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Just about everything Apple offers across its product lines have hit Black Friday prices already during Amazon's shopping holiday. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. A good sale can totally negate the "Apple tax" that you'll usually pay for the company's products. Amazon's annual Big Deal Days sale is a great time to upgrade while saving some money.

First, AI stole their books. Earlier this summer, Tamra Westberry received a Facebook notification that made her heart sink. A fellow author had taken to social media to endorse Westberry's latest book, Project Erebus, after reading about it in a weekly roundup of the latest paranormal-romance releases. Independent authors like Westberry, who is based in Texas and has published dozens of books under the pen name Tara West, usually welcome an encouraging word and a bit of cross-promotion. She had never heard of a book called Project Erebus .

A comparison of a T-shirt as sold by Lonely Kids Club and Temu. The business owner says AI may have been used to scrape the content of his site and replicate the designs. A comparison of a T-shirt as sold by Lonely Kids Club and Temu. The business owner says AI may have been used to scrape the content of his site and replicate the designs. 'Brutal': thousands of T-shirt designs stolen and listed on Temu, Sydney label claims After 15 years running a small business making T-shirts, Warwick Levy says it was "brutal" when he first discovered an identical design for sale on Temu.

SoftBank-backed SB Energy aims to raise $500 million from Japan for U.S. IPO The proceeds from SB Energy's public listing in Japan will be used to develop and build data centers and power plants. SB Energy, a data center firm backed by SoftBank Group, is aiming to raise as much as $500 million in the Japanese portion of its planned initial public offering (IPO) in the U.S., following other major deals tapping the country's deep pools of capital. The company will start taking investor orders as soon as this month, according to a local regulatory filing Tuesday. The proceeds will be used for developing and constructing infrastructure including data centers and power plants. SB Energy, whose strategic investors include OpenAI and Nvidia, filed for an IPO in the U.S. this month. Mizuho Financial Group, Daiwa Securities Group, PayPay Securities, Rakuten Securities and SBI Holdings will act as the selling agents for Mizuho's U.S. arm, according to the filing.

Kioxia said to consider raising $10 billion in U.S. listing Kioxia is seeking to gain more liquidity in the U.S. by listing American depositary receipts. Kioxia is considering raising at least $10 billion by listing American depositary receipts, people familiar with the matter said, potentially joining other artificial intelligence-related companies seeking to tap strong investor demand. Kioxia has been speaking with lenders including Bank of America, Goldman Sachs Group and JPMorgan Chase on an offering that may take place next year, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. The Tokyo-based memory-storage maker is seeking to gain more liquidity in the U.S. with the listing after it repurchased billions of dollars' worth of shares in Japan, the people said. Selling ADRs may also allow Kioxia to join a semiconductor-focused stock index, they said. Considerations are preliminary, and details such as the size of the share sale and the bank lineup may change, the people said.

Gear I checked Best Buy's 50%-off Labor Day sale against the competition. Here are the deals the hold up. You should always be dubious of 50% off claims, but we did the digging through tons of Best Buy pages to find the products that are actually worth grabbing this Labor Day. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs.

Fake 10 Downing Street listing exposes'unfit' Booking.com, says consumer group Consumer group Which? says it was able to create a fake listing for 10 Downing Street on travel giant Booking.com. The UK watchdog said its researchers were able to book a bogus stay at the prime minister's address - as well as leave a fake review noting hanging out with resident mouser Larry the cat as a highlight. It said despite clear signs it was fake, Booking.com did not remove the listing until two months after it was uploaded. This limited test is not a true reflection of the experience of millions of listings or reviews published on our platform, a Booking.com They said because Which?'s listing was not live on its site across the two months it was present, some of our automatic fraud controls were not triggered to completely remove the closed listing.

PCWorld reports that scalper bots are making it harder and more expensive to buy RAM, with bots accounting for 91% of traffic at one retailer. DDR5 RAM prices have surged 500% year-over-year, driven by AI data center demand and third-party resellers inflating prices on platforms like Amazon and Newegg. Popular kits such as the G.Skill Flare X5 are being heavily marked up, making PC building significantly more costly for everyday consumers. When an in-demand product gets scarce, the vultures of consumerism descend. Resellers insert themselves between something people want and suppliers, sucking up every possible dollar to be made. So it went with GPUs and webcams and toilet paper in the pandemic, so it goes with RAM in 2026. For at least one retailer, over 90% of the web traffic for RAM listings came from "scalper" bots.