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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced the launch of Privacy Badger for Safari on macOS.

Following a report that Samsung might skip the latest Snapdragon flagship, Qualcomm says that rumors about the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 running into overheating issues are “inaccurate.”

Apple reportedly plans to unveil an all-new smart home hub as part of the “Welcome home” product launch it announced for Tuesday, October 13.

Apple has reached an agreement to recruit employees from Huxe and license the AI audio startup’s technology, according to a new European Commission filing.

In the mid–1990s, Apple worked on an operating system called Copland, which was announced but never commercially released because of project management issues and feature creep. Parts of Copland were eventually included in Mac OS 7.6 and Mac OS 8, but it was so problematic as a whole that Apple nixed it before it was…

“Design the Next iPhone,” an interactive website from developer Neal Agarwal, gives users control over a virtual iPhone’s look, including the option to combine conventional smartphone components with deliberately impractical accessories.

The iPhone 18 Pro models support Apple Reference Image, a way to verify that a photo was taken with an iPhone and hasn’t been edited. Apple says it’s a method to prove that something actually happened and wasn’t AI-generated, likening the feature to a digital film negative.

Popular Mac app AppZapper was today revamped with a new design, updated functionality, and a fresh name. AppZapper 3000 offers a quick way to delete Mac apps and their associated files.

References to two unreleased controllers that identify as Apple hardware in code were spotted in the macOS 26.7 release candidate by MacRumors reader Pdfu. Apple’s first macOS 26.7 release candidate came out in mid-August, and it was full of references to unreleased Apple devices, from iPhones and Macs to new home accessories. Pdfu has continued…