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Most of the hype surrounding iOS 19—I mean, iOS 26—focuses on the big redesign that’s rumored. But looking past design changes to actual functional upgrades, three of the best iOS 26 features are, perhaps surprisingly, powered by Apple Intelligence. Here’s what’s coming. more…

Thousands of ASUS wireless routers have been compromised by a botnet that has also been targeting Cisco, D-Link, and Linksys devices. The way in which routers are infected means that they remain under the control of attackers even if the firmware is updated … more…

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Have you ever looked down at your Apple Watch on your wrist and thought to yourself, “I wish I could play my Game Boy games on here”? Yeah, neither have I. But now that I know it’s possible, I can’t stop playing or showing it off. My 6-year-old self would think I was crazy if

Macworld WWDC is less than two weeks away, and it’s shaping up to be a big show. Along with interface updates to all of its operating systems, Apple is also expected to formalize the version numbering across all of its OSes for the first time. According to a report by Mark Gurman, Apple will identify

Yesterday, Bloomberg broke the news that this year’s software update for the Mac will be macOS 26 rather than macOS 16. The update is expected to bring a sweeping redesign to the Mac, and now we have the first rumors on which models will be able to update to macOS 26. more…

One of the bigger leaks from Bloomberg is that what we’ve all been anticipating as iOS 19 will instead be branded as iOS 26 (aka 2026). In other words, Apple is switching from sequential naming to year-based naming. I think that’s a great idea – but not the silly car-maker business of using next year,

Macworld Thirty years ago, the first Mac clones rolled off an assembly line in Austin, Texas. If you’re not of a certain age, you might not even believe that there were once Mac clones. For most of its existence, Apple has been a singular company, selling products that were a fusion of custom hardware and

Macworld Did you know you don’t need to keep paying a pesky recurring fee for Adobe just to edit your PDFs? Yup, Adobe Acrobat’s been keeping a major secret—there’s a way to edit, merge, convert, sign, and do so much more with your PDFs without paying a monthly fee. All you need is PDF Reader Pro,

Mozilla has announced that it will shut down Pocket, its popular read-it-later app, on July 8, 2025. This means that unless the Digg acquisition offer turns into something, its users will have until then to find an alternative read-it-later app. If that’s you, here are five potential replacements, although I know none of them will