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With the new Live Chats feature, Threads users can join public, real-time group conversations built around major live events. Here are the details.

iOS 26.4 recently brought two new updates for how you can customize the Liquid Glass design on your iPhone.

iOS 26.4.2 is available now as the latest iPhone update, and it includes a key security fix that ensures deleted notifications can’t be retrieved or restored later.

Pioneer was first to bring Apple CarPlay to existing cars in 2014, and now the company is pulling off another CarPlay first. The new Pioneer Sphera is the first system with aftermarket Dolby Atmos support, and it’s now shipping.

Apple TV’s acclaimed crime thriller Criminal Record is officially back for season 2, with a London bomb plot at the center of the new arc. Here are the details.

OpenAI launch week continues today with the introduction of workspace agents in ChatGPT.

Apple has released a new version of GarageBand for Mac. The new version finally includes an app icon optimized for macOS Tahoe.

Apple has just released a new software update for iPhone users. iOS 26.4.2 is here and ready to install, here’s what’s new.

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Apple’s upcoming Siri overhaul got a moment of stage time during Google’s  Cloud Next ’26 opening keynote today.

XChat, the standalone messaging app from X, now has a new release date. X’s new iPhone and iPad app will arrive this week.

After exclusively sharing details with 9to5Mac last September on ModStealer, a cross-platform infostealer invisible to every major antivirus engine at the time, Mosyle, a leader in Apple device management and security, is back with two more macOS threats that are flying completely under the radar.

In new details again shared with 9to5Mac, the Mosyle Security Research Team says it has identified two previously undetected samples: Phoenix Worm, a cross-platform stager, and ShadeStager, a modular macOS implant built for credential theft. The two aren’t directly connected in how they work, but together show just how sophisticated Mac malware is getting.

Last year Apple made the base iPhone 17 extremely compelling, in part due to display upgrades like ProMotion. But rumors about the iPhone 18 indicate it could regress in minor ways to be more like Apple’s budget ‘e’ model.

A new post from a reputable Weibo leaker highlights four new camera upgrades Apple reportedly has in development, at least one of which is coming with iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max.

Apple’s CEO transition will undoubtedly impact the whole company to varying degrees, including its services division. A new report sheds light on how John Ternus might approach the Apple TV streaming service specifically.

Last week we got a report on some of the colors that may be available for iPhone 18 Pro. But now a new leak offers a unique description of the one color Apple is expected to market as its flagship.

When SpaceX isn’t landing rockets, it’s apparently landing AI company deals. Two months ago, the firm behind Starlink absorbed xAI, which includes Twitter-turned-X. Now SpaceX is eyeing Cursor, a competitor to Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex.

The new Framework Laptop 13 Pro has been described by the company’s CEO as “the MacBook Pro for Linux users” (though you can also run Windows on it). It even claims to beat the 14-inch M5 MacBook Pro for battery life.

The new machine copies a number of key Apple features, but is the complete opposite in terms of its underlying philosophy …

We learned yesterday that Apple was at risk of losing Mike Rockwell, the exec tasked with rescuing the new Siri project after Tim Cook lost confidence in former AI head John Giannandrea.

A deal appears to have been struck to retain Rockwell long enough to deliver the Siri upgrade, and Ternus and Cook also notched up an even important retention win …

Bloomberg reports that amid recent leadership changes at Apple, Mike Rockwell, who created the Vision Pro and now oversees efforts to revamp Siri, has considered leaving or reducing his role at the company. Here are the details.

While it had long been expected that John Ternus would succeed Tim Cook as Apple’s CEO, a key detail in the transition process shows that the company can still keep things under wraps when it counts. Here’s why.