Daring Fireball
Court Filing Claims Zuckerberg Blocked Curbs at Meta on Sex-Talking Chatbots for Minors
‘The Secret Fear of the Morally Depraved’
‘A CEO, Captured’
‘Aside From That, Mr. Cook, What Did You Think of the Movie?’
‘Whatever’
Clawdbot Is Now Moltbot
★ The Names They Call Themselves
What It’s Like to Get Undressed by Grok
The Talk Show: ‘A Mitigated Disaster’
There’s a Hidden Preference to Auto-Resize Columns in the Finder on MacOS 14 and 15
Nvidia Set to Supplant Apple as TSMC’s Largest Customer
[Sponsor] WorkOS Pipes: Ship Third-Party Integrations Without Rebuilding OAuth
Airlines That Support Shared Item Location for Luggage With AirTags
Apple Introduces Second-Generation AirTags
★ App Store 2025 Top iPhone Apps in the U.S.
From the DF Archive: ‘Untitled Document Syndrome’
‘TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software’
Federico Viticci on Clawdbot
Meh
★ The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
★ Tahoe Added a Finder Option to Resize Columns to Fit Filenames
OmniOutliner 6
Lolgato 1.7
Playing the Percentages
MacOS 26 Tahoe Broke Column View in the Finder
Why Walmart Still Doesn’t Support Apple Pay
Trump Administration Shares Doctored Photo of Minnesota Activist After Her Arrest
The Information: ‘With Google Deal, Apple’s Craig Federighi Plots a Cautious Course in AI’
The Information Says Apple Is Working on an AI Wearable Pin
Ternus Now Overseeing Design at Apple, Reports Gurman
Jackass of the Week: Utah State Senate Majority Leader Kirk Cullimore
Taegan Goddard: ‘There’s No Going Back’
Om Malik: ‘Velocity Is the New Authority’
‘Inside Trump’s Head-Spinning Greenland U-Turn’
The Scale of ICE Protests in Minnesota
[Sponsor] Meh
Gurman Scoops ‘Campos’, Apple’s Codename for a Chatbot-Based Siri in Next Year’s Version 27 OSes
More From The Verge: ‘What a Sony and TCL Partnership Means for the Future of TVs’
Sony’s TV Business Is Being Taken Over by TCL
Basic Apple Guy: Creator Studio Icon History
Menu Bar, Title Bar, What’s the Difference?
Matthew Butterick on the Copyrightability of Fonts
★ Crazy People Do Crazy Things
Study Concludes That Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs
WorkOS Pipes
★ Thoughts and Observations Regarding Apple Creator Studio
Verizon Offers $20 Credit After Daylong Outage
★ MacPaw Pulls the Plug on SetApp Mobile App Marketplace
ChatGPT Adds New $8/Month ‘Go’ Tier, Will Soon Introduce Ads
Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018–2026
The Explosive, Immediate, Early Growth of the iPhone
Meta Shutters Three VR Studios
Google Launches Beta of ‘Personal Intelligence’, Connecting Gemini to Google Apps
Verizon’s Cell Network Is Down, and AT&T and T-Mobile Are Sassing Them About It
Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Personal Letter to Rep. James Comer
Meta, a Completely Trustworthy Company, Leaks That Demand for Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Is Surging
Apple Announces Apple Creator Studio (Including Apple’s Take on Pixelmator)
Sarah Perez on Core Devices, the Sequel to Pebble
[Sponsor] WorkOS Pipes: Ship Third-Party Integrations Without Rebuilding OAuth
MacOS 26’s Cut Corners
Jackass of the Week: Elon Musk
Eddy Cue on Apple’s 2025 Year in Services
Apple, Rather Quietly and With No Details, Announces Partnership With Google to Use Gemini Technology for Apple Foundation Models, and Presumably, the Year-Overdue More Personalized Siri
