After a two-year delay, Siri AI is finally here—at least, for beta testers. Immediately following the WWDC keynote on Monday, Apple rolled out the first developer betas for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, and with them, the company's new AI-powered Siri. If you're brave enough to trial Apple's unfinished updates, you have a chance to try out Siri AI for yourself—assuming you make it off of the waitlist.

Like many in-demand AI tools, Siri AI is locked behind a waitlist at the beta's launch. After installing the beta, you can sign up for the waitlist, but there's no guarantee how long you'll actually have to wait to get Siri AI. Some users report gaining access rather quickly, while others have had a lengthy hold. Based on what I've seen, there's really no rhyme or reason as to why some users' wait times are shorter than others; it just seems to be the luck of the draw.

However, if you happen to be rocking the macOS 27 beta, it appears there's no reason to wait around at all. In fact, taking matters into your own hands, you can bypass the wait entirely and try out Siri AI as soon as you're ready.

How to bypass the Siri AI waitlist on macOS 27

According to MacRumors, all it takes to skip the line is a simple Terminal command. The Terminal app, for anyone unfamiliar, lets you communicate with macOS directly, offering you a greater level of control over the OS. Using it can seem intimidating to neophytes, but it's easy enough to copy and paste commands for singular use cases.

That said, some disclaimers: If you're running the macOS 27 beta, you're probably comfortable with a certain degree of risk already, but it bears repeating that trying Siri AI before it's done baking means dealing with unfinished software and programs. The beta alone can cause instability and data loss, and messing with the intended design of the beta could put you at greater risk. Before proceeding, I'd recommend making secure backups of any data you don't want to lose, and understand that this isn't how Apple intends for you to experience the beta.

That caveat out of the way, here's how the workaround works, per MacRumors: First, install the macOS 27 beta. Once it's installed, open Terminal on your Mac. Next, paste the following command into the window:

sudo defaults write "/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/GenerativeModels.plist" "EnhancedSiriWaitlist" -dict-add Enabled -bool NO

Once that's pasted, hit Enter. Finally, restart your Mac. Once it boots back up, you will be able to access Siri AI immediately—you should see the Siri app, and have the ability to access Siri AI from Spotlight. Happy beta testing!

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Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.1 adds updated system components, changes to the spam quarantine interface, and encryption for backups. It works as a mail proxy positioned between the firewall and internal mail servers, screening incoming and outgoing traffic for spam, viruses, Trojans, and phishing attempts.

Updated system components

Version 9.1 runs on Debian 13.5 Trixie and ships with Linux kernel 7.0 as the stable default. The release includes SpamAssassin 4.0.2 with continuously updated rulesets, ClamAV 1.4.4, PostgreSQL 17, and ZFS 2.4. These versions track the current major open-source security packages that the platform depends on.

Quarantine interface changes

Several updates apply to the web-based quarantine, where administrators and end users review filtered messages. Within shared mailboxes, users can now mark quarantined emails as “seen,” which keeps teams from auditing the same message twice. The status appears inline as a checkmark and can be switched on or off with an action button.

The quarantine overview shows the positive and negative parts of an email’s spam score at the same time, giving administrators direct insight into the reasons a message crossed a filtering threshold.

External images in quarantined messages can be set to load only on demand. A user who wants to view those images clicks a “Load Images” button in the quarantine view. This lets staff inspect message content and keeps external image requests from firing automatically, which protects privacy and reduces exposure to web-based threats.

Administrators gain a “Copy Link” option on the admin dashboard. The option copies a recipient’s private quarantine access link, which an administrator can then pass along through any channel or build into a custom interface.

Encryption for backups

Version 9.1 adds native encryption for backups sent to a Proxmox Backup Server instance. The encryption covers email configuration settings, user-created rule system data, and historic and private statistics data. Proxmox Mail Gateway encrypts this material on the client side before it leaves the system, and it stays encrypted on the backup storage target.

Availability and pricing

Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.1 is open-source software and is available for download now. A complete ISO image carries the entire feature set and installs on bare-metal hardware through an installation wizard. Administrators can also place the software on an existing Debian system or run it as a Linux Container on Proxmox VE. Existing deployments on version 8.2 or 9.0 can move to 9.1 through a tested upgrade path in the APT package management system.

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Ryobi makes a wide selection of tools for landscaping, home improvement, and emergency preparedness, so if you have any big summer chores to tackle, these tools can be a good choice. Investing in cordless tools can be expensive, but if you start with a good battery set, you can expand your tool kit to meet your needs without needing to buy new batteries for each new tool. The deals on Ryobi tools at Home Depot for their Ryobi Days sale can help you start and expand your cordless tool set without spending your whole DIY budget.

