Apple updates the MacBook Pro with M4, M4 Pro, or M4 Max, Thunderbolt 5, 16GB+ RAM, nano-texture option, for $1,999+ for 14" and $2,499+ for 16" from November 8
Apple is updating the MacBook Pro and introducing some even more powerful chips. Announced this morning via a low-key press release …
Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $88.27B, Search revenue up 12% YoY, net income up 34% YoY, and traffic acquisition costs up 9% YoY; GOOG jumps 5%+
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - October 29, 2024 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2024.
PlayStation closes Firewalk Studios, which debuted shooter game Concord in August 2024 before taking it offline, and mobile studio Neon Koi, impacting ~210 jobs
The company will also close the mobile game studio Neon Koi, which hasn't released a game, according to a blog post from Sony on Tuesday.
Apple says the MacBook Air with M2 or M3 chips will now come with 16GB of RAM as standard, up from 8GB, and leaves the pricing unchanged at $999+
Apple is bringing its ultraportables in line with its M4 systems. — No, Apple isn't stuffing an M4 chip into the MacBook Air lineup just yet …
Sundar Pichai says “more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers”
Google is building a bunch of AI products, and it's using AI quite a bit as part of building those products, too. “More than a quarter of all new code …
Ubisoft quietly debuted its first blockchain game, Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles, for free on PC last week; in-game figurines are listed for $7 to $63K
It's called Champions Tactics and it sure looks like...something. — Three years ago, Ubisoft promised it would start making its own blockchain games.
Super Micro's stock drops 30%+ after disclosing that auditor Ernst & Young had resigned following months of disagreement over governance and board independence
Super Micro's shares plunged 30% on Wednesday morning after the company disclosed its auditor had resigned following months …
Apple unveils the M4 Max: up to a 16-core CPU for up to 2.2x speeds over the M1 Max, up to a 40-core GPU, up to 128GB of memory, Thunderbolt 5, and more
Apple today announced the M4 Max chip alongside new MacBook Pro models—its most advanced and powerful Apple silicon chip to date.
Google updates Chrome desktop to let users choose how aggressively it frees up inactive tab resources across three modes, and adds a Performance Detection tool
Last year, Chrome introduced Memory and Energy Saver modes, and Google is now updating its desktop browser with Performance issue alerts.
Microsoft says Russian hackers have sent “highly targeted spearphishing emails” to thousands of US officials, defense workers, and others during the past week
- Thousands targeted in spearphishing campaign during last week — Hackers said to impersonate Microsoft employees in some emails
Dropbox is laying off 528 employees, or 20% of its workforce, in what CEO Drew Houston says is a “transitional period”; filing: the layoffs cost $63M to $68M
Dropbox is letting go 20% of its workforce as the cloud company undergoes what CEO Drew Houston calls a “transitional period.”
Kindle Colorsoft review: color display, quick page-turns, pinch-to-zoom, auto-adjusting front light, and no lockscreen ads, but pricey and screen has a blue hue
But at $280, this color ereader costs more than its competitors. — Deputy Editor, Buying Advice — Well, it finally happened.
Sources detail how TikTok struck a deal with GoTo to buy a ~75% stake in Tokopedia for $840M, letting TikTok restart TikTok Shop in Indonesia in December 2023
Agata Pinastika Kenastuti's children's clothing shop in Jakarta, Indonesia, was full of inventory when TikTok Shop shut.
Visa and Coinbase partner to let eligible US and EU users deposit funds into their Coinbase accounts, sometimes instantly; Visa powers the Coinbase debit card
- Access to crypto used to be challenging but is becoming easier … Coinbase already has millions of connections …
Sources: Chinese hackers targeted phones used by Trump's family and Biden admin and State Department officials; the FBI says there's evidence audio was captured
New York Times :
Contributions to generative AI projects on GitHub grew 59% YoY from October 2023 to September 2024 and Python overtook JavaScript as the most popular language
In this year's Octoverse report, we study how public and open source activity on GitHub shows how AI is expanding as the global developer community surges in size.
Reddit reports Q3 revenue up 68% YoY to $348.4M, vs. $312.8M est., DAUs up 47% YoY to 97.2M, vs. 96.5M est., ARPU of $3.58, vs. $3.24 est.; RDDT jumps 30%+
Reddit shares jumped 22% in extended trading Tuesday, topping $100 for the first time, after the social media company reported third-quarter results …
Sources: in August, Andy Jassy called Donald Trump to outline Amazon's plans, and Trump said Amazon should cut him a large check for his presidential efforts
Executives at companies founded by the billionaire Post owner have sought contact with Trump. He argues he didn't end presidential endorsements out of self-interest. X: @drewharwell , @quinnypig , @m...
A look at TikTok-owned Tokopedia's sprawling e-commerce logistics network for delivering goods across Indonesia, a country of 270M people and 17,000 islands
New York Times :
Samsung's stock has fallen 32% from its 2024 peak on July 9, losing $122B from its market cap, more than any other chipmaker worldwide, over AI and foundry woes
- Stock sheds more value than any chipmaker on AI, foundry woes — Samsung is ‘losing its technology leadership’: Pictet's Lee
Sources: the European Commission plans to open formal DSA proceedings against Temu over concerns the platform is failing to curb the sale of illegal products
- Formal proceedings to see if Temu broke Digital Services Act — Meta, AliExpress, TikTok and X all face similar EU probes
A profile of US voting machine maker Clear Ballot, which helps officials check paper ballots via its app, as Elon Musk spreads conspiracy theories about hacking
Chip Trowbridge is confident his voting machines are secure, but he'll run the thought experiment with you. X: @austincarr . Forums: r/politics X: Austin Carr / @austincarr : If you're worried about @...
