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Apple says some developers use Full Disk Access to reach files, mail, messages and browsing history without users really understanding, and that autonomous AI agents make that far riskier. The fix is clearer consent and periodic reconfirmation for a new Autonomous Assistant category — which turns a permanent grant into a lease.
CVE-2026-86950 is an out-of-bounds write in CoreGraphics font rendering, reported by Meta and patched after what Apple calls an extremely sophisticated attack on specific individuals. A public proof of concept has since appeared: a PDF with a crafted font that reliably corrupts memory on anything not updated.
SEC Consult's Timo Longin found two parsing flaws in Apple's iCloud mail pipeline that let a free account send mail appearing to come from any address at icloud.com. The spoofed messages passed every authentication check, because the forgery happened upstream of the point where Apple signs. Reported in May 2024, fully fixed in December 2025, published on 1 October 2026.
Motorola B+, Google C-, Samsung D, Apple D-. The scores come from PIRG's fifth Failing the Fix report, across 105 phones — and the reason they look different from previous years is that the scoring switched to the EU's EPREL criteria, which weight disassembly properly.
The A20 Pro is the first 2-nanometre phone chip, which is the headline. The change that actually unlocks it is duller and bigger: for years the iPhone's DRAM sat stacked on top of the processor, directly in the heat path. This year Apple put it beside the die instead.
Apple's hardware chief described a hinge assembled per unit: AI matches each hinge to its best-fit housing, a laser scans that individual body, and photopolymer is printed onto it to cancel that body's measured waviness. EU law puts hinge assemblies on the seven-year spare parts list anyway. Both things are true, and they do not fit together.
The iPhone 17 is the same phone it was on 8 September and it now costs more than it did at launch. Old models get cheaper when a new generation lands, not dearer — and Apple's own storage ladder, which steepened only at the top, says exactly which component did this.
iPhone Duo is Apple's first foldable: 7.6 inches unfolded, 5.2 mm thick, 1,999 dollars. It has Touch ID in the side button and no Face ID anywhere. By Apple's own published figures that is a twenty-fold larger chance a stranger can open it — and the reason is not cost, it is what fits under a folding panel.
Apple's US page gives iPhone 18 Pro Max 45 hours of video playback. Its UK page gives the same phone 43. Same 8.75 mm chassis, same 249 grams — the difference is the SIM tray, and Apple says so in a footnote while marketing the larger number.
31 August was Cook's last day as Apple CEO after about 15 years, but the transition was announced on 20 April and he has not left the company. He moves to executive chairman with a remit that explicitly includes engaging with policymakers — in the same month Apple's encryption fight with the UK Home Office reaches a tribunal.
CVE-2026-65400 bypasses credential validation on Apple's remote desktop service. The Dutch NCSC confirmed exploitation against internet-exposed Macs with port 5900 open, and what turned up was root access and a Monero miner.
The latest round of threat notifications went out on Thursday. Apple has now notified people in over 150 countries since late 2021, and deliberately attributes nothing — which is both a defensible policy and the reason these alerts are hard to act on.
Three crises are being bundled into one story about a company cracking. The suit against OpenAI is real and names a Chief Hardware Officer. The 630GB of iPhone 18 Pro files came out of Tata Electronics. And Siri is not still broken — Apple bought a way out for about $1bn a year.