'Price increases are unavoidable' says Tim Cook, proving even Apple isn't impervious to the global memory shortage
October 28, 2026
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‘Price increases are unavoidable’ says Tim Cook, proving even Apple isn’t impervious to the global memory shortage

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Courtesy of the RAMpocalypse, companies are raising prices for their memory-loaded products left, right, and centre. Apple products, however, had previously remained mostly (though not completely) untouched. No longer, though, as the company CEO Tim Cook tells the Wall Street Journal. “Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable. We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases…

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Mark Zuckerberg is so desperate to make Facebook relevant again he considered deleting your entire friends list

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Facebook’s antitrust trial in Washington D.C. is into its second week. And along with the usual reams of impenetrable legalese that dominate such proceedings, a few enlightening gems have emerged from the mountain of paperwork released by the U.S Federal Trade Commission. How about the fact that Meta and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg floated the…

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FF14 streamer JoCat completes year-long ultrahard charity boss gauntlet with over 1,500 deaths and $60,000 raised, begins indefinite break

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Last month the streamer and YouTuber JoCat—known for his Monster Hunter, D&D, and Final Fantasy 14 videos like ‘A Crap Guide to X‘—announced an indefinite hiatus. This was in the wake of an innocuous video titled “I Like Girls” (a gender-swapped parody of Lizzo’s “Boys“) which in his own words “reached outside of its target…

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I remember when Jensen Huang used to sell me GPUs, now he’s out there having to deny that AI will cause ‘the end of the world’

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The hardware landscape of 2021 feels like a distant world. Case in point this past week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that talk of an AI-induced extinction event for humanity is overblown and “not grounded in science.” Huang’s comments were in part responding to claims made earlier this month by ex-Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, saying…

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Open Source: A Hub for Everything

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This article was published in the December 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. A repository for more than you’d expect There are several places on the Internet that have become workhorses for free and open-source software projects. GitHub is definitely one of them, and the more I…

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Beast Games opens casting for season 2: MrBeast lost a ton of money on season 1 but apparently not enough that he won’t do it again

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Like the dystopian show Squid Games that inspired it, Beast Games is getting a second season, despite a wave of controversy over the first season of MrBeast’s Prime Video reality competition. This week a casting call appeared on the Beast Games website announcing that contestant submissions are now open for season two, which will be…

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