Photo credit: Delft University of Technology | Micro Aerial Vehicles Lab Researchers at Delft University of Technology have built a navigation method for small drones that copies one of nature’s most efficient routines. Honeybees fly long distances along twisting routes yet still head home with striking accuracy. The new system lets a drone do something similar after just one short practice flight near its base, all while using a learning program small enough to fit in the memory of a basic phone app icon.
Honeybees keep track of distance and direction by observing how the ground and surroundings move past their eyes. Then, over time, slight inconsistencies begin to appear. To remedy this, bees will frequently undertake a quick small learning flight shortly after starting feeding, looping around the area near the hive and gathering all of their visual memory of what is around them. Later, when they’re far out in the wild, their memories guide them back to the hive, even though they can’t see it.
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A group of Delft researchers wanted to see if a drone might follow a similar path. Rather than develop an incredibly thorough three-dimensional picture of the entire area, as if a robot were trying to recall a complex plan, they just had the thing snap a few short panoramic photos during a quick learning fly around the starting position. They then uploaded the photographs to a small learning system, along with the drone’s initial estimates of how far and in which direction it had traveled. Yes, those calculations become a little jumbled, but the program still manages to extract enough information from the surroundings to determine its home territory and return the drone to that location.
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When the drone takes off on a longer flight, it primarily relies on those motion estimates to get there and back, right up until it approaches the place where it learned to fly. The visual portion of the system then takes over and returns the drone to its original location. It also teaches the drone to fly faster when it is still in the wilderness and slow down as it approaches, similar to how bees adjust their own speed near the end of a journey.
Tests in these huge indoor environments were consistently successful. The drone might take off from a certain position, fly all the way to the other side of this massive hangar or test arena, and then return without ever seeing its home base. Outside, the same method worked fine for a drone that flew more than 600 meters before turning and returning home, and it continued to work well even on calm days, but it began to get a little wonky on windy days, primarily because gusts would blow the drone around and interfere with the camera’s view.
The outdoor version works on a learning system that uses only 42 kilobytes of memory, reducing memory utilization to a minimum. Traditional map-building methods often require substantially more memory and processing capacity, pushing designers to invest more in drones that use more energy and are more expensive to fly. The bee-inspired technique keeps the technology lightweight, allowing small drones to safely fly around people or into places like greenhouses where they don’t want to clash with anything.
Crop monitoring has a clear advantage because a lightweight drone can fly between rows of plants looking for early signs of disease or pests without the bulk or risk associated with larger mapping systems. The same navigation technique makes it perfect for robots moving about warehouses inspecting industrial equipment or functioning in places where satellite signals are distorted due to trees, buildings, or weather. [Source]
The new Siri AI was the star of the show at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) this year, and while iOS 27 isn’t bringing major changes, it’s still got many small features that could improve everyday usage for iPhone users.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of features that Apple didn’t talk about on stage:
iOS 27 now allows you to add full-screen widgets on the home screen, making it easier to scan news or your calendar.
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Users can now set separate volume levels for alarms, timers, alerts and system sounds. Users will need to navigate to Settings > Sounds & Haptics, turn off the “Match Ringtone Volume” toggle, and adjust sliders manually.
Apple is making it easier to copy and paste text or images between apps. When you have text or a screenshot in your clipboard, you will get an option on the keyboard to paste it. This is similar to how you post one-time passcodes from Messages.
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The weather app is getting a design update: there’s a new highlights section that surfaces notable events in the upcoming days. Plus, you can now easily switch between Conditions, Precipitation, and Wind views.
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Users can now customize the Messages app to show either a voice recording or dictation button, or hide them entirely.
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Messages now offers a Drawing option, allowing you to sketch a note or a diagram and send it to others.
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The camera controls are getting an overhaul, with easy access to depth, grid, and level options.
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The emoji keyboard has a small scroll bar at the bottom.
Timer has a new slider UI when you activate it from the control center.
You can hide your location in Find My from a specific person for a set amount of time without letting them know.
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A longevity startup has dosed its first patient with a drug to reverse age-related sight loss.
Life Biosciences is testing its ER-100 drug, which the company claims has restored vision in monkeys, for safety and side effects in a study of around 18 adults over the next year.
It will be targeting patients with glaucoma and NAION, two conditions that cause damage to crucial cells in the optic nerve, which transmits visual information from the back of the eye to the brain. ER-100 is designed to rejuvenate those cells so that they work again and restore sight.
It is the first-ever cellular rejuvenation therapy using this technology to receive FDA clearance to enter human clinical trials, and hence the first chance to test whether the technology can “ameliorate human disease,” according to Life Biosciences cofounder and professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, David Sinclair.
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Aging biology—understanding how the body’s cells and functions deteriorate over time—is at the root of longevity science. ER-100 is the focus of major interest across biotech for its potential to reverse cellular aging. Life Biosciences, based in Boston, says it is developing applications for its technology to tackle a host of age-related diseases in a variety of organs, like fatty liver disease.
