10 things in tech you need to know today

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Friday.

1. The 17-year-old who got suspended by TikTok after posting viral videos about oppressed Muslims accused the company of lazy, racist assumptions about Islam and terrorism. TikTok apologised for suspending the teen's account.
2. Someone spotted a Cybertruck being driven on public roads close to Tesla's design headquarters. The Cybertruck is not expected to enter production until 2021.
3. Costco and Nordstrom Rack's websites both crashed as furious customers tried to shop Black Friday sales. The sites crashed even before Black Friday had technically begun.
4. Instagram and Facebook both got hit by significant outages on Thanksgiving. Almost 4,000 users reported problems with Instagram Thursday morning, according to outage-tracking website Down Detector.
5. Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou asked a Canadian court not to televise her extradition hearing for fear Donald Trump might get involved. Meng was arrested in Vancouver, British Columbia last December on the orders of US officials.
6. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said he doesn't use Google on his phone but a privacy-focused rival called DuckDuckGo. Dorsey has form when it comes to trolling big tech firms, with Facebook a particular target of his ire in recent months.
7. Elon Musk jokingly said he was actually Hank Scorpio, the maniacal, world-domination-obsessed supervillain from "The Simpsons." Scorpio features in the "Simpsons" episode "You Only Move Twice," and at the episode's climax, he attacks his enemies with a flamethrower.
8. Seven employees at cybersecurity giant Palo Alto networks had their social security numbers exposed after a partner "inadvertently" posted personal info to a website. The company, led by former SoftBank president Nikesh Arora, said it had terminated its contract with the third party responsible for the incident, but declined to disclose who it was.
9. British food delivery startup Deliveroo has lost its CFO, Bloomberg reports. Raif Jacobs joined Deliveroo from Google last year, and reportedly left the company early last month.
10. LG's head of Mobile has now been bumped up to CEO, Engadget reports. Brian Kwon will officially take up the role on December 1.

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