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Apple TV+ being rebranded as Apple TV Apple Security Bounty doubles top exploit chain award to $2 million The Gem Cooperative Taylor Swift breaks Adele’s record for biggest album in a single week Let’s talk about AI art Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store Sony is releasing a 30th anniversary PlayStation photography book How Ruby went off the Rails Tim Berners-Lee on putting the world wide web in the public domain Google backed out of its Indiana data center proposal Duke University Libraries’ commentary on DHH Jony Ive’s LoveFrom and Japanese company Balmuda unveiled the ‘Sailing Lantern’ Swift Configuration has been introduced Apple Newsroom just published a DMA shame and blame iOS 26.1 beta suggests iPhones will soon support third-party smartwatches Ruby Central has turned hostile Microsoft Paint will soon have Photoshop-esque project files and opacity sliders Jerry leaves Ben & Jerry’s NYC subway ridership has finally reached pre-pandemic levels Safari web extensions can now be packaged without using a Mac or Xcode Linking to text fragments Microsoft dodges EU fine by unbundling Teams from Office Chicago photographed with PS Vita Regarding Apple’s AI guidelines shift iOS icon history Thomas Günther’s take on Liquid Glass accessibility macOS icon history Dolby Vision 2 has been announced The U.S. hopes to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns The value of personal experiences Federal circuit court rules against the Trump tariffs Xcode 26 beta 7 adds support for Claude Sonnet and ChatGPT 5 Apple revoked iTorrent’s notarization without warning On the importance of low-contrast mode Elon Musk’s xAI is suing OpenAI and Apple Bluesky blocks accounts in Mississippi in response to age assurance law Trump Mobile’s fake iPhone is now a fake S25 Ultra The tariffs on steel have been expanded to numerous unrelated products MacSurfer has returned Toxic work environment the cause of Titan sub implosion Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death Tim Cook’s tenure as CEO has now surpassed Steve Jobs I disagree with the Time 100 best podcasts list The morons at Columbia University settled with the Trump administration The Tesla diner has opened Emojitracker is back A few thoughts on The Late Show being canceled A responsibility to the industry The eagle in the coal mine F1: The Movie has grossed over $400 million worldwide Apple is suing Jon Prosser The Liquid Glass iPhone 17 Pro color Infinite Mac is now embeddable Grok is praising Hitler Apple announces COO transition with Jeff Williams retirement Jack Dorsey thinks the future is adding encryption to Friend Link Apple added more frost in developer beta 3 Alligator Auschwitz Mamdani is securing the anti-Zionist vote TikTok M2 The American system of democracy has crashed Receding UI design Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM iPadOS windows GOAL to protest NYC Pride March over uniform disagreement Windows is getting rid of the Blue Screen of Death The Social Network is getting a sequel Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models Trump Mobile is already walking back claim that Trump phone is made in the USA Apple promoting F1 movie with Wallet app notification Zohran Mamdani is a public menace Mamdani ahead of Cuomo in ranked choice voting OpenAI and Jony Ive’s ‘io’ brand has vanished Trump stupidly bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities The Vera C. Rubin Observatory The subway is not scary Promo codes for in-app purchases Trump Mobile Terminal app is getting a visual refresh Nezza sings the Star Spangled Banner in Spanish at Dodgers game The persistent Home Bar is finally gone Grab your bromance breakup popcorn Physicality Pour one out for MacInTouch Elon Musk is leaving the Trump administration Apple is reportedly going to rename all of its operating systems Texas Senate Bill 2420 has been signed into law U.S. Treasury will stop minting pennies Blackmagic ‘postponed’ Texas factory due to tariffs Jony Ive is crafting the ‘third core’ device OpenAI acquires Jony Ive’s AI startup Basic Apple Guy is taking the WinRAR approach Telegram bans $35B black markets used to sell stolen data, launder crypto Joe Biden diagnosed with prostate cancer A more emotionally engaging McDonald’s Google’s G logo receives first makeover in 10 years The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025 Solar Orbiter’s widest high-res view of the Sun California is now the 4th largest economy in the world Musk’s X sues over Minnesota deepfake law Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet Newsom signs $2.8 billion Medicaid bailout Teen Vogue’s interview with Vivian Jenna Wilson Zuckerberg’s 2012 email dubbed “smoking gun” at Meta monopoly trial Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons Yes, it’s fascism Apple has escaped the China tariffs for now Microsoft’s 50th birthday party sure was eventful Apple bizarrely fined $162M for App Tracking Transparency after advertisers complained The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war plans Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City EWG’s tap water database Uber with guns Andrew Cuomo