10 things in tech you need to know today

Lionel Cironneau/APKanye West is a fan of Twitter's Jack Dorsey.Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday.On Friday, Microsoft won the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract - clinching it over Amazon, which was thought to be the frontrunner. Microsoft and Amazon had been competing for this key Pentagon contract for over a year.Amazon Web Services is "still evaluating options" after the Department of Defense selected Microsoft for a $10 billion contract to move the agency's database to the cloud, according to a source close to the situation. An AWS spokesperson said the firm was "surprised" by the decision to pick Microsoft.Business Insider was able to easily run ads on Facebook that made blatantly misleading claims about the hot-button political

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