2026-09-07 13:51:04
OpenAI files a motion to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets, saying that the iPhone maker's allegations are meritless (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08…
It's mesh night at @foulab in #Montreal tonight. This is a casual in-person meetup of local mesh networking folks. If you're curious, drop by. https://foulab.org
I'm going to be bringing a ridiculous personal proje…
TrendForce: for a 256GB iPhone Pro model, Q3 memory costs are forecast to be ~400% higher than a year prior but Apple won't pass on the full cost to customers (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/03/apple-paying-400-more-for-iph…
As the UK government presses again for unwarranted access to private user data,
Apple has issued another complaint asking the country's independent judicial body to intervene.
In 2024, the UK reworked its laws to give it the authority to not only legally, but also secretly, demand Apple help it spy on iPhone users around the world.
Following US complaints, the UK backed down, only to try again in October 2025.
Now according to the Financial Times, Apple has file…
It’s a sunny Monday morning here. 1125 pm now. I’m in the coffee shop at work enjoying an Americano. I do not use my iPhone for much typing - on screen keyboards are so slow. However, I have a Bluetooth folding keyboard and a stand, and that works a treat when it’s all I have with me.
PSA: Apple Music deletes all of your Playlists when you stop subscribing or switching to Apple One. If you subscribe to Apple One you have to be still subscribed to Apple Music, else all of your Library gets deleted (except Music that was bought). Got Apple One for free 3 Months with the purchase of the iPhone 18 Pro. Apple Support describes this as „works as expected“.
#AppleMusic
Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims https://www.404media.co/cops-can-bypass-iphone-automatic-inactivity-reboot-graykey/
Apple Pay launches in India, letting eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cardholders add their cards to Apple Wallet on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch (Dhruv Mohan/The Economic Times)
https://
Ok, die 7 Jahre alte #applewatch hat den Geist aufgegeben. Also eine neue.
Dein #Handy sagt dir dann beim Installationsversuch, dass du auch ein neues #iphone brauchst.
Doch, sehr geil.
«KI im Betriebssystem-Kern — Wie sich die Kontrolle über das Smartphone verschiebt:
KI wandert 2026 tief in den Systemkern von iPhone und Android. Fachleute warnen vor neuen Risiken und schwindender Nutzerkontrolle. Wem gehört unser Handy?»
Ich bin dem sehr kritisch gegenüber, da sehr wahrscheinlich deren Datensammelwut und Beeinflussung naiv vertrauen werden - siehe China.
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Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Salto rückwärts: Apple möchte KI-Modelle doch mit Nutzerdaten trainieren
RE: https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/117311942638471557
I got something similar on my still-26 iPhone 14PM, but it was urging me to use my free service with purchase. I haven’t bought anything other than $0.99/m worth of storage, which I barely use, in m…
For over 25 years, OmniGraffle has been helping you draw beautiful diagrams, family trees, flow charts, org charts, layouts, and other directed or non-directed graphs. We’ve been hard at work on the next version of OmniGraffle, and we're thrilled to share that test builds for Mac, iPad, and iPhone are now available to anyone who is interested in where OmniGraffle is headed!
https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/testing-the-next-omnigraffle
You know how Seth Rogan only has that one laugh?
Uh huhuhuhuhhhhh
Imagine being able to have that as your ringtone? Neat, right? Well now you no longer have to imagine it.
The all new iPhone 18.
#ScottHumor
So I have apps working fine on my IPhone, which is a great phone. I can make and receive calls and text. Hunky dory. BUT weekly I am asked to update an app. I down load the update and it informs me I have an supported iOS and I am left without the older working app!! WYF!!! Leave us older folks alone. Stop with bricking perfectly working apps!!
#asshats
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117236666537118749
Apple. Call me. 🤙
MapQuest becomes the top free iPhone app on the App Store in Canada and fourth on the US App Store after refusing to change Lake Ontario to Lake America (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/31/mapquest-tops-app-store-charts/
@… you have to assume it is, and only use Zoom on an iPad/iPhone with its strong sandboxing, or on a sacrificial dedicated device.