★ Why It Is Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe
Statement From Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
U.S. Senators Ask Cook and Pichai to Remove X and Grok From App Store and Play Store
Copilot Money
★ ‘Fuck You, Make Me’ Without Saying the Words
MAGA’s Foundational Lie
Jim Moylan and the Moylan Arrow
The New York Times Profiles John Ternus
Know Your Rights: Filming and Photographing the Police
Chase to Become New Issuer of Apple Card
Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
The Gold Trump Phone Still Hasn’t Shipped
★ Let’s Call a Murder a Murder
The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible
Howard Oakley on the MacOS 26 Tahoe UI
‘Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help’
‘The Big Regression’
‘Who’s Who at X, the Deepfake Porn Site Formerly Known as Twitter’
Don Mattingly Joins Phillies as Bench Coach
‘It’s Hard to Justify Tahoe Icons’
★ Pickle Smells Like a Cult
[Sponsor] Copilot Money
NFL Playoff Scenarios
Listen Later
Matthew Dowd Exposes the Pickle 1 XR Glasses as a Preposterous Fraud
★ Clicks Communicator and Clicks Power Keyboard
The Talk Show: ‘2025 Year in Review’
‘The Strange Death of Make America Great Again’
Photoshop 1.0 and the Early Macintosh HIG
‘I’m in Charge at This Hertz Location, and Buddy, You’re Not Getting a Car Today’
The U.S. Conservative Aggrieved Mindset, Explained
Using AirPods Live Translation in Japan
ICEBlock App Sues Trump Administration for Censorship
★ ‘Do a Better Job on the Wings’
‘Christiane’s Gift’
[Sponsor] ListenLater.net
★ Slop Is Slop
Copilot Money
SoundSource 6
Tim Cook Posts AI Slop in Christmas Message on Twitter/X, Ostensibly to Promote ‘Pluribus’
A 3D Tour Inside Trump’s Oval Office
The Talk Show: ‘A Naughty Citizen’
Quinn Nelson on Apple’s Executive Shuffling
‘The iPad’s Software Problem Is Permanent’
I Guess Nothing Is Foolproof
‘Terrence Malick’s Disciples’
The White House’s Belligerent, Ignorant Statement on the ‘60 Minutes’ CECOT Story
Amateur Codebreaker May Have Solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac Killings
Trump Justice Department Dopes Made the Rookiest of Rookie Mistakes Attempting to Redact Some Epstein-File PDFs
‘Bari Weiss Steps Onto the CBS News Glass Cliff of Doom’
[Sponsor] Copilot Money
The ‘60 Minutes’ Report on CECOT That Bari Weiss Censored Is Now Internet Contraband
CBS News Chief Bari Weiss Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Story on Trump’s CECOT Gulag in El Salvador
Finalist
★ Apple Announces Changes to iOS in Japan for Compliance With the Mobile Software Competition Act
Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code
Still No Release Date for Apple TV’s ‘The Savant’
Anonymous Reddit Tipster Cracked the Brown University and MIT Shooting Cases
Apple Changes Processor Architectures More Often Than Its Identity Font
★ A Request Regarding ‘Magic Link’ Sign-Ins and Apple’s Passwords App
Apple’s 26.2 OS Updates
Apple Is Adding More Ad Spots to App Store Results
ByteDance Signs Deal to Divest TikTok US App
Michael Bierut Told Us What He Really Thinks of ITC Garamond
Condensed Serif Typefaces, à la Apple Garamond, Are Back in Vogue
GCDB’s Guide to Gift Card Tampering Scams
Are Apple Gift Cards Safe to Redeem?
