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Apple Faces French Investigation Over Opt-In Siri Voice Recordings
Benoit Berthelot and Gaspard Sebag, reporting for Bloomberg: Apple Inc. faces an investigation in France over the use of voice recordings made with its assistant Siri. The probe has been...
Katie Notopoulos on the Difference Between Sora and Meta Vibes
Katie Notopoulos, on Threads: Me looking at Vibes feed: this is screensaver. So boring. Why would anyone want it? Me looking at videos I made of my own face in...
‘Sora’s Slop Hits Different’
MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: I think that’s the real revelation here. It’s less about consumption and more about creation. I previously wrote about how I was an early investor...
Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics
The New York Times: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday in Sweden for showing that two properties of...
What’s New or Changed in iOS 26.1 Beta 2
Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac: Alarms and timers are now harder to dismiss thanks to a new ‘Slide to stop’ gesture. Both alarms and timers were updated in iOS 26 to utilize...
AltStore State of the Union
Riley Testut, co-founder of AltStore: By far our number one request, we’re planning to launch AltStore PAL in more countries later this year in response to various regulatory changes around...
Wiley Hodges’s Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding ICEBlock
Wiley Hodges, a 22-year veteran of Apple product marketing, who retired in 2022, in an open letter he sent to Tim Cook: I don’t know where this leaves me as...
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OpenAI Looks to Take 10 Percent Stake in AMD Through AI Chip Deal
MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC: OpenAI and Advanced Micro Devices have reached a deal that could see Sam Altman’s company take a 10% stake in the chipmaker. AMD stock skyrocketed more than...
Cheap Batteries Are Dangerous
Andrew Liszewski, The Verge: Lumafield has released the results of a new study of lithium-ion batteries that “reveals an enormous gap in quality between brand-name batteries and low-cost cells” that...
★ Complying With ‘Demand’ From Trump Administration, Apple Removes ICEBlock From App Store
It’s rather chilling to consider what Apple would have done if the Trump administration had “demanded” a list of device IDs and user identities for everyone who had installed ICEBlock....
‘Fuck You, Make Me’
John Oliver on Last Week Tonight, uh, last week, regarding Disney’s initial (but brief) caving to Trump’s demands that they suspend or even fire Jimmy Kimmel for his having the...
MLB Average Game Time Under Three Hours for Third Straight Year
Jason Foster, reporting for MLB.com: Nine-inning games during the 2025 season have, on average, clocked in at 2 hours, 38 minutes through Thursday, marking the third straight season in which...
Folder Quick Look
New Mac app from Martin Lexow, the developer behind App Ahead (which offers a slew of good and intriguing Mac apps): Preview folder and archive contents (ZIP, RAR, and more)...
New Mac App: Folder Quick Look
New Mac app from Martin Lexow, the developer behind App Ahead (which offers a slew of good and intriguing Mac apps): Preview folder and archive contents (ZIP, RAR, and more)...
Adobe Premiere Ships for iPhone and iPad
Adobe: Today, Adobe announced that the company is bringing its industry leading Adobe Premiere video editor to mobile in a powerful new iPhone app that empowers creators to make pro-quality...
U.K. Makes New Attempt to Access Apple Cloud Data — This Time, iCloud Backups of U.K. Citizens
Anna Gross and Tim Bradshaw, reporting for the Financial Times (updated link to a syndicated version at Ars Technica, outside the FT’s parsimonious paywall): The UK government has ordered Apple...
U.K. Makes New Attempt to Access Apple Cloud Data — This Time, iCloud Backups of U.K. Citizens
Anna Gross and Tim Bradshaw, reporting for the Financial Times: The UK government has ordered Apple to allow access to encrypted cloud backups of British users, after a previous attempt...
OpenAI Launches Sora, a Social Feed App for AI-Generated Short Videos
Hayden Field, The Verge: OpenAI has a new version of the Sora AI video generator that it launched at the end of last year, and it’s arriving today alongside a...
America’s Pants: A Special Investigation Into the Dallas Cowboys’ Pants
This exemplary deep dive from Don Patterson at Uni Watch is a nice capper to the Cowboys’ 40-40 victory over the Green Bay Packers Sunday night. ★