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Base 3.0
Nice update to Menial’s excellent SQLite developer tool for the Mac. Worth the wait. ★
Base 3.0
Nice update to Menial’s excellent SQLite developer tool for the Mac. Worth the wait. ★
Apple TV+ Subscription Price Increasing From $10 to $13 Per Month, but the Annual Price Remains Unchanged at $99
Benjamin Mayo, 9to5Mac: Apple today announced that the monthly price of Apple TV+ is rising in the United States and some international markets. From today, the monthly subscription will cost...
Fox One Streaming Service Launches
Fox (capitalization verbatim): Fox Corporation today announced the official launch of FOX One, a bold new streaming service that brings together the full portfolio of FOX’s News, Sports and Entertainment...
Meta’s Ray-Bans Have Sold 2 Million Pairs, Total, as of February
Sean Hollister, reporting for The Verge back in February: Two weeks ago, we exclusively reported Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s remarks on how many pairs of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses the...
Herdling
New video game, just out: Herdling is a brand new adventure from Okomotive, creators of the atmospheric and acclaimed FAR games, and Panic, publishers of Firewatch. Looks absolutely beautiful. Painterly....
‘Micro-Soft’
Added this footnote just now to yesterday’s piece on MSNBC’s rebranding to “MS NOW”: Historical pedantry: from 1975–1979, Microsoft spelled its name “Micro-Soft”, with, yes, an uppercase S. But that’s...
★ MSNBC, Spinning Out of NBCUniversal, Rebrands as ‘MS NOW’ With a Godawful Backronym and Even Worse Logo
The oddest part about the whole situation is that CNBC is being spun out into Versant, too, but while they’re losing the NBC peacock logo, they’re just keeping their name,...
Claim Chowder: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Five Months Ago
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan, reporting for Business Insider five months ago: Dario Amodei, the CEO of the AI startup Anthropic, said on Monday that AI, and not software developers, could...
‘No Frame Missed’
Five-minute short film from Apple, about people with severe hand tremors from Parkinson’s disease using the iPhone’s Action mode to shoot steady video — including filmmaker Brett Harvey, who was...
‘American’
Kieran Healy on, just now — amidst all this — becoming an American citizen: When I sat down to write something about becoming a citizen, I was immediately tangled up...
★ How to Use iPhone Mirroring With More Than One iPhone
Long story short: there’s an “iPhone” menu under “Widgets” in System Settings → Desktop & Dock.
Bezos Numbers of the Week: Counterpoint Research on ‘Smart Glasses’
Counterpoint Research, in a report titled “Global Smart Glasses Shipments Soared 110 Percent YoY in H1 2025, With Meta Capturing Over 70 Percent Share”: The global smart glasses market grew...
[Sponsor] Phoenix.new
Resurrect your side projects with Phoenix.new, the new AI app-builder from Fly.io. Just describe your idea, and Phoenix.new quickly generates a working real-time Phoenix app: clustering, pubsub, and presence included....
★ Joe Caroff, Designer of the James Bond 007 Logo, Dies at 103
A perfect logo, from a designer with a long and storied career.
Woz: ‘I Am the Happiest Person Ever’
Steve Wozniak turned 75 (!) and was profiled by John Blackstone for CBS News (also posted to YouTube). Slashdot linked to it, and in the comments, someone gently jabbed at...
Trump’s BLS Pick E.J. Antoni Is — Shocker — a Crackpot Hack
Jason Lalljee, reporting for Axios Tuesday: President Trump’s nomination of Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Monday drew criticism from economists across the...
Threads Now Has DMs, But They’re Not Encrypted and, Contrary to Reports, Not Yet Available on the Web
Emma Roth, reporting for The Verge back on July 1 (emphasis added): Threads’ DMs are currently available to users aged 18 and over on Android, iOS, and the web, but...
Keep Calm and Delete Your Old Emails to Conserve Water
From a press release from the UK’s National Drought Group this week, quoting group chair Helen Wakeham (emphasis added): “We are grateful to the public for following the restrictions, where...
Bloomberg: ‘Trump Administration Said to Discuss Taking Stake in Intel’
Bloomberg: The Trump administration is in talks with Intel Corp. to have the US government take a stake in the beleaguered chipmaker, according to people familiar with the plan, in...