Software

iOS 27 gives Apple Mail my most wished for feature upgrade

Apple’s Mail app in iOS 27 promises to offer the feature upgrade that’s been at the top of my wishlist for years: search that “just works.”

Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts

iFixit teardown reveals two-year-old, mid-range, Chinese Android

Apple gives Mac devs a WSL-ish thing to call their own

Persistent containers promise native tooling and strong isolation, though docs, features, and memory handling need polish

Here’s everything new for Apple’s Home app in iOS 27

Apple is rumored to launch several new Home products later this year, so it’s no surprise that iOS 27 includes new features in the Home app. Here’s everything new for the Home app in iOS 27.

Here’s everything new for Journal in iOS 27

Apple Journal has been one of my most-used apps since it came to the Mac last summer. iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate introduce a few welcome changes to the Journal app that make it even better.

Apple version of Office 2019 becomes useless in a month

The only solution is to buy an upgrade (or switch providers)

Apple again warns developers not to do what Apple did in macOS 26 Tahoe

The menu icons in macOS 26 Tahoe were roundly criticized for being both ugly and making Macs harder to use. A software engineer pointed out that Apple warned against this very mistake in guidelines published way back in 1992, and the company is now reiterating that decades-old advice as developers get to try macOS 27 Golden Gate …

Crimson Desert passes another big sales milestone as demand continues three months after release

We're just under three months since the release of Crimson Desert , the open-world action RPG from Korean studio Pearl Abyss. The game has continued to break sales records since it first became available for sale, and its developer has today announced a new sales milestone. Read more

AI summary Pearl Abyss released update 1.11.00 for the open-world action RPG Crimson Desert, which continues to add features that make the game resemble an animal breeding simulator. Additionally, the developer launched a community challenge event inviting players to submit videos for a chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to South Korea.

Security Bite: Apple’s most impressive agentic AI feature yet is hiding in the Passwords app

9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform . Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-the-art Apple-specific security solutions for fully automated Hardening & Compliance, Next Generation EDR, AI-powered Zero Trust, and exclusive Privilege…

Met Police joins forces with Apple to choke London's stolen phone trade

Intelligence-sharing pact tracks kit that comes back online after being nicked

Destiny 2's final update causes the biggest jump in players in nearly two years, as Marathon numbers coincidentally drop to near their lowest

Bungie may be done updating Destiny 2 forever , but the love players have for the sci-fi loot shooter clearly runs deep. Read more

Apple announces Slow Horses season 6 release date and first look

Apple TV today announced the release date for the sixth season of its popular spy drama series Slow Horses , based on the books by Mick Herron . The show stars Gary Oldman as the leader of a ‘dumping ground’ division inside MI5 known for its blunders more than its successes. Season 6 will premiere on September 16, with new episodes dropping weekly through October 21. The first look image featured…

AirPods Pro 3 drop to their best price ever as Apple announces new iOS 27 features

While we are still slightly under a couple weeks out from Amazon’s massive summer sale event , the best Prime Day deal of the year might already be live right now – Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 have now dropped to the best price ever at $179 shipped. Plus, Apple just announced a bunch of new iOS 27 features for AirPods coming this year … so there’s no better time to jump in.

Amazon’s ‘Story so far’ feature rolling out to US Kindles and iPhone app

Kindles have long offered a recap feature intended to act like the “Previously …” feature often seen on TV shows. It’s intended to remind you of a book’s story and characters when restarting reading after a lengthy gap. Amazon last year announced a far more sophisticated Story So Far version, and the feature is now finally rolling out to Kindles and the iPhone app in the US …

Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact

Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of situations where millions of different AI agents interact with each other online. According to Rohin Shah, who directs the company’s AGI safety and alignment research, the mass-market arrival of agents that can carry out tasks without human oversight and follow instructions given to them by other…

iOS 27: Your iPhone can now boot into a new Mac-like recovery mode

iOS 27 introduces a new device recovery mode. This is a Mac-like recovery feature where the iPhone is able to boot into an alternative UI that doesn’t involve loading the entirety of the main operating system. In the new recovery mode, you can use restore your software, enter diagnostics mode, erase the device, and perform some automated fixes using Recovery Assistant.

NS&I dangles £220K salary for CEO willing to straighten out £3B IT mess

Comes with a corner office, government scrutiny, and the 'full-spectrum disaster' known as Project Rainbow

Why China is betting on big nuclear reactors

It’s a tale of two nuclear industries. In China, large reactors are coming together at a stunning pace. The country has nearly doubled its nuclear fleet since 2016, reaching nearly 60 gigawatts of total power capacity. The new facilities are nearly all gigawatt-scale pressurized-water reactors. Meanwhile, the US has built just two reactors in that…

Inside soccer’s data renaissance

Imagine tuning in to the opening kickoff of a World Cup match and seeing a player intentionally send the ball all the way down the pitch and right out of bounds on the opponent’s end. Casual fans might scratch their heads. Where’s the logic in surrendering possession seconds into a game? If you were Jesse…

Job titles of the future: Nature’s drug designer

In 2018, after nearly two decades working in Big Pharma, chemist Tim Cernak was ready to put his skills to a new use. For Merck, he’d developed precision therapies for cancer, HIV, and diabetes that could target disease while minimizing harm to healthy cells. But as a lifelong nature lover, he was increasingly concerned about…