November 2024

Macworld As Black Friday approaches, two things are certain: Piles of packages arriving on our doorsteps and porch pirates looking to snatch them all. And according to a new report, if you’re buying a new iPhone, you may be at an even higher risk. The Wall Street Journal reports that thieves have begun targeting iPhone […]

Macworld Shocking technology news this week as… here, let the Macalope just have an AI summarize it. “AI is the coolest and everyone loves it.” What?! No! That’s not… gah. “OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI” (Bloomberg) It appears the wheels might be coming off AI a bit. Which, honestly,

It’s a little-known fact that before emails reach your inbox, they pass through a buffer designed to scan and block malicious content. However, over time, email providers—especially Gmail—have shifted their focus to adding just “warning labels” to emails with suspicious links or attachments. This approach, best described as “beating around the bush” hasn’t reduced threats

iMac and , which brings a lot of performance improvements – especially when it comes to AI tasks. However, users are facing issues when trying to run virtual machines with some older versions of macOS on the new machines. more…

A recent report by 404 Media revealed that law enforcement agents have been concerned about automatically rebooting themselves, which makes it very difficult to hack these devices. Security researcher Jiska Classen later discovered that this behavior is caused by a new feature called “Inactivity Reboot,” which has now been reverse-engineered by Classen. more…

Macworld Apple doesn’t just make Macs, iPhones, iPads, AirPods and so on. The company also makes excellent accessories, including the Apple Pencil (a stylus for the iPad), Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, and much more. These are all great products, but what if you don’t want to pay full price? Luckily there are various

Apple analyst Jeff Pu is out with a new investor note this week with more details on what to expect from next year’s iPhone 17 lineup. There’s also an interest twist on what to expect from the so-called iPhone 17 Air’s design… more…

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Macworld Are you ready for one of the best Black Friday deals you’re going to see on this year’s MacBook Pro laptops? Because you can get the 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro for $1,400 right now, a solid $200 discount from its MSRP and the best price we’ve ever seen. Just note, you’ll need to check

The iPhone 16’s Camera Control feature arrived to mixed reviews, including from me. But iOS 18.2 upgrades the feature in several key ways, making it what it was always meant to be. more…