Filing: Apple claims a former iPhone engineer used a confidential Apple circuit schematic in his work at OpenAI, evidence is being destroyed, and more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/31/apple-openai-forensic-macbook-evidence/
(paywalled) #AI-powered virtual white cane https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-26214-1_4 "up to 60 fps on an iPhone 13 Pro Max";
Apple quietly updates its press release to say new Photographic Styles texture and grain controls are limited to iPhone 18 Pro models and the iPhone Duo (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/22/apple-backtracks-camera-feature-compatibi…
Apple has sent out a new batch of notifications to customers who it suspects have been targeted with spyware capable of hacking into their devices.
The tech giant sends out these notifications on occasion to alert its customers that their iPhones, iPads, or Macs might have been compromised with spyware typically used by governments.
Apple told TechCrunch that it sent out the notifications on Thursday to users targeted in 110 countries.
Apple says to date it has notified c…
Ford says Apple's software will be available in its new EVs, helping determine autonomous driving without an iPhone, and the two are working on self-driving (Jack Ewing/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/business/ford-apple-software-self-…
(Also presumably the iPhone Duo won't really work anymore in 2054)
Tipp: eSIM im Urlaub nutzen und sparen
Das iPhone ist seit mehreren Generationen bereit für die elektronische SIM-Karte, die sich einfach online kaufen lässt. So sparen Sie damit unterwegs.
https://www.
Claude Code erhält Zugriff auf iPhone-Simulator
Im App Store landen immer mehr Apps, die per Prompt entwickelt wurden. Claude Code macht es Interessierten noch ein bisschen einfacher.
https://www.
PrismML says it ran a 27B-parameter Qwen 3.6 model on an iPhone 17 Pro, bigger than any prior on-device model; sources: Apple held talks with PrismML about it (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/kh
Analysis: the 256GB iPhone 18 Pro is set to have a bill of materials cost ~38% higher than the iPhone 17 Pro due to memory prices; memory's BOM share hits 34% (TrendForce)
https://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20260810-13172.html
SpaceXAI rolls out Grok Bot AI agent app in beta on Mac, iOS, Windows, and Linux, initially for SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium users (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/11/grok-bot-is-an-all-new-iphone-and…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viditb/117342231554936592
What's funny to me is that my 1998 Sony Walkman (WM-EX9) is lighter and smaller than the iPhone Duo and has ~100 hour battery life
And yes, that's comparing apples to ウォークマン
The iPhone Duo's squat, tablet-like outer display is a compromise, and a book-shaped foldable may lack wide appeal; its right-side UI bias is akin to a book (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2026/09/thoughts_and_obser…
Apple Pencil am iPhone Duo: Was geht und was nicht
Das hätten viele Beobachter nicht erwartet: Apple gibt für sein iPhone Duo seinen Bedienstift frei. Allerdings darf es nur ein spezifisches Modell sein.
https://www.
The iPhone Duo has a lip on the interior? Did not expect that. That is disappointing.
CarPlay: Welche Neuerungen Apple in iOS 27 plant
Auch Apples Fahrzeugintegration fürs iPhone bekommt im Herbst ein Update. Apple geht auch hier kleinere und größere Probleme an.
https://www.hei…
Ihr Weg zum Apple-Support-Profi – auch in Vorbereitung auf das Apple-Zertifikat
Lernen Sie von einem Apple Certified Trainer, was Sie für den Support von iPhone, iPad und Mac wissen müssen.
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Here are several screenshots of Siri interacting with OmniFocus on an iPhone:
1. Siri using Visual Intelligence to scan a hand-written list from a sheet of paper and add the remaining items to OmniFocus.
2. Siri reviewing the remaining tasks in OmniFocus that need to get done today, and suggesting some other high priority tasks to consider.
3. Siri adding some book club suggestions to the note on an OmniFocus task.
4. Siri marking complete the tasks that are currently selected in OmniFocus.
Users: Hey could you make a small phone that discourages doomscrolling with a smaller screen but has great battery life and a good camera? You know more like the iPhone mini was.
Apple: The new iPhone Ultra Hyper Max now folds out to 5 square meters
I cannot get over how much of the iPhone Duo is what was leaked / talked about for Andromeda. "Postures". It's only missing the carpenter pencil.
If it hadn't been a decade, and the Surface Duo hadn't happened, it'd have thought this was industrial espionage!