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During today's earnings call for the second fiscal quarter of 2026, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the Mac mini and Mac Studio could be hard to get for months to come. "We think, looking forward, that the ‌Mac mini‌ and ‌Mac Studio‌ may take several months to reach supply demand balance," Cook said. Apple underestimated demand for the ‌Mac mini‌ and the ‌Mac Studio‌. "Both of these are amazing platforms for AI and agentic tools and the customer recognition of that is happening faster than what we had predicted, and so we saw higher than expected demand," Cook said. Shipping delays for the ‌Mac mini‌ and the ‌Mac Studio‌ have been increasing over the last few months, and the waits for some models stretch into months. Apple stopped selling the ‌Mac Studio‌ with 512GB RAM entirely, and it stopped accepting orders for some models with higher amounts of RAM. As of last week, the base ‌Mac mini‌ was listed as "Currently Unavailable" from Apple's online store because it is out of stock.Related Roundups: Mac Studio, Mac miniBuyer's Guide: Mac Studio (Caution), Mac Mini (Caution)Related Forums: Mac Studio, Mac mini This article, "Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Apple had higher memory costs during the March quarter, and the impact is expected to get worse as the year goes on. Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple is expecting "significantly higher memory costs" in the June quarter, and beyond June, memory costs will "drive an increasing impact" on Apple's business. Cook said the higher memory costs have been partially offset because the company is selling existing inventory that it has stockpiled. As those supplies dwindle, Apple's costs will go up. According to Cook, Apple is going to look at a "range of options" and the company is "continuing to evaluate" the situation. Cook declined to provide more insight into how Apple plans to deal with the problem. Memory costs have been soaring due to global supply constraints caused by AI server demand. Chip makers are prioritizing memory for AI servers rather than consumer devices, causing prices to go up. This article, "Apple Expects 'Significantly Higher Memory Costs' in June Quarter and Beyond" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Apple's iPhone 17 models are its most popular iPhones to date, Apple CFO Kevan Parekh told the Financial Times. Both Parekh and Apple CEO Tim Cook attributed Apple's stellar Q2 2026 performance to iPhone sales. "The ‌iPhone 17‌ family is now the most popular line-up in our history... we believe we gained market share during the quarter," said Parekh. Cook told Reuters that iPhone demand was "off the charts," and that supply was constrained despite the impressive sales. "And there's just a little less flexibility in the supply chain at the moment for getting more parts," Cook said. Apple's iPhone sales were held back by the A19 and A19 Pro chips that it gets from TSMC, as TSMC also manufactures AI chips. Parekh said that memory had an "increasing impact" between the first and second quarters of 2026. Issues with chip supply and increasing problems acquiring RAM could potentially have an impact on the iPhone 18 lineup that Apple is expected to introduce this September. The lineup will include Apple's first foldable iPhone. The current ‌iPhone 17‌ family includes the ‌iPhone 17‌, iPhone 17 Pro, ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max, iPhone 17e, and iPhone Air.Related Roundups: iPhone 17, iPhone 17 ProTag: EarningsBuyer's Guide: iPhone 17 (Neutral), iPhone 17 Pro (Neutral)Related Forum: iPhone This article, "iPhone 17 Is Apple's Most Popular Lineup Ever" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Apple today announced financial results for the second fiscal quarter of 2026, which corresponds to the first calendar quarter of the year. For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $111.2 billion and net quarterly profit of $29.6 billion, or $2.01 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $95.4 billion and net quarterly profit of $24.8 billion, or $1.65 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Services revenue again reached an all-time high during the quarter, while company revenue, earnings per share, and iPhone revenue all set March quarter records. Gross margin for the quarter was 49.3 percent, compared to 47.1 percent in the year-ago quarter. Apple's board of directors also authorized an additional $100 billion for share repurchases and declared an increased dividend payment of $0.27 per share, up from $0.26 per share. The dividend is payable May 14 to shareholders of record as of May 11."Today Apple is proud to report our best March quarter ever, with revenue of $111.2 billion and double-digit growth across every geographic segment," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "iPhone achieved a March quarter revenue record, fueled by such extraordinary demand for the iPhone 17 lineup. During the quarter, Services achieved yet another all-time record, and we were excited to introduce remarkable new products to our strongest lineup ever. That included the addition of the iPhone 17e and the M4-powered iPad Air, along with the launch of MacBook Neo, which is captivating customers all around the world." Apple will provide live streaming of its fiscal Q2 2026 financial results conference call at 2:00 pm Pacific, and MacRumors will update this story with coverage of the conference call highlights. Conference call starts at 2:00 p.m. Pacific - No need to refresh Loading live updates... Tag: Earnings This article, "Apple Reports Record-Breaking 2Q 2026 Results: $29.6B Profit on $111.2B Revenue" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Discover is planning to eliminate some of the Apple Wallet integrations that it introduced in 2023, according to letters that cardholders are receiving. As of June 4, 2026, Discover users will no longer be able to see their total card balance and transaction history in the iPhone's Wallet app, or use the Pay with Rewards feature in Apple Pay. Apple has a Connected Cards feature that allows credit cards from participating companies to display balances and recent transactions when they're added to the Wallet app. Discover has supported the feature for nearly three years, as have many UK banks, but other credit card companies in the U.S. did not add support. Pay with Rewards, which is also being eliminated, allows Discover cardholders use their cashback bonuses toward ‌Apple Pay‌ purchases. Discover says that while several ‌Apple Pay‌ features are being eliminated, Discover users will still be able to use the Discover card to make ‌Apple Pay‌ purchases in retail locations and online. Here's a full list of the changes Discover is making: Enrollment Cancellation - If applicable, your enrollment in Connected Account and Pay with Rewards with ‌Apple Pay‌ from Discover will be canceled on June 4, 2026. Access to Information - You will continue to have full access to your account, rewards, balances, transactions and payments on Discover.com, the Discover mobile app, and on your monthly statements. Starting June 4, 2026, you will no longer have access to such details within your Apple Wallet. You will continue to see your ‌Apple Pay‌ transactions in your wallet. Pay with Rewards - Starting June 4, 2026, you will no longer be able to use rewards to cover an ‌Apple Pay‌ purchase directly at digital checkout. Your options for redeeming your Discover rewards otherwise remain the same. Terms - Connected Accounts and Pay with Rewards with ‌Apple Pay‌ cancellation does not affect any other terms of your Discover accounts and agreements. Eligibility, service, and cancellation are subject to the ‌Apple Pay‌ terms. It is not clear if these features are being eliminated because Apple is ending the integrations, or because Discover is opting out. The changes will go into effect on June 4, 2026.Tags: Apple Wallet, Discover This article, "Discover Dropping Two Apple Wallet Features" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Apple today released new firmware for the AirPods Pro 3. The firmware