Nathan Ingraham, writing for Engadget:
There are a lot of rumors flying around about a big iOS and macOS redesign coming this year, perhaps as a distraction to the continued issues around Apple Intelligence. And while I’m game for a fresh coat of paint across the softwar...
Benedict Evans, tweeting on Threads this week:
Apple thinks an awful lot about customer delight and customer satisfaction…
And separately, a whole other part of Apple treats its suppliers with quiet ruthlessness, squeezing them for every penny of margin.
And at some po...
CBS News:
The Trump administration is “actively looking at” the possibility
of suspending the writ of habeas corpus to handle people the
administration says aren’t in the country legally, White House
deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Friday.
A writ of habeas cor...
Kif Leswing, reporting for CNBC:
Epic Games said on Friday that it submitted Fortnite to Apple’s App Store, the month after a judge ruled in favor of the game maker in a contempt ruling.
Fortnite was booted from iPhones and Apple’s App Store in 2020, after Epic Games up...
William Gallagher, writing last week for AppleInsider:
Judge Rogers maintains that Apple had successfully made as few
developers as possible benefit from the court’s original
anti-steering ruling. “As of the May 2024 hearing,” she wrote,
“only 34 developers out of the ap...
Tim Hardwick, reporting for MacRumors:
Apple has filed an emergency motion asking the Ninth Circuit Court
of Appeals to pause key parts of a recent ruling that dramatically
changes how the App Store operates, following a contempt finding
in its long-running legal battle ...
Co-hosts Stephen Robles and Jason Aten were kind enough to have me on their podcast earlier today, and the show’s already up:
Special guest John Gruber joins us to break down Eddy Cue’s statements on AI replacing the iPhone in 10 years, using AI search in Safari, Apple’s continued fight for App Store control, and what we’ll hear about Siri and Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2025.
Iain Thomson, for The Register:
According to Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s senior veep in the counter
adversary division, North Korean infiltrators are bagging roles
worldwide throughout the year. Thousands are said to have
infiltrated the Fortune 500.
They’re masking IPs,...
Micah Lee, in a spectacularly detailed post:
On Thursday, 404 Media reported that in the Reuters
photo showing former National Security Advisor and war
criminal Mike Waltz checking his Signal messages under the
table, he was actually using an obscure modified Signal app...
Bloomberg:
Apple Inc. is “actively looking at” revamping the Safari web
browser on its devices to focus on AI-powered search engines, a
seismic shift for the industry hastened by the potential end of a
longtime partnership with Google.
Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice pres...
Aftermath:
Welcome to Aftermath, a worker-owned, reader-supported news site
covering video games, the internet, and the cultures that
surround them.
You might remember most of us from Kotaku, where we broke news,
covered events, and brought you hard-hitting investigatio...
Kyle Orland, reporting for Ars Technica last week:
Vox Media has sold video game specialist website Polygon to
Internet brand aggregator Valnet, the publisher of
content-churning sites including Game Rant, OpenCritic, Android
Police, and Comic Book Resources. The move co...
Andrew Liszewski, The Verge:
Contrary to prior limitations, there is now a prominent orange
“Get book” button on Kindle app’s book listings. [...]
Before today’s updates, buying books wasn’t a feature you’d find
in the Kindle mobile app following app store rule changes ...
Emma Roth, reporting for The Verge:
Representative Kat Cammack (R-FL) introduced a bill Tuesday that
would require “large app store operators” like Apple to let users
install third-party app stores and set them as their default. The
bill, called the App Store Freedom Act...
About 16 minutes into the podcast (the whole thing is a great succinct interview):
Kafka: You said Fortnite is going to come back to iOS. You
guys were kicked off the platform in 2020 for violating Apple’s
rules. There’s nothing in the judge’s ruling that says Apple has
...
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Trump, showing off to ABC News’s Terry Moran the historical copy of the Declaration of Independence now hanging in the Oval Office:
Trump: Of course, you have the Declaration of Independence.
Moran: What does it mean to you?
Trump: Well, it means exactly what it says. It’...
NBC News:
When Welker tried to point out what the Fifth Amendment said,
Trump suggested that such a process would slow him down too much.
“I don’t know. It seems — it might say that, but if you’re
talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or 2 million
or 3 mi...
Apple, in an email to developers yesterday (as reported by MacRumors):
3.1.1: Apps on the United States storefront are not prohibited
from including buttons, external links, or other calls to
action when allowing users to browse NFT collections owned
...
Jason Snell, with some excellent analysis (in addition to his usual visualizations of Apple’s numbers):
Another way Apple can reduce the impact of tariffs is by changing
which global factories it uses to build products destined for the
U.S. market. “For the June quarter,...
Jay Peters, The Verge, under the headline “Epic Says Fortnite Is Coming Back to iOS in the US”:
Following a court order that blocks Apple from taking a commission
on purchases made outside the App Store, Epic Games CEO Tim
Sweeney says on X that the company plans to brin...
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From ...
Craig Mod returns to the show to discuss his splendid new book, Things Become Other Things. Other topics include creating with AI tools (including programming), social media permanence vs. ephemerality, and more.
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Mark Wilson, writing for Fast Company:
Pope Francis’s tomb is simple by design. Francis — a modest man
who opted to live in humble quarters alongside his peers rather
than in the Vatican’s official housing for the leader of the
church — requested nothing more than his na...
Jeff Horwitz, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (News+ link):
To boost the popularity of these souped-up chatbots, Meta has cut
deals for up to seven-figures with celebrities like actresses
Kristen Bell and Judi Dench and wrestler-turned-actor John Cena
for the right...
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