Here's why Apple's Mac Studio has become so expensive

A big part of the story is soaring memory and storage prices, but other factors come into play as well.

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Paramount settles US states' antitrust lawsuit, clearing the way for its Warner Bros. acquisition

The mega-merger of the year will apparently go forward.

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Meta Connect 2026: 6 devices and AI services we expect to see

Meta Connect 2026 is this week and we expect to see at least four new devices alongside new AI services.

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Kairos Power gets up to $100M from Samsung group to build nuclear reactor for Google

Future Google supplier Kairos Power inked a deal with Samsung C&T to help build its first 50-megawatt nuclear power plant.

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This one-command trick can put your localhost on the internet, no port forwarding required

"Put localhost on the Internet," was the new pitch for an old feature that had Cloudflare at the top of Hacker News and X's dev circles for the last few days. The tool has existed since 2021, and let's you run one command: cloudflared tunnel --url…

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Microsoft, Google took down $66 million cybercrime marketplace that sold virtual machines with free software

Effort takes down RedVDS, a criminal marketplace believed to have contributed to $66 million losses to US businesses and individuals.

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Acer has the cheapest Googlebook, here's what you get

Acer is one of the major brands that has worked with Google to bring out the new lineup of Googlebook laptops. With its $899 entry price, Acer is promising a lightweight, well-built convertible with an OLED and Dolby Atmos.

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MagSafe Monday: BLAVOR’s solar power bank is built for fall camping trips

The weather is turning cooler, and it’s time for camping and football tailgates. BLAVOR’s 20000mAh Solar Power Bank is built for this time of year. It has four built-in cables so you can leave your bag at home, a solar panel for recharging, and a wireless pad…

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Anthropic Pursues IPO Despite Its A.I. Safety Warnings

The company is expected to reach $100 billion in annualized revenue this year, even as chief executive Dario Amodei calls for slowing down development of some advanced A.I. models.

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Comfy Desktop makes running local AI models on your PC much easier

Comfy Desktop lets you generate AI images and video locally using your own GPU, with popular models such as Stable Diffusion, SDXL, Flux, Wan, and others. It wraps the powerful ComfyUI workflow system into a desktop app that handles installation…

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iPhone 14 Pro vs. iPhone 18 Pro Buyer's Guide: Should You Upgrade?

Apple announced the iPhone 18 Pro and ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max earlier this month, arriving four years after the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. Four generations of changes make for a substantial upgrade, bringing larger displays, an all-new design…

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Vivo X500 officially launches with Zeiss cameras and 144Hz AMOLED display

The Vivo X500 has debuted in China with a MediaTek Dimensity 9600M chipset, a Zeiss-tuned triple-camera system, and a larger battery than its predecessor. Vivo also offers optional imaging accessories for the X500, including a telephoto extender and the Snap…

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Patches Posted For Enabling Apple Silicon Mac Speaker & Headset Jack Support On Linux

While the downstream Asahi Linux kernel has offered working speaker support and headset jack capabilities on Apple Silicon Macs, the mainline Linux kernel hasn't supported this functionality. But a set of 28 patches sent out today on the Linux kernel mailing…

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Qotom Q30952UE Review the New Black Box for 10G Networking

We test the Qotom Q30952UE that delivers two SFP+ 10G ports and six 2.5GbE ports in a little black box with many surprises

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EcoFlow Early Prime Day Sale 3,072Wh DELTA Ultra Plus solar bundle $900 off, EGO snow blower bundle $949 2026 low, more

Leading this week’s Monday Green Deals is the newly launched EcoFlow Early Prime Day Fall Sale with increased power station savings up to 57%, FREE gifts with purchases of $600 or more, and a bonus extra savings code. One notable offer that doesn’t have a…

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How the iPhone Duo's software is different from a standard iPhone

The iPhone Duo makes some big changes to iOS to account for the foldable design. It affects the camera, multitasking and more.

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Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com

Amazon has its own cohort of foundation models, along with one of the most popular inference platforms on the internet. As long as they're under no legal obligation to open the doors to Muse, why would they?

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MediaTek's new Googlebook chip skips Lumex for old Cortex cores

MediaTek has unveiled its Dimensity CX 10 Max laptop chip for Googlebooks. It pairs Arm CPU cores with an Immortalis GPU and a 55 TOPS NPU.

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M4 iPad Air Now Starting at $649 on Amazon, Save Up to $149

Amazon this week has multiple discounts on the M4 iPad Air , providing up to $149 off these 2026 models. These remain the best prices we've seen in the wake of Apple's summer price hikes, and many deals are being matched at Best Buy . Note: MacRumors is an…

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GM can’t ‘bring back’ Apple CarPlay because it never left

Last week, GM announced a new software experience for its upcoming Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks, including a new look for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, the popular phone mirroring systems that the automaker made a big deal about removing from its…

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X will now tell users when governments have forced it to limit their posts

X is expanding its “Under the Hood” transparency tool to show when posts have been downranked or withheld in response to local laws and government demands, including which country made the request.

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UN science panel says there is "no assurance humans will keep control" over AI agents

The UN's AI science panel warns in its first thematic report that control over AI agents isn't assured. Co-chair Yoshua Bengio says OpenAI's Hugging Face incident first combined a misaligned goal, the ability to pursue it, and an environment that allowed it…

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Paramount settles lawsuit blocking $110 billion Warner Bros. merger

Paramount has reached a settlement with California and the 11 other states that sued to block its planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The settlement removes a major roadblock standing in the way of the massive media merger. According…

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The new iPhone A20 Pro chip benchmark results: Yeah, its very, very fast

The new iPhones' A20 Pro chip proves Apple silicon remains undefeated. If we were a Qualcomm chipset, we'd be very afraid.

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Grok 4.7 brings multi-hour coding and $2 input pricing

Built on a larger base model with extended reinforcement learning, the release scores 46.3% on CursorBench 4.0 and 71% on DeepSWE 1.1 while maintaining low refusal rates for legitimate use.

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Trek launches new lightweight road e-bike with carbon frame and solid 185 km of range

Trek has unveiled the Domane+ SL, a lightweight electric road bike with a carbon frame. The e-bike features a TQ HPR40 200 W mid-drive motor and a 580 Wh battery, which is said to deliver 40 Nm of torque and 115 miles (185 km) of range. Available in three…

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Vivo Watch 6: New smartwatch released with 3,500-nit AMOLED display and 21 days battery life

Vivo has released a new high-end smartwatch featuring a 3,500-nit AMOLED display. Also boasting up to 21 days of battery life, the Vivo Watch 6 has arrived in China with optional eSIM connectivity and a titanium case, too.

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iPhone 18 Pro Max storage can drop lower than a hard drive at 1.1 MB/s during heavy writes — QLC NAND offers higher capacity but reportedly suffers 38% drop compared to TLC-based Pro

Apple's use of QLC NAND allows the iPhone 18 Pro Max to offer higher storage capacity, but Homolab's testing highlights the potential performance trade-off under sustained writes.

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California will fine creators $5,000 a post for hidden political ads

“I was hearing from people in the campaign world that there’s this new strategy of paying political influencers to post content,” said Marc Berman, the California assemblyman. “Some were good about disclosure and others were a bit fast and loose.” His bill is…

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Fake LastPass Authenticator Installer Abuses Microsoft-Signed Driver to Kill Antivirus and EDR

A fake LastPass Authenticator installer offered on GitHub installs a Windows kernel driver that shuts off antivirus and other security software before a password stealer runs if a victim downloads and runs it, researchers at LastPass and Delphos Labs said on…

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