“Our research has suggested that aging is driven in large part by the loss of epigenetic information, not irreversible damage. This clinical study represents the first opportunity to test whether restoring that information can ameliorate human disease,” Sinclair said.
Researchers say mysterious, seconds-long GPS interference bursts detected across Europe appear to come from Russian EKS early-warning satellites, making this “a rare example of human-made GPS interference coming from space,” reports Ars Technica. The signals may be tests of space-based jamming capability, short satellite communications, or something else, but experts say they raise troubling questions about whether GPS disruption could eventually be weaponized on a continental scale. From the report: The discovery came from an investigation detailed in a June 2 preprint paper by Todd Humphreys and his student Zach Clements at The University of Texas at Austin, along with Argyris Krizise at Stanford University in California. By sifting through public data from ground-based stations with global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers, they identified a pattern of high-powered interference lasting less than 10 seconds each time but simultaneously detectable by ground stations across Europe from Norway to Spain to Poland, and even reaching as far west as Greenland and Canada.
By analyzing the ground station data from January 2019 to April 2026, the researchers found 75 days with at least one widespread GNSS interference event overlapping with the GPS L1 frequency band centered on 1575.42 megahertz. That represents the main band used for signal transmission by the US-made GPS satellite constellation and GNSS constellations from other countries. Such interference patterns happened mostly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays during business hours in Europe, Humphreys told the YouTube channel Veritasium. Because such “continental-scale” interference was simultaneously affecting GPS receivers across Europe and beyond, Humphreys and his colleagues calculated that the source had to be at least 1,200 kilometers above the Earth.
[…] In the Veritasium video, Humphreys speculated that the Russians may have been testing the satellites’ GPS interference capabilities only briefly on a neighboring frequency adjacent to the typical GPS band. “And then in the eventual future when there is a hot conflict, they go ahead and tune their transmitter down to the GPS band, but it’s much more damaging now that it lies right on that band,” he said. Incidentally, the raw data also revealed a second interference burst from the Russian satellites in a lower-frequency band used by China’s BeiDou navigation system. “I can no longer say this is accidental with confidence,” Humphreys told Veritasium. He also described the Russian satellites’ quiet demonstration as a “massive escalation in the electronic warfare background conflict that is going on right now.” Richard Bowden, division head of assured and resilient PNT at the multinational technology company GMV in Spain, wrote in a LinkedIn comment: “These signals are, without a doubt, intentional and placed on or around GNSS signals, and have the potential to disrupt legitimate use of GNSS services. But from our side at least, we can’t be sure they are intentionally malicious or intended as an EW [electronic warfare] weapon.”
The exact number was later revealed in a regulatory filing with the Maine attorney general’s office. The total stands at 20,225 compromised accounts (30 of whom were Maine residents).
The hack, reported by 404 Media last week, was easy to pull off against account holders who had not enabled two-factor authentication. Hackers simply asked the AI-powered bot to change the email address for a targeted account to their own. Once that was granted, the hackers requested a password reset, prompting the AI to send a code to their personal email address. After hackers verified the password reset, they were able to take control of the account.
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An edited step-by-step video of the process even appeared on X, showing how the hackers used a VPN to make it seem they were in the target’s location. At no point did the hackers even need the user’s email address or original password.
In an incident notification letter to Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey, dated June 5, Meta acknowledged “a vulnerability in the AI-assisted account recovery system for Instagram … that was exploited by unauthorized third parties to perform password resets on Instagram user accounts.”
After the exploit was made public, many Instagram users reported on Reddit and X that their accounts had been hacked, though the breadth of the hack wasn’t clear at the time. A Meta spokesperson posted on X that the exploit was fixed as of June 1, shortly after initial reports.
How did AI let the hack happen?
The problem is almost entirely due to Meta’s customer support now being run by AI. The tech giant made the switch back in March, saying it would enable “24/7 help for account issues like updating your password and settings for your profile.”
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But with the AI chatbot handling the whole process, humans couldn’t step in when suspicious activity began. That allowed hackers to carry out the social engineering-style attack and pull it off multiple times before anyone noticed.
Affected accounts were forcibly logged out for all users and email addresses were restored. Users were then told to reset their passwords and reauthenticate their logins. Meta says that once the accounts are secured, a second notice will be sent to remind people to turn on two-factor authentication to prevent future attacks.
Meta has not yet responded to a request for comment.
How to protect yourself from similar attacks
The social engineering exploit had one major limitation: It did not work on accounts with multifactor authentication. Those accounts either already had the code in their authentication app of choice or received it by text. Without the MFA setting, the one-time reset code appears to be sent to an email address of choice, thereby letting hackers just, well, have it.
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The best way to protect yourself is to enable multifactor authentication, which is available on all of Meta’s platforms. It won’t protect you 100% of the time, but it’s a lot better than a password by itself, and it would’ve protected against this particular exploit entirely.
