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And of course, there’s more follow-up to the big iPhone announcements.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Dr Niki.

TOM: This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, September 10, 2025. We tell you what you need to know, follow up on the context of those stories and help each other understand.

SARAH: Today Dr Niki tells us how to properly track your horse and we discuss what Apple left out of its big iPhone announcement on Tuesday.

I’m Tom Merritt,

I’m Sarah Lane.

TOM: Let’s start with what you need to know with the big story.

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TOM: Tuesday was the day for Apple to make its big product announcement, and today is when we tell the folks with existing Apple devices what they get.

First of all, you get a new operating system! iOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, macOS 26, and visionOS 26 all come Monday, September 15th, as is tradition, earlier in the week before the new phones ship. Interestingly, there is no update to tvOS26, making some folks think there will definitely be a second announcement later this autumn that will include a new Apple TV. You'll want to go to Engadget or somewhere like it to check if your device is compatible with the new OSs, but the short version is Apple Watch Series 6 and later, as well as the second-gen SE and all Apple Watch Ultra models. Most Macs from 2020 or later as well as the 2019 Mac Pro and 16-inch MacBook Pro, and most of the recent iPads. iPad models are hard to summarize.

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A few other bits and pieces that weren't in the main announcement. The A19 Pro chip in the iPhone Air only has a 5-core GPU, unlike the one in the iPhone Pro, which has a 6-core GPU. They likely disabled a core, aka binned it, in the Air to save battery life.

Live translation will work not just on the AirPods Pro 3 but also on the regular old AirPods 4 and the AirPods Pro 2.

The hypertension alert will also work on the Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 or later. And the Sleep Score is coming to the Series 6 and later, as well as the second-gen SE. So it's basically an OS update.

Apple extended the free Satellite service for one year, which was about to expire for existing iPhone 14 and 15 users.

Apple's Beats launched new cases for the new iPhones, one of which has a removable lanyard that you can use as a kickstand for $59.

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And all the models in the new line of iPhone 17 have Memory Integrity Enforcement, built on the Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension, that makes it harder for spyware makers like Pegasus to take advantage of memory leaks to hack a phone. This is similar to what Windows 11 does to prevent speculative-execution attacks and takes advantage of Arm's MTE, which Android uses for memory security. Apple says it's on by default, can still offer some protection for older phones, and has "virtually zero CPU cost."

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TOM: There’s more we need to know today, let’s get to the briefs.

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Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits | The Verge

SARAH: Reddit will no longer show you how many people are subscribed to a subreddit community. The number has been replaced by how many visitors the subreddit had in the last week, “based on a rolling 28-day average,” as well as the number of posts or comments made in the past seven days. Reddit says this will emphasize "active participation over passive membership." The new metric will be used to limit how many communities a moderator can oversee to a maximum of five communities that have more than 100,000 regular visitors. The actual subscriber count will still be available in the moderator's insights tab. Thanks to motang who posted this on our Subreddit!

TOM: A group of publishers, including Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, and People Inc., announced support for a standard called RSL, Really Simple Licensing, meant to let content creators enforce licensing terms on data crawlers. RSL works on top of the Robots.txt file, but instead of a simple yes or no to crawlers, it can require licensing and royalty terms to be honored. It can work on websites, online books, videos, and training datasets. RSL was developed by the RSL Collective, which is headed by Eckart Walther, who developed RDF and Netscape and helped evolve it into RSS, along with former Ask.com CEO Doug Leeds.

RSL supports multiple licenses, including free, subscription, pay-per-crawl, and pay-per-inference. That last requires a company to pay every time a crawled piece of data is used in an answer by a chatbot. A CDN called Fastly will administer the license scheme and admit bots that honor the licenses and block those that don't. Sites would have to implement RSL and sign up for Fastly to make the entire scheme effective. RSL is free to implement from rslcollective.org.

Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming | TechCrunch

SARAH: As promised in 2021, Spotify is launching lossless music streaming support. If you pay for a premium account, you can stream almost all music up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC quality. Access has begun in 12 countries, with 50 countries in total getting the feature by the end of October. You'll get a notification when it comes to you, and you can then enable it in settings on each device you want it. It will work over WiFi with Spotify Connect, but not over Bluetooth because of bandwidth constraints. Amazon launched lossless audio in 2019 and Apple Music in 2021.

