Meta community notes open to contributors, as Musk threatens to ‘fix’ them on X

Meta community notes are expected to launch within the next couple of months, after the social network announced it would be ending its own fact-checking program because facts are so 2015. You can now apply to be a contributor to these, signing up on one of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

Meantime, X owner Elon Musk appears to be threatening the impartiality of his platform’s community notes, announcing plans to “fix” the feature …

Back in the halcyon days when people cared about whether


Here’s the complete iPhone 17 line-up according to three high-profile leakers

While there have been some differences of opinion between leakers in the past, three high-profile ones have all endorsed the same CAD drawing of the complete iPhone 17 line-up.

The drawing shows the three completely different camera layouts expected for the base iPhone 17 , the iPhone 17 Air , and the two iPhone 17 Pro models …

Majin Bu has been the source of a number of accurate leaks in the past, most recently the naming of the iPhone 16e . Bu was the first to

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Apple made this change to avoid appearing to approve iPhone porn apps

A technicality had previously given the impression that Apple approved of a porn app being made available to iPhone users in the EU via a third-party app store .

That lead to some misleading headlines, but Apple has now solved the problem by changing three words in the email sent to developers …

The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) last year required Apple to allow third-party app stores on the iPhone, and the company begrudgingly complied – though did its best to deter iPhone owners from using them, and


As Trump tariffs loom, Apple pledges more than $500bn in US investment, new Texas factory

Apple has today announced that it is committed to invest more than $500 billion in the United States over the next four years, including 20,000 U.S. jobs and a new factory in Houston, Texas.

The $500 billion headline figure is not all new, with much of what is having been pledged before. The news is clearly aimed at satiating the Trump administration, with Apple perhaps hoping it will be enough to get tariff exemptions on its products.

Apple described


You can now use AirPods Pro as hearing aids in the UK

As previously reported in January, the can now be used as hearing aids in the United Kingdom, having now received government approval for over-the-counter hearing aid devices.

AirPods Pro 2 can address mild to moderate hearing loss. With an iPhone and AirPods Pro, users can perform a hearing test, and apply their hearing profile to their earbuds for continuous hearing correction. This functionality is all available as a free software update.

, Apple says it is delighted to bring an end-to-end hearing health experience


Apple just fixed one of CarPlay’s biggest usability issues

Apple released iOS 18.4 beta on Friday, with a number of unique new features . Some of the new features include Priority Notifications with Apple Intelligence, a new Food section in the Apple News app, and more. However, there was another smaller change that went under the radar, one that has to do with CarPlay – particularly on larger displays.

Spotted by , CarPlay in iOS 18.4 can now include a third row of app icons – up from two. This means that CarPlay will now

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iOS 18.4 beta finally enables ‘Find My’ support in South Korea

Last July, citizens of South Korea started a petition asking Apple to enable Find My support in the region. It was assumed that Find My was unavailable due to government restrictions, but that wasn’t actually the case according to the petition.

Apple later agreed to launch Find My support for the region in spring 2025, and that integration is finally starting to roll out.

Highlighted by , the Find My network is now available in South Korea, as of iOS 18.4 beta 1. This


These are my favorite unique charging accessories for your Apple ecosystem

If you take a look at the current landscape of charging accessories in 2025, it seems like everyone is doing the same thing. Every brand has its flagship 3 in 1 charger or a 140W wall charger, or a Magsafe charging brick. So what I wanted to do is highlight some products that have brought some unique twists to a product category that seems to have been stale. Let me know which is your favorite!

Be sure to check out the hands-on video below to see

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Apple Silicon

Gurman: Future Apple modems likely to be integrated with main chipset

In the , Mark Gurman reports that Apple plans on integrating future modems within the main chipset of the device. This means that, in the future, there won’t be both an A18 chipset alongside a separate C1 modem, instead they’ll all be one. This development will take a few years, though.

In the announcement for the new iPhone 16e , the new C1 modem went a little under the radar. It was Apple’s first in-house 5G modem


Apple wants the iPhone 17 Pro to replace your camera for video recording: report

According to the from Mark Gurman, Apple plans to heavily focus on video recording improvements for the new iPhone 17 Pro models. The company has previously focused primarily on photography, so it’s nice to hear that video will be getting some much-needed love.

Apple wants the iPhone to replace your camera. They’ve been trying to develop the best mobile camera system for quite some time. Soon, they’ll be taking that a step further, by focusing more heavily on video. iPhones have always

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