Good evening!

If you’re still reading this the night before Thanksgiving, just a heads up that we’ll be off tomorrow and Friday. Hope you have a good holiday!

Here are the 7 things you missed today:

1.  🦃 What’s Open & Closed On Thanksgiving

Curious which businesses and potential competitors are OOO tomorrow? The answer is, most of them. Thanksgiving is a banking holiday in the US, so the Nasdaq and NYSE will not be trading. The US Postal Service is also closed along with every other government office. (CNN)

2. ☎️ Your Marketing Strategy Is Holding Your Brand Back

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3. 🚨 FTC Opened An Antitrust Investigation On Microsoft

The Federal Trade Commission is launching a sweeping investigation into Microsoft’s practices starting with a letter to the tech giant demanding it hand over information to help with the probe. (CNN)

4. 🛰️ FCC Approved T-Mobile & SpaceX License

The Federal Communications Commission said it has approved a license for T-Mobile and SpaceX Starlink to provide supplemental coverage from space in a bid to extend internet access to remote areas. This is the first time the FCC has authorized a satellite operator to collaborate with a wireless carrier on coverage. (CNBC)

5. 😬 Bluesky’s Open API Might Be A Problem

Bluesky has assured users that it’s not training AI systems on user content… but its open API makes it pretty easy for third parties to do so. A researcher recently pulled 1 million public posts from Bluesky for machine learning research, showing the lack of limitations of the rising platform. (TechCrunch)

6. 🇨🇳 Volkswagen Sold Its Xinjiang Car Plant

Many companies have been criticized for running forced labor operations in Xinjiang, China – and now, Volkswagen is selling its plant in the northwest China region due to “economic reasons.” The company said that there’s no business case for the plant as it’s effectively operated recently as a distribution center for models produced elsewhere. (CNN)

7.  🥷 T-Mobile Thwarted A Hacker Attack

You don’t hear about this happening much, but US phone giant T-Mobile detected “attempts to infiltrate [their] systems” in recent weeks in an industry-wide cyberattack. T-Mobile said that hackers had “no access” to customer calls, text messages, or voicemails during the attempted attack. (TechCrunch)

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