Daring Fireball
Oakland’s Airport Is Now Officially ‘Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport’
‘Elon Musk Appeared More Petty Than Prepared’
‘Sordid and Small’
OpenAI Trial Starts With Two Very Different Tales of a Company’s Early Years
Playing With Fire
Rec League
Sponsor The Talk Show
Yours Truly on The Vergecast
★ The New York Times Printed the Wrong Crossword Grid Last Sunday, and I Find That Timing Serendipitous
DF Paraphernalia: Last Call for This Round of T-Shirts and Hoodies
Report Claims Samsung Might Post Its First-Ever Mobile Division Loss This Year, Blaming RAM Crisis
★ Time to Serve Some Delicious Claim Chowder Regarding the Cook-Ternus CEO Transition
★ Norwegian Boating Licenses and Generational Law
★ ‘We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here’
XOXO Explore
New Zealand Passed a Generational Smoking Ban in 2022, But Repealed It Before It Went Into Effect
United Kingdom to Pass Smoking Ban Only for Those Who Are Not Yet Legal Adults
Trump’s Blog Has Somehow Lost $1.1 Billion
Nilay Patel: ‘Beware Software Brain’
Eight for Eight
Microsoft Offers Voluntary Retirement to Long-Serving Employees
Unauthorized Users in Discord Group Had Weekslong Access to Anthropic’s Supposedly-Super-Dangerous Claude Mythos Model
DF T-Shirts and Hoodies: Get Them While the Getting Is Good
There Are Corrections, and There Are Corrections
Ben Thompson on Tim Cook’s Legacy
[Sponsor] Rec League
Trump on Tim Apple
★ Another Day Has Come
‘Community Letter From Tim’
DF Paraphernalia: T-Shirts and Hoodies Are Back
Apple: ‘Tim Cook to Become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to Become Apple CEO’
Apple’s Annual Environmental Progress Report
Jessica Chastain Says Apple TV Will Finally Release ‘The Savant’
WorkOS FGA: The Authorization Layer for AI Agents
★ ‘A Reading Room on Wheels, a Lover’s Lane, and, After 11 PM, a Flophouse’
Apple’s Mac Mini Went Viral. Why Can’t You Buy One Right Now? - WSJ
Apple’s Developer Guidelines for Ratings and Review Prompts
Follow-Up Regarding App Store Reviews, Which Are Definitely Busted
App Store Reviews Are Busted
Freecash Was More Like Scamcash
Colliding With Reality, Indeed
How to Format 10-Digit Phone Numbers
Chance Miller: ‘Netflix Ruined Its Apple TV App by Switching to a Custom Video Player’
Apple Pay Express Transit Mode, When Used With a Visa Card, Is Vulnerable to Scam Tap-to-Pay Readers
Bonus Thought Regarding the Name ‘iPhone Ultra’
Rory Goss’s Accessibility Story
So Close to Getting It
Sofa 5.0
Lisa Melton: ‘Memories of Steve’ (and Memories of Safari’s Unique Page-Loading Indicator in Particular)
★ David Pierce Tried a Bunch of Android Phones and Then Bought an iPhone Again
Screen Zooming on iOS
Fraudulent Cryptocurrency App in Mac App Store Stole $9.5 Million From 50-Some Users
On the Name of Apple’s Foldable iPhone
Speaking of Tips
Apple Has Hidden the Pre-Creator-Studio Versions of Keynote, Numbers, and Pages in the Mac App Store
Google Will Finally Begin Punishing Sites for Back-Button Hijacking in June
Amazon to Acquire Globalstar, Announces Agreement With Apple to Continue Service for iPhone and Apple Watch
John Calhoun on Steve Lemay
Richard Moss’s 2010 Interview With John Calhoun on the Origins of Glider
Glider Is Back in the Mac App Store
Steven Soderbergh Twice Pitched James Bond Projects
Apple Frames 4
Memory, They Say, Is the First Thing to Go
[Sponsor] WorkOS FGA: The Authorization Layer for AI Agents
Tahoe Nitpick of the Day: ‘Reduce Transparency’ Makes Layers Harder to See, Not Easier
John Martellaro, RIP
Marcin Wichary Visits the Large Scale Systems Museum
