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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 M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, up to 96GB of RAM …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils the M2 Pro and M2 Max, built on a second-gen 5nm process, offering 20% more transistors than M1 Pro and double the M2, 200GB/s bandwidth, and more — Apple today unveiled the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips alongside refreshed MacBook Pro and Mac mini models.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces an updated Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro, improved graphics performance, support for 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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| 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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| Financial Times: |
A look at Elon Musk's options for paying interest on his $13B of debt after buying Twitter; sources say the first installment could be due by the end of January — Billionaire faces tough choices to meet financial obligations of takeover financed by $13bn debt| 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 … | 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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| 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
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Foxconn appoints Michael Chiang to head its iPhone assembly business, which had a tumultuous year in China, replacing longtime leader Wang Charng-yang — Key Apple Inc. manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group has appointed a new boss for its iPhone assembly business …
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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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| 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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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company plans to quickly add OpenAI's tools to all its products and make them available for other businesses to build on — Offering for businesses and end users to be transformed by incorporating tools like ChatGPT, CEO Satya Nadella says
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| Charles Hymas / Telegraph: |
The UK amends its Online Safety Bill to make senior managers at tech companies criminally liable for not protecting minors, after demands by nearly 50 Tory MPs — Social media bosses who fail to protect children from harmful content will face jail now the Government has conceded to rebel MPs
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| Washington Post: |
A draft House memo details how Twitter, YouTube, and other platforms failed to address extremism before January 6, much of which did not 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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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Robinhood plans to launch Sherwood Media, an independent brand led by veteran tech editor Joshua Topolsky; Sherwood will be the Snacks newsletter's new home — Retail trading platform Robinhood is launching an independent media brand called Sherwood that will be led by veteran tech editor and media entrepreneur Joshua Topolsky.
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