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TechCrunch Daily Crunch

Daily Crunch 11/7/19

TechCrunch Daily Crunch

SpokenLayer

Tech News, Technology, News

3.849 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Welcome to TechCrunch daily news, a round up of the top tech news of the day. --The Department of Justice accuses former Twitter employees of spying for Saudi Arabia --Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 is now on sale --and Facebook faces scrutiny from California’s attorney general. Here’s your Daily Crunch for November 7, 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Department of Justice accuses former Twitter employees of spying for Saudi Arabia.

0:58.0

Microsoft's HoloLens 2 is now on sale, and Facebook faces scrutiny from California's attorney general.

1:04.3

Here's your daily crunch for November 7th, 2019.

1:07.8

First up, Saudi Arabian officials allegedly paid at least two Twitter employees to access personal information on users the government there was interested in,

1:17.5

according to recently unsealed court documents.

1:20.5

Those users were warned of the attempt in 2015, but the full picture is only now emerging.

1:26.0

According to the federal complaint, Twitter employees Ahmed Abuano and Ali al-Zabara were both approached by the Saudi government, which promised a designer watch

1:35.2

and tens of thousands of dollars if they could retrieve personal information on certain users.

1:41.0

Both Abu-Amo and Al-Zabara are charged with acting as unregistered Saudi agents, spies.

1:47.0

In gadgets earlier this year at Mobile World Congress,

1:51.0

Microsoft announced the second generation of its

1:53.1

HoloLens augmented reality visor. Today the $3,500

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