Macworld Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a Monday morning cup of coffee or tea, but it’s cool if you want to give it a read during lunch or dinner hours too. Jam tomorrow One of our most widely read articles last week was an exploration of early iPhone 16 rumors. Reflecting on reports of larger screens, better battery life, solid-state buttons, and more, the article mused that the best course for customers might be to skip the iPhone 15 generation entirely and wait for the big update in 2024. I don’t…

Macworld On Thursday, Apple released a slew of updates that bring a few new features to the iPhone and Mac. But much more importantly, the updates include three critical zero-day patches for security vulnerabilities that are known to have been actively exploited. The most alarming of the bugs allow a hacker to access personal data and take over your device via a malicious app. The WebKit flaws span Apple’s family of devices and have been patched in iOS 16.5, iPadOS 16.5, watchOS 9.5, macOS 13.4, and tvOS 16.5, but also iOS/iPadOS 15.7.6, macOS Monterey 12.6.6, and macOS Big Sur 11.7.7, as well as Safari 16.5. All of the updates include the same five WebKit fixes, with three of them known…

Macworld On Thursday, Apple released a slew of updates that bring a few new features to the iPhone and Mac. But much more importantly, the updates include three critical zero-day patches for security vulnerabilities that are known to have been actively exploited. The WebKit flaws span Apple’s family of devices and have been patched in iOS 16.5, iPadOS 16.5, watchOS 9.5, macOS 13.4, and tcOS 16.5, but also iOS/iPadOS 15.7.6, macOS Monterey 12.6.6, and macOS Big Sur 11.7.7, as well as Safari 16.5. All of the updates include the same five WebKit fixes, with three of them known to have been exploited: WebKit Impact: Processing web content may disclose sensitive informationDescription: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.WebKit…

Macworld On Thursday, Apple released a slew of updates that bring a few new features to the iPhone and Mac. But much more importantly, the updates include three critical zero-day patches for security vulnerabilities that are known to have been actively exploited. The WebKit flaws span Apple’s family of devices and have been patched in iOS 16.5, iPadOS 16.5, watchOS 9.5, macOS 13.4, and tcOS 16.5, but also iOS/iPadOS 15.7.6, macOS Monterey 12.6.6, and macOS Big Sur 11.7.7, as well as Safari 16.5. All of the updates include the same five WebKit fixes, with three of them known to have been exploited: WebKit Impact: Processing web content may disclose sensitive informationDescription: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.WebKit…

Cue the lightsaber noises. | Image: EA Today, in sales figures that should surprise no one: Star Wars Jedi: Survivor became April’s bestselling video game within two days of release. And if you’re a PC gamer who has yet to play Respawn’s excellent follow-up to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, you can pick up a digital copy on the Epic Games Store for $52.49 (about $18 off) as part of Epic’s ongoing Mega sale, which runs until June 15th. We praised the game in our review, namely for the way the Star Wars title builds upon the original without completely rejiggering what made the first game such a joy. The puzzles, frantic lightsaber battles, and Force antics are still there,…

Cue the lightsaber noises. | Image: EA Today, in sales figures that should surprise no one: Star Wars Jedi: Survivor became April’s bestselling video game within two days of release. And if you’re a PC gamer who has yet to play Respawn’s excellent follow-up to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, you can pick up a digital copy on the Epic Games Store for $52.49 (about $18 off) as part of Epic’s ongoing Mega sale, which runs until June 15th. We praised the game in our review, namely for the way the Star Wars title builds upon the original without completely rejiggering what made the first game such a joy. The puzzles, frantic lightsaber battles, and Force antics are still there,…