The FBI extracted Signal messages from an iPhone by exploiting a notification database flaw. Apple has now released iOS 18.7.8 and iOS 26.4.2 to fix a bug that allowed deleted notifications to persist ...

John Ternus will be Apple’s new CEO, with Tim Cook ascending to the role of executive chairman. In a press release that’s worth reading in full for its accounting of what both executives have ...

As of this issue, TidBITS is celebrating 36 years of continuous publication, and amusingly, our sequential issue numbering simultaneously hit an even 1800. The human brain does so love numerical ...

A month ago, I received an interesting private message from Matt Sephton, a longtime contributor to TidBITS Talk. He was gearing up to release 18 (now 21) apps on the same day, and he was curious if I ...

Apple has announced that John Ternus will become CEO on 1 September 2026, with Tim Cook transitioning to executive chairman—Adam Engst analyzes what this leadership change means for Apple’s future.

A convincing impersonation of TidBITS contributor Glenn Fleishman on our public Slack group fooled an experienced IT ...

Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI chatbot, made two security announcements that were shocking for many but seen as inevitable by those of us working in AI security. First, it announced ...

Adam Engst 9 April 2026 6 comments Apple Releases OS 26.4.1 to Fix CloudKit Syncing Bug. If iCloud syncing has been unreliable since you updated to iOS 26.4, relief has arrived ...

David Pierce at The Verge makes the case for vertical browser tabs, echoing advice TidBITS has offered since 2023. Google Chrome users can now easily try them.