IDC: Samsung's global smartphone market share in Q3 fell from 21% to 18% YoY, the only one of the top five global smartphone makers to have falling shipments
Samsung could be considering some new smartphone branding
Chaos Labs and Inca Digital analysts say Polymarket activity exhibits signs of wash trading, a form of market manipulation to create a false volume and activity
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan. — COURTESY OF POLYMARKET — The prediction market Polymarket has skyrocketed …
Some users on X who share content that includes election misinformation, AI images, and conspiracy theories say they are being paid “thousands of dollars” by X
Some users on X who spend their days sharing content that includes election misinformation, AI-generated images … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Forums: r/centrist Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage...
TTP data: US anti-government militia activity has grown on Facebook, with the platform even auto-generating some group pages, despite users flagging the issue
Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts … X: Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj : Important story from @misstes...
Dozens of sources share how Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger fumbled the company's revival, including offending TSMC with Taiwan comments and losing a deep TSMC discount
Forget having the wrong fab and SKUs and now having to try to claw back so much market share: where's their vaunted organizational IQ? — Intel's market cap is down 66% but even that is on past glory...
AMD reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $6.82B, vs. $6.71B est., Data Center revenue up 122% YoY to $3.5B, and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; AMD drops 5%+
that's the bulk of its business, after all. Still, Lisa Su calls AMD's PC portfolio the strongest it's ever had in its history. Patrick Moorhead / @patrickmoorhead : $AMD comes in with a Q2 beat-meet ...
Sources: xAI is in the early stages of talks with investors to raise several billion dollars in a round that would value xAI at ~$40B, up from $24B in May 2024
Wall Street Journal :
Sources: SoftBank plans to put Arm's tech at the center of a new network of data centers to train and run AI, setting Arm on a collision course with Nvidia
Almost 20 years ago, Intel made a decision that changed the course of computing history. — Soon after Apple started putting Intel inside …
Circle raises its fees to 0.03%+ per transaction for near-instant USDC redemptions above $2M; CoinGecko: USDC's market circulation is $35B, below USDT's $123B
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg :
X says it has “re-architected” Community Notes' scoring system so that user-generated notes now appear less than 20 minutes after a post is published
Accounts promoting child pornography and child murder materials have been rewarded with money for generating traffic. X: @communitynotes : Introducing Lightning Notes ⚡ People want fast notes. So we r...
UK filings: Stability AI co-founder and former CEO Emad Mostaque has given up his controlling shares in the startup; Mostaque owned 75%+, per previous filings
The startup's co-founder left in March but remained the largest shareholder — until now — Emad Mostaque, the former chief … X: @mhbergen X: Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : From last night, a little capsto...
A Bluesky board member discusses the state of decentralized social media: big growth after Elon Musk bought X, but needs a “killer app” for long-term appeal
https://www.techdirt.com/... Mastodon: Johannes Ernst / @j12t@j12t.social : This is exactly right IMHO: — “Just “being decentralized” is not a value that attracts most users. It has to be what that...
Q&A with scientists Charley Kline and Bill Duvall, who sent the first Arpanet message in 1969, on what the internet has become, lessons from Arpanet, and more
Scott Nover / BBC : Forums: Slashdot Forums: BeauHD / Slashdot : BBC Interviews Charley Kline and Bill Duvall, Creators of Arpanet
Sources: Reliance Retail plans to leverage its 3,000 supermarkets to catch up with India's quick commerce boom, which is expected to hit $6B in sales in 2024
European Data Center Association Chair says lowering water temperatures to cool AI data centers is “incompatible” with the EU's new Energy Efficiency Directive
April Roach / CNBC :
Trump Media & Technology Group's stock rose 8.8% on October 29, for a five-week rally of 324% and adding $7.9B+ in market cap; Trump's stake is worth nearly $6B
A short dispatch today as I'm at the airport and actually writing this on my phone for the first time. Brian Swint / Barron's Online : Trump Media Stock Slips as Musk, Harris Make Election Waves. DJT ...
China arrested a South Korean chip engineer on espionage charges in December 2023, escalating Beijing and Seoul's IP theft battle in the critical chip sector
i.e. subject him to solitary confinement w/o access to lawyers or families, & coerce them to admit whatever the Chinese govt want: https://www.ft.com/...
Sources: an upcoming UK government-commissioned report says the UK should streamline the visa process for AI experts and create special zones for data centers
Anna Gross / Financial Times : X: @emmalbriant and @annasophiegross X: Dr. Emma L. Briant / @emmalbriant : The nightmare to come. Why does Britain have no choice over selling out our privacy to becom...
Gallup: ~67% of US workers say they never use AI tools at work, while 4% use them daily and say they see benefits in productivity, efficiency, and more
Danielle Abril / Washington Post :
Research: China's industrial policy to make the nation a leader in emerging technologies has largely been a success, despite more than six years of US curbs
Bloomberg :
Sources: Toyota and NTT plan to invest ~$3.3B to build AI automotive software capable of Level 4 or Level 5 autonomy by 2028, and provide it to other automakers
Nikkei Asia :
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