Urged by China President Xi Jinping to dare to do something that has never been done before, scientists say challenges could give China huge technology lead. From a report: China is planning to build a deep sea base for unmanned submarine science and defence operations in the South China Sea, a centre that might become…

Switchzilla has a second go at fixing videoconferencing app’s ‘I’m the captain, now’ hole Cisco will take a second crack at addressing a vulnerability in WebEx that can be exploited to execute malicious code on a vulnerable installation.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Cyber Monday is over but the deals are still in swing on Amazon. We’ve got cuts on Bose products, huge device sales and more. …read more Source:: CNet

The documents are thought to contain evidence that Facebook knew about Russian interference as early as 2014. …read more Source:: CNet

Take a virtual tour of Santa Claus’ log cabin, the elves’ living quarters and more via the online real estate site. …read more Source:: CNet

Also: Transit Gateways and big bandwidth for C5 instances re:Invent Earlier this month we covered ThousandEyes’ report into cloud networking performance, in which the metrics outfit observed that Amazon offloads cloud traffic from its network at the first opportunity, compared to competitors like Google.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

There’s a battle going on in academia between the scientific journal publishing companies that have long served as the main platform for peer review and spreading information, and scientists themselves who just want to share and have access to the work of their fellows. arxiv.org launched the first salvo, allowing researchers in physics to self-publish…

The ride-hailing company is still feeling the heat. …read more Source:: CNet

Issue addressed for the many, but what of the few and their precious Outlook inboxes? Microsoft’s on-again, off-again relationship with the Outlook clients of UK Office 365 subscribers has entered its second day, and some users found themselves still unable to access their email.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

A group of Google employees have put their name to a public letter calling on the company to abandon its plans for a Chinese search product that censors results. From a report: Project Dragonfly, as the initiative is known, would enable state surveillance at a time when the Chinese government is expanding controls over the…