MacOS Tip: Enable the Zoom ‘Peek’ Gesture
FT: ‘Meta Builds AI Version of Mark Zuckerberg to Interact With Staff’
Viktor Orban Concedes Election Defeat in Hungary
Zed — A Font Superfamily
Golden Tickets
Pan American Luggage Labels
★ Let Us Learn to Show Our Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive and Not After He Is Dead
Ed Bindels’s Apple Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands
MacOS Seemingly Crashes After 49 Days of Uptime — a ‘Feature’ Perhaps Exclusive to Tahoe
Adobe Diddles With Your /etc/hosts File
Lickspittle of the Week: Todd Blanche
Anthropic’s New Claude Mythos Is So Good at Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities That They’re Not Releasing It to the Public
Solar Eclipse From the Far Side of the Moon
Sam Altman, in a Video Released by OpenAI, Apparently Thinks AGI Is Going to Hit Society Like a Once-a-Century Pandemic
★ OpenAI Announces $122 Billion Additional ‘Committed Capital’, and Announces Their ‘Superapp’ Plan for the Future
Om Malik and Ben Thompson on OpenAI Buying TBPN
Flighty Airports Meltdown Map
The Data Drop: Every iPhone
[Sponsor] Zed, a Font Superfamily
Anthropic Accidentally Leaked the Entire Claude Code CLI Source Code
Little Finder Guy Stars in Nine New Apple TikTok and YouTube Videos
An Easter Morning Message of Hope From the Winner of the FIFA Peace Prize
Sponsorship Openings for Daring Fireball
Material Security
iOS 26 Feels Faster Than iOS 18
Class Action Lawsuit Says Perplexity’s ‘Incognito Mode’ Is a ‘Sham’
Apple Releases iOS 18 Security Updates for iOS 26 Holdouts
Apple Still Has Jessica Chastain’s ‘The Savant’ on Ice, Seven Months After It Was Set to Debut
John Buck on the Invention of QuickTime
Artemis II Crew on Way to Moon
OpenAI, Supposedly Tightening Its Focus on Its Core Products, Buys Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN
Axios, Super Popular NPM Package, Was Compromised in Attack on the Module’s Maintainer
‘No, We’re Not Stupid. Our Dads Just Got Us Crummy Computers.’
Jason Snell on Covering Apple for 33 Years
‘Great Things in Business Are Never Done by One Person. They’re Done by a Team of People.’
★ David Pogue’s ‘Apple: The First 50 Years’
David Pogue: ‘Apple and Me’
Trump’s White House Ballroom Design Is Shit
Chris Espinosa, Employee #8, Profiled in The New York Times
The Talk Show: ‘Apple at 50’
More on Apple’s Fun ‘Rewind’ Video
Ben Cohen of the WSJ Tours Apple’s Archive of Prototype Hardware
New Jersey, the Jackass State
Ryan D’Agostino Profiles Tim Cook for Esquire on Apple’s 50th
Inside Apple’s AirPods Max 2 and the H2 Chip Upgrade
Hershey Says It Will Shift Back to Classic Recipe for All Reese’s Products After Criticism
Apple Marks 50th Anniversary
Business Insider Profiles Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s ‘CEO of Applications’
RAM Is the New Bearer Bond
Jensen Huang Doesn’t Smell Anything
Appointees to Trump’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
Technical Analysis of the Android Version of the White House’s New App
[Sponsor] Material Security
‘The Brand Age’
Macs of Unusual Size
Version History: ‘The Macintosh’
WorkOS
The Verge: ‘Rank the Best Apple Products From the Last 50 Years’
The Talk Show: ‘You’re Going to Have the Niggles’
The 2019 Intel Mac Pro’s Unfortunate Timing
Apple Should Set and Enforce Some Basic Standards for Custom Video Players on tvOS
‘How Apple Became Apple: The Definitive Oral History of the Company’s Earliest Days’
Netflix Wrecked Their tvOS Video Player
Trump Is Putting His Signature on U.S. Currency
New York Post: ‘Trump Considers Renaming Strait of Hormuz’