has a version number of 8B40, up from 8B39. There is no word on what's included in the new firmware, but Apple has a support document with limited notes. Most updates are limited to bug fixes and performance improvements. To get the updated firmware, make sure your AirPods Pro are in range of your iPhone, iPad, or Mac and are connected via Bluetooth. From there, connect your Apple device to Wi-Fi, put your AirPods in the Charging Case, and connect the Charging Case to power. Keep the case closed and wait at least 30 minutes for the firmware update to install. After that, check the version number and repeat the process if the update hasn't been installed.Related Roundup: AirPods Pro 3Tag: AirPods Pro 3Buyer's Guide: AirPods Pro (Buy Now)Related Forum: AirPods This article, "Apple Releases New Firmware for AirPods Pro 3" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Porsche today announced a new collaboration with Apple that will see two Porsche 963 vehicles outfitted with an Apple Computer-inspired wrap in round four of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Laguna Seca. The event is set to take place on Sunday, May 3. Porsche says that the one-time design is meant to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Porsche Motorsport and the 50th anniversary of Apple's founding. The wrap pays homage to the Porsche 935 K3, which competed in the 1980 season and raced at Le Mans. In a statement, Apple Music, Sports, and Beats Vice President Oliver Schusser said that Apple is proud to once again partner with Porsche. We've enjoyed a longstanding relationship with Porsche, going back to 1980 when a Porsche race car first carried the Apple logo. That moment marked the beginning of a shared passion for innovation and creativity that continues to define our collaboration today. As Apple celebrates its 50th anniversary, we're proud to once again partner with Porsche on a design that pays tribute to that original 1980 livery. Porsche Motorsport Vice President Thomas Laudenbach said Porsche and Apple are both "icons that stand for innovation and continuous development by experts in Zuffenhausen, Weissach and Cupertino." The Laguna Seca Raceway is located 80 miles south of the Apple Park campus, and the fourth round is set to last for two hours and 40 minutes. The No. 6 Porsche 963 will be shared by France's Kévin Estre and Belgium's Laurens Vanthoor, while the No. 7 car will be shared by France's Julien Andlauer and Brazil's Felipe Nasr. The No. 7 vehicle currently leads the IMSA championship standings after winning the opening two rounds at Daytona and Sebring. Earlier this year, Porsche featured an Apple Music-themed livery for the third round of the IMSA Championship at Long Beach. (Thanks, Greg!)Tag: Porsche This article, "Porsche Celebrates Apple's 50th Anniversary With Throwback Race Car Livery" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Mother's Day is coming up on Sunday, May 10, and for those who want to order flowers, Apple has a $20 discount available. Apple Pay users in the U.S. can get $20 off a purchase from 1-800-Flowers when spending $49.99 or more on a Mother's Day flower bouquet and other select merchandise. The discount is available through May 9 with the promo code APPLEPAY. To get the deal, iPhone users will need to make a purchase on the 1-800-Flowers website and pay with ‌Apple Pay‌. Apple also has a Mother's Day gift guide on its website with suggestions for those who want to get their mom a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or AirPods.Related Roundup: Apple PayTag: Apple Pay PromoRelated Forum: Apple Music, Apple Pay/Card, iCloud, Fitness+ This article, "Apple Pay Users Can Get $20 Off Flowers for Mother's Day" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Earlier this week, 9to5Mac's Benjamin Mayo reported on an apparent charging issue affecting at least some of Apple's latest iPhone models. In short, Mayo said that when he attempted to charge his iPhone Air with a USB-C cable just seconds after the device ran out of battery, it failed to turn on and did not display the usual red battery icon that indicates charging is occurring. Mayo subsequently realized that several users have posted about this issue across websites such as Reddit and iFixit Answers, but it is unclear what the root cause is or how widespread it is. Apple has yet to publicly comment on the matter, and the issue does not appear to be fixed in the latest iOS 26.4.1 and iOS 26.4.2 software releases. As far as I can tell, I also experienced this issue with my iPhone 17 Pro Max earlier this month. While staying at a hotel, I accidentally forgot to charge the device one night, leading it to shut off on me when I woke up the next morning. Naturally, I plugged in a USB-C cable, but the screen remained black with no battery icon for many minutes. At the time, I thought that maybe the hotel's outlets were not working correctly, but I knew something was up after I tried a variety of different outlets and chargers without success. Just like Mayo, I was eventually able to get my iPhone to turn on by placing it on a MagSafe charger and waiting about 10 to 15 minutes. In my case, it was a MagSafe battery pack from Anker that I carry with me while traveling. A few Reddit users said the standard iPhone 17 model is also impacted. All in all, it would appear that the new iPhones have a hit-or-miss charging problem when they fully run out of battery, but there is no guarantee that everyone will experience it. With the issue now receiving attention on 9to5Mac and MacRumors, hopefully Apple is made aware and provides a fix in an upcoming iOS version.Related Roundups: iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone AirBuyer's Guide: iPhone 17 Pro (Neutral), iPhone Air (Buy Now)Related Forum: iPhone This article, "Some iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air Users Experiencing a Charging Issue" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

In November 2025, a team self-hosting Langfuse, an open-source LLM observability platform, on Kubernetes uploaded their ClickHouse image to AWS ECR as part of their production preparation. They found that the pipeline scanner had returned three critical vulnerabilities – not in ClickHouse, but in the base image. Their security team saw the findings and blocked the deployment before it ever reached production. “Our security team is not allowing us to take it to production. Please suggest alternatives.“ vinaygoel586 GitHub Issue #286, November 28, 2025 If you’ve shipped containers into an enterprise environment recently, this situation will sound familiar. A perfectly functional deployment gets blocked not because something is broken, but because a scanner found CVEs in packages the application never even touches. A day goes into investigating the findings, a risk exception gets written up, and the security team rejects it anyway, because the vulnerabilities are technically real even if they’re practically irrelevant to your workload. This post is about how Docker Hardened Images (DHI) gets you unstuck, when a security team blocks the deployment of a container that has CVEs. In this case we will specifically look at the image for ClickHouse, one of the most widely pulled database images on Docker Hub. A Quick Word on ClickHouse ClickHouse is an open-source columnar database built for analytical workloads at scale. It is capable of querying billions of rows and returning results in milliseconds in a way that traditional row-oriented databases simply can’t match. Companies such as Cloudflare, Uber, and Spotify all run it in production. With over 100 million pulls from Docker Hub, it has become the default infrastructure choice for teams that need serious analytics throughput. The image’s default security posture, though, was designed with developer ease-of-use in mind rather than the hardening that enterprise production environments demand and that gap is where the trouble starts. Figure: The layered architecture of ClickHouse How ClickHouse is Structured ClickHouse follows a layered architecture. It is designed for analytical speed at scale. SQL queries arrive over HTTP (port 8123) or