Sources: Apple plans to launch M2-based versions of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros in early March 2023; M2 Max will have 12 CPU cores and 38 GPU cores (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: 14″ and 16″ MacBook Pro with M2 Pro and M2 Max, M2 Mac mini are coming soon; Apple is testing Mac Pro with 24 CPU cores, 72 graphics cores, 192 GB RAM  —  Apple’s latest iPad lineup and software strategy is its most confusing to date, but here’s how the company could ultimately fix it.

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple will launch new iPad Pros with M2 chip this month, and is working on a Mac mini with M2, Apple TV with A14, and a new entry-level iPad with USB-C  —  Apple’s next product launch is just days away.  Also: The company withholds new employee benefits from its unionized retail store …

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
The new Apple Watches’ S8 chip appears to have the same CPU as the S6 and S7, which may explain why Apple has only used the S5 or earlier for comparisons lately  —  The S8 chip in the Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch Ultra, and second-generation Apple Watch SE features the same CPU as the S6 and S7 chips …

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Apple plans to use TSMC’s next generation N3E 3-nm chipmaking technology for the A17 chips in some of its 2023 iPhones and M3 chips for Macs  —  Move will mark industry’s first adoption of updated production technology  —  TAIPEI — Apple aims to be the first company to use …

Patrick Kennedy / ServeTheHome:
Arm unveils Neoverse V2, its next-gen performance-optimized cores for the cloud, hyperscale, and HPC workloads, which is used in Nvidia’s upcoming Grace CPU  —  Today Arm announced its next-generation cores for higher performance per core applications.  Dubbed the Arm Neoverse V2 or “Demeter” …

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Alongside iOS 16, Apple releases iOS and iPadOS 15.7, macOS Monterey 12.6, and macOS Big Sur 11.7 to fix the eighth actively exploited 0-day since January 2022  —  Apple has released security updates to address the eighth zero-day vulnerability used in attacks against iPhones and Macs since the start of the year.