Business Insider’s Subscriber Spiral
Apple Says It’s Not Aware of Lockdown Mode Ever Having Been Exploited
Apple Announces Ads Are Coming to Apple Maps
Netflix Raises Prices Again
★ Apple Giveth, Apple Taketh Away
Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro With No Plans to Bring It Back
The Apple Charging Situation
You Can Jump Right to the Updates Screen in the App Store App on iOS 26.4
Disney Drops Vaporware $1B Investment in OpenAI After Sora Got Axed
Google Brags About Android Web Browser Benchmark Scores on Unnamed Devices; Gullible Reporters Fall for It
NYT: ‘Melania Trump Appears With a Robot, Saying More Children Should Be Educated by Them’
The Information: ‘Apple Can “Distill” Google’s Big Gemini Model’
Katie Notopoulos Bids Farewell to Sora: ‘You Were Too Beautiful and Stupid for This World’
MacOS 26.4 Adds ‘Slow Charger’ Indicator for MacBooks
Jennifer Daniel on the New ‘Distorted Face’ Emoji
The Yankees Almost Signed Another P.E.D. Cheater
The New York Yankees Have the Best Record in Baseball
Mr. Macintosh Explains Another Way to Block the Software Update Prompts for MacOS 26 Tahoe
‘A List of Chain Restaurants Whose Names Contain Unusual Structures’
Improved Analytics in App Store Connect
Claude Can Now Take Control of Your Mac
WSJ: ‘OpenAI Plans Launch of Desktop “Superapp”’
OpenAI Is Closing Sora
iOS 26.4
Following Google’s Lead With Pixel Phones, Samsung Announces AirDrop Support With Galaxy S26 Phones
★ What to Do About Those Menu Item Icons in MacOS 26 Tahoe
[Sponsor] npx workos: From Auth Integration to Environment Management, Zero ClickOps
Gasoline Prices Around the World
WWDC 2026: June 8–12
From the DF Archive, a Decade Ago: ‘The Industry Is Fucked Up’
The HTML Review: Issue 05
‘Good, I’m Glad He’s Dead.’
Half a Gigabyte of Ads
Mux — Video API for Developers
Reuters: ‘Amazon Plans Smartphone Comeback More Than a Decade After Fire Phone Flop’
Google Search Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Headlines
Perhaps Bluesky’s Revelation of an 11-Month Ago $100 Million Investment Was, in Fact, an Act of Transparency
Bluesky Raised $100M a Year Ago but for Some Reason Only Disclosed It Now
Quiche Browser
StopTheMadness Pro and StopTheScript Extensions for Safari
Actual Headline in the Actual New York Times: ‘Trump Jokes About Pearl Harbor in Meeting With Japan’s Leader’
‘Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done’
The Day Mark Simonson Discovered Type Design
Google’s New Sideloading Restrictions for Android Include a 24-Hour Waiting Period
Hacker News Discussion on Shubham Bose’s ‘The 49MB Web Page’
★ AppleScript: ‘Save MarsEdit Document to Text File’
★ ‘Your Frustration Is the Product’
The Talk Show: ‘The Pogue Feature’
How to Identify Your Apple Keyboard Layout by Country or Region
Jony Ive on Redesigning the Christie’s Rostrum
Meta Is Dropping VR Support From Horizon Worlds
David Zaslav Set to Receive Up to $887 Million if Paramount Acquisition of Warner Bros Closes
★ Squashing
Fox Sports to Broadcast U.S.-Venezuela World Baseball Classic Final in Immersive 3D — But Not on Vision Pro
Samsung Discontinues Its Galaxy Z TriFold After Just Three Months
Lil Finder Guy Wallpapers
[Sponsor] Mux — Video API for Developers
Apple Introduces AirPods Max 2
‘The Last Quiet Thing’
★ Apple Exclaves and the Secure Design of the MacBook Neo’s On-Screen Camera Indicator
CHM Live: Apple at 50
Finalist 3.6
Blaming AI for Layoffs: ‘It Plays Better’
Horace Dediu on Apple Sitting Out the AI Spending Race
Reuters: ‘Meta Planning Sweeping Layoffs as AI Costs Mount’
‘This Is Not the Computer for You’
