John Ternus Sports an Apple Black Unity Watch Band In the two Newsroom photos of John Ternus in Apple’s announcement of his accession to CEO, he’s seen wearing a Black Unity Braided Solo Loop, part of Apple’s Special Edition Unity Connection. From the marketing page for the band: Inspired by the power of connection, this striking

John Ternus Sports an Apple Black Unity Watch Band

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Tim Cook to Become Apple Executive Chairman, John Ternus to Become Apple CEO Apple Newsroom, in a stunner for its timing, if not it’s matter-of-factness: Apple announced that Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple’s next chief executive officer effective on September 1, 2026.

Tim Cook to Become Apple Executive Chairman, John Ternus to Become Apple CEO

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Harbin’s City of Ice Each winter, Harbin, in northeast China, hosts the International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, featuring enormous buildings and sculptures constructed from blocks of ice carved from the nearby river. A fascinating 36-minute video details the stunning amount of logistics, creativity, and ingenuity that goes into building this ephemeral megacity (it

Harbin’s City of Ice

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Pete Hegseth Quotes ‘Pulp Fiction’ at Pentagon Prayer Service Todd Spangler, Variety: In a prayer delivered by [Defense Secretary Pete] Hegseth during a Pentagon worship service on Wednesday, he read a fake Bible verse from Tarantino’s 1994 “Pulp Fiction.” It was the altered version of Ezekiel 25:17 that is righteously delivered by Samuel L. Jackson’s character

Pete Hegseth Quotes ‘Pulp Fiction’ at Pentagon Prayer Service

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Macworld’s ‘Most Influential’ People at Apple I missed David Price’s Macworld piece from earlier this month, where he counted down Apple’s 50 “most important people who made it all possible.” I must have been number 51. The top four are who you’d likely expect, and I’m thrilled to see Lisa Jackson on

Macworld’s ‘Most Influential’ People at Apple

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Stan Ng, Product Marketing Exec for iPod, Apple Watch, AirPods, and More, Retires After 31 Years Stan Ng, on LinkedIn: After 31 years at Apple, today was my last day. I think I got in everything I wanted to do on my last day before retiring […] His bucket list included eating “from the last sta...

Stan Ng, Product Marketing Exec for iPod, Apple Watch, AirPods, and More, Retires After 31 Years

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Anthropic Taketh Away Anthropic is requiring a “valid government-issued photo ID” for some users, a new support document reveals: We are rolling out identity verification for a few use cases, and you might see a verification prompt when accessing certain capabilities, as part of our routine platform integrity checks, or other safety and

Anthropic Taketh Away

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Anthropic Giveth Anthropic introduces Claude Opus 4.7: Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks. Users report being able to hand off their hardest coding work—the kind that previously needed close supervision—to Opus 4.

Anthropic Giveth

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Protester Acquitted for Wearing a Giant Inflatable Penis Costume John Sharp, reporting for AL.com on the case of Renea Gamble: A Fairhope municipal judge on Wednesday acquitted an Oct. 18 “No Kings” protester who was arrested for wearing a giant inflatable penis costume, a case that has drawn national attention, laughter and debate over First Amendment rights. That

Protester Acquitted for Wearing a Giant Inflatable Penis Costume

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Allbirds Pivoting from Shoes to AI Is the Clearest Sign of a Bubble Yet Allbirds, the once-darling shoemaker beloved by tech bros (and my wife), with an announcement that’s not satire: Allbirds, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIRD) (the “Company”) today announced the execution of a definitive agreement with an institutional investor for a $50 million convertible financing facility (the “Facility”). The Facility, which is expected

Allbirds Pivoting from Shoes to AI Is the Clearest Sign of a Bubble Yet

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Apple App Store Approves Fake Ledger App Leading to $9.5 Million in Stolen Crypto Oliver Knight, CoinDesk: A fake version of Ledger Live distributed via Apple’s App Store has been linked to at least $9.5 million in crypto theft, with victims now coming forward describing devastating losses, including entire retirement funds wiped out “in an instant.” […] The phishing campaign, active between April

Apple App Store Approves Fake Ledger App Leading to $9.5 Million in Stolen Crypto

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Adobe Fixes PDF Zero-Day Security Bug That Was Exploited for Months Zack Whittaker, TechCrunch: Adobe has patched a vulnerability in its flagship document-reading apps, Acrobat DC, Reader DC and Acrobat 2024, that hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months. The vulnerability, officially tracked as CVE-2026–34621, allows hackers to remotely plant malware on a person’s device by

Adobe Fixes PDF Zero-Day Security Bug That Was Exploited for Months

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Politico: Hungary’s Election Sends a Jolting Message—to Democrats Alexander Burns, writing for Politico: The defeat of Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, should deliver a sharp jolt to one of America’s two major political parties. Oddly, it’s not the Republicans, deeply invested though they were in Orbán as a fellow traveler. […] […] the sharpest message from Budapest

Politico: Hungary’s Election Sends a Jolting Message—to Democrats

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Viktor Orbán Defeated, Concedes Ashifa Kassam and Flora Garamvolgyi, reporting for The Guardian: Hungary’s opposition Tisza party, led by Péter Magyar, has won the election, bringing an end to Viktor Orbán’s 16-year grip on power, in a result that is likely to rattle the White House and reshape the country’s relationship

Viktor Orbán Defeated, Concedes

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Talent Is Mostly a Myth The Portraits of Another Life YouTube channel has a lovely profile of Disney Imagineer Ray Kinman, who created several of the beautiful wood carvings for Disneyland attractions (including Indiana Jones Adventure Outpost and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh). Three wonderful quotes that resonated: I learn to do what

Talent Is Mostly a Myth

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The Scrubs Reboot is Good (Plus a Brief Streaming Rant) If you were a fan of the original eight-season run of Scrubs (you heard me), you will find much to like in the revival series. The headline characters are just who they should be, with welcome (and sometimes unexpected) growth (“The Todd really likes to go deep… with consent five.

