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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: 14" and 16" MacBook Pro with M2 Pro and M2 Max, M2 Mac mini are coming soon; Apple is testing Mac Pro with 24 CPU cores, 72 graphics cores, 192 GB RAM — Apple's latest iPad lineup and software strategy is its most confusing to date, but here's how the company could ultimately fix it.
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| The Wire: |
The Wire retracts its recent stories on Meta and says it is using “independent external experts” to conduct an investigation into its Meta coverage — Earlier this week, The Wire announced its decision to conduct an internal review of its recent coverage of Meta …
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| Karl Vick / TIME: |
Iranian activists smuggle Starlink receivers into the country for a backup internet, citing “no Starlink donation” from SpaceX nor US government participation — Starlink receivers have begun to arrive inside Iran, smuggled into the country in hopes of providing a backup internet …
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| Bono / The Guardian: |
In his memoir, Bono details making a deal with Steve Jobs for the U2 iPod in October 2004 and convincing Tim Cook to give away an iTunes album in September 2014 — In an exclusive extract from his memoir, the singer looks back — nything strange or startling? " That's how my da, Bob, opens our conversations.
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| Associated Press: |
Iran's atomic energy agency says its email system was breached; a hacking group says it leaked 50GB of emails, construction plans related to Bushehr power plant — Iran's atomic energy agency alleged on Sunday that hackers acting on behalf of an unidentified foreign country broke …
| Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: |
Canalys: smartphone shipments in India fell 6% YoY to 44.6M units in Q3 2022; Xiaomi shipped 9.2M units, down 18% YoY, for a 21% share, followed by Samsung — Xiaomi Corp held onto the top of the leaderboard in India 's vast smartphone market, despite the sector's overall decline …
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
An interview with eBay CEO Jamie Iannone on eBay's strategy to focus on the second-hand luxury market, as its market value has fallen from $53B in 2021 to $21B — “One of a kind!” said Jamie Iannone, the chief executive of eBay, pointing down to the pair of pristine, custom-made Nike sneakers on his feet.
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| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of e-commerce company Meesho, which accounts for ~7% of India's online sales; Apptopia: Meesho was the world's most downloaded shopping app in H1 2022 — Startup makes gains in world's biggest developing digital market, with users drawn to its prices on clothing, household goods| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple plans to expand ads to the App Store's main Today tab and the “You Might Also Like” section of app listings globally on October 25, except for China — In an email to developers this week, Apple announced that app-related ads will begin appearing in the App Store's main Today tab and in a …
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| Rachel Metz / CNN: |
Several artists whose work Stability AI included in the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion are angry that they weren't informed, asked for consent, nor paid — Erin Hanson has spent years developing the vibrant color palette and chunky brushstrokes that define the vivid oil paintings for which she is known.| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
McAfee security researchers found 16 clicker apps in Google Play with 20M+ downloads in total; Google removed the adware apps after McAfee reported them — Security researchers at McAfee have discovered a set of 16 malicious clicker apps that managed to sneak into Google Play, the official app store for Android.
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iPhone in Canada Blog, International Business Times, BGR, Gizchina, Livemint, and SlashGear. Tweets: @arstechnica
| Washington Post: |
Interviews with over three dozen creators about going viral on TikTok show how the app's vast reach plus tools like “duet” and “stitch” can amplify harassment — TikTok's explosive stardom has created a new kind of celebrity. But nothing goes viral like rage.| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Podcast app Pocket Casts, which WordPress parent company Automattic acquired in July 2021, releases its mobile clients on GitHub under an open-source license — Popular podcast platform Pocket Casts has released its mobile clients under an open source license.
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Pocket Casts Blog, Matt Mullenweg, Thurrott, Liliputing, and Scripting News
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