Apple stealthily adds minor features in iOS 17.6, macOS 14.6 releases
Enlarge / iOS 17.6 installing on an iPhone 13 Pro.Samuel Axon Apple has some minor updates for all its operating systems, and the releases include iOS 17.6, iPadOS 17.6, tvOS 17.6, watchOS 10.6, and macOS Sonoma 14.6. Apple's notes for these updates simply say they include bug fixes, security updates, or optimizations. However, there are…
iOS 18.1 developer beta brings Apple Intelligence into the wild for...
Enlarge / Apple Intelligence was unveiled at WWDC 2024.Apple As was just rumored, the iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 developer betas are rolling out today, and they include the first opportunity to try out Apple Intelligence, the company's suite of generative AI features. Initially announced for iOS 18, Apple Intelligence is expected…
ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text
Enlarge / The app lets you invoke ChatGPT from anywhere in the system with a keyboard shortcut, Spotlight-style.Samuel Axon OpenAI announced its Mac desktop app for ChatGPT with a lot of fanfare a few weeks ago, but it turns out it had a rather serious security issue: user chats were stored in plain text, where…
3 million iOS and macOS apps were exposed to potent supply-chain...
Aurich Lawson Vulnerabilities that went undetected for a decade left thousands of macOS and iOS apps susceptible to supply-chain attacks. Hackers could have added malicious code compromising the security of millions or billions of people who installed them, researchers said Monday. The vulnerabilities, which were fixed last October, resided in a “trunk” server used to…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users
Enlarge / The app lets you invoke ChatGPT from anywhere in the system with a keyboard shortcut, Spotlight-style.Samuel Axon OpenAI's official ChatGPT app for macOS is now available to all users for the first time, provided they're running macOS Sonoma or later. It was previously being rolled out gradually to paid subscribers to ChatGPT's Plus…
MacBook Air gets hosed, other models hold steady in macOS 15...
Aurich Lawson As the Intel Mac era has wound down over the last couple of years, we've been painstakingly tracking the amount of software support that each outgoing model is getting. We did this to establish, with over 20 years' worth of hard data, whether Intel Mac owners were getting short shrift as Apple shifted…
How AI will change the iPhone and other Apple products
Here's what Tim Cook unveiled at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, including iOS 18, Apple Intelligence, and a ChatGPT-assisted Siri. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in.
My favorite macOS Sequoia feature so far might be the old-timey...
Enlarge / The classic Mac OS wallpaper in macOS 15 Sequoia mimics the monochrome user interfaces used in System 1 through 6. Apple I'm still in the very early stages of poking at macOS 15 Sequoia ahead of our customary review later this fall, and there are quite a few things that aren't working in…
Report: Apple isn’t paying OpenAI for ChatGPT integration into OSes
OpenAI / Apple / Benj Edwards On Monday, Apple announced it would be integrating OpenAI's ChatGPT AI assistant into upcoming versions of its iPhone, iPad, and Mac operating systems. It paves the way for future third-party AI model integrations, but given Google's multi-billion-dollar deal with Apple for preferential web search, the OpenAI announcement inspired speculation…
Apple quietly improves Mac virtualization in macOS 15 Sequoia
Enlarge / Macs running a preview build of macOS 15 Sequoia. Apple We’ve written before about Apple’s handy virtualization framework in recent versions of macOS, which allows users of Apple Silicon Macs with sufficient RAM to easily set up macOS and Linux virtual machines using a number of lightweight third-party apps. This is useful for…
