All of today’s best deals are now live for Thursday and headlined by a return of the all-time low on Apple’s new 15-inch M2 MacBook Air. The recent release is now seeing a $100 discount to go alongside a perfect markdown on an official MagSafe Charger to take advantage of StandBy mode this fall at $29. And speaking of iPhone 14 accessories, a whole collection of Anker MagSafe power banks are also getting in on the savings and now start from $22. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break.

There have been many cases of US companies covering up serious personal data breaches for months at a time – often only admitting to them when an outside source learns of it.

This isn’t possible in Europe, where the law requires unauthorized access to personal data to be reported to regulators within three days, and now the US is finally adopting a similar requirement – even if it’s not for your benefit …

Updated with teaser trailer below. Original story from June 29 follows.

Apple TV+ launched in 2019 with a small catalog of original series. Now one of those star-studded flagship shows is returning for its third season.

“The Morning Show” will return to TV+ in September for a new 10-episode story arc.

A bi-partisan proposal by two US senators has argued for the creation of a federal Big Tech regulator, with wide-ranging enforcement powers. It would issue operating licenses to tech giants, which ultimately could be revoked in the event that a company repeatedly ignored its rulings.

Apple is directly referenced in a piece co-written by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) …

Back in May, Adobe brought the first taste of generative AI to its Photoshop beta. Now the feature set is expanding with the versatile “Generative Expand” coming to testers of the software. Here’s how the slick-looking capability works.

While it was at one point predicted that Apple would launch the first foldable iPhone in 2023 – something that obviously isn’t going to happen – it’s clearly a question of “when” rather than “if.”

2025 has been suggested as another possible date, and a new market intelligence report echoes this, forecasting that Apple will help boost folding smartphone shipments to 100M by 2027 …

Widespread reports of a Slack outage this morning were acknowledged by the company, which escalated its investigation from an initial report of “trouble sending messages” to a full-scale “outage” …

A Bloomberg report earlier this week suggested that iPhone 15 prices could be higher than those of the iPhone 14 lineup – at least, for the two Pro models. Now one analyst claims to have insight into the likely pricing.

The base model iPhone 15 and the iPhone 15 Plus are predicted to remain at $799 and $899 respectively, while the two Pro models are said to be getting a significant price hike …

Some might argue that smartphones have reached a peak level where year-on-year evolutions don’t seem so great. At the same time, some companies have been experimenting with different things – and Samsung is one of them. The South Korean company on Wednesday announced the new Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Fold 5, which show that it still believes in the foldable market.

Read on as we detail what’s new with these phones and what they mean for the whole market.

I wrote last year about Tinkerstellar, a new iPad app inspired by Apple’s Swift Playground that’s designed to help people learn Python through multiple interactive lessons. Tinkerstellar is now getting a major update, adding new lessons, a refreshed interface, and for the first time, an iPhone version.

Apple last month released the visionOS SDK so developers can work on apps for Apple Vision Pro ahead of the official launch in 2024. At the time, we found out some unannounced details about the device. Now with the second beta of visionOS available to developers, we have a few more tidbits to share.

Following up on its classy Modern Leather Case for AirPods Pro 2, Nomad has released its Sport Case for the popular earphones. The new protection comes in three colors, has precise cutouts for the speaker and lanyard loop, and more.

A United Nations report has argued that we should ban smartphones in schools, noting that one in four countries around the world already does so.

UN education and science agency Unesco says that there three strong reasons to implement the policy …

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Following the announcement of the M2 chip at WWDC 2022, we’re now on the cusp of Apple announcing the new M3 chip. The M3 chip is expected to be a major upgrade over the M2, switching to a new fabrication and production process that will offer a major boost in both performance and efficiency.