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December 1, 2016, 7:40 AM
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TechCrunch:
Report: Fitbit to acquire Pebble, will shutter company over time; source says deal is worth $34-40M, below Citizen's $740M 2015 offer, Intel's $70M 2016 offer  —  It looks consolidation is acoming to the wearables space with Fitbit set to acquire smartwatch maker and multi-million-dollar …
Jeff Barr / AWS Blog:
Amazon debuts AWS Snowmobile, a 45 foot long container and truck capable of transporting 100PB of data securely between locations  —  Moving large amounts of on-premises data to the cloud as part of a migration effort is still more challenging than it should be!
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
AWS debuts FPGA instances for EC2 cloud computing service, pricing TBD, for applications which typically run on GPUs lke video processing and machine learning  —  Amazon's AWS cloud computing service today announced that it is launching a new instance type (F1) with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
Ron Miller / TechCrunch:
Amazon announces a simplified virtual private server service called Lightsail, starting at $5/month
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Amazon debuts AI platform with tools for devs: Rekognition for image recognition, Polly for text-to-speech, and Lex, a chatbot builder using tech behind Alexa
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman apologizes for editing user comments and says the company is working to combat abuse by taking action against “toxic users”  —  Reddit will start issuing warnings, timeouts and permanent bans to its most abusive trolls, but will also limit …
Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo:
Some high-ranking Reddit moderators say they're losing hope in the site's future as users from the pro-Trump subreddit harass others, inflate vote counts, more  —  For the past 11 years, an eternity in internet time, Reddit has touted itself—repeatedly, and loudly—as the place to have “authentic conversations” online.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Mozilla and Tor release update for Firefox zero-day vulnerability being actively exploited to deanonymize users  —  Critical code-execution flaw resides in Windows, Mac, and Linux.  Patch now.  —  Developers with both Mozilla and Tor have published browser updates that patch …
Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:
Geohot's startup Comma.ai open sources its self-driving software, Open Pilot, and its plans for compatible hardware, Comma Neo  —  Highway safety regulators called, so Hotz opted to offer a product with less liability.  —  In Silicon Valley, hacker George Hotz gained fast fame after being the first to unlock an iPhone.
Lory Gil / iMore:
Apple working on fix for recent spate of invite spam affecting iCloud calendar users, says it is identifying and blocking suspicious senders  —  Have you been receiving spam calendar invites?  Apple knows about the problem and is working on a solution.  In the meantime, we've got a workaround that will ease your burden.
Dustin Volz / Reuters:
FBI gains ability to hack computers in any jurisdiction with warrant, as Senator Wyden's attempts to block changes to the criminal procedure rules failed  —  A last-ditch effort in the Senate to block or delay rule changes that would expand the U.S. government's hacking powers failed Wednesday …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Gooligan, new Android malware found in 86 apps in 3rd-party marketplaces, has compromised 1M+ Google accounts to date, targeting versions 4 and 5 of Android  —  86 apps available in third-party marketplaces can root 74 percent of Android phones.  —  Researchers say they've uncovered a family …

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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: new Doctor Who episodes are likely to remain off TV until at least 2028; the BBC says it will use a competitive process to find producers for Season 16

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
ITV says advertising revenues from the World Cup are about 30% higher than those from Euro 2024; Telemundo says it sold out of key World Cup ad inventory

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Filing: Fox Corp.'s board extends CEO Lachlan Murdoch's contract through 2030 and raises his target annual bonus to $9M and his annual equity award to $20M

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Elissa Murphy / The Keyword:
Google debuts App Maker, a drag-and-drop app development platform for G Suite users, aimed at speed and ease of use
YouTube Blog:
YouTube announces support for 4K live streams of 360-degree and standard videos; first 4K stream will be Game Awards on December 1
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Twitter rolls out the ability to create and curate Moments on mobile, two months after web
Jamie Condliffe / MIT Technology Review:
China begins piloting a system combining records on citizens to compute a “social credit score” determining eligibility for jobs, loans, travel, and more
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