Apple finds another use for USB-C – a cheaper Pencil It’s also shorter, lousy under pressure, and needs a dongle on the cheapest iPad Personal Tech18 Oct 2023 | 5
Apple and Lenovo are dropping the ball for visually impaired users Accessibility features help everybody… and one day, you might need them too Personal Tech16 Oct 2023 | 19
Three dozen plaintiffs join Apple AirTag tracking lawsuit in amended complaint 38 people now accusing Apple of negligence over stalking, assaults and murders enabled by Bluetooth trackers Legal13 Oct 2023 | 19
Your phone's cracked screen may one day heal itself, but try not to drop it for now Analysts 'put stake in the ground' to say tech will hit market in matter of years Personal Tech11 Oct 2023 | 18
Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone Bernstein estimates value of agreement, warns it and similar deals may end if DoJ wins antitrust case Personal Tech10 Oct 2023 | 12
Forcing Apple to allow third-party app stores isn't enough Opinion You're excited about Meta offering iOS apps via Facebook ads? Really? Applications09 Oct 2023 | 74
Apple antique aficionados can boot to the future with OpenCore Legacy Patcher FOSS Fest Hackintoshing reaches a wider audience – owners of older Macs OSes09 Oct 2023 | 19
Apple pays $500K to make sales bods' complaint about wage theft go away About four minutes of quarterly profit, and it's settled Personal Tech06 Oct 2023 | 6
Another security update, Apple? You're really keeping up with your tech rivals Zero day? More like every day, amirite? Patches05 Oct 2023 | 3
$17k solid gold Apple Watch goes from Beyoncé's wrist to the obsolete list You can't bling out the inevitable Personal Tech03 Oct 2023 | 61
Apple blames iOS 17 bug for overheating iPhone 15 woes Updated Fixes about to flow, perhaps along with an iSearch engine Personal Tech03 Oct 2023 | 43
iPhone 15 is too hot to handle – and not in any good way Influencers offer smouldering looks, analysts wonder if TSMC-fabbed silicon can take the heat Personal Tech29 Sep 2023 | 32
Epic cut: Fortnite games maker culls 16% of staff That partial victory against Apple is seeming more pyrrhic by the day Personal Tech28 Sep 2023 | 15
Chip firm accused of IP theft bites back, claims Apple's contracts are rotten iGiant says Rivos poached talent and SoC designs in '22 Systems26 Sep 2023 | 16
Teardown reveals iPhone 15 to be series of questionable design decisions Video High cost and hard to work with? Yep, that's Apple all over Personal Tech26 Sep 2023 | 54
Apple squashes security bugs after iPhone flaws exploited by Predator spyware Holes in iOS, macOS and more fixed following tip off from Google, Citizen Lab Cybersecurity Month22 Sep 2023 | 6
The iPhone 15 has a Goldilocks issue: Too big or too small. Maybe a case will make it just right Quick look Fanboi numbers are well down – but Apple's queueing system, rather than apathy, is likely the cause Personal Tech22 Sep 2023 | 83
Call me an Apple fan, says Huawei founder and chief exec Ren Zhengfei says he still takes lessons from American rival Offbeat21 Sep 2023 | 8
Apple pairs well with profits, not repair shops iFixit demotes iPhone 14 from 7/10 to 4 after reality of software locks hit home Personal Tech20 Sep 2023 | 28
AWS spins up more cloudy Mac Minis, now with M2 Pro silicon Andy Jassy's rent-a-Macs have no love for the vanilla M2, and the Max and Ultra aren't used in the Mini PaaS + IaaS20 Sep 2023 | 10
China kind-of-mostly denies it’s banned iPhones from use in government Security is important, so is fair trade, says Foreign Ministry Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 5
US Department of Justice claims Google bought its way to web search dominance We're just better, says Big G Off-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 28
iPhone 12 deemed too hot to handle for France's radiation standards Watchdog worries over electromagnetic waves, Apple disagrees Personal Tech13 Sep 2023 | 38
Portable Large Language Models – not the iPhone 15 – are the future of the smartphone Column Personal AI can redefine the handheld experience and perhaps preserve privacy too Personal Tech13 Sep 2023 | 65
Lightning struck: Apple switches to USB-C for iPhone 15 lineup Video Thanks, Europe. Couldn't have done it without EU Personal Tech12 Sep 2023 | 104
Chrome, Firefox and more caught with their WebP down, offer hasty patch-up Updated Exploit observed in the wild against codec lib in browsers, apps Patches12 Sep 2023 | 10
Apple extends Qualcomm contract to 2026 as homebrew 5G chip dream still on snooze Chipmaker reigns supreme, at least until iGiant gets its house in order Systems12 Sep 2023 | 11
China iPhone curbs reportedly extend to local government and state-owned businesses Asia In Brief ALSO: Alibaba Cloud succession plan overturned; Fujtisu’s Thai takeaway; Australia takes on PayPal Legal11 Sep 2023 | 7
Apple races to patch the latest zero-day iPhone exploit No user interaction needed for this one as Pegasus turns up via iMessage Cyber-crime08 Sep 2023 | 50
China reportedly bans iPhones from more government offices Analysis So what? Smartphones are routinely restricted in, or excluded from, sensitive locations Security07 Sep 2023 | 19
Apple security boss faces iPads-for-gun-permits bribery charge... again 'We will continue fighting this case' global chief's lawyer tells us Security29 Aug 2023 | 12