TCP (port 9000), then pass through the optimizer which parses into an abstract syntax tree and prunes it before the pipeline executor picks it up and hands the work off to parallel threads. Beneath the query layer sits the MergeTree storage engine, the heart of ClickHouse which stores data in columnar .bin files. It uses a sparse primary index to skip irrelevant granules without reading entire columns, and runs background merge processes to compact parts and maintain query performance over time. At the bottom, storage is pluggable: local disk, S3, HDFS, or Azure Blob, with tiered hot/warm/cold policies to balance cost and latency. In distributed deployments, ClickHouse Keeper (or ZooKeeper) coordinates replication across replicas, while sharding splits data horizontally across nodes allowing the cluster to scale reads and writes independently. The result is a database that processes hundreds of millions of rows per second per server, making it the default choice for teams running serious analytics workloads. The Real Problem: It’s Not ClickHouse, It’s the Packaging The standard clickhouse/clickhouse-server image is built on a full Ubuntu 22.04 base. The base ships with a lot of things ClickHouse doesn’t need such as Perl, system utilities, apt itself, and dozens of transitive dependencies that exist in the image simply because Ubuntu brought outdated package along and in many cases, Ubuntu maintainers decide to not backport fixes from upstream. ClickHouse doesn’t use most of those system utilities. But the CVEs in those packages are real. They show up in Trivy, Grype, and AWS ECR has no way to distinguish a vulnerable library that’s never loaded from one that’s actively running in production. Your security team sees critical findings and blocks the deployment, which is the correct thing for them to do given what the scanner is telling them. The instinct at this point is to argue the case, documenting why each CVE doesn’t apply to your workload, writing risk exceptions and escalating, but that’s a slow process. The only real fix is to remove those unnecessary packages entirely. That’s what Docker Hardened Images do. What DHI Actually Changes Docker Hardened Images for ClickHouse are built around a straightforward question: what does the database actually need to run? Rather than starting from a full Ubuntu base and hoping the CVE count stays manageable, DHI ships only what ClickHouse requires and leaves everything else out. The most immediate consequence of that is the absence of apt at runtime. Without a package manager, an attacker who gains a foothold in the container has no obvious path to installing tools or establishing persistence. Network utilities like curl and wget are gone for the same reason, the standard clickhouse/clickhouse-server image has been carrying wget with CVE-2021-31879 unpatched since 2021 because there is no upstream fix as noted by the Ubuntu maintainer, a vulnerability in a tool ClickHouse never needed in the first place. DHI doesn’t patch it; it simply doesn’t include wget at all. A shell is still available for operational work, but without the package manager and network tools, there’s very little an attacker can actually do with it. To make this practical across different stages of a pipeline, DHI ships two variants. The development image (dev) includes additional tooling that makes local testing and debugging more comfortable. The production image (runtime) strips that back to the absolute minimum, giving you the smallest possible attack surface for the workload that actually faces the world. The intent is that teams adopt the dev variant early in the pipeline and promote the hardened production image through to deployment, rather than discovering the differences at the point where it matters most. The image also runs as a non-root user uid=65532 out of the box, with no additional Dockerfile configuration required. On the provenance side, every DHI image ships with SLSA Level 3 attestation, which provides cryptographic proof of exactly what went into the build and how it was produced. Docker’s security team actively tracks and patches CVEs, and the presence of 2026 CVE IDs in DHI’s findings is evidence of that remediation happening ahead of public disclosure feeds rather than in response to them. Getting Started Before you can pull a DHI image, you need to mirror it to your organization’s namespace on Docker Hub. This is a one-time setup per image not per tag and it means all future updates flow to your namespace automatically. Log in to Docker Hub and open the DHI catalog Find clickhouse-server and select Mirror to repository Follow the on-screen instructions Authenticate locally: docker login dhi.io Once that’s done, you’re pulling from your own namespace with the same image, same tags, same ClickHouse – just hardened. Your first DHI ClickHouse container docker run --name my-clickhouse-server -d \ --ulimit nofile=262144:262144 \ dhi.io/clickhouse-server:26.2-debian13 The --ulimit nofile=262144:262144 flag is a ClickHouse requirement, not a DHI one – ClickHouse needs high file descriptor limits to operate correctly. Keep it in all your run commands. Verify it started: docker exec my-clickhouse-server clickhouse-client \ --query "SELECT 'Hello from DHI ClickHouse!'" Production setup with persistent storage For anything beyond local testing, you want volumes and a password: docker run -d \ --name my-clickhouse-server \ --ulimit nofile=262144:262144 \ -e CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword \ -v clickhouse-data:/var/lib/clickhouse \ -v clickhouse-logs:/var/log/clickhouse-server \ -p 8123:8123 -p 9000:9000 \ dhi.io/clickhouse-server:26.2-debian13 Note that CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD is required if you want to access ClickHouse over the network. DHI disables unauthenticated network access by default which is the right call for any production deployment. Test it over HTTP: curl "http://localhost:8123/?query=SELECT%20version()&user=default&password=mysecretpassword" Custom configuration If you’re already running ClickHouse with custom XML config, nothing changes. Same format, same mount path: cat > custom-config.xml << EOF <clickhouse> <logger> <level>information</level> <console>true</console> </logger> <listen_host>0.0.0.0</listen_host> </clickhouse> EOF docker run -d \ --name my-clickhouse-server \ --ulimit nofile=262144:262144 \ -v $(pwd)/custom-config.xml:/etc/clickhouse-server/config.d/custom.xml:ro \ -p 8123:8123 -p 9000:9000 \ dhi.io/clickhouse-server:26.2-debian13 Running DHI ClickHouse on Kubernetes For Kubernetes, there’s one important addition to your pod spec. Since DHI runs as a non-root user, you need to set fsGroup to ensure your persistent volume data is accessible: spec: template: spec: securityContext: runAsNonRoot: true runAsUser: 65532 # DHI nonroot user fsGroup: 65532 # makes mounted volumes accessible to the nonroot user containers: - name: clickhouse-server image: dhi.io/clickhouse-server:26.2-debian13 ports: - containerPort: 8123 - containerPort: 9000 volumeMounts: - name: clickhouse-data mountPath: /var/lib/clickhouse - name: clickhouse-logs mountPath: /var/log/clickhouse-server resources: limits: cpu: "2" memory: "4Gi" One thing worth mentioning: ClickHouse’s default ports 8123 and 9000 are above the 1024 privileged port boundary, so running as nonroot doesn’t cause any port binding issues. The metrics exporter If you’re running ClickHouse on Kubernetes and need Prometheus metrics, Docker also ships clickhouse-metrics-exporter – a hardened image that works with the ClickHouse Operator to expose a /metrics endpoint. It’s 65% smaller than the standard exporter (10.3 MB vs 29.4 MB) and has 75% fewer layers (5 vs 20). Same data, dramatically smaller surface. containers: - name: metrics-exporter image: dhi.io/clickhouse-metrics-exporter:0-debian13 ports: - name: metrics containerPort: 8888 resources: limits: cpu: 100m memory: 128Mi requests: cpu: 50m memory: 64Mi Debugging without the usual tools The debugging story is simpler than it might seem. docker debug attaches an ephemeral layer to the running container that includes bash, curl, strace, vim, and anything else you