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Today’s Apple Insider Roundup
From Apple II to iPhone 17 Pro, Apple's space story comes full circle
Apple hardware has gone into orbit, starting with shuttle-era experiments, through a long exclusion, and now a controlled return on Artemis II. Here’s how and when iPhone, Mac Portable, and more have made trips to space over more than four decades.
NASA entered the Shuttle era in 1981 as commercial computing shifted from command-line systems to graphical interfaces. Engineers used off-the-shelf computers to study how crews interacted with software in microgravity, where input methods behaved differently than on Earth.
Early Shuttle experiments unfolded during a brief period when integration barriers remained low. Crews and engineers saw how quickly standard interfaces broke down once gravity was no longer part of the equation.
Apple demanding info from Samsung's South Korea HQ for DOJ antitrust trial
Samsung America has refused to submit evidence owned by its South Korean parent company, so Apple has turned to the Hague Conventions to force the matter.
In March 2024, Apple was sued by the United States Department of Justice for allegedly stifling competition through proprietary hardware and software. After months of appeals and requests for dismissal, the case finally moved forward.
The discovery process hasn’t been an easy one, with both Apple and Samsung fighting lawyers every step of the way. The latest filing from Apple, shared by 9to5Mac, shows Apple is having to take legal measures to force evidence from Samsung.
Viral iPhone Fold unboxing video is a very well made fake
A new video purporting to show the unboxing of an iPhone Fold months before it’s even expected to be announced, is an excellent piece of work. It’s also entirely false.
This isn’t like the YouTubers who unboxed an M5 iPad Pro back in September 2025. As unlikely as that video had seemed, it turned out to be genuine when Apple released that iPad a few weeks later.
The iPhone Fold unboxing video doing the rounds is instead purporting to be of a product that has only just gone into manufacturing testing. It’s also said to be having problems in that testing.
Rumor Score: 💩 B#$&(*it
Nintendo Wii can run Mac OS X like it's 2001 all over again
Over 101 million Nintendo Wii consoles have been sold since 2006, but only one of them runs Apple’s Mac OS X Cheetah. Here’s how it works.
That Wii is owned by developer Bryan Keller after he took considerable time to port Apple’s 2001 software. We’ve seen Wiis running everything from Linux to Windows NT before, but this is the first we’ve ever seen running a flavor of macOS.
Understandably, the process of getting 25-year-old software to run on 20-year-old gaming hardware wasn’t a short one. And it’s absolutely something we expect that most people would have given up on. Thankfully, Keller is made of sterner stuff.
On-device Apple Intelligence vulnerable to prompt injection techniques
Apple Intelligence’s on-device AI can be manipulated by attackers using prompt injection techniques, according to new research that shows a high success rate and potential access to sensitive user data.
Researchers from RSAC Research have unveiled a method to circumvent Apple’s security measures. They achieved a 76% success rate in 100 tests by employing adversarial prompts and Unicode obfuscation
These findings were shared with Apple on October 15, 2025. The focus was on the on-device large language model embedded in Apple’s operating systems, which is accessible to third-party applications.
Unless you reboot every once in a while, your Mac will get kicked offline every 49 days
A new bug has been discovered that breaks all Mac networking every 49 days, 17 hours, two minutes, and 47 seconds. It’s simple to get around the bug, though.
The bug was detailed in a blog post by Photon, a service that connects AI agents to iMessage. In it, Photon explains how it discovered the issue on its own fleet of Mac servers and confirmed its discovery by running additional targeted testing.
According to Photon, the bug affects all Macs, whether you use the brand-new MacBook Neo or a powerhouse Mac Studio. The good news is that you can avoid the bug by simply restarting your Mac sooner than every 49 days, 17 hours, two minutes, and 47 seconds.
MacBook Neo storage can be upgraded to 1TB with the right soldering skills
Apple’s 256GB SSD in the MacBook Neo can be swapped out for 1TB one with skill and with an iPhone component. You probably don’t want to do it.
Apple never offers any official way to increase the storage in a Mac after you have bought it. But in the last few years it has become more relaxed about making it possible to do, usually now by slotting a larger-capacity drive into Apple’s connectors.
There is no way to do that with the new MacBook Neo, but YouTuber dosdude1 has upgrade the storage with the kind of NAND chip used in the iPhone 16 Pro. It can’t actually be taken from an iPhone 16 Pro you happen to have lying around, though.
Anker Prime 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station review: Fast, portable, & smart
The Anker Prime 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station is a fantastic portable charger that is MagSafe-compatible, delivering up to 25W of power to your iPhone, while simultaneously charging your AirPods and Apple Watch.
With the launch of Qi2.2, we’ve started to see a trickle of chargers that have embraced the latest standard. Anker, which already launched a highly-praised Qi2.2 desktop charger, is now out with a foldable version.
If you have a recent iPhone that supports the faster Qi2.2 standard, like the iPhone 16 series, iPhone 17 series, or iPhone Air, this may be the companion device you’re looking for to hit the road with.
End of today’s Apple Insider roundup.
