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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