The best Ryobi tool set deal

If you’re starting a cordless tool set, a combo deal is a good way to get the basic tools you need along with a battery set. Starting with a combo can save you money, and it will allow you to build out from the basic tools you’ll need as you expand your DIY skills and interests.

The Ryobi 18-volt, six-tool combo set is now $223.97, 40% off its regular price. This set comes with a drill, an impact driver, an oscillating multitool, a 5 1/2-inch circular saw, a reciprocating saw, a work light, a 60-piece drill and driver tip bit set, a two-amp-hour battery, a four-amp-hour battery, a charger, and a tool bag. This set has the basic cordless tools you’ll need for DIY projects like hanging a screen, building shelving, or adding hardware to drawers and cabinets. The 60-piece drill and driver bit set will allow you to use your drill and driver right away for most things without needing to buy any accessories.

Buy one-get one deals on Ryobi tools

One of the best deals Home Depot offers during Ryobi Days is a buy-one-get-one deal on an 18-volt 2-battery set that comes with a free tool. The reason this is such a good deal is that batteries can be one of the most expensive parts of your cordless tool set, so having a couple of new batteries and a charger to go with your new tool will save you a significant amount of money. Here are the best buy-one-get-one deals:

The Ryobi reciprocating saw and two-battery combo is on sale for $99, 69% off its usual price. The bundle includes a 20-volt, 2-amp-hour battery, a charger, and a cordless reciprocating saw. A reciprocating saw can be used for making rough cuts on lumber, PVC, or metal, and it can be used for trimming small to medium-sized branches for yard work.

Another "free tool with battery set" combo deal is the Ryobi 5 ½-inch circular saw, which is also on sale for $99, 71% off its typical price. A circular saw can be used to make long, straight cuts in lumber.

You can also get a worklight and battery combo for $99, 71% off its regular price.

Both the Ryobi 18-volt random orbital sander and the Ryobi 18-volt file sander are part of the "free tool with three-battery starter set" deal, which also includes a charger. The orbital sander combo is on sale for $179, 64% of its usual price, and the file sander combo is on sale for $199, 59% off its typical price.

The Ryobi 18-volt brad nailer is also part of the free tool with a three-battery starter set, and the combo costs $199, 50% off its typical price with this deal. Another option for woodworkers is the Ryobi 18-volt cordless router, which is free with the three-battery combo for $199, 59% off the usual price for the bundle. The three-battery set comes with two four-amp-hour batteries, a two-amp-hour battery, and a charger. Sanding is an important step in finishing woodworking projects and is also helpful for restoring furniture or prepping to paint.

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Microsoft's June security update, known as Patch Tuesday, is the company's largest ever, with fixes for more than 200 bugs—three of which are zero-days that have been publicly disclosed.

The release addresses 206 flaws across the following categories, according to The Hacker News: 63 elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities, 20 security feature bypass vulnerabilities, 56 remote-code-execution vulnerabilities, 30 information disclosure vulnerabilities, 27 spoofing vulnerabilities, seven denial of service vulnerabilities, and three tampering vulnerabilities. Thirty-nine of the bugs are rated "critical" and include remote code execution, elevation of privilege, and information disclosure flaws.

Patch Tuesday updates are typically released at 10 am PT on the second Tuesday of every month, and you should receive them automatically. You can update if it hasn't; check the status of your PC via Start > Settings > Windows Update and select Check for Windows updates. Then install any available updates.

These three publicly disclosed zero-days were patched in June

Zero-day flaws are those that have been actively exploited or publicly disclosed before an official fix is released. In this case, the three zero-days were publicly disclosed but are not known to have been exploited in the wild.

The first zero-day, labeled CVE-2026-45586, is an elevation of privilege vulerability in the Windows Collaborative Translation Framework that allows an authorized attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges via improper link resolution. According to BleepingComputer, this flaw was identified by the security researcher Nightmare Eclipse.

The second zero-day (CVE-2026-49160) is an HTTP.sys denial of service vulnerability that abuses the HTTP/2 protocol, allowing attackers to tie up memory and cause performance issues or outages. Researchers at Calif.io have been credited with discovering this bug.

Finally, CVE-2026-50507 is a Windows Bitlocker security feature bypass vulnerability that would allow a local attacker to gain access to an encrypted drive using files on a USB drive or EFI partition. The patch for this flaw also addressed a vulnerability that was publicly disclosed by Nightmare Eclipse last month.

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It'd be fair in some respects to call WWDC 2026 "the Siri keynote." After a two-year delay, Apple finally revealed Siri AI, and spent much of the event discussing all the ways it improves upon the old assistant. But while Siri might have stolen the show on Monday, it wasn't the only AI news Apple presented. So long as you have a compatible device, Apple's upcoming slate of updates is adding a host of new AI features to the mix. Here's what's coming down the pike:

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Safari gets intelligent tab management and smart notifications

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Safari's new Apple Intelligence features are all about streamlining web browsing. You can use AI to automatically organize all your messy tabs, sorted by topic. This even updates dynamically, as you surf the web. There's also a new feature called "Notify Me" that will monitor a webpage on your behalf. You can tell it to watch out for something, like a price drop on an item you want to buy, and it will notify you when the webpage is updated.

