It’s well over three years since the launch of a new Apple Home architecture to make HomeKit more reliable and to support the Matter standard.

Still, not everyone has yet updated, and if you’re among them, you now have less than a week to do so before your smart home stops working …

Apple first announced a significant change to how the Apple Home app works back in 2022 with the introduction of iOS 16.2 – though some problems with it saw Apple pull the changes

Last year, a federal judge ruled that Google had illegally maintained a search monopoly, but allowed the company to keep paying to be the default search engine on Apple devices (with very few caveats). Now, the Department of Justice and a group of states are appealing the overall decision. Here are the details.

In August 2024, Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google had resorted to illegal means to maintain its monopoly in the U.S. online search market.

Part of that decision involved Google

As OpenAI accused xAI of systematically destroying internal communications, the court also shut down xAI’s bid to add a high-ranking former OpenAI researcher to discovery. Here’s the latest on this increasingly messy lawsuit.

If you’ve been following xAI’s lawsuit accusing Apple and OpenAI of colluding to prevent LLM competition in the App Store, you probably know that it has very little to do with App Store rankings.

You probably also know that xAI has been repeatedly accused of conducting fishing expeditions and requesting disproportionate amounts

It’s not just you: ChatGPT is down for many users right now. Here’s the latest on OpenAI’s outage.

ChatGPT users began experiencing issues using the service around 3:00 p.m. Eastern, per .

Reported cases about the outage spiked sharply shortly afterwards, with over 10,000 reported cases as of 3:15 p.m and climbing.

OpenAI’s confirms the outage is impacting every facet of ChatGPT, including conversations, search, image generation

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Apple TV is hosting a major media event today , and it just the highly-anticipated series Lucky, which stars Anya Taylor-Joy in her first big show since The Queen’s Gambit .

Anyone looking to launch an online shop runs into the same questions: Do I need to code? How do I choose the right products? And what about inventory, suppliers, and customer support?

Even with traditional online shop platforms and site-building tools, you still need to do most, if not all, of the heavy lifting. That’s where comes in.

is a full-stack AI e-commerce platform that deploys autonomous agents to build and operate online stores. Instead of learning to code or

Apple is hosting a special media event today called the ‘2026 Apple TV Press Day.’ Here’s everything that’s been announced at the event so far.

Apple informed developers today of an upcoming update to the minimum Software Development Kit (SDK) requirements for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS apps. Here are the details.

Apple has published a in its Developer News portal, informing developers that starting April 28, 2026, apps submitted to the App Store must meet Apple’s new minimum SDK requirements.

Here’s Apple:

Starting April 28, 2026, apps and games uploaded to App Store Connect need to