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• Meta delays indefinitely its rollout of new commercial terms after publishers' concerns

  Facing formal complaints submitted to antitrust authorities in the European Union and the United Kingdom, the tech giant halted its planned policy overhaul to avoid immediate regulatory penalties. Digital advertisers and media organizations raised alarms that the new framework would give the platform unrestricted access to leverage their proprietary content for training artificial intelligence systems. The indefinite postponement keeps existing contracts operational while company leadership holds extensive discuss…

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• Apple adds a 512GB RAM configuration for the Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra chip, starting at $22,299; the M5 Max model maxes out at 128GB of RAM (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

  Professional users requiring massive memory capacities now have an expanded hardware option for demanding creative and computational workloads. The flagship desktop offers an unprecedented unified memory tier designed to handle massive datasets and complex tasks without bottlenecking. This positions the device as Apple's most potent workstation tier, reflecting the upper bound of its latest custom silicon performance.

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• Surprise: The Google Xreal glasses debut at a Meta-beating $1,099

  The competitive price cut aims to position the new Android XR wearable aggressively against market rivals ahead of the critical holiday shopping window. Early adopters who already secured units are receiving automatic refunds to match the revised promotional tier. The hardware expands Google's spatial computing ambitions by blending multimodal AI assistance with high-end display mirroring.

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