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• Microsoft is the latest tech giant to raise prices due to the memory shortage; Xbox prices will go up $100-$150 on August 1.
• It said memory and storage prices have increased by "more than 2.5x" and it expects "another doubling by the fall of 2027."
• The news follows

Microsoft is raising the price of every Xbox console by $100 to $150, effective August 1. The increases push the Xbox Series X with a disc drive to $800, up $300 from its original $500 launch price in November 2020. It is the third time Microsoft has raised Xbox prices in 13 months. The 512-gigabyte […]

Klue, the market intelligence firm whose breach earlier this month exposed customer data at LastPass, HackerOne, and nearly a dozen other companies, says the hacking group responsible is now cooperating and deleting the stolen data. But a second, unnamed group of hackers has emerged claiming to possess the same data and is attempting to extort […]

A proposed change to FCC rules may make anonymous burner phones a thing of the past.

That's because the federal regulatory agency is introducing plans that would require the collection of names, addresses, and government identification numbers for nearly every U.S. cellphone user in a bid to curb escalating robocalls and scams.

The proposal mandates phone companies connect identifying information

• Ford says AI and automation helped its quality turnaround, but they were not enough on their own.
• Execs told reporters they hired or brought back 350 technical specialists to catch defects earlier.
• The overhaul helped Ford top JD Power after years of quality problems and expensive recalls

• I struggled with grief and identity loss after being laid off.
• The job search process often felt lonely and deeply personal.
• Freelancing helped me rebuild my confidence and redefine success.

Laid off. Let go. Dismissed. Released. Discharged. A casualty of corporate redundancy.

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