There are other things you can do to beef up account security, including using passkeys where available and a private email address to make your account credentials harder to find.
Threat actor reused unrotated GitHub Actions secrets to compromise 73 Microsoft repos
Miasma worm planted across Azure, microsoft, Azure‑Samples, and MicrosoftDocs orgs
Microsoft pulled affected repos, notified impacted customers, and continues investigation
GitHub has disabled 73 of Microsoft’s repositories after a threat actor allegedly used credentials stolen a month ago to break in and plant an infostealer.
The news was confirmed by security firm Cloudsmith and community-driven malware analysis site OpenSourceMalware, which revealed that in mid-May 2026, someone (most likely TeamPCP) used stolen Microsoft’s GitHub Actions secrets to publish malicious PyPI packages. While these were quickly yanked from the platform, it seems that Microsoft never rotated the secrets used in this attack.
Now, it would appear that the same threat actor used the same credentials to compromise 73 new repositories, spanning four GitHub organizations: Azure, Azure-Samples, microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs. The Azure org bore the brunt, losing 49 repos, essentially everything the Functions team ships.
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Significant fallout
The key difference is that this time it wasn’t the Mini Shai-Hulud worm that was being distributed, but rather the Miasma worm, a spin-off that emerged after TeamPCP open-sourced Mini Shai-Hulud.
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The researchers are saying that the practical fallout was quite significant, as some libraries run inside other people’s pipelines. For example, every workflow referencing Azure/functions-action@v1 stopped resolving.
Microsoft spokesperson Ben Hope told TechCrunch the company has “temporarily removed some repositories as we investigated potential malicious content.”
“Some of these repos have been restored after review, while others may remain offline while work continues,” Hope added. “As part of our investigation, we notified a small number of customers who may have pulled down content from the affected repositories. We will continue to investigate, and if anything further is identified that requires customer action, we will reach out directly through our established support channels.”
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Microsoft could not say how many customers the incident affected, but it is safe to assume that it is in the tens of thousands, if not more.
Unlike most years, Apple’s WWDC 2026 carried more weight than usual, not just because it was Tim Cook’s final keynote as CEO, but also because it represented Apple’s chance at redemption after missing deadlines, mounting questions, and criticism about its ability to keep pace in the AI race.
Fortunately, Apple answered many of those questions on June 8, 2026, unveiling an upgraded AI-powered Siri alongside a range of new Apple Intelligence features, while also raising a few fresh questions. WWDC was packed with announcements across six operating systems that underpin Apple’s ecosystem of devices.
Here’s a quick roundup of everything that the company announced during its WWDC 2026 keynote.
Apple WWDC 2026 at a glance
Topic
What Apple Announced
Operating Systems
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and tvOS 27.
Design Changes
A refreshed design language brings greater visual consistency across Apple’s platforms.
Siri AI
Rebuilt Siri powered by Apple Foundation Models and Google Gemini, with deeper integration across apps and system features.
Apple Intelligence
New AI features for writing, productivity, communication, and contextual assistance tools.
iOS 27
New customization options, AI-powered features, and system-wide improvements for speed and efficiency.
iPadOS 27
Improved multitasking, productivity features, Apple Intelligence integrations, with new Siri AI.
macOS Golden Gate
New continuity features, productivity tools, and Siri AI.
watchOS 27
Health, fitness, and personalization updates, along with the new Siri AI experience.
visionOS 27
New spatial computing features, app capabilities, and ecosystem integrations.
tvOS 27
Updates focus on entertainment, home integration, and user experience improvements.
The result is an update that feels faster and brings several quality-of-life improvements for iPhone users, including up to 30% faster app launches and up to 70% quicker photos loading times (after you’ve shot them), and, the most important one for me, up to 80% AirDrop transfers.
Addressing the legibility issues with Liquid Glass, Apple has added a new transparency slider that lets you dial it anywhere from ultra-clear to fully tinted. App icons have also been sharpened with additional refraction layers, and toolbars and sidebars (within apps) have been cleaned up for a more uniform look.
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System-wide Search has been rebuilt from scratch. It now comes with a new index that loads on update, delivering faster and more reliable results across apps like iOS, Mail, and Photos. Mail gets a new ranking system that surfaces more relevant results.
Apple Maps gets an AI-powered Flyover that shows cities in a three-dimensional birds-eye view, with detailed and labeled environments including landmarks and buildings. The Passwords app now autonomously navigates to vulnerable sites and upgrades weak passwords.
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The Health app gets perimenopause and menopause support for Cycle Tracking, with notifications for deviations. Apple Photos now offers a new slideshow maker, along with three new Apple Intelligence powered editing tools: Spatial Reframing (the one I’m most curious about), Extend, and upgraded Clean Up.
You might have missed it, but Apple also announced a new way of creating Shortcuts. Instead of learning how to create them, you can simply describe a Shortcut in plain language, and iOS 27 will create one for you. That’s a win for most iPhone users I know, who never touched Shortcuts before.
iCloud Shared Albums now support full-resolution sharing with Windows and Android users, while CarPlay gets video app support.
