paving the way for Apple's success by promising to invest $275B+ in the country's economy — Interviews and internal Apple documents provide a behind-the-scenes look at how the company made concessions to Beijing and won key legal exemptions.
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Reuters, MacRumors, news.com.au, Ars Technica, TechSpot, Not the Bee, Pixel Envy, PhoneArena, Pocketnow, Benzinga, The Signal, Ubergizmo, Washington Times, The Hill, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Insider, TheStreet, iMore, and Daily Mail
Tweets: @waynema, @caseynewton, @niubi, @elliosch, @amir, @parismartineau, @mikesington, @benthompson, @zeyiyang, @alexeheath, @marcoarment, @thurrott, @carnage4life, @willoremus, @bgurley, @caseynewton, @brianfishman, @johnlmacfarlane, @palmerluckey, @benthompson, @benthompson, @joshdcaplan, @carnage4life, and @amir
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches a website that lets fans buy digital tokens called Stars to tip Facebook creators using Facebook Pay, avoiding app store payment commissions — Meta (formerly Facebook) has found a new way to avoid the app stores' commissions on in-app purchases with the launch of a new website …
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Social Media Today, Facebook, Adweek, 9to5Mac, and Meta
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Easol, which offers event management tools, raises a $25M Series A led by Tiger Global — The gradual return of tourism and travel in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic continues to see a wave of startups raising rounds of funding to meet new opportunities in the market.
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Tech.eu, VentureBeat, Insider, and PhocusWire
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers discover 27 vulnerabilities in the Eltima SDK, a library used by numerous cloud providers including AWS to remotely mount a local USB device — Researchers have discovered 27 vulnerabilities in Eltima SDK, a library used by numerous cloud providers to remotely mount a local USB device.| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Stan Chudnovsky, Meta's Messenger chief who is also leading the integration of Meta's messaging services, will leave the company in Q2 2022 — The executive has been overseeing efforts to integrate the company's messaging services — Stan Chudnovsky, the Meta Platforms Inc. executive running Messenger …
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CNBC, Wall Street Journal, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, TheStreet, Protocol, and TechCrunch
Facebook: Stan Chudnovsky. Tweets: @sal19, @kurtwagner8, @harrymccracken, @mattnavarra, @newsynick, @stevekovach, and @alexeheath
| Analyst1: |
Researchers discover cybercrime forums acting as an informal court system on the Dark Web, where criminals can file grievances and settle disputes with peers — Introduction — Over the past few weeks the FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ), Interpol, and other international law enforcement agencies … | Axios: |
Seventeen groups representing ~150 newspapers quietly filed antitrust lawsuits in the past year against Google and Meta for monopolizing the digital ads market — Newspapers all over the country have been quietly filing antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook for the past year …
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Raw Story, Gizmodo, Transistori, GeekWire, and Axios
Tweets: @sarafischer, @damianradcliffe, @thomaswheatley, and @rajgopal88
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
French financial super app Lydia raises a $100M Series C at a $1B+ valuation — Just a few weeks after announcing stock and crypto trading, French fintech startup Lydia is announcing that it has raised a $100 million Series C round. With this funding round, the startup has reached a unicorn valuation …
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CoinDesk, Sifted, The Block, and The French Tech Journal
| Gijong Lee / The Elec: |
Sources: Samsung partnered with Microsoft this summer on a HoloLens project slated to launch in 2024; Samsung will likely be the hardware manufacturer — Samsung Electronics has started an augmented reality (AR) HoloLens project with Microsoft, TheElec has learned.
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Wall Street Journal, MSPoweruser, and PhoneArena
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Claroty, which protects industrial systems from “cyber-physical” attacks, raises $400M led by Vision Fund 2 and others, source says at a ~$2B valuation — Worried that cyberattacks are “a threat to humanity,” the New York startup claims it's the best-funded company in its field thanks …
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VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, and CTech
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
The Senate confirms Jessica Rosenworcel to lead the FCC, the first female chair in the agency's history, in a 68 to 31 vote — She will be the first female chair in FCC history — On Tuesday, the Senate voted 68 to 31 to confirm Jessica Rosenworcel's re-appointment to the Federal …
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