The Story Behind Windows 3.1’s ‘Hot Dog Stand’ UI Color Scheme (Which Isn’t Much of a Story at All)
James Cameron’s Instructions to Theater Projectionists Regarding ‘Avatar 3: Fire and Ash’
Typefaces for Dyslexia
Zara Picken’s ‘Modern Illustration’
★ Apple TV’s New Fanfare
[Sponsor] Finalist Daily Planner for iOS
‘A Brief History of Times New Roman’
A Note on Current SMS Marketing Practices
‘The Scourge of Arial’
Disney, Immediately After Partnering With OpenAI for Sora, Sends Google a Cease-and-Desist Letter Accusing Them of Copyright Infringement on ‘Massive Scale’
Roomba Maker iRobot Declares Bankruptcy, Falls Into Chinese Hands
Jaho Coffee Roaster
Rob Reiner and Wife Found Stabbed to Death at Home
‘Pluribus’ Becomes Apple TV’s Most Watched Show Ever
Lucas de Groot, Designer of Calibri, on the State Department’s Switch Back to Times New Roman
Pondering Middle East Petrostates as American Media Owners
The Infinite Loop of One LLM Talking to Another
Paris Buttfield-Addison’s Apple Account Is in Kafka Mode
Apple at the AWS re:Invent 2025 Keynote
Daring Fireball Weekly Sponsorships, End of Year and Q1 2026
Special Dyslexia Fonts Are Based on Voodoo Pseudoscience
iMessage Doesn’t Use APNs for Attachments
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.2
Trump’s Dogshit White House Signage Typography
‘Those Fonts Are Favored Only by the Apathetic and Sloppy’
★ The Full Text of Marco Rubio’s Directive on State Department Typography, Re-Establishing Times New Roman
U.S. State Department Changes Back to Times New Roman From Calibri
★ iMessage’s Delivery Architecture Makes It Hard to Block Without Blocking All iOS Push Notifications
The Real Problem of Humanity
ProPublica: ‘Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal’
The Wall Street Journal: ‘Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump’
You’ll Never Guess Who Won the Newly Created ‘Peace Prize’ From FIFA, the World’s Most Corrupt Sports Body
You Can’t Please a Madman
‘Netflix and the Hollywood End Game’
Paramount Skydance Makes Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Johny Srouji, in Memo Responding to Gurman Report: ‘I Love My Team, and I Love My Job at Apple, and I Don’t Plan on Leaving Anytime Soon’
[Sponsor] Jaho Coffee Roaster
EU Court Rules That Apple Must Face Dutch Antitrust Lawsuit Regarding App Store Commission Rates
WorkOS Radar
Russia Blocks FaceTime and Snapchat
★ Meta Says Fuck That Metaverse Shit
One Last Note on Tiimo: What’s the Deal With That Icon?
Dithering: ‘Alan Dye Leaves Apple’
Apple’s Succession Intrigue Isn’t Strange at All
Lisa Jackson on The Talk Show Back in 2017
Apple Announces a Few Other Executive Transitions
★ 2025 App Store Award Winners: Tiimo, Essayist, and Detail
Netflix Agrees to Buy Warner Bros., Including HBO, for $83 Billion
★ Alan Dye Was in Tim Cook’s Blind Spot
Alan Dye Comments on His Career Move in an Instagram Story
★ Bad Dye Job
Louie Mantia on The Talk Show in July, Talking About Alan Dye and Liquid Glass
Alan.app
Nick Heer Obtained Video of Alan Dye’s Exit From Apple
Alan Dye Leaves Apple for Meta, Replaced by Longtime Designer Stephen Lemay
Look How They Massacred My Boy
HBO Max Butchers ‘Mad Men’ in Botched ‘Remastering’
Apple to Resist Order in India to Preload State-Run App on iPhones
[Sponsor] Protect Your App From Bots and Abuse With WorkOS Radar
Gurman Pooh-Poohs Financial Times Report That Tim Cook Is Retiring in First Half of 2026
John Giannandrea Is Out
★ Signal Secure Backups Are Now Available on iOS
The Talk Show: ‘Financial Boner’
Festivitas — Now for iOS, Thanks to Widgets
‘A Critter Carol’ — Apple’s 2025 Holiday Short Film
Dekáf Coffee Roasters
‘Fifteen Years’
David Lerner, Co-Founder of Tekserve, Dies at 72
Running to the Press
November Update to the App Store Review Guidelines
Simple Rule of Thumb: AI Systems Shouldn’t Pretend to Be Human
[Sponsor] Dekáf Coffee Roasters — Holiday Gift Bundles
‘A Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors’
Department of Transportation Asks Travelers to ‘Bring Civility Back’ to Air Travel
