Apple is facing supply problems that are making it harder to produce enough Macs to meet demand. Models like the Mac mini, Mac Studio, and MacBook Neo have longer shipping times because of shortages of parts such as RAM and chips. Some Mac configurations have been discontinued, and remaining models now take weeks longer to ship compared to earlier in the year.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook said supply issues are slowing Mac production despite strong demand.
Problems include shortages of RAM, storage, and advanced chips.
The Mac mini, Mac Studio, and MacBook Neo have the longest delivery delays.
Some Mac models and configurations have been discontinued recently.
Shipping times for many Mac Studio models have increased by several weeks since April.
The base Mac mini model with 16GB RAM and 512GB storage can still ship within a month.
The MacBook Neo attracts many new customers but faces supply constraints.
Apple expects to pay higher prices for RAM going forward.
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The "Marvel MaXimum Collection" by Limited Run Games includes six different Marvel-themed video games, with some versions and ports expanding the total to thirteen. The games vary in quality, with some versions praised for their graphics and gameplay, while others, like "Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge," receive criticism for poor controls and design.
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The collection includes six main games and thirteen total versions when counting different ports.
"Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge" appears in four different versions but is considered the weakest game overall.
The Game Boy version of "Arcade's Revenge" has poor screen quality and controls, as well as missing levels.
The Game Gear version is more faithful to the original Genesis game and has full color graphics.
The Genesis version has classic Sega sound issues but offers an authentic experience of "Arcade's Revenge."
The SNES version is seen as the best version of "Arcade's Revenge," despite gameplay criticisms.
The NES version of "Captain America and The Avengers" is a unique game, differing greatly from other versions and focusing on exploration rather than fighting.
The collection is now available on modern gaming platforms.
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Nintendo will raise the price of its Switch 2 gaming console to $499.99 starting September 1, an increase of $50 from the original launch price. The company said this change is due to market conditions and rising costs for parts like memory and storage.
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The Switch 2’s price will increase by about 11% to $499.99 on September 1.
Nintendo mentioned the price increase is linked to longer-term global business challenges and higher component costs.
Other major consoles, including Sony’s PS5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series, have also raised prices recently.
Nintendo previously increased prices for the original Switch console last year.
This price increase trend differs from past years when consoles typically dropped in price after launch.
Nintendo projects selling 16.5 million Switch 2 units in the current fiscal year, down from nearly 20 million in the first year.
New prices outside the US include $679.99 in Canada, €499.99 in Europe, and ¥59,980 in Japan (effective May 25).
Factors affecting prices include inflation, slower improvement in computer chip technology, tariffs, and high gas prices.
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Since President Trump’s 2024 inauguration, his administration has supported large tech companies’ AI projects with federal funding. Local groups in several U.S. states and territories are opposing new AI data centers, concerned about the impact on communities and democracy. Critics debate whether stopping these data centers helps or hurts public access to AI technology.
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President Trump’s administration has provided billions in subsidies and contracts to the AI industry.
In 2025, about 48 AI data center projects worth $156 billion were blocked or delayed by local opposition.
The pushback against data centers is happening in places like North Carolina, Virginia, New Mexico, Oregon, Indiana, Oklahoma, and New Jersey.
Some critics say opposing data centers is selfish or elitist, fearing it could reduce AI benefits for poorer people.
Supporters of data center bans see this resistance as a way to control powerful tech companies and protect democracy.
Tech companies involved include Meta, xAI, and Blackstone.
The debate involves concerns about secret deals between tech executives and politicians.
Groups opposing data centers come from across political lines, showing broad grassroots organizing.
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Canvas, a popular online education platform used by many U.S. schools, temporarily shut down due to a reported cyberattack. The company confirmed that hackers accessed the system by exploiting a problem with free teacher accounts.
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Canvas is an education platform used by schools and universities across the United States.
The platform temporarily went offline on Thursday due to unauthorized activity.
The cyberattack involved exploiting a vulnerability in free accounts made for teachers.
The company identified the suspicious activity and took action to address it.
The incident is still being investigated, and updates may follow.
Cybersecurity issues like this affect many online services, especially those used in education.
