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Meta this week launched its own AI image model integrated into the Instagram app. While this might sound useful, it comes with rather a big privacy issue: by default, anyone can use your profile photo and posts as prompts for generative images.

You can fix this by flipping two toggles, but they’re pretty well hidden …

Apple recently increased the prices of most of its products, from the Apple TV and HomePods through iPads and Macs to the Vision Pro. iPhones have so far escaped the increases, but that will likely change in September.

You’d think that would be bad news for the company, reducing demand – but ironically, increasing memory costs might actually end up boosting iPhone sales …

In addition to bringing new keyboard and typing improvements across multiple languages, iOS 27 will also add several languages and accents to Apple Translate. Here are the details.

Just a few days after releasing Halide Mark III, the folks at Lux are already getting ready to roll out Halide 3.1: Scarlet Edition. Here’s what’s coming.

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences just announced the contenders for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards, and Apple just scored 89 nominations across all major categories. Here’s the full list of nominees.

Apple’s AirPods lineup is stronger than ever, but there are already rumors about what’s coming next. Here’s everything we know so far about when Apple will release new AirPods.

Update: Apple has stopped signing additional devices since this article was first published. You can find the updated list below.

iPhone and iPad users hanging on to older devices will no longer be able to restore or downgrade to several older iOS versions starting today. Here are the details.

A shiny new model isn’t the only upgrade coming to ChatGPT this week. In addition to GPT-5.6’s release tomorrow, OpenAI is announcing an all-new ChatGPT voice mode experience as well.

Because ChatGPT works with CarPlay, today’s release also is a major upgrade to the CarPlay voice mode experience as well.

According to code in the latest iOS 27 beta, Apple is preparing to launch car key support for two new automakers: Xiaomi and Lucid Motors. Here’s what we know right now.

According to The Elec, Samsung Display has fully scrapped the development project of a component tied to the rumored lower-cost Apple Vision Pro. Here are the details.

New data from IDC shows that Apple was the only major PC vendor to post significant shipment growth in Q2 2026, with the broader market declining for the first time in more than two years. Here are the details.

After Apple started lobbying the US government for approval to use memory chips from CXMT, The Financial Times now reports that the company is actively testing the components for devices sold in China. Here are the details.

OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.6 at the end of June, but the public release was held back while the U.S. government reviewed the new AI models. Now the company has shared an update on when customers will be able to use the upgraded model: this week.

Fresh off its polarizing disco ball icon fix, Spotify is continuing to listen to users with easy-win changes. Starting today, the company is giving users a highly requested feature that has sparked feedback for years: vastly expanded pinning.

Apple has announced that starting with macOS 28, users will need to decrypt or reformat certain storage volumes to keep using them. Here are the details.

One of the things tucked away in the small print of macOS 27 beta 3 is the news that you’ll need a 2TB iCloud+ subscription in order to use the new AI features for home security cameras in the Apple Home app.

While some are suggesting that we shouldn’t be too surprised by this, I do find it a somewhat disappointing move by Apple …

My new favorite Apple Watch and Apple Health metric is one that has been quietly working in the background for years. Specifically, it’s a bit of a hidden Apple Watch feature for tracking a great healthy habit: Time in Daylight.

More supply chain sources have rejected claims of delays to iPhone Ultra production, reporting that it appears to be on track for a September release.

However, the latest report doesn’t rule out limited initial supplies of Apple’s most expensive ever iPhone …

Apple has today lost a major antitrust appeal in Europe, with all three of its claims being rejected.

The company has long been fighting its requirement to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), but a court has dismissed all of its claims …

A little under a year ago, Apple promised to invest $600 billion in the U.S. over a four-year period through an American Manufacturing Program (AMP). The company has today announced its largest single AMP commitment to date: a $30 billion Broadcom chip contract.

The iPhone maker says that the deal will help Broadcom expand its Colorado plant, and lead to the production of more than 15 billion US-made chips …

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The premiere episode of Trying‘s new season is now streaming on Apple TV. Here’s what to expect from the feel-good comedy’s fifth season.

Tim Cook and Eddy Cue have arrived in Idaho for the 2026 Sun Valley Conference, which is expected to run through July 11. Here are the details.