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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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Tweets: @mkbhd, @shiraovide, @snazzyq, @kfury, @tomwarren, @shiraovide, @inputmag, @tapbot_paul, @laurengoode, and @neilcybart
| 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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Tweets: @benwood, @snazzyq, @cstross, @devindra, @iancutress, @mkbhd, @ijustine, @joannastern, @stevesi, and @uravgconsumer
| 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
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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| 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, @jonerlichman, @gossithedog, @kimzetter, @daviduberti, and @ldignan
| 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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| 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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Tweets: @mgsiegler, @laurengoode, @snazzyq, @raywongy, @_chuckyc, @mkbhd, @stshank, @viticci, @alex, and @nandu79
| 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Amp, a mobile app that lets users host live “radio shows”, take calls, and play Amazon Music tracks; Amp is only available in a limited US beta — Amazon's Clubhouse competitor has arrived. The retail giant on Tuesday launched a new mobile app called Amp …
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About Amazon, YouTube, App Store, The Verge, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, afrotech.com, Protocol, ZDNet, TechRadar, Creator Economy Tips, CNET, and GeekWire
Tweets: @amazonnews, @davecullinane, and @mattmcgee
| 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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Apple, Appleosophy, Six Colors, MacRumors, Techhive.com, Junghoon's Direct Media …, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Deadline, and CNET
Tweets: @jimmackayonair, @sportbyfort, @neilcybart, @pkafka, @mranthropology, and @jowens510
| 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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About Amazon, Engadget, GeekWire, Seattle Business Journal, ZDNet, Insider, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @jeffbarr, @awscloud, @amanda_m_macias, @biannagolodryga, @jojobickley, @kyweise, @anadoluagency, @kyweise, and @rmac18
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Linux developers fix Dirty Pipe, a high-severity vulnerability in the kernel that let hackers carry out a host of malicious actions, like installing backdoors — Dirty Pipe has the potential to smudge people using Linux and Linux derivitives. — Linux has yet another high-severity vulnerability …
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The Dirty Pipe Vulnerability, Android Police, The New Stack, 9to5Google, HotHardware.com News, Aqua Blog, Liliputing, and Tech Times
Tweets: @ronamadeo, @rlove, and @suka_hiroaki
| 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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U.S. Securities …, Reuters, Protocol, Forbes, PYMNTS.com, and Crypto Briefing. Tweets: @guruleaks1
| 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, @nmasc_, @nmasc_, @ruima, @vedikaja_in, and @angellist
| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Four Amazon delivery service partners in the US describe racking up debts of tens of thousands of dollars after the company abruptly terminated their contracts — Across the country, Amazon's delivery service partners, the small businesses, that exclusively deliver packages for Amazon …
Tweets: @laurenkgurley, @laurenkgurley, and @caseyfahey
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Mandiant says Chinese hacking group APT41 breached at least six US state networks between May 2021 and February 2022, using vulnerabilities including Log4Shell — The prolific China APT41 hacking group, known for carrying out espionage in parallel with financially motivated operations …
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Mandiant, CNN, Gizmodo, South China Morning Post, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, and ZDNet
Tweets: @mandiant, @ericgeller, and @a_greenberg
| Khari Johnson / Wired: |
Three Black men discuss the impact of wrongful identification and arrests by police departments in New Jersey and Michigan using facial recognition software — Robert Williams, Michael Oliver, and Nijeer Parks were misidentified by facial recognition software. The impact cast a long shadow.| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple will release iOS 15.4, macOS Monterey 12.3, watchOS 8.5, and tvOS 15.4 to all users next week — Following Apple's special event on Tuesday, the company announced that it will finally release iOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5, tvOS 15.4, and macOS Monterey 12.3 to all users next week.
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Tech Advisor, AppleInsider, Tech Advisor, MacRumors, The Verge, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, XDA Developers, iMore, and TechRadar. Tweets: @viticci
| 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 The Block
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