Daily Tech News 9 March 2022

• Apple's Mac Studio is here with the new M1 Ultra chip. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's essentially a Mac Mini Pro. Or a Mac Pro Mini. Either way, it replaces the regular M1 chip with your choice of the faster M1 Max, or the much faster M1 Ultra.
  
  Which is two M1 Max chips glued together. (AnandTech)
  
  While Apple's benchmark numbers are, let's just say, selective, these are pretty good chips.
  
  The Mac Studio is good, but it's not cheap, and it is entirely soldered in place. What you buy is what you are stuck with. You can configure it with up to 128GB of RAM (at about 3x market prices) and 8TB of SSD (at 4x market prices).
  
  Apple as a company still sucks, of course. They make nice hardware but terrible policies.
  
  
  
• Threadripper Pro 5000 is also out. (AnandTech)
  
  From 12 to 64 Zen 3 cores. And no, you can't get one. Just as they did initially with the Threadripper Pro 3000 family, you can only buy it through OEMs, and when they say OEMs they mean Lenovo.

• Cloudflare and Akamai are not leaving Russia. (ZDNet)
  
  Both companies provide content distribution networks and protection against DDOS attacks, which is certainly needed.
  
  What they have done though is set their servers in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine to do a sort of soft self-destruct if they are tampered with. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  
  
• Twitter has launched a Tor access site. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  So that only they can ban you.
  
  
  
• There's a new iPad Air as well. (Liliputing)
  
  
  
• And an iPhone SE. (Liliputing)
  
  
  
• It is not currently raining here in Sydney. Expected to start up again on Monday but much lighter falls than we've been having recently.
  
  
  
• Oh, and Apple's new monitor is $1599, not $2499. (Apple)
  
  So about the same price as the four monitors I just bought, rather than being much more expensive.
  
  
  

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