Marko Zivkovic (via Ric Ford, Reddit): Apple announced its plans for a new opt-in Apple Intelligence training program. In essence, users can let Apple use content from their iPhone to train AI models. The training itself happens entirely on-device, and it incorporates a privacy-preserving method known as Differential Privacy. The opt out seems to be […]

Jason Snell: It’s probably worth explaining why this feature has so many podcasters and other creators in a bit of a tizzy. Many podcasts record remotely, with people all over the world, and they usually use some sort of app to have that real-time conversation. It was Skype back in the day, and these days […]

Jeff Johnson: Wait, what? macOS Tahoe beta 2 automatically enabled FileVault and uploaded a recovery key to iCloud. I did not have a choice in the matter. First, they silently enable iCloud Keychain, then they upload your FileVault key to it without asking. Sarah Reichelt: Beta 1 did this too. I turned it off immediately. […]

Andrew Cunningham: We are not highlighting this second round of developer betas because we think you should go out and install them on the Macs, iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches that you use daily. These are still early versions, and they’re likely to have significant performance, battery, and stability problems relative to the current publicly […]

Juli Clover: Apple provided developers with the second beta of iOS 26, introducing the first changes and refinements to the new operating system since it debuted after the WWDC keynote. Because we’re early in the beta testing process, there are quite a few tweaks to iOS 26, which we’ve rounded up below. The official release […]