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A disassembled iPhone Duo laid out on a workbench, with its folding display, hinge mechanism and accordion ribbon cable next to the battery

HardwareOctober 26, 2026

iPhone Duo: iFixit gives it 5/10 and eyes the hinge over cracked screens

iFixit has torn down the iPhone Duo and given it 5/10 for repairability, the best score it has ever handed a foldable. The teardown shows how Apple disguises the screen crease and offers a theory for the broken screens and hinges reported by early buyers.

Two Mac Studio computers placed side by side on a desk, illustrating a large AI model running locally

AIOctober 16, 2026

Muse Spark Open: Meta opens the weights, and it runs on two Mac Studios

Meta has opened the weights of Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter multimodal model that Apple and Meta made runnable on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios. For developers, it's a model you can host yourself, provided you're ready to pay for the hardware.

A MacBook with a glowing padlock on its screen, while a small AI robot holds out a master key toward the laptop

SoftwareOctober 3, 2026

macOS: Apple tightens Full Disk Access as AI agents come knocking

On 2 October 2026, Apple announced new controls on macOS Full Disk Access, the permission that hands an app the keys to your entire Mac. Its reason for the crackdown: AI agents are getting a lot more capable.

A MacBook with an M-series chip showing a frozen screen streaked with magenta artefacts and a spinning beachball cursor, next to a browser window running a WebGPU shader.

SecuritySeptember 11, 2026

A WebGPU shader freezes Apple Silicon Macs, and Apple won't fix it

A web page carrying a WebGPU shader freezes the display on M-series Macs and sends them into a reboot, in all three browsers tested. Apple reproduced the bug, then closed the report on 26 August with no fix.

A folding iPhone Duo standing half-open on a desk, its inner screen showing a virtual keyboard across the lower half.

HardwareSeptember 10, 2026

Apple opens the Ternus era with the $1,999 folding iPhone Duo

Apple unveiled its first folding iPhone on September 9, the $1,999 iPhone Duo, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro, the Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, and the AirPods 5. Prices are up, and the rumour mill got almost everything wrong.

iPhone Duo: iFixit gives it 5/10 and eyes the hinge over cracked screens

Muse Spark Open: Meta opens the weights, and it runs on two Mac Studios

macOS: Apple tightens Full Disk Access as AI agents come knocking

A WebGPU shader freezes Apple Silicon Macs, and Apple won't fix it

Apple opens the Ternus era with the $1,999 folding iPhone Duo

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