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Verizon will charge $10 a month for iPhone Handoff, double T-Mobile's price
Sharing one phone number across two iPhones is coming to Verizon, and it will cost twice what T-Mobile charges. AT&T still has no plans to offer it.
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Apple's new App Store rules target AI nudify apps and bait-and-switch tricks
Apple rewrote its App Review Guidelines so apps must actively block AI-made intimate images of real people, and apps that hide features from reviewers can cost developers their accounts.
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Withings now charges new users to sync health data with Apple Health
New Withings accounts need a Withings+ membership, about $100 a year, to send scale and watch data to Apple Health, Google's health apps and other third-party services. Existing accounts keep syncing for free.
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iPhone Duo pre-orders open Friday at 5 a.m. PT, starting at $1,999
Apple's first foldable iPhone goes up for pre-order on October 16, with new cases, trade-in credits and a $57.99 monthly lease to soften the price.
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OpenAI says an ex-employee took its device files to Apple
In a new court filing, OpenAI claims a hardware worker sent over 100 confidential files about an unreleased device to his personal accounts, then presented OpenAI's plans to Apple. Apple says it found no evidence of that.
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Apple turns idle Macs into a GPU cloud it calls Minions
An Apple research paper describes Minions, an internal system that sends AI jobs to employees' idle Macs and cut some GPU waits from more than 10 hours to minutes.
