EU tech chief and Tim Cook hold ‘constructive’ talks as Siri AI stays blocked in Europe
EU tech chief and Tim Cook hold ‘constructive’ talks as Siri AI stays blocked in Europe

Apple chief executive Tim Cook and the European Union’s technology chief spoke by video call on Monday, and both sides came away describing the exchange as “constructive”. That word is doing a lot of work. Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen, who …

Apple Creator Studio adds AI tools across Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro and Pixelmator Pro

Apple Creator Studio has received a major AI update, adding automatic captions, edit detection, Auto Mask, image generation, and tighter workflows between Apple’s creative apps.

Supreme Court will hear Apple’s appeal over the App Store contempt finding in Epic case
Supreme Court will hear Apple’s appeal over the App Store contempt finding in Epic case

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear Apple’s appeal of the contempt finding in its long-running legal battle with Epic Games over App Store fees. The justices will review lower court decisions that found Apple willfully defied a 2021 order re…

iPhone 18 Pro ‘drop test’ leaks get yanked from X
iPhone 18 Pro ‘drop test’ leaks get yanked from X

Videos purporting to show the iPhone 18 Pro undergoing a drop test were removed from X shortly after they surfaced, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. An account imitating leaker EvLeaks was suspended from X after sharing the clips, while the post was removed as well, with X saying it “violated” the platform’s rules. Another leaker, […]

Apple and Google sat for discussions to unlock 50W wireless charging for smartphones

The next major leap in wireless charging may not come from a flashy smartphone launch, but from behind closed doors where some of the biggest names in the tech industry are working together, according to an ITHome report. Apple, Google, Xiaomi, and sev…

Apple says it is shipping security updates early as AI speeds up hacking
Apple says it is shipping security updates early as AI speeds up hacking

For years Apple released most of its security fixes the way it releases everything else, on a schedule, bundled into the next big version of iOS and delivered when the company was ready rather than when the flaw was found. That timetable now has a new …

UK regulator proposes letting developers steer users off Apple and Google payments
UK regulator proposes letting developers steer users off Apple and Google payments

Britain’s competition regulator has decided that the cheapest place to buy a digital subscription should not be the one place an app is forbidden from mentioning. On Tuesday the Competition and Markets Authority proposed allowing UK app developers to s…

iPhone 18 Pro supplier list and parts exposed in Tata data leak
iPhone 18 Pro supplier list and parts exposed in Tata data leak

The most tightly held document in consumer electronics is the bill of materials, and a chunk of Apple’s appears to be sitting on the dark web. Files posted by the ransomware group World Leaks contain component lists, supplier names, and photographs tie…

The iPhone 18 Pro just leaked through a factory drop test, and Apple cannot be thrilled

Leaked iPhone 18 Pro drop-test photos and component files reportedly surfaced through a Tata Electronics breach, exposing sensitive Apple supplier details before launch.

iPhone 18 Pro images are already floating on the dark web with a whole bunch of other Apple secrets

Confidential iPhone 18 Pro photos and supplier documents have surfaced on the dark web following a cyberattack on Apple supplier Tata Electronics.