It has been a wait. Apple Intelligence will begin rolling out on October 28, based on Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Apple mentioned final month it was concentrating on October for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 — which is able to deliver a few of the first Apple Intelligence options to iPhone 16 and the remainder of the Apple household.
The primary wave of Apple Intelligence-powered options will embody its summarization device, Writing Instruments and good audio recording and transcriptions for Mail, Notes, Pages and different apps. I’ve been testing the beta, and to date, essentially the most helpful function has been the summarization device, tackling my forest of notifications and messages and parsing them into glanceable summaries.
— Mat Smith
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The corporate mentioned no consumer accounts had been compromised.
Scammers hijacked the toy brick maker’s web site final week. They switched its banner and used it for a crypto rip-off. A banner with illustrated golden cash bearing the corporate’s brand claimed the “Lego coin is now officially out.” It even promised secret rewards to those that’d purchase some. The incident occurred in a single day at Lego’s headquarters. The corporate responded comparatively shortly, eradicating the unauthorized banner and hyperlinks. Lego instructed Engadget no consumer accounts had been compromised.
These had been points with the iPhone 16 collection.
A extra fast replace from Apple: It has launched two new patches, together with iOS 18.0.1 for iPhones and iPadOS 18.0.1. The patch fixes recording points with all of the iPhone 16 fashions within the Messages app. The iPhone’s microphone would by accident begin recording just a few seconds earlier than changing into activated with the orange microphone icon.
It was the corporate’s try to keep away from paying a $400,000 nice.
X tried to keep away from a $400,000 nice by claiming Twitter (its outdated title) now not exists. The … inventive authorized argument got here amid a more-than-year-long dispute with Australia’s eSafety Fee. The fee had requested the corporate to supply particulars about its dealing with of kid sexual exploitation on the platform final February. X did not reply a number of questions and was slapped with a $415,000-plus nice for non-compliance. The argument isn’t precisely new: CEO Linda Yaccarino has additionally repeatedly claimed X is a “brand new company” in a bid to keep away from scrutiny. She repeated the road a number of instances earlier this yr whereas testifying at a Senate listening to on baby issues of safety. Australia federal decide Michael Wheelahan, nonetheless, was not having it.
