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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 …
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Tweets: @jessicalessin, @bryce, @benjamincousins, @semil, @charlesarthur, @amir, @justherrick, and @edzitron
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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 …
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Tweets: @redlightvoices, @omnidestiny, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @kevin2kelly, and @nellucnhoj
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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.
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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!
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces a simplified virtual private server service called Lightsail, starting at $5/month — AWS fired a shot across Digital Ocean's bow this morning at the AWS re:Invent conference when it announced new virtual private servers starting at just $5 a month.
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| 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 …
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Tweets: @homakov, @ameliasbrain, and @csoghoian
| 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.
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| 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.
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Opendoor raises $210M led by Norwest Venture Partners to expand to new cities next year, sources say at a valuation of at least $1B — Silicon Valley's club of unicorn startups hasn't been growing as fast as it once was, and its newest member is unlike most of is venture-backed peers.
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| 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 …
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BGR, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Engadget, The Hill, The Hacker News, Gizmodo, International Business Times, The Register, ZDNet, and Privacy Online News. Tweets: @aprilaser. Thanks:@dnvolz
| John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
Amazon and Techstars partner on 13-week conversational AI startup accelerator offering $20K initial investment and $100K convertible note option upon completion — Big tech companies have been creating accelerators left and right to evangelize their brands and get developers engaged with APIs and other open-source efforts.
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| 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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| Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
Report: ad tech company AppNexus has filed confidentially for an IPO, expected around Q2 2017, valuing the company between $1.5B and $2B — AppNexus' long-awaited IPO is about to happen. — The ad tech company has filed paperwork confidentially for an initial public offering …
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