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Apple's Mac mini lineup includes both the newer M6 chip and the older M5 Pro, but the M5 Pro model is priced higher because it targets a different performance tier. The M5 Pro offers more CPU and GPU cores, higher RAM ceilings up to 64GB, and storage options up to 8TB, compared to the M6's maximum 12-core CPU, 32GB RAM, and 2TB storage.
A scan of 623 European software vendor domains found that only 118 (24%) published a valid security.txt file with a working contact address, while 374 (76%) had none, according to a survey using RFC 9116 criteria. The check comes weeks before the EU Cyber Resilience Act's Article 14 takes effect, imposing a 24-hour reporting window once a vendor learns of an actively exploited vulnerability.
Counterpoint Research says Apple placed five models in the world's top 10 best-selling smartphones for Q2 2026, with the base iPhone 17 taking the top spot at 6% of global unit sales. The iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17e, and iPhone 16 also made the list, while Samsung was the only other brand represented with five models including the Galaxy S26 Ultra.
GKIDS is bringing 'The Last Blossom,' a new anime feature from the creators of the acclaimed mystery series ODDTAXI, to theaters for a limited two-night engagement on August 30 and 31. The film follows a former yakuza member whose story is paired symbolically with a plant, a choice the director discusses as central to the narrative's themes.
The IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu honor society is holding its first Innovating the Future conference on November 6, giving undergraduate and graduate IEEE members a venue to present original research. Participants submitted abstracts by May 1, received mentorship from IEEE volunteers, and those accepted by August 1 will present their work, with proceedings slated for the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Dolly Parton, the country music icon and philanthropist, died on August 25 at age 80. Fans and public figures responded with tributes ranging from landmarks illuminated in pink to a special Google search Easter egg celebrating her life and career.
Salesforce and Anthropic unveiled an expanded partnership called Claudeforce, centered on a new plugin, Salesforce in Claude, that lets sales teams query and update live CRM records directly from Claude's CoWork interface. The tool ships with 37 built-in sales skills for tasks like meeting prep and pipeline reviews, is rolling out to pilot customers now, and will reach open beta in September with more business-function skills arriving later in the year.
JBL has unveiled the Pulse 6, a portable Bluetooth speaker priced at $330 that is now available for preorder ahead of a September 6 shipping date. The speaker features a lantern-like design with 360-degree LED lighting, offering 16 preset themes split between ambient and party modes, and can sync with other JBL products via Auracast.
Meta reached a settlement of nearly $18 billion with almost all US states over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to foster compulsive use among children and hid mental health risks. The deal, still pending court approval, requires Meta to impose a default two-hour daily time limit for teens, a midnight-to-6am usage block, and a school-hours notification mute, while Texas separately secured $1 billion outside the main $16.7 billion pact.
A developer built a standalone site that aggregates GitHub's published incident history and lets users filter it by which specific services were affected and how severe each outage was rated. The tool was created because existing status reporting from GitHub doesn't let engineers isolate the exact dependencies and reliability thresholds relevant to their own products.
Apple confirmed its September event with the English tagline 'Surprise and shine,' widely seen as hinting at a foldable iPhone reveal. A Twitter user noticed that Google Translate's rendering of the Chinese-language version of Apple's event teaser reads 'A new chapter unfolds, dazzling and brilliant,' which some fans see as an intentional nod to a folding device.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sent Catholic bishops a letter arguing there was no valid religious basis for refusing to grant vaccine exemptions in Catholic schools, and threatened to cut state scholarships and vouchers if they didn't comply. The bishops publicly rejected his theological reasoning and legal claims, stating that Catholic teaching supports vaccination and that they don't need to justify church doctrine to the state.