This week on the Cult of Mac podcast: New details emerge about Apple's smart glasses, including possible shapes, sizes and colors.

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I thought my M4 Pro Mac mini was running slow because it needed more RAM. Turns out, it needed some spring cleaning and better usage habits.

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If relaunched at the right price, the RTX 3060 could re-enter the market as a viable option in a segment facing increasing cost pressures.

MSI has put its Vector 16 gaming laptop on sale for just $1,529 at Newegg, offering a solid discount for a beastly hardware combo. You get a Core Ultra 7 255HX paired with a 140W RTX 5070 Ti, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD, all of which are upgradeable. All that is backed up by a 90 Wh battery and displayed on a 144 Hz FHD+ screen.

A Dutch journalist mailed a postcard to a Dutch Navy ship containing a hidden Bluetooth tracker, allowing them to track its route for 24 hours before it was found and disabled.

KTC delivers high brightness and saturated color from the M27T6S. It’s a 27-inch Mini LED QHD panel with 1,152 dimming zones and Quantum Dot wide gamut color. A 200 Hz refresh rate overclocks to 210 Hz, and it has Adaptive-Sync with HDR1000.

Minisforum says its powerful AI NAS, the N5 Max, will launch on April 23, 2026, at $2,899

Cybersecurity expert finds counterfeit Ledger Nano S+ hardware wallets being sold in China.

With similar pricing and target audiences, these two processors offer contrasting strengths across gaming, productivity, and power consumption.

The Neo Geo AES+ is real, it's coming this November

Microsoft has readied a new $2M prize pot to tempt users to adopt its Edge browser.

Backblaze redefines "unlimited" while users discover it's not backing up Dropbox, OneDrive, et al

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that blocking China, the second biggest market for AI chips, from buying from American companies is a "losing proposition" that makes no sense to him.

I love MagSafe batteries and by this point, I have probably tested hundreds of them. There are plenty of great options out there with different capacities, charging speeds, built-in cables, and diagnostic displays, and there seems to be a MagSafe battery variant for any situation. But the feature I like most is thinness. While it’s great to have 10,000 mAh in a battery, that adds too much extra bulk in most daily cases. So over the last few months, I have been on the hunt for slim MagSafe batteries that add the least amount of bulk to my iPhone. These are the three best ones I’ve tested so far.

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A recent study found that around a third of AI app users are having deeply personal conversations with the chatbots. Even if you’re not sharing your deepest fears with an AI app, your questions and conversations may still include a significant amount of personal data.

A separate Stanford study found that six leading US AI companies all feed user inputs back into their models for future training, potentially putting your privacy at risk. Fortunately, there are simple steps you can take to manage this …

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Apple recently announced that the device management portion of its new Apple Business platform is now completely free. If you manage a fleet of Apple devices, this immediately caught your attention. It’s the first free device management system I can remember since Meraki’s System Manager. Giving small businesses a free tool to manage their Macs and iPhones is a huge win for the ecosystem. However, if you are an IT administrator looking at your current device management renewal and wondering if you can just cancel it and move everything to Apple, you need to pump the brakes a bit. Let’s look at why.

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Welcome to 9to5Mac’s top stories of the week, where we recap the biggest news in the Apple world every Saturday. This week, we have iOS 26.4.1, more iOS 27 leaks, Apple Glasses rumors, and more Apple news. Plus, our usual slate of new podcast episodes, opinion pieces, and much more. Read on for all of this week’s top stories.

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Apple just scored an important win in its ongoing battle with Masimo over patents related to the Apple Watch’s blood oxygen feature. Here are the details.

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Today, BNP Paribas raised Apple’s stock price target to $300, up from $260 set in its last investor note. Here are the details.

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Today is your last chance to enter our giveaway of Apple’s latest MacBook Pro courtesy of our friends at BenQ to celebrate the company’s MA series of monitors for Mac. The winner will also receive the new BenQ 27″ 4K Nano Gloss Monitor for MacBook! Head below to enter the giveaway and learn more about the new monitors.

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