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November 30, 2015, 2:25 PM
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John Cook / GeekWire:
Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and other tech leaders form Breakthrough Energy Coalition to invest in clean energy  —  Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other tech titans form the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to invest in zero-carbon energy technologies … Some of the world's wealthiest …
Ryan Smith / AnandTech:
Apple A9X die shot by Chipworks reveals 147 mm2 SoC with 2 CPU, 12 GPU cores, and no L3 cache, made by TSMC  —  More on Apple's A9X SoC: 147mm2@TSMC, 12 GPU Cores, No L3 Cache  —  Over the Thanksgiving break the intrepid crew over at Chipworks sent over their initial teardown information for Apple's A9X SoC.
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Amazon shows off new Prime Air drone with hybrid design, is part helicopter, part airplane, can cover over 15 miles, fly over 55 mph  —  Amazon Shows Off New Prime Air Drone With Hybrid Design  —  Amazon delivered a lovely update on its ‘Prime Air’ project.
VTech:
VTech confirms that data of about 5M customer accounts and related kids profiles in its Learning Lodge app store has been accessed  —  Data Breach on VTech Learning Lodge (update)  —  VTech Holdings Limited noted that an unauthorized party accessed VTech customer data housed …
Troy Hunt / Troy Hunt's Blog:
Inside VTech hack: poorly encrypted passwords, security Q&As in plain text, kid data matched to parent addresses, no SSL, outdated software on many sites, more  —  When children are breached - inside the massive VTech hack  —  I suspect we're all getting a little bit too conditioned to data breaches lately.
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
BlackBerry Confirms It Will Exit Pakistan After Rejecting Data Monitoring Demands  —  BlackBerry has confirmed that it is exiting Pakistan entirely in response to the national government's continued demand to monitor user data on the Canadian company's service.
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Office 365 enterprise users get Skype for Business meeting, conferencing, and calling features  —  Microsoft today released new Skype for Business voice and meetings capabilities in Office 365.  The new features include Skype Meeting Broadcast, PSTN Conferencing, and Cloud PBX with PSTN Calling.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft launches PowerApps for businesses to create mobile and web-based apps without writing code on iOS, Android, and Windows  —  Microsoft takes wraps off PowerApps mobile-app creation service  —  Microsoft is opening up a limited preview of its PowerApps service for creating …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Recent cases show that Dropbox is proactively notifying law enforcement about users who upload child porn  —  After Dropbox finds a child porn collector, a chess club stops his knife attack  —  “I failed my mission to kill everyone.”  —  Dustin Brown wanted a secure grip on the two knives he had selected to slaughter the children.
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Adobe releases Premiere Clip for Android, its first video editor for Google's OS  —  Adobe releases its first video editor for Android  —  Adobe has been starting to pay more attention to Android, and that continues today with the launch of Premiere Clip, the first video editor it's brought to Google's platform.
Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch:
Smart Driving App Dash Expands Into The Trucking And Analytics Business  —  Dash, a driving app we've previously described as a “Fitbit for cars”, has announced it is expanding beyond consumer-facing products with Dash XL and Dash IQ, two new products designed for enterprise customers.

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From Mediagazer

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: Hasbro is asking child actors on Peppa Pig to sign contracts letting their voices be used for AI; a group of agents condemns the terms

Reuters:
Sources: Sky has agreed on terms to buy ITV's broadcast and streaming unit in a £1.6B deal, which will include ITV Studios acquiring Sky's Love Productions

Bloomberg Law:
Publishers that collectively own nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their products without permission or payment

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