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Mac RumorsAug 12, 2026
Google Unveils $29 Pixel Tag to Take On Apple's AirTag
Google today introduced the Pixel Tag, its answer to Apple's AirTag. Pixel Tag is Google's first item tracker, even though Google implemented an item tracking network two years ago that's been used by third-party devices.


Mac RumorsAug 12, 2026
Leaker: All-Glass 2027 iPhone Still on Track Despite Cancellation Rumors
There's been more pushback against the recent analyst report that claimed Apple's all-glass 20th-anniversary iPhone next year has been canceled. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has already responded by saying the "glass-centric" redesign is still on track for 2027, and now a prominent Chinese leaker says the commemorative device indeed remains in active development.


Mac RumorsAug 11, 2026
Apple Releases New iOS 27 AirPods Firmware for Public Beta Testers
Apple today released new AirPods beta firmware available for public testers. The firmware has a build number of 9A5336b, and it is available for the AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3, AirPods 4, and AirPods Max 2. It is the same as the AirPods beta released for developers last week.


Mac RumorsAug 11, 2026
Amazon Offers AirPods Max 2 for $100 Off in All Five Colors
Apple's AirPods Max 2 have hit $449.00 on Amazon this week, down from $549.00. This sale is available in all five colors and it's the best price we've seen on the headphones since June.


EngadgetAug 10, 2026
Here's how to pair your Roku remote
If you've reset your Roku remote or got a new one and need to manually pair it, these are the steps to take.

Mac RumorsAug 10, 2026
Latest iOS 27 Beta Expands Siri AI Voice Customization
With the fifth beta of iOS 27, Apple has expanded the voice customization options for Siri AI.


Mac RumorsAug 05, 2026
Meta's New Mac Coding Agent Costs Up to 20x Less If You Let Meta Train on Your Data
Meta today launched Muse Code, a terminal coding agent available for macOS and Linux. Muse Code is in beta, and it is powered by Muse Spark 1.2, ?Meta?'s newest model.


ComputerWorldJul 28, 2026
Microsoft's Nadella calls out Big AI for hypocrisy — but what about his own company?
The 19th-century French novelist Honore de Balzac is believed to have said that behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

That's even more true today than it was 200 years ago — just look at how Big AI, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and others have built their trillion-dollar fortunes. 

They all use vast amounts of copyrighted material to train their large language models (LLMs) without paying the copyright holders. In other words, they steal it. They don't call it stealing, though. They call it "fair use," which in this case amounts to the same thing.

Generative AI (genAI) training requires massive amounts of text. The better-written and more information-dense that text is, the more it helps. AI gets a lot smarter a lot faster when it's trained on well-written books and magazine and newspaper articles than when it's trained on social media banter (or most everything else you find on the internet).

Since the dawn of AI, companies have been hoovering up copyrighted material wherever they find it — on the open web, behind paywalls, even in manually scanned books — and then used the scanned text. And they do it all without asking authors' or publishers' permissions, and without paying them.

It's the greatest intellectual property theft in history by a long shot — billions and b

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