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Apple discontinues the 13-inch MacBook Pro, the last Mac with a Touch Bar, meaning the company now only offers 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple discontinues the 13-inch MacBook Pro, the last Mac with a Touch Bar, meaning the company now only offers 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models  —  With the launch of the new M3 14-inch MacBook Pro, Apple has discontinued the 13-inch MacBook Pro.  The 13-inch MacBook Pro is no longer listed

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Apple says “All presenters, locations, and drone footage” in the pre-recorded “Scary Fast” event video were shot on an iPhone 15 Pro Max (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple says “All presenters, locations, and drone footage” in the pre-recorded “Scary Fast” event video were shot on an iPhone 15 Pro Max  —  Apple today held a short and unusual special event to introduce a new generation of MacBook Pro and iMac with M3 chip.

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Apple announces a speedier M3 iMac

The outside isn’t changing much, but the M3 processor will purportedly make this new 24-inch iMac two times faster. | Image: Apple The 24-inch iMac is finally getting a refresh. At its “Scary Fast” event, Apple announced a new M3 version of the iMac that is supposedly two times faster than its over two-year-old M1

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Pinterest Q3: revenue up 11% YoY to $763.2M, vs. $743.5M est., MAUs up 8% YoY to 482M, vs. 473M est., ARPU up 3% YoY to $1.61, vs. $1.59 est.; $PINS jumps 8%+ (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Pinterest Q3: revenue up 11% YoY to $763.2M, vs. $743.5M est., MAUs up 8% YoY to 482M, vs. 473M est., ARPU up 3% YoY to $1.61, vs. $1.59 est.; $PINS jumps 8%+  —  – Pinterest reported an 11% increase in third-quarter sales, topping analyst estimates.  — Expenses rose nearly 2% to

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The best ChatGPT Chrome extensions

While we think the hype over generative AI is excessive, given potentially flaky real-world results, chatbots like ChatGPT certainly have their uses, especially for people prepared to work around their limitations. With that in mind, here are some of the best ChatGPT extensions available for Google Chrome. The best ChatGPT Chrome extensions Don’t expect these

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US Office of Personnel Management report: ~632K DOD and DOJ employees had their emails compromised on May 28 and 29, 2023, as part of the sprawling MOVEit hacks (Ari Natter/Bloomberg)

Ari Natter / Bloomberg: US Office of Personnel Management report: ~632K DOD and DOJ employees had their emails compromised on May 28 and 29, 2023, as part of the sprawling MOVEit hacks  —  – Federal report gives new details on scope of MOVEit attack  — Email addresses, links to surveys among compromised data

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The US SEC charges SolarWinds for failing to disclose alleged cybersecurity failures ahead of a breach by suspected Russian hackers that began as early as 2019 (Tim Starks/Washington Post)

Tim Starks / Washington Post: The US SEC charges SolarWinds for failing to disclose alleged cybersecurity failures ahead of a breach by suspected Russian hackers that began as early as 2019  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the company with failing to disclose its problems ahead of a breach …

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Possible Java streams enhancement

Java’s stream operations would become more flexible and expressive and allow custom intermediate operations to manipulate streams of infinite size to the extent possible, under a proposal in the OpenJDK community. Authored this month and in a preview stage, the stream gatherers proposal would enhance Java’s Stream API to support custom intermediate operations. This would

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BlackBerry CEO John Chen plans to retire on November 4 after serving in the role for a decade; board member Richard Lynch will be the interim CEO (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: BlackBerry CEO John Chen plans to retire on November 4 after serving in the role for a decade; board member Richard Lynch will be the interim CEO  —  BlackBerry named board member Richard Lynch as interim chief executive officer after current CEO John Chen retires Nov. 4.

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A live blog of Apple’s “Scary Fast” event, where high-end MacBook Pros with M3 Pro and M3 Max, a new 24-inch iMac with an M3, and more are expected (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

Umar Shakir / The Verge: A live blog of Apple’s “Scary Fast” event, where high-end MacBook Pros with M3 Pro and M3 Max, a new 24-inch iMac with an M3, and more are expected  —  The company has, uncharacteristically, scheduled the online livestream presentation for 8PM ET / 5PM PT, meaning it’s not for the

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