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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: iOS 18.2 may arrive during the week of December 2; thoughts on the Mac mini as a gaming device, the Pixelmator deal, Q4 earnings, and Peloton's new CEO — The new Mac mini could become Apple's long-awaited answer to the PlayStation and Xbox. Also: The company's next AI features …
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| Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac: |
Gurman: Apple is working on a MacBook Pro overhaul featuring a thinner design, but probably won't release the laptop until 2026 following delays in display tech — According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple will be releasing a ‘total redesign’ for MacBook Pro in 2026.
More: Business Standard, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, and MacRumors
| @mingchikuo: |
Sources: the production of a cheaper Vision Pro has been delayed beyond 2027, meaning Apple's only new headset in 2025 will be a Vision Pro with an M5 chip — As I understand it, production of the cheaper Vision Pro has been delayed beyond 2027 for a while now. This means Apple's only new head-mounted display device in 2025 will be the Vision Pro with an upgraded M5 processor. I think what really drove Apple to delay the cheaper
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Forums: r/virtualreality, r/hardware, r/gadgets, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Politico: |
Only a single $123M CHIPS Act grant, to Minnesota-based Polar, has been finalized from the $33B+ announced so far, as both US parties criticize the CHIPS Act — The $39 billion high-tech subsidy plan was supposed to come with guardrails. Progressives worry those are dissolving before their eyes.
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| Stephen Groves / Associated Press: |
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| Hamid Ganji / Neowin: |
Geekbench 6: Apple's M4 Max chip scores 4,060 in single-core tests, making it the first production CPU to cross 4,000, and scores 26,675 in multi-core tests — After months of swirling rumors, Apple revealed its new Mac devices with updated M4 chips last week.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Perplexity launches a dedicated hub for the US general election, including ballot measures and voting results, while rivals like OpenAI have been more cautious — Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, might hallucinate from time to time. But the company wants to show that it's trustworthy enough …
More: perplexity.ai, Benzinga, The Verge, and CNBC
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X starts rolling out an update to let users see public posts, and following and followers lists, of users who block them; blocked users still can't engage or DM — X is rolling out its controversial update to the block feature, allowing people to view your public posts even if you have blocked them.| Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic: |
How Bluesky not adding the federation systems that would let users leave a Bluesky server and take their community to other hosts can cause “enshittification” — - Bluesky and enshittification: No one is the enshittifier of their own story. — Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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X: @doctorow and @davewiner
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Interviews with Quantum Machines' CTO and other executives on the startup's Nvidia partnership to use ML to get closer to an error-corrected quantum computer — About a year and a half ago, quantum control startup Quantum Machines and Nvidia announced a deep partnership …
More: Pivot to AI and The Quantum Insider
Forums: Hacker News, r/nvidia, r/tech, r/singularity, and r/MachineLearning
| Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times: |
An interview with Steve Ballmer on trying to turn USAFacts, his not-for-profit civic initiative, into a source of dispassionate statistics for US voters — Former Microsoft boss seeks to build better democracy with data — Elon Musk has used his ownership of X to promote Donald Trump's re-election as … | Sarah Kessler / New York Times: |
Q&A with Kay Koplovitz on her transition to becoming a VC with Springboard after selling USA Networks, why women-led startups are underestimated, DEI, and more — Kay Koplovitz still remembers her first negotiation. Her family was moving from one suburb of Milwaukee to another …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Experts say Tesla's imitation learning-based approach to building fully autonomous driving systems needs AI breakthroughs that may not be achieved for some time — Tesla is pushing to build true self-driving vehicles by 2026. The way its CEO wants to do it seems risky.
More: Benzinga, Motley Fool, The Drive, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Irish Independent, and CleanTechnica
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