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Apple's iOS 27 update brings major improvements to iCloud Shared Albums, including support for full-resolution photos and videos, custom emoji reactions instead of just likes, and easier one-tap saving. Android and Windows users can now contribute content via the web rather than only viewing shared photos, and users gain new participant permission controls plus the option to set album expiration dates.
Google has reduced trade-in credits offered toward Pixel 11 series purchases, ending the launch-window bonuses it previously offered. The Pixel 10 Pro Fold saw the steepest cut, dropping from $1,000 to $850, while most other recent Pixel models lost $50 or less in trade value. Google says these new lower rates will remain in effect through September.
A longtime GitHub user since 2012 has migrated all private repositories to a self-hosted Forgejo instance and cancelled his subscription, including Copilot. He cites frequent outages and instability, alongside distrust over how GitHub's parent company uses developer code to train AI models.
Apple has increased subscription prices for Apple TV and Apple One bundles, with some plans rising by as much as 20%. The change affects both standalone Apple TV subscribers and those paying for bundled Apple One tiers that combine multiple services.
Mark Patricof, founder of Patricof Co., is developing a business focused on channeling the growing financial influence of professional and college athletes into investment opportunities. The effort aims to help athletes leverage their earnings and public profiles beyond their playing careers.
Omdia analyst Theresa Lanowitz discussed with Dark Reading how organizations are increasing investment in offensive security practices like penetration testing and red teaming as AI-powered attacks become more common. She highlighted the emerging role of agentic AI tools in conducting these security tests, alongside the new risks such automation introduces.
Victims across China report losing between $1,500 and $300,000 after scammers posed as romantic partners or professionals and moved conversations from social platforms onto Microsoft Teams using shared login credentials. Once trust was established, the scammers pitched cryptocurrency investments and disappeared with victims' money, leaving them unable to access chat records for police reports since they never controlled the accounts themselves. Local Chinese law enforcement agencies have begun warning the public that Teams is being used as a fraud tool, and platforms like Maimai now flag messages mentioning Teams or Skype as high-risk.
OOAK, a consumer brand-building company founded by Bob Verlaat, Nick Nijhof and Vince Nijhof, hosted a three-day invite-only conference at the Castelfalfi resort in Tuscany in late August. Roughly 100 founders running businesses with seven- to nine-figure revenues paid $14,000 each to attend keynotes and fireside chats aimed at scaling their companies. The event grew out of two smaller gatherings OOAK previously ran in Dubai.
An early-stage investor and Entrepreneur contributor describes walking away from investments that appear promising on the surface but carry hidden structural risks. He cites examples like a hydration test product with an unworkable cost structure, alongside deals involving founders he can't fully trust or markets dominated by entrenched competitors. The piece frames these quiet rejections as some of his most valuable investment decisions, even though they generate no visible outcomes.
Operation Bluebird, led by former Twitter legal counsel Stephen Coates, has launched a new social platform at Twitter.now featuring a blue design and bird logo reminiscent of the original Twitter. The launch comes even as a federal judge in Delaware has yet to rule on Elon Musk's request for an injunction in his trademark lawsuit against the group. Coates argues that Musk abandoned the Twitter name and bird logo when he rebranded the company to X in 2022.
Nutanix executive Oscar Wahlberg argues that securing autonomous AI agents requires a defense-in-depth approach spanning infrastructure, storage, compute, networking and a governing control plane, rather than relying on prompt-level guardrails alone. He explains that infrastructure security must first establish a verified identity and root of trust for any system granted execution privileges, since traditional application controls fail to stop an agent from misusing credentials or taking unintended destructive actions.
Apple has again raised subscription prices, with Apple TV climbing from $13 to $15 per month and its annual plan jumping 20 percent from $99 to $119. The individual Apple One bundle, which includes Apple TV, Music, Arcade, Fitness+, News+ and iCloud+, rose from $20 to $22 monthly. Existing subscribers get one month's notice before the new rates take effect.