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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
A large number of mostly late 2013 and mid 2014 MacBook Pro users are reporting that upgrading to macOS Big Sur is bricking their computers — A large number of late 2013 and mid 2014 13-inch MacBook Pro owners are reporting that the macOS Big Sur update is bricking their machines.
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
It's hard to believe Craig Federighi's claim that Apple wasn't “remotely considering” touch for Macs, given Big Sur's large controls and iOS apps coming to Macs — Reviews of new Apple Silicon Macs are not out yet. They're likely to be good. But one small disappointment lingers … | Gary Ng / iPhone in Canada Blog: |
Apple responds to privacy concerns over checking macOS apps' Developer ID certs over OCSP, ceases logging IP addresses, will launch encrypted protocol in 2021 — Following privacy concerns from Mac users after Apple's Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) server went down …
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| Phil Vachon / Security Embedded: |
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| Financial Times: |
Max Schrems' campaign group noyb files complaints with German and Spanish regulators, claiming Apple breaks EU law by letting advertisers track users via IDFA — Austrian activist files complaints with German and Spanish data protection authorities — Apple is breaking EU law …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
WarnerMedia says HBO Max will be available on Amazon Fire devices from November 17 — The HBO Max app for Amazon's devices will be available Tuesday, Nov. 17. The launch will bring WarnerMedia's flagship direct-to-consumer product to Amazon's estimated 40 million-plus active Fire TV users …
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| Abby Vollmer / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub reinstates the youtube-dl project, raises its bar for DMCA takedown requests, and creates $1M legal defense fund to help open source devs fight takedowns — Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project …
Tweets: @githubpolicy, @thomasfuchs, @xor, @film_girl, @waxpancake, and @benthompson
| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
A look at the debate over the kind of news Facebook users are reading, after Facebook released more data on top performing link posts in the US — What kind of news does the news feed feed when the news feed does feed news? — Since July, New York Times journalist Kevin Roose … | Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Investigation: US military buys granular movement data of people around the world from a wide array of apps for Muslim dating, prayer, Craigslist, weather, more — A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain …
Tweets: @rowaida_abdel and @jmbooyah
| Frank McShan / MacRumors: |
Results uploaded to Geekbench show that Apple Silicon M1 scores higher than every previous Mac in the single core benchmark, even when the M1 is emulating x86 — The first native benchmarks of Apple's M1 chip appeared on the Geekbench site last week showing impressive native performance.
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Tweets: @dcuthbert, @jonmasters, @stroughtonsmith, @geerlingguy, @stevesi, @mgsiegler, and @stroughtonsmith
| Josh Terry / VICE: |
As part of the Justice at Spotify initiative, 18,000+ musicians demand at least a penny per stream, more financial transparency, and an end to royalty lawsuits — Damon Krukowski of Galaxie 500 and the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers explains the ‘Justice at Spotify’ campaign. — JT| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Profile of Erdal Arıkan, an obscure Turkish academic whose groundbreaking work in information theory in 2005 helped Huawei dominate the 5G infrastructure market — How an obscure Turkish scientist's obscure theoretical breakthrough helped the Chinese tech giant gain control of the future.
Tweets: @stevenlevy
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia announces A100 80GB GPU for supercomputers, offering twice the memory of its predecessor, introduced in May 2020 — Nvidia launched its 80GB version of the A100 graphics processing unit (GPU), targeting the graphics and AI chip at supercomputing applications.Sponsor Posts
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