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The European Union (EU) has been a major regulatory driver behind all the child safety and parental control announcements you’re seeing from different companies, and Apple’s new child safety and parental control features, including Ask to Browse, Communication Safety enhancements, and Declared Age Range API are built around protecting younger users.
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With a child account enabled, users need explicit real-time parental permission before accessing a new website via Safari. Communication Safety now blocks graphic violence and gore in shared images and videos. Developers can request a child’s broad age bracket via the child account without asking for an exact birth date.
Other features include mandatory contact approvals, category-specific time allowances, Screen Time dashboard overhaul, and a simplified child account setup.
The old Siri, at least in my experience, wasn’t all that bad. It showed up and performed well for tasks like setting alarms, general knowledge questions, enabling/disabling location services, etc.
But when Google’s Gemini and third-party assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude raised the bar, Siri started to feel like it was stuck in the slow lane.
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WWDC 2026 demos showed Siri surfacing specific photos with filtered faces without opening the Photos app, building a multi-stop navigation route by identifying a beach arch from an on-screen photo, and pulling up something a contact mentioned in a week-old message.
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Siri AI can also write, edit, and proofread your mails, messages, or notes (similar to Writing Tools). What I find more interesting is that the assistant can match the tone of the conversation, drafting messages to your manager differently than the ones to your friends or family.
With all the fancy bells and whistles, Siri AI (beta, opt-in) launches in English this fall across all the operating systems except tvOS 27. While it remains free with a daily usage allowance, features relying on server processing, including image generation and others, will have daily limits, with higher limits for iCloud+ users.
It’s worth noting here that Siri AI won’t be available in the EU on iOS and iPadOS, while it won’t be available in China entirely.
What’s new in Apple Intelligence beyond Siri?
While Siri AI has already made many headlines, Apple Intelligence has received multiple upgrades this time, enough that it finally feels like a platform rather than a feature list.
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To begin with, Image Playground now generates photorealistic images alongside its existing illustration styles and supports more aspect ratios and platforms than it did with iOS 26. Genmoji has also been overhauled, creating faster and significantly more expressive emojis.
For the first time, Visual Intelligence expands beyond the iPhone. iPads get it integrated into the screenshot experience, while Macs get a dedicated keyboard shortcut for selecting anything on the screen and sending it directly to Siri. Vision Pro users can now look at anything around them and ask Siri about it.
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The Camera on iPhone gets a new dedicated Siri mode that lets you tap the shutter button and ask questions about what you’re looking at; it’s Apple’s answer to Google’s Gemini Live. Using the feature, you can get nutritional information about your meal, split bills through Apple Cash, and identify real-world objects.
Messages now offers one-tap suggestions based on conversation context. So, tasks like creating a reminder, setting a note, and taking an action are all possible without leaving the thread. Call Context now generates AI summaries of incoming calls before you decide whether to answer.
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Apple Intelligence is also doing meaningful work on accessibility. VoiceOver now offers richer descriptions of images, while users can press the Action Button to ask Siri about what the camera is seeing (with detailed responses no less). Voice Control lets you describe interface elements without memorizing exact names, while Accessibility Reader adds summarization and translation.
What does your iPad get with iPadOS 27 this fall?
iPadOS 26 sure made your iPad feel like a real computer, but I’d say it’s the iPadOS 27 that makes it feel like a polished one, thanks to all the meaningful productivity improvements across the board.
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With iPadOS 27, you no longer have to swipe to access the Menu Bar; you can place it permanently on the screen. That’s a second or two saved every time you switch between apps. iPhone apps can also be resized when running on iPad, closing an awkward display gap for users whose favorite apps never got a proper iPad version.
External drive performance gets a significant boost and file browsing and transfers are up to 5x faster than iPadOS 26, putting iPad on par with Finder on Mac.
Siri AI is now available on compatible iPads with full capability, along with Safari’s topic-based tab organization, Notify me, AI-powered editing features in the Photos apps, and full-resolution iCloud Shared Albums with Android and Windows users.
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iPadOS 27 compatibility and release timeline
Unlike iOS 27, iPadOS 27 drops support for several older iPad models, including the first-generation 11-inch iPad Pro, third-generation 12.9-inch iPad Pro, iPad Air 3, iPad mini 5, iPad 8, and earlier. If you’re rocking any of those, it’s time to think about an upgrade.
Developer beta is now available for iPad users, while public beta arrives in July. The stable build ships this fall.
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Devices
iPadOS 27
Apple Intelligence
iPad Pro M4 or later
Yes
Yes (advanced AI on M4 with 12GB+)
iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd gen+), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th gen+), iPad Air (4th gen+)
Yes
M1 or later only
iPad mini (A17 Pro)
Yes
Yes
iPad mini (6th gen), iPad (9th gen or later)
Yes
No
iPad 8 and earlier, iPad Air 3 and earlier
No
No
What is new for your Mac with macOS 27 Golden Gate?
