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There's something quietly telling about a day when the most urgent questions in tech involve when exactly a demonic slaughter-fest goes live in your corner of the world, whether Apple is ready to rethink the sacred boundary between finger and screen sooner than anyone expected, and what on earth Gregorian chanting has to do with the most anticipated game release in a generation. The touchscreen MacBook story deserves your attention. If Apple really does decouple that launch from the M7 chip cycle, it hints at a shift in how the company weighs design ambition against its own silicon roadmap, and the implications run well beyond one laptop.

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Diablo 4 Season 14 launches June 30 with Death Cult storyline and item overhaul

Diablo 4's Season 14, titled Season of Death Awakening, launches on Tuesday, June 30 at 1 p.m. EDT, and players on Battle.net, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X can pre-download patch 3.1.0 ahead of time. The season is the first major update to follow the Lord of Hatred expansion, and its new storyline picks up where that DLC left off, sending players to Kyovashad to investigate a Death Cult that has appeared in Zarbinzet. The opening quest, called A Gospel of Despair, is expected to give a clear signal about where Diablo 4's broader narrative is heading next.

Beyond the story, the season brings a notable structural change to the game's itemization. Blizzard is removing Unique as a standalone rarity tier and reworking it into a modifier that can be applied to Mythic gear, creating what the studio calls a Mythic Unique. The change is designed so that players no longer need to build an entire character around a single Unique item, instead crafting the modifier onto Mythic pieces that suit their build.

The season also includes a limited free trial of the Warlock class from June 30 through July 7, allowing players who have not purchased the Lord of Hatred expansion to create a Warlock and play up to level 30. An Overwatch crossover event running alongside the season lets players earn a special currency called the Eye of the Overwatch and exchange it for cosmetics.

Touchscreen MacBook will launch with M5 Pro and Max chips, not M7

Apple's long-rumored touchscreen MacBook is taking shape, and Bloomberg's Mark Gurman now reports it will arrive with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips rather than skipping over a future generation. The 14-inch and 16-inch models are still on track for a release window between late 2026 and early 2027, meaning the silicon inside will be the same high-end M5 lineup Apple introduced earlier this year.

Beyond the headline addition of touch input, the new MacBook is expected to bring a notably redesigned experience overall, including an OLED display, the Dynamic Island interface borrowed from the iPhone, and an updated industrial design. Those changes together suggest Apple is treating this as a meaningful generational leap rather than a simple feature addition bolted onto an existing chassis.

Owners who hold out for the fastest possible silicon won't have to wait too long after launch. Gurman reports that M7 versions of the touchscreen MacBook are already in advanced testing and could arrive by the end of 2027, with Apple expected to introduce the M7 chip in early 2027 and the M7 Pro and Max variants to follow within months.

Fans want Phil Collins and Gregorian chants on GTA 6 radio

Grand Theft Auto 6 is officially in pre-order territory, and Rockstar has dropped more than 60 new screenshots, so the internet has moved on. The question is no longer whether the game is real. It's what should be playing on its radio stations. Music has never been separable from this series. Each game's stations work as parody and time capsule at once, which makes the soundtrack debate matter more than it looks at first glance.

The wishlist coming in from readers is all over the map, in the best way. Some want the Florida setting to carry real weight, asking for a station built around artists like Denzel Curry, Kodak Black, and Trick Daddy to match the Leonida region's real-world roots. Others are chasing nostalgia. One fan painted the whole picture: a night drive in a convertible Ferrari while Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" plays. That one's a smart pick, since the song already showed up in Vice City Stories, the last time Rockstar set foot in this corner of the map. The parody suggestions get stranger. They run from a conspiracy talk show fronted by comedian Tim Dillon to the runaway favorite: a station that plays nothing but monks performing Gregorian chants, with no way to switch it off.

Rockstar could go for Florida authenticity, classic rock callbacks, or pure absurdity, and any of those would fit. The radio has quietly been one of the best things this series does, and GTA 6 has a lot to live up to when it lands.

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Computing

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Audio / Video

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Gaming

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Entertainment

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AI

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Wearables

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