Fri. 08/09 – Mac Mini To Get Mini-er?

Apple’s new EU rules still aren’t acceptable to Spotify and Epic. Could we be getting a new, smaller Mac Mini this year? Perplexity AI is showing some real numbers in its effort to unseat Google Search. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

Links:

• Apple announces new fee structure for apps in the EU that link out to the web for purchases (9to5Mac)
• Spotify and Epic Games call Apple’s revised DMA compliance plan ‘confusing,’ ‘illegal’ and ‘unacceptable’ (TechCrunch)
• Apple’s Mac Mini With M4 Chip Will Be Its Smallest Computer Ever (Bloomberg)
• ChatGPT now lets free users generate up to two images per day made by DALL-E 3 (The Verge)
• Perplexity’s popularity surges as AI search start-up takes on Google (Financial Times)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Why are so many car YouTubers quitting? (The Verge)
• Moscow’s Spies Were Stealing US Tech — Until the FBI Started a Sabotage Campaign (Politico Magazine)

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