SuperDuper Security Update v3.11
★ Exploring, in Detail, Apple’s Compliance With the EU’s DMA Mandate Regarding Apple Watch, Third-Party Accessories, and the Syncing of Saved Wi-Fi Networks From iPhones to Which They’re Paired
Clerk for iOS
The Talk Show: ‘Lincoln Bio Services’
Jmail
Another Limited Edition Accessory From Apple: Hikawa Phone Grip and Stand
‘Grok’s Elon Musk Worship Is Getting Weird’
Group Chats in ChatGPT Now Available Worldwide
Fun Stunt to Promote ‘Pluribus’: An Ask Me Anything on Reddit With Carol Sturka
‘Pixar: The Early Days’ — Never-Before-Seen 1996 Interview With Steve Jobs
Contrary to Rumors, Apple Will Continue Broadcasting ‘Friday Night Baseball’
Cloudflare’s Uptime
Apple Announces Finalists for the 2025 App Store Awards
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince Explains, in Detail, and Apologizes for Yesterday’s Global Outage
Tim Cook Among Attendees of Last Night’s Black-Tie White House Dinner Honoring Journalist-Murdering Tyrant Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia
The Talk Show: ‘Knee-Jerk Contrarian’
Sir, This Is a McDonald’s
When You Give a Bully Your Lunch Money
Gurman Says Apple Has No Plans to Update the Mac Pro
Cloudflare Suffered Hours Long Outage (Which Brought Down Daring Fireball, Among Thousands of Other Sites)
Life in London With an Android Phone
Apple Introduces Digital ID
Meta Has Deprecated the Messenger Apps for Mac and Windows Too
[Sponsor] Clerk for iOS
Google Announces Private AI Compute
OpenAI: Piloting Group Chats in ChatGPT
WorkOS
Financial Times: ‘Apple Intensifies Succession Planning for CEO Tim Cook’
★ Meta Replaced the Native WhatsApp for Windows 11 With a Shitty Web App
The Information: Second-Gen iPhone Air Postponed Until Spring 2027, but Might Gain Second Camera
iPhone Pockets Sold Out Within Hours
WSJ Report on the iPhone Air Pegs It as a ‘Flop’
Tesla Is Working on CarPlay Support
Joy-Joy Feelings
★ OpenAI Releases GPT-5.1, Along With Renamed and New Personalities
Nice Web Design Work From ‘In Common With’
The Zip-Off-Sleeve Uniforms Issey Miyake Designed for Sony in the Early 1980s
I Guess They’re Down to 999 No’s for Every Yes
iPod Socks vs. iPhone Pocket
iPhone Pocket
Patrick George Thinks CarPlay’s Days Are Numbered; I Doubt It
[Sponsor] WorkOS: Scalable, Secure Authentication
★ The Software Update UI for Upgrading to MacOS 26 Tahoe Is Needlessly Confusing
Five Years of Apple Silicon Macs
‘Under the Radar’ Now Over
Mux: Video API for Developers
Trump Wants Commanders’ New D.C. Stadium Named for Him
Fred Vogelstein on Techmeme’s Enduring Popularity
‘Explaining, at Some Length, Techmeme’s 20 Years of Consistency’
Tahoe’s Terrible Icons
Tyler Hayes Suggests Trying a Flip-Style Foldable If You Want a Smaller Phone
I Like My Presidents to Care When Someone Faints During a Press Event
Some Flunky Fainted in the Oval Office During a Press Event, and Trump Just Stood There With a Stupid Look on His Face
★ Apple and Google, Sitting in Tree
Regarding the Look of Notifications With Liquid Glass in iOS 26.1
Mamdani Was a Great Candidate Who Ran a Great Campaign ... for New York City
WhatsApp for Apple Watch
Apple Podcasts Is Adding AI-Generated Chapters for Podcasts Without Chapters
Epic and Google Agree to Settle Their Play Store Lawsuit, Pending Approval From Judge
Just for Fun, Some Vintage 2014 John Dvorak Claim Chowder
Apple Launches New Web Interface for the App Store
Apple Releases 26.1 Updates to Its Operating Systems
[Sponsor] Mux: Video API for Developers
Gurman Suggests That Next-Gen Siri Will Be Powered by a White-Label Version of Google Gemini Running on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute
Dodgers Win 2025 World Series, Defeating Blue Jays in Thrilling Game 7
Nation’s Top TV Critic Weighs in on Late Night
Uni Watch: 1999–2025
Jaho Coffee Roaster
The Talk Show: ‘Meat Bags’
Tim Bray on Grokipedia
‘Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human’
Denmark Backs Away From ‘Chat Control’ That Would Have Rendered E2EE Illegal in the E.U.
