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Four of Apple's retail stores in the U.S. are moving this month, although all of them will only be a short distance from their existing locations. Apple Queens Center in Elmhurst, New York already moved to a temporary location in the shopping mall on Friday, July 17 while the existing store is remodeled. Apple did not indicate when the existing store will reopen. Apple Renaissance at Colony Park in Ridgeland, Mississippi is moving to a new spot within the same shopping center on Friday, July 24 at 10 a.m. local time. Apple's new storefront will be located right in front of the Show Fountain. Apple Briarwood in Ann Arbor, Michigan will be relocating to a new space at the mall on Friday, July 31 at 10 a.m. local time. The entrance to the new, larger store will be in front of The Lawn , a new outdoor space at the mall. Also on July 31 at 10 a.m. local time, Apple The Promenade Shops at Briargate in Colorado Springs, Colorado is moving six doors down to the left. Tag: Apple Store This article, " Four Apple Stores in the U.S. Are Moving This Month " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
Security firm Group-IB has uncovered ClickLock Stealer, a new Mac threat that hijacks normal system behavior to pressure victims into handing over passwords and access. ClickLock Stealer The firm said the campaign has reached at least 100 targets in 33 countries since May 2026, with more than half of the identified activity in Europe. Group-IB also found targets in North America, the Middle East and Africa. ClickLock builds on ClickFix, a familiar scam that uses fake CAPTCHA or Cloudflare verification pages to convince people to paste commands into Terminal. ClickLock adds a coercive step when a victim cancels a password prompt or refuses access. The attack begins only after the victim copies a command from a malicious page and runs it in Terminal. The script then downloads separate components designed to steal passwords, collect browser and cryptocurrency data, access the macOS Keychain and install a persistent backdoor. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
Apple developed two Mac Pro models in recent years that never made it to market, according to Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman . In his latest "Power On" newsletter , Gurman revealed that Apple internally developed two unreleased Mac Pro projects codenamed J170 and J190 before ultimately discontinuing the machine altogether. As for new Mac Pro hardware, there were two additional models developed by Apple that never saw the light of day: J170 and J190. The former was a new Intel Corp. Mac Pro (yes, even when Apple was making its own silicon) to address certain uses. The latter was an M3 Ultra version that was supposed to launch alongside the M3 Ultra Mac Studio in early 2025. J170 was apparently a new Intel-based Mac Pro, which is notable because Apple had already completed its transition to Apple silicon by the time the project was in active development. Gurman did not specify what "certain uses" the Intel model was meant to address, but its existence suggests Apple explored keeping an x86 option alive for specific professional workflows even years into the Apple silicon era. J190, meanwhile, was said to be an M3 Ultra-equipped Mac Pro that was supposed to launch alongside the M3 Ultra Mac Studio in early 2025, but Apple shelved it before release. It would have paired the same chip found in that ‌Mac Studio‌ with the Mac Pro's unique-to-the-lineup PCIe expansion slots. Neither model shipped, and Apple discontinued the Mac Pro entirely this year, ending its 20-year run . The Mac Pro had been left on the aging M2 Ultra chip from 2023 while the ‌Mac Studio‌ continued to receive refreshes, and it was priced roughly double that of a similarly configured ‌Mac Studio‌ despite offering essentially the same performance. The J170 and J190 cancellations add to a growing list of shelved Mac Pro plans. Apple had also developed " Extreme " chip variants, processors with twice the CPU and GPU cores of Apple's Ultra chips, for a future Mac Pro before winding down those projects over cost and demand concerns. Gurman said he does not expect Apple to bring back the Mac Pro "anytime soon — if ever." Apple is instead expected to refresh the ‌Mac Studio‌ with M5 Ultra chips as early as this fall. Tags: Bloomberg , Intel , Mark Gurman Buyer's Guide: Mac Pro (Don't Buy) Related Forum: Mac Pro This article, " Apple Shelved Two Mac Pro Models, Including an Intel-Based One " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
A hidden feature in the beta of macOS Golden Gate shows how Apple is testing ways to simplify and speed up Writing Tools in Siri AI. How the hidden Siri AI Writing Tools appear when you selected text. Although some users, including ones at AppleInsider, are finding that Writing Tools have vanished in macOS Golden Gate, typically they remain available whenever selected text is right-clicked. But Reddit users have found that there is a hidden alternative that automatically pops up a short list of Writing Tools when you select text. To try it out, you have to enter two Terminal commands and macOS will caution you that it's possible the commands are malware. They are not, and they are required to uncover this hidden feature. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
