10 things in tech you need to know today, November 30

Floyd Mayweather was fined by the SEC for promoting an
ICO.
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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Friday.

1. 
   Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an all-hands meeting that
   the company deserves some fault after its self-driving car
   killed a pedestrian. During an all-hands meeting
   at Uber on Tuesday, Khosrowshahi and the head of the
   self-driving car unit, Eric Meyhofer, were questioned by
   employees about the culture at the autonomous-car unit.
2. 
   Google’s Dragonfly execs didn’t take written notes and isolated
   internal teams to hide China search plans from other
   employees. The Intercept published a report on
   Thursday describing the efforts at Google to push aside
   internal security and privacy concerns over its controversial
   project, Dragonfly.
3. 
   Sheryl Sandberg reportedly wanted to know if George Soros, who
   publicly criticized Facebook, was shorting the company’s
   stock. This comes after it was revealed that
   Facebook had a relationship with the opposition-research firm,
   Definers Public Affairs.
4. 
   Floyd Mayweather Jr. and DJ Khaled will each pay more than
   $100,000 in fines to settle charges that they illegally touted
   ICOs. Mayweather received $100,000 from
   cryptocurrency comany Centra Tech to promote its ICO, while
   Khaled was paid $50,000.
5. 
   Nintendo had a record-setting Black Friday weekend, but Switch
   sales are still lower than expected after a slow
   year. Nintendo also revealed that 8 million Switch
   consoles have been purchased in the US since its launch in
   March 2017. The company expects to sell 38 million Switch units
   worldwide by March 2019.
6. 
   The software for Sennheiser’s high-end headphones has a bizarre
   and potentially dangerous bug that makes users vulnerable to
   hackers. Sennheiser has issued an update which
   every HeadSetup user, past or present, should download and
   install now.
7. 
   The CEOs of Microsoft and Google are heading to the White House
   next week. Tech executives including Microsoft CEO
   Satya Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are expected to
   attend a meeting with the Trump administration next week.
8. 
   Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is putting up $6.1 million to turn
   a hotel into transitional housing for San Francisco’s homeless
   population. The housing-renovation project is a
   partnership between Benioff, San Francisco mayor London Breed,
   and the local homeless advocacy group Tenderloin Housing
   Clinic.
9. 
   Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says the best day of his year was when
   Amazon turned off its largest Oracle data
   warehouse. On November 1, Amazon switched off its
   largest Oracle database and moved over to its own data
   warehouse, Redshift.
10. 
    E-scooters are sending dozens of people to emergency rooms, and
    the companies appear to have a double standards when it comes
    to safety. In Austin alone, one emergency room is
    seeing 10 injuries a day from scooters, the hospital’s ER
    director told CNET.

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