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Asahi Linux Officially Runs on Macs with M3 Chips
Support for the M3-series machines has landed in the Asahi Linux installer: almost everything that worked on the M1 and M2 now works here too — except for full graphics and sleep.
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Apple presents “shocking evidence” against a former employee who left for OpenAI
In its lawsuit against OpenAI, Apple claims that a former engineer used its trade secrets and, upon learning of the investigation, tried to destroy the evidence.
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Tim Cook Steps Down as Apple CEO: A “Product Builder” Takes the Helm
On his last working day as chief executive, Tim Cook sent Apple employees a farewell letter and explained why he believes in his successor, John Ternus.
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AI agent “Alice from Apple Support” tricks theft victims into handing over their device passwords
Researchers at SOCRadar have detailed the AnonyMousKIT platform — a “phishing as a service” operation that uses rented AI voice agents to call the owners of stolen iPhones in Apple's name and coax out their passcode, Apple ID credentials and one-time 2FA code.
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Apple Updates the Mac mini and Mac Studio for Local AI
Apple has unveiled new Mac mini and Mac Studio models alongside its M6 and M5 Ultra chips, openly positioning its desktops for running large language models locally.
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Apple Simplifies App Store Fees in the EU and Eases Rules for Third-Party Stores
Apple is introducing a flat 5% fee for apps distributed outside the App Store and making it easier for developers to open their own app stores — its latest attempt to make peace with EU regulators.
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Germany Forces Apple to Level Its Tracking Consent Prompts in ATT
The Bundeskartellamt has made Apple's promises to overhaul App Tracking Transparency binding: the company will no longer be able to impose stricter requirements on third-party apps than on its own.
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Apple wants a 15% cut of purchases made through external links in iOS apps
Apple has proposed to a federal court that it be allowed to charge up to a 15% commission on purchases made through external links inside iOS apps.
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macOS Screen Sharing Flaw Exploited to Mine Monero
The Dutch cybersecurity center is warning of active exploitation of an authentication-bypass vulnerability in macOS: attackers gain root access and install a cryptocurrency miner.
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Apple trained its own AI model for China together with Alibaba
Apple, according to Reuters, has developed a separate large language model for the Chinese market with support from Alibaba — a rare example of a US–China partnership in the current political climate.
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Apple Warns Spyware Victims Right on the iPhone Lock Screen
Apple has sent out a new wave of notifications to users whose devices, according to the company, have been targeted by government spyware. This time the alerts reached people in 110 countries.
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Linux 7.2: Cache-Aware Scheduler, Getting Ready for AMD Zen 6, and HDMI 2.1 FRL
The Linux 7.2 kernel release is expected on Sunday, August 16. It will form the basis of Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming distributions, and the list of new features includes a new scheduler, support for the latest AMD and Intel hardware, and the first steps toward Apple M3.
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iCloud Private Relay Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses
Researchers have uncovered a series of flaws in Apple's browser engine that cause the company's flagship privacy tool to stop hiding the user's real IP. The outlet 404 Media confirmed the leak in its own testing.
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Durov: An extortionist planted CSAM in a chat to get Telegram pulled from the App Store
Pavel Durov has explained Telegram's brief removal from Apple's store as an attack by a “takedown extortionist” who slipped banned content into a public chat.
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OpenAI Calls Apple's Trade-Secret Theft Suit ‘Aggressive and Oddly Personal’
OpenAI has publicly responded to a lawsuit in which Apple accused the startup of stealing confidential technology. The company says it holds — and wants — none of anyone else's trade secrets.
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The Memory Shortage Reaches the MacBook Air
The global shortage of memory chips, driven by the appetites of AI companies, has hit Apple's most popular computer. The next MacBook Air shipments are being pushed back to the end of August.
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Pre-auth RCE in Apple Screen Sharing: root in 60 seconds thanks to a forgotten error code
A critical vulnerability has been found in the screensharingd daemon on macOS up to version 26.5: a bug in the SRP frame-length check lets an unauthenticated attacker gain root privileges with no password and no user interaction.
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Calif throws down the gauntlet: beat Apple's MIE with two vulnerabilities
Researchers at Calif have disclosed two vulnerabilities in the SMBClient and WebDAV components of macOS and invited the community — humans, AIs and mixed teams alike — to build on them an exploit that grants root on a device with MIE protection fully enabled.
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Apple Sued Over Fake Crypto Wallet in the App Store: $1.8M in Losses
Three users accuse Apple of negligence: they downloaded a fake crypto wallet from the App Store and lost more than $1.8 million between them.
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Apple Delays Its Smart Glasses to Sort Out Privacy
According to Bloomberg, Apple has pushed the launch of its first smart glasses to late 2027 — in part to work out privacy protections and avoid repeating Meta's reputational troubles.
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