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March 8, 2022, 7:25 PM

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Monica Chin / The Verge:
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  —  It's a Mac Mini but way more powerful  —  Apple has announced the Mac Studio, a desktop system that looks like the Mac Mini …
Apple:
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
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
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  —  Apple rocked the computing world with its M1 chip, the first “Apple Silicon” hardware that turned the MacBook Air, Mac Mini and other computers into portable powerhouses.
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
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  —  Apple has officially announced it's all-new iPhone SE with an A15 Bionic chip.  The design is the same as the previous-generation iPhone SE.
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Mandiant:
Google acquires cybersecurity company Mandiant for ~$5.4B, or $23 per share, in an all-cash deal set to close later in 2022; Mandiant will join Google Cloud  —  Acquisition to bring Google speed and scale to Mandiant's unparalleled intelligence and expertise - at a time when security has never been more important
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
After experiencing outages on Tuesday, Spotify and Discord say their services have been restored  —  Unrelated issues disconnected both services this afternoon  —  If you can't connect to Spotify or Discord, then no, it's not just you or your internet connection.  Both services acknowledged problems on Tuesday afternoon.
Jon Porter / The Verge:
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  —  A year and a half after its last model  —  Apple has announced an update to the iPad Air a year and a half after it gave the tablet an iPad Pro-style redesign.
Joseph Cox / VICE:
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
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon launches Amp, a mobile app that lets users host live “radio shows”, take calls, and play Amazon Music tracks; Amp is only available in a limited US beta  —  Amazon's Clubhouse competitor has arrived.  The retail giant on Tuesday launched a new mobile app called Amp …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Apple announces Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV+, comprising two exclusive Major League Baseball games every week  —  Apple has snared rights to a Friday-night package of Major League Baseball games, extending Silicon Valley's reach into the world of sports.
Mathew Di Salvo / Decrypt:
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
Karen Weise / New York Times:
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  —  The policy change for Amazon Web Services started over the weekend but was not publicly announced until Tuesday.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Linux developers fix Dirty Pipe, a high-severity vulnerability in the kernel that let hackers carry out a host of malicious actions, like installing backdoors  —  Dirty Pipe has the potential to smudge people using Linux and Linux derivitives.  —  Linux has yet another high-severity vulnerability …
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Apple will release iOS 15.4, macOS Monterey 12.3, watchOS 8.5, and tvOS 15.4 to all users next week  —  Following Apple's special event on Tuesday, the company announced that it will finally release iOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5, tvOS 15.4, and macOS Monterey 12.3 to all users next week.
Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Mandiant says Chinese hacking group APT41 breached at least six US state networks between May 2021 and February 2022, using vulnerabilities including Log4Shell  —  The prolific China APT41 hacking group, known for carrying out espionage in parallel with financially motivated operations …

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