Apple's 14" MacBook Pro with M3 starts at $1,599, the 14" MacBook Pro with M3 Pro starts at $1,999, and the 16" MacBook Pro with M3 Pro starts at $2,499
14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 now starts at $1,599 — 14- and 16-inch models with M3 Pro and M3 Max are available in a gorgeous new space black finish
Apple announces the 3nm M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max with a dynamic caching GPU, 20% faster performance cores over the M2, and 50% faster efficiency cores over the M1
Apple has unveiled its next generation of M series chips: M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max. These new chips are 3nm, like the A17 Pro.
Apple unveils M3 14" and 16" MacBook Pros with up to a 22-hour battery life, in Space Black for Pro and Max variants; the M3 Max supports up to 128GB of RAM
here's how to preorder Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage : Apple announces 14-inch and 16-inch M3 MacBook Pro notebooks Jason Snell / Six Colors : A magic number: New MacBook Pros and iMacs usher i...
Apple unveils an M3 24-inch iMac that processes photos and produces videos up to 2x faster than the M1 iMac, with Wi-Fi 6E and up to 24GB of RAM, for $1,299+
Folks banking on the arrival of the iMac Pro will have to wait a bit longer. If you've been looking to upgrade your 24-inch all-in-one …
Apple discontinues the 13-inch MacBook Pro, the last Mac with a Touch Bar, meaning the company now only offers 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
The US SEC charges SolarWinds for failing to disclose alleged cybersecurity failures ahead of a breach by suspected Russian hackers that began as early as 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the company with failing to disclose its problems ahead of a breach …
Biden's EO on AI tries to chart a middle path by letting AI development continue with modest new rules and signaling the government plans to monitor AI progress
Kevin Roose / New York Times :
Apple's new M3 Pro has lower memory bandwidth than the M1 Pro and M2 Pro and fewer performance cores; Apple repeatedly compared the M3 to the M1, not the M2
Apple's latest M3 Pro chip in the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro has 25% less memory bandwidth than the M1 Pro and M2 Pro chips used …
Andrew Ng, who taught Sam Altman at Stanford and co-founded Google Brain, says Big Tech is lying about AI extinction to trigger heavier regulation of rivals
Key Points — Big Tech wants tough AI rules that would make life hard for small competitors
Apple accessories including the Magic Keyboard, Mouse, and Trackpad that accompany the newly announced M3 iMac still feature a Lightning port instead of USB-C
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors :
SBF blamed top FTX executives on his second day of testimony, and lawyers disputed his answers using his own emails, DMs, tweets, and more; some were profane
- FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried resumed his testimony on Monday as his criminal trial nears its end.
Canada bans WeChat and Moscow-based Kaspersky on government-issued mobile devices as they “present an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security”
Canada on Monday banned Chinese messaging application WeChat and Russian antivirus program Kaspersky on government-issued mobile devices due … Source: Government of Canada .
Apple says “all presenters, locations, and drone footage” in the pre-recorded “Scary Fast” event video were shot on an iPhone 15 Pro Max
Apple today held a short and unusual special event to introduce a new generation of MacBook Pro and iMac with M3 chip.
A US judge dismissed AI copyright infringement claims against Midjourney and DeviantArt by three artists, but allowed a claim against Stability AI to proceed
While a federal judge advanced an infringement claim against Stability AI, he dismissed the rest of the lawsuit.
The US says 40 countries plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers' funding mechanism
Forty countries in a U.S.-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating …
Samsung reports Q3 revenue down 12% YoY to ~$50B, net income down 40% YoY to ~$4.1B vs. an 86% decline in Q2 2023, and a chip division operating loss of ~$2.78B
- Net income was more than twice what analysts estimated — Company is stepping up spending on advanced chipmaking tech
Indian opposition leaders say Apple warned more than six of them of state-backed iPhone attacks; Apple confirms the notification but did not attribute the hacks
Apple has warned over a half dozen Indian politicians, other members of political parties and journalists of their iPhones …
Meta plans to offer an ad-free option for Instagram and Facebook in the EU, EEA, and Switzerland, charging €9.99/month on the web or €12.99/month on mobile
who are, by definition, comfortable with having their data processed for the purposes of ads personalization — will choose to subscribe to avoid it. Sam Schechner / @samschech : Meta's going with the ...
