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Qualcomm Lands Meta As Major Launch Partner For Its New Dragonfly AI Chips

Qualcomm built its empire on the silicon that keeps many mobile devices humming, so its latest move counts as a real change of scenery. At its Investor Day in New York on June 24, the company laid out a full data center roadmap under a new brand called Dragonfly, and it arrived with a marquee name attached. Meta has signed a multi-year, multi-generation deal that puts Qualcomm chips inside its server fleet, which hands this debut instant credibility against entrenched rivals.

The pitch centers on agentic AI, the always-on software assistants that reason continuously rather than answering one prompt and going quiet. That style of computing chews through far more inference work, and Cristiano Amon, president and CEO of Qualcomm Incorporated, argued that "infrastructure has to deliver much higher performance at lower power and cost" to keep pace. Qualcomm thinks efficiency is exactly where it wins. The roadmap also arrives...

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Apple just made Macs and iPads more expensive — Prime Day might be your last chance to buy before prices catch up

We're officially on day three of Prime Day 2026, and Amazon's discounts on MacBooks and iPads couldn't be better timed. Apple just raised prices across nearly its entire Mac lineup — including MacBooks, iMac, and Mac Studio — alongside the iPad family and home products such

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Edge users beware — this malicious extension can break out of the sandbox and install ransomware

* Zscaler uncovered “Edgecution,” a malicious Edge extension deployed via fake Outlook update sites shared in Teams phishing * Attack uses ZIP archives with Python runtime to escape browser sandbox, creating a backdoor capable of shell/PowerShell execution and system data theft * Believed linked to Initial Access Brokers tied to ransomware group

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Apple Raises Mac And iPad Prices But You Lock In The Old Rates If You Hurry

Well, Apple CEO Tim Cook recently (as in, last week) warned everyone that current pricing for the company's product lines were "unsustainable" despite best efforts to mitigate big cost increases on the supply side, and it did not take long for his insinuation of consumer-side price

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Amateur Telescopes Can Track A Massive Asteroid Hurtling Past Earth This Weekend

Backyard astronomers will be able to use their telescopes to focus in on a massive cosmic visitor when it "skims" past Earth this weekend. On June 27 especially, a large asteroid known as (152637) 1997 NC1 will make a close but entirely harmless flyby in plain view, as

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Apple just made Macs and iPads more expensive &mdash; Prime Day might be your last chance to buy before prices catch up

Edge users beware &mdash; this malicious extension can break out of the sandbox and install ransomware

Apple Raises Mac And iPad Prices But You Lock In The Old Rates If You Hurry

Amateur Telescopes Can Track A Massive Asteroid Hurtling Past Earth This Weekend

Apple just made Macs and iPads more expensive — Prime Day might be your last chance to buy before prices catch up

Edge users beware — this malicious extension can break out of the sandbox and install ransomware