A deep dive into Apple's M1 Ultra: two M1 Max dies combined into a single chip, 800GB/second memory bandwidth, 64 GPU cores to outperform the RTX 3090, and more
As part of Apple's spring “Peek Performance” product event this morning, Apple unveiled the fourth and final member of the M1 family of Apple Silicon SoCs, the M1 Ultra.
Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies to study the risks posed by digital assets, such as evading sanctions, and consider a digital dollar
Federal agencies to explore financial and environmental concerns and inform regulatory action
Apple details M1 Ultra, replacing the M1 Max as the top M1 chip, with 114B transistors, 128GB of unified memory, 16 performance cores, and four efficiency cores
yet it looks like a single piece of silicon to software, so apps benefit from its [...] capabilities without requiring any additional work from developers” The mad lads actually did it?! Steve Trought...
Lumen becomes the second US backbone internet provider to exit Russia, after Cogent; Russia's remaining international data sources are in Sweden, Italy, and UK
Lumen, a leading American Internet provider to Russia, announced Tuesday that it was severing business relations in the country …
Kuo: the 2022 MacBook Air will have a new form factor, an M1 chip, no mini-LED display, more color options, and is slated for production in late Q2 or Q3 2022
Following today's event that saw the introduction of the Mac Studio, respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has provided some detail …
Apple says the Mac Studio starts at $1,999 with an M1 Max and at $3,999 with an M1 Ultra; the Studio Display costs $1,599
Mac Studio with M1 Max and the new M1 Ultra delivers unprecedented performance and extensive connectivity in an incredibly compact design
Amazon stops letting customers in Russia and Belarus open AWS accounts; AWS says its biggest customers in Russia are multinational firms with local dev teams
Amazon's Cybersecurity Assistance for Ukraine - https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ... “As this conflict continues, #AWS and Amazon are actively assisting and will carry on doing so into the future for both...
Two Austrian entrepreneurs acquire the assets of LimeWire, the music sharing service shuttered in 2010, and plan to relaunch it as a music-focused NFT service
A pair of serial entrepreneurs in Austria has bought the rights to defunct music platform LimeWire with plans to revamp its image …
Twitter launches a Tor onion service using a modified version of the Enterprise Onion Toolkit, letting users access Twitter via any Tor-compatible browser
The site may become the most significant onion service created if it allows people to access Twitter from censored countries. — Joseph Cox Source: @alecmuffett .
Weight Watchers agree to pay a $1.5M penalty for illegally collecting personal information from kids without parental consent through its Kurbo app
Kurbo by WW, a weight loss app geared toward children, illegally collected data from users as young as 8 without their parents' consent …
Though marketed as a 5G iPhone, the new iPhone SE won't support mmWave 5G, and AT&T says it won't be able to use its upcoming 3.45GHz 5G network
AT&T is holding back some of its 5G prowess for later this year, but the new iPhone SE will not work on AT&T's upcoming 3.45GHz 5G network, the carrier confirmed to PCMag.
As Western tech companies react to sanctions on Russia, Twitch streamers, Upwork gig workers, OnlyFans creators, and contract developers lose their livelihoods
When Arina, a 22-year-old illustrator in Russia, first started using the freelance work platform Upwork last year, it changed her life.
Apple announces an updated iPhone SE with 5G, an A15 Bionic, the classic Touch ID home button design, a 12MP camera, and more, shipping on March 18 for $429
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The SEC charges two siblings with defrauding investors out of $124M through their Ormeus Coin offering, alleging they acted as “modern-day snake-oil salesmen”
The “ground-breaking digital money system” Ormeus Coin was actually a scam, the SEC alleges. — In brief
A bipartisan group of lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee ask the DOJ to investigate Amazon and its executives over obstructing Congress' antitrust probe
House Judiciary Committee accuses tech giant of withholding information during antitrust probe; Amazon has denied any attempts to mislead Source: House Judiciary Committee .
Apple unveils Studio Display, a 27-inch 5K monitor with an A13 Bionic chip, a 12MP ultra-wide camera with Center Stage support, three mics, and six speakers
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac :
Substack launches an iOS app for reading; Android users can sign up for a waiting list
What you read matters — Today, we're launching an iOS app for reading. It's like your email inbox, but better. — For readers, the app brings all your Substack subscriptions together in one venue ...
A look at the symbiotic relationship between TSMC and Apple: TSMC gets a predictable, demanding, high volume customer and Apple gets cutting-edge chips at scale
The TSMC-Apple partnership has been one of the defining relationships of the mobile computing era.
EU clarifies that sanctions placed on Russia and Belarus extend to crypto assets, as these are “transferrable securities” that can be used for loans and credit
Crypto assets fall into the category of “transferrable securities” and are therefore clearly included in the scope of sanctions, the EU said.
Apple debuts Mac Studio, designed like a taller Mac mini, with M1 Max or Ultra, front and back ports, up to 128GB of memory, and support for four 6K displays
here's what you get Tim Hardwick / MacRumors : Studio Display Supports 5th-Gen iPad Air, But Not the 4th-Gen or the iPad Mini 6 Jonny Evans / Apple Must : M1 Ultra benchmarks ship as analysts praise A...