This year’s Mac release is called macOS Golden Gate, which is a reference to the strait connecting San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean, but also a symbolic threshold. macOS 27 entirely drops support for Intel-based Macs, closing the door on old architecture for good.
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In terms of design, macOS Golden Gate gets its soul back with colored sidebar icons, edge-to-edge sidebars, and a uniform toolbar across apps. It also gets the Liquid Glass transparency slider.
In terms of functionality, Apple’s latest macOS version brings Siri AI integration directly into Spotlight search, letting you start a rich, multi-turn conversation from anywhere on your desktop. Visual Intelligence comes to Mac for the first time, while control-clicking an image or file now surfaces Siri as a native option in the context menu.
macOS 27 also follows the same schedule as iOS 27 and iPadOS 27: developer beta is already available, public beta ships July, while the stable build arrives in September 2026.
Everything else Apple announced at WWDC 2026
Apple also announced improvements for other operating systems, including watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and tvOS 27.
watchOS 27’s new features require Watch Series 10 or newer
However, if you want to access new Apple Intelligence features, you’ll require a Series 10 or newer, which is where the compatibility cut hurts the most.
Supported Apple Watch models get a redesigned Dynamic App Grid with five Siri-suggested app shortcuts (on the home screen), a new tap gesture that opens the Smart Stack, and a Find My app that merges Find Devices, Find Items, and Find People into one. Siri AI also arrives on the smartwatch with full conversational capability.
Devices
watchOS 27
Apple Intelligence
Apple Watch Series 10, 11, Ultra 2, Ultra 3
Yes
Yes
Apple Watch SE 3
Yes
Yes (requires Apple Intelligence iPhone nearby)
Apple Watch Series 9
Yes
No
Apple Watch SE 2, Series 6, 7, 8, Ultra 1
No
No
visionOS 27 gets Siri AI and Visual Intelligence
visionOS 27 gets Siri AI as a floating 3D orb (with a wave-like animation) that you can place and position anywhere in your virtual environment. You can just look at it and start talking to Siri, without speaking out the “Hey Siri” wake phrase.
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Visual Intelligence now works on physical objects in your immediate surroundings. Panoramas can be converted into full spatial environments for immersive personal use. While app windows get a subtle curvature for a natural spatial feel, Wi-Fi connections are up to 3x faster on the mixed reality headset.
And yes, Siri AI is available on Vision Pro in the EU.
What about tvOS 27?
tvOS 27 got the shortest shrift of any platform at WWDC 2026, but the version still gets a redesigned Podcasts app, smoother app launch animations, Hi-Res Lossless audio in Apple Music, faster AirPlay connectivity, and on-device HomeKit Secure Video processing.
In a way, there couldn’t have been a more fitting farewell keynote for the executive, as it was truly where Apple redeemed its position as the side runner to one who is back in the lead in the on-device AI capabilities race.
Watch Queen’s Club Championships 2026 live streams, as Emma Raducanu, Alexandra Eala and Elena Rybakina headline the women’s action during the first week of the fortnight-long grass-court tournament from west London.
The biggest story of all, however, is Serena Williams’ comeback. The 23-time grand slam singles winner retired in 2022, but has accepted a doubles wildcard, for which the 44-year-old has teamed up with Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko, who’s in the midst of a breakthrough campaign in which she’s reached the world’s top 10.
Women’s tennis returned to Queen’s for the first time since 1973 last year, and although there was no British interest beyond the quarter-finals, Raducanu’s march to the last eight remains arguably the high point of her career, outside of her 2021 US Open victory.
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Nobody’s in better form than Marta Kostyuk, who secured her first WTA 1000 title at the Madrid Open last month, before reaching the French Open semi-finals last weekend. Former Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina had a blistering start to 2026 but has gone off the boil of late, while Amanda Anisimova hasn’t kicked on as she would have liked, after reaching the finals of both Wimbledon and the US Open last year.
Alexandra Eala is unseeded, but having reached the Eastbourne final a year ago, she could be a dark horse in West London this week. Next week, it’s the turn of the men as the warm-ups for Wimbledon continue.
Here’s how to watch Queen’s 2026 from anywhere in the world.
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Can you watch Queen’s 2026 for free?
Yes. The 2026 Queen’s Club Championships are being shown on free-to-air BBC One and BBC Two in the UK, with live streaming available through BBC iPlayer.
Traveling abroad right now? You can use a VPN to watch Queen’s for free as if you were right at home.
Use a VPN to watch Queen’s Club Championships 2026 live streams
A VPN is handy piece of software that can make your device appear as if it’s back in your home country, so you can unlock your usual service. The best VPN right now? We recommend NordVPN – it does everything and comes with up to 75% off.
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How to watch Queen’s Club Championships 2026 live streams in the US
In the US, Queen’s Club Championships 2026 men’s and women’s tournaments are being shown on the Tennis Channel.
