Emma Roth
Apple is building a virtual ring light into macOS.
The second macOS 26.2 beta comes with an “Edge Light” feature that brightens up the edges of your display, helping to improve your lighting during video calls.
macOS
macOS is Apple’s operating system for the Mac. It has been around quite a long time, but in its current form it really started in 2001 with Mac OS X 10.1. It’s built on top of a UNIX core, which makes it very stable, versatile, and great for developers. It’s popular with creators too, as a good platform for video editing and photography. More recently, Apple has begun working to bring iOS apps to the Mac, which could change how MacBooks, iMacs, Mac Pros, and Mac Minis work for everybody.
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A chip bump to an excellent laptop doesn’t make it less excellent.
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Richard Lawler
Apple releases minor iOS 26, macOS Tahoe updates with a few bug fixes.
There are fixes for bugs that some new iPhone 17 / Pro / Air owners have noticed, like wonky Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios, as well as camera artifacts experienced “under certain lighting conditions.”
One iOS 26 issue addressed is blank custom tinted icons, plus one security flaw for a “maliciously crafted font.”
Liquid Glass is solidly mid at best, but Tahoe ain’t terrible.
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Apple’s new cross-platform design system is created for a world we don’t live in.
David Pierce
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Emma Roth
Apple issues a security patch for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
A vulnerability (CVE-2025-43300) stemming from Apple’s image processing framework, “may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals,” according to Apple.
Apple has rolled out a patch for iOS 18.6.2, iPadOS 18.6.2, macOS Sequoia 15.6.1, and other OS versions listed here.
Apple fixes new zero-day flaw exploited in targeted attacks
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Andrew Liszewski
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Richard Lawler
Apple’s next iPhone, iPad, Mac, monitor, and... CEO.
Mark Gurman’s newsletter runs the gamut of Apple nexts this weekend, starting with rumors of the “iPhone 17e” kicking off an annual refresh cycle for cheaper iPhones, more iterative chip-bump updates for the Mac and iPad starting this fall, and Apple’s first new Mac external monitor since 2022’s Studio Display.
There’s also some succession plan musing around (secretly swole?) CEO Tim Cook detailing why hardware chief John Ternus is most likely, and how the design team that will be reporting to Cook might do so via Alan Dye and Molly Anderson.
Dominic Preston
A MacBook with an iPhone chip.
That’s what Apple is working on next, at least according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The more affordable MacBook would use the same A18 Pro chip found in the iPhone 16 Pro series, and pack a 13-inch display and colorful finishes like silver, blue, pink, and yellow.
Apparently Apple is aiming to sell 5-7 million of them too, making up more than a fifth of its overall laptop sales.
Andrew Liszewski
8BitDo’s customization software now supports more controllers on Macs.
The company has released an update to its Ultimate Software V2 that expands the number of devices you can customize using the macOS version, bringing it more in line with the Windows version, it announced on X.
Support on macOS has been expanded to now include the 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wireless, Wired, and Bluetooth controllers, the Ultimate Mobile Gaming Controller, the Retro Receivers for the Saturn and Nintendo GameCube, and the Retro R8 Mouse N Edition.
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Emma Roth
Andrew Liszewski
macOS Tahoe could finally say goodbye to FireWire.
According to @NekoMichiUBC on X, and a Reddit thread, the first developer beta of macOS Tahoe does not include support for the IEEE 1394 standard, which Apple calls FireWire. Older external drives, capturing footage from MiniDV cameras, and even the first generation iPod aren’t compatible.
However, it’s still several months before macOS Tahoe is officially released. FireWire support could still return, but the last computer Apple released with the port was the 13-inch 2012 MacBook Pro.
macOS Tahoe Beta Drops FireWire Support
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Big changes are in store across Apple’s platforms, from a design refresh to major multitasking improvements for the iPad.
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Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Richard Lawler
Apple’s OS overhaul could bring ‘Liquid Glass’ UI ahead of a 20th anniversary iPhone.
Mark Gurman’s Bloomberg newsletter brings one more pre-WWDC 25 rumor, saying the most exciting part of the conference will be the rumored design overhaul for iPhone, Mac, and other platforms that he says is called Liquid Glass (remember Microsoft’s Aero Glass, and Apple’s iOS 7 shift away from skeuomorphism?).
Adding “transparency and shine effects in all of Apple’s tool bars, in-app interfaces and controls,” he says it sets the stage for next year’s “Glasswing” iPhone design with curved glass sides, slim bezels, and no cutout section in the display.
