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140 articlesLast updated 2026-09-22 00:31 UTC
us finance 6 21h ago 4 min read

Apple Opens $250 Million Siri Settlement Claims, iPhone Owners Can File for Up to $95

Apple started taking claims Monday in a $250 million settlement over Siri features it advertised but didn't deliver on time. Owners of iPhone 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max, and every iPhone 16 model bought between June 2024 and March 2025 have until December 21, 2026 to file, but Apple admits no wrongdoing and nobody sees a check until 2027 at the earliest.

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us tech 4 1d ago 3 min read

Apple and Google Post Job Listings Seeking Stablecoin and Tokenization Experts

Apple and Google both listed stablecoin, tokenized deposit, and blockchain expertise as preferred qualifications in payments-related job postings this month. Samsung did the same on September 18. None of the three companies has announced an actual stablecoin product, but the hiring language marks a shift from vague 'digital finance' talk to explicit blockchain payment infrastructure.

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us finance 6 2d ago 4 min read

Kalshi, Coinbase and Kraken's Parent File Same-Day Bids for Never-Expiring Futures on Apple, Tesla and Nvidia Stock

Kalshi, Coinbase Derivatives and Kraken parent Payward all filed with federal regulators on September 18 to launch perpetual futures on individual US stocks, a no-expiration derivative already common in crypto trading. None of the products has been approved, and the filings land just three days after a Senate crypto market-structure bill collapsed.

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gb tech 7 3d ago 4 min read

Apple and Privacy Groups Tell UK Tribunal: Stop Denying You Ordered an iCloud Backdoor

Apple, Liberty and Privacy International told London's Investigatory Powers Tribunal on Thursday that the Home Office's refusal to confirm or deny its secret encryption order is 'farcical' since the order has been public knowledge for over a year. The government says confirming it would help terrorists and hostile states, but the tribunal already let the case proceed openly once before. A ruling on the secrecy question is expected later, with a full hearing on the underlying order unlikely before 2027.

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us tech 5 5d ago 3 min read

Apple Reportedly Building an Enterprise AI Server With Its Own M8 Ultra Chips, Eyeing 2029

The Information reports Apple is developing a business AI server built on future M8 Ultra chips, its first server product since the Xserve died in 2011. Nothing ships before 2029, the project could still get killed, and Apple hasn't confirmed a word of it publicly.

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us tech 6 Sep 15 4 min read

Apple Files Supreme Court Brief Fighting Contempt Ruling Over App Store Fees, No Argument Expected Before 2027

Apple filed its opening merits brief at the Supreme Court on Monday, September 14, 2026, arguing it can't be held in contempt for charging commissions an injunction never mentioned. Epic Games has until November 13 to respond, and the docket shows no argument date yet, meaning developers keep operating under the current zero-commission rule on external purchase links for a while longer.

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us tech 6 Sep 15 4 min read

Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI Drop Apple From Antitrust Suit, Keep Pressing OpenAI Monopoly Claims

Elon Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI told a Texas federal court Monday they've resolved their claims against Apple in the year-old AI antitrust suit, dismissing them with prejudice and no explanation. OpenAI stays in the fight alone, now demanding to see the Apple settlement terms before a summary judgment deadline hits.

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cn tech 7 Sep 15 4 min read

Apple Releases iOS 27 With Siri AI in Beta, Running Partly on Google's Cloud and Gemini Models

Apple shipped iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate and related updates today, September 14, 2026, headlined by a rebuilt Siri AI assistant that's still in beta and requires a waitlist. The assistant leans on Apple's own models plus Google Cloud infrastructure and Gemini-assisted development, and it won't work in the EU or China at launch.

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us tech 7 Sep 9 3 min read

Apple Unveils iPhone Duo Foldable at $1,999, Skips Base iPhone 18 in Ternus's First Keynote

Apple held its 'Surprise and Shine' event Wednesday, revealing the iPhone Duo foldable at $1,999, the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, new AirPods and Apple Watches, and no vanilla iPhone 18. New CEO John Ternus ran his first keynote since replacing Tim Cook, and the promised home hub and Apple TV box never showed up.

