Madeline Batt: The lawsuit targeted generative AI company Perplexity, along with Meta and Google, alleging they disclosed transcripts of users’ conversations with chatbots for targeted advertising. The case highlighted a burgeoning monetization strategy for the AI industry to solve generative AI’s profitability problem with a function the technology has proven especially adept at: collecting intimate […]

Multimodal Solutions: Install, update, and clean up your brew packages from a quiet Mac‑native app. 14,000+ formulae and casks — no terminal required. […] Browse and search through thousands of Homebrew packages with an intuitive visual interface. No more memorizing package names. […] Install or remove any package with a single click. […] See all […]

Manton Reece: I submitted Inkwell for iOS to Apple for review on April 21st. It has gone through numerous rejections, code changes, resubmissions, clarifications, one phone call, and one appeal to the review board, which I’m still waiting to hear back on. […] The app didn’t have a way to report objectionable content or block […]

Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk (Mastodon): Until macOS 26.4, Archive Utility had nearly unrestricted filesystem access. Combined with a drag-and-drop sandbox quirk, this let an attacker bypass App Sandbox data containers, Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) protections, and hijack third-party apps — all without special permissions or elevated privileges. […] Here’s one interesting aspect […]

Ron Elemans: Despite all that, we have done our best to embrace and implement the concepts of the Liquid Glass design in Core Data Lab 3.0, although with a few tweaks here and there to improve the contrast in especially dialogs. […] Identifying rows in data often depends on attributes with names like ‘identifier’, ‘title’ […]

Manuel Grabowski: No actual concept of versioning or upgrades for shared shortcuts. Sharing shortcuts happens via weird iCloud URLs rather than being an actual aspect of the system. So to update a shortcut, do you just add it again? No indication of what that will do before you press the button. Will it error out? […]

Juli Clover (Slashdot): Apple is fighting an antitrust penalty law in India that could require it to pay massive fines in its ongoing antitrust dispute with Tinder owner Match, reports Reuters. Last year, India passed a law that allows the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to use global turnover when calculating penalties imposed on companies […]

Hartley Charlton (Hacker News): Apple today announced a suite of accessibility updates that use Apple Intelligence to expand capabilities across VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control, and Accessibility Reader, with additional new features for generated subtitles and wheelchair control via Apple Vision Pro. Shelly Brisbin: With updates to live recognition, VoiceOver users can press the iPhone action […]

Adam Engst: Apple doesn’t provide a user-editable list where you can add special words, but there is a back-door way to train Dictation—on all your Apple devices—to work more the way you prefer: through the Contacts app. […] Regardless of the number of words in the name or phrase, I put them all in the […]

Flexibits: So, grab a slice of virtual cake and join us on a trip down memory lane as we look back at how far Fantastical (and Flexibits) has come! Still one of my favorite apps, though I don’t use most of the advanced features. Previously: Fantastical 4.0.7 The Sad State of Mac Calendar Scripting

Hartley Charlton: Fortnite is back on the App Store in every country except Australia, Epic Games announced today, as the company declared it is entering the “final battle” of its long-running legal dispute with Apple. Epic said the decision to push Fortnite back onto iOS globally was prompted by Apple’s own words to the U.S. […]

Paul Hudson (Mastodon, Twitter): It’s called Kickstart, and it has only one job: to help indie developers make more money on the App Store. Instead of juggling spreadsheets, launch docs, analytics dashboards, review tools, and half-finished marketing plans, Kickstart gives you one focused workspace for launch, growth, and iteration. […] Kickstart helps turn all those […]

Todd Bookman (via Roman Loyola): Then, according to Carter, the cards are carefully placed back in their original packaging, and are returned to the store’s shelves, where an unsuspecting customer will hopefully purchase them and add money to the card. […] The scale of the scheme is mind-boggling: Apple, working with police, determined that the […]

John Voorhees: Late yesterday, Anthropic announced messaging support for Claude Code, allowing users to connect to a Claude Code session running on a Mac from a mobile device using Telegram and Discord bots. I spent a few hours playing with it last night, and despite being released as a research preview, the messaging integration is […]

