Apple CEO Tim Cook to resign in September; John Ternus to succeed in role John Ternus will become CEO, marking a planned leadership succession backed by Apple’s board.

Apple CEO Tim Cook to step down in September; John Ternus to become CEO at that time, with Cook moving to Executive Chairman role within the company's Board of Directors.

Very serious point here — media vastly overreport what Trump says rather than clarifying for the reader the actual strategic situation.

Donald, after being told Air Force personnel were missing in Iran, had a freakout that got him excluded from an important briefing. He was't worried about the missing pilots. No, he only cared that a failed operation would hurt HIS POLL NUMBERS, as it had Jimmy Carter's. What a self-absorbed prick.

Apple names insider John Ternus as CEO, Cook to become executive chairman Apple ​on Monday named ‌insider John Ternus as its ​next CEO, ​tasking the long-time hardware ⁠chief to ​steer the ​company after Tim Cook as the iPhone ​maker gears ​up for an industry ‌change ⁠spurr...

JUST IN: Apple named ‌insider John Ternus as its next CEO, tasking the long-time hardware chief to steer the company after Tim Cook as the iPhone maker gears up for an industry ‌change ⁠spurred by artificial intelligence reut.rs/4ezhjEZ

Iran war live: Tehran considering attending peace talks ahead of ceasefire expiry Trump announced the two-week ceasefire with Iran on April 7, and has not specified when precisely it ends.

Iran vows retaliation for US vessel seizure, but is 'positively' reviewing peace talks, Trump says envoys to arrive in Islamabad, and tensions are high as a two-week ceasefire nears its end. Live updates on the Iran war: reut.rs/4tViDXb

Behind Trump’s Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears The president’s impulsive style has never been tested in a sustained military conflict, and he’s been ruminating on Jimmy Carter’s failure in Iran.

Astonishing WSJ piece documenting the entirely broken national security policy process of this admin, incl how decision to attack Iran was made; that Trump is kept out of the room and loop during sensitive mil ops for fears he will wreck them; to those 25th Amendment social media posts over Easter.

I wrote something last week on UK nuclear dependence on the US. Experimenting with Claude to see how it handles the same subject. Asked it to produce an interactive tool to catalogue these dependencies. Not a bad effort. Others can poke around it here. splendorous-scone-b67434.netlify.app

"Sweden agreed with the BND, Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, that Russia was understating its budget deficit by $30bn, and had also noticed some financial indicators that could point to a future banking crisis" www.ft.com/content/04a9...

Ransomware attack continues to disrupt healthcare in London nearly two years later More than 18 months after a ransomware attack disrupted care at hospitals in South East London, documents show at least one NHS trust is still working without fully restored systems and managing large...

ICYMI: Nearly two years on from the devastating ransomware attack affecting hospitals in South East London, the ongoing - yes, ongoing - impact to blood testing has led to more than 120 patient safety incidents in which incorrect, unavailable or delayed pathology results have impacted care.

San Diego Now Has So Much Water That It’s Selling It With the Colorado River in crisis, Arizona and Nevada are turning to an unconventional life line: the ocean water off California’s golden beaches.

This is fascinating on San Diego having excess water (pricing and desalinization). Lower solar costs will probably invert the historical pattern of water going to farmers because of past rights and rich cities begging for any excess they have. www.wsj.com/us-news/clim...

Good thread. Policies will affect when EVs dominate, but the destination is already decided.

Obama joked he should get a gold watch for helping sell so many jets for Boeing. Maybe all the Chinese clean tech firms can give one to DJT.

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased.

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Takaichi has shattered the highest glass ceiling of public office in Japan by becoming the first female leader of the male-dominated and patriarchal Asian nation. But she is not known to be an advocate of gender equality.

Gift link: wapo.st/477DfTv

trump now thinking greenland would have been easier than iran.

the imf's worst case scenario for the iran war:
oil at $110 this year, $125 next year.
inflation hitting 6%.
global growth falling below 2%.
that would be a global recession — the fifth since 1980.

trump's net approval ratings on the issues:
immigration: -10.4%
trade: -22.3%
economy: -22.7%
inflation: -34.4%

immigration helped him win the election. it's the only one still above -15. everything else has collapsed.

It's just not a Sunday unless Donald Trump is explicitly threatening war crimes.

She's leaving Congress to, uh, spend more time with her family, her ambassadorial dreams are ashes, her career is over, and maybe it's okay to stop asking her stuff

Every budget they propose is a reaffirmation of the basic idea that low taxes spur growth. There's a reason marginal tax rates are still 37 percent.

Trevor Phillips said on Sky News this morning that "everybody in the country who could read a newspaper" knew in advance of the Mandelson appointment that he was problematic

is this the same Phillips who interviewed Mandelson on October 08 2023 and didn't ask any questions about Epstein friendship?

6 days after Trump made 13 celebratory posts in a hour claiming that Iran surrendered to all his demands and the war is over, he’s back threatening to blow up power plants and bridges.

Trump accuses Iran of violating ceasefire, announces Monday talks in Islamabad President Trump on Sunday accused Iran of violating the two-week ceasefire by firing at ships in the Strait of Hormuz.  “Iran decided to fire bullets yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz — A Tota…

Donald Trump again threatens to "knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran" if no deal is reached. Targeting civilian infrastructure is a violation of international law.

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How Republicans can win the Midterms – and how to stop them A longer analysis of why the 2026 midterms may be far closer than they look, focusing on marginal districts and voter suppression

All the talk is of a blue wave in the 2026 Midterms. But Republicans do not need to get more popular to hold the House - they just need to stop enough Democrats voting in key seats.

I've done a deep dive in my latest post.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-republ...

Trump spent the last 15 years railing against US military campaigns in the Middle East. He told his base he’d ‘MAGA’ by solving their problems at home instead of wasting taxpayer money on endless wars abroad. In his dementia he may have forgotten that, but American voters won’t.

A very timely book coming out by @julesboykoff.bsky.social: RED CARD: THE 2026 WORLD CUP, SPORTSWASHING, AND THE FIFA GREED MACHINE: orbooks.com/catalog/red-...

The same esteemed mainstream media journalists worried about Péter Magyar's intention to shut down Hungary's state broadcaster are probably the same ones who defended China's The Global Times "reporters" during the Hong Kong protests (oh, I remember who you are!). 1/2

It must be really nice to be a reporter from a democracy, scolding people living in autocracies about the need to accept state media propagandists as fellow journalists using the "slippery slope" argument. Please stop the useful idiocy. 2/2

Breaking; The President says that thing that’s happening is not happening.

With over a quarter of a million views in the 48 hours since my conversation with Ken Moriyasu was posted online — it's clear there's great interest in learning about Eurasian middle powers, aka "swing states," and their relationships with China, Russia, and the US. 🔗 Full vid: bit.ly/dw-swingstates