need without modifying the production image itself. When you exit, the layer disappears and the container is exactly as it was. It’s a cleaner approach than shelling directly into a production container, and in practice it’s a single command: docker debug my-clickhouse-server Or if you prefer, you can mount a debug image alongside the container: docker run --rm -it --pid container:my-clickhouse-server \ --mount=type=image,source=<your-namespace>/dhi-busybox,destination=/dbg,ro \ dhi.io/clickhouse-server:26.2-debian13 /dbg/bin/sh There’s also a broader security benefit that goes beyond CVE counts. If something does go wrong in production, an attacker who gets into the container finds no package manager to install tools with, no curl or wget to exfiltrate data through, and no obvious path to reach out to the network which significantly limits what a compromise can actually turn into. ClickHouse: Non-hardened Image vs. Hardened Image Compared A Docker Scout scan of both images puts the difference in plain numbers. Using ubuntu:22.04 as its base, the standard image carries 8 medium and 11 low severity vulnerabilities across 111 packages, including the wget and tar findings that are most likely to trigger a security block in an enterprise pipeline. The DHI image eliminates all medium severity findings entirely and comes in at 14 low severity items but these are in core system libraries like glibc and openssl where no fix exists on any distribution, not in unnecessary utilities that had no business being in the image. The 3 unconfirmed findings that Scout surfaces have already been assessed and suppressed via VEX attestation, which ships with the image as part of its SLSA Level 3 provenance To view the difference between versions for any other image, you can run your own scan with Docker Scout for a quick comparison using this command: docker scout quickview clickhouse/clickhouse-server:latest docker pull dhi.io/clickhouse-server:26.2-debian13 docker tag dhi.io/clickhouse-server:26.2-debian13 clickhouse-dhi:latest docker scout quickview clickhouse-dhi:latest Non-Hardened ClickHouse Image Docker Hardened Image Default user root (steps down to clickhouse user at runtime via entrypoint, but Dockerfile has no USER directive overridable with CLICKHOUSE_RUN_AS_ROOT=1) nonroot (enforced at image level via USER directive cannot be overridden at runtime) Shell access Full shell (bash/sh) available bash present, no network tools or package manager Package manager apt available No package manager CVE exposure Ships wget (CVE-2021-31879, unpatched since 2021), tar (CVE-2025-45582) No wget, no tar – unnecessary packages removed entirely CVE patching Unpatched findings from 2021–2025 due to the lack of upstream fixes from Ubuntu base image. Actively tracked, 2026 CVE IDs show proactive remediation Provenance Standard SLSA Level 3 attestation Compliance Manual hardening required CIS, NIST, FedRAMP-aligned Debugging Traditional shell debugging Use docker debug or Image Mount for troubleshooting The Security Team Conversation The team that got blocked at AWS ECR in November 2025 didn’t have a ClickHouse problem, they had a base image problem. Their database was fine; what the scanner was finding were CVEs in Perl, system utilities, and other packages that had come along in the Debian base and never used by the application. Nothing in the scanner output made that distinction, so the security team did exactly what they were supposed to do and blocked the deployment. With DHI, that conversation with your security team becomes considerably more straightforward. Rather than building a case for why specific CVEs don’t apply to your workload, you can point to an image built by Docker’s security team from the minimum required components, with SLSA Level 3 provenance and independent validation by SRLabs. The ClickHouse runtime itself is unchanged ~ queries, ports, configuration files, and performance all carry over so the only thing you’re actually changing is the answer you can give when someone asks whether this image can go to production.For teams that need stronger guarantees, DHI Enterprise adds SLA-backed CVE remediation within seven days, FIPS and STIG variants, and extended lifecycle support. For most teams, the free Enterprise trial is the right starting point. It answers the question that actually matters before you commit to anything. Interested to learn further? Start with this blog that walks through the trial and sets you up for success. Migration Checklist ☐ Mirror clickhouse-server DHI image to your Docker Hub namespace (one-time setup) ☐ Update your image reference to dhi.io/clickhouse-server:26.2-debian13 ☐ Set CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD (required for network access in DHI) ☐ Keep --ulimit nofile=262144:262144 on all run commands ☐ In Kubernetes: add fsGroup: 65532 to your pod securityContext ☐ Switch from kubectl exec to kubectl debug for troubleshooting ☐ Run trivy against both images to see the difference yourself: trivy image clickhouse/clickhouse-server:latest trivy image dhi.io/clickhouse-server:26.2-debian13 The migration is narrower in scope than it might appear – your volume mounts, port mappings, and existing XML configuration files all carry over without modifications, and on Kubernetes the only structure addition is the fsGroup security context. Everything else is an image reference change. Resources Docker Hardened Images Documentation DHI ClickHouse Server Guide DHI ClickHouse Metrics Exporter Guide Docker Debug Documentation Free DHI Catalog DHI Community Announcement Docker Scout Documentation View the full article

In a social media post this week, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reiterated that Apple is planning to release new AirPods with cameras "for Siri." Last month, Gurman said these AirPods will likely be priced above the current AirPods Pro 3, which Apple sells for $249. As a result, he said Apple is likely considering using "AirPods Ultra" branding for the camera-equipped AirPods. "AirPods Ultra" would not have typical cameras for capturing photos and videos. Instead, Gurman previously reported that the earbuds will be equipped with infrared cameras that use computer vision to feed data about a user's surroundings to Siri. The cameras should help to enhance the Visual Intelligence feature on the iPhone 15 Pro and newer. This would be similar to the infrared camera built into the Face ID system on iPhones. In June 2024, Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said AirPods with cameras would potentially enable "in-air gesture control." In his post this week, however, Gurman said he does not expect the AirPods to support hand gestures. It was initially rumored that the camera-equipped AirPods would be a higher-end AirPods Pro 3 configuration, much like the AirPods 4 are available in variants with or without active noise cancellation. However, it is increasingly sounding like the earbuds will instead be "AirPods Ultra" positioned above the AirPods Pro entirely. Macworld's Filipe Espósito recently reported that Apple plans to release an "iPhone Ultra" and a "MacBook Ultra" within the next year, so "AirPods Ultra" would be part of a trio of new "Ultra" devices. Apple already uses "Ultra" branding for the Apple Watch Ultra, CarPlay Ultra, and the M1 Ultra to M3 Ultra series of chips. It is not entirely clear when the "AirPods Ultra" will arrive, but September of this year is a possibility if Apple plans to announce them alongside the "iPhone Ultra," its long-rumored foldable iPhone. A redesigned "MacBook Ultra" with an OLED display and touch-screen capabilities is expected to follow by early 2027.Related Roundup: AirPods Pro 3Tags: AirPods Ultra, Mark GurmanBuyer's Guide: AirPods Pro (Buy Now)Related Forum: AirPods This article, "'AirPods Ultra' Rumored to Feature a Major Upgrade Over AirPods Pro" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Apple remains the top manufacturer of satellite-capable smartphones globally, with such devices projected to reach 46% of all smartphone shipments by 2030, according to a new report from Counterpoint Research. The firm's Smartphone Satellite Connection Report finds that Apple kickstarted the satellite phone trend when it partnered with Globalstar to bring Emergency SOS via satellite to the iPhone 14 in 2022 and has maintained a clear lead since. Samsung leads the Android ecosystem, while Huawei and Google also follow a proprietary approach. Other Android players, including Xiaomi, OPPO, HONOR, and vivo, have aligned with the 3GPP non-terrestrial network (NTN) standard to enable broader scalability and interoperability. The market is currently dominated by the premium segment, with the lack of compelling everyday use cases limiting broader adoption. 