Reports of the PC's death are greatly exaggerated, says IDC Demand may be 'tepid at best' but analyst sees return to pre-2019 levels next year Personal Tech29 Aug 2023 | 8
After years of fighting Right to Repair, Apple U-turns-ish in California 'It feels like the Berlin Wall of tech repair monopolies is starting to crumble, brick by brick' Personal Tech24 Aug 2023 | 27
Apple's defense against apps vandalizing other apps still broken, developer claims Updated Cupertino appears to be blasé about long-standing macOS bug, so coder has blabbed Research22 Aug 2023 | 17
Lost voices, ignored words: Apple's speech recognition needs urgent reform Opinion A plea for improvements for disabled people who rely on accessibility features Personal Tech16 Aug 2023 | 32
Charging your iPhone literally costs Apple millions as Batterygate saga slams shut Estimated payments of $65 can now be distributed to those who filed a claim in 2018 lawsuit Personal Tech15 Aug 2023 | 23
There's a good chance your VPN is vulnerable to privacy-menacing TunnelCrack attack Especially on Apple gear, uni team says Research10 Aug 2023 | 25
Epic snub by Supreme Court in battle to escape Apple App Store payment prison This fight over IAP is getting, dare we say, unreal Edge + IoT10 Aug 2023 | 7
Apple, Samsung, and Intel to invest in Arm IPO, and emerge with some control: report SoftBank CFO says news of float is imminent, suggests firm will keep a solid chunk On-Prem09 Aug 2023 | 19
India hits pause on import ban after Apple and Samsung pull out Asia in brief ALSO: That's not a limp, that's 68 iPhones strapped to your body; Malaysia scores giant fab; Phishing phlops in Hong Kong; and more On-Prem07 Aug 2023 | 3
Read lips? Siri wants to feel them, according to fresh Apple patent We make movements when we talk, and gyro, accelerometer and sensor tech could improve speech recog Personal Tech04 Aug 2023 | 10
Arc: A radical fresh take on the web browser In an industry that runs on hype, this might just live up to it Applications31 Jul 2023 | 123
Apple demands app makers explain use of sensitive APIs Privacy ritual aims to deter fingerprinting of the iFaithful Applications29 Jul 2023 | 27
On the record: Apple bags patent for iDevice to play LPs From Norman Cook to Tim Cook Bootnotes28 Jul 2023 | 81
Apple patches exploited bugs in iPhones plus other holes One spotted by Amnesty International - wonder what that was used for? Patches25 Jul 2023 | 13
Apple owes Brit iOS app devs millions from excessively high commission, lawsuit claims Lawyers look to scale the walled garden Applications25 Jul 2023 | 21
Ultra-rare Apple sneakers from the 1990s on sale for $50,000 Meanwhile, Einstein dismantles the creation myth in $125,000 letter Offbeat24 Jul 2023 | 53
Someone just blew over $190k on a 4GB first-gen iPhone Could've sworn that came out yesterday Offbeat18 Jul 2023 | 70
Apple seeks patent for devices with roll-up displays – iRoll? There's never been a fruit winder like this before Personal Tech17 Jul 2023 | 17
Miscreants exploit five Microsoft bugs as Windows giant addresses 130 flaws Patch Tuesday Plus: Apple bungles another rapid security response; important ICS updates land; and more Patches11 Jul 2023 | 14
Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $60,000 vinyl turntable Ive got a bad feeling about this Offbeat10 Jul 2023 | 241
UK court sides with Optis Cellular Technology in Apple 4G patent clash Appeal rejected: iPhone and iPad have infringing components inside Networks06 Jul 2023 | 3
Now Apple takes a bite out of encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law Not the iPhone maker's first think-of-the-children rodeo Security29 Jun 2023 | 125
Oh, wow. OK. Apple really is making a $3.5K VR ski-mask. Dev tools are now out for it They weren't kidding about this facial, er, spatial computing thing Software22 Jun 2023 | 31
Apple squashes kernel bug used by TriangleDB spyware Snoops may be targeting macOS in addition to iPhones, Kaspersky says Patches21 Jun 2023 | 3
Apple stomped all over NYC store workers' union rights, judge rules Staff show up with the receipts – video footage of law-breaking bosses Personal Tech21 Jun 2023 | 30
Japan unleashes regulation Kaiju on Apple's and Google's app store monopolies Digital Competition Conf wants rift in markets to allow new app-slingers to spawn Legal19 Jun 2023 | 14
Microsoft remembers it was going to bring Windows 11 to HoloLens While Apple has Vision Pro, Redmond's taking vision slow? OSes15 Jun 2023 | 6
What do we make of the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro? It doesn't take a magic leap to guess Register Kettle Tune in and hear us human-not-AI vultures get meta on the news Personal Tech07 Jun 2023 | 7
About ducking time: Apple fixes up autocorrect in iOS 17 WWDC And makes developer-grade OS betas available to all ducking loyalists OSes07 Jun 2023 | 15
Google snubbed JPEG XL so of course Apple now supports it in Safari Chocolate Factory under pressure to reverse decision to abandon image format Applications07 Jun 2023 | 54
M2 Ultra chip lands in 'cheese grater' Mac Pro to displace Apple's last Intel holdout WWDC Workstations boosted, MacBook Air embiggened, iOS embraces web apps, and all the rest of Cupertino's new stuff Personal Tech06 Jun 2023 | 44