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Smashing Security podcast #484: How websites are tracking you with silence

DANNY PALMER As I'm sure you've seen, in many cases a company will put out a rather generic statement saying they've been hit by a sophisticated cyberattack. Unknown Yeah, no one wants to get hit by a dumb attack, do they? No one wants to. No. Smashing Security, episode 484: How Websites Are Tracking You with Silence with Graham Cluley and special guest Danny Palmer. Hello, hello, and welcome to Smashing Security episode 484. My name's Graham Cluley. DANNY PALMER And I'm Danny Palmer. GRAHAM CLU...

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LG Denies Its Televisions Record Ambient Conversations for Ad Targeting

LG on Wednesday denied that its TVs eavesdrop on customers after a gaming site appeared to show that the TVs can be used to listen to conversations in real time. Also read: You’ve Heard About Smart Home Hacking: Here’s How It Works and How Likely It Is “The claims made in the recently published video are not true,” an LG representative said in a statement to CNET. The company said LG TVs process voice data only when the voice button on the remote control is pressed and held or the TV’s “wake wor...

Not Every Feature Apple Announced Is Ready to Go. Here’s When to Expect Them All

The first question following an Apple event — after “Can I really afford that?” — is always “When can I get it?” And consistent with previous product announcements, some of the devices and features that Apple revealed Wednesday won’t be available for a while. Fortunately, it doesn’t seem like we’re seeing a repeat of 2024’s Apple Intelligence rollout, which inspired a false-claims lawsuit, which Apple is settling. Siri AI now works as advertised, at least in the beta versions we’ve tested so far...

Despite spending billions on data centers and AI, US government report finds Amazon workers are using food stamps more than ever

Despite spending billions on data centers and AI, US government report finds Amazon workers are using food stamps more than ever Multi-billion-dollar buildouts for AI partners, but an increasing number of food-stamp recipients among one's employees? - A GAO report requested by Bernie Sanders lists Amazon among the top employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients in every state that supplied employer data - Amazon's capital expenditure guidance for 2026 has risen from $200 billion to $220 billion ci...

4 groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit

A nearly identical exploit kit that targets critical vulnerabilities in both Chromium-based browsers and older versions of Windows is being actively used by at least four hacking groups, some of which have ties to the Chinese government. Researchers from security firm Proofpoint said Wednesday that BlueMoon, the name they gave to the kit, chains three vulnerabilities together so the attackers using it can install malware of their choice. BlueMoon exploits two Chromium vulnerabilities and one in ...

Europe may finally have found a space entrepreneur who is meeting the moment

All of a sudden, French entrepreneur Hèlene Huby is seemingly everywhere. This week she is serving as one of two envoys, alongside astronaut Thomas Pesquet, at a high-profile International Space Summit convened by French President Emmanuel Macron. The government’s website for the event describes her as chief executive of “the fastest-growing space company in Europe.” Also this week, that firm, The Exploration Company, announced a significant capital raise of $450 million in Series C funding. Alt...

AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks

Listen Labs, a market research startup that uses voice AI to conduct customer interviews, recently signed a term sheet for a $125 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation, with Menlo Ventures set to lead the round, according to several people with knowledge of the matter. But that round never closed, the people said. Listen Labs walked away from the signed term sheet, a rare occurrence in the venture world and one that is generally frowned upon, according to VCs. The financing likely collaps...

GA4 Adds AI Assistant Traffic Channel Grouping for Clearer Marketing Attribution

Google Analytics 4 has added a native way to identify traffic from recognized AI assistants. From May 13, 2026, GA4's Default Channel Group includes an AI Assistant channel, giving qualifying visits a dedicated medium, channel grouping and campaign value. The change makes it easier for marketers to see traffic from tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Deepseek, Copilot and Grok in standard acquisition reporting, rather than relying solely on custom rules. The new classification is important because AI...

Microsoft's PRAssistant number is real, and it's a floor, not a promise

Microsoft published the rare thing in this space: a first-party, attributed throughput number for AI code review. PRAssistant ran across 5,000 internal repos, covered 90%+ of PRs and 600K+ pull requests a month, and measured a 10–20% median improvement in PR completion time. Then it shipped externally as GitHub Copilot code review. That's worth slowing down on, because "median PR completion time" does real work in that sentence and people keep reading past it. What that metric captures is a thro...

