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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