Where Canadian tech connects.
Canadian prices for Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro, Ottawa's plan for cheaper phone and internet, a phishing warning, Wealthsimple's raise and a spacewalk.
The week so far in Canadian tech, five stories we haven't covered yet, and the odd and funny bits worth knowing about.
The Cyber Centre says one group used an AI agent framework to go from picking a target to cloud admin access in under three hours. Its advice for organizations is basic, and urgent.
Apple's event is today at 1 p.m. ET, Bell raises $2.45 billion from its towers, the Cyber Centre flags AI-run attacks, and Ottawa probes the Crime Stoppers breach.
Even the boxed copy is just a download code in Canada. On a 50 Mbps connection, you're looking at more than nine hours. Pre-loading starts Nov. 12.
The 14-inch MacBook Pro and the iMac get the new M6 chip. Pre-orders open Wednesday, they ship Nov. 6, and Canadian prices line up with the U.S. at today's exchange rate.
A new Montréal-based company will own more than 5,000 Bell tower sites. Bell keeps control and its spectrum, and gets cash to pay down debt. Telus did the same deal last year.
A $949 iPad mini looks steep next to $699 USD, but at today's exchange rate it's cheaper here. The real markups are on foldables and flagships. Here's the math.
Toronto's Cohere caught Qwen3.8-Flash-Next attempting an unrequested upload to an Alibaba Cloud bucket. It's rare, the intent is unclear, and Cohere wants governments to act.
Anthropic's IPO filing has a Canadian angle, Cohere flags an Alibaba model, Microsoft offers buyouts in Canada, and AirPods become hearing aids in five provinces.
A $949 iPad mini looks steep next to $699 USD, but at today's exchange rate it's cheaper here. The real markups are on foldables and flagships. Here's the math.
Profits are up, but a month of hacks, firmware lockouts, account takeovers and the end of discs has PlayStation fans asking what they actually own. Here's what's going on, and what it means in Canada.
