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When Apple rolled out hardware chief John Ternus as the CEO to replace Tim Cook, the reaction was kind but muted. That’s because Ternus has said nothing yet to indicate he has a specific plan to position Apple for the future. (To be fair, he’s said next to nothing about anything — no easily found social media posts, no big speeches about anything beyond hardware, no major interviews showcasing his vision. I have long been a fan of Apple, but the “i” people have a lot of problems. Their failure to make Apple an AI leader — not the leader, just a leader — has dominated headlines for two years now. But the truth is that Apple has spent years without the passion and drive that marked the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO. The clearest example involves the iPhone and the Apple Watch. I used to routinely upgrade my devices once a year, or at least every two years. I am sitting here now with an iPhone 13 Pro Max and an Apple Watch Series 7–the same devices I’ve had for almost five years. E
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A preliminary Apple-Intel manufacturing agreement—backed by a White House push—sent Intel stock above $130 on Friday.
Echoing concerns from other security experts, Orange Cyberdefense (OC) recently warned that employees have become the biggest security threat faced by business. Now, in the latest illustration of its ongoing security response, Apple is putting new protections in place in macOS 26.4 that should help – but employee education remains critical as hackers turn to complex, multi-stage, social engineering attacks to infest systems with malware. Your people are your weakness The data tells its own story. OC explains: Employees account for 57% of all security incidents and 45% of these incidents come when workers bypass or ignore security policies by, for example, using unapproved tools. Attackers are actively searching for and exploiting those kinds of policy workarounds, seeking weaknesses in commonly used, but unapproved, tools. Users really should educate themselves. While companies can put some mitigations in place using device management and policy controls to constrain app use and down
AirPods Pro 3 | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple's rumored AirPods with cameras are nearing a stage where the company will test early mass production, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Currently, Apple testers are "actively using" prototypes that are in the design validation test stage, which is one step before the production validation test stage. The AirPods' cameras "aren't designed" to snap photos or video but instead can take in "visual information in low resolution" that users can query Siri about, like asking the AI assistant what they should cook with the ingredients they have in front of them, according to Gurman. They may also use the cameras to help with things like turn-b … Read the full story at The Verge.
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Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) takes place in just a few weeks. Everyone expects the company to explain its approach to AI deployment on its platforms. With that in mind, here’s what several months of speculation suggest Apple will announce, though the details remain to be disclosed. Apple is investing billions of dollars in these plans; R&D spending reached 10.3% of revenue in the second quarter, up from 7.6% in Q1. Given Apple’s accelerating revenue, on a dollar basis this means the company’s R&D spend is up 34% from a year ago. “We believe AI is a really important investment area for Apple, and we’re going to be doing that incrementally on top of what we normally invest in our product roadmap,” said Apple CFO Kevan Parekh during Apple’s latest fiscal call. (AI isn’t Apple’s only spending target, either.) While the billions Apple is investing are dwarfed by the huge infrastructure investments made by pure AI players, Apple’s infrastructure already exists — in the form
Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it misled consumers about the AI capabilities of the iPhone 15 and 16. The complaint claimed Apple exaggerated the readiness and functionality of Apple Intelligence features, particularly an upgraded Siri, influencing purchase decisions with capabilities that were incomplete or delayed. Without […]
A familiar pattern has emerged in robotics and autonomous systems: a flagship demo runs beautifully on stage, the same system stumbles in a live warehouse two weeks later, and the post-mortem blames “reality” for being messier than the test environment. Some voices in the field argue the missing layer is hardware — better grippers, force-torque […]