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The online learning platform Canvas was hit by a large cyberattack on Thursday. This platform is used by about 30 million students worldwide and many schools, including big universities.
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Canvas is an online platform widely used for learning.
About 30 million students use Canvas globally.
Many schools and major universities use Canvas for classes.
Canvas experienced a major cyberattack on Thursday.
The attack disrupted access to the platform for many users.
The incident affected students' ability to use Canvas for their studies.
The platform is investigating the attack and working to fix the issue.
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A large cyberattack has forced an online learning platform, used by thousands of schools, to shut down. The attack disrupted access to educational materials for many students and teachers.
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The cyberattack targeted an online platform used for school learning.
Thousands of schools rely on this platform.
The attack caused the platform to shut down temporarily.
Students and teachers could not access the platform during the outage.
Cyberattacks like this can interrupt education and cause widespread problems.
Authorities are tracking issues related to other events, such as passengers leaving a cruise ship affected by a virus, but these are separate from the cyberattack.
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Anthropic announced a new AI model, Claude Mythos Preview, which is very good at finding weaknesses in software but will only be shared with certain companies. Other AI models, like OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, have similar abilities. These AI tools can help both attackers find flaws to exploit and defenders find bugs to fix.
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Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview AI finds security problems in software but is not publicly released.
OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 AI has comparable skill in identifying software vulnerabilities.
Mythos is expensive to run, limiting its availability to a few companies.
Attackers can use AI to automatically find and exploit software weaknesses, risking data theft, ransomware, or control over systems.
Defenders can use the same AI to detect and fix vulnerabilities before attackers find them.
Mozilla used Mythos to find and fix 271 problems in its Firefox browser.
Many systems remain vulnerable because they cannot be updated or are not patched regularly.
AI capabilities are improving quickly, which could lead to both better security and more attacks in the future.
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Firefly Aerospace plans to launch an upgraded Alpha Block 2 rocket this summer, with improvements aimed at better reliability. Orbex, a Scottish rocket company, collapsed after running out of money, while Rocket Lab reported record revenue and many new launch contracts.
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Firefly Aerospace will debut the improved Alpha Block 2 rocket later this summer.
Alpha Block 2 has stretched stages and better avionics, batteries, and heat protection.
The upgrades are meant to fix reliability problems seen in the first Alpha rocket versions.
Orbex, based in Scotland, went bankrupt after losing about $2.7 million per month.
Orbex had two rocket projects: the Prime micro-launch vehicle and a larger Proxima design.
Orbex’s attempt to raise new funding in 2025 failed, and no buyers were found despite interest.
Rocket Lab made over $200 million in revenue in the first quarter of 2026, a 63% increase over last year.
Rocket Lab signed 31 new contracts and completed buying a laser communications company, Mynaric AG.
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TikTok introduced an AI feature in the US and the Philippines that automatically creates short descriptions of videos. However, the AI made many strange and wrong summaries, such as describing people as objects or actions that did not match what was happening. TikTok has now limited the feature to only suggest products related to the videos.
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TikTok's AI feature called "AI overviews" automatically summarizes video content for some users.
The feature was available only in the US and the Philippines.
Users noticed many inaccurate and odd AI-generated descriptions, such as calling a celebrity "a collection of blueberries."
Examples included wrong descriptions like people hitting themselves with objects when no such action occurred.
TikTok said users could report wrong summaries, but problems continued.
Due to errors, TikTok changed the feature to only show product suggestions related to items in videos.
The AI overviews appeared beneath videos when users clicked to see more captions.
The issue reflects broader challenges with AI tools on social media sometimes producing incorrect or confusing results.
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A cyberattack targeted Canvas, a popular online learning platform used by millions of students and teachers in the U.S., disrupting access during spring finals week. The hacking group ShinyHunters demanded a ransom, leading Canvas’ parent company, Instructure, to temporarily take the system offline, affecting many universities and school districts before restoring service.
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Canvas is an online platform for grades, assignments, and communication, used by over 30 million people worldwide.
Hackers from the group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the attack and demanded a ransom.
The attack occurred during spring finals week, causing delays and stress for students and faculty.