Your Webhook Endpoint is a Tiny Distributed System

If you want the Rails implementation version of this, Webhooks in Rails goes deeper on verification, durable receipt, idempotency, retries, jobs, testing, and provider-specific behavior, and includes an Agent Companion for repo-aware coding agents. Already have webhook code in an existing Rails application? The free Webhook Architecture Checkup is a repo-aware prompt for tracing the flow you already have and finding the important gaps. Webhook endpoints always seem simple when you build the firs...

Stop Stressing! Build a Real-Time HRV Anomaly Detector with Python and Scikit-Learn

Ever had your smartwatch buzz at you during a meeting, telling you to "take a breath," only to realize your heart is racing because of a 10 AM deadline? That’s Heart Rate Variability (HRV) in action. But what if we could take that raw stream of data and build our own intelligent stress-warning system? 🚀 In this tutorial, we’re going to dive into the world of wearable technology and unsupervised machine learning. We’ll build a system that consumes real-time HRV data, uses a lightweight Isolation ...

My Research Journal: I Thought Web Scraping Was the Hard Part

The modern web is honestly astonishing. There are layers upon layers of security mechanisms working behind the scenes, and some of these systems are so sophisticated that even web developers might never notice them, let alone regular users. For those who are new here, this is a series of blogs where I document my research journey as an independent researcher, starting out in this field and figuring things out in real time. I started my research journey with web information retrieval, and the con...

Architectural Breakdown: Installing Flask on Ubuntu 24.04

# Flask on Ubuntu 24.04: Why Your Simple Install Broke at 2 AM It was 2:47 AM when the alert hit. Our uWSGI workers on the new Ubuntu 24.04 staging box had started swapping. Not throttling, not complaining, full memory-pressure swap thrashing that turned a simple health check into a 12-second GET request. Load average read 8.4 on a 2-core instance with 8GB RAM, and half of that was occupied by a dependency graph that should have been lightweight by design. I opened the box and ran `pip freeze`. ...

Agave 4.2: Transaction V1 Breaking Changes Checklist

Transaction V1 activates on Solana mainnet on 10 September 2026, at the next epoch boundary. It raises the maximum transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes, and it uses a new format that older client libraries cannot read. Only one item on this list throws an error. The rest let your code keep running while it reports the wrong numbers. Where each change stands | Change | SIMD | Status | |---|---|---| | Transaction V1 and the 4,096 byte limit | 0296 and 0385 | Activates at the end of epo...

Nem tudo que reluz, é ouro...

Mantendo a coerência temporal de meus textos, escrevo esse texto 1 ano e 17 dias após a minha promoção para líder técnico do meu time e após 17 dias do meu pedido de demissão, sim eu pedi demissão. Hoje é domingo, 17 de maio de 2026. 25 dias atrás tomei a decisão mais importante da minha vida e não foi pedir demissão, foi eu não deixar ser desrespeitado como profissional. A cerca de um mês atrás, mais precisamente no dia 08 de Abril, presenciei o que posso classificar como o maior show de horror...

Spring AI + OpenAI: Guía Completa de Integración en Java (2026)

Spring AI + OpenAI: Guía Completa de Integración en Java Introducción Spring AI es una iniciativa del ecosistema Spring que proporciona una abstracción unificada para integrar modelos de lenguaje (LLMs) en aplicaciones Java. En este artículo, exploraremos cómo construir una aplicación Spring Boot que se integra seamlessly con OpenAI, permitiendo crear aplicaciones inteligentes con conversaciones de chat, generación de embeddings y procesamiento de información en tiempo real. Durante los últimos ...

Spring AI + OpenAI: Integración Completa de IA en Aplicaciones Java

Spring AI + OpenAI: Integración Completa de IA en Aplicaciones Java Introducción Spring AI es una iniciativa del ecosistema Spring que proporciona una abstracción unificada para integrar modelos de lenguaje (LLMs) en aplicaciones Java. En este artículo, exploraremos cómo construir una aplicación Spring Boot que se integra seamlessly con OpenAI, permitiendo crear aplicaciones inteligentes con conversaciones de chat, generación de embeddings y procesamiento de información en tiempo real. Durante l...

