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iPhones 17 and the Sugar Water Trap

Apple’s Slate of Announcements Yesterday

Trump Hosts Dinner Humiliating Tech CEOs

Apple Announces ‘Memory Integrity Enforcement’

Base Storage is 256 GB Across Entire iPhone 17 Lineup

A Few Details Apple Didn’t Mention During Its “Awe-Dropping” Event

Another Dyson Presentation

A Cynical Read on Anthropic’s Book Settlement

Anthropic to Pay $1.5 Billion to Authors in Landmark AI Settlement | the Verge

Atlassian Acquires The Browser Company for $610 Million

Investors Score the US-v.-Google Remedies Ruling a Win for Google and Apple

Instagram Finally Launches an iPad App

Google Avoids Harshest Penalties in Search Monopoly Ruling

[Sponsor] TextJam

Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign

Nine Former Directors of the CDC: ‘RFK Jr. Is Endangering Every American’s Health’

The Talk Show: ‘Ersatz PopSocket’

Vintage Macintosh Programming Book Library

sosumi.ai: Apple Developer Docs for LLMs

Notable Improvements to Coding Intelligence in Xcode 26 Beta 7

Trump Fires CDC Director, Anti-Vax Wingnuts Now Running Asylum

How AirPods Work

Masimo Sues U.S. Customs and Border Protection Over Apple Watch Blood Oxygen Ruling

The Talk Show: ‘Weird Turtle Fake Out’

MacSurfer Returns Under New Ownership

Apple to Debut TechWoven Cases for iPhone 17 Lineup

Elon Musk Bullshit Watch

Tulsi Gabbard Says the U.K. Government Has Backed Down From Its Demand for an iCloud Backdoor

‘Less Fun Than a Barrel of Crackers’

Apple Event on September 9: ‘Awe Dropping’

Calvinball Makes the Supreme Court

[Sponsor] Walk the World

★ MacOS 26 Tahoe’s Dead-Canary Utility App Icons

Apple TV+ Subscription Price Increasing From $10 to $13 Per Month, but the Annual Price Remains Unchanged at $99

Fox One Streaming Service Launches

Meta’s Ray-Bans Have Sold 2 Million Pairs, Total, as of February

‘Micro-Soft’

★ MSNBC, Spinning Out of NBCUniversal, Rebrands as ‘MS NOW’ With a Godawful Backronym and Even Worse Logo

Claim Chowder: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Five Months Ago

‘No Frame Missed’

★ How to Use iPhone Mirroring With More Than One iPhone

Bezos Numbers of the Week: Counterpoint Research on ‘Smart Glasses’

[Sponsor] Phoenix.new

★ Joe Caroff, Designer of the James Bond 007 Logo, Dies at 103

Dekáf Coffee Roasters

Woz: ‘I Am the Happiest Person Ever’

Trump’s BLS Pick E.J. Antoni Is — Shocker — a Crackpot Hack

Threads Now Has DMs, But They’re Not Encrypted and, Contrary to Reports, Not Yet Available on the Web

Keep Calm and Delete Your Old Emails to Conserve Water

Bloomberg: ‘Trump Administration Said to Discuss Taking Stake in Intel’

The Wall Street Journal Marches Toward Pravda With American Characteristics

Nice Pitch From Dieter Bohn for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7

★ Apple Issues a Workaround for the Blood Oxygen Sensor Ban for U.S. Apple Watches

The Annals of Oligarchy, Defense Department Edition

Perplexity Is on the Prowl to Buy Web Browsers

★ Max Read’s ‘A Literary History of Fake Texts in Apple’s Marketing Materials’

Updated Design for Pebble Time 2 Watch

Perplexity Made an Offer to Buy TikTok — Well, Half of TikTok — Back in January

Perplexity Jumps the Shark, Makes Clownish $34.5 Billion Stunt Offer to Buy Chrome From Google