APPLE AND MICRON CLASH AS AI MEMORY SHORTAGE HITS DEVICE PRICES

Apple raised Mac and iPad prices by $100 to $300 after Tim Cook called the memory spike “unavoidable.” Micron’s Sumit Sadana pushed back, saying past rock-bottom pricing left suppliers unable to invest when profits collapsed.

This is the bill from cheap chips. AI servers now eat memory supply, consumers pay more, and hardware makers lose margin control.
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Apple MacBooks, iPads price hike: India hit hardest globally! Some models get up to 70% costlier
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Ukraine's Budanov says Russia's recruitment of agents inside Ukraine is driven almost entirely by economics, not ideology — calling the targets "the $300 people."

The foundation is poverty. We called them the $300 people.

Standard recruitment price is $300.

There is little that can be done to stop them.
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German AfD politician Maximilian Krah on Chinese spy in his office:

It shows that I'm not a racist at all because he was a friend and I hired him.
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Anwar Gargash: The framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel under American sponsorship represents an important and positive step toward restoring the state's full sovereignty over its territories.
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Apple Inc. is pressing the White House for approval to purchase memory chips from a blacklisted Chinese company as it grapples to rein in chip costs, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.
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Unregistered immigration consultant made nearly $500K over 3 years and never told the CRA, says agency
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Anwar Gargash: Entrenching the logic of the state and its sovereignty remains the true guarantee for Lebanon's stability and future
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Top Wall Street Analyst Says This Quantum Computing Stock Is 'Meaningfully Mispriced'— Sees 25% Upside As Trump's Quantum Push Gathers Steam.
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Zelensky: We targeted a weapons factory in Volgograd in the Russian depth with "Flamingo" missiles
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Trump:

John Bolton, a very dumb, unbalanced, and unskilled former representative of the United States of America, just pleads guilty!

He is a terrible person, a lunatic who only wanted to start trouble and wars, and who was a needless pusher of death and destruction wherever he went.

Hopefully, he will be dealt with harshly!
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Iranian Parliament's National Security Committee: We will deal firmly with any violation of shipping instructions in Hormuz
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Europe’s most dangerous gangs have dramatically expanded their ranks with hundreds of thousands of members running “corporations of crime” in plain sight, an intelligence report has found.
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Zelensky published video of FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile launches and precision hits on the Titan-Barricades plant in Volgograd, Russia:
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An explosive drone struck a camp belonging to an Iranian Kurdish opposition group north of Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region on Saturday, Iraqi security sources
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There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.

The strike came amid heightened regional tensions following recent fighting involving Iran, the United States and Israel.
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Russian defence ministry: Russian troops seize control of Novoskeliuvate in eastern Ukraine - RIA
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Trump has renewed his warning that BRICS nations could face 100% tariffs if they pursue policies that undermine the US dollar, particularly by creating or backing an alternative reserve currency.
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French city-dwellers swap stifling apartments for cool hotel rooms
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The next UK Conservative government will create a 50,000-strong Armed Forces Reserve.
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American side insists on overseeing the Lebanese army's operations in the "experimental areas."
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