A leaker with no track record with Apple products claims that there will be 12 different color and storage variants of the upcoming VR headset — but that is incredibly unlikely at launch.Apple VR headset renderIn a very brief report regarding the upcoming headset, French site dealabs says Apple's upcoming headset will launch with a total of six color variations. Interestingly, the publication says it's only aware of five of those six colors, saying it'll launch in "black, blue, grey, green and pink," with the sixth color a mystery. Read more...

Twitter is known for being a text-focused social network, but the platform has expanded its capabilities in recent years with things like Spaces and longer videos. Interestingly, it seems that Twitter users can expect many more video-related features coming soon, as teased by the company’s Senior Product Designer Andrea Conway. more… The post Twitter’s senior designer teases new video-related features coming to the platform appeared first on 9to5Mac.

Pricing rumors are circulating ahead of the iPhone 15 Pro launch later this year. Apple is said to be planning to increase the prices of the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, in part, as a way to further differentiate from the standard iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus. iPhone 15 Pro Max rendering based on CAD. (imagevia @UniverseIce) Chance Miller for 9to5Mac: According to a sketchy and unverified report on Weibo, Apple is planning to increase the price of the iPhone 15 Pro series as a way to further widen the gap between these models and the iPhone 15 Plus. Meanwhile, industry analyst Jeff Pu has also predicted a price increase for the iPhone 15 Pro and…

A Find My Apple Pencil feature could be on the way, described in a new Apple patent application published today. Interestingly, the method Apple describes doesn’t use an ultra wideband chip, but rather an acoustic signal … more… The post Find My Apple Pencil described in Apple patent, using acoustic signals appeared first on 9to5Mac.

Macworld Apple’s operating system updates always have important security patches, which is why we urge users to update as soon as possible. The recent iOS and iPadOS 16.5 update, however, has a unique security patch that is essentially a follow-up to a previous patch. A report by Jamf released on Monday details the ColdInvite vulnerability, which is filed as CVE-2023-27930 in the CVE Program database. ColdInvite “can be exploited to leverage the co-processor in order to obtain read/write privileges to the kernel,” according to Jamf. A bad actor can use ColdInvite to eventually gain control of the device. This hole was fixed in the 16.5 update. Interestingly, ColdInvite was discovered because of a previous vulnerability that Apple addressed last year…

Apple’s AR/VR headset is set to be revealed in less than a month at WWDC, yet we still know very little of how this technology will work and what Apple’s use cases will be. Interestingly, this week I got a look at what I’d consider the first applicable workplace augmented reality tech for the masses from Sightful, a company founded by former developers of Apple’s acquired PrimeSense. I don’t think the timing was a coincidence. more… The post Spacetop AR ‘laptop’ shows potential of Apple’s Reality Goggles appeared first on 9to5Mac.