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us tech 3 Sep 9 3 min read

Samsung Ends Update Support for Galaxy Z Fold 3, Flip 3 and Watch 4 as Apple's First Foldable iPhone Looms

Samsung has pulled the Galaxy Z Fold 3, Z Flip 3, and Galaxy Watch 4 series from its security update list after five years, fulfilling the support window it promised at launch. The cutoff lands the same week Amazon dropped the newer Galaxy Z Fold 8 to $1,849.99 and Apple was set to unveil its first foldable iPhone this afternoon, with TrendForce estimating a $2,099 to $2,299 starting price.

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gb tech 7 Sep 9 4 min read

UK Government Commits to Legislation Forcing Apple and Google to Block Nude Images on Kids' Phones

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told Parliament on Tuesday that a three-month deadline for Apple and Google to block nude images on children's devices had passed without a deal, and the government will now draft legislation. The plan sounds obvious: kids shouldn't be able to take or send nude selfies on a phone. The harder questions, how it gets built, how fast it becomes law, and what it means for privacy, are still unanswered.

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us tech 6 Sep 8 4 min read

Apple's First Ternus-Era Event Arrives Wednesday: Foldable iPhone Ultra Priced Above $2,000, No Cheap Model Until 2027

Since John Ternus took over as Apple's CEO from Tim Cook on September 1, his first product event lands Wednesday, September 9, with three high-end iPhones and zero budget options. The foldable iPhone Ultra is expected to start near $1,999 to $2,299, and analysts still disagree on whether it ships alongside the Pro models or gets delayed like the iPhone X did in 2017.

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us finance 6 Sep 8 4 min read

Inflation Data, Oracle Earnings and Apple's New CEO Test Define Holiday-Shortened Trading Week

Markets return from Labor Day into a four-day week built around Thursday's PPI and Friday's CPI, both feeding directly into the Fed's September 15-16 meeting. Oracle reports earnings Tuesday, Apple holds its iPhone launch under new CEO John Ternus, and the CME FedWatch tool has traders pricing roughly a 60% chance of a rate hike, not a cut.

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us tech 6 Sep 7 4 min read

Huawei Unveils $2,980 Trifold Phone Two Days Before Apple's Foldable iPhone Reveal

Huawei launched its Mate XT 2 trifold smartphone on Monday, September 7, with Xiaomi's 18 Fold arriving the same day, both landing just before Apple's September 9 event where a foldable iPhone is expected. The bigger story isn't the fold, it's the chip inside: Huawei says its new Kirin 9050 Pro was built under a homegrown design approach meant to route around U.S. export controls that were supposed to keep this exact thing from happening.

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us tech 5 Sep 7 3 min read

Phil Schiller Steps Down From App Store as Apple Pushes to Raise Margins, Bloomberg Reports

Longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller handed off leadership of the App Store and Apple's product events last week, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. He says Schiller didn't want to be the guy squeezing more revenue out of developers just as new CEO John Ternus and services chief Eddy Cue look to do exactly that.

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us tech 6 Sep 5 4 min read

Kai-Fu Lee Says US-China AI Gap Has Shrunk to Six Months, Calls It an iPhone vs Android Race

Kai-Fu Lee, the former Google China chief who now runs 01.AI, told Bloomberg's Mishal Husain that Chinese AI labs have closed a three-to-four-year gap with US rivals down to about six months, using a fraction of the GPU power. His framing: OpenAI and Anthropic built the iPhone, Chinese labs are building Android, and Android usually wins on reach even if it doesn't win on margin.

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gb finance 7 Sep 4 3 min read

Apple Faces $2.7 Billion UK Lawsuit Claiming App Tracking Rules Favored Its Own Ads

A former UK antitrust regulator filed a £2 billion ($2.7 billion) lawsuit against Apple on Thursday, claiming its App Tracking Transparency rules were tougher on outside developers than on Apple's own advertising business. Apple says the rules apply equally to everyone. This is Apple's third ATT-related fight before London's Competition Appeal Tribunal, and it still needs to be certified before it goes anywhere.

