Apple stealthily adds minor features in iOS 17.6, macOS 14.6 releases

Apple stealthily adds minor features in iOS 17.6, macOS 14.6 releases

Enlarge / iOS 17.6 installing on an iPhone 13 Pro. Samuel Axon Apple has some minor updates for all its operating systems, and the releases include iOS 17.6, iPadOS 17.6, tvOS 17.6, watchOS 10.6, and macOS Sonoma 14.6. Apple’s notes for these updates simply say they include bug fixes, security updates, or optimizations. However, there…

Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription

Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription

Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber recently discussed the possibility of one day selling a mouse that customers can use “forever.” The executive said such a mouse isn’t “necessarily super far away” and will rely on software updates, likely delivered through a subscription model. Speaking on a July 29 episode of The Verge’s Decoder podcast, Faber, who…

Loss of popular 2FA tool puts security-minded GrapheneOS in a paradox

Loss of popular 2FA tool puts security-minded GrapheneOS in a paradox

Enlarge / Graphene is a remarkable allotrope, deserving of further study. GrapheneOS is a remarkable ROM, one that Google does not quite know how to accommodate, due to its “tiny, tiny” user numbers compared to mainstream Android. “If it’s not an official OS, we have to assume it’s bad.” That’s how Shawn Wilden, the tech…

Darkness reigns over Wikipedia as official dark mode comes to pass

Darkness reigns over Wikipedia as official dark mode comes to pass

Enlarge / Wikipedia’s decades of content can be a light to you in dark places, and now you can choose the dark for yourself. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Wikipedia Dark mode, night mode, light-on-dark design, or whatever you want to call the version of computer content that doesn’t feel blindingly bright at night,…

iOS 18.1 developer beta brings Apple Intelligence into the wild for the first time

iOS 18.1 developer beta brings Apple Intelligence into the wild for the first time

Enlarge / Apple Intelligence was unveiled at WWDC 2024. Apple As was just rumored, the iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 developer betas are rolling out today, and they include the first opportunity to try out Apple Intelligence, the company’s suite of generative AI features. Initially announced for iOS 18, Apple Intelligence is…

Apple Intelligence features reportedly won’t be ready for iOS 18’s launch this fall

Apple Intelligence features reportedly won’t be ready for iOS 18’s launch this fall

Apple Apple spent a lot of time at its Worldwide Developers Conference this year talking up the new iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15 features powered by Apple Intelligence, the brand name Apple is using for various generative AI features. But beta testers still haven’t been able to use any of these features for…

Synology BeeStation review: A great way to start getting real about backups

Synology BeeStation review: A great way to start getting real about backups

Enlarge / In this handout image from Synology, a thoughtful worker uses BeeFiles on their MacBook and BeePhotos on their iPhone, always keeping their BeeStation close at hand. They might have important thoughts about the books “Island” or “DECO” to keep stored privately, redundantly, forever. Synology Dropbox is not backup. A portable hard drive is…

X is training Grok AI on your data—here’s how to stop it

X is training Grok AI on your data—here’s how to stop it

Enlarge / An AI-generated image released by xAI during the open-weights launch of Grok-1. Elon Musk-led social media platform X is training Grok, its AI chatbot, on users’ data, and that’s opt-out, not opt-in. If you’re an X user, that means Grok is already being trained on your posts if you haven’t explicitly told it…