Apple under legal attack over fall detection tech

Fall detection wearable specialist UnaliWear says that Apple Watch and just about every other smartwatch ever made infringes on its fall detection patents. It's in for a long and costly battle.

William Gallagher 4 months ago 4

Highly insecure AI apps in the App Store are leaking tons of user data

Extremely poorly constructed AI apps available in the App Store are leaking the data of millions of users, a repository from a security research team has revealed.

Malcolm Owen 4 months ago 1

Make Apple give us a better deal, bank tells Australian government

Australia's Commonwealth Bank wants the country's government to force better terms on Apple for letting rivals use its Apple Pay-style NFC systems on iPhone.

William Gallagher 4 months ago 10

How to use an iPhone to take pictures of the Aurora Borealis

The biggest solar storm in 20 years will hit the Earth on January 19. 2026. Here's how to get the perfect picture of the Aurora Borealis using your iPhone.

Malcolm Owen 4 months ago 7

ChatGPT will soon start showing ads, but they won't affect its responses

OpenAI is refining the way ChatGPT functions to bring in more money, including a new $8 ChatGPT Go tier and the introduction of advertising at the bottom of queries for free users.

Malcolm Owen 4 months ago 8

In case you ever doubted it, Apple Car was real — reveals Airbnb

You could have studied literally thousands of Apple patents, you could have counted the permits it's had to be granted, or could just have waited for Airbnb to show us that Apple really, truly, was working on an Apple Car.

William Gallagher 4 months ago 22

Setapp Mobile EU app store, CleanMyMac Business both close down for good

MacPaw's third-party iOS App Store has failed in the EU, and at the same time, the company's mobile device management service is shutting down too.

William Gallagher 4 months ago 4

Grok now bans illegal porn generation, after monetizing it

Following worldwide pressure including bans in certain countries, Elon Musk's X has announced it will no longer allow Grok to create child porn and deepfake nudes. There is a catch.

William Gallagher 4 months ago 24

Apple AI research shows how MLLMs understand, generate, search for images

Apple's researchers continue to focus on multimodal LLMs, with studies exploring their use for image generation, understanding, and multi-turn web searches with cropped images.

Marko Zivkovic 4 months ago 1

Verizon wireless outage left iPhones stuck in SOS across the U.S.

Verizon customers across the U.S. experienced a wireless network outage on Wednesday that disrupted calls, texts, and mobile data.

Andrew Orr 4 months ago 1

Don't give Gemini your personal data, wait for Apple Intelligence-powered Siri

Google Gemini is now asking users to let it train on their personal email and photos, and offering up bizarre reasons why this is meant to be good. It is not, and the timing of the news is suspicious.

William Gallagher 4 months ago 33

Gemini-trained Apple Intelligence will work like other LLMs, says unsurprising report

Insider sources have confirmed what everyone already knew — Apple Foundation Models trained by Google Gemini will have LLM features seen in other AI tools.

Wesley Hilliard 4 months ago 1

GameSir X5s controller review: A bargain basement way to ditch touch controls

The GameSir X5s is one of the cheapest ways to connect a controller to your iPhone, and is worth consideration even with all of the compromises baked in.

Oliver Haslam 4 months ago 0

End-to-end encryption for RCS messages surfaces in iOS 26.3 beta

Code hints in the latest iOS 26.3 developer beta indicate end-to-end encryption is finally coming to RCS messaging on iOS.

Malcolm Owen 4 months ago 5

'Are You Dead?' iOS app helps lonely people stay safe in China

The morbidly-named "Are You Dead?" has topped the App Store in China, as a way for people living alone to get some help if they don't check in every day. Here's how it works.

Malcolm Owen 5 months ago 6

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