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us tech 7 Sep 1 4 min read

New Apple CEO John Ternus Sends First Staff Memo, Teases 'Huge Launch Next Week' While Inheriting an AI Catch-Up Fight

John Ternus, who formally became Apple's second CEO of the millennium on Tuesday, sent his first staff memo pointing straight at the September 9 iPhone event. Behind the celebratory tone sits a harder problem: Apple is still playing catch-up on AI, leaning on a Google Gemini deal Ternus didn't negotiate, and passing memory-chip price hikes on to customers.

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us tech 8 Sep 1 4 min read

Apple's John Ternus Takes Over as CEO, Immediately Points Staff Toward September 9 iPhone Event

Tim Cook's 15-year run as Apple CEO ended Tuesday, and hardware chief John Ternus sent his first staff memo hyping next week's iPhone launch. Ternus inherits a $4.6 trillion company facing a memory-chip price crunch, an AI strategy leaning on rival Google's Gemini, and zero public track record on the regulatory fights Apple can't avoid.

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us tech 6 Sep 1 4 min read

Apple Says Ex-Engineer's MacBook Backs Claim That Stolen Circuit Files Were Used at OpenAI

Apple's Aug. 31 court filing says forensic analysis of a former engineer's laptop shows he downloaded and used a confidential Apple circuit schematic while working at OpenAI, then told a colleague to destroy evidence once he learned Apple was investigating. OpenAI calls the whole case "a mess of Apple's own making" and blames Apple's own security practices, so a judge will have to sort out who's right come October.

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us tech 5 Aug 30 3 min read

Nvidia Unveils RTX Spark Chip to Challenge Apple's Grip on On-Device AI

Nvidia's new Arm-based RTX Spark superchip, shown at Computex Taipei, runs 120-billion-parameter AI models locally on laptops costing $3,000 to $4,000, directly targeting the on-device AI market Apple's M-series chips have owned for years. Nvidia hasn't named Apple as its rival, but the specs and pricing tell a different story.

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us tech 7 Aug 30 3 min read

Tim Cook Hands Apple to John Ternus Tuesday. Wall Street Asks If Apple Repeats Amazon's Post-Bezos Stock Slump

Tim Cook's 15-year run as Apple CEO ends Tuesday, September 1, when John Ternus takes over and Cook shifts to executive chairman. The Motley Fool's Reuben Gregg Brewer is floating a comparison to Amazon, whose stock badly lagged the Nasdaq-100 and S&P 500 since Jeff Bezos left the top job in 2021. It's a fair question to ask, but it's speculation dressed as analysis, and Apple's stock sitting within 10% of its all-time high says the market isn't buying the doom scenario yet.

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us tech 7 Aug 30 4 min read

Apple's John Ternus Takes Over as CEO Tuesday, and Bloomberg Reports He's Already Planning a Management Shake-Up

John Ternus officially becomes Apple's CEO on Tuesday, September 1, with Tim Cook shifting to executive chairman after 15 years. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Ternus is preparing to overhaul a management team that has run Apple's culture for decades, on top of a design-team reshuffle already underway. The bigger question investors want answered: can a hardware engineer fix Apple's AI problem.

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us economy 6 Aug 30 4 min read

Apple's $60 Billion Texas Manufacturing Pledge Leans Heavily on Foxconn's Capital, Not Apple's

Since the Houston Advanced Manufacturing Center opened August 13, Apple and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have touted a $60 billion Texas commitment as Tim Cook's last big move before handing the CEO job to John Ternus on September 1. CNBC's reporting shows a lot of that money is Foxconn's factory investment, not Apple's, while Apple reportedly keeps testing a Chinese chip supplier the same administration could restrict.")

