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Apple, in a statement issues to the press yesterday, quoted fully by MacRumors:

The consumer electronics industry is facing an unprecedented challenge. The rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage. We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly. We have shielded our customers from these increases so far, but we have now reached a point where we need to begin raising prices on a number of products, including today’s increases for iPad and Mac. We know this is not welcome news, and we are working tirelessly to find solutions.

I saw a few other publications quote a sentence or two from the statement, but I like to see the whole thing. It’s not long.

Link: macrumors.com/2026/06/25/apple-explains-why-it-raised…

The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent. The 747 is being phased out for newer and more efficient jets. Ian Bosost takes a look at how the massive plane, which took flight only 5 months before “Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon”, came to be.

Via MacRumors’s Buyer Guide, the current third-gen Apple TV 4K models were introduced in October 2022, and sport the A15 Bionic chip that debuted with the iPhones 13 in 2021. It’s widely believed that new hardware models are coming this fall. I mentioned yesterday that the s...

It’s America’s Birthday. What Are We Celebrating? Some good thoughts in here from Tressie McMillan Cottom, Jamelle Bouie, M. Gessen, and Lydia Polgreen.

A Bob Ross painting of a mountain summit is being auctioned off soon. “Sale proceeds will benefit Ball State University. Ball State University owns WIPB, the PBS station where Bob Ross filmed thirty seasons of The Joy of Painting.” $50-70K esitmate.

The biennial global platform from Hyundai Motor Group amplifies creators whose work engages with the context of Asia.

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“Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other.” Cool feature where people visiting this website can chat in a virtual Town Square: “a small strip populated by stick figures…at the bottom of every page”. See you there?

Captured by Webb’s NIRCam across 65 hours, the enormous image features a dense galaxy 12 million light-years away.

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Back in 2017, reporters Kristen Clark and David Conrad came to us with a story that dug into the difficult and often dark places discrimination creates. We start in Venice, Italy, where they meet gondolier Alex Hai. On the winding canals in the hidden parts of Venice, we lea...

"The country’s legendary main street celebrates its centennial against the backdrop of the nation’s 250th birthday. Could there be a better time for a road trip?"

In this edition:

• A pair of aces
• Room for growth
• Still a-maze-ing
• Wheel of misfortune
• The road less traveled

This museum in John Day, Oregon, was once a Chinese general store and medicine shop that dates back to the 1800s. But these days it’s a perfectly preserved time capsule, down to the fruit – down to the orange its former owner left on the counter in the 1950s. Tours of the shop are offered seasonally, but you can get a virtual look inside here.  READ MORE IN THE ATLAS HERE

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From Hell Month rolls on with a visit to Rock Harbor, Maine, where little Henry is up to no good! The guys revisit the 1993 psychological thriller ‘The Good Son,’ starring Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood.

Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic

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AI and Liability

Bruce Schneier on the recent German ruling that Google be held liable for errors introduced in their AI overviews:

AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be treated by the law as such. If a company hired human writers to write its summaries, that company would be liable for inaccuracies in those summaries. [...]

To allow businesses to hide behind the excuse of faulty AI in those same circumstances would be a massive handout to companies, and would introduce disastrous incentives for corporate misbehavior. Why hire human writers, lawyers or doctors when AIs are not only cheaper, but also absolve employers whenever they make a mistake?

Tags: bruce-schneier, google, law, ai, generative-ai, llms, ai-ethics, hallucinations

Release: datasette-export-database 0.3a2

An embarrassingly tiny release. The pyproject.toml had pinned to datasette==1.0a27, inadvertently making this plugin incompatible with all other Datasette versions. It's now datasette>=1.0a27 instead.

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On the eve of WWDC, in a post arguing that “SwiftUI Only Makes It Easy to Develop Bad Apps”, I wrote about an atrocious bug in Apple’s Journal app: If you’re running MacOS 26 Tahoe, open Journal and make a new dummy entry. Type something like “The quick brown fox.” Then ...

Some quick thoughts on the hardware prices Apple increased — and didn’t increase — today. Here’s a table with most of the base models whose prices increased: Original New Change Vision Pro $3500 $3700 6% HomePod $300 $350 17% HomePod Mini $100 $130 30% Apple T...

Sad news: long-time tech journalist, blogger, and entrepreneur Om Malik passed away yesterday aged 59.

"Please don't let me die alone."

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