‘Reddit for bots’ Moltbook (probably) isn’t being used to plot an AI uprising

Moltbot, a personal AI assistant being run on batches of Mac minis , got a lot of attention when creator Matt Schlicht effectively to develop a social media platform for the bots. Known as Moltbook, it’s been colloquially referred to as Reddit for AI bots.

Schlicht says he didn’t write a single line of the code himself, and it wasn’t long before it was being suggested that Moltbot agents were using the social network to plot an AI uprising …

Originally known as Clawdbot, Maltbot is an open


Fitbit creators launch ‘Luffu,’ a new app for family health sharing

Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman today the launch of Luffu (“loo-foo”), a new health app for families that will eventually expand to hardware devices too. Here are the details.

The creators of Fitbit have even bigger ambitions in the health space. Those ambitions are being funneled into the just announced company Luffu, which aims to create “an intelligent family care system.”

To start, Luffu has built an app-based service designed for families, “with the goal of expanding


iOS 26.2 expands AirPods Pro’s powerful new feature, here’s how to use it

iOS 26.2 is the latest major iPhone update, and among its many new features , AirPods Live Translation expanded to a lot more users. Here’s how to use AirPods’ powerful recent addition.

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All-new MacBook Pro design reportedly set to launch in final quarter this year

We’re expecting to see two MacBook Pro launches this year. The first, expected sometime this month , is an M5 Pro and M5 Max version of the current design. But the far more exciting prospect is an all-new MacBook Pro design later in the year.

A new supply chain report says that Samsung is gearing up for production of the OLED panels for the new machine and that it will launch in the final three months of this year …

The current MacBook Pro is available with a base M


The latest iPhone Fold report is credible for one key reason

Yesterday saw a couple of claimed leaks about the iPhone Fold , one of them unremarkable, the other somewhat more surprising.

The first of them is almost certainly true, coming from a leaker with a good track record and in line with existing expectations. The second is a bit more of a wild card, but it does make sense to me …

Weibo leaker Fixed Focus Digital said that the iPhone Fold will get a 5500 mAh battery , the largest one ever seen in an iPhone.

That one is entirely


Lawsuit claims WhatsApp encryption is a lie; cryptography professor weighs in

Both the founders of WhatsApp and current owner Meta state that the app uses end-to-end encryption, meaning that nobody outside the chat can access the content. A lawsuit claims that this isn’t true and that anyone inside Meta can get full access to all of the messages sent or received by any WhatsApp user.

Johns Hopkins University professor and cryptographer Matthew Green has weighed in with a blog post analyzing the claims and likely reality …

WhatsApp founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton specifically built the messaging app around end-


Apple @ Work Podcast: The reality of macOS malware in the enterprise

, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple .

In this episode of Apple @ Work, Jaron Bradley from Jamf joins the show to talk about macOS


You can no longer downgrade to iOS 26.2

Following last week’s release of iOS 26.2.1, Apple has now stopped signing iOS 26.2. Here’s what that means.

Whenever Apple releases an iOS update with important security fixes, or decides a version is stable enough, it usually doesn’t take long before earlier versions stop being signed , effectively blocking downgrades.

As , that’s precisely what happened today with iOS 26.2.

In practice, this means that if you’re running iOS 26


Apple Maps gets a ‘Drops of God’ wine guide curated by actor Tomohisa Yamashita

To help promote the second season of Apple TV’s , the company has released an Apple Maps guide with some of actor Tomohisa Yamashita’s favorite wineries in Europe and the US. Here are the details.

Every now and then, Apple TV releases an Apple Maps guide tied to one of its shows or movies. Just last September, the company released a tour guide, highlighting 10 historic and iconic sites across Hawaiʻi and New Zealand that viewers might want to visit on their next trips.

Now,


New Apple study shows how grouping similar sounds can speed up AI speech generation

A group of Apple and Tel-Aviv University researchers figured out a way to speed up AI-based text-to-speech generation without sacrificing intelligibility. Here’s how they did it.

In a new paper titled , Apple researchers detail an interesting approach to generating speech from text.

While there are currently multiple approaches to generating speech from text, the researchers focused on autoregressive text-to-speech models, which generate speech tokens one at a time.

If you’ve ever looked up how most large language

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