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Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line

Giftlink: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-to-skip-high-end-m6-mac-chips-to-launch-m7-pro-m7-max-m7-ultra-instead?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4MjQwNTU2MCwiZXhwIjoxNzgzMDEwMzYwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSDM4OFJUOTZPU08wMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.3RpcTAgL-JUz9iWRQYzyWaSzoOhLU50chTDHkeU0GTI" rel="nofollow">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-to-...</a><p>also <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/shopping/apple-to-skip-high-end-m6-mac-chips-in-favor-of-ai-focused-m7-line/ar-AA26xxES" rel="nofollow">https://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/shopping/apple-to-skip-h...</a>

Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

System card: <a href="https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6-preview" rel="nofollow">https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6-preview</a>

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

System card: <a href="https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6-preview" rel="nofollow">https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6-preview</a>

U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

<a href="https://archive.ph/PCQQl" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/PCQQl</a>

U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

<a href="https://archive.ph/PCQQl" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/PCQQl</a>

45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors

<a href="https://archive.ph/DI4Cq" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/DI4Cq</a>

Half-Life 2 in a Browser

Om Malik has died

<a href="https://runtimewire.com/article/om-malik-taught-silicon-valley-to-read-itself" rel="nofollow">https://runtimewire.com/article/om-malik-taught-silicon-vall...</a>

Om Malik has died

<a href="https://runtimewire.com/article/om-malik-taught-silicon-valley-to-read-itself" rel="nofollow">https://runtimewire.com/article/om-malik-taught-silicon-vall...</a>

The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

Preprint: <a href="https://scrollprize.org/pdf/main.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://scrollprize.org/pdf/main.pdf</a><p><a href="https://github.com/ScrollPrize/villa" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ScrollPrize/villa</a>

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

Preprint: <a href="https://scrollprize.org/pdf/main.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://scrollprize.org/pdf/main.pdf</a><p><a href="https://github.com/ScrollPrize/villa" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ScrollPrize/villa</a>

Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

<a href="https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/25/apple-price-increases-mac-ipad-more/" rel="nofollow">https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/25/apple-price-increases-mac-ipa...</a>

Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

The war on terror primed America for autocracy

<a href="https://archive.is/CBCZM" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/CBCZM</a>

Vulnerability reports are not special anymore