The primary Apple Intelligence options ought to lastly arrive on October 28

It has been a wait. Apple Intelligence will begin rolling out on October 28, in keeping with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Apple stated final month it was concentrating on October for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 — which is able to carry 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 embrace its summarization software, 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 characteristic has been the summarization software, tackling my forest of notifications and messages and parsing them into glanceable summaries.

— Mat Smith

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The corporate stated no person accounts have 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 formally 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 rapidly, eradicating the unauthorized banner and hyperlinks. Lego advised Engadget no person accounts have been compromised.

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These have been points with the iPhone 16 sequence.

A extra rapid 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 chance begin recording a couple of seconds earlier than turning into activated with the orange microphone icon.

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It was the corporate’s try and keep away from paying a $400,000 fantastic.

X tried to keep away from a $400,000 fantastic by claiming Twitter (its previous title) now not exists. The … artistic 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 fantastic for non-compliance. The argument isn’t precisely new: CEO Linda Yaccarino has additionally repeatedly claimed X is a “model new firm” in a bid to keep away from scrutiny. She repeated the road a number of instances earlier this 12 months whereas testifying at a Senate listening to on youngster issues of safety. Australia federal decide Michael Wheelahan, nevertheless, was not having it.

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