3GPP Release 17 supports only SOS messaging and basic location sharing. Release 18 is expected to expand adoption further across premium brands, but mass-market penetration in the mid-price segment is not anticipated until Release 19. Qualcomm leads among Android vendors with its Snapdragon X80 and X85 modems, with MediaTek, Samsung, Google, and Huawei all increasing competition. North America is the leading region for adoption, driven by carrier partnerships including T-Mobile with SpaceX, AT&T with AST Mobile, and Rogers with SpaceX, alongside Apple's Globalstar arrangement. Amazon's acquisition of Globalstar is seen as a notable development, potentially opening new connectivity-as-a-service revenue streams. Counterpoint expects Apple, Google, and Samsung to lead in overall market penetration toward 2030, with Android brands targeting entry-level and mid-range price points seeing slower uptake. Apple recently agreed a new satellite deal with Amazon following its acquisition of Globalstar, and has several new satellite features in development, including Maps via satellite, photos in Messages via satellite, and a satellite API for third-party apps.Tags: Counterpoint, Emergency SOS via Satellite, iPhone Satellite Features This article, "Apple Leads Global Market for Satellite-Connected Smartphones" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Amazon this week has all-time low prices on the Apple Watch Series 11, with up to $130 off numerous models of the smartwatch. This sale includes nearly every aluminum model of the Series 11 on sale at a record low price, plus new steep markdowns on cellular models. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. You can get the 42mm GPS Apple Watch Series 11 for $299.00, down from $399.00, and the 46mm GPS model for $329.00, down from $429.00. On Amazon, you'll find four of both the 42mm and 46mm GPS models on sale at these all-time low prices. $100 OFFApple Watch Series 11 (42mm GPS) for $299.00 $100 OFFApple Watch Series 11 (46mm GPS) for $329.00 A new highlight of Series 11 deals is on the 46mm cellular model, which has hit $399.00, down from $529.00. This is a big $130 discount on the cellular Apple Watch, and it's available in three colors. You'll also find $100 off the 42mm cellular model right now. $100 OFFApple Watch Series 11 (42mm Cell) for $399.00 $130 OFFApple Watch Series 11 (46mm Cell) for $399.00 Head to our full Deals Roundup to get caught up with all of the latest deals and discounts that we've been tracking over the past week. Deals Newsletter Interested in hearing more about the best deals you can find in 2026? Sign up for our Deals Newsletter and we'll keep you updated so you don't miss the biggest deals of the season! Related Roundup: Apple Deals This article, "Apple Watch Series 11 Hits $100 Off Nearly Every GPS Aluminum Model, Plus $130 Off Cellular" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Apple's AirTag item tracker turns five years old today, with the $29 accessory having spent half a decade as the best-selling item tracker in the world. The ‌AirTag‌ launched on April 30, 2021, alongside the M1 iMac, a new iPad Pro, and a new Apple TV 4K. The coin-shaped accessory has a polished stainless steel back, IP67 water resistance, and a U1 Ultra Wideband chip that powers Precision Finding, a feature that combines haptic, visual, and audio feedback to guide users to a lost item's precise location with the iPhone 11 and later. Setup works by bringing the tag close to an iPhone, with each ‌AirTag‌ appearing in the Items tab of the Find My app. The ‌Find My‌ network, which relies on Bluetooth signals from nearby Apple devices to relay location data, allows a lost item to be tracked even when out of direct range. The ‌AirTag‌ is priced at $29 for a single tag or $99 for a four-pack, with free engraving available. Reports of the AirTag being misused for stalking and vehicle theft surfaced within months of launch, with its small size, low price, and the breadth of the ‌Find My‌ network making it an attractive tool for bad actors. Apple released a statement in February 2022 saying incidents of misuse were "rare; however, each instance is one too many," and introduced setup warnings making clear that using an ‌AirTag‌ to track people without consent is a crime in many regions. A class-action lawsuit filed in California in December 2022, later expanded to include more than three dozen plaintiffs, alleged that the product's accuracy and affordability made it well-suited for misuse, and a federal judge allowed certain claims to move forward in March 2024. Apple and Google later aligned on cross-platform specifications so that Android users receive automatic unwanted tracking alerts alongside iPhone users. Despite the controversy, Apple says the ‌AirTag‌ became its best-selling item tracking accessory, citing user stories of recovering lost luggage, bicycles, and bags in the years since launch. Apple released the second-generation AirTag in January 2026. The updated model features a second-generation Ultra Wideband chip with Precision Finding working from up to 50% farther away, an upgraded Bluetooth chip, and a speaker 50% louder than the original. For the first time, Precision Finding also works with Apple Watch Series 9 models and later. A teardown revealed that the speaker magnet is more firmly secured in the second-generation model, making it harder to remove, a modification that had previously been used to silence unwanted tracking alerts. Pricing remains $29 for a single tag and $99 for a four-pack.Related Roundup: AirTagBuyer's Guide: AirTag (Buy Now) This article, "Apple Launched AirTag 5 Years Ago Today" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

YouTube's picture-in-picture mode on the iPhone and iPad is expanding to more users worldwide, YouTube said today. Picture-in-picture (PiP) will be rolling out globally, so it will no longer be limited to those in the U.S. and Premium subscribers. Non-Premium users worldwide will be able to use PiP for longform, non-music content on iOS and Android. This has already been available in the U.S. and to Premium subscribers globally, so there will be no change for those users. Premium Lite members can still use PiP for longform, non-music content, and Premium members can use PiP for music and non-music content. Picture-in-picture shrinks a video into a small player that can be used alongside other apps. To use PiP, swipe up to exit the YouTube app, and the video will continue to play in a small window that can be moved anywhere on the display. The PiP changes are rolling out "in the coming months," according to YouTube.Tag: YouTube This article, "YouTube Bringing Free Picture-in-Picture to iPhone Users Outside the U.S." first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Google Photos is getting a new wardrobe planning feature that will help you decide what to wear. AI will pull in images of clothing from the Google ‌Photos‌ library, organizing clothing items into a digital closet. You will be able to put items together to create outfits, and even virtually try them with a digital avatar on to see how they'll look. The Google ‌Photos‌ app will show all items of clothing in a new Wardrobe section in the Collections tab. Clothing can also be viewed in specific categories like tops or bottoms. Items of clothing can be mixed and matched to create outfits, and the results can be shared with friends or saved to a digital moodboard. In the popular 1995 comedy Clueless, main character Cher Horowitz has an iconic digital wardrobe that Google seems to be