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Apple confirmed it is increasing the monthly price of Apple TV from $12.99 to $14.99, and raising the cost of the Apple One Individual bundle as well. The new pricing applies immediately to new subscribers, while existing customers will get about a month's notice before being charged the higher rate. Other Apple One tiers, already adjusted when Apple Music prices rose last month, remain unchanged.
Cloud Imperium Games has again delayed Squadron 42, the single-player Star Citizen spinoff, this time to the second quarter of 2027. Director Chris Roberts said the studio wants to avoid launching alongside GTA 6, which arrives on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S this November and is expected to dominate media coverage. A limited group of original backers and veteran content creators will get early access on October 9-10, with a firmer release date to follow.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Nvidia had frozen some transactions under its two-month-old 'take or pay' AI Compute Partnership after partners objected to Nvidia dictating which customers could lease its GPUs. Nvidia pushed back, saying the program remains active and is simply evolving amid strong demand, without confirming or denying specific paused deals.
Gap Inc. has appointed retail veteran Michael Francis to lead Old Navy, its largest brand by revenue. Francis previously helped shape Target's low-cost, design-forward strategy in the 2000s, and Gap is betting his experience can revive Old Navy at a moment when shoppers are especially price-sensitive.
A preliminary survey found that 80% of Micron Taiwan employees support a possible strike, as the labor union demands the company replace its current bonus structure with a profit-sharing model similar to those at SK hynix and Samsung. Mandatory mediation talks are expected to start by mid-September, as required under Taiwan law before any formal strike vote can occur. The push comes after Micron posted $41.46 billion in revenue and $28.24 billion in net income, fueled largely by AI-driven demand for high-bandwidth memory chips.
A developer has released FF-16-TUI, a terminal-based static analysis utility that scans an entire binary file to detect frequently recurring 16-bit sequences. The tool presents a hexdump alongside a pattern panel, letting users highlight and filter matches by frequency, gap size, and bit count to infer file structure.
Google has updated its Flow AI video studio with a new model, Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, that adds finer editing controls such as first- and last-frame interpolation and longer scene extensions of up to 40 seconds. The update also lets creators produce cheaper, faster 360p drafts before rendering final output in 1080p or 4K, with video references to help keep characters and visuals consistent.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that most business owners misuse AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude by treating them as static software rather than trainable assistants. The piece proposes a five-step iterative coaching process—starting with a clear job brief, assigning real tasks, giving specific feedback, auditing changes, and repeating the cycle—to turn generic chatbots into reliable business tools.
A wave of vulnerability reports produced with AI assistance is flooding bug bounty programs, increasing supply and pushing per-report payouts lower. This shift is squeezing the economics that independent security researchers rely on for income.
A UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion dataset, highlighted by a Reddit user following Dolly Parton's death, shows Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds just 8 percent favorability among Democrats and 13 percent among Republicans. That places him near Vladimir Putin in overall unpopularity, despite Zuckerberg's recent efforts to align himself politically with Donald Trump.
A user found that Google's Calendar app on Android has no way to subscribe to an events calendar from a URL, despite running the latest OS and app version. The workaround required switching to desktop mode in a mobile browser at calendar.google.com, where adding the same calendar link worked instantly and synced back to the app.
Gap Inc. announced that customer chief Michael Francis will replace Haio Barbeito as Old Navy's CEO starting in November, part of an ongoing effort to revive the struggling brand. The announcement came alongside Gap's mixed second-quarter results, which beat earnings estimates but missed on revenue, sending shares up more than 16% in after-hours trading.