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iPhone delivery day can be an especially exciting occasion. Sure the wait can be painful, but do you know what’s worse? Having your new iPhone stolen off the porch just seconds after delivery. That’s what was happening across thousands of US households, and now we know how. more…

Earlier in the year, Woot introduced a massive sale on the Braided Solo Loop and Solo Loop bands for Apple Watch, and this sale has reemerged a few times in the past few months. It’s back today, alongside new discounts on the Apple Polishing Cloth, Siri Remote, and a few USB-C charging accessories. Note: MacRumors

Security firm LayerX Labs has identified a sophisticated phishing campaign that recently began targeting Mac users after new browser protections rendered its Windows attacks less effective. The attackers had previously targeted Windows users with fake Microsoft security alerts, but then adapted their tactics in response to new anti-scareware features deployed in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox

Assassin’s Creed Shadows launches on Mac today alongside its PC and console counterparts. The game is the latest sequel in the long-running Assassin’s Creed franchise from developer Ubisoft and features open world RPG gameplay set in feudal Japan. more…

Earlier this week, the investment firm GF Securities shared multiple research notes regarding Apple’s future chips. In one of these notes, it said the A20 chip for the iPhone 18 series would be manufactured with TSMC’s third-generation 3nm process, N3P, and in another it said that the chip would use TSMC’s newer 2nm process N2.

Apple TV+ is having a big cultural moment thanks to the popularity of Severance’s second season, which concludes tonight. But leaving its current success aside, a new report claims that the streamer has continued being a money drain for Apple even five years after launch. more…

Google has confirmed it is investigating an issue causing low quality in playback of videos and Shorts through the YouTube app on iOS. more…

The embarrassment over the state of Siri continues, with the discovery that the ‘intelligent’ assistant doesn’t even know what month it is. My colleague Zac Hall suggested that things are now so bad the Siri brand is irredeemably tarnished, and any new version should be given a completely new name – but some think Apple

Is Apple experiencing a “Vista-like drift into systemically poor execution?” That was a question posed by well-known technology analyst Benedict Evans, in a recent blog post covering Apple’s innovation and execution, or seemingly lack thereof as of late. He is referring to Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system, which was widely criticized when it launched in

Apple TV+ is hemorrhaging money amid a broader stall in Apple’s services, according to a new report from The Information‘s Wayne Ma. The paywalled report reveals that ‌Apple TV‌+ is the only Apple subscription service that is not profitable. While its subscriptions grew to around 45 million last year, it is still losing more than