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The lowest prices we have tracked yet on Apple’s brand new iPhone 16 cases continue today alongside some additional price drops from other brands, but the real highlights of today’s roundup come by way of deals on Apple Watch Series 10 and MacBook ...

Update September 27, 2024: Relay’s St. Jude fundraising is entering its final week! This year’s campaign is nearing $900,000 and we’d love for the 9to5Mac community to help finish strong! You can donate and learn more about corporate matching pro...

The Intel-based Surface Pro 9 has received a big firmware update with a lot of fixes for annoying bugs. Read more...

The input subsystem updates merged this week bring a number of improvements to existing drivers while adding one new input driver...

Get a licensed copy for Win/Mac completely free (originally worth $39.95) to transfer data between your devices without data loss. Read more...

iOS 18.1 is almost here. When it arrives, it will bring the first set of Apple Intelligence capabilities. Here’s the full list of AI features coming to your iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iOS 18.1 and more. more…

Microsoft has outlined how the built-in Windows Defender Antivirus safeguards Windows 10 and 11 users against keylogger and screen scraper malware. Read more...

AMD today announced "AMD-135M" as their first small language model they are publicly releasing. AMD-135M is open-source with the training code, dataset, and weights all being open-source to help in the development of other SLMs and LLMs...

Lenovo is expanding its portable devices lineup with a Legion Go Gen Two and a low-cost Legion Go Lite. Leaks suggest that the Lite opts for a smaller screen, while the Gen Two uses AMD's Zen 5 chip. Read more...

After Click to Cancel legislation for subscriptions, California has introduced another piece of consumer protection legislation for buying digital content. It will force companies to tell you when you won’t actually own the content you think you’re...

CDKeys is currently hosting a 66% discount deal for Sea of Stars, a turn-based indie JRPG that pays homage to beloved classic titles of the genre such as Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG.

9to5Mac recently discovered evidence in iOS 18 that Apple is testing using future AirPods models to measure heartbeat, with our sources indicating that the feature will be implemented in both AirPods Pro 3 and the next generation of Powerbeats Pro. An ...

With the Linux 6.12 merge window wrapping up this weekend and the bulk of the new feature merges now in the tree, I've begun running some Linux 6.12 benchmarks. Here is an initial look at Linux 6.10 vs. 6.11 vs. 6.12 Git on an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X desktop...

Josh Sawyer, a lead developer of Obsidian Entertainment's Pillars of Eternity series, was recently interviewed by Limit Break Network regarding his involvement in the upcoming Avowed and what the future holds for Pillars of Eternity.

Microsoft has released official Windows 11 version 24H2 Evaluation images, which allow using the operating system for free for 90 days. Read more...

The Irish Data Protection Commission fined Meta €91 million for storing passwords in plain text that were accessible to thousands of Meta employees. Read more...

Meta has been fined €91M ($101M) after it was discovered that to 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords had been stored in plain text. Some of those passwords had been unprotected since 2012, and were searchable by more than 20,000 Meta employe...

LibreOffice 24.8.2 is now available for download as the second maintenance update in the LibreOffice 24.8 series with 85 bug fixes. All LibreOffice 24.8 office suite users must update to this version as soon as possible. The post LibreOffice 24.8.2 Off...

From 2025 in California, digital stores will have to be honest about whether you're really buying the content, or merely access to a license to it.

The iFixit iPhone 16 Pro teardown video is now up (below), and the company has highlighted some differences over last year’s model. This follows its earlier teardown of the standard and Plus models. Top of the list, and exclusive to the iPhone 16 Pro...