US v. Google: Sundar Pichai attributes Google's search dominance to its early investment and innovation in Chrome, aiming to improve the user's web experience
A look at some of the creators who report and aggregate news on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and more, as people under 35 move away from traditional news outlets
One recent study concluded consumers are looking for news that “feels more relevant,” giving a boost to creators on social media
Source: X is giving employees RSUs at $45 per share, implying a $19B valuation; in March 2023, X offered stock at a $20B valuation; Musk bought Twitter for $44B
i mean to be fair it was probably only worth 20-25 when he bought it, so he only erased 1-6 billion in value personally — also not for nothing it's encouraging to see that rule 701 has some actual b...
Sources: new US rules may compel Nvidia to cancel $5B+ in 2024 orders for its chips in China; Nvidia had already fulfilled its 2023 orders before the controls
Artificial-intelligence company scrapped plans to rush shipments to China this month before new restrictions were brought forward
IBM Research says AI can make phishing, already used in ~90% of cyberattacks, more effective at scale, although the team has not yet detected widespread use
Phishing attacks are already devastatingly successful. What happens when artificial intelligence makes them even harder to spot?
US v. Google: Sundar Pichai floated Apple bundling a Google iOS app to Tim Cook in 2018, as Apple pointed to lower revenue growth from their revenue-share deal
David Pierce / The Verge :
Apple's stock dropped 11% since its Q3 results on August 3, erasing nearly $400B in value, the first year since 2015 that AAPL slid between WWDC and Q4 earnings
Worries about China and the future of a lucrative Google relationship could outlast even a strong earnings report
News Media Alliance study: AI chatbot developers rely more on articles than generic web content to train AI; NMA says this shows AI companies violate copyright
The News Media Alliance, a trade group that represents newspapers, says that A.I. chatbots use news articles significantly more than generic content online. See also Mediagazer
Qualcomm privately previews the Snapdragon X Elite, slated for mid-2024, which in some cases seems to outperform some Intel, AMD, and Apple chips in benchmarks
Palo Alto Networks acquires Tel Aviv-based Dig Security, which helps organizations manage and protect data assets in the cloud, sources say for $400M
We reported in September that Palo Alto was getting ready to make yet more security acquisitions out of Israel, specifically of Dig Security and Talon.
Pinterest reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $763.2M, vs. $743.5M est., MAUs up 8% YoY to 482M, vs. 473M est., and ARPU up 3% YoY to $1.61; PINS jumps 15%+
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC :
BlackBerry says CEO John Chen plans to retire on November 4 after serving in the role since November 2013 and names board member Richard Lynch as interim CEO
Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal :
Shield AI, which makes autonomous drones and other military tech for the US and its allies, raised $200M co-led by USIT and Riot Ventures at a $2.7B valuation
Katie Roof / Bloomberg :
Brazilian banking-as-a-service startup QI Tech raised a $200M Series B led by General Atlantic, for $262M in total funding, and reports $21M H1 2023 net revenue
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
A look at Woven Planet, Toyota's ambitious software unit that was renamed Woven by Toyota after struggling to connect with the changing goals of its parent
The SW defined Vehicle requires a different approach … Andrew Schuette : I recently had a great conversation with a #healthcare innovation executive where we explored managing the tension between inno...
Tencent's WeChat, ByteDance's Douyin, Kuaishou, and others post similar notices asking users with 500K+ followers to reveal their real names, following Weibo
Bloomberg :
Alibaba debuts Tongyi Qianwen 2, an LLM with “hundreds of billions” of parameters and eight models for entertainment, finance, health care, and legal industries
Josh Ye / Reuters :
CCData: almost a year after FTX's collapse, monthly spot trading volume at crypto exchanges has fallen from $922.9B in October 2022 to $461.3B in October 2023
Bloomberg :
Taiwan-based Powerchip plans to build a ~$5.3B chip facility in northeast Japan with financing from SBI and Japan, aiming to produce 40nm and 55nm chips by 2027
Bloomberg :
US Office of Personnel Management report: ~632K DOD and DOJ employees had their emails compromised on May 28 and 29, 2023, as part of the sprawling MOVEit hacks
Ari Natter / Bloomberg :
Sources: Alibaba is pressuring Tmall and Taobao merchants to offer rock-bottom prices during Singles Day, which ends on November 11, or risk losing traffic
Researchers say hackers stole $4.4M in crypto from 25+ victims on October 25 using private keys, credentials, and wallet passphrases from a 2022 LastPass breach
Why is anyone still using LastPass? I haven't even been trying to pay attention and I can think of 3 major hacks just off the top of my head. …
Filings: China's Big Fund invests ~$1.99B in DRAM maker Changxin Xinqiao, or 33.15% of its total registered capital, as part of plans to build 12" memory wafers
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