10 Terminal Productivity Tips That Actually Save Time

Introduction We all spend a chunk of our day in the terminal. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting, small tweaks can compound into major time savings. I've gathered ten practical tips that I use daily, with minimal setup but maximum impact. 1. Master Tab Completion Most shells support tab completion, but many people only use it for filenames. You can complete commands, options, and even git branches. For example, typing git che and pressing Tab might suggest checkout , cherry-pic...

Characterize Path Resolution Before You Move One open()

Do not extract file helpers from a messy module yet. Snapshot every resolved absolute path before the first edit. Relative opens form a hidden contract across three roots. Most failed extracts start as a path-root mismatch. The helper looks cleaner after the extract lands. The files then land in a different directory tree. Three roots, one unpublished API A typical messy module mixes three path roots. None of them appear in the public function signature. os.getcwd() follows the process, not the ...

Factoring RSA 260

Factoring RSA-260 Over the past few weeks, the Cognition research team and I have been optimizing our job scheduler to better use disaggregated compute. As a proof of concept, and because I’ve enjoyed factoring numbers as a hobby for the past ten years or so, I drove a bevy of Devins to obtain a factorization of RSA-260. In order to do this, my Devins built the world's highest-performance GPU lattice siever, which enables factoring numbers at 10x lower cost than the previous public state of the ...

Scanned, segmented, and animated my keyboard. Now you can type on my keyboard

Chyuang Back Gaussian Splats Keyboards Loading splat… Click to activate type to press · drag = orbit · wheel = zoom · shift-drag = pan · esc to release sound on ▌ Keyboards - Before segmentation Loading splat… Gaussian Splats

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My Favorite Things from Apple’s iPhone 18 Event

We may not want to pay $2,000 for it, or couldn’t spend that even if we wanted to thanks to RAMaggedon-high prices, but there’s no doubt that the centerpiece of Apple’s primary iPhone launch this year was the foldable iPhone Duo. From a bread-and-butter perspective, though, the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, despite a price increase, were the highlight of the Surprise and Shine event. Apple took the opportunity to raise the prices of much of the rest of the line, though. Much of what we’re treated t...

Where’s the iPhone 18? Here’s Why Apple Didn’t Reveal a New Standard iPhone

The Apple Sept. 9 event revealed a new lineup of devices, including new Apple Watches, the new iPhone 18 Pro and the first foldable iPhone Duo, with one glaring omission: The standard iPhone 18 was nowhere to be seen. Apple didn’t comment on the absent phone, but rumors say it will come early in 2027 — and there are several reasons why the company would delay its entry-level model to next year. It’s a pivotal moment for Apple. The event was the first for new CEO John Ternus, who started his role...

Apple Is Actually Talking About AI Now — a Lot

It wasn’t that long ago that I wrote about how Apple’s reserved AI strategy is probably its best yet. By not hemorrhaging money on AI features and tools and by focusing on hardware rather than going all-in on AI, Apple positioned itself to come out ahead while its competitors beat and batter themselves to out-innovate each other in AI. Yeah, that’s out the window now. During its September “Surprise and shine” event on Wednesday at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, the company opened with a di...

Automattic’s board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of Automattic, best known as the parent company of WordPress.com, has been put on a leave of absence by his board against his will, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch. Earlier Wednesday, Mullenweg posted in a Slack channel visible to all employees that the company’s Chief Financial Officer, Mark Davies, had “conspired” with other board members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker to vote to put Mullenweg on a paid leave of absence. The mes...

OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors

Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on keeping AI systems aligned with human interests and under human control, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board, the frontier lab said Wednesday. “I now believe there is a meaningful risk that rapid acceleration in AI capabilities leads to catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very near term,” Christiano wrote in a social media post. “I do not think that the AI industry in general, including OpenAI, is currently on track to ...