Better.com lays off 3,000+ employees in the US and India, citing “current market conditions”; some staff learned of layoffs after early rollout of severance pay
The mass layoffs at digital mortgage lender Better.com have reportedly started, according to employees and other sources …
Apple announces an updated iPad Air with M1, 5G, a 12MP ultra-wide front camera, and more, starting at $599 in 64GB or 256GB versions, available on March 18
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A look at the rise of DAOs as they wrestle with infighting and other challenges; DeepDAO: the value of cryptocurrencies held in DAOs rose 3,200% in 2021 to $13B
The cryptocurrency boom has spawned enterprises democratically governed by a community of users. Or that's the theory. Tweets: @blockanalia , @annmlipton , @ericliptonnyt , and @ericliptonnyt Tweets:...
Apple announces a green finish for the iPhone 13 and an Alpine Green finish for the iPhone 13 Pro, available for pre-order on March 11 and shipping on March 18
The UK government expands the Online Safety Bill to compel social media services and search engines to restrict fraudulent ads, including “catfishing” scams
Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times :
After experiencing outages on Tuesday, Spotify and Discord say their services have been restored
Richard Lawler / The Verge :
Sources: Amazon is expected to win unconditional approval from the European Commission for its $8.5B acquisition of MGM, which was announced in May 2021
Amazon is expected to win unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $8.5 billion buy of U.S. movie studio MGM, people familiar with the matter said … Tweets: @trevorcroker See also Mediagazer Tweets...
Sources detail TikTok's struggles to moderate its service as Russia invades Ukraine; in lieu of detailed instructions, junior employees had to refine the rules
Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @kubota_yoko and @joshsternberg Tweets: Yoko Kubota / @kubota_yoko : TikTok exploded as a social-media app with silly videos. Now some users are creating endl...
Carl Pei's Nothing raises a $70M Series B to create smartphones with Qualcomm and expand in London; the company will host a product event on March 23
but we'd settle for a phone Jon Porter / The Verge : Carl Pei's Nothing will announce this year's product roadmap on March 23rd John McCann / TechRadar : The Nothing phone may have a launch date, and ...
Data collaboration software maker Atlan raises a $50M Series B led by Salesforce Ventures at a ~$450M valuation, following a $16M Series A in May 2021
Apple announces Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV+, comprising two exclusive Major League Baseball games every week
Bengaluru-based Jiffy.ai, a B2B automation service, raises a $53M Series B led by Eight Roads Ventures, after raising an $18M Series A in June 2020
Shashank Pathak / Entrackr :
Savings and investing app Acorns raises a $300M Series F at a nearly $2B valuation led by TPG, six weeks after shelving its SPAC plans
In today's dish, a fintech startup taps into the private markets … Hugh Son / CNBC : Investing app Acorns taps ‘choppy’ private markets at $1.9 billion valuation after scrapping SPAC Tweets: Mary Ann ...
Apple will release iOS 15.4, macOS Monterey 12.3, watchOS 8.5, and tvOS 15.4 to all users next week
AngelList Venture says it raised a $100M Series C in February 2022 at a $4B pre-money valuation led by Tiger Global
Branch, which offers a flexible workforce payments service, raises a $75M Series C led by Addition, following a $48M Series B in August 2021
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
Blink, which offers tools to simplify cloud management for companies, raises a $20M Series A and $6M seed and pre-seed led by Lightspeed
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
Indian startup Money View, which offers financial services including BNPL, raises a $75M Series D from Tiger Global and others at a $625M valuation
The Economic Times :
How Denton, Texas, which is $140M in debt after a 2021 winter storm, agreed to a crypto mine at its natural gas power plant for millions in annual revenue
Sarah Emerson / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @sarahnemerson and @buzzfeednews Tweets: Sarah Emerson / @sarahnemerson : NEW: For the last couple months, I've been investigating how one of the nation's larg...
Twitter rolls out a Creator Dashboard to help creators analyze how much they are earning from its monetization features, coming first to qualifying iOS users
can't wait to hear what you think! https://twitter.com/... Lara Cohen / @larakate : a big step in how we're showing up for creators! introducing the Creator Dashboard — a new way to track the funds yo...
Brookings: US tech jobs remain concentrated in coastal hubs but 36 other cities, including Philadelphia, had stronger tech job growth than before the pandemic
Caitlin Harrington / Wired : Tweets: @caitharr and @louisgray Tweets: Caitlin Harrington / @caitharr : New @BrookingsInst data finds that tech workers didn't flee tech hubs en masse during the pandem...
Twitter hires Michael Sayman, formerly of Facebook, Google, and Roblox, to work on experimental features as the service competes with TikTok for younger users
Oslo-based Ardoq, which helps companies manage network architecture, raises a $125M Series D, sources say at a $300M valuation, led by EQT Growth
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
The CFTC charges three Americans and one Indian for operating two alleged Ponzi schemes, Ecoinplus and JetCoin, that defrauded investors of $44M in bitcoin
Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk :
Employment data startup Argyle launches a SaaS tool that lets companies access user-permissioned employment records and raises a $55M Series B led by SignalFire
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.