Sen. Warren asks CFTC to probe Google's "Project Bernanke", a secret program which allegedly gave Google's own ad-buying system an edge by leveraging past bids (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

How the cryptocurrency industry gained influence in Washington and became one of the biggest stumbling blocks holding up the passage of the infrastructure bill (Washington Post)

Study finds no correlation between growing up playing violent video games and increased levels of aggression 10 years later (Gamesage)

Leica’s Phone 2 is the red dot version of Sharp’s Aquos R7

Arkansas-based Zenwork, which develops tax and regulatory compliance software, raises $162.5M led by Spectrum Equity and says 100,000+ US SMBs use its services (Worth Sparkman/Axios)

Amazon launches EC2 Mac instances bringing the Intel-based Mac mini to its cloud for $1.083 per hour billed by the second (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

CISA is now being led by 15-year DHS veteran Brandon Wales; source says Wales wants to keep operating CISA's Rumor Control site, which debunked election misinfo (Eric Geller/Politico)

Meta wins fight to buy VR startup Within

SiriusXM partners with TikTok for a TikTok music channel on SiriusXM, TikTok playlists on Pandora, and re-airings of Pandora LIVE events on TikTok (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

The best Black Friday deals that you can still get

MoffettNathanson survey: 62% of Apple TV+ subscribers were on free offers in Q4 2020, only 30% said they plan to renew at the regular $4.99/month price (Todd Spangler/Variety)