Update to OS 26.1 for incremental improvements and security fixes across Apple’s platforms. Highlights include Tinted Liquid ...

In this issue, Adam Engst runs down Apple’s OS 26.1 releases, highlighting improvements like Liquid Glass’s new Tinted option, AutoMix over AirPlay, and the return of Slide Over. He also explains ...

For its fiscal fourth quarter of 2025, Apple set numerous records, with revenue of $102.5 billion, led by an all-time ...

The new Affinity app from Canva replaces Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Publisher, which already shared most of their core code. It’s free to use, requires a Canva account, and ...

Can a browser that navigates the Web for you handle basic data analysis without making mistakes? Adam Engst tested Brave, ...

The powerful word processor hasn’t seen an update in nearly a year, it has disappeared from the Mac App Store, and support responses have been slow or nonexistent for some time. There is writing on ...

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Voicemail messages are stored on your iPhone, but deleting them might not reduce the amount of space the Phone app uses. But ...

Adam Engst 1 November 2025 2 comments Be Cautious with Agentic Web Browsers New AI-powered browsers from OpenAI, Perplexity, and others promise to automate Web tasks but are vulnerable to prompt ...

Responding to widespread criticism of Liquid Glass’s excessive transparency, Apple has added an opacity control in iOS 26.1 ...

Can cell phones or Wi-Fi give you cancer? The answer is reasonably definitive: No. That’s equally true for new 5G cellular networks currently being rolled out worldwide, all previous cellular networks ...