“No Tax On Tips” Includes Digital Creators, Too - The Hollywood Reporter

TOM: The US Treasury Department issued guidance on the enforcement of the recently passed "no tax on tips" law. Along with the expected jobs like bartender, waiter, and driver, it includes "digital content creators," including podcasters, social media influencers, and streamers. Recurring subscription revenue like Patreon and Substack does not count, but tips and gifts, like Twitch, TikTok, and YouTube enable, would count. The deduction maximum is $25,000 a year and phases out if the person makes more than $150,000 a year or $300,000 for a married couple.

SARAH: A couple of Amazon news notes for you here. The Information reports that Amazon is working on smart glasses with an embedded display. Amazon's Echo Frames currently only provide audio and do not have camera sensors. And Amazon's autonomous car service, called Zoox, will begin offering free rides to passengers on the Las Vegas strip. Zoox has purpose-built vehicles with two rows of seats that face each other and no driver's seat.

Pixels rocket back into the global top 5 premium smartphones | Android Authority

TOM: Counterpoint Research issued its estimate for the market share of premium smartphones, aka iPhone, Galaxy S, Pixel, and the like. Apple still dominates worldwide, with 62% of the market, and while its sales rose 3%, its share declined from last year's 65%. Samsung didn't take that share. Its share stayed at 20%, despite raising sales 7%. Huawei rose sales 24%, but only increased market share from 7 to 8%. Xiaomi raised sales 55%, but the big winner is Google, whose Pixel sales rose 105% to put it back in the top 5.

Report: Microsoft’s Office Apps May Get New AI Features Powered by Anthropic - Thurrott

SARAH: The Information also reports that Microsoft plans to use models from Anthropic for new features in Office apps. Reportedly, Claude was better at certain tasks, like creating PowerPoint presentations. Microsoft is a major investor in OpenAI, and has exclusive rights to some usages of its frontier models, but has been in negotiations about changes to that agreement as OpenAI tries to become a fully for-profit company.

E-Paper Display Refresh Rate Reaches New Heights - IEEE Spectrum

TOM: IEEE Spectrum reports that a company called Modos has developed an e-ink display with a refresh rate of up to 75 Hertz. LCD displays start at 60 Hz and most e-paper displays refresh at 10 Hz. It combines standard e-paper panels with an open-source FPGA-based display controller and can reach 75Hz on a 13-inch panel with a 1600x1200 resolution. The controller has local control of pixels rather than the typical two states of static or updating for the entire screen.

The Modos Paper Monitor and Dev Kit is now available for crowdfunding on Crowd Supply. Orders are expected to ship in January. The code and schematics for Caster, Glider, and the API are open source and available on Github.

Bending Spoons to Buy Vimeo in $1.38 Billion All-Cash Deal - Bloomberg

SARAH: Europe's Bending Spoons, owner of Evernote and many other old tech brands, will become the new owner of Vimeo soon. The all cash deal is expected to close in Q4.

TOM: Those are the essentials for today. Let’s dive a little deeper.

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SARAH: You may have heard about pet trackers before, but usually for dogs and cats. Not today! I caught up with Dr. Niki to discuss a new horse fitness band?

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SARAH: That episode of Live With It we mentioned is up today! Find it in the Live With It feed in your podcatcher of choice or on our YouTube channel, youtube.com/dailytechnewsshow

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SARAH: We end every episode of DTNS with some shared wisdom. Today Jay was among several people who wrote in with a use case for the AirPods in-ear translation!

TOM:
Jay writes:

I'm actually a potential use case for the live translation feature. My wife is from Vietnam and although we speak each other's languages well enough for basic conversation, sometimes we have to pull out the translation app and the conversation nearly grinds to a halt. This is even more pronounced when I have conversations with her parents or other family members that are less fluent.

That said, it took me a very long time to find a pair of AirPods that stay in my ear as well as my Gen 4s and I'm not sure that the translation help is worth the risk of never being able to wear them when I jog or mow the lawn again. (Those silicone tips just don't help in my weird ear canals )

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