Category: Tech

When will iOS 26 and the iPhone 17 series be released?

June 11, 2025 / / 0 Comments

iOS 26, the new operating system for Apple’s iPhones is “a major update that brings a new design and AI experiences to apps”. Statesman reported that iOS 26 was announced by Apple at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 9th, 2025.

Apple also revealed new features that come with iOS 26 at WWDC 2025, including liquid glass design, live translation (iMessage, FaceTime and phone calls), enhanced Apple intelligence, revamped camera & photo apps and smarter battery features such as adaptive power mode.

The official version of iOS 26, with the new iPhone 17 series, will reportedly be available worldwide in September 2025. However, through the Apple Beta Software Program, the beta version of iOS 26 will be available in July 2025.

Source:

Malenfant, M (2025). When is Apple’s new iOS 26 available? See new features, release dates. Austin American-Statesman. https://statesman.com/story/business/technology/2025/06/10

Why is ChatGPT down?

June 10, 2025 / / 0 Comments

The 500 million people who use OpenAI’s AI chatbox ChatGPT every week may not be able to use the service for a few hours, even if they make it past the login page.

According to reports, over 1,900 users have already reported outages across OpenAI’s products, with about 92% of reports describing difficulties in using ChatGPT, including the error message “Hmm…something seems to have gone wrong”.

On Tuesday, 10 June 2025, OpenAI reported “elevated error rates” across several services, mostly affecting application programming interfaces (APIs) and ChatGPT. The status report on the company’s website listed ChatGPT’s Web, Mobile (iOS and Android), WhatsApp, 1-800-CHAT-GPT, Dall-E, Voice mode, etc and APIs Chat, Completions (legacy), Compliance, Images, Embeddings, Audio, Assistants, Uploads, etc, as affected services.

OpenAI, according to Forbes, tends to solve ChatGPT outages within a few hours after they first began. Previous outages include two outages in December 2024, an outage in January 2025 and another outage in March 2025.

As at 5:39pm on Tuesday, live blog TechRadar reported that “ChatGPT is coming back!”, considering the reduction in outage reports on Down Detector.

Sources:

Disotto, J (2025). ChatGPT is down—everything we know about the huge outage as service starts to return. TechRadar. https://techradar.com/news/live

OpenAI (2025). New funding to build towards AGI. https://openai.com/index/march-funding-updates

Pequeño, A (2024). OpenAI’s ChatGPT is Down—Here’s What We Know. Forbes. https://forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/12/26

Roush, T (2025). ChatGPT Outage: OpenAI’s Fix Applied As ‘Degraded Performance’ Affects Chatbot. Forbes. https://forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/06/10