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X announced it will now notify users when their posts or accounts have had visibility limited because the company complied with a government's legal demand. This builds on the 'Under the Hood' transparency feature launched in August, letting users with at least 10 monthly posts download a data file showing labels, downranking, and which country requested the restriction.
In China, smartwatches designed for children have become a preferred device for parents managing preteens, offering location tracking and communication features without giving kids full smartphone access. These wearables let parents keep tabs on their children's whereabouts while limiting exposure to broader internet content and social apps.
Testing by Bilibili channel Homolab found that the 1TB iPhone 18 Pro Max, which uses QLC NAND, suffers major performance drops compared to the 512GB TLC-based iPhone 18 Pro. Once its SLC and secondary TLC caches are exhausted, sustained writes fall to about 79.4 MB/s and can dip as low as 25.6 MB/s, worsening to just 1.1 MB/s once the drive is 60% full.
Apple has released instructions letting Mac users turn off or restrict Apple Intelligence features, alongside details on language support and usage limits. The company confirmed Siri AI and other Apple Intelligence tools remain in beta across its OS lineup, with support currently limited to a set list of languages including English, French, German, Japanese, and others. Server-dependent features like Siri AI, Image Playground, and Intelligent Photo Editing Tools face daily usage caps that vary by demand and complexity.
Apple has pushed out a second round of release candidates for macOS Tahoe 26.7.1 (build 25G313) and macOS Sequoia 15.8.1 (build 24H212), just days after the first RCs. Apple describes both updates as containing important security fixes recommended for all users, without further detail yet on what's being patched.
Music industry veteran Frank Babar, founder of NYC's Embassy Studios, shared his career journey and business philosophy in an interview for How Success Happens. He described signing a 25-year lease for his state-of-the-art recording facility during the pandemic simply because he had the leverage and opportunity to do so, tracing his path from warehouse worker to music mogul.
Hasbro and the makers of Tetris found their intellectual property appropriated in government-produced propaganda content, prompting both companies to publicly clarify that their brands do not endorse the administration's messaging. The incidents mark a growing trend of copyright holders having to respond after official government accounts repurposed their imagery without permission.
iOS 27 introduces a Siri upgrade with 'personal context understanding,' which indexes a user's emails, messages, and other on-device content via a background process called 'Optimize Search and Siri.' Once complete, Siri can answer highly specific queries, like retrieving a hotel address from an email or recalling a song a friend recommended in a text.
Apple has pushed out the second beta of its 27.2 software updates for developers, just five days after beta 1 arrived. The rollout covers iPadOS 27.2, watchOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2 and related platforms, following last week's public launch of iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate. Notably, Apple skipped a 27.1 release for most devices, with reports suggesting that version is reserved exclusively for the rumored iPhone Duo.
Teatre Raval in Barcelona found its Instagram and Facebook ads for a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own' rejected by Meta's automated moderation. Meta told the theatre that its system automatically flags any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform as a restricted 'social topic,' and suggested removing such keywords to get the ads approved. The company did not clarify whether Woolf's name, the word 'feminism,' or both triggered the block.
Apple has pushed out the second developer beta of macOS 27.2, codenamed Golden Gate, carrying build number 26B5091g. The update follows last week's beta 1, which added multilingual support for Siri AI in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish after its English-only debut with macOS 27.
Dyson launched its CameraJet toothbrush, a $499 device combining a camera-guided water flosser with brushing, at a Paris event in early September, then began selling it in US stores on September 8. Within a day, customers reported water leaking into the device's battery compartment, and the product has since become unavailable for purchase, with Dyson declining to explain why.