Matt Neuburg’s free TidBITS News app gets a notable update with a complete rewrite for iOS 26 and Swift 6.2, plus Dark mode support. Even better, he has open-sourced the code on GitHub for curious developers.

The new Apple Creator Studio subscription bundles Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, and more for $129 per year, but one-time purchases remain available for the Mac versions, so it’s worth doing the math before subscribing.

Apple and Google have announced a multi-year partnership to base the next generation of Apple’s foundation models on Google’s Gemini technology. This collaboration will drive future Apple Intelligence features, including an improved Siri expected later this year.

Gmail is dropping support for POP fetching from other accounts and the Gmailify feature. Most users won't notice, but those with complex email setups should start planning a migration.

Logitech has released a manual fix for Logi Options Plus and G Hub users on macOS after an expired certificate caused both apps and their built-in updaters to stop working.

CoreCode has stopped maintaining MacUpdater, the popular utility that tracked updates for over 100,000 Mac apps. If you relied on it to manage updates to all the apps on your Mac, here are some alternatives that might fill the gap.

JPMorgan Chase has reached a deal to take over the Apple Card program from Goldman Sachs, ending the investment bank’s costly experiment in consumer lending.

If your Mac apps keep opening on the wrong screen after quitting and relaunching, the culprit is likely the “Close windows when quitting an application” setting in System Settings > Desktop & Dock. Disable it to allow macOS to restore window positions.

Software engineer Nikita Prokopov uses Apple’s 1992 Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines to show how macOS 26 Tahoe’s menu icons violate fundamental usability principles—increasing visual search time and error rates, especially for users with low vision.

For documentation work, one size doesn’t fit all. Adam Engst finds that ScreenFloat’s floating windows, export options with borders, and Shot Browser address editing and reuse challenges, while CleanShot X excels at combining screenshots. And he still falls back on macOS’s built-in screenshot utility for capturing menus with shadows.

Meta earns as much as $7 billion annually from high-risk scam ads—according to a Reuters exposé. Rather than spend $2 billion on universal verification to prevent fraud, internal documents reveal the company developed a “playbook” to deflect regulators.

Remember when Apple products had personality? Colorful iMacs, handles on iBooks, texture you could feel? Adam Engst argues that Apple’s obsession with luxury aesthetics has led to a decade of cold, sharp-edged uniformity—and it’s time for the company to consider that not everyone shares its minimalist vision.

Paris Buttfield-Addison has regained access to his Apple Account after a tainted gift card locked him out. But his saga highlights serious risks associated with Apple Gift Cards that should make everyone think twice before giving or redeeming them.

From the Las Vegas F1 race to the Pacific Northwest's devastating floods, Jeff Carlson's CNET articles reveal the trucks, trailers, drones, and dedicated spectrum that keep first responders connected when it matters most.

A failed update left 1Password’s app package empty on multiple Macs, rendering it non-functional. The good news: reinstalling 1Password resolved the issue with no data loss.