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I upgraded to an Apple Watch Series 12 last week, and so far after a few days of testing there are three standout features for me.

Apple Wallet driver’s licenses recently launched in Virginia and Oklahoma, but three more states are expected to follow soon, bringing us close to 20 US states on board.

The highly anticipated Beats 360 are now available for purchase. After being teased prior to the World Cup, Apple’s latest pair of Beats headphones are now on the market. I got an early hands-on with them, and they’re quite an interesting product offering that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed using – though they have one key flaw: no wired connectivity, which will bother some more than others.

Apple shares briefly reached $345.34 moments after the market opened today, surpassing July’s intraday record of $344.57. Here are the details.

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Meta has spent the last two weeks telling anyone who’ll listen how secure its new Muse personal AI agent is. The company boasted about its dedicated Secure VM, a monitoring system called Sentinel, and bug bounty rewards of up to $300,000. Mark Zuckerberg himself even publicly stated the agent is “built from the ground up for privacy and security.”

Then Patrick Wardle, macOS security researcher and friend of Security Bite, found a 0-day vulnerability in the Muse app on Mac that made the last 24 hours particularly not-a-musing (what Wardle comically named the finding).

PITAKA’s iPhone 18 Pro cases bring new colors, updated materials, and three different approaches to protecting your next iPhone. Whether you prefer a barely-there shell or a case with reinforced corners, the new lineup builds on the company’s signature woven aramid fiber design with style.

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iOS 27 has arrived, with Siri AI and new Apple Intelligence features as big highlights. But one of my favorite features is a convenient addition for quickly pasting items from your iPhone’s clipboard. Here’s how it works.

When Apple released the M4 Mac mini two years ago, teardowns quickly revealed a pleasant surprise: the internal SSD was not soldered to the logic board. This allowed for aftermarket storage upgrades, and we even showed you how to do it.

With the new M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini updates, however, it appears the storage is soldered to the logic board once again.

Ron Johnson, Apple’s former senior vice president of retail operations, is out with a new book today called ‘Shop Different: How Retail Revealed Apple’s Genius.’

In the book, Johnson tells the story of working alongside Steve Jobs to craft Apple’s retail strategy.

One of the best things about Apple’s CarPlay platform is the robust availability of third-party apps from iPhone. This week, RadarScope, the popular and powerful iPhone weather app, was updated with support for CarPlay.

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Apple is opening a new live music venue in Battersea Power Station, London. The new location is called Apple Music Hall, and even has its own website where fans can sign up to get alerted when the first tickets are available.

The 600-person capacity venue will be the stage for intimate one-show-only concerts by artists, which will also be live-streamed for all Apple Music subscribers to enjoy.

There’s an annoying little iPhone notification glitch impacting some users on iOS 27. For those affected, the Settings app gets a red badge prompting an alert to ‘Activate iCloud Storage’.

However, tapping on this alert simply navigates to the iCloud storage purchase screen and the alert does not go away after dismissing it. This glitched notification appears even when the user has plenty of available iCloud storage already, like if they are on a 2 TB family Apple One plan.

If you’ve been missing the double-click of the Digital Crown that used to bring up the App Switcher on the Apple Watch before watchOS 27, it looks like the feature is making a comeback as of watchOS 27.2 beta 2. Here are the details.

Apple has asked the court overseeing its lawsuit against OpenAI and other defendants to let its own experts review forensic images used in the case, while also seeking documents related to parts of OpenAI’s hardware R&D. Here are the details.

Despite headlines to the contrary, GM isn’t changing its position on CarPlay and Android Auto support. The automaker is not bringing phone projection support back to any cars from which it has already been removed. Here’s what’s really happening.

Apple today stopped signing iOS 26.6.2, which means iPhone users can no longer downgrade to non-iOS 27 system versions. Here’s why.

Following WhatsApp’s initial limited rollout of emoji reactions on the Apple Watch, the app is now rolling out support for the full set of emojis available on watchOS. Here are the details.

Apple continues to work on a feature that automatically locks an iPhone when it detects that the device has been snatched from its owner’s hand. Here are the details.

Following the release of Xcode 27.1 beta 1 last week, Bitrig has added support for building and testing iPhone Duo apps, complete with an interactive 3D simulator that lets developers fold, tilt, rotate, and position the device however they want. Here are the details.

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Apple Notes in iOS 27 adds a variety of new features, including one that power users are sure to appreciate: section links.

Apple’s all-new M6 Mac mini, M5 Pro mini, and Mac Studio officially release tomorrow and, alongside the early pre-order deals on most of them, we are taking a look at some of our favorite Mac accessories here today. 

Counterpoint Research says global AI glasses shipments surged 263% during the first half of 2026, with Meta comfortably leading the display-less segment amid growing privacy concerns. Here are the details.