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I’ve now read more of OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the Apple lawsuit. This part sums it up:

Instead of pleading facts showing misappropriation, Apple recasts the benign, lawful conduct of former employees—who in many of the cited instances were in fact trying to help Apple, at Apple’s request, by making sure their former colleagues’ work could continue without them—as theft of so-called trade secrets. The proffered “trade secrets” are not specific, protectable information at all; they are generic categories of the product-development process…

It supports my original hot take.

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The fact that the system is broken is so obvious that it has become a cliché when politicians say it. So why aren't we taking the necessary big swings to fix it?

“A pair of Senate Republicans leading the congressional investigations into Dr. Anthony Fauci released an initial batch of text messages Monday from his government-issued cellphone, shedding more light on his real-time response to the Covid-19 pandemic,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The phone contains more than 34,000 text messages and 522 voicemails, according to the […]

What It’s Like to Get Your Period in Prison https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2025/09/24/what-its-like-to-get-your-period-in-prison/

Defector is proud to announce the addition of a new guy. Timothy Faust has joined us as our Director of Revenue. You might know Tim as a previous Defector contributor and the author of a legendary blog post, but in this role he will be entirely focused on data, revenue projections, and all sorts of…

Stories of “people finding weird, wild and defiant ways to avoid using AI in their professional lives”. Like: “I keep a to-do list in a paper notebook, but my boss believes I have an AI task-keeping assistant via Claude.”

Third Way is spending $15 million to crush the Democratic left. Its campaign could produce exactly the insurgency it fears.

The Indian food was delicious and also literally all my blood went to my stomach, causing my cognitive abilities to throttle to maybe, like, 30%, so, uh, yeah, not a lot of work done after lunch. I did take a nap, though. Which was important, I think. Anyway, Saja and Charlie are pals. Isn’t that […]

Amazon announces first off-the-grid data center in race to reap AI profits.

Michael Tsai:

I’m really unhappy about this, both for my role in spreading a false story and because I think it will hurt the cause of reforming App Review. I know there are many crazy rejections and have experienced some first-hand. This story was believable because of that well-known history and because Godier didn’t seem like a nobody trying to get attention — he was the developer of another highly regarded app. But now people are going to point to true developer stories and accuse them of being fakes, too.

Same.

We’ll see how long US Attorney (and, of course, former Fox News personality) Jeanine Pirro gets to keep her job. I would guess the exit door is only inches away from hitting her ass since she refused to carry out Donald Trump’s plan to punish Reflecting Pool visitors for highlighting the failures of his no-bid […]

This year’s festival was largely for teenagers and the over-35 crowd.

Updated Bluesky automatic cross-posting to also delete the copy of a post on Bluesky when the blog post is deleted in Micro.blog.

Range Rover is adding a fifth member to its lineup, but this one is a bit of an outlier. The new GT brings a sharp, fastback design that looks even sportier on the road.

Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined Jonathan Karl on ABC's This Week and discussed the rise of progressive Democrats. Karl started by trying to spark controversy by mentioning Hasan Piker, but AOC quickly took control of the conversation, shutting it down before it got tra...