Apple Wallet is not the same as Apple Pay: Here's how they differ

Apple Wallet is not the same as Apple Pay: Here's how they differ Apple Wallet and Apple Pay work together in important ways, but they aren't identical. Apple Pay and Apple Wallet have distinct functionalities, even though the two names are often used interchangeably. Apple Wallet is an iPhone app (with a companion tool for Apple Watch) that acts a digital wallet to store digital versions of debit and credit cards, auto insurance cards, boarding passes, IDs and more. Apple Pay, on the other hand...

Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent

Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent The exact circumstances surrounding the changes aren't clear. Muse, Meta's newly-released AI agent, is now using social media handles once controlled by Muse, the English rock band. The exact circumstances surrounding how the accounts changed hands are unclear, but it has once again raised questions about Meta and other large platforms' ability to commandeer usernames when it suits them. Muse, the band, which trademarked ...

Florida Sues Netflix Over Streamer’s Collection of Data From Minors

There’s really only one Florida Man on the mind of Big Tech companies lately, and that is Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier. The latest target of his tech-centric crusade is Netflix, which Florida’s lead prosecutor alleges in a lawsuit filed Wednesday misled consumers by collecting data from families including minors, and using that information to build an advertising operation that it previously promised it would never build. The 66-page complaint, filed in the Seventh Judicial Circuit Co...

‘The Apothecary Diaries’ Is Getting the Cozy Mystery Game It Was Always Destined For

The Apothecary Diaries is basically the definition of a cozy anime mystery series. It follows Maomao, a servant in the emperor’s palace in a fictional country based on Tang Dynasty-era China, as she investigates poisonings and other court intrigue among the emperor’s consorts. And if you’ve ever thought that would make a great premise for a video game, too, we have good news: that’s exactly what’s happening. Nintendo announced The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother, an upcoming adven...

South Park creators rename show 'South America'

South Park creators rename show 'South America' in apparent dig at Trump - Published The creators of South Park, the animated TV show, have announced that its new series will be named South America, in an apparent reference to US President Donald Trump's attempts to rename a lake and a gulf. "Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA," creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker wrote in a statement. Trump signed an executive orde...

Electrostatic Cathode Ray Tube Project 1 (2014)

| LabGuy's World: Electrostatic Cathode Ray Tube Project 1 Project Start - 20141030 PROJECT GOAL: Display television pictures on a small oscilloscope or radar display tube with my Tiny TV Mark 2 video rasterizer board. We will accomplish this using a three board CRT driver circuit designed by my friend Eric Schlaepfer. I had assembled his CRT driver boards several months ago. They have been awaiting the arrival of the fully debugged Tiny TV board. Adding a scope clock board kit is in the plans a...

There aren’t AirPods with cameras yet and I hope it stays that way

September Apple events are always a swirl of information and new, exciting products, and today’s was no different. Apple announced its first foldable, the iPhone Duo, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max; active noise cancellation (ANC) is now on the cheapest AirPods model, the AirPods 5; and a Siri Recap feature comes to the Watch Series 12 and Watch Ultra 4. But missing were the AirPods Pro with cameras that have been rumored throughout the year and, according to Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, a...

The black iPhone Pro returns

Apple has seen reason: It has a black model in the iPhone Pro lineup again. The black iPhone Pro returns The iPhone 18 Pro comes in four good colors, but there’s only one I care about: black. The iPhone 18 Pro comes in four good colors, but there’s only one I care about: black. Last year, Apple went bold with its colors for the iPhone 17 Pro, offering a flashy orange, a shiny silver, and a dark blue. Don’t get me wrong, they looked nice. But there was no black (or dark gray) for the first time s...

The incomplete history of Duo devices

Apple announced the company’s first device with a folding screen today, the iPhone Duo, but that’s where the firsts end. The Duo is not only far from the first foldable on the market thanks to the efforts of Samsung and Google, but it’s also not the first product to be called the Duo. The incomplete history of Duo devices Even Apple itself has a history of products called the Duo. Even Apple itself has a history of products called the Duo. Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs popularized the saying “good...

GLM-5.3: The Post-Training Revolution That's Reshaping AI Development

GLM-5.3: The Post-Training Revolution That's Reshaping AI Development How Z.ai Proved That Training Methods Matter More Than Model Size Published: September 9, 2026 | Reading time: 8 minutes The Counterintuitive Breakthrough In August 2026, Z.ai released GLM-5.3, a model that defied the conventional wisdom of AI development. With 743 billion parameters—identical to its predecessor GLM-5.2—the model achieved a 50% improvement in programming capabilities and topped global cybersecurity benchmarks,...

