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Remember the Apple Vision Pro? Remember? It was a big, ambitious swing from Tim Cook and Co. - a $3,500 headset that lets you experience "augmented reality" - or, if you follow Apple's demands for branding - " spatial computing." Apple first showed off the Vision Pro in the spring of 2023, and then started selling the device in February 2024, and since then ... you really haven't heard much about it.

When I got my iPhone 15 Pro Max in September 2023, I decided that I'd do everything I could to make the battery last. Well, an accident destroyed that handset, so I restarted the experiment in March 2024. Also: The best power banks you can buy in 2025 I wanted to see just how much lifespan I could get out of the battery.

The UK government has issued a new order giving it the right to demand access to the personal data of Apple's British users, the BBC understands. It is the latest development in the ongoing dispute between Apple and the Home Office over data privacy. The UK says it needs to be able to access individuals' private data - when backed by an appropriate warrant - if there is a threat to national security.

The Home Office had previously sought access to data on Apple's advanced data protection (ADP) service uploaded by any user around the world, triggering a clash with the White House. The Financial Times reported on Wednesday that the government has returned with a new access order, called a technical capability notice, seeking access to the encrypted cloud backups of British citizens.

According to internal sources at Apple, the company has built a ChatGPT-like app for iPhones that helps the engineering team develop the next-generation Siri, powered by LLM. Reportedly, the AI division is using the internal app to test new Siri features, including the ability to search through personal information like songs, emails, photos, videos, etc. It's also capable of executing in-app actions, such as editing photos.

As great as Apple's products are in the performance department, a huge part of their appeal has always been, well, they're cool looking. The latest models of the longtime favorite Mac Mini - the M4 Mac Mini and M4 Mac Mini Pro - are no exception. But it's a third-party accessory - the amazing UGREEN dock and stand - that is the best fit possible for the M4 Mac Mini for performance and expanded capability, and it passes the good-looks test.

Tracked as CVE-2025-43400, the security defect is described as an out-of-bounds write issue in the operating system's FontParser component that could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition or memory corruption. "Processing a maliciously crafted font may lead to unexpected app termination or corrupt process memory," Apple explains. According to advisories from the Hong Kong CERT and Akaoma Cybersecurity, the vulnerability can be exploited remotely, without privileges, although user interaction is required.

Programs adopting approachable concurrency are single-threaded by default, which is ideal for scripts and UI code, and provide greater resilience for asynchronous code that accesses mutable state by running it on the caller's executor thread. When you want to ensure an async method is run on the concurrent thread pool instead of in the caller's context, you can use the @concurrent annotation. InfoQ previously covered approachable concurrency following its announcement at Apple's WWDC 2025, providing additional detail and context.

We always knew people took a lot of selfies, but when Apple unveiled its 2025 fall devices, it revealed that iPhone users had taken over 500 billion selfies in the past year. Since there are about 1.5 billion iPhone users in the world, that's an average of about 330 selfies a year per person. No wonder Apple decided to reimagine how the front-facing camera works on the iPhone this year.

I'm still looking for my fall jacket. And football weather isn't quite here yet, but I know it's fall because I've got a new iPhone in my pocket. My phone's images are so crisp, that even my Leica is on the shelf for the moment. And like clockwork, I'm fielding questions at home, with friends, and around the office: "Is the new iPhone worth buying?" It's a dumb question.

'Work [on the foldable iPhone] continues in Cupertino as well as with the company's supplier and assembly partners overseas,' he explained. 'While there has been some noise recently about production occurring in India, everything I've heard points to manufacturing at least also taking place with Foxconn in China.' The leaker claims that the foldable iPhone will look like 'two titanium iPhone Air side-by-side.' 'In other words, it's going to be super thin and a design achievement,' he added.