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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple's new M3 Pro has fewer performance and GPU cores than the M2 Pro and 25% less memory bandwidth than the M1 Pro and M2 Pro — Apple's latest M3 Pro chip in the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro has 25% less memory bandwidth than the M1 Pro and M2 Pro chips used in equivalent models from the two previous generations.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces the 3nm M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max with a dynamic caching GPU, 20% faster performance cores over the M2, and 50% faster efficiency cores over the M1 — Apple has unveiled its next generation of M series chips: M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max. These new chips are 3nm, like the A17 Pro.
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| John Davidson / Australian Financial Review: |
Andrew Ng, who taught Sam Altman at Stanford and co-founded Google Brain, says Big Tech is lying about AI extinction to trigger heavier regulation of its rivals — Key Points — Big Tech wants tough AI rules that would make life hard for small competitors
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
| Apple: |
Apple's 14" MacBook Pro with M3 starts at $1,599, the 14" MacBook Pro with M3 Pro starts at $1,999, and the 16" MacBook Pro with M3 Pro starts at $2,499 — 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 now starts at $1,599 — 14- and 16-inch models with M3 Pro and M3 Max are available in a gorgeous new space black finish
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: |
The US says 40 countries plan to sign a pledge to never pay a ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers' funding mechanism — Forty countries in a U.S.-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple unveils an M3 24-inch iMac that processes photos and produces videos up to 2x faster than the M1 iMac, with Wi-Fi 6E and up to 24GB of RAM, for $1,299+ — Folks banking on the arrival of the iMac Pro will have to wait a bit longer. If you've been looking to upgrade your 24-inch all-in-one …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
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| Ismail Shakil / Reuters: |
Canada bans WeChat and Moscow-based Kaspersky on government-issued mobile devices, as the apps “present an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security” — Canada on Monday banned Chinese messaging application WeChat and Russian antivirus program Kaspersky …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Palo Alto Networks acquires Tel Aviv-based Dig Security, which helps organizations manage and protect data assets in the cloud, sources say for $400M — We reported in September that Palo Alto was getting ready to make yet more security acquisitions out of Israel, specifically of Dig Security and Talon.
More: PR Newswire, CRN, Silicon Republic, Globes Online, BankInfoSecurity.com, CTech, and Constellation Research. LinkedIn: Paz Menshes
| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
The Guardian says its reputation was hurt after news aggregator Microsoft Start placed an AI-generated poll about a woman's death next to an article about her — Publisher says poll speculating on cause of woman's death that appeared next to Guardian article caused ‘significant reputational damage’
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian opposition leaders say Apple warned more than six of them of state-backed iPhone attacks; Apple confirms the notifications but didn't attribute the hacks — Apple has warned over a half dozen Indian politicians, other members of political parties and journalists of their iPhones …
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| Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: |
A US judge dismisses three artists' AI copyright infringement claims against Midjourney and DeviantArt but allows a direct claim against Stability AI to proceed — While a federal judge advanced an infringement claim against Stability AI, he dismissed the rest of the lawsuit.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Chrome on iOS to let users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen, like Safari; Chrome on Android does not get the feature — Visually, Chrome on iOS is pretty different from the Android version. That disparity continues to grow today with the new ability to move …
More: The Verge, The Keyword, Android Authority, Android Police, MacRumors, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, Droid Life, and BGR
| Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Despite several video games with record sales in 2023 and strong overall sales, the industry is still facing layoffs, fewer job openings, and studio closures — We look at the data to analyse the video games industry's current contradictory crisis — Feature by Christopher Dring Head of Games B2B
More: Axios and The Verge
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: new US rules may compel Nvidia to cancel $5B+ in 2024 chip orders by Chinese companies; Nvidia finished fulfilling its 2023 orders before the controls — Artificial-intelligence company scrapped plans to rush shipments to China this month before new restrictions were brought forward
More: Investor's Business Daily, Tom's Hardware, Reuters, and Finbold
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says “all presenters, locations, and drone footage” in the pre-recorded “Scary Fast” event video were shot on an iPhone 15 Pro Max — Apple today held a short and unusual special event to introduce a new generation of MacBook Pro and iMac with M3 chip.
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| Tim Starks / Washington Post: |
The US SEC charges SolarWinds for failing to disclose alleged cybersecurity failures ahead of a breach by suspected Russian hackers that began as early as 2019 — The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the company with failing to disclose its problems ahead of a breach …
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| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Infoblox discovers a threat actor that has provided link shortening services to cybercriminals for over four years, registering ~75K domains since April 2022 — An actor that security researchers call Prolific Puma has been providing link shortening services to cybercriminals for at least four years …
More: BetaNews, Infoblox Blog, and Cybernews.com
| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
A look at some of the creators who report and aggregate news on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and more, as people under 35 move away from traditional news outlets — One recent study concluded consumers are looking for news that “feels more relevant,” giving a boost to creators on social media
More: CoinDesk and Washington Post
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung reports Q3 revenue down 12% YoY to ~$50B, net income down 40% YoY to ~$4.1B, vs. an 86% YoY drop in Q2 2023, and a ~$2.78B chip division operating loss — - Net income was more than twice what analysts estimated — Company is stepping up spending on advanced chipmaking tech
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| Maria Heeter / The Information: |
Health care automation startup Olive, which was valued at $4B in July 2021, plans to shut down and has sold parts of its business to Waystar and Humata Health — Olive AI, the healthcare automation company once valued at $4 billion, has sold itself off in pieces to healthcare companies Waystar …
| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple's stock dropped 11% since its Q3 results on August 3, erasing nearly $400B in value, the first year since 2015 that AAPL slid between WWDC and Q4 earnings — Worries about China and the future of a lucrative Google relationship could outlast even a strong earnings report| Katie Robertson / New York Times: |
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