making a reality with Google ‌Photos‌. Cher uses a touchscreen computer to swipe through the clothes in her wardrobe, pairing different tops and bottoms to create an outfit. A built-in "Dress Me" button tells her if two items go together, and if they do, she can preview the clothes on a digital version of herself. Google's version of the Clueless virtual wardrobe will be coming to Google ‌Photos‌ this summer. Google says it will be available to Android users first, and then iOS users.Tags: Google, Google Photos, Photos This article, "Google Photos to Get AI 'Wardrobe' Feature" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Apple is developing a set of AI smart glasses to rival products like the Meta Ray-Bans, and MacRumors has learned a few more details about Apple's work on the device from an inside source. The AI glasses will include two cameras. A high-resolution camera will be included for capturing photos and videos that can be shared on social media and used like iPhone photos. A second lower-resolution wide-angle lens will read hand gestures and provide visual input for Siri. Apple uses hand gesture-based input for the Vision Pro, and rumors suggest the AirPods Pro will be updated with low-resolution cameras and support for gestures as well. Apple appears to be leaning into gesture support, and it's an ideal input method when no screen is available to interact with. While future versions of the smart glasses could include an integrated display for augmented reality features, the first version will have no display at all. Apple will not include a screen, LiDAR, 3D cameras, or other similar technology because such features are too energy-intensive. Battery life is a major constraint because Apple needs to keep the glasses slim and lightweight. Battery size is the bottleneck behind the hardware decisions that Apple is making, and it's why Apple is opting for a stripped-down feature set. According to recent rumors, Apple is testing multiple styles for the smart glasses, with plans to use acetate. Acetate is a lightweight plant-based material that's more flexible than plastic. Apple's smart glasses will incorporate the smarter version of ‌Siri‌ that Apple plans to introduce in iOS 27. The device will be able to take photos, record video, and make phone calls, plus users will be able to interact with ‌Siri‌ to ask questions about what's around them. The feature set will be similar to the features available in the Meta Ray-Bans that Apple is aiming to compete with. Rumors suggest Apple could preview the glasses later this year, with a launch to follow in 2027, though it's also possible we won't see them announced until 2027.Tag: Apple Smart Glasses This article, "Apple's AI Smart Glasses Likely to Support Hand Gesture Controls" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Apple has all but given up on the Vision Pro after the M5 model failed to revitalize interest in the device, MacRumors has learned. Apple updated the Vision Pro with a faster M5 chip and a more comfortable band in October 2025, but there were no other hardware changes, and consumers still weren't interested. The Vision Pro has been criticized for its high price tag and its uncomfortable weight. The device is over 1.3 pounds, and even with the more comfortable Dual Knit Band that Apple added to redistribute weight, it continues to be hard to wear for long periods of time. The M5 chip added a 120Hz refresh rate, 10 percent more rendered pixels, and around 30 additional minutes of battery life, but the price tag stayed at $3,499, and it ended up not selling well. The Vision Pro has been unpopular since it first launched, and Apple only sold around 600,000 units in total. Insider sources told MacRumors that Apple has received an unusually high percentage of returns, far exceeding any other modern Apple product. Apple has apparently stopped work on the Vision Pro and the Vision Pro team has been redistributed to other teams within Apple. Some former Vision Pro team members are working on Siri, which is not a surprise as Vision Pro chief Mike Rockwell has been leading the Siri team since March 2025. There have been mixed rumors about a new Vision Pro over the last couple of years, with Apple rumored to be working on a lighter-weight Vision Air that's much cheaper, but the project was tabled last year. If Apple finds a way to create a much cheaper, more comfortable VR headset in the future, the Vision Pro line could be revived, but right now, the company has no plans to launch a new model. Apple has not discontinued the Vision Pro and is continuing to sell the M5 model. Instead of continuing to experiment with virtual reality, Apple is working on smart glasses that will eventually incorporate augmented reality capabilities, but the first version will be similar to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with AI and no integrated display. Apple has not been able to use the technology developed for the Vision Pro in its smart glasses because that tech draws too much power for a smaller, lighter device.Related Roundup: Apple Vision ProBuyer's Guide: Vision Pro (Buy Now)Related Forum: Apple Vision Pro This article, "Apple Has Given Up on the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Apple has reportedly abandoned plans for a foldable "iPad Ultra" following years of disappointing sales performance for the iPad Pro. The claim predominantly comes from the Weibo leaker known as "Instant Digital," who posted the remark in response to a question about whether the ‌iPad‌ would join a rumored "Ultra" series of Apple devices. Instant Digital listed the Apple Watch Ultra, M-series Ultra chips, "iPhone Ultra," and "MacBook Ultra" with an OLED display as products in the pipeline, but explicitly excluded the ‌iPad‌ from that group, citing weak market performance for the ‌iPad Pro‌. They added that Apple now has "no plans" to release an ‌iPad‌ Ultra. The ‌iPad Pro‌'s sales struggles are well documented. In October 2024, it was reported that shipment projections for the M4 ‌iPad Pro‌ had been significantly cut after weaker-than-expected demand following its launch earlier that year. DSCC analyst Ross Young lowered his full-year 2024 forecast from up to 10 million units to just 6.7 million, with shipments of the 13-inch model projected to fall by more than 50% and 90% in the third and fourth quarters respectively. Young attributed the sluggish reception in part to the high price point, with the 11-inch model starting at $999 and the 13-inch at $1,299, levels that deter buyers who view tablets as secondary devices alongside a smartphone or laptop. ‌iPad‌ revenue has declined for three consecutive years, and the category accounted for just 6.73% of Apple's total revenue in 2025. In his latest "Power On" newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that Apple has been developing a 20-inch foldable ‌iPad‌, describing the project as a priority for Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering and future Apple CEO John Ternus. Gurman noted, however, that the device "may end up being a wacky experiment that doesn't see the light of day, according to several people who have worked on it." The rumored foldable ‌iPad‌ has a long and troubled development history. Last October, it emerged that engineering challenges tied to weight, features, and display technology had pushed Apple's target launch from 2028 to 2029 or later. The device was reportedly being developed with a large Samsung OLED display, with Apple focused on minimizing the visible crease, just like the upcoming foldable iPhone. Prototype units reportedly weighed around 3.5 pounds, making them heavier than a 14-inch MacBook Pro and nearly three times the weight of a 13-inch ‌iPad Pro‌. The device could have been priced as high as $3,900, roughly triple the $1,299 starting price of the 13-inch ‌iPad Pro‌. There has also been uncertainty about how the product would be categorized. In March, Gurman noted that a "gigantic" foldable ‌iPad‌ would challenge Apple's tradition of keeping the Mac and ‌iPad‌ as separate product lines, with some internally describing it as a foldable ‌iPad‌ and others as an all-display MacBook. When