iOS 27 Lands Monday. Set Up Your Kid’s Phone Sunday Night.

On Monday, September 14, every iPhone back to the iPhone 11 gets iOS 27. Underneath the headline features is the largest overhaul of Apple’s parental controls in years, and it comes with a quiet catch: much of it is per-child and opt-in, and none of it reaches a phone that does not know it belongs … Read more

The Browser Wants to Be Your Assistant. It Has No Street Smarts.

A new kind of web browser, often called an AI browser, has started arriving on family computers. It does not just show you pages anymore: it offers to act for you. It can summarize what you are reading, fill out forms, compare prices, finish your shopping, even answer your email while you do something else. … Read more

Her Phone Was Stolen. The Police Asked Three Questions. He Couldn’t Answer One.

The call came from the school in the middle of a workday: Lily’s phone had been stolen. Frank called the police, and the officer asked three ordinary questions, the three every stolen-phone police report needs. What model is the phone? What is the serial number? What accounts were logged in? Frank is 42, an operations … Read more