is running for mayor of NYC Trump touts $5M ‘golden visa’ to encourage wealthy foreigners Joy Reid fired from MSNBC The Jeddah Tower iPhone dictation bug interpreted the word ‘Trump’ as ‘racist’ Name your own Gulf I went to Death Valley to experience 129 degrees Google’s greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years Critical flaws in CocoaPods expose iOS and macOS apps to supply chain attacks TSA reports another record setting day of travel That time Boehner was troubled by unseemly GOP behavior TikTok makes its First Amendment case You can finally use iCloud with macOS virtual machines watchOS 11 supports automatic nap detection Microsoft recalls Recall Elon Musk is livid about new OpenAI/Apple deal Apple to release a dedicated Passwords app The team behind Halide launched a video app called Kino Jury finds Trump guilty on all counts in hush money trial Meta’s shift away from the ‘daily active users’ metric Exploit allows iOS apps to use animated icons TikTok is now reporting on political influence campaigns TSA reports record number of passengers in a single day Daily cannabis use overtakes alcohol in the U.S. U.S. sues Ticketmaster and owner Live Nation Apple Music 100 Best Albums Cynthia Bowman joins Apple after departing BofA Hawaiʻi awarded $916 million over ineffective Plavix Microsoft Surface performance claims are meaningless The forged Apple employee badge Delta is changing its logo after Adobe threatened it Increased battery lifespan in the iPhone 15 NASA's botched moon launch Apple announces contingent pricing for subscriptions Save the male chicks Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk Tim Cook on shaping the future of Apple Make Something Wonderful The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every modern copy of macOS White House won’t pay for Twitter verification Twitter recommendation algorithm is now open-source The country’s oldest public bank Trump Indictment Intel founder Gordon Moore has passed away Steve Jobs saved a long-time Mac developer from an early death DPReview.com to close Feds arrest alleged BreachForums owner linked to FBI hacks Pedometer++ v5.0: A Passion for the Wilderness National Legal and Policy Center wants Cook and Gore off Apple board GoDaddy says a multi-year breach hijacked customer websites and accounts Susan Wojcicki stepping back from YouTube CEO role The maze is in the mouse Former Minister for Foreign Affairs in Sweden is joining an Apple advisory board Proposals but no consensus on curbing water shortages in Colorado River basin Kareem’s thinking on LeBron breaking his NBA scoring record Texting after hanging Jupiter has 92 moons A visionary on a motorcycle Rihanna’s Road to Halftime Our little universes HomePod is back A look at the time Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for a favor House Democrats pick top leadership that includes zero white men Josh Centers is moving on from TidBITS Elon’s Twitter is in the Sh*tter WidgetBundle improvements in iOS 16.1 Apple kills long-time event archive on YouTube Welcome to hell, Elon How John Deere built its own cellular network for its factory iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, A Huge Leap Elon Musk could cut half of Twitter’s workforce Twitter cancels Chirp developer conference Elon Musk will let you pay $8 to be a verified ‘lord’ on Twitter How to Grow a 2,560-Pound Pumpkin Taylor Swift achieves her 11th No. 1 album White House invites dozens of nations for ransomware summit Minimum Viable Centralization Ali Abdaal’s AI Twitter thread Elon Musk acquires Twitter and fires top executives Podcast app Pocket Casts goes open source Poor, less white US neighborhoods get worst internet deals Elon Musk plans to cut 75% of Twitter workforce New York City’s Answer to Its Rat Problem: Asking You to Take the Trash Out Later Magic, utility, and redesigning Material.io Sound This Week in Google: 681 Kara Swisher’s last Code Conference The new Pixel 7’s ‘Guided Frame’ feature An Oral History of Apple’s Infinite Loop Remembering Steve Jobs The Steve Jobs Archive The music lives on Activity Monitor in macOS is wrong about energy usage of Apple silicon Menorah bongs and Talmudic toking: The secret history of Judaism and cannabis New Jersey's nation-leading bag ban set to take effect this week Musk flips Twitter the bird Studio Display webcam complaints are fair, but the importance is being overblown The syntax of virtual performatives Elon Musk to acquire Twitter CNN+ is shutting down one month after launch GitHub can't be trusted. Or, how suspending Russian accounts deleted project history and pull requests Kmart nears extinction Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter in takeover attempt Cities ask Netflix, Hulu, streaming services to pay cable fees The future of Deliveries Elon Musk won’t join Twitter’s board after all Why your git email address matters Rethinking the term Sub-Saharan Africa Trump officials failed to provide accounting of foreign gifts Muzzling the defense The launch event for Windows 95 A new wide variant of San Francisco font? iCloud+ custom email domains should be better Windows 3.1 turns 30 Apple announces WWDC 2022 Suddenly, Tesla’s Elon Musk is Twitter’s