closed, the device reportedly resembles a Mac, with an aluminum shell and no exterior display. The design is said to be similar to Huawei's MateBook Fold, an 18-inch foldable tablet currently priced at $3,400. The reports come against a backdrop of Apple's rumored plans to expand its "Ultra" branding across multiple product lines. At least three Ultra devices are believed to be in the pipeline for this year alone: a foldable ‌iPhone Ultra‌ priced at around $2,000, AirPods Ultra with cameras for Visual Intelligence, and a MacBook Ultra featuring a touch-enabled OLED display priced up to 20% above the current ‌MacBook Pro‌ lineup. A source speaking to Macworld subsequently corroborated the ‌iPhone Ultra‌ and MacBook Ultra names. Apple already applies the "Ultra" moniker to Apple Watch Ultra, M-series Ultra chips, and CarPlay Ultra. An ‌iPad‌ Ultra might seem like a natural fit for a family of higher-end, more experimental hardware at the top of each lineup, but with the ‌iPad Pro‌ already struggling to find buyers at its current price point, the question of whether sufficient demand exists for an even more expensive ‌iPad‌ may be answering itself.Related Roundup: iPad ProTags: Bloomberg, Foldable iPad, Instant Digital, John Ternus, Mark GurmanBuyer's Guide: iPad Pro (Neutral) This article, "Apple Has Likely Abandoned 'iPad Ultra' Plans" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Apple is planning to integrate Apple Intelligence and Siri into more of its apps in iOS 27, including the Camera app, reports Bloomberg. The ‌iOS 27‌ Camera app will have a dedicated ‌Siri‌ mode that will be available alongside the existing Photo, Video, Portrait, and Panorama modes. When in ‌Siri‌ mode, the existing Camera app shutter button will feature the ‌Apple Intelligence‌ logo, letting users know the ‌Siri‌ features are available. ‌Siri‌ mode will incorporate Visual Intelligence, making the feature more accessible. Right now, ‌Visual Intelligence‌ is activated by long pressing the Camera Control button, and it is a gesture that many people may not even be aware of. In addition to being relocated to the Camera app with ‌Siri‌ branding, ‌Visual Intelligence‌ is also being updated with new features. It will be able to scan a nutrition label on food items to log the dietary information, plus users will be able to use it to add contact details for someone directly to the Contacts app. MacRumors first discovered signs of the ‌Visual Intelligence‌ features in Apple code in mid-April. Here's a bit more on what we found: Nutrition - Users will be able to scan nutrition labels on food packaging for calorie and macronutrient tracking using the Health app. Contacts - ‌Visual Intelligence‌ will let users scan phone numbers and addresses on business cards and other print media, adding the information to the Contacts app. Wallet - In the Wallet app, ‌Visual Intelligence‌ will capture information from physical event tickets and membership cards, generating digital versions. Existing ‌Visual Intelligence‌ features will continue to be available, and it will be able to identify objects like plants and animals, add events to the Calendar app, and send visual information to ChatGPT and Google image search. Users will also be able to access the revamped ‌Visual Intelligence‌ through the Camera Control button, but it will open up to the ‌Siri‌ interface in the Camera app instead of the standalone ‌Visual Intelligence‌ experience that we have now. Apple will introduce ‌iOS 27‌ at the Worldwide Developers Conference that's set to begin on June 8, 2026.Related Roundup: iOS 27Tag: Siri This article, "iOS 27 Camera App to Get 'Siri' Mode With Nutrition Label Scanning" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

A leaker claims Apple is currently embroiled in an internal debate over whether MagSafe should remain a standard iPhone feature. The Weibo leaker known as "Instant Digital" says that when ‌MagSafe‌ was first introduced, the mood inside Apple was reportedly aggressive about its expansion. ‌MagSafe‌ for the iPhone was introduced with the iPhone 12 lineup in 2020, bringing a ring of magnets to the back of the device for snap-on charging and accessory attachment. The ecosystem has since expanded significantly, with dozens of third-party wallets, cases, stands, and chargers built around the standard. There were purportedly even plans to bring built-in ‌MagSafe‌ magnets to the iPad lineup, something the leaker previously hinted at, though those plans never materialized. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman first reported in 2021 that Apple was testing a glass-backed iPad Pro that would support wireless charging, specifically noting that MagSalfe was under consideration. A follow-up report in early 2022 suggested Apple had prototyped an iPad Pro with a large glass Apple logo that would serve as the wireless charging area, an approach aimed at avoiding the fragility of an all-glass back. Neither design made it to a shipping product. The rumors resurfaced in late 2023, with reports suggesting that the then-upcoming iPad Pro could include MagSafe support, based on information from sources familiar with Apple's magnet suppliers. The redesigned M4 ‌iPad Pro‌ that launched in 2024 still shipped without the feature. Now, Instant Digital claims that confidence around ‌MagSafe‌ has given way to uncertainty. The leaker says Apple is weighing the costs of including ‌MagSafe‌ magnets in the iPhone against the strength of the accessory ecosystem that has grown up around the feature, though the nature of the debate and what any change might look like remains unclear. The iPhone 16e launched without ‌MagSafe‌, making it the first new iPhone in years to omit it. Many iPhone 16e owners, as well as users of older iPhones without built-in magnets, turned to third-party cases with embedded magnet rings as a workaround, though the experience is generally considered to be inferior to native ‌MagSafe‌ support. The decision nonetheless drew criticism, and Apple reversed course with the iPhone 17e, restoring ‌MagSafe‌ support when the device launched earlier this year. There is no indication that ‌MagSafe‌ is at imminent risk of disappearing from the iPhone lineup. However, the upcoming foldable "iPhone Ultra" may be a different story. Dummy models of the device show no visible indentations for the internal magnet array that ‌MagSafe‌ requires, suggesting the feature could be absent at launch. The iPhone Ultra is rumored to be just 4.5mm thin when unfolded, and it is thought that the device may simply be too slim to accommodate the magnets. If that proves accurate, the ‌iPhone Ultra‌ would be both the most expensive iPhone ever, with a starting price rumored at around $2,000, and the first new high-end model to ship without ‌MagSafe‌ since the iPhone 11 Pro. While the wording of Instant Digital's post is somewhat ambiguous, it raises the possibility that Apple could be at least considering pulling ‌MagSafe‌ from its standard iPhone models, potentially making it exclusive to higher-end devices. Recent reports suggest that the standard iPhone 18 is being downgraded to cut costs. An alternative scenario could see Apple scale back its in-device ‌MagSafe‌ implementation, relying more heavily on cases with embedded magnets to provide compatibility, as many iPhone 16e users already do. Given that Qi2, the open wireless charging standard now widely adopted across the industry, is built directly on ‌MagSafe‌'s magnet ring specification, a full removal of the feature from the entire iPhone lineup seems unlikely.Tags: Instant Digital, MagSafe This article, "Apple Reportedly Questioning Whether iPhone Should Drop MagSafe" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Amazon this week has multiple discounts on the M4 iPad Air, providing up to $100 off these brand new models. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. Specifically, Amazon has up to $90 off the 11-inch M4 iPad Air and up to $100 off the 13-inch M4 iPad Air. All of these discounts have been automatically applied and do not require a coupon code or a Prime membership. $43 OFF11-inch M4 iPad Air for $556.50 $58 OFF13-inch M4 iPad Air for $741.50 The new iPad Air features the M4 chip, C1X modem, and N1 networking chip, which brings support for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6. In terms of design, the 2026 models are identical to the 2025 iPad Air tablets, with an edge-to-edge display, slim bezels, and aluminum chassis. 