There's also a small vibe-coding feature here. You will be able to create your own bespoke Safari extensions by telling the browser what you want to see. Apple will provide some categories and quick-start suggestions, but you can also use natural language commands to generate an extension that can customize a webpage and add extra features to Safari.

Visual Intelligence expands to the camera and your Mac

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The Camera app is getting a big update this year, by taking Visual Intelligence and adding it as a new "Siri" option in the camera. Point your camera towards any object or scene and ask Siri any questions you might have. The assistant will then suggest relevant actions based on what you're looking at. For example, you can ask for a nutritional breakdown of the meal you're eating, or split a bill with your friends.

On the Mac, Visual Intelligence is directly integrated into the screenshot tool. Once you capture a screenshot, you can ask Siri about it. Here too, Siri will automatically recognize the content and will provide contextual prompts. On the iPad, you can ask Siri about anything that's on your screen simply by circling it using your Apple Pencil after taking a screenshot.

Photos gets intelligent editing tools

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Apple has some new AI-powered image editing tools this year. There's "Extend," which expands the frame around a subject with generative AI fill, and "Reframe," which lets you adjust the framing of a photo as if you were still taking it live. When you adjust the framing, the edges will blur, indicating where Apple Intelligence will fill in the details using AI. Clean Up also gets some upgrades with Apple's improved AI models.

Image Playground also gets its biggest upgrade yet, shipping with the ability to generate photo-realistic images for the first time. You can pull in photos from your library, edit them with text prompts, and generate images in different aspect ratios. You can also generate unique wallpapers or Contact Posters using this feature. And all the images will be watermarked with SynthID data, making it easier to know that the image was generated with AI.

Apple's Passwords app will reset compromised passwords for you

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AI is at its best when it takes care of tedious tasks. Resetting passwords surely fits the bill. With this year's updates, Apple has integrated an AI agent in the Passwords app that resets compromised passwords on your behalf. You just have to give the go-ahead, and it'll head to the website in question, enter your old password, reset it, and save the new password to the app.

Shortcuts are now easy to build

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Shortcuts are awesome, but they require a lot of planning and multi-step workflows. They can get complex fast, which sharply reduces the accessibility of the whole experience. That might be changing this year: The Shortcuts app will now let you create an automation or a shortcut using natural language. You can describe the shortcut you want to create in detail, and the app should be able to create it for you. For example, you could tell Shortcuts: "Message my partner with my ETA when I leave work." From this request, Shortcuts should be able to integrate Messages, Apple Maps, and the task together into one automation, without you having to build the steps from scratch.

AI-supported communication systems

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Apple is integrating Siri AI into all its major apps, like Phone, Mail, Messages, and even Calendar. When you're on a call with a family member or a business, the Phone app will automatically bring up contextual information, like your reservation number or flight details, just in case you need it. Natural language input is also coming to the Calendar app. You'll be able to create appointments by typing them in detail, including date, time, and who you're meeting with.

Apple Intelligence will also keep an eye on your conversations in Messages and will provide contextual prompts when needed. For example, if someone asks for a photo or an address, you'll see suggestions for a one-tap response with the relevant data already loaded up. Smart Reply will be able to craft messages on your behalf in the Mail and Messages app, maintaining your writing style. According to Apple, the AI can adjust the tone based on the contact; so emails to your boss could sound more formal than texts to your best friend. Apple says it's also improving its grammar, spell-check, and speech-to-text tools using AI. The latter will automatically remove filler words, add correct punctuation, and format your speech as well.

Apple's Home app gets some AI upgrades

Apple Intelligence will automatically group all smart home notifications in one active stream. You won't receive five pings in a row because you opened the garage door, then the main door, and turned on the outdoor lights; instead, a single alert will update dynamically to reflect the changes. The Home app will also summarize movements from HomeKit cameras and will provide a text summary about any important updates.

Apple also improved searching in the Home app, especially when it comes to camera footage. You can now search with natural language, and the Home app will comb through data from all your cameras to show you the moment you're looking for. Note the AI summary and multi-camera search features are only available for iCloud+ subscribers.

A glowing Siri orb comes to Apple Vision Pro

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Siri AI also makes its way to the Apple Vision Pro. The Siri app, with the conversation view, is right there too, but more interestingly, you can now add a glowing Siri orb to your Vision Pro space. You can place it anywhere in your home and start a conversation just by looking at it. The orb glows and responds in the same view.

