Apple just updated its refurbished M2 Mac mini pricing, they’re now a pretty great deal

On Wednesday, Apple begun selling refurbished M4 Mac mini models on its store, starting at $509 for the base model. This was great, though there was one problem, by MacRumors on Thursday: an M2 Mac mini with the same specs would cost $50 more than an M4 model, despite the dated design.

Apple has now fixed that pricing problem, cutting refurbished model prices by at least $100.

Before this pricing change, refurbished Mac mini’s were priced


Developer for Linux on Apple Silicon Macs resigns, citing ‘major failure of leadership’

Yesterday morning, Hector Martin from his position as project lead of Asahi Linux. This was a community effort that kicked off shortly after the Mac transition to Apple Silicon begun, in early 2021. After a ton of effort, the team finally released an alpha build of Asahi Linux for M1 and M2 Macs in early 2022. The project was going well.

However, because of burnout and an uphill battle with the Linux community, including Linux Torvalds himself, Hector Martin decided to resign


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Apple @ Work: The knocks against Apple Silicon get smaller as x86 emulation arrives

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Siri with promised Apple Intelligence upgrades may not be fully ready until iOS 18.5

In the category of disappointing but not surprising, Mark Gurman reports for Bloomberg that the upgraded version of Siri may not be fully ready for iOS 18.4 when it arrives soon.

Apple announced these three Siri upgrades at its Worldwide Developer Conference last June:

Personal Context Understanding

With the on-device semantic index provided by Apple Intelligence, Siri can understand emails, messages, photos, calendar events, files, and more. It can provide answers to questions that are personal to you. For example, when you say


Gentler Streak gains new Home Screen widgets with health metrics

Gentler Streak, one of the most popular fitness and wellness apps for Apple devices, has just been updated again. This time, the latest version of the app adds multiple new widgets with different health metrics, so that users can get an overview of their health right from their Home Screen.

The widgets are based on Gentler Streak’s Wellbeing section, which shows multiple body metrics based on health data collected by the . The app uses data such as average heart rate, wrist temperature, respiration rate, and oxygen saturation


Security Bite: A dangerous place to be an iPhone

Imagine you’re on your way to dinner, walking down a decently busy street during the day. You’re using your new iPhone 16 Pro for directions before, out of nowhere, a masked individual on an e-bike whips around to your side and snatches you’re Desert Titanium baby and zooms off. All in seconds. This sounds like a one-off insane situation, but this is precisely what happened to Dimitar Stanimiroff last week in London, England. And he’s not alone…


Runtime 003: Boom goes quiet, T-Mobile Starlink explained, Musk’s OpenAI bid

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Netflix confirms it didn’t mean to support that Apple TV feature everyone has wanted for years

Netflix has taken a break from raising prices to confirm that it didn’t mean to support that Apple TV feature everyone has wanted for years.

Earlier today, Apple TV set-top box users started noticing that Netflix movies and TV shows were appearing in Apple’s TV app. The basic integration brought Netflix into the world of Apple TV’s universal queue for adding and resuming content from a watch list.

Within a few hours of popping up in the United States, however, the feature started to vanish.


iOS 18.4 beta release date: Here’s what to expect

Apple wrapped up its iOS 18.3 beta cycle weeks ago, and normally new betas would have arrived already. But we’re still waiting for iOS 18.4 beta 1. Fortunately, the wait should be over soon.

Software releases at Apple follow a fairly predictable schedule, where new betas usually arrive within days of a big public software launch.

This time around, that hasn’t happened. iOS 18.3 launched at the end of January, yet here we are in mid-


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Apple is launching a new product next week, here’s what to expect

Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that Apple will launch a new product on Wednesday, January 19. The most likely release is the much-anticipated iPhone SE 4, but there are a few other possibilities. Here’s everything you need to know.

The iPhone SE 4 has been rumored for over two years, and it’s going to be a massive upgrade to Apple’s most affordable iPhone model. The revamp will include an all-new design inspired by the iPhone 14, along with major

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