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Moltbot, a personal AI assistant being run on batches of Mac minis, got a lot of attention when creator Matt Schlicht effectively partnered with his own assistant to develop a social media platform for the bots. Known as Moltbook, it’s been colloquially referred to as Reddit for AI bots.

Schlicht says he didn’t write a single line of the code himself, and it wasn’t long before it was being suggested that Moltbot agents were using the social network to plot an AI uprising …

Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman today announced the launch of Luffu (“loo-foo”), a new health app for families that will eventually expand to hardware devices too. Here are the details.

iOS 26.2 is the latest major iPhone update, and among its many new features, AirPods Live Translation expanded to a lot more users. Here’s how to use AirPods’ powerful recent addition.

We’re expecting to see two MacBook Pro launches this year. The first, expected sometime this month, is an M5 Pro and M5 Max version of the current design. But the far more exciting prospect is an all-new MacBook Pro design later in the year.

A new supply chain report says that Samsung is gearing up for production of the OLED panels for the new machine and that it will launch in the final three months of this year …

Update: On Amazon, AirPods Pro 3 are back to $229. You can, however, still snag them for $184 from Verizon … for now.

Well folks, AirPods Pro 3 have hit a new low. It’s basically Black Friday … but in January if you’re in the market for a new pair of Apple earbuds.

You can snag AirPods Pro 3 for $184 on Amazon right now, down from their usual price of $249. This is their lowest price ever, beating the aggressive discounts we saw during Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

It’s incredibly rare, if not unprecedented, that we have such massive savings on Apple’s newest-generation of products. It doesn’t get much better than this!

Yesterday saw a couple of claimed leaks about the iPhone Fold, one of them unremarkable, the other somewhat more surprising.

The first of them is almost certainly true, coming from a leaker with a good track record and in line with existing expectations. The second is a bit more of a wild card, but it does make sense to me …

Both the founders of WhatsApp and current owner Meta state that the app uses end-to-end encryption, meaning that nobody outside the chat can access the content. A lawsuit claims that this isn’t true and that anyone inside Meta can get full access to all of the messages sent or received by any WhatsApp user.

Johns Hopkins University professor and cryptographer Matthew Green has weighed in with a blog post analyzing the claims and likely reality …

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In this episode of Apple @ Work, Jaron Bradley from Jamf joins the show to talk about macOS malware and what IT teams need to know in 2026.

Following last week’s release of iOS 26.2.1, Apple has now stopped signing iOS 26.2. Here’s what that means.

A group of Apple and Tel-Aviv University researchers figured out a way to speed up AI-based text-to-speech generation without sacrificing intelligibility. Here’s how they did it.

One of the most significant limitations of MagSafe charging is heat management. As induction coils transfer energy, they generate waste heat, which causes your iPhone to throttle its charging speeds if it gets too hot to protect the battery. You especially see this in the outdoors during the summer. LISEN is attempting to fix the normal thermal bottleneck with its new 3-in-1 MagSafe station. By adding an active cooling fan and the Qi2.2, LISEN claims it can sustain 25-watt charging speeds that really does wired charging. This is my current daily driver on my desk, and I really like it thus far.

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The Indian government approved a measure on Sunday that allows Apple to directly finance iPhone manufacturing equipment in India without risking additional taxes. Here are the details.

The RetroVa Vintage Image Kit features a slide-on camera grip with real buttons, modular telephoto optics, film filter presets, and support for external storage. Here are the details.

iTunes is an ancient relic of an old music era, right? Not so fast, says a new report highlighting iTunes’ resilience despite stiff streaming competition, as evidenced by new statistics from Apple.

Apple has just released a variety of new software updates for its devices, but they’re all for older versions of iOS, macOS, watchOS, and iPadOS. Here are the details.

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In this episode, I sit down with Kseniia (@osint_barbie) and Mykhailo (@xor3r) from Moonlock Lab, the cybersecurity research arm of MacPaw.

We dive into the meteoric rise of infostealers, which have secured their spot as one of the most prolific threats facing Mac users in 2026. We break down why the tide has turned for macOS, how these threats actually land on your machine, and how they have evolved into something far more concerning than just a simple smash-and-grab.

The second part of this conversation will be released later in February.

OpenAI has just launched a brand new Mac app: Codex, which it says is “the best way to build with agents.” Here are the details.

Update 2, February 2, 2026 10:10am PT: Apple has released iOS 16.7.14.

Update 1, January 28, 3pm PT: As noted by Aaron Perris, Apple has started signing iOS 12.5.8, iOS 15.8.6, and iOS 18.7.4 again. iOS 16.7.13, however, remains unavailable.

Original story (published January 28, 4:19am PT below):

Apple this week released an array of iOS updates, including iOS 26.2.1, iOS 18.7.4, and more.

Now, however, it appears that Apple has pulled some of these new updates due to problems with network connectivity in Australia.