Gurman: a Mac developer says new MacBook Pro chips named M1 Pro and M1 Max appeared in app logs; MagSafe charging will return to MacBook Pros (Sami Fathi/MacRumors)

Sami Fathi / MacRumors: Gurman: a Mac developer says new MacBook Pro chips named M1 Pro and M1 Max appeared in app logs; MagSafe charging will return to MacBook Pros  —  A little more than 24 hours until Apple's much-awaited launch of redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, new evidence has emerged suggesting …

1m

Interview with Michael Dell on his new book Play Nice but Win, battling Carl Icahn before taking Dell private in 2013, his friendship with Steve Jobs, and more (Connie Guglielmo/CNET)

Connie Guglielmo / CNET: Interview with Michael Dell on his new book Play Nice but Win, battling Carl Icahn before taking Dell private in 2013, his friendship with Steve Jobs, and more  —  From starting a PC business in his college dorm room to fighting over control of his company, Dell's new memoir dives into entrepreneurship.

1h

A look at YouTube's in-house creator partnerships team, which has over 1,000 employees across 45 countries offering advice and guidance to about 12,000 creators (Tripp Mickle/Wall Street Journal)

Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: A look at YouTube's in-house creator partnerships team, which has over 1,000 employees across 45 countries offering advice and guidance to about 12,000 creators  —  The site has spent more than a decade building an in-house agency for digital superstars, drawing ad sales, sponsorships and other revenue

4h

Internal document: Netflix estimates Squid Game will create almost $900M in value for the company; 87M viewers have finished the series in the first 23 days (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Internal document: Netflix estimates Squid Game will create almost $900M in value for the company; 87M viewers have finished the series in the first 23 days  —  More than 130 million people have watched the Korean show  —  Netflix estimates that its latest megahit, “Squid Game,” …

9h

Analysis: Apple Search Ads now account for 58% of iOS app installs from an ad click, up from 17% a year ago; Apple to earn $5B from its ads business in FY 2021 (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)

Patrick McGee / Financial Times: Analysis: Apple Search Ads now account for 58% of iOS app installs from an ad click, up from 17% a year ago; Apple to earn $5B from its ads business in FY 2021  —  iPhone maker's share of mobile app advertising market has tripled in six months  —  Apple's advertising business has more than tripled …

10h

Analysis: median CEO pay of US tech startups that went public in 2020 was $21.9M; seven of the 10 best-paid CEOs of US public companies were from such startups (Eliot Brown/Wall Street Journal)

Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal: Analysis: median CEO pay of US tech startups that went public in 2020 was $21.9M; seven of the 10 best-paid CEOs of US public companies were from such startups  —  Startup creators once tended to take little or no remuneration as CEOs.  Now, some are getting giant stock awards …

11h

Convex, which provides software for the commercial services industry, raises a $39M Series B, bringing its total raised to $60M (FinSMEs)

FinSMEs: Convex, which provides software for the commercial services industry, raises a $39M Series B, bringing its total raised to $60M  —  Convex, a San Francisco, CA-based software platform focused on digitizing the commercial services industry, raised $39m in Series B financing.

13h

Some doctors in the US and other countries say TikTok videos about Tourette syndrome may be contributing to a rise in cases of teen girls with physical tics (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)

Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: Some doctors in the US and other countries say TikTok videos about Tourette syndrome may be contributing to a rise in cases of teen girls with physical tics  —  When teens started turning up in doctors' offices with sudden, severe physical tics, specialists suspected social media …

17h

A look at Raya, a secretive subscription-based social network with a rigorous user selection process and a rigid code of silence for accepted members (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)

Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: A look at Raya, a secretive subscription-based social network with a rigorous user selection process and a rigid code of silence for accepted members  —  The app has created a space free of the problems that plague the rest of the Web, but only by leaving almost everybody out.

20h

A look at US Cyber Games, jointly founded in April by the US government, academia, and the private sector to find and train candidates for cybersecurity careers (Noah Smith/Washington Post)

Noah Smith / Washington Post: A look at US Cyber Games, jointly founded in April by the US government, academia, and the private sector to find and train candidates for cybersecurity careers  —  As the United States seeks to shore up its defenses against cyberattacks, the government is seeking to harness the skills …

21h