10 things in tech you need to know today, November 7

Elon
Musk agreed to build tunnels in San Francisco after Mark Benioff
asked him on Twitter.
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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this
Wednesday.

1. 
   Amazon employees are gearing up to confront CEO Jeff Bezos at
   an all-staff meeting this week about selling facial recognition
   software to law enforcement. Employees are
   urging their colleagues to put pressure on the company at an
   all-staff meeting Thursday by inundating CEO Jeff Bezos with
   questions, Recode reports.
2. 
   Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian says “hustle porn” is “one of the most
   toxic, dangerous things in tech right now” at Web Summit on
   Tuesday. “Hustle porn” is the fetishization of
   extremely long working hours, and Ohanian said he let his own
   mental health go when he built Reddit.
3. 
   Marc Benioff invited Elon Musk to dig tunnels in San
   Francisco for a new transportation system, and the Tesla
   founder accepted. The Salesforce CEO asked Musk on
   Twitter whether the Boring Company could come to San Francisco,
   and Musk replied: “Sure, we can do it.”
4. Facebook said
   that the 100 accounts it removed ahead of the midterm elections
   for “inauthentic behavior” may well be
   Russian. Facebook’s head of cyber security
   policy told TechCrunch that the company blocked over 100
   accounts after receiving a tip-off from law enforcement that
   they could be connected to the Russia-based Internet Research
   Agency.
5. 
   A federal judge ruled that chip seller Qualcomm must license
   some of its technology to competitors. The
   preliminary ruling came in an antitrust lawsuit against
   Qualcomm brought by the US Federal Trade Commission in early
   2017.
6. 
   The FCC is calling for all phone carriers to implement
   effective caller ID by 2019. The FCC’s Chairman
   Ajit Pai said this was important in combating “illegal
   robocalls.”
7. 
   The president of Samsung says “we should really worry about
   ethics” as artificial intelligence moves into your
   DNA. Samsung Electronics president Young Sohn told
   Business Insider about his concerns around AI exploits health
   and DNA data.
8. 
   One of Microsoft’s fastest-rising stars is leaving the company
   with the intention of “getting back to building new
   things.” Javier Soltero, who came to Microsoft
   after his startup, Acompli, was acquired in 2014, is leaving
   after four years.
9. 
   Samsung is hinting that it will reveal its long-awaited
   foldable phone on November 7. Samsung’s foldable
   phone has been nicknamed “Galaxy F” and “Galaxy X.”
10. Tinder’s paying user base went up from
    3.8 million last quarter to 4.1 million this quarter, and is
    projected to bring in $800 million in revenue this
    year. Tinder’s parent company Match Group
    surpassed its forecasted revenue for Q3.

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