Apple May Have Already Inked Deal for NFL Sunday Ticket - MacRumors
Apple Music is the new sponsor of the Super Bowl halftime show
Techmeme: Craig Federighi says Stage Manager is exclusive to M1 iPads because it leverages the M1's more powerful GPU, I/O in virtual memory, faster storage, and more RAM (Matthew Panzarino/TechCrunch)
Techmeme: Some Twitter staff in the US and other countries laid off by Elon Musk in November say they have not received information about the severance they were promised (Wired)
Here's what likely killed the Apple - NFL Sunday Ticket deal
Techmeme: A look at anti-pornography “accountability apps” used by churches and parents; two apps exploited Android's accessibility permissions to track users' every move (Dhruv Mehrotra/Wired)
Techmeme: Survey of 1,203 cybersecurity professionals: more than one-third said their firm lost more money from holiday or weekend ransomware attacks, up from 13% in 2021 (Meridith Levinson/Cybersecurity Software)
Techmeme: Instagram will down-rank Russian state media posts, label the posts to discourage sharing, and hide follower details for private Ukraine and Russia accounts (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
NFL Sunday Ticket' Bidding Largely Down to and Apple
Techmeme: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says Telegram Premium passed 1M subscribers since its June 2022 launch; the monthly subscription costs $5 in the US and £5 in the UK (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Techmeme: Reddit moderators detail recent spam generated by AI tools like ChatGPT, including in higher volume and at faster post speeds, sometimes via coordinated attacks (Laurie Clarke/VICE)
Kuo: iPhone 14 Front-Facing Camera to Feature Big New Upgrade – Appleosophy