9to5 Mac

• Women in Blue’s second season premieres on Apple TV
  August 11, 2026 by Marcus Mendes
  Apple TV subscribers can now stream the first episode of the new season of Women in Blue (Las Azules). Here’s what to expect from the season.
• Microsoft Edge tests Apple Account sign-in support
  August 11, 2026 by Marcus Mendes
  Microsoft’s latest Edge Canary build has added new flags for signing in to the browser with an Apple Account, while Microsoft’s release notes indicate the feature is also rolling out to Edge Beta users. Here are the details.
• Apple extends 2026 Back to School deals on Macs and iPads until September 24
  August 11, 2026 by Marcus Mendes
  Eligible students, parents of students, and educators in the United States just got a few extra weeks to claim Apple’s 2026 Back to School deals on select Macs and iPads. Here are the details.
• Report: Non-gaming apps drove mobile spending growth in Q2 as games fell 4.5%
  August 11, 2026 by Marcus Mendes
  A new report from Sensor Tower shows that non-gaming apps continued to drive global mobile spending growth in Q2 2026 across iOS and Android, while gaming revenue declined 4.5% year over year. Here are the details.
• iPhone 18 Pro: Three new camera upgrades are coming
  August 11, 2026 by Ryan Christoffel
  iPhone 18 Pro is just a few weeks away, and rumors indicate it could bring an especially noteworthy batch of camera upgrades. Here are the three main camera features currently rumored.

Macworld

• Apple extends Back to School Deal gift card offer through September
  August 11, 2026
  Macworld Apple runs a higher education promotion every year that has traditionally been known as its “Back to School” sale. The company now refers to it as the “College Student Offer” or “Higher Education Offer” because it is only available to students in higher education and eligible education staff – not school-age children. The promotion […]
• What’s up with this ‘Apple Reference Image’ rumor?
  August 11, 2026
  Macworld Some clever code divers have found something interesting buried in a privacy disclosure as part of iOS 27 beta 5: a new feature called Apple Reference Image. There are plenty of companies adding metadata to AI generated images, and Apple is one of them. In iOS 27, images created with Image Playground will embed […]
• Beat the recent price hike with $50 off the A16 iPad
  August 11, 2026
  Macworld Apple iPad A16 View Deal (function () { document.querySelector("#sticky-promo-block a").addEventListener("click", function(e) { const debug = document.location.host.search(/lndo.site|go-vip.net/) !== -1; const text = this.closest("#sticky-promo-block").querySelector("p.promo-title").textContent; const data = { event: "stickyConversionUnitClick", eventCategory: "Sticky Conversion", eventAction: "Click", eventLabel: text }; if(debug)console.log("Sticky Conversion CLick – pushing to dataLayer: ", data); dataLayer.push(data); return true; }); })(); If you didn’t get […]
• Reports of the 20th anniversary iPhone’s death seem to be greatly exaggerated
  August 11, 2026
  Macworld In 2027 the iPhone will celebrate its 20th birthday, and this has raised expectations of a momentous launch. In 2017, for comparison, we got the iPhone X, an almost all-screen handset and Apple’s first phone without a Home button. What’s in store next year? That depends on who you ask. For some time pundits […]
• iOS 27 beta confirms Apple’s full iPhone 18 roadmap with 6 new models
  August 11, 2026
  Macworld On Monday, Apple released iOS 27 beta 5 to developers on Monday after a weeklong delay, bringing another round of changes and refinements ahead of the update’s public release next month. But hidden inside the software are also some interesting clues about what Apple has planned for the iPhone over the coming months. Macworld […]

Technology

• Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don’t.
  August 11, 2026 by Fernando Alfonso III and Kashmir Hill
  In Texas, there’s one thing liberals and conservatives agree on: They don’t want cameras trained on their cars.
• Brad Lightcap, a Top OpenAI Executive, Steps Down
  August 11, 2026 by Emmy Martin
  Brad Lightcap, a longtime leader, said he was starting a new venture. His exit from the artificial intelligence company is the latest in a series there.
• Spotify Will Label A.I. Artists and Avoid Promoting Them
  August 11, 2026 by Malia Mendez
  The new label, which will begin to be applied next month, is an effort by the streaming service to be more transparent about A.I.-generated music on its app.
• The Surprising Truth About Instagram’s VHS Dates Videos
  August 11, 2026 by Sopan Deb and Maggie Shannon
  The Instagram account advertises itself as resurfacing lost dating service videotapes from the 1980s. Social media users have been genuinely touched.
• The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express
  August 11, 2026 by Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Vjeran Pavic, Katie McMurran, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Rowan Niemisto and Alyssa Moxley
  A few details from the White House’s A.I. plan have leaked to the news media, but the administration has officially communicated almost nothing.

Personal Tech

• Follow the Markets and Track Stocks With These Free Apps
  August 6, 2026 by J. D. Biersdorfer
  Google Finance and Apple’s Stocks app have added new features over the years to make them more useful for tracking the markets and your investments.
• A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge.
  July 30, 2026 by Adeel Hassan
  Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his smartphone during a customs search.
• Apple’s Siri Got an A.I. Brain Transplant. Try These 5 Prompts to Get Acclimated.
  July 30, 2026 by Brian X. Chen
  An upgrade transformed the beleaguered virtual assistant into a modern chatbot. It’s imperfect but worth trying.
• Why TikTok’s Algorithm Keeps You Trapped in a Breakup Loop
  July 26, 2026 by Jonathan Wolfe
  As social media companies face scrutiny over addictive design features, mental health experts cite a stream of breakup content as an example of the failure to protect users.
• Meta Launches New Facebook Marketplace App Called Seller
  July 24, 2026 by Eli Tan
  Seller is part of the Silicon Valley company’s strategy to innovate on its original social network.