Many top universities, including Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, Harvard, Georgetown, MIT, Oxford, Stanford, Cambridge, and Cornell, were affected.
Multiple U.S. school districts across states like California, Florida, and Virginia also experienced disruptions.
Instructure temporarily shut down the Free-For-Teacher accounts to stop the attack and restore normal service.
This was the second security incident for Instructure in the same month, showing ongoing risks to the platform.
Canvas was fully restored after the company investigated and fixed the security issues.
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This article reviews eight notable medical-themed video games created over the last 40 years. These games range from early interactive surgery simulations to hospital management and psychological thriller games.
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Microsurgeon (1982) puts players inside a patient's bloodstream to fight diseases, inspired by the movie Fantastic Voyage.
Life & Death (1988) is a realistic surgery simulator that requires diagnosing patients and conducting operations.
Sanitarium (1998) is a psychological thriller set in an abandoned asylum featuring playable hallucinations.
Emergency Call Ambulance (1999) is an arcade game where players rush ill passengers to the hospital without crashing.
Trauma Center: Under the Knife (2005) uses touchscreen controls for surgery in a futuristic hospital setting.
Surgeon Simulator (2013) features intentionally difficult controls to simulate chaotic surgeries humorously.
Project Hospital (2018) focuses on managing a hospital and patient care.
These games showcase different approaches to medical gameplay, from realism to humor and story-driven experiences.
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Some tech companies like Palantir and OpenAI are creating and selling fashionable clothing and merchandise to connect with their audience and appear more stylish and relatable. This trend reflects a broader effort by tech firms to build cultural appeal beyond their usual tech products. At the same time, tech leaders are highly visible at major cultural events, showing the growing relationship between technology and popular culture.
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Palantir released a $239 denim chore coat branded with their logo, made in Montana.
The chore coat style originated in France after World War I as durable workwear.
Tech firms like Palantir, Anthropic, and OpenAI use trendy clothing and pop-up shops to shape their public image.
OpenAI’s online store sells retro-style T-shirts referencing early internet designs.
Big tech executives like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sergey Brin attended the 2026 Met Gala, which raised $42 million.
Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, and Snap paid to reserve tables at the Met Gala, showing tech’s growing influence in cultural events.
Major publishers sued Meta for allegedly using copyrighted books to train advanced AI language models.
The article describes tech companies’ marketing efforts as part of a shift toward blending tech culture with fashion and social style.
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Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) tools like DeepL are changing the work of translators in Europe. While AI can translate texts, many translators worry that it may replace human jobs or reduce their pay and opportunities.
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In 2022 and again in 2026, translator Yoann Gentric tested AI translations and found the quality improved but still missed some stylistic details.
AI-powered chatbots and translation tools are spreading quickly in Europe, a region with over 200 languages.
A 2025 UK survey showed 84% of translators expect less demand for human translation and lower pay due to AI.
Many translators now do “post-editing,” correcting AI translations, which takes as much time as translating themselves but pays less.
Pay rates for translation work have dropped significantly; some offers are as low as 60 cents per line or 2 to 8 euros per page for post-editing.
Literary translators often earn low annual incomes, averaging about €20,363 before tax in Germany.
Some translators have had to take other part-time jobs because translation work is no longer financially stable.
Machine translation companies like Translat have helped develop AI tools but these changes are disrupting traditional translator roles.
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The Canvas learning platform, used by thousands of schools and universities, went offline due to a cyberattack by a hacking group called ShinyHunters. Many U.S. schools, including Penn State and UCLA, reported outages that disrupted students' access to coursework and canceled tests.
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Canvas is a platform used to manage grades, assignments, lecture videos, and more for schools.
The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the cyberattack on Canvas.
Nearly 9,000 schools worldwide were affected, with billions of private messages and records accessed.
Schools affected include Penn State, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Columbia University, UCLA, and several others.
The attack caused cancellations of tests and locked students out of the system for at least 24 hours in some places.
ShinyHunters threatened to leak stolen data and set deadlines for payment discussions, indicating possible extortion.
The group is made up of teenagers and young adults from the U.S. and UK and has targeted other companies before.