Khanh: Early this week, we had a meeting at Apple Park in Cupertino. While there, we also shared with Apple our latest vulnerability research report: the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on M5 silicon, surviving MIE. It was laser printed, in honor of our hacker friends. […] The exploit is a data-only kernel […]

Bobby Holley: Since February, the Firefox team has been working around the clock using frontier AI models to find and fix latent security vulnerabilities in the browser. We wrote previously about our collaboration with Anthropic to scan Firefox with Opus 4.6, which led to fixes for 22 security-sensitive bugs in Firefox 148. As part of […]

Zac Hall (MacRumors): The update also adds these changes: Refreshed look with Liquid Glass. List filtering by Unwatched, Bookmarked, and Downloaded, and preferred topics. Improved reliability of image capture during enrollment. Bug fixes and various other enhancements. Steve Troughton-Smith: [It] has been ported from Catalyst-based to AppKit-based (it is a SwiftUI app in either case). […]

OmniFocus 4.8: OmniFocus 4.8 introduces a visually refreshed interface, adopting beautiful Liquid Glass design elements and a modernized look and feel when run on macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, or iPadOS 26. This release also includes support for a range of new OS features - support for consulting Apple’s new on-device Foundation Models via Omni […]

Federico Zanetello: @State is one of the many SwiftUI’s pillars that, once understood, we take for granted and use pretty much everywhere without a second thought. But what is @State? What’s happening behind the scenes? Nikita Vasilev: The answer is that @State does not store its value in the struct. The struct holds only a […]

Anders Borum: After my experiments with APFS cloning, I made a Quick Action shortcut for Finder that’s much faster than Duplicate or “cp -c -R”, both of which clone files individually instead of the whole tree in one go. The regular file copying APIs also give you folders full of file clones rather than a […]

Rafe Rosner-Uddin (Hacker News): The Seattle-based group has started to widely deploy its in-house “MeshClaw” product in recent weeks, allowing employees to create AI agents that can connect to workplace software and carry out tasks on a user’s behalf, according to three people familiar with the matter. Some employees said colleagues were using the software […]

Tim Hardwick: The file in question is called “weights.bin,” which powers Google’s on-device Gemini Nano AI model – the engine behind Chrome features like scam detection, autofill suggestions, and the “Help Me Write” tool. Local models tend to be pretty big storage-wise, and this one is no different. The problem is that Google hasn’t clearly […]

Ken Case: Redesigning and rebuilding all of our toolbars, sidebars, and inspectors for Liquid Glass gave us a great opportunity to cross-pollinate features, making some familiar platform-exclusive features available across all platforms for the first time. And it was also easier than ever to build new features that work in consistent ways across those platforms. […]

Apple (xip, downloads): Xcode 26.5 includes Swift 6.3 and SDKs for iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, macOS 26.5, and visionOS 26.5. Xcode 26.5 supports on-device debugging in iOS 15 and later, tvOS 15 and later, watchOS 8 and later, and visionOS. Xcode 26.5 requires a Mac running macOS Tahoe 26.2 or later. […] Messages […]

macOS 15.7.7 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. macOS 14.8.7 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. Howard Oakley. I don’t know what happened to 15.7.6 or 14.8.6, but they seem to have been skipped. Jesse Squires: I […]

Apple: This document describes the security content of iOS 18.7.9 and iPadOS 18.7.9. […] Available for: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPad 7th generation After a brief reprieve, Apple seems to have gone back to the policy of iOS 18.7.3, where you can only get iOS 18.7.9 if your phone is not capable […]

Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS Tahoe 26.5 adds a Suggested Places section to the search interface in the Apple Maps app. It also lays the groundwork for ads in the Maps app, which are coming this summer. The App Store is also getting a monthly subscription option that will […]

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, developer): iOS 26.5 introduces end-to-end encryption for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users. E2EE for RCS requires both participants in the conversation to have a carrier that supports the feature, and carriers will be rolling out support over time. Encrypted RCS messages have a small lock […]

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): watchOS 26.5 adds a new Pride Luminance watch face. It also fixes a bug with dual SIM iPhones and an issue that could cause audio alerts to fail to play in the Workout app. Previously: watchOS 26.4

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): No new features were found in tvOS 26.5 during the beta testing period, so it likely focuses on bug fixes and performance improvements. Previously: tvOS 26.4