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Apple’s Mac RAM upgrades were already expensive enough to raise eyebrows. After the company’s latest round of price hikes, some of them now look ridiculous. Apple recently raised prices across its Mac and iPad lineup, along with other products, citing rising memory and storage costs. The supply crunch is real, but Mac buyers were paying steep premiums for RAM and SSD upgrades long before this jump. Recent MacBook Pro configuration screenshots shared by 9to5Mac show how much worse the upgrade path has become. Apple was already charging a heavy premium The screenshots show a MacBook Pro configuration where 48GB of…

Anthropic’s AI restrictions may finally be starting to thaw. After being forced offline earlier this month over U.S. government security concerns, the company’s most advanced AI models are slowly making a comeback. According to a new report from Axios, Anthropic has already restored Mythos 5 for a limited number of trusted users, while Fable 5 could return as early as next week if ongoing discussions with federal agencies continue to progress. Mythos returns first, while Fable waits in the wings According to Axios, the U.S. Commerce Department has cleared Anthropic to restore access to Mythos 5, its strongest cybersecurity-focused AI…

Apple’s Mac and iPad prices went up this week, by a good margin, no less, and the memory crisis behind them isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.  The obvious next question is what happens to the iPhone 18 Pro, which is expected to arrive later this year. IDC has an answer, and you might not like it (via MacRumors). So what exactly is IDC predicting for iPhone 18 Pro pricing? The Senior Director of Data and Analytics at IDC, Nabila Popal, says Apple’s recent price increases have significantly raised IDC’s price estimate for the iPhone 18 Pro models.  Previously, the research…

Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders recently went live, but the excitement came with one frustrating catch. The so-called physical edition of the game will not include a disc. Instead, buyers will get a box with cover art and a download code inside. That decision immediately caused backlash online, especially among collectors who still care about owning games on disc. For a while, there was some hope that this would only be temporary. Reports suggested that Rockstar could release a proper disc version of GTA 6 in December 2026, giving physical media fans something to wait for. Rockstar Support confirmed that…

A few days ago, Apple announced an ugly mid-cycle price hike, blaming the worsening-by-the-day memory crisis. According to the Financial Times, the company is now lobbying the government for approval to buy memory chips from a Chinese company.  The company in question is CXMT, a Chinese chipmaker that the Pentagon added to its Chinese Military Company blacklist for alleged ties to the Chinese army. So what exactly is Apple asking for here? Apple is not legally barred from sourcing chips from a Chinese supplier. What it wants, however, is the White House’s nod to do so without the reputational and…

OpenAI’s hardware ambitions just got a major boost, and it could be another clue that the company is preparing to take AI beyond smartphones and laptops. Paul Meade, Apple’s longtime engineering leader behind the Vision Pro headset and its upcoming smart glasses efforts, is leaving Cupertino to join OpenAI’s hardware division. Another Apple hardware veteran joins OpenAI According to Bloomberg, Meade spent seven years leading hardware engineering for the Vision Pro and also oversaw Apple’s display-free smart glasses project that’s expected to compete with Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses. His team was also involved in future augmented reality glasses and several…

Valve’s Steam Machine has become easy to dunk on. The price starts well above current consoles, and the hardware sits somewhere between entry-level and mid-range gaming PCs rather than a monster rig. Early reviews have also talked about how demanding games need upscaling, trimmed settings, and realistic expectations. With the ongoing memory crisis, it sounds like a rough time to bring a PC to the couch. Though the Steam Machine doesn’t need to beat high-end gaming PCs or the big consoles. Its purpose was different from the start. And what really makes it better is how it could shift the…

Getting a spacecraft to Mars or beyond requires an enormous amount of fuel, most of which has to be hauled from Earth, adding to the overall cost and weight of the spacecraft. NASA has been working on a different approach, one that could be more efficient and effective. It wants to refuel a spacecraft in orbit before heading out for the mission. What’s even more interesting is that the space agency just finished testing a component that could make that possible: a cryocoupler. So what exactly is a cryocoupler, and why does it matter? Think of it as the nozzle…

A fresh iPhone 18 Pro leak is making the rounds online, and it comes with some pretty bold claims. According to leaker Reptalicant, the alleged motherboard for Apple’s upcoming flagship reveals a redesigned A20 Pro chip package with improved cooling, a beefier Neural Engine, and faster memory. That’s a lot to unpack, especially considering motherboard-level Apple leaks like this are exceptionally rare. The leak claims better thermals, faster memory, and a stronger NPU According to the post, Apple is said to be moving the DRAM to the side of the A20 Pro package using WMCM (Wafer-Level Multi-Chip Module) packaging instead…

Google is making Gemini even more useful on Android. Google first previewed the Google Play connected app for Gemini at Google I/O 2026, and it’s now finally rolling out to users. The new integration brings the Play Store directly into Gemini, letting the AI assistant help discover apps, make purchases, and complete more tasks without leaving the chat. Gemini can now do more than recommend apps Google says users can ask Gemini to find apps based on a specific goal, such as a map app for international travel or a productivity app for meal planning. Once Gemini surfaces relevant suggestions,…