Memory leak in News app on macOS Tahoe 26.0 crashes Mac Studio M4 Max

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The number ofthe Beast is 26.1If I use word b e t a dumb bots will delete my post but installing this resolves issue or just wait to official release

By far the easiest way to cause poor performance, instability, overheating and crashing is to install ANY third-party speeder-uppers, Cleaners, Optimizers, or Virus scanners, Bit Torrent, or a VPN that you installed yourself. 

¿Do you have anything like that installed?

I confirm the issue on my Mac Mini M2 Pro 32GB RAM. It takes a minute from opening News app till system freeze sometimes it happens as fast that there is no out of memory warning message displayed and the system just freezes and crashes.

It started to happen on Mac OS 26. There were no issues on Sequoia.

<< I don't install any third-party apps unless it's a well established and proven safe brand. >>

That is generally a good policy.

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UPDATE

the issue is fixed but I am not allowed to tell you how on here.

How about a strong hint instead?

I have the same issue immediately brought since the installation of Tahoe 26.0.1. (I'm on an M1 laptop pro). But it is my NOTES app that keeps overdriving my RAM, causing all APPs to crash out.