Past cyberattacks have targeted schools, showing that educational institutions hold valuable digital data for hackers.
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The article discusses how major AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude have built-in rules to prevent harmful content. Journalist Jamie Bartlett explores the people who try to make these chatbots say things they are supposed to avoid and explains what this reveals about how AI works.
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AI chatbots have safety rules to block hate speech, illegal content, and harmful messages.
These rules aim to protect users and keep AI responses safe.
Some people intentionally try to bypass these safeguards, called "AI jailbreakers."
Jamie Bartlett wrote a book called "How to Talk to AI" and studies this behavior.
Bartlett talks about why these jailbreakers try to break the AI’s rules.
The attempts to jailbreak AI reveal insights into how AI systems operate and their limitations.
The article is based on a podcast conversation between Bartlett and Annie Kelly.
The topic focuses on large language models (LLMs), which are AI programs trained to understand and generate human-like text.
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Instagram has stopped offering end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for its direct messages worldwide. This means that Instagram, owned by Meta, can now access users' private messages, including photos and voice notes, as the most secure form of messaging is no longer available on the platform.
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Meta removed end-to-end encryption from Instagram direct messages starting May 8, 2026.
End-to-end encryption ensures only the sender and receiver can see messages, making them very secure.
The decision reverses Meta’s earlier plans to make E2EE standard on Instagram.
Meta completed E2EE rollout on Facebook Messenger in 2023 but not on Instagram.
Child protection groups support the removal, saying E2EE can hide harmful content like child abuse.
Privacy advocates and groups say this move weakens user privacy and security.
Instagram users will see instructions to download messages and media before the change.
Meta said the decision was partly because not enough Instagram users chose to turn on E2EE.
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Three college students with no coding experience created an app called Politik that helps people understand how lawmakers vote and where their campaign money comes from. They used AI tools and a self-taught programmer to build the app in under three months. The app aims to make political information easier to access and encourages users to engage with democracy.
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James VandeHei Jr., Charlie Stallmer, and Chris Brophy are international relations majors who built the app.
None of them had prior coding or software development experience.
Politik shows voting records, campaign funding, and legislative activity based on users’ ZIP codes.
They used artificial intelligence (AI) to plan, design, and create motion graphics and marketing materials for the app.
A self-taught programmer named Nate Laquis built the software quickly, starting from his background in finance.
The app launched on the App Store and is designed to be nonpartisan and data-driven.
The creators encourage users to give feedback and want to build a community around the app.
AI helped the team speed up tasks like video production and app development.
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Abridge, a company developing AI tools to assist nurses, has expanded access to its software to over 250 health systems. The AI helps improve communication and job satisfaction among nurses and patients by focusing on nurses' needs and feedback.
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Nurse job satisfaction has declined for three years in a row, with many considering leaving their jobs or the profession.
Over half of nurses report experiencing violence or aggression at work.
Only 8% of nurses say good management keeps them at the bedside; financial reasons drive over 40% to stay.
Abridge for Nurses expanded AI tool access to more than 250 health systems after careful development involving nurses.
Early users of the AI tool report better satisfaction from patients and nurses.
Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot is introducing AI tools with feedback systems to include nurses’ input.
UnitedHealthcare announced cutting prior authorization requirements for 30% of medical services to speed up care delivery.
Prior authorization approval rates are high and usually completed in less than 24 hours.
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A chemistry professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, developed a new way to store energy using molecules inspired by how DNA in skin changes during sunburn. These molecules can store a large amount of energy and release it as heat, potentially offering a cheap and clean way to save energy for long periods.
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Grace Han, a chemistry professor, studied how DNA in skin changes shape when damaged by sunlight.
This shape change stores energy, which can later be released as heat on demand.
The process is called molecular solar thermal (Most) energy storage.
Han’s team created molecules that store more energy per weight than lithium-ion batteries.
Their system released enough energy to rapidly boil a small amount of water in a tiny container.
The technology uses UV light at 300 nanometers to activate the molecules.
This is a promising but still developing technology for clean, long-term energy storage.
Other scientists recognized the energy density achieved as a major improvement over previous systems.
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