|
January 17, 2023, 12:25 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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 …
More:
Apple on YouTube, Apple, CNET, Forbes, International Business Times, Silicon Republic, USA Today, PCMag, BetaNews, Ars Technica, ZDNet, The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, MarketWatch, Tom's Hardware, Thurrott, The Verge, XDA Developers, MacRumors, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, NBC News, TechCrunch, Tom's Guide, iLounge, TechRadar, NextPit, iMore, TechPowerUp, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, KnowTechie, Wccftech, iThinkDifferent, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, MacStories, Cult of Mac, fpt., Notebookcheck.net, BGR India, MacDailyNews, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, GSMArena.com, Mashable, Bloomberg, Pocket-lint, TechRadar, Digital Trends, BGR, Appuals.com, iMore, and O'Grady's PowerPage
Mastodon: @dcseifert@mastodon.social, @Gartenberg@mastodon.social, @ernie@writing.exchange, @ianfogg@mastodon.social, @dcseifert@mastodon.social, @ianfogg@mastodon.social, and @dcseifert@mastodon.social
Tweets: @wadepenner, @ianzelbo, @sondesix, @benjhaisch, @tim_cook, @rsgnl, @iupdate, @ianzelbo, @film_girl, @tomwarren, @dylan522p, @gregjoz, @connorjewiss, @stufflistings, @stufflistings, @tomwarren, @mrbenjaminhoppe, @parkyprakhar, @stevemoser, @zollotech, @appleosophy, @rustybrick, @basicappleguy, @parkerortolani, @vadimyuryev, and @samifathi_
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
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.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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.
More:
Apple, The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Tech Advisor, Dexerto, ZDNet, AppAdvice, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Macworld, MacRumors, Engadget, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, Laptop Mag, Neowin, TechRadar, MSPoweruser, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, Phoronix, T3, iThinkDifferent, Six Colors, iPhone Hacks, IGN, BGR India, Wccftech, Redmond Pie, PetaPixel, SlashGear, MacDailyNews, KnowTechie, Pocket-lint, BGR, GSMArena.com, Android Headlines, fpt., iClarified, CNBC, Notebookcheck.net, and iMore
Mastodon: @pierce@mas.to and @ernie@writing.exchange
Tweets: @stevemoser, @tme_michael, @dimensionmedia, @stevemoser, @austen, @stephenrobles, @mkbhd, and @stufflistings
| The Verge: |
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 …
More:
Livemint, TheStreet, Gizchina, Deadline, and Digital Information World
Mastodon: @caseynewton@mastodon.social and @kevincollier@mastodon.social
| Financial Times: |
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
More:
Ars Technica and The Economic Times
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
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 …
More:
Cloud Computing Services, Gizmodo, RTÉ, WinBuzzer, Livemint, ZDNet, AI News, OnMSFT.com, DCD, VentureBeat, Engadget, Thurrott, TechCircle, The Verge, Tech Monitor, gHacks Technology News, Candid.Technology, Tech in Asia, BigTechWire, and BetaNews
Tweets: @satyanadella, @openai, @azure, @techwontsaveus, @suhail, @levie, @deliprao, @caro_milanesi, @rstephens, @patrickmoorhead, @gdb, @copyconstruct, @emostaque, @levie, and @techau
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
Finbold, Windows Central, Petri IT Knowledgebase, and Appuals.com
Tweets: @tunguz, @imitwe, @tunguz, and @tomwarren
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
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 …
More:
PCMag, MacRumors, Yanko Design, Club386, Redmond Pie, SamMobile, SlashGear, Neowin, Tom's Guide, 9to5Google, T3, Firstpost Tech, Wccftech, KnowTechie, Digit, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizchina, BigTechWire, Pocket-lint, and BGR India
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
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.
More:
Getty Images Press Site, PCMag, PC Gamer, TechRadar, SlashGear, PetaPixel, and TechSpot
| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
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| Charles Hymas / Telegraph: |
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
More:
The Guardian, BBC, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Reuters, UKTN, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Open Rights Group, The Guardian, Neowin, Financial Times, The Overspill, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @matthewlesh, @m_feeney, @tomhfh, @wargit, @_andyburrows, @infoholicuk, @alecmuffett, @matthewlesh, @charleshymas, @zsk, @sam_dumitriu, @matthewlesh, @los_fisher, @matthewlesh, @eff, @richccollard, @ga_hill, @m_feeney, @s8mb, and @pippacrerar
| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
More:
Neowin and Digital Information World
Tweets: @_andyburrows, @wikimediapolicy, and @neil_neilzone
| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
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
| Jon Christian / Futurism: |
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.| Josh Hendrickson / Review Geek: |
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.
More:
The Verge and MacSecurity.net
| Michael Tobin / Bloomberg: |
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 … | Reuters: |
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 — Bitcoin is on the charge in 2023, dragging the crypto market off the floor and electrifying bonk, a new meme coin.
More:
Glassnode Insights, Bloomberg, The Block, CNBC, CryptoPotato, TechSpot, Coinspeaker, and Yahoo Finance
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
Agentic AI in data & analytics: The next evolution of business intelligence — In a recent conversation, Clarence Rozario, Business Head - Zoho BI Suite, joined Ravit Jain on The Ravit Show to discuss how Agentic AI …
Agentic AI in data & analytics: The next evolution of business intelligence — In a recent conversation, Clarence Rozario, Business Head - Zoho BI Suite, joined Ravit Jain on The Ravit Show to discuss how Agentic AI …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
Kimi K3 & AI's Price War, What Happened To Google?, OpenAI's Partner Trouble
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Great Chat:
Never follow your heroes (on X)
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Hard Fork:
The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say 'We Must Act Now' + HatGPT
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
The Upstarts Podcast:
Pigment's Eléonore Crespo: Building France's Next Unicorn With AI Agents And Tom Cruise
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
Access:
This AI will push back if you're rude to it
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:25 PM ET, January 17, 2023.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Patrick Hipes / Deadline:Deadline:
Ariel Zilber / New York Post:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
CNBC, Bloomberg, Financial Times, MarketWatch, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @0x_mattt, @saranormous, @laurenthomas, and @samantar
| Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
Tweets: @soumithchintala, @wholemarsblog, @cccalum, @trengriffin, @pommedeterre33, @jreuben1, @ai_unleashed, @jreuben1, and @pommedeterre33
| Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph: |
More:
Washington Post, FXStreet, The Register, Cryptonews, and Blockworks
Tweets: @cz_binance, @zachxbt, @justinsuntron, and @kbbyhoon