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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple announces updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with M2 Pro or M2 Max, Wi-Fi 6E, 8K HDMI, up to 96GB of 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 5nm-based M2 Pro and M2 Max chips …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils M2 Pro and M2 Max, built on a second-gen 5nm process, with 20% more transistors than the M1 Pro and double the M2's, 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 updates its Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro options, improved graphics performance, up to 32GB of RAM, 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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| Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: |
Tesla's Autopilot software director testified in 2022 that an October 2016 video promoted by Elon Musk was staged, showing self-driving features the cars lacked — A 2016 video that Tesla (TSLA.O) used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping …
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| Mark Kleinman / Sky News: |
Source: Microsoft is contemplating cutting ~5% of its workforce, or ~11,000 jobs, and could announce the layoffs in the coming days, before company earnings — Microsoft is finalising plans to become the latest technology giant to reduce its workforce amid a global economic slowdown, Sky News learns.
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
FTX identifies ~$5.5B in “liquid” assets for recovery, including $415M in “unauthorized third-party transfers” possibly tied to a hack found after its collapse — - FTX has identified about $5.5 billion worth of digital assets for recovery, a number that includes $415 million in “hacked crypto.”
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
Government documents offer more details about the discussions among FTX and Alameda executives on the exchange's use of customer funds before FTX's collapse — Documents obtained by The New York Times provide new details about the discussions among FTX's top leaders before the cryptocurrency exchange collapsed in November.
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CoinDesk, Mercury News, The Block, and Fortune
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| Noam Scheiber / New York Times: |
Apple plans to hire a third-party firm to audit its US labor practices, focusing on human rights, after an investor coalition pushed for the assessment — The tech giant will assess its compliance with its official human rights policy, according to a federal filing.
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| The Verge: |
Over 24 current and ex-Twitter staff detail Elon Musk's destructive leadership: mass 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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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Getty Images plans to sue Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI in the UK over alleged copyright violation; Stability shared its training data, unlike Open AI — Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over alleged copyright violation.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google's Nest team appears to be working on AirTag-like location trackers, codenamed Grogu, with Bluetooth LE and UWB support, for a possible I/O launch in May — 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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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple indefinitely postpones its plans for lightweight AR glasses due to technical difficulties, plans to launch a lower-cost MR headset in 2024/2025 — Apple Inc. is still planning to unveil its first mixed-reality headset this year, but an even more important follow-up product …
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The Information, MacRumors, CNET, 9to5Mac, and Insider
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Discord acquires Gas, a poll-based app with 1M+ DAUs that's popular among teens for sharing anonymous compliments and positive affirmations with each other — Discord has acquired the Gas social app. The poll-based app has become popular among teens in recent months, allowing friends to share compliments with each other.
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| Jon Christian / Futurism: |
After Futurism found major errors in an AI-written “fact-checked” CNET article, CNET updated almost all its AI pieces as currently being reviewed “for accuracy” — CNET is now letting an AI write articles for its site. The problem? It's kind of a moron.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Canalys: global smartphone shipments fell 17% YoY in Q4 2022 and 2022 shipments fell 11% YoY to under 1.2B, the lowest quarterly and annual levels since 2013 — One of these days I'll have some positive news to share about the global smartphone market. Today is not that day.
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Canalys, GSMArena.com, TechSpot, iThinkDifferent, Engadget, AppleInsider, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt. Tweets: @canalys
| 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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Meta's Oversight Board urges the company to change its nudity policy after overturning its removal of two posts showing topless transgender and nonbinary people — Meta's Oversight Board, which independently evaluates difficult content moderation decisions, has overturned the company's takedown …
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| Washington Post: |
A draft House memo details how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and others failed to address extremism before January 6, much of which didn't make the final report — The House committee investigating the riot avoided detailed discussion in its report for fear of offending Republicans and tech companies, sources say
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