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us tech 4 Aug 29 3 min read

Apple Raises Apple TV Price to $14.99 a Month, Tripling the 2019 Launch Cost

Apple hiked Apple TV's monthly price from $12.99 to $14.99 and the annual plan from $99 to $119, effective Friday, August 28. It's the fourth increase in four years, and the Apple One individual bundle went up too. Streaming got more content, more sports, and now a much bigger bill.

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us tech 5 Aug 25 4 min read

Apple Puts Its First 2-Nanometer Chip in a $899 Mac Mini, Ships Its Priciest Mac Studio Yet

Apple rolled out new Mac mini and Mac Studio models on Tuesday with the M6 and M5 Ultra chips, both built for running AI models locally. The Mac mini's starting price has jumped from $599 to $899 over the past year, and Apple points to rising memory chip costs as the reason. Both machines ship September 22, 2026.

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us finance 6 Aug 23 3 min read

Apple's $877 Billion Buyback Machine Hits a CEO Change on September 1

Tim Cook has spent $877 billion buying back Apple stock since 2011, shrinking the share count by 44% and juicing every remaining share's claim on the company. Cook hands the CEO job to John Ternus on September 1, 2026, and the only real question is whether Apple keeps writing nine-figure buyback checks or starts spending on something else.

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us tech 6 Aug 22 4 min read

Apple Cuts Over 200 Jobs From Vision Pro and Siri Teams, Pivots to Smart Glasses

Apple eliminated more than 200 positions this week, roughly 100 from the Vision Pro group and 100 from Siri and software teams, according to Bloomberg. The headset's gaming unit is being shut down and immersive video production is shrinking as Apple redirects money toward AI and cheaper smart glasses that can actually compete with Meta's $299 product.

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us tech 6 Aug 21 4 min read

Walmart Ends Decade-Long Refusal to Accept Apple Pay and Google Pay

Starting Monday, August 24, Walmart will accept Apple Pay and Google Pay at select stores, ending 12 years of stubbornly pushing its own QR-code system on customers who wanted to just tap their phone. Full rollout hits all U.S. stores by the end of 2026, gas stations by mid-2027. This is a company finally admitting the market won.

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us finance 6 Aug 21 4 min read

Apple Paid Ireland $17.1 Billion in Taxes Last Year, 40% of Its Entire Global Bill

New EU disclosure filings show Apple paid $17.1 billion in taxes to Ireland in fiscal 2025, nearly 40% of its $43.2 billion worldwide total. Most of that was a one-time reckoning from a 2024 European Court of Justice ruling that Ireland illegally let Apple dodge taxes for over a decade. Ireland fought to keep the money away and lost anyway.

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us tech 6 Aug 21 4 min read

Nine Lawsuits Accuse Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Samsung of Harvesting Voices for AI Without Consent

Chicago journalists, podcasters and voice actors filed nine lawsuits in mid-May 2026 accusing nine tech giants of scraping their voice recordings to train AI models without permission, using Illinois' biometric privacy law. The companies have moved to dismiss, arguing no concrete harm was shown, while the plaintiffs' firm calls it one of the biggest biometric privacy violations ever attempted.

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us tech 2 Aug 19 3 min read

Apple's Screen Time Tool Has Loopholes. Parents Relying On It Alone Should Know That

Apple's Screen Time feature, built into every iPhone, can fail to block kids from apps because of sync errors, missing passcodes, and built-in exceptions parents don't know exist, according to a guide from family-safety app maker Findmykids. This isn't necessarily a bug Apple is hiding — it's a design with real gaps, and parents who assume Screen Time alone is bulletproof should check their settings.

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us tech 7 Aug 19 4 min read

Apple Cuts EU App Store Fees After Regulator Fight, While Proposing Higher Rate to US Judge

Apple announced on August 18 a new EU fee structure that drops its old per-install charge for a flat 5% Core Technology Commission, ending a standoff with the European Commission. Five days earlier, Apple told a US federal judge it wants to charge up to 15% for the same kind of external purchases, a gap developers and legal scholars are now pointing at directly. Both numbers are landing in front of regulators and a judge who have already caught Apple gaming the rules once.

