Earlier today, Tim Cook reportedly held “constructive” talks with EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen as Apple and the bloc sought a way forward in their dispute over the delayed launch of Siri AI in Europe. Here are the details.
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The US State Department has announced a $10 million bounty for information that may help identify or locate members of two Russian state-backed hacking groups behind a campaign targeting Signal and WhatsApp users. Here are the details.
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June 30, 2026: Personal finance is now available to ChatGPT Plus customers in the U.S., expanding the feature from OpenAI’s $100/month plan to the $20/month version. Original story from last month is below.
OpenAI is catching up with some competitors and offering new personal finance features inside ChatGPT. The new personal finance experience is rolling out starting today for some subscribers.
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Update, 6:33 p.m. ET: Apple says both issues, in addition to an outage affecting Maps Display, have now been resolved. The original story follows below.
Apple’s System Status page says two outages are affecting Apple Maps right now, one affecting search and the other affecting routing and navigation. Here are the details.
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As previewed at I/O 2026, Gemini for macOS now supports Gemini Spark. This is the first of two big desktop app updates coming this summer, with the other being a new voice experience.
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Rumors indicate Apple’s long-expected MacBook Pro redesign will be branded ‘MacBook Ultra’ instead. Here’s why this could be good news for MacBook Pro users in light of a previous redesign misstep.
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Almost a decade ago, Apple introduced the iPhone X with what became an iconic design trait: the notch cutout. And this fall with iPhone 18 Pro, what’s now called the Dynamic Island is rumored to take a big step toward being retired.
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Threads is rolling out several updates to Live Chats, including translation support, new moderation tools, and expanded access for Community Champions. Here are the details.
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Apple Arcade subscribers can now play Family Feud Pocket, with four additional games set to join the service later this week. Here are the details.
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Anthropic is upgrading Claude Sonnet, replacing Sonnet 4.6 from February with Sonnet 5 as the best medium-sized model.
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Today Apple launched new features for Apple Creator Studio, but the company also has rolled out upgrades for Pages, Keynote, and Numbers—alongside Final Cut Camera—that don’t require a Creator Studio subscription.
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Apple has announced a flurry of updates for Apple Creator Studio apps rolling out today, plus previewed some iOS 27 additions coming. Here’s what’s new for Apple Creator Studio.
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Anthropic just launched a brand-new desktop app called Claude Science. The new app joins the main Claude app on the Mac, which includes Claude AI, Cowork, and Code.
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Here’s a cool new thing coming son: Cibby, a beautifully designed iOS app for physical video game collectors.
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The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Apple’s appeal over a lower court ruling that held the company in contempt related to its Epic Games case and app fees. Update: Apple has shared a statement with 9to5Mac about the decision, added below, alongside Epic’s response.
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American Express has announced a new way for cardholders to redeem their rewards points: they can be used to pay for Apple Pay transactions. Here are the details.
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Alongside the now live Best Buy 4th of July sale, today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by M5 iPad Pro at up to $350 off before the price hikes completely take hold at Amazon, alongside the last remaining M5 Pro MacBook Pro configs still live with pre-price hike deals (Up to $450 off). You can also grab the latest Beats 240W Woven USB-C cable from just $19 (up to 37% off) and load up on official Apple Watch Sport Bands while they are just $15 Prime shipped (69% off). Head below for a closer look.
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iOS 27 is packed with new Apple Intelligence features, with Siri AI chief among them. But the Shortcuts app offers another standout AI upgrade in iOS 27 thanks to a new ‘describe a shortcut’ feature.
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This fall’s Apple Watch Ultra 4 is rumored to have major design changes, but per a new leak, the Apple Watch ‘Series’ line could get its own big upgrades next year.
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People commonly disclose all kinds of personal data to AI chatbots, including the highly inadvisable practice of asking them for health advice. In addition to the grave medical dangers of obtaining inaccurate advice, users are also running significant privacy risks.
Most AI chatbots have terms and conditions that allow any of your conversations with them to be used as training data, and often app terms that allow data to be collated and sold. Democrats now propose to update a privacy law to prevent the sale of health data …
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Netflix has been trying to clamp down on password sharing for years now, and it has just added an additional barrier in the form of a new requirement for each profile to have a unique email address.
In other streaming news, Amazon is being sued for forcing Prime Video members to watch ads without reducing the subscription fee to compensate them …
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Three AirDrop vulnerabilities have been discovered by security researchers, affecting both iPhone and Mac, with similar ones found in Android’s Quick Share.
An attacker could easily exploit the vulnerabilities to cause AirDrop, AirPlay, Handoff, Universal Clipboard, and Continuity Camera to crash and remain unavailable for as long as the attack continues …
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Britain’s antitrust regulator has proposed forcing Apple to allow developers to link to third-party payment options to purchase apps and subscriptions outside of the App Store.
The proposal would specifically ban Apple from using the same forms of “malicious compliance” it has tried in both the US and EU …
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