The aftermath of Apple's price hikes. Apple is taking its fight against Epic to the Supreme Court. More AI features coming to Apple's Creature Studio. And Apple is showing confidence in its upcoming iPhone Fold, expecting to sell 10 million units!

• America is having MacBook sticker shock.
• MacBook price hikes expected to contribute to 13.6% drop in global laptop shipments.
• Apple weighs buying RAM from two blacklisted Chinese suppliers to curb rising costs.
• Broadcom and Apple extend custom silicon pact to 2031.
• iPhone 18 Pro leaks: Qualcomm or Apple C2 model, A20 details, camera upgrades.
• Apple takes Epic fight over app store fees to the Supreme Court.
• Tim Cook's government liaison position comes into focus before stepping down as Apple CEO.
• Apple in Russia's crosshairs again, facing $52M fine for not installing state-required apps.
• If you wanted more AI in Apple's Creator Studio, Tuesday's update gives it to you.
• Safari's new MCP server lets coding agents inspect and debug websites.
• Siri AI can pull info from third-party apps in the latest developer beta.
• Apple to launch 5 new iPhone models to gain market share amid memory crunch.
• Confident Apple increases its iPhone Fold orders to 10 million.
• Apple TV teases major new sci-fi series: Neuromancer.
• iPhone 17 Pro Max buried in America's 250th anniversary time capsule: to be opened in 2276.

Picks of the Week

• Glenn's Pick: Turtles!
• Jason's Pick: Default Folder X
• Andy's Pick: Readest

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A landmark Supreme Court decision shakes up digital privacy, setting new limits on police surveillance and potentially redefining personal data rights in the age of AI and location tracking. Plus, Chinese AI models are rapidly gaining ground while American companies battle lawsuits, regulatory crackdowns, and soaring chip shortages. The global race for AI dominance is wide open!

• US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections
• Musk's X poses "serious risk to Americans' privacy," advocates warn FTC
• The World Cup added $1 billion in security systems. What happens after the games end?
• U.S. Lifts Restrictions on Anthropic's Most Powerful A.I. Models
• OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom
• Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages
• Companies Are Throttling Employees' AI Use Because It's Too Expensive
• Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground on Anthropic and OpenAI
• Swedish court orders Google to pay $1.5 billion to Klarna in antitrust damages
• Google loses final appeal over $4.7 billion EU Android antitrust fine
• Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data
• Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025
• America Is Having MacBook Sticker Shock
• Apple may struggle to get clearance for Chinese RAM, even for Chinese iPhones
• BYD Sells the Most Battery Electric Cars Again
• NASA mission to rescue the falling Swift observatory has launched
• NASA inspector general suggests Boeing's Starliner will now be a decade late
• South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots
• Spotify deletes streams of chart-topping song after suspicious Kalshi bets
• Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Whether a Wildfire Will Burn Down Your Town

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From the sudden retirement of Internet pioneer Vint Cerf to the unstoppable advance of "apex agentic adversaries," get a front-row seat to the unfolding security revolution and its massive real-world stakes.

• Why Fable5's re-release has disappointed.
• Opera becomes the first browser to offer "Paste Protect."
• Microsoft BlueHammer exploit is "hammering" systems.
• Industry legend (TCP creator) Vint Cerf on AI.
• Chrome turns 150 with too many fixes to load.
• Google fails to sidestep a $4.67 billion EU fine.
• One last (we can hope) Chat Control vote next week.
• AirDrop & Android Quick Share are exploitable.
• How to bypass Claude's and ChatGPT's guardrails.
• My own Sunday spin with SpinRite.
• A legendary hacker uses AI on a widespread library

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