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us politics 7 Aug 18 4 min read

Maryland Tax Court Kills Digital Ad Tax, Orders State to Refund $535.5 Million to Apple, Google and Peacock

The Maryland Tax Court ruled on August 14 that the state's first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax violates federal law and the U.S. Constitution, ordering refunds with interest to Apple, Google and Peacock TV. Comptroller Brooke Lierman is signaling an appeal, but the ruling is already spooking lawmakers in Illinois and Pennsylvania who copied Maryland's playbook. Government tried to tax Big Tech's ad revenue and got smacked down by its own tax court. Taxpayers win, for now.

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us tech 5 Aug 18 3 min read

Apple's iOS 26.6.1 Patches 29 Security Flaws, None Yet Exploited

Apple released iOS 26.6.1, iPadOS 26.6.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 on Monday, August 17, fixing 29 vulnerabilities, most in WebKit. Apple says none were exploited before the patch, but that's not a reason to sit on your hands. Update your device.

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cn tech 7 Aug 17 4 min read

Apple Built Its Own AI Model for China, With Alibaba's Help, Reuters Reports

Apple trained a proprietary large language model just for the Chinese market, developed with technical support from Alibaba, according to Reuters. It would make Apple the first foreign company Beijing has cleared to run its own AI model in China, a notable exception carved out for a market Apple can't afford to lose.

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us economy 7 Aug 15 3 min read

Lutnick Tells Apple to Drop Chinese Memory Chip Plans, Cook Keeps Options Open

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he told Apple directly that it should not buy memory chips from Chinese makers CXMT and YMTC, both flagged by the Pentagon over alleged military ties. Apple hasn't confirmed anything, but its own COO says the company is still weighing all options as memory prices spike. This is a straight-up standoff between a cabinet official's public red line and a company that hasn't said it's backing down.

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us tech 7 Aug 14 4 min read

Apple Proposes 5-to-15% Fee on Purchases Made Outside the App Store

Apple filed its court-ordered fee proposal Thursday, offering 15% on standard app link-out purchases, 10% for partner programs and subscription renewals, and 5% for small business developers. Epic Games has roughly 60 days to challenge the numbers with expert testimony, and the fight over what Apple can legally charge is far from over.

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us tech 6 Aug 14 4 min read

Apple Warns iPhone Users in 110 Countries They May Be Targeted by Government Spyware

Apple sent a fresh round of mercenary spyware threat notifications on Thursday, August 13, hitting users in 110 countries and pushing its total reach past 150 countries since the alerts began in 2021. This time the warning lands as a Lock Screen push notification instead of an easy-to-miss email, and if you get one, act on it immediately.

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gb tech 7 Aug 13 4 min read

AI "Nudify" Apps Depicting Rape Scenarios Were Live on Apple's App Store

The Independent found apps on Apple's App Store letting users upload photos to generate fake rape and sexual assault videos, one of which Apple removed only after being flagged. Separately, the Internet Watch Foundation says UK children reported 420 faked explicit images of themselves in just the first six months of this year, already topping all of 2025.

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us economy 6 Aug 13 3 min read

Apple to Build First US Mac Mini Plant in Houston, Part of $600 Billion Investment Plan

Apple is doubling its Houston manufacturing campus to build Mac minis on US soil for the first time, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick set to announce the deal. It's a real jobs win for Texas, but the bulk of Apple's $600 billion pledge still covers chip purchases and supplier deals, not new factories full of American workers.

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us finance 2 Aug 10 3 min read

Fake Apple Pay Text Threatened D.C. Man With $8,250 Charge, UK Number Gave It Away

A Washington, D.C. resident got a text claiming Apple Pay had already charged him $8,250, with another $8,250 supposedly set to auto-approve in 35 minutes unless he called a number and read back a case code. He didn't call. The scam relied on manufactured panic, a fake case number, and a callback line that had nothing to do with Apple.

