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Do You Use It? Clear and Tinted Icons Are a Hard Pass

Our poll results are in: virtually no TidBITS readers use clear or tinted icons on the Mac or the iPhone. But the real issue ...
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EveryMac Hits the 30-Year Mark

EveryMac is celebrating its 30th anniversary. For three decades, Brock Kyle’s comprehensive Apple specs site has been a ...
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“Hide My Email” Vulnerability Exposes Real Addresses

At 404 Media, Joseph Cox writes (paywalled): A vulnerability in Apple’s “Hide My Email” tool lets almost anyone discover a person’s real email address that is supposed to be hidden by the feature, and ...
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26.5.2 Updates Squash Vulnerabilities in macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Safari

Apple has released macOS 26.5.2, iOS 26.5.2 and iPadOS 26.5.2, and Safari 26.5.2, addressing 29 security vulnerabilities. Most fixes target WebKit, with additional patches for the kernel and other ...
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People and Companies Should Be Legally Liable for Their AI Agents

At his blog, Schneier on Security, public-interest technologist Bruce Schneier writes: AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be treated by the law as such. If ...
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#1810: Apple price increases, OS 26.5.2 security updates, concerns about AI agents, Do You Use It? poll about icon colors

Apple has raised prices on Macs and iPads by an average of 20%, blaming skyrocketing memory and storage costs driven by AI data center demand—Adam Engst analyzes the increases. On the security front, ...