Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday visited Apple’s UK headquarters accompanied by His Majesty King Charles III. Cook, who has been spending a few days in London, took the opportunity to invite the king to visit the company’s offices and meet with students from local educational programs supported by Apple.

Tim Cook invites King Charles III to visit the Apple UK building

As shared by Apple (via The Apple Post), members from across the UK welcomed King Charles III to the historic Battersea Power Station, which has been Apple’s UK headquarters since 2023. Given the situation, Apple also invited children from St. George’s Primary School to create holiday artwork on the iPad that would then be projected onto the building’s iconic chimneys.

Klarna Group Plc Chief Executive Officer Sebastian Siemiatkowski said his company was able to stop hiring a year ago as it invested in artificial intelligence that’s doing the work of hundreds of staff across the firm.

Apple’s Passwords app debuted this fall as a new password management solution for Apple devices. It also, helpfully, makes getting started very easy thanks to a key feature in the macOS version.

Moving on from third-party password managers

There are a wide range of users Apple Passwords is targeting. Some will be brand new to password management tools, while others are already using another service like 1Password or LastPass.

Bluesky, the upstart social media platform, hit the important milestone of 25 million users early Friday morning.

The site continues to profit from people looking for an alternative to X (formerly Twitter), with Bluesky achieving phenomenal growth since Election Day. According to a Nov. 13 post by Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, the site had 6 million users in late August, nearly 11 million in late October and hit 15 million users on Nov. 15. It added another 5 million users in just five days, hitting 20 million users by Nov. 19.

As reported by iGeneration, Apple will stop selling the iPhone SE and the iPhone 14series at the end of the year, as the USB-C universal charging connector deadline comes into effect.

Right now, the oldest phones still sold directly through Apple are the third-generation iPhone SE, the iPhone 14 and the iPhone 14 Plus. As these phones feature a Lightning port, they are in violation of the European Union policy, which goes into effect starting January 2025.

Apple could have elected to make a new version of these devices with USB-C ports instead of Lightning, but they have not done so. Instead, the company has decided to simply discontinue these models slightly earlier than they otherwise would.

As TikTok’s ban in the United States swiftly approaches, lawmakers on Friday reminded Apple that they are on the hook for enforcement.

TikTok ban: The latest news

As a refresher, President Biden signed the TikTok divest-or-ban bill in April. The bill didn’t explicitly ban TikTok but gave China-linked parent company ByteDance nice months to sell TikTok. That timeline expires next month, at which point TikTok will be banned in the United States starting January 19. The law was upheld in court last week.

The law results from concerns about TikTok and ByteDance potentially being a national security threat in the United States.