Apple: Apple today introduced Siri AI, an entirely new version of Siri, powered by Apple Intelligence. Unfortunately, due to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple will not be able to ship Siri AI in the European Union with the release of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. Over the past several months, EU regulators did not […]⌥ Permalink

Victoria Song and Nilay Patel, the Verge: Fresh off the WWDC keynote presentation, The Verge has been invited to an “on-the-record technical deep dive into the bold new architecture enabling Apple Intelligence capabilities.” Apple SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi and his team will be there, and so will we. No video, but it looks […]⌥ Permalink

Eric Szeto, Jordan Pearson, and Christian Paas-Lang, CBC News: You might think, based on the volume of her Facebook posts, that Nieta Aqila is an Albertan who supports separation. “I signed the Alberta independence petition” because “Canada is not a great country anymore,” an account in her name wrote in a popular Facebook group called […]⌥ Permalink

Today’s live stream was a little over an hour long — the shortest presentation since 2005 — but, if this big list of refinements captured by Jonathan Reed, of MacStories, is representative of what will be shipping in September, I am not disappointed. Some choice bullet points, in no particular order: Uniform toolbars [iOS] Lock […]⌥ Permalink

Zack Whittaker, This Week in Security: According to the data breach notice filed with Maine’s attorney general’s office late on Friday, Meta notified at least 20,225 people that their accounts had been compromised, including 30 people in Maine. […] According to Maine’s listing, the hacks began around April 17 and lasted until this week, when […]⌥ Permalink

Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, Wired: One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, according to a WIRED analysis of the latest version’s code. Once again, the pugilistic but ultimately cowardly Meta communications team had […]⌥ Permalink

Do you want an all-in-one solution to block ads, trackers, and annoyances across all your Apple devices? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock — the ad blocker designed for you. With Magic Lasso Adblock you can effortlessly block ads on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Magic Lasso is a single, native app that includes […]⌥ Permalink

Zac Hall, 9to5Mac: But on Friday morning, a random productivity app called Cириус broke into the top three. […] The reality seems to be that the app is a Russian banking app disguised as a Pomodoro timer. Activity on Telegram this week points to the app actually being a client for Russian financial institution VTB […]⌥ Permalink

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, New York Times: Again and again, the world’s leading social media companies have targeted students, even as complaints have mounted that they are hurting teenagers’ mental health and academic performance, according to a New York Times review of internal documents that lay bare for the first time these tactics to hook young users. […]⌥ Permalink

Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, Wired: Meta has quietly embedded face-recognition technology for its smart glasses into an app downloaded to millions of phones, according to a WIRED analysis of the company’s software. […] Three AI models powering NameTag have already been deployed from Meta’s servers and now reside on its customers’ phones, according to […]⌥ Permalink

Adam Engst, TidBits: If you are still using Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac, it will stop working fully on 13 July 2026. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook will enter “reduced functionality mode” — a euphemism meaning you can view and print documents but cannot edit, save, or create new ones. Microsoft’s documentation doesn’t clarify what […]⌥ Permalink