11-inch M4 iPad Air 128GB Wi-Fi - $556.50 ($43 off) 256GB Wi-Fi - $644.99 ($55 off) 512GB Wi-Fi - $834.00 ($65 off) 1TB Wi-Fi - $1,009.00 ($90 off) 13-inch M4 iPad Air 128GB Wi-Fi - $741.50 ($58 off) 256GB Wi-Fi - $821.66 ($78 off) 512GB Wi-Fi - $1,001.72 ($98 off) 1TB Wi-Fi - $1,199.00 ($100 off) If you're on the hunt for more discounts, be sure to visit our Apple Deals roundup where we recap the best Apple-related bargains of the past week. Deals Newsletter Interested in hearing more about the best deals you can find in 2026? Sign up for our Deals Newsletter and we'll keep you updated so you don't miss the biggest deals of the season! Related Roundup: Apple Deals This article, "Get Up to $100 Off the M4 iPad Air on Amazon" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Apple has lost a court battle to delay App Store changes while it asks the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on its long-running dispute with Epic Games surrounding developer fees. On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an earlier decision that had let Apple keep its current App Store commission structure in place while it appeals to the Supreme Court. The reversal means Apple now has to return to a lower court to work out what fees it can charge developers who steer customers to outside payment options. Apple won the pause earlier this month by arguing that it shouldn't have to overhaul its fee structure twice if the Supreme Court ultimately ruled in its favor. In response, Epic Games immediately filed two motions: one said it hadn't been given time enough to prepare a response to Apple's stay request, and another asking the court to reject the original request. The three-judge panel granted Epic's motion for reconsideration. The judges said Apple hadn't shown that the Supreme Court was likely to take the case, and pointed out that the high court already chose not to hear Apple's challenges once back in 2024. They also rejected Apple's claim that being forced into lower-court hearings would cause real harm. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney shared the news in a post on X, adding that "Apple's delaying tactics have come to an end!" Apple's delaying tactics have come to an end! Now Epic v Apple returns to Judge Gonzales Rogers for hearings on exactly what fees Apple can charge to recoup costs of reviewing apps using competing payment methods. https://t.co/eukYzpu0dY — Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) April 29, 2026 The case now heads back to Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in California, who will determine what commission Apple can collect on purchases made through external links, if any. Apple can still petition the Supreme Court while those proceedings move ahead. The dispute traces all the way back to the original Epic Games trial, which Apple largely won. However, one exception was a 2021 ruling from Judge Gonzalez Rogers ordering Apple to relax its "anti-steering" rules and let developers point users to outside payment options. Apple complied with the ruling, but only slightly lowered its fees, which led few developers to even bother adding links. Epic subsequently returned to court, and the judge found Apple in willful violation of the original injunction. Consequently, it barred Apple from collecting any commission on external links. Apple appealed and dropped the link fees while the case moved forward, but the company argued that the ruling was unconstitutional and that it should receive compensation for its technology. Then in December 2025, the appeals court delivered a split decision: Apple had violated the injunction, but the company should still be able to charge something reasonable. That sent the question of what that fee should look like back to the district court. Apple is now hoping the Supreme Court will go further and throw out the district court's ruling altogether.Tags: App Store, Epic Games, Epic Games vs. Apple, Apple Lawsuits This article, "Epic Games Wins Reversal of Stay in App Store Fee Legal Battle" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Memory could account for as much as 45 percent of an iPhone's component costs by 2027, up from around 10 percent today, according to a JPMorgan analysis cited by the Financial Times ($). Apple buys memory for roughly 250 million iPhones a year and has historically been one of the largest customers in the category. But Apple has reportedly now gone from a position where it could set terms to one where it now has to compete with rivals for supply. The principal reason is the heavily subsidized AI build-out that's underway. In a race to make data centers that can handle more compute for frontier AI models, AI infrastructure buyers like Nvidia are now reportedly outbidding consumer electronics makers for limited supply from the likes of Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. Meanwhile, cloud companies are reportedly making upfront payments worth billions of dollars to secure capacity. It's a marked break from the industry norm of committing to volumes with suppliers first and negotiating prices later. The pressure is already reshaping Apple's product plans, and the split-launch cycle for the iPhone 18 series is said to be part of that new reality. Apple is expected to stagger the iPhone 18 launch, holding the lower-priced model until spring 2027 rather than shipping the full lineup in the usual fall window. Instead, only the iPhone 18 Pro models will be launched in September, with a foldable iPhone expected to be unveiled around the same time. Apple hardware engineering chief John Ternus takes over from Tim Cook as CEO on September 1, and Cook will transition to his new role as Apple's first executive chair, where he is expected to take a direct role in day-to-day operations. Meanwhile, Ternus's first big decision will be whether Apple absorbs the increasing cost of memory or passes it onto consumers. Bank of America analyst Wamsi Mohan reckons the decision could come down to whether Apple holds prices to please consumers or accepts a margin hit, especially in markets like India and China where it competes with local smartphone makers. "By the time September rolls around, Apple has two choices: one, they reprice [products] higher, or two, they say 'let's go ahead and gun for market share,'" Mohan told the FT. He thinks there is a decent chance that Apple will opt for market share.Tag: Financial Times This article, "Report: iPhone Memory Costs Set to Quadruple by 2027" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

The popular Notepad++ coding editor is now available as a native macOS app, following a successful open-source community port of the original Windows codebase. The Notepad replacement runs as a universal binary, so it works on both Apple silicon and Intel Macs. Notepad++ has been one of the most popular text editors on Windows for more than 20 years. Until now, Mac users who switched from Windows, or who worked across both platforms, had to choose between giving up the editor and running it through a Wine or CrossOver compatibility layer. Now those users have no such dilemma. The editing experience is identical to the Windows version, right down to the Scintilla engine, tabbed editing, syntax highlighting for 80+ languages, search and replace, macro recording, and plugin support. The only difference is that the menus, dialogs, file pickers, keyboard shortcuts, and windowing all use native macOS Cocoa APIs. Notepad++ for macOS is maintained by Andrey Letov, who wrote the Objective-C++ Cocoa UI that replaces Notepad++'s Win32 front-end. The app is available to download from the Notepad++ website. It's completely free and released under the GNU General Public License, so there are no ads, subs, or hidden costs. (Thanks, Mike!) This article, "Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article