A Tennis Channel subscription costs $109.99/year or $11.99/month, but new subscribers can get their first year for $77 for a limited time.
Looking for an ‘over the top’ streaming option that carries hundreds of other channels? The Tennis Channel is also available on YouTube TV, Sling TV and Fubo. Both YouTube TV (21 days) and Fubo (10 days) come with free-trial options.
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Outside the US for this tournament? Use NordVPN to unlock your stream of Queen’s 2026.
How to watch Queen’s Club Championships 2026 live streams in the UK
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In the UK, the 2026 Queen’s Club Championships 2026 are free-to-air on BBC One and BBC Two, as well as via the BBC iPlayer streaming service.
All you need is an account, a TV license and a UK postcode (e.g.HA9 0WS). Sign up here!
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If you’re out of the UK but still want to tune in, explore the VPN route set out above, which will help you access your accounts from anywhere.
How to watch Queen’s Club Championships 2026 live streams in Australia
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In Australia, Queen’s Club Championships 2026 men’s and women’s tournaments are available on beIN Sports, which offers new users a 7-day FREE trial.
You can add beIN Sports to most pre-existing TV packages, or you can sign up as a separate subscription. It costs AU$14.99 month or AU$149 if you pay for a year up front, once that week-long trial ends.
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In addition to Queen’s and other tennis tournaments, beIN Sports has the rights to loads of soccer and other sports, including La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, Carabao Cup and EFL Championship football and rugby.
As part of a sub-licensing agreement with beIN, the WTA 500 women’s event only is also available on Stan Sport. A Stan Sport add-on costs AU$20 in addition to a Basic subscription that costs AU$12, and it will also show Wimbledon 2026 in a few weeks’ time.
Not in Australia right now? You can simply use a VPN like NordVPN to watch all the action on beIN Sports as if you were back home.
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How to watch Queen’s Club Championships 2026 in Canada
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Queen’s Club Championships 2026 is available on TSN (men’s tournament) and DAZN (women’s tournament) in Canada.
To watch the WTA 500 tournament (8-14 June), you’ll need DAZN, with prices starting from CA$24.99/month.
For the men’s ATP 500 tournament (15-21 June), it’s TSN and the TSN+ streaming platform. It costs CA$8 per month or CA$80 per year
Visiting Canada from the UK? Use NordVPN to watch the tournament for free.
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How to watch Queen’s Club Championships 2026 live streams in New Zealand
DAZN and Disney+, which carries ESPN content, are the Queen’s Club Championships 2026 TV rights holder in New Zealand.
For the men’s tournament, you can access Disney+ with a Standard subscription that costs from NZ$16.99 a month, with ads. Ad-free tiers are available at an extra cost.
For the women’s event, a DAZN subscription costs NZ$14.99 per month for an annual contract or NZ$23.99 for a flexible monthly pass.
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Queen’s Club Championships 2026 Q&A
Who are the Queen’s Club Championships 2026 seeds?
Queen’s Club Championships 2026 seeds
Women
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1. Elena Rybakina 2. Amanda Anisimova 3. Victoria Mboko 4. Belinda Bencic 5. Marta Kostyuk 6. Iva Jovic 7. Sorana Cîrstea 8. Leylah Fernandez
Men
1. Alex de Minaur 2. Jiri Lehecka 3. Lorenzo Musetti 4. Jakub Mensík 5. Luciano Darderi 6. Valentin Vacherot 7. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 8. Rafael Jodar
Who are the recent Queen’s Club Championships winners?
Recent Queen’s champions
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Men’s champions
2025 – Carlos Alcaraz 2024 – Tommy Paul 2023 – Carlos Alcaraz 2022 – Matteo Berrettini 2021 – Matteo Berrettini 2019 – Feliciano Lopez 2018 – Marin Cilic 2017 – Feliciano Lopez 2016 – Andy Murray
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Signal insists that plans to compel tech companies to scan devices for nude images of children announced by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday at London Tech Week “will not keep children safe.”
“It endangers us all,” the encrypted messaging platform said, adding that the mechanism required to implement it would be “dangerous.” And it wouldn’t be a pro-privacy statement without calling it “dystopian.”
Signal argues that the proposed technology could at some point be repurposed to enable state-sponsored surveillance of all citizens’ comms, or used as a mass censorship tool.
“Forcing all UK residents to prove their age and/or have all their content scanned, simply to exercise their fundamental right to communicate, is a perilous proposition,” Signal stated.
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“We know that mass surveillance and censorship capabilities, however sincere-sounding the promises of those who initiate them are, never remain narrowly scoped. Once created, they will be expanded, forming a dangerous tool that will be wielded both in the UK and abroad to censor and surveil whatever they might consider ‘threats’ or ‘harmful content.’”
Similar accusations have been leveled against the UK government in response to its various attempts to improve online safety via legislation.
For example, the government has long presented the Investigatory Powers Act as a way to enshrine in law necessary powers available to law enforcement and UK intelligence to intercept communications for the sake of preventing terrorist attacks.
