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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Apple updates the MacBook Pro with M4, M4 Pro, or M4 Max, Thunderbolt 5, 16GB+ RAM, nano-texture option, for $1,999+ for 14" and $2,499+ for 16" from November 8 — Apple is updating the MacBook Pro and introducing some even more powerful chips. Announced this morning via a low-key press release …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils the M4 Max: up to a 16-core CPU for up to 2.2x speeds over the M1 Max, up to a 40-core GPU, up to 128GB of memory, Thunderbolt 5, and more — Apple today announced the M4 Max chip alongside new MacBook Pro models—its most advanced and powerful Apple silicon chip to date.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Apple says the MacBook Air with M2 or M3 chips will now come with 16GB of RAM as standard, up from 8GB, and leaves the pricing unchanged at $999+ — Apple is bringing its ultraportables in line with its M4 systems. — No, Apple isn't stuffing an M4 chip into the MacBook Air lineup just yet …
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Super Micro's stock drops 30%+ after disclosing that auditor Ernst & Young had resigned following months of disagreement over governance and board independence — Super Micro's shares plunged 33% on Wednesday after the company disclosed its auditor had resigned following months …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox is laying off 528 employees, or 20% of its workforce, in what CEO Drew Houston says is a “transitional period”; filing: the layoffs cost $63M to $68M — Dropbox is letting go 20% of its workforce as the cloud company undergoes what CEO Drew Houston calls a “transitional period.”
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
PlayStation closes Firewalk Studios, which debuted shooter game Concord in August 2024 before taking it offline, and mobile studio Neon Koi, impacting ~210 jobs — The company will also close the mobile game studio Neon Koi, which hasn't released a game, according to a blog post from Sony on Tuesday.
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| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Visa and Coinbase partner to let eligible US and EU users deposit funds into their Coinbase accounts, sometimes instantly; Visa powers the Coinbase debit card — - Access to crypto used to be challenging but is becoming easier … Coinbase already has millions of connections …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Chrome desktop to let users choose how aggressively it frees up inactive tab resources across three modes, and adds a Performance Detection tool — Last year, Chrome introduced Memory and Energy Saver modes, and Google is now updating its desktop browser with Performance issue alerts.
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| The GitHub Blog: |
Contributions to generative AI projects on GitHub grew 59% YoY from October 2023 to September 2024 and Python overtook JavaScript as the most popular language — In this year's Octoverse report, we study how public and open source activity on GitHub shows how AI is expanding as the global developer community surges in size.
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: in August, Andy Jassy called Donald Trump to outline Amazon's plans, and Trump said Amazon should cut him a large check for his presidential efforts — Executives at companies founded by the billionaire Post owner have sought contact with Trump. He argues he didn't end presidential endorsements out of self-interest.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the European Commission plans to open formal DSA proceedings against Temu over concerns the platform is failing to curb the sale of illegal products — - Formal proceedings to see if Temu broke Digital Services Act — Meta, AliExpress, TikTok and X all face similar EU probes| Jasper Ward / Reuters: |
Colorado says that some partial passwords for the state's voting systems were accidentally posted online but pose no threat to the November 5 general election — WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - (This Oct. 29 story has been corrected to reflect quotes from the CISA spokesperson in paragraph 6)| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $65.6B, Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services up 13%, LinkedIn up 10%, and net income up 11% to $24.7B — Microsoft Cloud Strength Drives First Quarter Results REDMOND, Wash. — October 30, 2024 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
| Meta Investor Relations: |
Meta reports Q3 revenue up 19% YoY to $40.59B, net income up 35% to $15.69B, and family daily active people up 5% to 3.29B on average for September 2024 — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2024.| New York Times: |
Sources detail how TikTok struck a deal with GoTo to buy a ~75% stake in Tokopedia for $840M, letting TikTok restart TikTok Shop in Indonesia in December 2023 — Agata Pinastika Kenastuti's children's clothing shop in Jakarta, Indonesia, was full of inventory when TikTok Shop shut.
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Starlink Mini review: super compact and light, can be powered by a small power bank, installs quickly at new locations, but Wi-Fi range is sometimes a concern — Impossibly small, incredibly convenient. … Space internet is the reason I've been able to work from some very remote locations … | Valentina Palladino / Engadget: |
Kindle Colorsoft review: color display, quick page-turns, pinch-to-zoom, auto-adjusting front light, and no lockscreen ads, but pricey and screen has a blue hue — But at $280, this color ereader costs more than its competitors. — Deputy Editor, Buying Advice — Well, it finally happened.
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| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft says Russian hackers have sent “highly targeted spearphishing emails” to thousands of US officials, defense workers, and others during the past week — - Thousands targeted in spearphishing campaign during last week — Hackers said to impersonate Microsoft employees in some emails
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Chaos Labs and Inca Digital analysts say Polymarket activity exhibits signs of wash trading, a form of market manipulation to create a false volume and activity — Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan. — COURTESY OF POLYMARKET — The prediction market Polymarket has skyrocketed … | Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Ubisoft quietly debuted its first blockchain game, Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles, for free on PC last week; in-game figurines are listed for $7 to $63K — It's called Champions Tactics and it sure looks like...something. — Three years ago, Ubisoft promised it would start making its own blockchain games.
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Forums: r/Games, r/ethtrader, r/gaming, r/fuckubisoft, and r/pcgaming
| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
A profile of US voting machine maker Clear Ballot, which helps officials check paper ballots via its app, as Elon Musk spreads conspiracy theories about hacking — Chip Trowbridge is confident his voting machines are secure, but he'll run the thought experiment with you.| Niket Nishant / Reuters: |
Global Payments agrees to sell medical software business AdvancedMD to investment firm Francisco Partners for $1.13B; the deal is expected to close in Q4 2024 — Global Payments (GPN.N) will sell its medical software business, AdvancedMD, to investment firm Francisco Partners for $1.13 billion … | Financial Times: |
IDC: Samsung's global smartphone market share in Q3 fell from 21% to 18% YoY, the only one of the top five global smartphone makers to have falling shipments — Korean tech giant is losing market share to US rival Apple and Chinese players — Samsung Electronics is struggling to hold … Sponsor Posts
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