Apple just wrapped up its iPhone 17 launch event last week. While that was a jam-packed (and incredibly fast-paced) keynote, the company still has another 10 product launches in the short term, with half of them launching by the end of the year.

Remaining 2025 launches

There were a number of product launches anticipated at this year’s September keynote that didn’t quite come to fruition. Those products should still launch by the end of the year though, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman – with some of them coming as early as next month.

M5 iPad Pro

First things first is an iPad Pro refresh with Apple’s new M5 chip. With M5, you should expect many of the same efficiency gains seen in A19 Pro, just at a higher scale. The new iPad Pro should also come with a second front-facing camera, this one in portrait orientation. It’s possible we’ll see iPhone 17’s new square selfie camera sensor make an appearance on this iPad Pro, though that’s just my personal speculation.

M5 Vision Pro

There isn’t much to write about here. Apple is working on a refreshed version of its Vision Pro headset, bringing it up to speed with the M5 chipset – up from its current M2 chipset. Nothing about the hardware should be changing, so don’t expect anything lighter – though it might come with a new strap out of the box, and it could debut in Space Black.

AirTag 2

This product has been rumored for quite a long time, but Apple is working on an updated version of its popular item tracker with the U2 chip. We actually just saw the U2 chip debut in AirPods Pro 3, and it should similarly bring enhanced precision finding functionality to AirTag.

Apple TV & HomePod mini

Moving over to Apple’s smart home products, both of these should be receiving a refresh with a new processor and Apple’s new in-house N1 networking chip, announced at the iPhone 17 event. Apple TV also “add support for the new Siri voice assistant and other Apple Intelligence features coming next year”, per Gurman. We may see some new colors for HomePod mini, too.

What’s coming in early 2026

Leaving 2025, there’ll be a couple announcements in the first few months of 2026, with a couple coming in early months (say January or February), and the latter coming towards the spring time.

M5 MacBook Pro

While this is traditionally an October release, Apple is going to take a bit of additional time with the MacBook Pro refresh this time around. It won’t be the major overhaul with OLED and a thinner design that you might’ve heard about – you’ll have to wait until late 2026 for that. Instead, expect the same design language with faster silicon. M5 MacBook Pro should launch fairly early in 2026.

M5 MacBook Air

Similar to the MacBook Pro, don’t expect much more than a chip bump. MacBook Air should receive M5 within the first quarter of 2026. As mentioned earlier, you should see many of the A19 Pro enhancements unveiled last week, just scaled up for a more powerful chip.

New Mac Display

While Apple is working on two new external monitors, only one of them is on the horizon according to Gurman. We should see an updated version of either the Studio Display or Pro Display XDR in the coming months. Both versions of the new monitor are seemingly 27-inch display sizes, so they’re more likely to be successors to the Studio Display.

iPhone 17e

After debuting iPhone 16e earlier this year, many had questioned whether or not it’ll be an annual refresh. It’s looking like that’ll be the case. Next Spring, expect a new version of the iPhone 16e with a faster A19 chipset and other modest enhancements.

Smart Home Hub

Last but not least, Apple should finally debut its long awaited Siri hub within the first few months of 2026. This product was on track to launch last year, but it relied heavily on Apple Intelligence Siri coming to fruition, and well, we all know how that went. Either way, once the company is able to ship its rebuilt Siri with iOS 26.4, expect this new product category to follow shortly afterwards.

Wrap up

Overall, the next ~6 months should be jam-packed with additional Apple hardware, with many of the products being long-awaited refreshes to outdated products! It’s certainly an exciting stretch to look forward to.

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Romania says a Russian drone has breached its airspace – the second Nato country to report such an incursion.

Romanian fighter jets were in the air monitoring a Russian attack in Ukraine on Saturday and were able to track the drone near Ukraine’s southern border, the defence ministry said in a statement.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the incursion could not be a mistake – it was “an obvious expansion of the war by Russia”. Moscow has not commented on the Romanian claims.

On Wednesday, Poland said it had shot down at least three Russian drones which had entered its airspace.

In its statement, Romania’s defence ministry said it detected the Russian drone when two F-16 jets were monitoring they country’s border with Ukraine, after “Russian air attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure on the Danube”.

The drone was detected 20km (12.4 miles) south-west of the village of Chilia Veche, before disappearing from the radar.

But it did not fly over populated areas or pose imminent danger, the ministry said.

Poland also responded to concerns over Russian drones on Saturday.

“Preventative operations of aviation – Polish and allied – have begun in our airspace,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in a post on X.

“Ground-based air defence systems have reached the highest state of readiness.”

Earlier this week Russia’s defence ministry said there had been “no plans” to target facilities on Polish soil.

Belarus, a close Russian ally, said the drones which entered Polish airspace on Wednesday were an accident, after their navigation systems were jammed.

On Sunday, the Czech Republic announced it had sent a special operations helicopter unit to Poland.

