Apple has two big aces up its sleeve to rise above AI struggles

One of the biggest narratives currently going around about Apple is the company’s AI struggles. But while those struggles are very real , Apple has two big aces up its sleeve that should minimize the damage from ‘new Siri’ shipping late, and propel the company into a bright future. Those two things: innovations in Apple’s upcoming hardware and software.

Apple’s bread and butter has long been the integration of hardware, software, and services to create great products.

Those products then tend to sell in

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Deals: Apple Polishing Cloth just $7, 1TB iPhone 15 Pro $649 off, official Apple USB-C cables from $8.50, more

We have big-time deals on and the new , hundreds in savings on the new models and deep discounts on the . But who cares about all of that today when you can score a wildly rare deal on Apple’s most innovative product in years – the venerable and it could sell out any time folks. We will have to wait until Apple Polishing Cloth 2 to release before it lands with Apple Intelligence support, but we also spotted the the original price alongside some other notable official Apple accessory deals today – and

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows is now available for Mac, and we made exclusive wallpapers to celebrate

launches on Mac today alongside its PC and console counterparts. The game is the latest sequel in the long-running Assassin’s Creed franchise from developer Ubisoft and features open world RPG gameplay set in feudal Japan.

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iPhones were being stolen off porches right after delivery, and now we know how

iPhone delivery day can be an especially exciting occasion. Sure the wait can be painful, but do you know what’s worse? Having your new iPhone stolen off the porch just seconds after delivery. That’s what was happening across thousands of US households, and now we know how.

Last November we reported on a strange report that porch pirates were stealing new iPhones immediately after delivery. Seemingly, they had access to AT&T tracking data.

Now, arrests have been made and answers have been revealed.


Should Apple let us choose our own AI chatbot to replace Siri?

The embarrassment over the state of Siri continues, with the discovery that the ‘intelligent’ assistant doesn’t even know what month it is .

My colleague Zac Hall suggested that things are now so bad the Siri brand is irredeemably tarnished , and any new version should be given a completely new name – but some think Apple should go further than this, and let us replace Siri with our own choice of AI chatbot

Siri’s lack of progress has been the source of complaints for a decade now.

I could


YouTube investigating widespread low quality video playback issues on iOS

Google has confirmed it is investigating an issue causing low quality in playback of videos and Shorts through the YouTube app on iOS.

Recently, a large number of YouTube users on iOS – including iPhone and iPad – have noticed that video playback is of very low quality. Despite a strong connection, videos might only load in 144p, leading to a very poor viewing experience.

In a post on its Community Help forums, Google has confirmed it is aware of this issue and is investigating. It’s added


Apple TV+ is losing $1 billion every year, per report

is having a big cultural moment thanks to the popularity of Severance’s second season, which concludes tonight . But leaving its current success aside, claims that the streamer has continued being a money drain for Apple even five years after launch.

about the state of Apple TV+ as a business, analyzing where the streamer stands in terms of revenue and subscribers after five years.

In the heavily-paywalled article, Ma reports that Apple’s losses on TV+ amount to over $1 billion per year. While it


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Latest iPhone 17 dummy units seemingly indicate the metal and glass sections

A leaker is out with a new set of iPhone 17 dummy models based on CAD drawings, and these latest ones have a detail not previously seen.

The mockups of the two iPhone 17 Pro models appear to indicate which areas of the case back will be metal and which will be glass …

We heard late last year that the back of the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max models would feature a new construction , mixing aluminum and glass.

The back of the Pro and Pro Max models will feature a new

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Meta AI chatbot rolling out to Europe after privacy delay, with a huge limitation

The Meta AI chatbot is finally rolling out to European countries from this week, and will be accessible in Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger. However, the headline feature of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses will not be available.

The generative AI feature first launched in the US back in 2023, but privacy concerns were raised when it came to light that the company had been training it on Facebook and Instagram posts since way back in 2007 ….

European privacy legislation required the company


This is one of the most sophisticated phishing attacks ever made against Mac users

The criminals behind a phishing attack aimed at Windows users are now targeting Mac users instead. The goal is to steal your Apple Account credentials ( aka Apple ID ).

The security researchers who uncovered the scam say that it’s one of the most sophisticated attacks ever mounted against Mac users …

monitoring a long-running phishing attack against Window users found that Mac users are now the primary target after Microsoft introduced new security measures.

For the past few months, LayerX has been monitoring a sophisticated phishing campaign that initially targeted Windows

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