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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 30% on Wednesday morning 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $88.27B, Search revenue up 12% YoY, net income up 34% YoY, and traffic acquisition costs up 9% YoY; GOOG jumps 5%+ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - October 29, 2024 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2024.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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 … | Marianna Spring / BBC: |
Some users on X who share content that includes election misinformation, AI images, and conspiracy theories say they are being paid “thousands of dollars” by X — Some users on X who spend their days sharing content that includes election misinformation, AI-generated images … | Bloomberg: |
Samsung's stock has fallen 32% from its 2024 peak on July 9, losing $122B from its market cap, more than any other chipmaker worldwide, over AI and foundry woes — - Stock sheds more value than any chipmaker on AI, foundry woes — Samsung is ‘losing its technology leadership’: Pictet's Lee| Financial Times: |
Sources: SoftBank plans to put Arm's tech at the center of a new network of data centers to train and run AI, setting Arm on a collision course with Nvidia — Almost 20 years ago, Intel made a decision that changed the course of computing history. — Soon after Apple started putting Intel inside …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
A Bluesky board member discusses the state of decentralized social media: big growth after Elon Musk bought X, but needs a “killer app” for long-term appeal — Last week, Bluesky, where I am on the board (so feel free to consider this as biased as can be), announced that it had raised … Sponsor Posts
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