The Scrubs Reboot is Good (Plus a Brief Streaming Rant)

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Planet Rock In 2008, Microsoft embraced me—or at least my culture and demographic—with a commercial for Zune 3.0, starring Common and featuring his Universal Mind Control, which was inspired by Planet Rock. It unveiled a new and uncomfortable reality: companies were now using music from my youth as a

⚙ Planet Rock

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‘The Sad and Tragic Fall of Afrika Bambaataa’ Kevin Powell, at Newsweek, reflects on Afrika Bambaataa’s death and legacy: But, alas, here I am, dazed and confused by the sad and tragic fall of Afrika Bambaataa, a preeminent pioneer of hip-hop.[…] But as my wife always says, two things can be true at the same time. There

‘The Sad and Tragic Fall of Afrika Bambaataa’

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Afrika Bambaataa Dies at 68 Michael Saponara, Billboard: Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa (born Lance Taylor) has died at age 68. According to TMZ, which first reported the news, the “Planet Rock” artist died Thursday (April 9) from complications due to cancer. Truly, Fuck Cancer. Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter: Bambaataa became one of the leading

Afrika Bambaataa Dies at 68

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EFF is (Finally) Leaving X/Twitter, But Not For the Reason You’d Think Kenyatta Thomas, on the EFF blog: After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. The math hasn’t worked out for a while now. Their reason for leaving is reduced reach: their

EFF is (Finally) Leaving X/Twitter, But Not For the Reason You’d Think

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The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam Mike Masnick at Techdirt shreds The New York Times’ breathless puffpiece on telehealth startup Medvi: It’s a hell of a story. The problem is that almost none of it holds up to even the most basic scrutiny, and the fact that the New York Times — the New York Times

The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam

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Sheets.works: Every iPhone Another fantastic visualization from the folks behind the previously linked Pixar Cry Chart. Especially impressive: “The Collection”—“Every model. Every spec. Click any two to compare.” One glaring error: In both “The Moments That Mattered” and “The Collection” sections, the current OS is listed as “iOS 19.” There was (and

Sheets.works: Every iPhone

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‘Yes, Trump Might Use Nukes in Iran’ Andrew Day, writing at The American Conservative, contemplates one conclusion to Donald Trump’s Easter threat (and presumably today’s followup): Maybe these statements were just bluster, maybe not. Regardless, if Tehran doesn’t budge, Trump will feel pressure to follow through and turn Iran into an apocalyptic hellscape before

‘Yes, Trump Might Use Nukes in Iran’

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Deranged Donald Threatens to Destroy ‘A Whole Civilization’ Tonight The president of the United States threatens genocide (original): A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail,

Deranged Donald Threatens to Destroy ‘A Whole Civilization’ Tonight

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Can Sam Altman Be Trusted? There is absolutely nothing—I mean zilch—in this extensive profile of Sam Altman (and OpenAI), by Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz in The New Yorker, that paints Altman in a good light. The profile is based on “more than a hundred people with firsthand knowledge of how Altman conducts

Can Sam Altman Be Trusted?

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BYD: ‘Reproduce the Failure’ Howard Yu, writing at Inc. on the culture of BYD, China’s largest EV maker, as set by its founder and CEO, Wang Chuanfu: When defective cells appeared, Wang asked: “Have you found the root cause?” If yes: “Can you reproduce it?” Then the demand: “Make one hundred cells with

BYD: ‘Reproduce the Failure’

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Donald Trump: ‘Open the Fuckin’ Strait’ Donald Trump on Easter Sunday, on his personal “Truth” Social platform: Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH!

Donald Trump: ‘Open the Fuckin’ Strait’

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‘Evacuation Order’ for Transgender Kansans Jane Migliara Brigham reporting for The Needle News (“Head of Trans Liberty uses Kansas Capitol bathroom in defiance of new law”): On Trans Day of Visibility, Samantha Boucher traveled to Kansas with one purpose: to piss in a public bathroom. It wasn’t just any bathroom. This was at the

‘Evacuation Order’ for Transgender Kansans

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Apple Fitness VP Jay Blahnik to Retire to ‘Spend Time With His Family’ Kalley Huang and Tripp Mickle, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): Jay Blahnik, Apple’s vice president of fitness technologies, is retiring this summer after a nearly 13-year tenure marred by accusations that he created a toxic workplace culture and sexually harassed an employee. Mickle reported those accusations

Apple Fitness VP Jay Blahnik to Retire to ‘Spend Time With His Family’

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