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June 9, 2025, 8:25 PM

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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Apple unveils a Liquid Glass design language across its platforms, adding transparency and glass shine effects to Apple's in-app interfaces  —  Liquid Glass is coming to iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, and more. … Apple is introducing a new Liquid Glass design across its software platforms today.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Apple unveils iOS 26, using its new Liquid Glass design language, an updated lockscreen, and new features in Camera, Safari, Phone, Messages, and more  —  Apple is sharing details about its next big iOS update. … Apple has announced iOS 26, the next version of its iPhone operating system …
David Pierce / The Verge:
Apple unveils iPadOS 26 with new features to help users manipulate windows, including fluidly resizing them and opening more at once, a new Files app, and more  —  Is the iPad more Mac, or more iPhone?  Apple's still trying to figure that out. … The iPad is getting a big refresh this year …
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac:
Apple announces visionOS 26 with spatial widgets, including Clock, Weather, Music, and Photos, all-new Personas, Spatial scenes powered by AI, and more  —  visionOS 26 is official.  Today during WWDC, Apple announced the next major software update for Vision Pro.
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
Apple unveils macOS 26 Tahoe, with an overhauled design using Liquid Glass, a Phone app, a game launcher, Live Activities, new AI features, and more  —  It showed the new version during a presentation at WWDC 2025. … Apple announced a new version of macOS during its WWDC 2025 keynote presentation …
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple says macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last release of macOS that supports Intel Macs, with future macOS versions only available to Apple Silicon Macs  —  During the Platforms State of the Union at WWDC, Apple just announced that macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last release of macOS that supports Intel.
David Pierce / The Verge:
Apple unveils an updated Spotlight in macOS Tahoe, letting users quickly take actions in apps from playing music to creating notes and files, similar to Raycast  —  A launcher that can launch, and do, almost anything on your Mac.  Awesome. … There are lots of new personalization ideas …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Apple announces the Foundation Models framework, giving developers direct access to its on-device AI models for the first time  —  Apple at WWDC today announced Foundation Models Framework, a new API allowing third-party developers to leverage the large language models at the heart of Apple Intelligence and build it into their apps.
Apple on YouTube:
A recording of Apple's WWDC 2025 keynote  —  Get a sleek peek at what's to come this WWDC.  This year's week of technology, community, and creativity with developers across the world kicks off on June 9 ...
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Caroline Petrow-Cohen / Los Angeles Times:
Waymo suspends operations in downtown Los Angeles after at least five vehicles were destroyed during riots; it continues to operate in other parts of the city  —  The autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo has suspended operations in downtown Los Angeles after several of its vehicles were set …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Apple says Visual Intelligence will now be able to search on-screen content in addition to analyzing real world objects, expanding on camera search  —  Apple has announced a major Visual Intelligence update at WWDC 2025, enabling users to search and take action on anything displayed across their iPhone apps.
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Researcher brutecat finds a vulnerability that revealed the phone number linked to any Google account via brute forcing phone numbers; Google fixed the issue  —  This article was produced with support from WIRED.  —  A cybersecurity researcher was able to figure out the phone number linked …
IGN:
Xbox Ally X hands-on: an AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme APU, 24GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, 1080p games run at 60 FPS with no issues, a super-slim Windows, and more  —  The Xbox handheld impresses, but pricing remains the biggest question.  —  PC gaming handhelds have flooded the market at this point …
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Apple renames its OSes, shifting to a year-based system; the next iOS is iOS 26, alongside macOS Tahoe 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26  —  Version numbers now match the year, but not the current one. … Apple has announced a sweeping change to how it names — or, rather, numbers — its operating systems.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns the UK lacks the digital infrastructure needed to capitalize on AI despite “incredible” research talent, as PM Starmer pledges £1B  —  Jensen Huang seeks ‘sovereign’ artificial intelligence deals that diversify US chip giant's business away from Big Tech groups

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