• Apple has announced its new M5 chip - it's one more than the M4 - and new models of the MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Vision Pro?  Really?  They're still trying to push their $3500 paperweight?
  
  Anyway, the M5 has 10 CPU cores - four fast cores and six slower ones - and 10 GPU cores, compared with the M4, which has 10 CPU cores - four fast cores and six slower ones - and 10 GPU cores.
  
  Uh.
  
  It's supposed to be about 15% faster.  So that's exciting.
  
  Also there are no 8GB RAM options or 256GB SSD options in the new MacBook Pro lineup, and about bleedin' time.
  
  Apart from that it's the usual from Apple: Base model is not wildly overpriced, but memory and storage options whack you with a 1000% markup.
  
  
  
• And the charger costs extra.  (Notebook Check)
  
  In the EU, anyway, and they barely have steam over there let alone electricity.

• The Dead Internet Theory turns out not to be just a theory.  (Business Insider)
  
  If you're arguing with someone online who seems to be impenetrably stupid, chances are they're not human.
  
  Though of course there are still plenty of impenetrably stupid humans around.
  
  
  
• Anthropic plans to triple its revenue in 2026.  (Reuters)  (archive site)
  
  Same.
  
  
  
• Fortune 500 security company F5 says hackers stole undisclosed flaws in BIG-IP...  Which is F5's product.  (Bleeping Computers)

  Despite this critical exposure of undisclosed flaws, F5 says there's no evidence that the attackers leveraged the information in actual attacks, such as exploiting the undisclosed flaw against systems. The company also states that it has not seen evidence that the private information has been disclosed.

  I am totally reassured.
  
  

Posted by: J Greely at Thursday, October 16 2025 11:58 PM (oJgNG)

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