Matt Mullenweg Documents a Dastardly Clever Apple Account Phishing Scam
iFixit’s MacBook Neo Teardown
PC Makers Are Not Ready for the MacBook Neo
Ars Technica Fires Reporter Benj Edwards After He Published Story With AI-Fabricated Quotes
Lil Finder Guy
Tim Cook: ‘50 Years of Thinking Different’
NYT: ‘Meta Delays Rollout of New AI Model After Performance Concerns’
Sports Programming Accounts for Almost 30 Percent of All Ad-Supported TV Viewing
Claim Chowder: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the Percentage of Code Being Generated by AI Today
‘Software Bonkers’
‘Grief and the AI Split’
Accents
Apple’s Platform Security Guide Adds a Brief Note on the MacBook Neo’s On-Screen Camera Indicator
Eddy Cue Says F1 on Apple TV Opened to Increased Viewership
MacBook Neo Teardown
Software Proprioception
Jason Snell Is on Jeopardy Next Week
Another One From the Archive: ‘Web Kit’ vs. ‘WebKit’
★ Modifier Key Order for Keyboard Shortcuts
Apple Has Changed Several Key Cap Labels From Words to Glyphs on Its Latest MacBook Keyboards
Halide Cofounder Sebastiaan De Joined Apple’s Design Team in January
From the DF Archive: ‘And Oranges’
★ The MacBook Neo
[Sponsor] Finalist
★ The iPhone 17e
MacBook Neo Wallpapers Now Available for All Macs in MacOS Tahoe 26.4 Beta
Low-Wage Contractors in Kenya See What Users See While Using Meta’s AI Smart Glasses
Can Coding Agents Relicense Open Source Through a ‘Clean Room’ Implementation of Code?
Donald Knuth on Claude Opus Solving a Computer Science Problem
Steve Lemay Hits Apple’s Leadership Page
‘npx workos’
Daring Fireball Weekly Sponsorship Openings
Google’s Threat Intelligence Group on Coruna a Powerful iOS Exploit Kit of Mysterious Origin
‘The Window Chrome of Our Discontent’
The Verge Interviews Tim Sweeney After Victory in ‘Epic v. Google’
Tim Sweeney Signed Away His Right to Criticize Google’s Play Store Until 2032
The MacBook Neo’s Price, Looking to the Past and Future
‘Never the Same Game Twice’
Another Steve Jobs Quote on Lower-Priced Macs
Steve Jobs in 2007, on Apple’s Pursuit of PC Market Share: ‘We Just Can’t Ship Junk’
★ Thoughts and Observations on the MacBook Neo
Studio Display vs. Studio Display XDR
Compatibility Notes on the New Studio Displays
‘In Other Words, Batman Has Become Superman and Robin Has Become Batman’
Apple Announces Updated Studio Display and All-New Studio Display XDR
New MacBook Air With M5
Apple Might Have Prematurely Leaked the Name ‘MacBook Neo’
Apple Introduces MacBook Pro Models With M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips
Apple Debuts M5 Pro and M5 Max, and Renames Its M-Series CPU Cores
[Sponsor] npx workos: An AI Agent That Writes Auth Directly Into Your Codebase
★ HazeOver — Mac Utility for Highlighting the Frontmost Window
Unsung Heroes: Flickr’s URLs Scheme
ChangeTheHeaders
Welcome (Back) to Macintosh
SerpApi Filed Motion to Dismiss Google’s Lawsuit
‘Anthropic and Alignment’
WSJ: ‘Trump Administration Shuns Anthropic, Embraces OpenAI in Clash Over Guardrails’
Seasonal Color Updates to Apple’s iPhone Cases and Apple Watch Bands
Apple Introduces New iPad Air With M4
Apple Introduces iPhone 17e
Sentry
The Talk Show: ‘Bad Dates’
Trump’s Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran
West Virginia’s Anti-Apple CSAM Lawsuit Would Help Child Predators Walk Free
How to Block the ‘Upgrade to Tahoe’ Alerts and System Settings Indicator
★ A Sometimes-Hidden Setting Controls What Happens When You Tap a Call in the iOS 26 Phone App
TUDUMB
Block Lays Off 4,000 (of 10,000) Employees
Apple Announces F1 Broadcast Details, and a Surprising Netflix Partnership
