Some users are experiencing beachballs or lagging performance on their Macs on macOS 26.5 , and it seems the culprit may be Apple Intelligence photo scanning in the background.

High battery usage also appears to be an issue for some of those seeing these symptoms …

I first started experiencing the problem myself yesterday, and when I checked Activity Monitor, one process was variously using anything from 50% up to 150%: mediaanalysisd. Googling this found a number of users complaining about the same issue, with others

Microsoft has announced that it’s ending support for older Macs and iPhones in Microsoft 365, Office 2019, and Office 2021.

From next month, those using older versions of macOS and iOS will still be able to open Office documents to view them but won’t be able to edit or create files …

As of July 13 , the oldest Apple operating system supported will be macOS 12 Monterey and iOS 17.

Starting July 13, 2026

United States District Judge Mark Pittman has rejected xAI’s attempt to keep Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX emails out of discovery in the lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI. Here are the details.

Last month, the legal teams of Apple, OpenAI, X, and xAI had a hearing before United States Magistrate Judge Hal R. Ray, Jr., to address several disagreements regarding the discovery process in the lawsuit Elon Musk filed against Apple and OpenAI.

The lawsuit stemmed from Musk’s dissatisfaction with Grok’s

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Apple Towson Town Center employees received an endorsement from Maryland Governor Wes Moore in their fight against Apple over the company’s decision to close its first US unionized store. Here are the details.

A couple of months ago, Apple announced that its Towson Town Center would close its doors for good on June 20, alongside two other stores located in commercial centers in California and Connecticut.

The Apple Towson Town Center workers have been represented by the IAM Union since 2022, after becoming the first Apple retail store

We’re just days away from Apple’s iOS 27 unveiling on June 8 at WWDC. Here are five rumored new features in iOS 27 that I’m most excited about.

Clipboard manager Paste got even more useful today, with the release of Paste MCP: a tool that connects your clipboard history to several AI tools, from Claude and Codex, to Cursor and beyond. Here are the details.

A bit of context

In late 2024, Anthropic proposed the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standard for connecting AI assistants and traditional platforms.

Soon after the announcement, and even more so after Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation, the protocol was

iOS 27’s unveiling is almost here , and Siri’s major overhaul is set to make not only the iPhone feel far more powerful, but AirPods too.

Today, Microsoft Build brought the announcement of Project Solara, a new chip-to-cloud platform for AI agents. With the reveal, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared an interesting quote on the company’s vision for an agent-first computing future.

Microsoft and Qualcomm are partnering on a new initiative called Project Solara to advance agent-first computing.

Per Qualcomm, Solara is “a new chip-to-cloud platform where silicon, software and cloud come together to power AI experiences that are more personal, more