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us tech 6 Aug 10 4 min read

AI Giants Nearly Triple Lobbying Spending as Apple Tests Chinese Memory Chips to Beat the Shortage They Helped Cause

OpenAI and Anthropic have poured record money into Washington lobbying in 2026, fighting to shape the AI rules before they harden. Meanwhile the AI data-center boom has driven memory chip prices so high that Apple is reportedly testing supplies from China's CXMT, the exact move US senators have warned it against.

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us tech 7 Aug 9 4 min read

Apple Tests Blacklisted Chinese Memory Chips as Six Senators Demand It Swear Them Off by August 21

Apple is testing DRAM chips from China's CXMT, a company the Pentagon says has ties to the Chinese military, according to the Wall Street Journal. The move comes just weeks after six senators from both parties gave Apple until August 21 to pledge it will never use CXMT or YMTC chips, putting Tim Cook's company on a collision course with Washington while it tries to dodge a memory shortage that has tripled RAM prices this year.

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us economy 5 Aug 8 4 min read

Kellogg Moves Up Timeline to Strip Artificial Dyes from Froot Loops, Apple Jacks by End of 2026

WK Kellogg announced Thursday it will eliminate artificial colors from its entire cereal lineup, including Froot Loops and Apple Jacks, by the end of 2026, a year ahead of its original 2027 pledge. The move follows pressure from RFK Jr.'s MAHA campaign, a Texas AG investigation, and years of consumer petitions.

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us tech 5 Aug 7 3 min read

Apple Patches Mac Flaw That Let Attackers Bypass Screen Sharing Login

Apple pushed emergency updates on Thursday, August 6, for macOS Tahoe, Sequoia, and Sonoma to fix a bug that let an attacker on the same network into Screen Sharing without a valid password. No known exploits yet, but update your Mac now anyway.

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us economy 6 Aug 5 3 min read

Trump's Antitrust Pick Adam Candeub Testifies on Fate of Google and Apple Cases

Adam Candeub, Trump's nominee to run the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, testified before the Senate Wednesday on whether he'd keep pressing the government's landmark cases against Google's search dominance and Apple's App Store rules. Candeub is a longtime Big Tech critic who wants Section 230 narrowed, which means confirmation could shift how hard Washington leans on the tech giants for years.

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us tech 7 Aug 5 4 min read

Apple's Private Relay, Sold as an IP Address Shield, Can Be Bypassed to Expose Your Real Location

Security researchers found that Apple's Private Relay, a paid privacy feature for iCloud+ subscribers, can be tricked into revealing a user's actual IP address through flaws in three WebKit features. The researchers built a public test site that confirms the leak, and TechCrunch verified it works. Apple has not fixed it or publicly responded as of this reporting.

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us tech 5 Aug 5 4 min read

Apple Pulled Telegram From the App Store for 40 Minutes Over CSAM. Durov Blames an Extortionist

Apple yanked Telegram from the App Store Monday night after finding child sexual abuse material, restoring it about 40 minutes later once Telegram removed the content and banned the user. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says an extortionist planted the material using an AI-edited old message specifically to trigger the takedown, and Apple hasn't disputed or confirmed that claim.

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us tech 5 Aug 4 3 min read

Hackers Leaked Alleged iPhone 18 Pro Specs From an Apple Supplier in India. China's State Media Is Using It as a Marketing Pitch.

A cyberattack on Indian Apple supplier Tata Electronics reportedly exposed parts lists and photos of unreleased iPhone 18 Pro models, and Chinese state media and repair shops are running with it as proof India can't be trusted with Apple's supply chain. The breach looks real but the panic is overblown: Chinese technicians told CNBC the leaked drawings are basically useless without the parts themselves.

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us tech 6 Aug 4 3 min read

Apple Says Trade Secrets Probe Now Covers 11 More Ex-Employees, Seeks Injunction Against OpenAI

Apple is asking a court for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI and expedited discovery, claiming its investigation has turned up 11 more former employees who may have witnessed or been involved in alleged trade secrets theft. OpenAI calls the request baseless and says it doesn't have or want Apple's confidential information. Nothing here is proven in court yet, this is a filing, not a verdict.