More recently, the Online Safety Act was introduced to impose new obligations on digital platforms to prevent children from accessing online harms.
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However, privacy proponents have shunned both.
Rather than simply providing powers to prevent terror attacks, critics say the IPA enables public bodies to spy on people’s calls or texts. It’s colloquially known as “The Snooper’s Charter.”
Digital rights organizations have also claimed the OSA is more about online censorship than it is about restricting the types of content children are allowed to view on the web.
The PM’s proposals are not law yet. Instead, Starmer’s speech amounted to a three-month ultimatum to tech companies: make the changes the UK wants to see or the government will legislate.
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Essentially, whichever way the likes of Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others want to play it, some form of device-level scanning appears likely to be pushed onto UK devices soon.
“When it comes to the safety of our children, standing by is not an option. Nobody gets a free pass. That is why I’m making sure Britain is the first country in the world to make it impossible for children to take, share or view nude images,” Starmer said.
“And I expect tech firms to make that happen. This is not an impossible challenge – these are some of the most innovative companies in the world. But if they choose not to, then we will act and change the law.”
The government’s announcement was backed by a slew of campaigners and charities that argued child protection has not been as big a part of tech innovation as it should have been in recent years.
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Roxy Longworth, author and founder of Behind Our Screens, said: “I told myself, back in 2021, that if I went public with what happened to me and it stopped one life from being ruined, then it was worth it, but the more I campaigned the angrier I became.
“Every child needs to be protected from platforms who for far too long have been allowed to turn a blind eye to the damage being done to them. This announcement makes me hopeful that there won’t be kids sat in their room feeling the same pressure and shame that consumed my teenage years.”
Likewise, Chris Sherwood, chief exec at the NSPCC, said: “Every day these protections are not in place, more children will continue to face devastating harm in the online world. That’s why we strongly support the government’s decision to make it mandatory for these companies to block inappropriate material at device level. This marks a major step forward in our fight against online child sexual abuse.”
The UK government singled out Apple and Google, saying that it demands both block nudity by default across their devices. That includes cameras, third-party apps, and messaging services, which would prevent children from taking, viewing, or sending nude images.
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It proposed that the nude-block-by-default approach would keep children safe, while still allowing adults to remove the block by verifying their ages.
Client-side scanning remains a highly controversial technology, but supporters present it as striking a balance between privacy and safety.
Advocates argue it should appeal to the pro-privacy crowd by keeping all data on the device, rather than blurring nude images in transit, for example, which would involve sending that data to an intermediary.
However, in the case of Signal, an encrypted messenger, it breaks the private comms trust model, even if the message content is not sent to a third party.
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Client-side scanning can involve checking content against a database of known objectionable material. In the context of child exploitation, image hashes would be checked against a database of other hashes associated with abuse material. If the hashes match, then the image would be blocked.
Some implementations scan using AI, rather than against a database.
So while the image in this scenario is not sent to a third party, it does mean that Signal could no longer say that message content stays between sender and receiver only.
Further, because the databases of objectionable material would need to be updated, this introduces additional problems.
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Updated databases or models would need to be pushed to devices, creating another trust and security dependency. The attack surface also widens, as it is conceivable that attackers could try to manipulate them.
As Signal points out, it would be technically possible for the same scanning mechanisms to be updated to block other things, like messages criticizing the government, to take one hypothetical example.
Authorities could also feasibly implement ways of seeing which device contains images or other content that has registered matches with its objectionable material database, potentially opening the door to surveillance.
The company’s statement [PDF] called for public funds to be funneled into other areas to improve child safety, including education, social services, and guardrails on AI technologies and platforms, instead of drafting legislation to block children’s nudes by default on devices.
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“What the UK government wants instead is invisible surveillance infrastructure, switched on by default and potentially rushed into law under cynical pretexts,” it said. “All of this with scant care for the actual needs of the children they claim to be protecting or the horrifying and far-ranging consequences that will ensue in practice.”
Signal has not threatened to pull out of the UK, however, despite the government’s promises to enact the plans, via legislation or the threat of it.
The company has previously mulled exiting Sweden over proposed encryption-busting laws, and more recently Canada, as it debates a bill that would compel platforms like Signal to gather its users’ metadata, which could include their locations and who they are talking to. ®
Zillow Group co-founder Rich Barton. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota)
The man who helped revolutionize how Americans buy and sell homes has a new residence.
Seattle entrepreneur Rich Barton, who co-founded Zillow Group in Seattle 20 years ago and remains its co-executive chairman, announced on X that he’s now officially a Las Vegas resident: “Kids are launched, empty nest achieved, and we’re excited to start this next chapter.”
Officially a Las Vegas resident. Kids are launched, empty nest achieved, and we're excited to start this next chapter.
The news marks the end of an era for one of Seattle’s most prolific entrepreneurs.
