Apple announces updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, featuring M2 and M2 Max, Wi-Fi 6E, 8K HDMI, up to 96GB RAM, and more, starting at $1,999 and $2,499
Apple today announced the next-generation 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with faster M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, up to 96GB of RAM …
Apple announces an updated Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro, improved graphics performance, support for Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and more, starting at $599
Apple today launched the new Mac mini lineup, available with M2 and M2 Pro chips inside. The M2 Mac mini starts at a new lower price of $599.
Apple unveils the M2 Pro and M2 Max, built on a second-gen 5nm process, offering 20% more transistors than M1 Pro and double the M2, 200GB/s bandwidth, and more
Apple today unveiled the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips alongside refreshed MacBook Pro and Mac mini models.
Google's Nest appears to be working on AirTag-like location trackers, codenamed “Grogu”, with support for Bluetooth LE and UWB, possibly for launch at I/O
Google is reportedly working on a location tracking tag to compete with the likes of Apple's AirTags and Tile trackers …
Microsoft makes its Azure OpenAI Service, announced in 2021, broadly available, giving users access to the GPT-3.5 language model, DALL-E 2, and ChatGPT “soon”
Microsoft Corp. said it will add OpenAI's viral artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT to its cloud-based Azure service …
Getty Images plans to sue Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI in the UK over alleged copyright violation; unlike OpenAI, SD's training dataset is open source
Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over alleged copyright violation.
The UK amends the Online Safety Bill to make senior managers at tech companies criminally liable for failures to protect minors, following demands by Tory MPs
Social media bosses who fail to protect children from harmful content will face jail now the Government has conceded to rebel MPs
A look at Elon Musk's options to meet his $13B debt obligations after the Twitter buyout; sources say the first interest installment could be due by January-end
Billionaire faces tough choices to meet financial obligations of takeover financed by $13bn debt
How Apple built a supply chain in China over two decades, spending billions and embedding staff in factories, creating a dependence before US tensions escalated
The company spent two decades and billions of dollars building a supply chain of unprecedented sophistication. Now, a reckoning is coming
Interviews with 24+ people detail Elon Musk's destructive Twitter leadership: brutal layoffs, relaunching Blue, losing money, and breaking the company's culture
Twitter's staff spent years trying to protect the social media site against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use the reach …
A trio of artists sue Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt over AI art copyright; a firm suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI over Copilot filed the lawsuit
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company plans to integrate OpenAI's tools into all of its products and make them available for other businesses to build on
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal :
Wikimedia says the UK's Online Safety Bill was designed for social media and a proposed change, expected Tuesday, would limit Wikipedia's freedom of expression
Chris Vallance / BBC :
Sources: Foxconn appoints Michael Chiang as the head of its iPhone assembly business, replacing longtime leader Wang Charng-yang, after a tough year in China
Debby Wu / Bloomberg :
Scammers on Amazon are selling fake 16TB portable SSDs for ~$100 by hijacking listings like pillow covers, keeping the reviews, and then listing new products
When it comes to portable hard drives, bigger is usually better. You want lots of space for photos, videos, or anything else.
Q&A with ex-Facebook CSO and Stanford Internet Observatory professor Alex Stamos on overestimating mis- and disinformation's impact, Brazil, Gamergate, and more
“Resist trying to make things better”: A conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos. Tweets: @pkafka , @chrisabraham , @pkafka , and @mattnavarra Tweets: Peter Kafka / @pkafka : We've gott...
After North Korea's Lazarus Group moved ~41K ETH, worth ~$63.5M, from the Harmony bridge hack, Binance and Huobi freeze 124 BTC, worth ~$2.6M, linked to Lazarus
Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph :
A draft House memo detailed failures by Twitter, YouTube, and other platforms to address extremism before January 6, much of which were not in the final report
especially Twitter—failed to heed their own employees' warnings about violent rhetoric on their platforms and bent their rules to avoid penalizing conservatives, particularly then-president Trump, out...
Samsung unveils ISOCELL HP2, a 200MP sensor with 0.6 μm pixels in a 1/1.3" optical format and pixel binning, likely to debut in the upcoming Galaxy S23 Ultra
fight me Andy Betts / MakeUseOf : Samsung Unveils the 200MP Sensor That Will Power the Galaxy S23 Ultra's Camera Kamlesh Bhati / SPARROWS NEWS : Samsung Unveils New 200-megapixel ISOCELL HP2 sensor fo...
Hinge tests a $50-$60 per month premium tier, rolling out globally in Q1, for “highly motivated daters”, a significant rise over the current $35 per month
Match Group Inc.'s dating app Hinge is rolling out a new subscription tier that could cost as much as $60 a month …
Shiba Inu developers plan to launch a beta testnet of Shibarium, an Ethereum Layer 2 network, in the coming weeks, focusing on metaverse and gaming applications
Some US universities, including Alabama's Auburn University and the University of Oklahoma, are banning TikTok on their Wi-Fi networks, annoying some students
Sources: activist investor Ryan Cohen has built an Alibaba stake worth hundreds of millions of dollars and is pushing the company to accelerate stock buybacks
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal :
Researcher: 290+ MSI motherboards have firmware with a default UEFI Secure Boot setting that lets any OS run, even those with a wrong or missing signature
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer :
Cape Town-based game studio startup Carry1st raised a $27M pre-Series B led by Bitkraft Ventures with Konvoy Ventures, a16z, and TTV Capital among investors
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch :
Crypto prices are recovering in January so far: market above $1T, bitcoin up 26%, including 22% in the past week, to $20K+, ether up 29%, and meme coins spiking
After one of the least volatile months in history, Bitcoin has seen an explosive rally back above $21k. Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg : Crypto Mining Stocks Eye Best Month in a Year Atop Bitcoin Jump A...
Roblox releases its December 2022 metrics report, showing estimated bookings between $430M and $439M, up 17% to 20% YoY, and DAUs up 18% to 62.5M; stock up 12%+
Ashley Capoot / CNBC :
CryptoSlam and Forkast.News plan to merge and become Forkast Labs, offering crypto investors news, data, and tools; both are Animoca Brands portfolio companies
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
An AI-written “fact-checked” CNET article had major errors, leading CNET to add notes to almost all AI pieces saying they are being reviewed “for accuracy”
CNET is now letting an AI write articles for its site. The problem? It's kind of a moron. Tweets: @jon_christian and @jon_christian Tweets: Jon Christian / @jon_christian : CNET added this gigantic ...
Google says the FEC dismissed GOP claims that Gmail was filtering campaign ad emails, after the company showed the spam filter was for “commercial reasons”
John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal :
An overview of the ML software development industry over the past decade: a decline of Nvidia's CUDA monopoly, PyTorch overtaking Google's TensorFlow, and more
the CUDA monopoly is nowhere close to being broken and CUDA will continue to be the key dependency for PyTorch. As a data point, Triton isn't the first rally — multiple vendors use the XLA compiler as...
NYC-based Beaconstac, which offers a QR code management service, raised a $25M Series A led by Telescope Partners with participation from Accel
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Robinhood plans to launch Sherwood Media, an independent brand led by Joshua Topolsky, which will be the home of its popular Snacks newsletter
Sara Fischer / Axios :
US tech firms are outsourcing developer jobs to Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, making it harder for Latin American startups to attract talent despite recent layoffs
Rest of World : Tweets: @restofworld , @cengizyar , and @alexgonzor Tweets: @restofworld : One founder in Mexico said hiring reminds her of the dating scene growing up in Cancún: “If you wanted a boy...
Russian attacks on Ukraine's electrical grid are straining its mobile network, leading to a global hunt for equipment like batteries to keep the system online
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