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Apple quietly raised prices across its entire iPhone lineup today, with the iPhone eighteen Pro and Pro Max both coming in higher than their predecessors, and one iPhone Air model climbing by twenty one percent. Apple said very little about the increases during its announcement event, letting the numbers speak for themselves.
On the security front, hardware wallet maker Trezor confirmed that hackers breached its email provider and sent fraudulent alerts to users, falsely claiming a hardware flaw could expose their crypto recovery phrases. It's a reminder that even companies built around protecting your assets can be vulnerable at the edges of their own infrastructure.
And in a story that captures something genuinely strange about this moment in tech, the rock band Muse has apparently lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's newly launched AI agent. The circumstances are still murky, but Meta executives have already been caught tagging the band instead of their own product, which suggests the confusion runs pretty deep, even inside Meta itself.
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