In addition to Zillow, Barton co-founded Expedia Group in the Seattle area 30 years ago, when he was in his late 20s, spinning it out of Microsoft and taking it public in 1999.
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GeekWire marked the Expedia anniversary with a retrospective story last month in which Barton reflected on the rise of the online travel company, noting that it had “massive ambition.” Expedia now has a market value of $27 billion, while Zillow is valued at $8 billion.
Through a spokesperson, Barton declined to comment when contacted by GeekWire, so it’s not clear if there are additional motivations behind his new residence.
Regardless, losing a figure of Barton’s status is a blow to the local ecosystem. Barton, whose net worth has repeatedly flirted with the billionaire threshold, has been one of the premier, self-made “unicorn” creators anchoring Washington state’s tech economy.
Other prominent entrepreneurs have left Seattle in recent years, most notably Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who announced in an Instagram message in November 2023 that he was moving to Miami. Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz also recently announced on LinkedIn a Miami move, and then last month wrote a critical op-ed in The Wall Street Journal saying Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson “vilifies employers.”
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All three framed their moves in personal terms — Barton cited an empty nest, Bezos pointed to family and Blue Origin’s growing Florida presence, and Schultz described entering retirement.
However, the relocations come amid an increasingly heated debate over taxes in Washington state, where lawmakers have expanded taxes on wealthy residents while some business leaders warn that the policies could drive entrepreneurs elsewhere.
Following the state’s transition to a graduated capital gains tax — which now levies a 9.9% rate on gains exceeding $1 million — lawmakers approved a controversial “millionaire’s tax” that sets a 9.9% personal income tax on high earners. The tax, set to take effect in January 2028, is being challenged in court.
Tensions boiled over in tech circles recently after Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson brushed off warnings of capital flight during a public appearance, offering a literal hand-wave and saying “bye” to wealthy residents threatening to leave.
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“I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are, like, super overblown,” Mayor Wilson said in April just three months after taking office. “And if — the ones that leave, like, bye.”
The comment drew sharp rebukes from several local founders and venture capitalists who view it as indicative of a growing political hostility toward employers and entrepreneurs.
Toy Story 5‘s creators have discussed the futures of Woody, Buzz, and Jessie
The trio have been the movie series’ leads for 25+ years
There are no current plans to retire them and focus on a new group of toys
The creative team behind Toy Story 5 — and the wider film franchise — say they “don’t have any plans” to retire Woody, Buzz, and Jessie as its main characters.
In an exclusive interview with TechRadar, director Andrew Stanton and producer Lindsey Collins indicated that they weren’t actively looking to move on from the movie series’ iconic trio. However, the pair also appeared to leave the door open on a potential changing of the guard at some point in the future.
Woody and Buzz have been the faces of Pixar‘s most beloved and enduring film franchise since the first — and ground-breaking — Toy Story movie was released in 1995. Following her debut in the aforementioned flick’s 1999 sequel, Jessie has not only become an integral part of the group, but is also now popular enough to be the lead of a Toy Story, well, story — that being, Toy Story 5.
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With Jessie installed as the protagonist of one of 2026’s most anticipated new movies, Woody and Buzz find themselves in the unusual position of being the primary supporting characters, rather than the stars, of a Toy Story film.
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Are Pixar and parent company Disney testing the waters to see how Toy Story fans react to having a different character — albeit an immediately recognizable face in Jessie — take the spotlight? And, if so, is this our clearest sign yet that the studios might be starting to plan for life without the fan-favorite individuals?
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“It’s an interesting question,” Collins replied when I put similarly-worded queries to her and Stanton. “So far, we’ve had a philosophy of following the kids — first, Andy, and now Bonnie — and the toys… they’ve obviously grown and evolved, and some have fallen by the wayside, but each film brings of few new toys.
“So, the kids themselves have been the thing that we’ve tracked narratively. There are the Andy years, and now Bonnie has a totally different experience with them and different issues she’s got to deal with her toys.
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“But, it’s never been about ‘hey, there are no more stories to mine with these characters’,” Collins continued. “Also, we don’t ever think about the next movie while we’re making the current one. So, we don’t have any plans [to retire this group of toys]. We just treat each one as their own thing, let these characters rest, and see if a new idea for another story bubbles to the surface.”
“Yeah, none of the other sequels were planned,” Stanton added. “If we’ve learned anything from working on these films, it’s don’t plan ahead. So, as Lindsey says, we’ll let them rest and see what happens.”
Be that as it may, Pixar is seemingly moving forward with ideas for more sequels. Indeed, chatting to Entertainment Weekly in April, Stanton said that brainstorming sessions for Toy Story 5 means “there would be two movies’ worth of Toy Story material to explore next”. Whether they’re centered around Woody, Buzz, and Jessie, though, remains to be seen.
Toy Story 5 arrives in theaters worldwide on Friday, June 19. Its four predecessors, plus the franchise’s many TV spin-offs and miniseries, are available to watch now on Disney+, aka one of the world’s best streaming services.
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