The unit consists of three Mi-171S helicopters, each one capable of transporting up to 24 personnel and featuring full combat equipment.

The move is in response to Russian’s incursion into Nato’s eastern flank, the Czech Defence Minister Jana Cernochova said.

In response to the latest drone incursion, President Zelensky said the Russian military “knows exactly where their drones are headed and how long they can operate in the air”.

He has consistently asked Western countries to tighten sanctions on Moscow.

US President Donald Trump also weighed in on airspace breach earlier this week, saying he was “ready” to impose tougher sanctions on Russia, but only if Nato countries met certain conditions, such as stopping buying Russian oil.

Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and has been making slow progress in the battlefield.

Trump has been leading efforts to end the war, but Russia has intensified attacks on Ukraine since President Vladimir Putin returned from a summit with Trump in Alaska last month.

As authorities at the federal and state levels parse the details of the fatal shooting of far-right activist Charlie Kirk at a university in Utah, a recently passed state bill that allows people with concealed-carry permits to carry firearms on college campuses has drawn fresh scrutiny.

Utah has allowed for permitless open and concealed carry of weapons since 2021. But before the passage of HB 128, firearms had to be concealed when carried on college campuses. The law allowed people with the proper permit to carry them openly.

When the law passed in August, university staff voiced concerns about what carrying could mean for classroom emergencies that might require students to act as armed responders and their presence in laboratories where harmful and potent chemicals were stored.

While it’s unclear whether the suspected shooter, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, was legally allowed to own the hunting rifle used in the shooting, or have one on a university campus, the proximity between the bill’s passing and the shooting has pushed the law into headlines across the US.

The bill did not come in a vacuum, but added to Utah’s already second amendment-friendly legislative landscape. The state doesn’t have extreme risk protection orders (Erpo), known as red-flag laws, which allow people like police officers and family members to petition a judge to have someone’s firearms temporarily taken away. It is one of 29 states that allows people to carry concealed firearms without a permit. It has a law aiming to get guns out of the hands of people in crisis, but requires people to flag themselves in the federal background check system.

When Utah lawmakers have addressed campus safety, their efforts have typically centered on K-12 schools, where there’s a greater expectation and need for campuses to be largely closed to the public.

There, in lieu of policies restricting gun access and training requirements for prospective concealed-carry permit applicants, the state has leaned into legislation meant to make it harder for shooters to enter and move freely around schools – for example, by adding doors with automatic locks, surveillance cameras and fencing. This approach, known as school hardening, is to deter shooters from entering schools and responding quickly to stop them and secure students.

For example, HB 119, which passed last year, incentivizes K-12 teachers to get training so they can keep a firearm in their classroom. HB 84, a sweeping piece of legislation passed in 2024, requires classrooms to have panic devices and schools to have at least one armed person – be it a school resource officer or security guard – on campus daily.

Advocates of Utah’s gun laws have argued that making sure guns are easily accessible can serve as a deterrent, whether to would-be home invaders, carjackers or shooters hoping to take advantage of “soft targets” like malls, campuses and grocery stores, and allow for armed responses if some start shooting.

“We sort of take the view here that the second amendment is very broad and a permit to carry a concealed weapon is just one obstacle in being able to exercise that right. There’s a mentality that there should be as few obstacles as possible,” said Johnny Richardson, a Utah-based attorney and former editor at the Utah Law Review.

“In effect, there’s a belief that gun control laws will impede access to those who are already law-abiding and put them at an unfair disadvantage to those who aren’t,” he continued.

While permitless carrying may have some effect on deterring offences like robberies, it is inadequate in the face of grievance and politically driven violence, said Brandon del Pozo, an assistant professor of medicine and health policy at Brown University.

“The deterrence effect of concealed carry only applies to rational actors. And you get to a point in political extremism where you’re not dealing with rational people,” he said.

Before he went to Brown, del Pozo spent 19 years in the New York police department, and four years as the chief of police for Burlington, Vermont, where, like in Utah, permits to carry and licenses to sell firearms are not required. Del Pozo says that the circulation of guns was on his mind while planning safety for rallies and the annual city marathon, which attracts thousands of people. Through these experiences, he’s found that cities and states where many residents are armed in public can fail to account for the large presence of concealed guns and to plan to provide an accompanying level of screening.

“In places like Utah where there’s going to be a lot of guns in circulation, you have to decide when you’re going to carve out spaces where people are screened for guns,” he added.

“And if you’re a small police department, it’s hard to secure something outdoors. But if you’re coming to a provocative political rally, you need to be screened.”

In a press conference following the shooting, Utah Valley campus police chief Jeff Long told reporters that there had been six officers assigned to the Charlie Kirk event, which drew a crowd of about 3,000 people. His department coordinated with Kirk’s personal security detail, he said.

Students who attended the event noted that there were no metal detectors or staff members checking attendees’ bags, according to the Associated Press.