OpenAI’s $122 Billion Funding Round Shows Why Its Scale Matters to Businesses

OpenAI has closed a $122 billion funding round at an $852 billion post-money valuation, according to its March 31, 2026 announcement. The company also says it has reached $2 billion in monthly revenue, a sharp increase from the $1 billion per quarter it reported generating by the end of 2024. For businesses using ChatGPT or OpenAI’s developer products, the immediate takeaway is not that every AI initiative will suddenly become cheaper or easier. It is that one of the sector’s central providers i...

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: The Native Multimodal Model That's Breaking Speed Records

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: The Native Multimodal Model That's Breaking Speed Records How DeepSeek Achieved 420 Tokens/Second Without Sacrificing Accuracy Published: September 9, 2026 | Reading time: 10 minutes The Surprise Beta On September 8, 2026, DeepSeek quietly launched a beta test for V4.1 Flash, an intermediate model with the identifier deepseek-v4.1-flash-expires-on-0910 . The model name itself reveals the urgency—this beta expires on September 10, giving developers just 48 hours to test it. W...
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Installing OpenVPN on Ubuntu 24.04

OpenVPN is an open-source, full-featured VPN solution that enables secure site-to-site and point-to-point connections. OpenVPN creates encrypted tunnels using TLS (Transport Layer Security) to secure data transmission over untrusted networks such as the Internet between clients and servers. It supports multiple encryption algorithms, including AES-256, to encrypt traffic and protect network communication from man-in-the-middle and eavesdropping attacks. This guide walks through installing OpenVP...

Installing WordPress on Ubuntu 24.04

WordPress is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) built with PHP and backed by MySQL or MariaDB. It began as a blogging tool and has since grown into one of the most widely used platforms for building websites, powering over 22% of the top one million websites as of December 2024. This guide walks through installing and configuring WordPress on a server running Ubuntu 24.04 with the LEMP stack (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP). By the end, you'll have a hardened LEMP environment with Wor...

Setting Up Nginx Ingress Controller with SSL on Kubernetes

The Nginx Ingress Controller is a popular Kubernetes Ingress controller that uses Nginx as a reverse proxy and load balancer to route external traffic into a cluster, acting as a single entry point with SSL/TLS termination, load balancing, session handling, and path-based routing. This guide sets up the Nginx Ingress Controller on a Kubernetes cluster, deploys two sample applications behind it, and issues Let's Encrypt certificates with cert-manager to secure them, plus covers importing commerci...

Setting Up Argo CD on Kubernetes

Argo CD is a Kubernetes-native, declarative GitOps tool for deploying applications at scale. It pulls application manifests directly from a Git repository and syncs them to a Kubernetes cluster, supports YAML, Kustomize, Jsonnet, and Helm, and ships with a built-in web UI for monitoring sync status and application health. This guide installs Argo CD on a Kubernetes cluster, sets up access to its web UI and CLI, and deploys applications through both a YAML manifest and the Argo CD dashboard. By t...

Installing Git on Ubuntu 24.04

Git is an open-source distributed version control system used to track changes in projects and during software development. Git allows multiple contributors to simultaneously work on a single project, maintain and track the history of all changes. It enables efficient collaboration and allows developers to synchronize changes using Git-compatible platforms such as GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. This guide walks through installing and configuring Git on Ubuntu 24.04. By the end, you'll have the l...

Installing Jenkins on Rocky Linux 9

Jenkins is a popular open-source automation server for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), letting teams build, test, and deploy software with a large ecosystem of plugins. This guide installs Jenkins on Rocky Linux 9, secures the web interface behind Nginx with a Let's Encrypt SSL certificate, tunes system limits for heavier workloads, and sets up automated backups. By the end, you'll have Jenkins running securely over HTTPS with a test job verified through both the dashbo...

