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The AirPods Pro 3 are a fantastic deal at $179

It’s been a while since we’ve seen a good discount on the Apple AirPods Pro 3, but like the latest iPad Mini and the M5 MacBook Airs, a great one is happening now for October Prime Day. You can snag a pair of the noise-canceling earbuds that include five ear tip sizes, live translation, and…

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The MacBook Air M5 is $200 off for the first time in months

Amazon’s October Prime Day has effectively chopped off Apple’s June price increases. Usually $1,299, the 13-inch MacBook Air with the M5 chip and 512GB of storage is on sale for $1,099 at Amazon. That’s a more palatable price for a machine that’s significantly faster than Apple’s $699 MacBook Neo. The 15-inch version, also with 512GB…

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How to Set Up Velociraptor DFIR: 13 Steps, 90 Min [2026]

A ransomware affiliate gets a foothold on a mid-size company’s network on a Friday night. By Monday, the incident response team needs answers from 400 endpoints: which machines talked to the command-and-control server, what persistence mechanisms got dropped, and whether the attacker touched the file server. Pulling that picture together with ad hoc scripts and…

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What Amazon Actually Released

Amazon pushed a new open-source model onto Hugging Face and GitHub on October 1, 2026, and it does something most AI releases don’t: it refuses to write a single sentence. Strands Decider 2B, built by the Strands Labs team inside AWS, is designed to do one job — pick an option from a list, score…

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Amazon Strands Decider 2B: Open Agent Model in 106ms [2026]

Amazon pushed a new open-source model onto Hugging Face and GitHub on October 1, 2026, and it does something most AI releases don’t: it refuses to write a single sentence. Strands Decider 2B, built by the Strands Labs team inside AWS, is designed to do one job — pick an option from a list, score…

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AppleWin vs Virtual II vs GSplus: $31 Price Gap [2026]

Apple II emulation does not get the attention that Nintendo or Sony emulation gets, but the numbers tell a different story. “Apple ii emulator” pulls roughly 720 monthly searches in the US, and the three programs fighting for that traffic, AppleWin, Virtual ][, and GSplus, take almost completely different approaches to keeping 1977-era hardware alive…

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No$GBA Pokémon Setup: 13 Steps, Free Debugger [2026]

Most Pokémon emulation guides point you toward melonDS, DeSmuME, or mGBA, and for good reason: those projects ship frequent updates and handle modern hardware well. No$GBA (short for NO-CASH GBA) rarely gets the same attention, yet Martin Korth’s emulator and debugger is still the fastest way to boot a Game Boy Advance Pokémon ROM on…

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iPadian vs Smartface vs Corellium: $9,985 Price Gap [2026]

Type “iOS emulator for PC” into Google and you will land on a crowded field of download buttons promising an iPhone inside a Windows window. Almost none of them deliver what the search implies. After testing the three products that actually show up with real documentation, pricing pages, and support channels in October 2026, the…

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CScale Raises $145M for AI Optical Networking [2026]

A Palo Alto startup most people had never heard of until this week just picked up a $145 million check with Nvidia and Intel attached to it. CScale, which exited stealth mode on September 30, 2026, says it has built a way to connect AI chips with fiber-optic cables instead of the copper wiring that…

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