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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company plans to integrate OpenAI's tools into all of its products and make them available for other businesses to build on — Offering for businesses and end users to be transformed by incorporating tools like ChatGPT, CEO Satya Nadella says
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| 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 …
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| 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
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Foxconn appoints Michael Chiang as the head of its iPhone assembly business, replacing longtime leader Wang Charng-yang, after a tough year in China — Key Apple Inc. manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group has appointed a new boss for its iPhone assembly business …
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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