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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....
(FOX 2) - A state education department says claims of fraud made by a Howell lawmaker in the Michigan legislature are false after House Republicans said a Metro Detroit child care center had receiv...