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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Apple debuts Mac Studio, designed like a taller Mac mini, with M1 Max or Ultra, front and back ports, up to 128GB of memory, and support for four 6K displays — It's a Mac Mini but way more powerful — Apple has announced the Mac Studio, a desktop system that looks like the Mac Mini …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Apple details M1 Ultra, replacing the M1 Max as the top M1 chip, with 114B transistors, 128GB of unified memory, 16 performance cores, and four efficiency cores — Apple rocked the computing world with its M1 chip, the first “Apple Silicon” hardware that turned the MacBook Air, Mac Mini and other computers into portable powerhouses.
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| Apple: |
Apple says the Mac Studio starts at $1,999 with an M1 Max and at $3,999 with an M1 Ultra; the Studio Display costs $1,599 — Mac Studio with M1 Max and the new M1 Ultra delivers unprecedented performance and extensive connectivity in an incredibly compact design| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces an updated iPhone SE with 5G, an A15 Bionic, the classic Touch ID home button design, a 12MP camera, and more, shipping on March 18 for $429 — Apple has officially announced it's all-new iPhone SE with an A15 Bionic chip. The design is the same as the previous-generation iPhone SE.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
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| Mathew Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
The SEC charges two siblings with defrauding investors out of $124M through their Ormeus Coin offering, alleging they acted as “modern-day snake-oil salesmen” — The “ground-breaking digital money system” Ormeus Coin was actually a scam, the SEC alleges. — In brief
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Twitter launches a Tor onion service using a modified version of the Enterprise Onion Toolkit, letting users access Twitter via any Tor-compatible browser — The site may become the most significant onion service created if it allows people to access Twitter from censored countries. — Joseph Cox
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
After experiencing outages on Tuesday, Spotify and Discord say their services have been restored — Unrelated issues disconnected both services this afternoon — If you can't connect to Spotify or Discord, then no, it's not just you or your internet connection. Both services acknowledged problems on Tuesday afternoon.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Apple announces an updated iPad Air with M1, 5G, a 12MP ultra-wide front camera, and more, starting at $599 in 64GB or 256GB versions, available on March 18 — A year and a half after its last model — Apple has announced an update to the iPad Air a year and a half after it gave the tablet an iPad Pro-style redesign.
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Amazon stops letting customers in Russia and Belarus open AWS accounts; AWS says its biggest customers in Russia are multinational firms with local dev teams — The policy change for Amazon Web Services started over the weekend but was not publicly announced until Tuesday.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Better.com lays off 3,000+ employees in the US and India, citing “current market conditions”; some staff learned of layoffs after early rollout of severance pay — The mass layoffs at digital mortgage lender Better.com have reportedly started, according to employees and other sources …
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| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
Apple announces Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV+, comprising two exclusive Major League Baseball games every week — Apple has snared rights to a Friday-night package of Major League Baseball games, extending Silicon Valley's reach into the world of sports.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Kuo: the 2022 MacBook Air will have a new form factor, an M1 chip, no mini-LED display, more color options, and is slated for production in late Q2 or Q3 2022 — Following today's event that saw the introduction of the Mac Studio, respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has provided some detail …
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The Verge, Fossbytes, 9to5Mac, and Pocketnow
Tweets: @mingchikuo, @chancehmiller, and @tme_michael
| Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: |
The CFTC charges three Americans and one Indian for operating two alleged Ponzi schemes, Ecoinplus and JetCoin, that defrauded investors of $44M in bitcoin — Tuesday's charges are just the latest in the regulator's efforts to regulate the crypto industry.
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U.S. Department of Justice and Crowdfund Insider
| Washington Post: |
As Western tech companies react to sanctions, Russian streamers on Twitch, gig workers on Upwork, and creators on OnlyFans have all lost their livelihoods — When Arina, a 22-year-old illustrator in Russia, first started using the freelance work platform Upwork last year, it changed her life.
Tweets: @techwontsaveus
| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
AngelList Venture says it raised a $100M Series C in February 2022 at a $4B pre-money valuation led by Tiger Global — After seven years since its last financing round, Angellist Venture has raised new capital, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Invest in Startups. Tweets: @drewaustin, @vedikaja_in, @nmasc_, @angellist, @apompliano, @nmasc_, and @ruima
| Mandiant: |
Google acquires cybersecurity company Mandiant for ~$5.4B, or $23 per share, in an all-cash deal set to close later in 2022; Mandiant will join Google Cloud — Acquisition to bring Google speed and scale to Mandiant's unparalleled intelligence and expertise - at a time when security has never been more important
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Tweets: @mandiant, @googlecloud, @thomasortk, @sundarpichai, @gossithedog, @kimzetter, @daviduberti, @jonerlichman, @healthitnews, @breakingviews, and @dnvolz
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