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Aaron ‘Homeboy’ Tilley Among Those Laid Off From the WSJ’s Tech Staff Last Week
Last week The Wall Street Journal laid off about a dozen tech reporters and editors — not on the fun side, where folks like Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen work,...
Steal My Tesla
New service for disgruntled/embarrassed Tesla owners: Our team at Steal My Tesla has years of experience in the automotive industry, with a special focus on luxury vehicles, premium wheels and...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in 2016, on Donald Trump as President: ‘This Is Not Going to End Well One Way or the Other’
A clip from this 2016 interview with Marco Rubio — then a candidate for the Republican presidential primary, today Trump’s secretary of state — by CNN’s Jake Tapper is making...
The New Yorker Modernizes a Few Words in Its Style Guide
Andrew Boynton, head of copy at The New Yorker: Keen-eyed grammar fans may notice some changes in our pages — and in this newsletter. Last fall, David Remnick, the editor,...
New MLB Caps Are So Fugly They Make MAGA Hats Look Well-Designed
If these caps were a student project it’d get an F. Who thinks you can print one logo on top of another? They look like mistakes, like caps that got...
New MLB Caps Are So Fugly They Make MAGA Hats Look Well-Designed
If these caps were a student project it’d get an F. Who thinks you can print one logo on top of another? They look like mistakes, like caps that got...
Josh Marshall on Kevin Drum
Josh Marshall: I think more than anything I admired Kevin’s restraint and his caution. Blogging is a hustle and the incentives for hyperbole and breathlessness are endless. That makes most...
Kevin Drum, Pioneering Political Blogger and Columnist, Dies at 66
Marian Drum, posting yesterday on Kevin Drum’s site: With a heavy heart, I have to tell you that after a long battle with cancer my husband Kevin Drum passed away...
Front Page Tech on a New UI Style for iOS 19, Back on January 17
Jon Prosser, in a YouTube video with mocked-up animations showing exactly what he’s talking about, 51 days ago: Today we have your very first exclusive look at the changes coming...
Yours Truly Guesting on ‘Upgrade’ With Jason Snell
Upgrade: It’s been a quiet week, so John Gruber briefly joins Jason to discuss Apple’s AI delay, new Macs, new iPads, and the future of Apple regulation worldwide. Recorded earlier...
The Talk Show: ‘Putting a Stink on the Letter X’
Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new hardware this week — M3 iPad Airs, A16 regular iPads, M4 MacBook Airs, and the M4 Max and surprising M3...
Broccoli, the Man — and Vegetable — Behind the Bond Franchise
This whole 1989 profile of Albert “Cubby” Broccoli by John Culhane for the LA Times is full of enjoyable nuggets, but this fact blew my mind: Giovanni Broccoli and his...
Yours Truly on The Vergecast, on the Cinematic Future of James Bond Under Amazon’s Stewardship
Pierce, David Pierce: On this episode of The Vergecast, we talk about the future of Bond. (James Bond.) John Gruber, the author of Daring Fireball and a preeminent Bond expert,...
Simon Willison on the Privacy/Security Risks of Personalized Siri, vis-à-vis Prompt Injection
Simon Willison: These new Apple Intelligence features involve Siri responding to requests to access information in applications and then performing actions on the user’s behalf. This is the worst possible...
Apple Pulls Bella Ramsey Ad That Promoted Vaporware Personalized Siri Feature
Zac Hall, 9to5Mac: Since last fall, Apple has been marketing the iPhone 16 and Apple Intelligence with an unreleased Siri feature. After confirming today that the more personal version of...
Reuters on Apple’s Personalized Siri Apple Intelligence Delay
Stephen Nellis, reporting for Reuters: Some artificial intelligence improvements to Apple’s voice assistant Siri will be delayed until 2026, the company said on Friday. In a statement, Apple said it...
★ Apple Is Delaying the ‘More Personalized Siri’ Apple Intelligence Features
This announcement is disappointing, but unsurprising. If it’s Apple’s general policy not to ship a product before it’s ready, that applies tenfold for a product involving LLM access to deeply...
Nate Silver on the Demise of FiveThirtyEight
Nate Silver, writing at his Silver Bulletin: Last night, as President Trump delivered his State of the Union address, the Wall Street Journal reported that ABC News would lay off...
★ ABC Shuts Down FiveThirtyEight, and Pulls the Plug on Its Website
From the perspective of a company the size of Disney, it would cost veritable pennies to keep FiveThirtyEight’s website around forever. What a disgrace.
Apple Announces, With Much Surprise, Mac Studios With M4 Max and M3 Ultra (!) Chips
Jason Snell, at Six Colors: With the M4 Mac mini being powerfully tempting for desktop Mac users who crave power, Apple has upgraded the Mac Studio to blast past the...