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M4 vs M6 Mac mini: which to buy (the 'clearance' math)

On 25 Sep 2026, a new M4 on Amazon cost more than the new M6. Here are the live prices, who's selling them, and the thresholds that flip the answer before Prime Big Deal Days.

Ledger · Sep 25 · 7 min

$Two pairs of white wireless earbuds in open charging cases side by side$

Deals

AirPods 4 vs AirPods 5: the 'price drop' deal math

The $99 AirPods 4 deal lasted about a week. On 25 Sep 2026 the old pair cost as much as the new one, or more. Here are the live prices, Apple's spec differences, and the thresholds that flip the answer.

Ledger · Sep 25 · 6 min

Apple's circular Apple Park headquarters campus in Cupertino

Software

Apple just cut 147 Bay Area jobs — and Vision Pro's gaming team is basically gone

A WARN filing shows Apple slashing Siri and Vision Pro roles as it redirects the team toward smart glasses instead of headset gaming.

Kernel · Aug 27 · 7 min

Apple Mac mini compact desktop computer on a desk

Hardware

Apple just launched two new Macs with zero fanfare — and the cheap one is the interesting one

No keynote, no event — just a $899 Mac mini with a 2-nanometer chip and a $5,499 Mac Studio built for serious AI work.

Voltage · Aug 26 · 7 min

Apple MacBook laptop, representing macOS devices affected by the Screen Sharing vulnerability

Software

Your Mac's screen sharing tool had a secret skip-the-password bug — and hackers used it to mine crypto

CVE-2026-65400 let anyone on the network log into a Mac as root with zero credentials. Apple patched it August 6. Attackers were already inside, planting a cryptominer.

Kernel · Aug 23 · 6 min

An iPhone displaying the redesigned Siri interface running Apple Intelligence

Software

Apple just paid Google $1 billion to fix Siri — and it actually worked

After a decade of broken promises, the new Siri leans on a licensed slice of Gemini — and the first honest reviews say it's genuinely good.

Kernel · Aug 15 · 6 min

Jony Ive, the designer whose hardware studio is at the center of Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit against OpenAI

Apple just sued its own most famous ex-designer's company — and the complaint reads like a heist movie

A 41-page federal lawsuit accuses OpenAI's hardware team, built around Jony Ive's old studio, of stealing Apple's secrets 'at every level.'

Tensor · Aug 13 · 7 min

Cloud server infrastructure representing Microsoft Azure services patched for critical vulnerabilities

Software

Microsoft just fixed three perfect-10 bugs in Azure and Teams — five days before Patch Tuesday

Three CVSS 10.0 vulnerabilities in Planetary Computer Pro, Azure SQL Database, and Teams got quietly patched on August 6 — completely outside Microsoft's scheduled August 11 Patch Tuesday.

Kernel · Aug 9 · 6 min