Energym
Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for Paramount Takeover
iPhone and iPad Approved to Handle Classified NATO Information
‘Steve Jobs in Exile’
Microsoft Adds Additional Markdown Features to Windows Notepad
Prediction Market Kalshi Accuses MrBeast Editor of Insider Trading
Research Firm Says Podcasts Have Passed AM/FM Talk Radio in Spoken-Word Listening Time
New York Sues Valve, Says Its ‘Loot Boxes’ Are Gambling
‘H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright Typographic Mystery’
Terry Godier: ‘Phantom Obligation’
Bill Gates Apologizes to Foundation Staff Over Epstein Ties
Greg Knauss: ‘Lose Myself’
The Talk Show: ‘Serious Opinionators’
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra’s Privacy Display
★ My 2025 Apple Report Card
Major Candy Brands Are Switching From Actual Chocolate to ‘Chocolately Candy’ (Read: Brown Candle Wax)
I Am Nothing if Not a Man of Science
[Sponsor] Hands-On Workshop: Fix It Faster — Crash Reporting, Tracing, and Logs for iOS in Sentry
Upgrade: ‘The Shifting Sands of Liquid Glass’
Apple in 2025: The Six Colors Report Card
Apple Will Begin Manufacturing Mac Minis in Houston Later This Year
PageMaker Pioneer Paul Brainerd Dies at 78
FTC Chairman Sends Letter to Apple Complaining That MAGA ‘News’ Sources Aren’t Represented in Apple News
The Steve Jobs Archive: ‘Letters to a Young Creator’
Acme Weather
An OpenClaw AI Agent Wrote and Published a Hit Piece on a Software Library Maintainer Who Rejected Its Code Submission
OpenAI Acquired OpenClaw and Hired Peter Steinberger
How Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself With Top Microsoft Executives
Inside Microsoft’s Xbox Leadership Shake-Up
Times New Resistance
The Pants-Shitting Saga of Resizing Windows on MacOS 26 Tahoe Continues
Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
NetNewsWire 7 for Mac
Grandson of Inventor of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Goes Public With the Obvious: They Taste Like Shit Now
Sentry
IMAX and Apple Collaborate to Screen F1 Races Live in Theaters
One More Spitball Idea for Apple’s March 4 Media Event ‘Experience’: Immersive F1 on Vision Pro?
Paul Ford: ‘The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun’
Apple Invites Media to Special ‘Experience’ in New York, London, and Shanghai on March 4
★ Apple Releases iOS 26 Adoption Rates, and They’re Pretty Much in Line With the Last Few Years
How to Force Restart an iPhone
[Sponsor] Hands-On Workshop: Fix It Faster — Crash Reporting, Tracing, and Logs for iOS in Sentry
WorkOS Pipes
Joanna Stern Signs Off From The Wall Street Journal
Gurman: New Siri Might Be Delayed Again
More MacOS 26.3 Finder Column View Silliness
Apple Creator Studio Usage Restrictions
[Sponsor] WorkOS Pipes: Ship Third-Party Integrations Without Rebuilding OAuth
OpenAI’s Codex
Xcode 26.3 ‘Unlocks the Power of Agentic Coding’
Apple Reports Record-Breaking Revenue and Profit for Q1 FY26
Lego Group and Crocs Enter Multi-Year Global Partnership
‘Backseat Software’
Let’s Keep an Eye on Apple’s Own iOS Adoption Numbers
Box Office Expectations for ‘Melania’
Amazon’s Spending on ‘Melania’ Is a Barely Concealed Bribe
Kickstarter for Ollie’s Arcade Expansion
Comparing the Classic and Unified Views in iOS 26’s Phone App
Aeronaut 1.0
Bruce Springsteen: ‘Streets of Minneapolis’
★ Politics and the English Language, January 2026 Edition
Tim Cook Wrote a Memo on the ‘Events in Minneapolis’
Meta’s Response to Reuters Report on ‘Romance AI Chatbots’ for Teenagers
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