9to5Mac Daily: February 10, 2026 – App Store changes, MacBook rumors

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MrBeast just bought a popular banking app

MrBeast, the king of YouTube, is now the new owner of a banking app called . It’s a big move meant to kickstart the popular creator’s new ‘MrBeast Financial’ business arm.

Jimmy Donaldson (“MrBeast”) and his company Beast Industries announced a major entry into the financial services space via the acquisition of a popular banking app, Step.

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Beast Industries, the largest and most innovative creator based platform in the world, today announced the acquisition of Step, a financial technology company dedicated


Jony Ives’ AI hardware is delayed to 2027 and won’t be called io

The mysterious AI hardware device designed by Jony Ive for OpenAI has been delayed, according to a new court filing. It had originally been scheduled to launch later this year but now won’t ship any earlier than February 2027.

The same court paperwork also reveals that the company is no longer planning to use the name io for the upcoming device …

The company first teased the device in a video back in May of last year. They promised it would be a completely new concept in AI hardware but didn


iPhone battery life test shows just how much power 5G drains compared to WiFi

It is common knowledge that communicating over WiFi is more efficient than using the 5G cellular network, but by how much exactly? That’s exactly what to measure in its latest battery life benchmark test.

Using an , the test simulated general phone usage including texting, web browsing, streaming video, Instagram and FaceTime. Once on 5G, once on WiFi. The final timings are perhaps closer than you’d think.

In this specific test, the iPhone on 5G lasted a total of 10 hours


AirPods cameras could mean support for Vision Pro-style hand gestures

One of the more persistent and long-standing Apple rumors has been the launch of new AirPods models with built-in cameras. Another leaker added their support for this idea just yesterday .

Exactly what role these cameras would perform has been the subject of much speculation, with some suggesting they will be used to support Apple Intelligence visual features. While that is certainly possible, I can’t help wondering whether the reports point to support for hand gestures similar to those used with Vision Pro

The first report of AirPods with


Apple makes four promises to developers about fairer treatment

Apple has responded to complaints that it abuses its dominant position in the iPhone app market by making four promises to third-party developers about fairer treatment.

Developers and others are being asked for their comments on the proposals, and the UK’s antitrust regulator says it will be closely measuring the effectiveness of the measures …

Apple has long been accused by competition regulators around the world of abusing its market dominance in two ways. First, by effectively holding a monopoly on the sale of iPhone apps, since these could only be


Two reasons helped Apple hit record iPhone sales, and they’re both orange

Apple recently reported the best iPhone sales in the company’s history in the final quarter of last year. While the long-term trend has of course been upward, the company revealed a dramatic boost to the numbers.

We’ve already seen analysts describe some of the reasons for this, but a new report suggests two additional factors – and both of them are the color orange …

Apple’s latest earnings report revealed that the company had its best fiscal quarter ever , with record iPhone sales a major element of


Apple @ Work Podcast: Zero Trust is really a little trust

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In this episode of Apple @ Work, joins the show to discuss zero trust in the age of


DuckDuckGo adds free, encrypted real-time AI voice chat to Duck.ai

For those who choose to use AI as part of their search workflow, the feature is rolling out for free with daily limits, with higher caps for DuckDuckGo subscribers. Here are the details.

Last March, DuckDuckGo announced , its chatbot platform that offers a private way to search or talk to 3rd-party LLMs from frontier AI labs such as OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and Mistral.

As the year progressed, Duck.ai got new features, such as image generation, which we covered here .

Today,

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Last call: Update Apple Home by tomorrow, or your HomeKit setup may stop working

If you’re still running Apple Home on the old HomeKit architecture, this is your final reminder: Apple’s migration deadline is tomorrow, February 10. Here’s how to update.

Back in October 2022, with the release of iOS 16.2 (and then again with iOS 16.4 after a few bumps in the road), Apple reworked the entire architecture of the Home app to make it more reliable as it rolled out support for the Matter standard.

At

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