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Amazon has begun discounting Apple's latest Mac lineup ahead of fall Prime Day, with the new M6 Mac mini seeing cuts of nearly $150 to reach all-time lows and the 2026 Mac Studio dropping $199. M5 MacBook Air models are seeing roughly $200 discounts across configurations, while a 14-inch M5 Pro MacBook Pro with 2TB storage is down $500 to $2,699.
Apple has maintained the same 7.7-inch aluminum enclosure for the Mac Studio since its 2022 launch, now in its fourth hardware generation with the M5 Ultra. Internally, capabilities have grown sharply: the original M1 Ultra topped out at 128GB of memory, while the new M5 Ultra supports up to 512GB with data transfer speeds of 1.2TB/s, about 50 percent faster than the M3 Ultra. Apple skipped an M4 Ultra version due to hardware limitations, and in June raised prices across much of its Mac lineup, pushing the entry-level Mac Studio M4 Max from $1,999 to $2,499.
By the early 2000s LEGO had diversified into theme parks, an in-house game studio, clothing and TV content, and by 2003 it had lost nearly a third of its revenue in one year, reportedly coming within about 18 months of running out of cash. New CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, appointed in 2004, didn't scrap those ventures but restructured how LEGO ran them: selling majority ownership of its theme parks to Merlin Entertainments while retaining licensing rights, and closing its internal game studio in favor of licensing deals with outside developers, which produced titles like Lego Star Wars and Lego Batman.
The Trump administration's new America.gov portal, built as a unified gateway to federal services, is required by executive order to use Login.gov for authentication. Public Login.gov source code shows the National Design Studio has added code generating a long-lived browser identifier that feeds into Login.gov's analytics, even though America.gov's own privacy materials say it avoids advertising cookies and third-party trackers.
9to5Toys' latest deals roundup highlights Apple refurb Studio Displays discounted up to $300, an M5 Pro MacBook Pro at $500 off, and a single AirTag 2 unit matching its all-time low of $24 on Amazon. The roundup also notes new low pricing on Belkin 25W MagSafe chargers from $13, Eve Matter/HomeKit smart home gear up to 38% off from $30, and an extra 10% off Apple USB-C, Thunderbolt, and MagSafe cables starting at $7.50.
PCMag reviewed Apple's latest Mac Studio, built around the new M5 Ultra chip, noting its ability to run agentic AI frameworks, generate high-end video, and execute large language models entirely on-device. The review also covers the compact 7-inch-square chassis, its port selection including two USB-A ports, four Thunderbolt 5 ports, Ethernet, HDMI, and an SD card slot, plus support for up to four 5K external displays at 120 Hz.
Amazon is offering early discounts on several of Apple's newest products as part of its fall Prime Day sale, including AirPods 5, Beats 360 ANC headphones, the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, and the M6-powered Mac mini and Mac Studio. Notably, today marks the last day for an 80% discount on the Beats 360 Cushion Kit, dropping it to $10 from $50.
Google published a phased schedule for replacing Gemini Gems with a new feature called Skills across Workspace and the Gemini app. Skills rollout begins October 2026, Gems move to a Settings panel by November 2026, and full removal of Gems is set for March 2027 for business/enterprise users and June 2027 for education accounts, with remaining Gems auto-migrated to draft skills.
Members of Berkeley's Odd Friend Studio placed a 5-foot papier mâché and cardboard installation called 'What Iceberg?' at the public entrance to an OpenAI developer event in San Francisco. The piece depicts OpenAI's leaders and investors escaping a sinking ship while others are left behind, and took five days to build from repurposed materials including an old table.
Security researcher Ariel Fogel of Pillar Security disclosed a vulnerability in Unsloth Studio, the web interface for the popular open-source LLM fine-tuning library Unsloth, that let a malicious Hugging Face model execute arbitrary Python code simply by having its config.json inspected. The flaw stemmed from Unsloth Studio's use of a 'trust_remote_code=True' setting in the Transformers library, meaning no model weights needed to load or run for the exploit to trigger. Unsloth has since fixed the issue.
Apple has released a Final Cut Camera update that supports the iPhone 18 Pro's variable aperture and redesigned camera controls, including easier access to ISO and white balance settings. Final Cut Pro and Motion now allow editing of depth of field and focus points for footage shot on the new phone, and Apple also pushed updates across Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Freeform and Pixelmator Pro.
The federal government has introduced a chatbot on America.gov, developed by the National Design Studio. The tool is intended to let users interact with a prompt box rather than navigate government websites and processes directly.