Kimi K3: The 2.8 Trillion Parameter AI Model That's Changing Everything

Kimi K3: The 2.8 Trillion Parameter AI Model That's Changing Everything Deep dive into China's most powerful AI model — with practical coding examples and benchmarks The Breakthrough 🎯 Kimi K3 is a 2.8 trillion parameter foundation model that's pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities. Built with proprietary KDA hybrid linear attention and attention residual mechanisms, it delivers: - 1 Million Token Context Window — Process entire codebases in one go - Native Multimodal Support — Understand te...

Deploying a Matrix Synapse Chat Server with Element on Ubuntu 22.04

Matrix is a set of open APIs for decentralized and end-to-end encrypted communication. It works across a collection of federation servers to deliver instant messages, Voice over IP (VoIP), and Internet of Things (IoT) communication in real time. Matrix uses homeservers to store account information and chat history, and federation works like email, so you can either use a server hosted by somebody else or host your own. Synapse is the homeserver implementation maintained by the Matrix.org team, a...

ChatGPT Pro Costs $200 a Month: What OpenAI’s Power Tier Means for AI Budgets

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Pro at $200 per month in December 2024, creating a high-end subscription tier for users who need sustained access to its most capable models and tools. The plan is aimed at researchers, engineers, and other power users, rather than being presented as a default purchase for every ChatGPT user. For businesses, the price is a useful reminder that the value of AI subscriptions depends less on having access to a model and more on whether that access improves a specific, repeat...

Tesla's Cybercab has no steering wheel or pedals, but a hidden touchscreen joystick may let humans drive it

Connecting the dots: Tesla's Cybercab may not have a steering wheel or pedals, but there may still be a way to drive it manually. A video posted on X shows an unusual in-car display setup: the touchscreen showing a virtual joystick that lets someone drive the robotaxi by dragging a finger across the screen. "When I got in the vehicle, the display was in a different configuration with a virtual joystick for manual driving," a rider wrote, adding that he had "a feeling I wasn't supposed to see thi...

What Shakespeare got right about AI

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The origins — the birth, lonely childhood, and adoption of software

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Apple wants the iPhone Duo to be your alarm clock. Dont take the bait.

Apple wants the iPhone Duo to be your alarm clock. Don't take the bait. Apple's new foldable iPhone Duo can do many things, including side-by-side screen multitasking and hands-free video viewing at different angles. Yet the company also pitched the $1,999 device as a "delightful bedside clock" during its Apple Event 2026 presentation on Wednesday. Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, said the Duo has the "ability to wake you up with a gentle glow timed perfect...

iPhone 18 Pro Max vs. iPhone 17 Pro Max: Everything Apple changed

iPhone 18 Pro Max vs. iPhone 17 Pro Max: Everything Apple changed At a glance: The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are $100 more expensive than last year's Pro models; pre-orders begin Sept. 12 ahead of a Sept. 18 launch. The iPhone 18 Pro features a new A20 Pro chip to better support AI features and Siri AI. While the design is largely the same, the new phones come in four color options: burgundy, black, silver, and glacier blue. Last year's iPhone 17 Pro didn't have a black option. The new phones ha...

Astrology app Co-Star to launch a dating app...for book lovers?

Astrology app Co-Star to launch a dating app...for book lovers? Weeks after announcing its sale to AI image-generator Midjourney, astrology app Co-Star revealed it's launching a dating app for book lovers called Readme. First reported on Sept. 4 in journalist Emily Sundberg's newsletter, Feed Me, Readme (unrelated to Feed Me) is for "people who read (or want to date people who read)." It's the brainchild of Co-Star's founder and CEO, Banu Guler, and strategist and cultural analyst Emily Segal. G...

We tracked down iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max, and iPhone Duo cases already available

We tracked down iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max, and iPhone Duo cases already available Table of Contents The iPhone 18 line and first foldable iPhone are officially here, which means brand new cases are, too. The first few weeks after a new phone's release can mean more limited case options. The good news? iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max phones are compatible with iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max cases. The foldable iPhone Duo, however, is another story. As the iPhone Duo size is completely unique, the case options ...

