Perplexity for macOS now offers users access to Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) to let the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot connect to the device. Last week, the San Francisco, California-based AI firm announced that its Mac app now offers local MCP support (connectivity across the device) to paid subscribers. In the future, the company plans … Read more
Apple rolled out the first macOS 26 public beta on Thursday, alongside the first public beta versions of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and watchOS 26. These are the first beta versions of Apple’s upcoming operating systems for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac computers, and they feature the firm’s new Liquid Glass design language. Public … Read more
As everyone debates over the opacity of Liquid Glass coming to iOS, iPadOS and other Apple operating systems this fall, the Cupertino tech giant has seeded the release candidate builds of iOS 18.6, macOS 15.6 and others to both developer and public channels. The updates aren’t big on features and apart from some changes addressing … Read more
Apple users may have been left at risk for over a decade due to an undetected vulnerability recently fixed in CocoaPods – a dependency manager which hosts code libraries for Swift and Objective-C projects for developing apps for Apple. According to a report, security researchers discovered a critical issue which could have allowed threat actors … Read more
ChatGPT for macOS was released for last week by OpenAI. Days after the app was launched, a developer has claimed that the app had a security flaw that would make it easier for a bad actor with access to the device to steal information related to user’s queries and the chatbot’s responses, as the ChatGPT … Read more
Microsoft recently detected a security exploit that could allow attackers to bypass a core security feature on computers running on macOS. Dubbed “Migraine”, the vulnerability can be used to sidestep Apple’s System Integrity Protection (SIP) on macOS — a feature that protects parts of the operating system related to system integrity by restricting access to certain … Read more
macOS Sonoma was recently unveiled as Apple’s latest desktop operating system update at WWDC 2023. The next version of macOS will bring several UI improvements, options for personalisation, and interactive widgets to eligible Mac models later this year. However, some of these new features like Presenter Overlay, Reactions, and Game Mode are limited to Macs with Apple … Read more
iOS 16.5.1 is rolling out to users of supported iPhone models, bringing important fixes for zero-day security flaws that could allow an attacker to infect and install spyware on an iPhone via iMessage, according to details shared by a security firm. The latest update also resolves a bug introduced with the previous update that prevented … Read more
China has launched its first homegrown open-source operating system for computers, state media said on Thursday, as Beijing seeks to reduce its foreign dependence at a time of increased rivalry with the United States. The announcement of the new system came just before US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was due to land in Beijing on … Read more
iOS 16.5.1 (a) and macOS 13.4.1 (a) were rolled out by Apple on Monday as Rapid Security Response (RSR) updates for the company’s phones, tablets, and Mac computers. The update included fixes for a vulnerability in Apple’s browser engine that may have been used by hackers to execute malicious code remotely on a user’s device … Read more