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When you put your brand's mascot on the enemy's platform
Back in February 2024, Xbox held a short podcast where they reacted directly to swirling rumors about Xbox exclusive titles
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Coding is not software engineering
Matias Heikkilä: AI Can Code, but It Can't Build Software
Coding, however, is not what most people are getting paid for. Building a production-ready app is not coding, it’s software engineering.
Absolutely true. I've said a few times that the software development work I do now looks a hell
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Reddit sues Perplexity, but maybe Reddit are the baddies?
Mike Masnick: Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is an Attack on the Open Internet
Even if you love Reddit and hate AI, you should be worried about this lawsuit. If it succeeds, it would fundamentally close off most of the open internet.
And:
If that’s the case, then… you don’t believe in an
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More on AI as normal technology
Anil Dash: The Majority AI View
What's amazing is the reality that virtually 100% of tech experts I talk to in the industry feel this way, yet nobody outside of that cohort will mention this reality. What we all want is for people to just treat AI as a "normal technology"
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Apple just closed their F1 deal, and I think it’s good news for me?
Apple Newsroom: Apple Is the Exclusive New Broadcast Partner for Formula 1® in the U.S.
F1 TV Premium, F1’
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Cheaper MacBooks spark outrage
Nick Heer: The New MacBook Pro Is €35 Less Expensive in E.U. Countries, Ships Without a Charger
In Ireland, the MacBook Pro used to start at €1,949; it now starts at €1,849; in France, it was €1,899, and it is now €1,799. As mentioned, the adapter is €65, making these
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Screen oddities and the M5 Vision Pro
Apple Newsroom: Apple Vision Pro upgraded with the powerful M5 chip and comfortable Dual Knit Band
With M5, Apple Vision Pro renders 10 percent more pixels on the custom micro-OLED displays compared to the previous generation, resulting in a sharper image with crisper text and more detailed visuals. Vision Pro can also increase the
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This is a Mac…sorry, an iPad!
Apple Newsroom: Apple Introduces the Powerful New iPad Pro With the M5 Chip
iPad Pro with M5 unlocks endless possibilities
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Should I be doing sponsorships?!
Becca's spent one year going solo and breaks down her revenue through the year. The biggest thing that stood out to me was that 75% of her revenue came from sponsors on her videos. As someone who can't be bothered to do sponsorships on his channel (which is 1/4 as
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Pokémon Legends Z-a might be a winner
Rebekah Valentine writing for IGN: Pokémon Legends: Z-a Review in Progress
If the rest of my adventure holds up (and the Switch 1 performance isn’t a disaster), we could finally have a 3D game worthy of the Pokémon franchise on our hands. It’d be about dang time.
This game comes out Thursday
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Apparently modern DVD releases are worse than they were 20 years ago
Not to steal Alec's thunder here, but apparently some of these TV show re-releases are using single-layer DVDs instead of dual-layer DVDs like their original releases, meaning they have less storage space, and meaning they have to be encoded at lower bitrates, ultimately meaning that the video quality is reduced.
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The sort of mother fucker who makes SlopTok
Hank Green on the new Sora 2 app:
If you are the kind of mother fucker who will create SlopTok, you are not the kind of mother fucker who should be in charge of OpenAI.
It's a great, short rant from Hank Green, and it 100% resonates with me. I think people who
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Thank you sir, can I have another?
Chris Cameron writing for The New York Times: Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps in Response to Trump Pressure Campaign
Apple has removed from its App Store several programs that alert users to sightings of immigration agents after Attorney General Pam Bondi demanded they be taken down.
Setting aside how this is a much more
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Goodbye, the "good old days" of Game Pass
Microsoft is updating Game Pass again, most notably for many that the price of the Ultimate tier is increasing from $19.99/month to $29.99/month. The $9.99/month and $14.99/month tiers remain the same price, but get new names and the perks somehow change, but I'm not an
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Stop expecting the bare minimum
Jess Weatherbed: Apple’s Future MacBook Pro Might Have a Touchscreen
I’m curious to see if future touchscreen MacBook Pro models will adopt Apple Pencil support or if that’s a step too far.
My one ask for people talking about touch-enabled Macs is to stop thinking about Apple trying their absolute least.
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This console generation is freaking weird (and expensive)
Tom Warren writing for The Verge: Microsoft Is Raising Prices on Xbox Consoles in the US Again
Microsoft is raising the prices of its Xbox Series S / X consoles in the US next month. The Xbox Series X will be priced at $649.99 in the US starting October 3rd, up from its existing $599.
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The fundamental shift in Apple's software strategy
David Pierce: The Unbearable Sameness of Liquid Glass
It’s all part of a trend within Apple right now toward a total collapse of the gaps between devices, in an attempt to make everything be everything to everyone all the time. This fall, your new software will also bring a full-featured Phone app to
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Jason Snell's macOS review resonates with me
Jason Snell: macOS 26 Tahoe Review: Power Under Glass
I’ll cut to the chase: If you’re worried about upgrading to macOS 26 Tahoe because of Apple’s “liquid glass” design, don’t be—it’s mostly a minor reskinning that doesn’t really change how the Mac works, and after a few weeks,