Month: September 2023
How Google plans to win its antitrust trial
This is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here. Today, let’s talk about the US government’s first major antitrust trial against a tech giant in a generation. If the Justice Department succeeds in its case against Google, it could…
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Update your iPhone and Mac now – Apple has fixed two major security bugs
Apple has released a fix for two high-severity vulnerabilities found in iPhone and Mac devices, with users urged to update their devices immediately. The flaws are tracked as CVE-2023-41064, and CVE-2023-41061. The former is a buffer overflow weakness and can enable arbitrary code execution on vulnerable endpoints. The latter is…
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6 Best Phones With a 3.5-mm Headphone Jack (2023): Rugged, Cheap, Luxe
Headphone jacks are endangered, but they’re not gone. Here are our favorite smartphones that still let you plug and play. Source
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Naim Uniti Atom HE Review: The Ultimate Headphone Amp
This high-end streamer/headphone amp combo is among the best you’ll hear, but it has a price tag to match. Source
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Tesla’s $25,000 ‘next-generation car’ will have a Cybertruck design
Tesla is reportedly preparing to build a $25,000 electric car built on the company’s next-generation engineering platform. Axios reports that Elon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson has detailed the plan to build a $25,000 electric car alongside an autonomous robotaxi that could ferry passengers around. The $25,000 car reportedly has a…
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The demand for hybrid working isn’t going anywhere
Despite a clear industry-wide push to return to the office being enforced by the likes of Meta, Google, and Amazon, most workers are still longing for suitable and practical hybrid working setups – and many companies are simply failing to offer this. The news comes from Deloitte, whose 2023 Connected…
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