This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: The latest iPhone 16 Pro rumor comes with a mockup that looks like a fidget spinner. Will Apple really do that? On the other hand, the latest iPad rumors sound totally believable.
Also on The CultCast:
- There’s an iOS trojan in the wild that steals your face to drain your bank accounts.
- Apple is hard at work future-proofing iMessage to keep it safe from quantum computer attacks.
- We discuss the new Apple Sports app, including one of its weirdest features: betting odds. (Supporting gambling seems like a strange move for the normally vice-averse Apple.)
- Erfon recounts his Vision Pro return experience, with some interesting behind-the-scenes intel.
- Also on the Vision Pro return front, Griffin tells us his sob story about parting ways with the expensive headset. (Don’t miss the surprise twist ending!)
- And finally, Griffin raves about a new wireless microphone in an Under Review segment.
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This week’s top Apple news
On the show this week: Your host Erfon Elijah (@erfon), Cult of Mac managing editor Lewis Wallace (@lewiswallace) and Cult of Mac writer D. Griffin Jones (@dgriffinjones).
Here are the headlines we’re talking about on this week’s show:
- First-ever iOS trojan steals your face to break your bank
- New ‘Gold Pickaxe’ Android, iOS malware steals your face for fraud (BleepingComputer)
- Apple fortifies iMessage to foil hackers of the future
- New Apple Sports app gives fans scores and stats for free
- Woah! Is this the new iPhone 16 Pro camera?
- Apple’s upcoming OLED iPad Pro models rumored to be much thinner (MacRumors)
- Why I don’t want to return my Vision Pro
Under Review
Griffin explains what makes the Wireless Pro microphone system from Røde so great.