What’s New in Shortcuts for the Apple OS 26 Releases
Loss of Trust in U.S. Prompts International Criminal Court to Ditch Microsoft 365 for Open Source Alternative
Tim Cook Says Next-Gen Siri Still on Pace for ‘Next Year’, Along With Additional AI Partners
Kennedy Center Ticket Sales Have Plummeted Since Trump Takeover
October Is Over and, Shockingly, the Gold Trump Phone Still Hasn’t Shipped
Joanna Stern on the 1X Neo, a Humanoid Robot Housekeeper That Is Remote-Controlled by Humans
Jason Snell on Apple’s Quarterly Results
Microsoft Earnings Suggest OpenAI Lost $11.5 Billion Last Quarter
Apple Reports Strong Q4 2025 Results
CarPlay Seems Essential for Rental Fleets
‘Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology’
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Launches With AI-Cloned Pages From Wikipedia
Local Note: WMMR’s Pierre Robert Found Dead at 70
PCalc 4.11.1 for Mac
Toyota BEVs Gain Support for Apple Maps EV Routing
Samsung Shows Off Tri-Fold Smartphone at APEC Forum in Korea
Trump Is Deeply Unpopular
OpenAI Acquires Sky, a Still-in-Beta System-Wide AI Automation Tool for the Mac
★ Thoughts, Observations, and Links Regarding ChatGPT Atlas
Nisus Writer: Schrödinger’s Word Processor
[Sponsor] Jaho Coffee Roaster
★ Apple Loses Landmark U.K. Lawsuit Over App Store Commissions
App Store IDs Hint at Possible iPad Versions of Pixelmator Pro, Compressor, Motion, and MainStage
Gurman Reports That Apple Is Ready to Sell Ads in Maps Starting in 2026
Joe Rosensteel: ‘Creative Neglect: What About the Apps in Apple?’
Inside the Math That Detects Cheating on Sports Bets
Behind the Design: Adobe Premiere on iOS
The Talk Show: ‘You and Frank Sinatra’
The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware Back in 2018, at the Tail End of the Intel Era
The Scenario Where ChatGPT’s WhatsApp Gateway Was Useful: Airplane Wi-Fi
‘Boring Is What We Wanted’
WorkOS
Sora Has a Pervert Problem
Meta Announces Ban on Rival AI Chatbots From WhatsApp
SerpApi’s Public Customer List
Reddit Files Lawsuit Accusing ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Stealing Its Information
The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Is Jessica Chastain’s “The Savant” Ever Going to Be Released?”
GM Plans to Soon Ditch CarPlay and Android Auto on All Its Vehicles, Not Just EVs
New M5 Vision Pro and Dual Knit Headband Are Assembled in Vietnam, Not China
Signal Moves Ahead on Post-Quantum Computing, But Still Sucks Ass When You Switch Phones
Apple Pulls Dating Apps Tea and TeaOnHer From the App Store
Adam Driver Says Bob Iger Nixed a Kylo Ren ‘Star Wars’ Film He Pitched With Steven Soderbergh
Ke Yang, Apple’s Head of ChatGPT-Like AI Search Effort, Was Poached by Meta
Nikkei Asia: ‘Apple Slashes iPhone Air Production Plans, Boosts Other 17 Models’
Don Mattingly Finally Headed to the World Series
Trump Said to Demand Justice Department Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
1.5 Miles of Aluminum Foil Is, in Fact, No Big Whoop
Consumer Confusion Regarding USB Power Adapters
★ Two Excellent New iPhone Camera Apps: Not Boring’s !Camera and Adobe’s Project Indigo
‘Apocryphal Inventions’
iOS 26.1 Beta 4 Adds New Toggle for Liquid Glass: Clear or Tinted
[Sponsor] WorkOS: Scalable, Secure Authentication
Electron Apps Causing System-Wide Lag on MacOS 26 Tahoe
Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites
When Design Drives Behavior
Apple Lowered the Price of the New MacBook Pro for Most of the Eurpopean Countries Where It No Longer Ships With an Included Power Adapter
More on the Lack of an Included Charger With New M5 MacBooks in Europe, Including the U.K. and Norway
Kickstarter Campaign for Ben Zotto’s ‘Go Computer Now!’, a Book on Sphere, the Nearly Forgotten Personal Computer Company
How London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft
Apple and NBCUniversal Introduce the Apple TV and Peacock Bundle
Counterpoint Research Claims iPhone 17 Sales Are Up Year-Over-Year in the U.S. and China
David Hockney’s Xerox Prints
Photos From Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ Protests Across the U.S.
Major AWS Outage
Mux: Video API for Developers
The Base M5 MacBook Pro vs. the M4 MacBook Air
United States Mint to Release Commemorative $1 Steve Jobs Coin
Matthew Belloni Interviews Eddy Cue on ‘The Town’
Apple Is the Exclusive New Broadcast Partner for Formula 1 in the U.S.