biggest stakeholder German man got COVID jab 87 times Infinite Mac: an instant-booting Quadra in your browser Microsoft deletes tweet featuring an M1 iMac Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok TikTok used by 16 per cent of British toddlers White House logs show 7-hour gap in Trump’s calls on Jan. 6 Vladimir Putin stole a Super Bowl ring Apple’s CODA wins historic Oscar for Best Picture at the Academy Awards Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, has died Apple TV app on Android TV & Google TV no longer lets users buy/rent movies SystemSix Apple’s M1 Ultra chip is good for you, but a problem for Intel, AMD, and Nvidia No, we shouldn’t make DST permanent DigitalOcean has acquired CSS-Tricks ‘Pro’ has lost all meaning, and Apple knows it Hate for Putin A new speed milestone for Chrome Do journalists need to be brands? Apple Maps and Weather now say Crimea is part of Ukraine Dieter Bohn bids farewell Our Oligarch Apple announces Peek Performance event Here's to the crazy ones Trump's TRUTH Social launches Dates don't belong in permalinks Akamai to acquire Linode Nevada, casinos rescind mask mandates effective immediately Coinbase’s bouncing QR code Super Bowl ad Missouri prosecutor won't charge St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist Actually the metaverse has always been a thing Why I love this epic fail by Steve Jobs Why is Windows called Windows? Apple already fined again Distributing dating apps in the Netherlands Meta’s market value plunges by $230 billion in one day Trump’s words, and deeds, reveal depths of his drive to retain power PWAs are still out of App Library Cannabis can prevent COVID-19 infection Trump’s unusual habit of ripping up documents The New York Times just purchased Wordle No, Apple did not crowdfund :focus-visible in Safari Rich CLI Why can’t Spotify edit Joe Rogan? YarnBuddy developer is making a game for kids App Store now supports unlisted apps Spotify (sort of) responds to controversy iOS 15.4 beta adds support for setting up custom email domains with iCloud Mail Joni Mitchell removes music from Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan’s podcast Apple should bring back Dashboard iPad turns 12 years old today Rise calendar app Windows 3.1 remnants spotted in Windows 11 Downstream #9: Little Crown Jewel MultiClock JWST reaches final orbit in space Anti-Semitic email rocks the silicon slopes Rest in power, Betty White The gospel of Donald Trump Jr. Blackberry is finally end of life Stolen property is considered income California's epic snowstorms Autocorrect is broken NASA's Webb telescope launches Google's Santa Tracker (mac)OStalgia Amazon is shutting down Alexa Internet Analogue Pocket review H&R Block sues Jack Dorsey's Block MacStories Selects 2021 Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11 Jeff Bezos has a really flat butt Very Peri Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy Apple announces Self Service Repair The network quality command in Monterey Weather app for iPad New Technologies WWDC 2021 Say hello to the new iMac The case of the top secret iPod Family sues after California man dies in taco eating contest 'No Justice, No Peeps' The U.S. seems to be headed toward a meaningful recovery Sundar Pichai on managing Google through the pandemic Joe Rogan is moving to Spotify Could the numbers get better after states reopen? Two spaces after a period is an error Why telling people they don't need masks backfired An oral history of the day everything changed 420 (cannabis culture) 'The Opening' Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology Larry David, master of his quarantine Bill Gates saw this coming New Jersey added hospital census data to the COVID-19 dashboard NYC COVID-19 data is available on GitHub Unicode 14.0 delayed for 6 months The Coronation The worm is back Bernie Sanders exits the race COVID-19 vs cold vs flu vs allergies The Apple designed face shield Let's all wear a mask Should you sanitize your groceries? Ten years of iPad Hardware microphone disconnect in Mac and iPad Block Island Reopening the economy is pointless when cities are under siege Apple lets Amazon Prime Video app offer in-app purchases Dark Sky has a new home New York was not designed for emptiness Leaked screenshots of Apple's CarKey feature Episode 470 of Back to Work New Jersey COVID-19 dashboard Pandemic Priorities Apple directing funds to COVID-19 relief efforts The Avenue Spread of the coronavirus emoji Microsoft announces change to its board of directors The Verge's review of the Mac Pro SXSW canceled over COVID-19 concerns Coronavirus impacts Apple's revenue guidance Inside Mark Zuckerberg's lost notebook MWC canceled due to coronavirus Taika Waititi on Apple keyboards Force close an app The design philosophy of Steve Jobs Fantastical 3 has been released Which emoji scissors close Samsung is up to old tricks Ricky Gervais just roasted Apple and Hollywood The iPhone 4 debacle Bourdain Confidential ‘The Surprise’ Really, Wawa? A thief took Facebook hard drives with payroll data Apple TV+ scores its first award nomination with ‘The Morning Show’ Steve Jobs-signed floppy disk sold at auction for crazy high amount App Store best of 2019