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Apple Still Trying to Keep Up With M2 MacBook Air Demand Almost a Month After Launch
In the United States, Apple lists the MacBook Air as shipping out in two to three weeks for the baseline model with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD storage. Other configurations with varying storage and memory options are listed as one to two weeks away.
The delay is timely as Apple is currently running a Back to School promotion for students preparing for classes this fall. The new MacBook Air may be an attractive purchase for students thanks to its lightweight and thin design and the battery life and performance enabled by the M2 chip.
Apple has been facing a constrained supply chain in recent months, but the situation does seem to be easing. Besides the long wait for the new MacBook Air, most other Macs in Apple’s lineup remain readily available for shipping with no weeks-long delay.
The highest-end Mac Studio and the 24-inch iMac with the M1 chip are the two exceptions. The Mac Studio is listed with shipping estimates well into at least one month, and customers looking for an iMac face a three to four week delay, according to Apple’s store at the time of writing.
In the third quarter of the year, Apple’s Mac business was severely constrained. The company’s CEO, Tim Cook, said that Mac supply was so low for the quarter that it was difficult to gauge actual demand for Apple’s latest computers. Here is what Tim said during the company’s last earnings call:
In terms of testing the demand, you can’t really test demand unless you have the supply. We were so far from that last quarter that we have an estimate of what we believe demand was, but it is an estimate. We recognize how the industry is doing, we think that we’ve got a great story with the Mac, getting M1 out and now M2 out, we have a very strong offering for the back to school season and we’ll see how we do this quarter. We’ll report back in October.
Mac revenue for Q3 of 2022 was down to $7.3B from $8.2B a year ago.
This article, “Apple Still Trying to Keep Up With M2 MacBook Air Demand Almost a Month After Launch” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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Mac Hacker’s Code Is So Good, Corporations Keep Stealing It
One of the central examples in Wardle’s case is a software tool called OverSight, which Wardle released in 2016. Oversight was developed as a way to monitor whether any macOS applications were surreptitiously accessing the microphone or webcam, with much success: it was effective not only as a way to find Mac malware that was surveilling users but also to uncover the fact that a legitimate application like Shazam was always listening in the background. […] But years after Oversight was released, he was surprised to find a number of commercial applications incorporating similar application logic in their own products — even down to replicating the same bugs that Wardle’s code had.
Three different companies were found to be incorporating techniques lifted from Wardle’s work in their own commercially sold software. None of the offending companies are named in the Black Hat talk, as Wardle says that he believes the code theft was likely the work of an individual employee, rather than a top-down strategy. The companies also reacted positively when confronted about it, Wardle says: all three vendors he approached reportedly acknowledged that his code had been used in their products without authorization, and all eventually paid him directly or donated money to the Objective-See Foundation. The Verge notes that Wardle’s cousin Josh Wardle created the popular Wordle game, which was purchased earlier this year by The New York Times.
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How I’m finding shares to buy now – and keep for a decade
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Prince Andrew ‘to keep’ taxpayer-funded police bodyguards after security review
Shamed Prince Andrew will KEEP police bodyguards after review of security detail in wake of Jeffrey Epstein scandal
PRINCE Andrew will continue to have round-the-clock police protection, funded by the taxpayer, despite no longer undertaking royal duties.
The decision follows a complete review of his security by the Metropolitan Police and Home Office in the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse scandal.
Prince Andrew will keep his police protection despite no longer being a working royal[/caption]
The review was undertaken in the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, seen here with Ghislaine Maxwell in 2005[/caption]
The Duke of York, 62, was effectively exiled as a working royal earlier this year when the Queen prevented him from using his HRH title and stripped him of his military and charitable associations.
The Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (known as Ravec) assessed the security threat but decided that he was still entitled to police bodyguards, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Its decision is likely to be seen as controversial in the wake of Prince Harry’s claim in the High Court against the committee’s decision to deny him and his family automatic security when he is in the UK.
Prince Andrew, who is ninth in line to the throne, agreed a significant financial settlement with Virginia Giuffre, who had brought a legal case against him in the US, claiming he had sexually abused her three times in 2001 when she was 17 after she had been trafficked by the disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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The Duke has always denied any wrongdoing.
Initially, it was suggested the settlement cost £12million but reports which emerged last weekend claimed lawyers for the Prince negotiated a deal between £3-5m.
The decision by the committee will mean Andrew will continue to have a personal protection officer whenever he leaves his home.
His property on the Windsor estate has permanent security arrangements.
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The cost of his personal protection is unknown but it has been estimated to be between £500,000 and £3m every year.
Andrew’s daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, had their royal security removed a number of years ago.
Other non-working royals, such as Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall, do not receive protection as adults.
Prince Andrew was targeted by a number of intruders last year who tried to gain access to the Grade II-listed Windsor home he shares with his former wife the Duchess of York.
In April, a 43-year-old Spaniard, who claimed to be “Irene Windsor” was waved into the property after telling security she had a lunch date with the Duke.
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She was arrested on suspicion of burglary and later sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
A few days later a 31-year-old man and 29-year-old woman were arrested after being found trespassing on the grounds.
Prince Andrew suffered a number of security scares at his Windsor home last year[/caption]
Sony Reportedly Paying To Keep Games Off Game Pass | GameSpot News
Microsoft claims Sony pays for ‘blocking rights’ to keep games off Xbox Game Pass
Microsoft has claimed Sony pays for “blocking rights” to stop developers from adding their content to Xbox Game Pass. The explosive claims are part of documents (Word doc) filed with Brazil’s national competition regulator and part of a review of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
“Microsoft’s ability to continue expanding Game Pass has been hampered by Sony’s desire to inhibit such growth,” claims Microsoft in an August 9th filing to the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), as translated from Portuguese. “Sony pays for ‘blocking rights’ to prevent developers from adding content to Game Pass and other competing subscription services.”
Does this mean Sony is evil and Microsoft is casually out here revealing…