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us tech 7 Aug 3 4 min read

Apple Files New Legal Challenge Against UK Order To Access Encrypted iCloud Data

Apple filed a complaint in July with the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal over a second government order demanding backdoor access to encrypted iCloud backups, according to the Financial Times. This is round two: London backed off a broader 2025 demand after the Trump administration intervened, then quietly issued a narrower order targeting only British users in October.

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us tech 6 Aug 2 3 min read

Apple's Best-Selling Laptop Now Caught in the Memory Chip Shortage, Wait Times Stretch Into September

The memory chip crunch that hit Apple's Mac mini and Mac Studio earlier this year has now reached the MacBook Air, Apple's highest-volume laptop, with delivery estimates slipping into late August and September. Apple already raised the MacBook Air's price by $200 in June, and it's now pushing shoppers toward the pricier MacBook Pro instead. This is a supply chain problem the company can't just discount its way out of.

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us tech 4 Aug 2 3 min read

Foldable Phones Took Seven Years to Stop Breaking. Now Apple Wants In.

Foldable phones spent seven years as a punchline, launching with screens that cracked, creased, and broke within days of release. Now the category has matured into something boring and reliable, which is exactly why Apple is reportedly getting ready to ship its first foldable iPhone.

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us tech 7 Jul 31 3 min read

Apple Doubles Inventory to $11.1 Billion as Memory Chip Shortage Hits iPhone and Mac Production

Apple is hoarding memory chips like never before, stockpiling $11.1 billion in inventory as a global RAM shortage squeezes its supply chain. Outgoing CEO Tim Cook called it a 'hundred-year flood' for memory pricing, and Apple already raised prices on Macs and iPads because of it.

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us finance 7 Jul 30 4 min read

Apple Beats Earnings Estimates, Stock Falls 6% on Weak Guidance and Chip Shortage Warning

Apple posted strong fiscal Q3 2026 numbers, including 22% iPhone sales growth and 27% profit growth, but the stock still dropped 6% in after-hours trading because guidance for the next quarter came in soft. Blame a global memory and chip shortage Tim Cook calls a "hundred-year flood," plus currency headwinds. This is Cook's last earnings call before handing the reins to John Ternus on September 1.

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us tech 7 Jul 30 4 min read

Tim Cook Hosts Final Earnings Call as CEO Thursday, Apple Stock Up 24% This Year

Apple reports fiscal third-quarter results Thursday afternoon in Tim Cook's last earnings call before John Ternus takes over as CEO September 1. The stock has led the Magnificent Seven in 2026, but memory-chip shortages, looming iPhone price hikes, and unresolved AI questions hang over the report.

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us finance 6 Jul 30 4 min read

Qualcomm Warns of Weak Profit as Apple Business Shrinks Faster Than Expected

Qualcomm told investors Wednesday that its fourth-quarter profit will miss Wall Street estimates, and that revenue from Apple is drying up faster than the company predicted. Supply constraints and rising chip costs are squeezing margins, and Qualcomm is raising prices September 1 to compensate.

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us finance 7 Jul 29 3 min read

Apple Briefly Hits $5 Trillion Market Cap, Second Company Ever to Get There

Apple touched a $5 trillion market cap intraday on Tuesday, becoming only the second public company after Nvidia to hit the mark. The stock's 24-25% run this year is being driven largely by investors rewarding Apple for spending far less on AI data centers than Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta.

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us tech 5 Jul 28 4 min read

Apple Launches Device Leasing Program Days After Hiking Mac and iPad Prices

Apple's new "Apple Upgrade" program lets customers lease iPhones, iPads, Macs and Apple Watches instead of buying them outright, financed through Klarna. It arrives weeks after Apple raised Mac and iPad prices over memory shortages, and it's hard not to notice the timing.

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