How to preorder the new Apple Watches, including the Series 12 and Ultra 4

How to preorder the new Apple Watches, including the Series 12 and Ultra 4 Table of Contents New iPhones weren't the only devices Apple announced during its "Surprise and Shine" event Wednesday. The company also revealed two upgraded smartwatches, and they're both available for preorder right away. The lineup includes the new flagship Apple Watch Series 12 and the premium rugged Apple Watch Ultra 4. (Apple didn't revisit its budget Apple Watch SE 3 this time around.) Shoppers can now purchase th...

5 Apple product launches we still expect to see in 2026

5 Apple product launches we still expect to see in 2026 On Wednesday, Apple announced a cornucopia of new products. The iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone Duo, AirPods 5, Apple Watch Series 12, and Apple Watch Ultra 4 are all coming soon, and that's very exciting. But what about after that? It turns out Apple still probably has some tricks left up its sleeve for the rest of 2026, as the rumor mill anticipates several new product launches before the end of the year. They may not all be as monumental as a fold...

Relax, Apples Polishing Cloth is compatible with the iPhone Duo

Relax, Apple's Polishing Cloth is 'compatible' with the iPhone Duo Good news, everyone! Apple's Polishing Cloth is "compatible" with the iPhone Duo. Mercifully confirmed on Apple's website, the tech giant's microfibre cloth is ready to wipe clean its first foldable smartphone, which was announced at Apple's "Surprise and Shine" event on Wednesday — among many, many things. Following the event, Apple added its new devices — iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max — to the webpage listing its...

Cant wait for the iPhone 18? T-Mobile is giving away the Apple iPhone 17 for free.

Can't wait for the iPhone 18? T-Mobile is giving away the Apple iPhone 17 for free. TL;DR: The Apple iPhone 17 is free from T-Mobile when you trade in your eligible phone on an Experience More or Experience Beyond plan. The Apple iPhone 17 Pro is also free with T-Mobile — claim by bringing your number on an Experience Beyond plan (no trade-in needed). Apple just announced a new lineup of phones, including the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, and the long-awaited folding iPhone Duo. Notably missing was...

The iPhone 18 Pro costs more — and your old iPhone is worth less

The iPhone 18 Pro costs more — and your old iPhone is worth less Apple just announced the $1,199 iPhone 18 Pro and the $1,999 foldable iPhone Duo. If you were hoping to soften those prices by trading in your current phone, however, Apple may have some bad news for you. Following its "Surprise and Shine" event, Apple updated its trade-in program and lowered the maximum amount it will pay for previously eligible iPhone models. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been re...

Apple Watch Ultra 4 announced with no price increase, new features

Apple Watch Ultra 4 announced with no price increase, new features Table of Contents Apple announced its latest rugged wearable, the Apple Watch Ultra 4, during its "Surprise and Shine" iPhone event on Wednesday. It's joined by the new flagship Apple Watch Series 12, some new AirPods, the new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, and the long-rumored foldable iPhone Duo. The Apple Watch Ultra 4 will start at $799, the same price as last year's Apple Watch Ultra 3. It also has the same design as its predece...

Where was the regular iPhone 18? The missing product in Apples event.

Where was the regular iPhone 18? The missing product in Apple's event. At Apple's "Surprise and Shine" event, newly minted CEO John Ternus unveiled the long-anticipated foldable, the iPhone Duo. Before we got to that big announcement though, Ternus and the Apple team showed off the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. The iPhone announcements ended there with no regular iPhone 18 announced. The tech giant instead focused on three premium iPhone models, with the iPhone 18 Pro starting at $1,199 and the iPh...

Apple Event 2026 recap: Everything announced, including foldable iPhone Duo

Apple Event 2026 recap: Everything announced, including foldable iPhone Duo Apple took the wraps off its latest hardware lineup today, closing the book on months of leaks, dummy units, and supply chain chatter with an event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park. The keynote marked John Ternus's first turn on stage as Apple's CEO, following Tim Cook's move to executive chairman after 15 years running the company. For his first keynote after taking charge just a week ago, Ternus made sure to mak...

Here’s what the iPhone Duo actually looks like in people’s hands

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Apple introduces variable aperture and more AI tools for creators

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Apple announces iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone

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Apple announces iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max with major camera upgrades

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iPhone 18 Pro price report: Apple confirms price hikes

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Google to Invest Record $15 Billion In AI Infrastructure In Finland

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