‘These team conversations have been tough’ – Sonos power-users really don’t like its new app, and the company responds, including asking for feedback

‘These team conversations have been tough’ – Sonos power-users really don’t like its new app, and the company responds, including asking for feedback

Sonos, maker of quality audio kit and some of the best wireless speakers out there, has released a new mobile app for connecting and controlling Sonos devices – but not everyone is happy with the change. A large number of users are complaining about the new companion app, which was substantially redesigned after years of … Read more

Adobe Takes 40% Off Creative Cloud All Apps for Your First Year

Adobe Takes 40% Off Creative Cloud All Apps for Your First Year

Adobe this week is offering first-time subscribers of the Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps plan a 40 percent discount on the service. With this sale, you’ll pay $35.99 per month for the plan, down from $59.99 per month, and this price will last through your first year. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Adobe. … Read more

Ember’s Travel Mug 2+ with Find My support drops to a record-low price

Ember’s Travel Mug 2+ with Find My support drops to a record-low price

Ember’s highly-esteemed Travel Mug 2+ has of $128, which is a discount of $72. The actual sale price is $160, but there’s a clippable coupon for the remaining $32. This is a pretty great deal for those in the market for a tech-heavy travel mug. Ember Make sure to clip the coupon for that extra … Read more

Nearly a million victims hit by massive BogusBazaar campaign — credit card details stolen, but here’s how to stay safe

Nearly a million victims hit by massive BogusBazaar campaign — credit card details stolen, but here’s how to stay safe

Almost a million people around the world have fallen victim to a highly organized fraud campaign, which scammed them out of some $50 million in the past couple of years. According to a report from SRLabs, a group of cyber-criminals, supported by a wider network of affiliates, were organized into a crime ring dubbed BogusBazaar. … Read more

The US Congress is taking on AI —this computer scientist is helping

The US Congress is taking on AI —this computer scientist is helping

Half a dozen AI scientists have moved to Washington DC to advise the US Congress.Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) is booming in the United States. Since 2016, federal lawmakers have passed 23 AI-related bills into law1, many more than any other country. Now AI scientists are joining the action, trading … Read more

Apple apologizes for its tone-deaf ad that crushed human creativity to make an iPad

Apple apologizes for its tone-deaf ad that crushed human creativity to make an iPad

Apple has reportedly apologized for its tone-deaf “Crush!” ad that sparked a furious backlash with artists, musicians and other creators. AdAge reports that Apple said the video “missed the mark” and has scrapped plans to run the cutesy-turned-cringey commercial on TV. It’s clear that Apple intended for the ad to serve as a metaphor for … Read more

Boeing says it refused to pay massive ransomware demand

Boeing says it refused to pay massive ransomware demand

Boeing has revealed it refused to pay a $200 million ransom demand from ransomware hackers who stole a tranche of sensitive data in 2023. The US Department of Justice recently unsealed an indictment against one Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, who is being accused of being the one to develop and maintain the dreaded LockBit ransomware, a … Read more

Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail

Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail

Researchers have mapped a tiny piece of the human brain in astonishing detail. The resulting cell atlas, which was described today in Science1 and is available online, reveals new patterns of connections between brain cells called neurons, as well as cells that wrap around themselves to form knots, and pairs of neurons that are almost … Read more

Apple Seeds macOS Sonoma 14.5 Release Candidate to Developers

Apple Seeds macOS Sonoma 14.5 Release Candidate to Developers

Apple today seeded the release candidate version of an upcoming macOS Sonoma 14.5 update to developers, with the software coming a week after Apple released the fourth beta. Registered developers can opt in to the beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. Note that an Apple ID associated with an Apple … Read more