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Apple is increasing the price of MacBooks and iPads worldwide due to rising memory and storage chip costs. The iPhone maker has hiked the prices of some laptops and tablets by almost 20%, saying the electronics industry is facing an “unprecedented challenge” due to an “extraordinary surge” in demand for chips to power AI data centres. “We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly,” the company said – adding it was working to find solutions. Not long after Apple’s announcement, Xbox said it had decided to significantly raise the price of its popular gaming console for the second time in less than a year due to the current “components crisis”. BBC

The Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams is suing the tech company over its efforts to “silence” her. A 57-page complaint filed to a US district court in California on Thursday argues that an interim arbitration ruling sought by Meta preventing Wynn-Williams from publicising her memoir, Careless People, was “improper and unlawful” and a “blatant violation of the first amendment”. It also accuses the company of “coercive surveillance”. Wynn-Williams, who between 2011 and 2017 served as director of global public policy at Facebook, published her memoir of her time at the company in March 2025.

Volkswagen (VW) plans to cut up to 100,000 jobs around the world in the next few years as part of a dramatic overhaul. The German car giant plans to axe a sixth of its global workforce as part of a restructuring designed to save €11bn (£9.5bn) by 2030, according to local media. Oliver Blume, the chief executive, is also considering carving up the business and spinning off the namesake VW brand under the proposals, which will lead to the closure of four plants in Germany. Telegraph 

The Think Family Database holds records on close to half a million people who live in the city of Bristol, England. For many years, few of them knew anything about it. Launched in 2016 by the Bristol City Council and the regional Avon and Somerset Police, the database has stored all manner of sensitive information—police intelligence reports, housing status, mental health records, teenage pregnancies, enrollment in parenting courses, free school meals. On top of this sensitive data, officials built machine-learning models to assign scores to thousands of adults and children. Wired 

Google’s loss against Epic Games in court has now resulted in the cutting of its fees for developers publishing apps on the Play Store. Google’s cut has gone from 30% to 10% for a developer’s first $1 million in annual revenue. A billing fee is added to this, if you’re using Google’s billing system. In the US, UK, and EEA, this is set at 5%. This will first be available in the US, the UK, and the European Economic Area on June 30. Developers will also be able to use other billing systems that aren’t Google’s. GSM Arena 

Action cameras have been a pretty competitive market as of late. DJI and GoPro dominate the space, but they also dominate the price tags. That’s precisely the gap XTU looks to be trying to fill with its new S7 Pro. Launched earlier this month, and available now for $159.99 on Amazon US and the official XTU website (£159.99 in the UK), it specifically targets the budget action camera tier. The S7 Pro runs a 1/2-inch Sony CMOS sensor, smaller than the 1/1.3-inch sensor on the DJI Osmo Action 5 Pro, which starts at nearly double the price, but larger than what you’d typically find at this price point. NotebookCheck 

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