Apple, What Have You Done... - Oct. 22, 2021

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NEWS SOURCES: 

 

MAXIMUM MAC

M1 Max Turbo boost

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/21/new-macbook-pros-high-power-mode/

https://twitter.com/SteveMoser/status/1450272709787766793PugetBench results

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1383050-apples-m1-max-benchmarked-in-adobe-premiere-pro/

https://www.pugetsystems.com/benchmarks/view.php?id=60176

 

PLAYTIME IS OVER

Google reduces Play Store cut for subscriptions to 15%

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/technology/google-app-store-developer-fees.html

https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/21/google-lowers-play-store-fees-to-15-on-subscriptions-apps-as-low-as-10-for-media-apps/

https://play.google.com/console/about/mediaprogram/

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau orders tech giants hand over payment system data

https://www.engadget.com/cfpb-apple-facebook-google-payment-system-order-204005225.html

 

TRUTH AND REAPPROPRIATION

Trump to launch social media platform

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58990330

pranked bro https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/21/trump-truth-social-fake-accounts/

runs on unlicensed Mastodon code

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgm5k/truth-social-is-mastodon-trump

bug https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1451259053699653649/photo/1

30 days https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740354/trump-truth-social-network-spac-mastodon-license-software-freedom-conservancy

 

QUICK BITS

 

CROSSING THE STREAM

AT&T is first customer of Stadia white-label game streaming with Arkham Knight

https://9to5google.com/2021/10/20/batman-arkham-knight-white-label-stadia-att/

https://www.ign.com/articles/google-stadia-white-label-arkham-knight-free

b-roll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCcKyxX15e4 

 

GIGA-BITTEN

Gigabyte hacked again

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1383096-gigabyte-hit-by-another-ransomware-attack/

https://siliconangle.com/2021/10/21/gigabyte-struck-ransomware-second-time-three-months/

https://twitter.com/darktracer_int/status/1451080331554033669 

 

CAREFUL, SHARP EDGES

Razer’s making PC components now

https://hexus.net/tech/news/cooling/148539-razer-moves-pc-components-aio-coolers-psus-fans/

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/razer-pc-components-kunai-hanbo-katana

 

REINVENTING THE WHEEL (TRIANGULAR)

Aorus Project Cielo modular PC

https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/gaming-rig/joao-silva/gigabyte-introduces-project-cielo-its-own-modular-pc-desktop-system/

https://www.aorus.com/desktop-pc/project-cielo-5g

 

WE ARE THE WORLD

Worldcoin scans people’s eyeballs

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/more-than-100000-people-have-had-their-eyes-scanned-for-free-cryptocurrency/

https://www.wired.com/story/get-free-crypto-orb-scans-eye/