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Apple has announced new AI-powered features for its accessibility tools, including Voice Control, VoiceOver, and Magnifier, ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day. The updates aim to enhance usab…

The author reverse-engineered Apple's video wallpaper system to create Phosphene, an open-source tool that allows custom videos to play continuously on the macOS desktop (not just the lock screen). Th…

IrisGo, a startup backed by Andrew Ng’s AI Fund, has developed a desktop AI companion that learns users’ daily workflows and automates repetitive tasks with minimal prompting. The system, co-founded b…

President Donald Trump requested $1 billion in taxpayer funding for security upgrades to a White House ballroom project, including a rooftop hardened against drone strikes and a "drone port" for milit…

A security analysis of 39 AI companies found that 26 use an SPF "softfail" policy, meaning spoofed emails from domains like Anthropic, Google, and NVIDIA can still be delivered to inboxes. Additionall…

Apple's privacy guarantees for the new Siri chatbot may be partially underwritten by Google's cloud infrastructure, according to reports. The company is renting Google's AI model and potentially relyi…

OpenBSD 7.9 has been released, introducing delayed hibernation support on amd64 and improved handling of low disk space during system upgrades. The release also adds VA-API and open Widevine support t…

The article investigates whether increasing an AI model's "thinking time" through additional recurrent loops during inference improves its performance, using a small-scale OpenMythos model trained on …

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has been granted permission to intervene for the second time at the Court of Justice of the European Union in a case where Apple is challenging the European …

Apple has largely missed out on the artificial intelligence boom that has lifted sales of its technology peers, yet the company's profits and stock value continue to grow. Unlike competitors funneling…

Caitlin Kalinowski, a veteran hardware engineer who led teams at OpenAI, Meta, and Apple, argues the AI industry is entering a hardware boom driven by robotics and memory constraints. She warns startu…

OpenAI is exploring legal options against Apple over a strained partnership, with insiders saying the AI firm feels "burned" by Apple's ChatGPT integration that failed to meet expectations. OpenAI exp…

A new analysis argues that Peter Thiel's military-AI companies Palantir and Anduril, named after artifacts from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, fundamentally contradict the author's ethical framework. …

Apple agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it advertised Apple Intelligence features for iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 models that "did not exist at the time, do not exis…

OpenAI is forming a new company to deploy AI, reinforcing the thesis that the technology's impact will require top-down implementation, with other labs expected to follow suit. Separately, Apple has e…

On May 13, 2026, a new Swift package called AgentKitten was released to provide Apple platform developers with a provider-agnostic toolset for building AI agents. The package addresses the lack of a s…

The May 2026 Patch Tuesday saw Microsoft release updates for 118 vulnerabilities, notably the first time in nearly two years without fixes for actively exploited zero-day flaws. The article highlights…

On May 11, 2026, Apple released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to patch two kernel-level vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-28972 and CVE-2026-28986) discovered by Xint researchers. The first flaw…

The semiconductor industry faces a bottleneck in chip design as AI demand drives increasing complexity, compressed timelines, and a shrinking engineering workforce. Verification now consumes up to 70%…

David Pogue's new book "Apple: The First 50 Years" highlights the electrifying impact of early tech demos, contrasting the awe of seeing the Apple II at a computer faire with the deflated experience o…