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The Verge Tech

Apple’s reportedly raising the price for AppleCare Plus on Macs and iPads

An AppleCare Plus subscription for a Mac or iPad will cost more soon, with prices going up by $0.50 per month or $5 per year for new sign-ups while remaining the same for existing subscribers, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Gurman says that under the new AppleCare Plus pricing, "a plan for a new 13-inch MacBook Air increased to $7.99 from $7.49, or to $79.99 from $74.99 annually," following a move last year that similarly raised the plan's price on iPhones. We haven't seen the new pricing

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GitHub Changelog

Improvements to secret scanning and public monitoring

This week, we’re rolling out several improvements to secret scanning and public monitoring: Resend is now a GitHub secret scanning partner. Secret scanning now detects new secret types from APIclub… The post Improvements to secret scanning and public monitoring appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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The Verge Tech

Valve says iFixit will keep selling Steam Deck batteries after all

The Steam Deck’s internals, including the L-shaped battery. Valve has been incredibly friendly to customers who need repairs - which is why it was so surprising to hear that Valve was already discontinuing the battery for the Steam Deck LCD handheld. It would have meant you could no longer just buy a battery from iFixit and install it yourself. Why would Valve stop stocking the most important replacement part just as people are starting to need it? Here is Valve's answer to The Verge, as of 5

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NVIDIA Technical Blog

Develop Lightweight USD Runtimes Faster with AI Agents

OpenUSD is an open, extensible framework that provides a common scene description language for physical AI. It enables teams to bring CAD data, simulation... OpenUSD is an open, extensible framework that provides a common scene description language for physical AI. It enables teams to bring CAD data, simulation assets, and real-world telemetry into a shared, physically accurate view of the world. Until now, building a USD implementation has typically required adapting a large existing codebase—

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