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Much of my day is spent sitting at a computer writing, and in recent years I've most often accompanied this by long (or live) YouTube videos that offer background sound without being too distracting. There are all kinds of options: scenic railway journeys, TV show tunes, piano instrumentals of songs I like, the sounds of forest rain, movie soundtracks, walks across game worlds, and more.

In recent months though, AI-generated mixes with AI-generated thumbnails have become much more prevalent. Run a quick search for study and chill-out music and you'll find plenty of videos where the artwork looks suspiciously like something ChatGPT would make and the audio track is what you'd expect to get out of an app such as Suno.

It's harder than ever to spot AI-made content, especially when it comes to simpler, more minimal creations—like illustration-style images or lo-fi chill-out music. I don't want to listen to AI music, so at the start of each day I'm now clicking around warily on YouTube trying to find something that has been composed and packaged by actual people. It's not easy anymore, but it's still possible.

The problems with AI music

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I'm not completely against the idea of AI, though I think there are some major problems with it that we're not properly reckoning with. Gemini AI might give you a better search result for "the best restaurants in San Francisco for young kids" than a list of 10 blue links, but it still relies on human experience and writing. The AI has never had kids or been to San Francisco, so what happens to those results when actual people stop writing and publishing on the internet?

When it comes to music, I don't want to listen to tunes put together by machines, based on algorithms and the mashing together of real work done by real artists. You could argue that it doesn't really matter so much for background electronica that's being put on while working or studying, but the principle is the same.

There's a line in the Westworld TV show where one humanoid robot, virtually indistinguishable from a real person, asks the question: "If you can't tell, does it matter?" We're now at the stage where we often can't tell the difference between AI and human content, but I'd argue that the difference does still matter—and matters a lot.

Aside from all the considerations about energy use, environmental damage, and copyright infringement that come along with AI (and which would all take an entire article to cover), I think there are numerous ways that the tech can be helpful. When it comes to art and music, however, I want my clicks and listening time to support actual artists.

It's something that YouTube is aware of. On some videos you'll now see a How this content was made section, disclosing the use of AI. The problem is, this relies on either the content creator owning up to it, YouTube's own AI tools being used, or AI watermarks being included in the files. Based on what I see on the platform, I don't think much of the AI content is being flagged.

Finding music made by real artists

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So I'm left in a situation where I'd rather not listen to channels where the artwork or the music is AI-generated, but it's difficult to spot something that's made by AI. What I've started doing is looking for the channels that are definitely curated and produced by human beings, rather than trying to identify subtle signs of AI.

You'll actually see it a lot in channel titles and video descriptions now, so you could just search for "no AI" or "AI free." It's also worth digging into the descriptions to look for links to the actual music used and the artists who are being supported. Check up on the history of the channel, too—what other videos does it offer? How are they made? If there are real flesh-and-blood human performers in the video, then that's ideal.

As already mentioned, YouTube has its AI labels, but I wouldn't rely on them to any great extent. If you can't find evidence of how the music is being made or who's behind it, and there are no links to actual recordings or artists (or footage of the music being made), then at this point I think it's safer to assume it is AI rather than not.

My favorite non-AI Youtube music channels

One of the best and longest-running channels in the business in this category is Lofi Girl, which has been around since 2017, way before the generative AI boom. It was founded by a real record producer (Dimitri Somoguy), with an iconic character drawn by a real person (Juan Pablo Machado)—you can read about it on Wikipedia.

There are also now a growing number of channels that position themselves as containing no AI. One of my favorites is Yellow Cherry Jam: The videos here feature a man, a woman, a dog, and plenty of scenic backdrops. It's all very relaxing—and real.

I also like Coulou's Vinyl Cafe, where our man Coulou wanders around his apartment putting on one great record after another. The music is all listed and shown off in the video, and as good as AI video generation has become now, there's no way it could create an hour of this without a chair leg disappearing or a jumper changing color.

Judging by many of the comments under those videos I've linked, AI-free music and AI-free YouTube channels are something a lot of other people are looking out for too: They are there, if you look for them. I've now built up a long enough playlist that I'm confident of not running into AI anytime soon, and it sounds great.

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If you’re a user—owner?—of this cryptocurrency, this is important:

On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8. The Zcash team hired Hornby specifically to look for this kind of issue. He found one fast enough to be embarrassing.

The Orchard pool is the newest and most advanced shielded transaction system in the cryptocurrency Zcash. Introduced in 2022, it allows users to send and receive ZEC while keeping transaction details private. It uses zero-knowledge proofs to validate transactions without revealing amounts or participants. The bug: a specific check that was supposed to validate transaction inputs wasn’t actually enforcing the rules it appeared to enforce. An attacker could have exploited the flaw to feed false inputs into that check and generate ZEC from nothing, with the zero-knowledge proof system blessing the fraudulent transaction as valid...

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