45 minutes ago
iOS 27 Beta 5 Refreshes App Icons and Expands Siri AI Voice Options, With One Notable Removal
Key Takeaways iOS 27 beta 5 refreshes several app icons with Apple’s Liquid Glass design, including Safari, Siri, Settings, Remote, App Store, and Preview. Siri AI voice customization expands to British English, adding Pace and Expressivity controls across four British English voices. The Siri voice controls require newer hardware, with…
14 hours ago
Meta Releases Muse Glimmer, a Laptop-Ready AI Model, as Zuckerberg Pushes for Looser Open-Source Rules
Key Takeaways Glimmer is a distilled version of Muse Spark 1.2, compressed from over 55GB down to roughly 17GB so it fits on consumer GPUs with 24 or 32GB of memory. The model is available free on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, and is built for local, always-on…
14 hours ago
Apple’s Watch Team Weighs Round Screens, No Screens at All in Biggest Rethink Since Launch
Key Takeaways Apple is weighing circular displays of various sizes, though Gurman says a round-screen Apple Watch remains unlikely to actually ship. A screenless fitness tracker is also under consideration, aimed directly at competing with devices like Whoop and Google’s recently launched Fitbit Air. Apple is exploring both new premium…
23 hours ago
North Korea’s Kimsuky Hacking Group Built Its Own Local AI Tools to Power Cyberattacks
Key Takeaways Genians found Kimsuky running local large language model tools including Ollama, GPT4All, and Msty, paired with retrieval-augmented generation technology for searching documents. Running AI models locally lets Kimsuky’s operators process stolen or sensitive material without sending it to outside AI services, where activity could be logged or flagged.…
3 days ago
Apple Lets Chinese Mac Users Tap Alibaba’s Qwen AI Through Siri
Key Takeaways The integration requires macOS 26.6 and a separate Qwen account activation, and currently applies to Mac only, not iPhone or iPad. Users who opt in get more detailed Siri responses, including photo and document analysis, while Writing Tools can generate text or images from a description using Qwen.…