M5 MacBook Pro Does Not Include a Charger in the Box in Europe
Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal: ‘A Cartoonist’s Review of AI Art’
★ The Just Plain M5 Chip Launches in Three Updated Products: 14-Inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro (Both Sizes), and Some Sort of Headset Thingamajig Called Vision Pro
TiVo Stops Selling DVRs
‘Halo Fund Announces Strategic Secondary Investment in 1Password’
‘How to Turn Liquid Glass Into a Solid Interface’
‘Looking for the Red Flags in Apple’s Formula 1 TV Deal’
[Sponsor] Mux: Video API for Developers
Apple Renames ‘Apple TV+’ to ‘Apple TV’
Apple Announces the End-of-Liife for Clips
The World’s Largest, Most Disruptive Botnet Is Exploiting Compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) Devices
Before Taking the Guns Out of the Bond Posters, Amazon Prime Took ‘Born to Kill’ Off the Poster for ‘Full Metal Jacket’
Let’s Check in on the Mad King’s Spiral Into Dementia
Drata
Apple Has Indefinitely Postponed Jessica Chastain’s Apple TV+ Thriller ‘The Savant’, for Political Reasons
Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97
Amazon Hamfistedly Removed the Guns From Prime’s James Bond Movie Posters
Apple Newsroom on the Immersive Vision Pro Lakers Broadcasts
Some Lakers Games This Season Will Be Broadcast Live in Immersive Video for Vision Pro
Apple’s Justification for Removing DeICER From the App Store
Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Apple Faces French Investigation Over Opt-In Siri Voice Recordings
Katie Notopoulos on the Difference Between Sora and Meta Vibes
‘Sora’s Slop Hits Different’
Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics
What’s New or Changed in iOS 26.1 Beta 2
AltStore State of the Union
Wiley Hodges’s Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding ICEBlock
[Sponsor] Drata
OpenAI Looks to Take 10 Percent Stake in AMD Through AI Chip Deal
S&P Global
Cheap Batteries Are Dangerous
★ Complying With ‘Demand’ From Trump Administration, Apple Removes ICEBlock From App Store
‘Fuck You, Make Me’
MLB Average Game Time Under Three Hours for Third Straight Year
Folder Quick Look
Adobe Premiere Ships for iPhone and iPad
U.K. Makes New Attempt to Access Apple Cloud Data — This Time, iCloud Backups of U.K. Citizens
OpenAI Launches Sora, a Social Feed App for AI-Generated Short Videos
America’s Pants: A Special Investigation Into the Dallas Cowboys’ Pants
The Talk Show: ‘Iconic Pig Lipstick’
Apple Started Using iPhone 17 Pros as Cameras for Friday Night Baseball Broadcasts
The 25th Anniversary of The Onion Classic: ‘William Safire Orders Two Whoppers Junior’
[Sponsor] S&P Global
Let’s Check in With HP Employee Imran Chaudhri
Drata
James Barnard on the Alignment Mistakes in HBO’s Logo
★ Apple on the Digital Markets Act
Trump Clears Way for Cronies to Buy TikTok for $14 Billion
Bloomberg: ‘Intel Is Seeking an Investment From Apple as Part of Its Comeback Bid’
Jimmy Kimmel Returns, Ratings Soar
Joe Betz, Owner of House of Prime Rib, Dies at 86
‘Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension Is a Wake-Up Call’
The Kimmel Joke That Got Him Suspended Was Not About Charlie Kirk, It Was About Trump Being a Ghoul
[Sponsor] Drata
David Letterman Slams Jimmy Kimmel Suspension
Dan Moren’s iOS 26 Review
Dekáf Coffee Roasters
★ Personal Note
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
TextJam
A Cynical Read on Anthropic’s Book Settlement
Anthropic to Pay $1.5 Billion to Authors in Landmark AI Settlement
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
Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
Nine Former Directors of the CDC: ‘RFK Jr. Is Endangering Every American’s Health’
The Talk Show: ‘Ersatz PopSocket’
★ MacOS 26 Tahoe’s Dead-Canary Utility App Icons
★ MSNBC, Spinning Out of NBCUniversal, Rebrands as ‘MS NOW’ With a Godawful Backronym and Even Worse Logo
★ How to Use iPhone Mirroring With More Than One iPhone