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What is going on at Xbox Game Studios?
Microsoft is laying off over 9,000 people, including some entire game studios they have acquired. These studios were making interesting games with some buzz, including the new Perfect Dark game that had a prime slot just last year in Microsoft's game showcases. This of course comes less than a year after closing
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If you haven't played Monument Valley 3 on an iPad yet, do it now before it's gone
Ash Parrish: Netflix is letting go of some of its best indie games | The Verge
Several titles like Braid, Katana
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You are the bowling ball
Corridor Digital with another "we don't think anyone's ever gotten this shot before, so we're going to try and get it" video, and it's amazing.
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Dia killed Arc, but it's not clear why
Matt Alexander writing about his impressions of Dia, the new browser from The Browser Company (aka what they stopped working on Arc to pursue):
In all, I think they've built a decently attractive skin for Chrome. It's somewhat privacy-minded on the surface, but poses a tremendous amount of questions a
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Miniature Calendar is daily joy in your feed
Miniature Calendar is a great site I've been following for many years now, and they create miniature scenes everyday and post them with no commentary at all. Their recent Bullet Time is a good example, but I highly recommend giving them a follow if you want something delightful in your feeds everyday.
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Social media warps our sense of reality
Here's Delaware congresswoman Sarah McBride, the first openly trans member of Congress, talking with Ezra Klein about two topics near and dear to my heart: how we behave on social media and how the social media era has warped our perception of reality. These are longer quotes than normal, but that's
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Craig Federighi on the blurry line between the Mac and iPad
Federico Viticci: Interview: Craig Federighi Opens Up About iPadOS, Its Multitasking Journey, and the iPad’s Essence
In listening to Federighi’s analysis of iPad multitasking over the years, I get the sense that Apple has been trying to understand the iPad’s audience for over a decade. At some point, they realized that the
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So many $200 per month options!
Cursor CEO Michael Truell writing on the company blog: Introducing the Ultra Plan
We're excited to roll out an option to purchase Ultra, a $200 / mo plan with 20x more usage than Pro.
It's really amazing how pricing works in software markets where everything magically has the same pricing for everything.
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Just like the Mac!
Jesus Diaz writing for Fast Company: RIP to the Almost Future of Computing: Apple Just Turned the iPad Into a
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What is the fediverse?
Elena Rossini has a very strong 3-minute video explaining the fediverse that I just had to share.
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It's still a cell phone
Casey Newton writing for his Platformer newsletter: The AI Browser Wars Are About to Begin
Here, I think we begin to understand the opportunity that companies see here — and why "web browser" probably isn't the best word for what they are building.
Setting all the drama of the current browser wars
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The iPhone 16 is back on top, the Pro line remains dominant, and the 16e is a sleeper hit
Counterpoint Research: iPhone 16 Leads Global Smartphone Sales in Q1 2025
Apple’s iPhone 16 was the best-selling smartphone in Q1 2025. This also marked the return of the iPhone series’ base variant to the top spot in the first quarter after a two-year gap.
After several years of the Pro Max iPhone
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Apple execs are to be seen on video, but never in person
John Gruber announced The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2025 with one notable adendum:
in recent years the guests have seemed a bit predictable: senior executives from Apple. This year I again extended my usual invitation to Apple, but, for the first time since 2015, they declined.
And Parker Ortolani: Apple’s Silence at "
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One of my favorite one hit wonders
I genuinely think Wheatus’s Teenage Dirtbag is one of the best one hit wonders from my teen years and this acoustic version of it is a delight.
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NVIDIA's growth is insane (duh, but still)
NVIDIA just reported their financials for Q1 of fiscal year 2026, and it's all big numbers. The reported a record $3.8 billion in gaming revenue, but that is dwarfed by the $39 billion they made from "data center" revenue. All things said, they brought in $44 billion in the quarter.
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Apple copies Samsung 😉
MacRumors reporting on Mark Gurman's report that Apple is changing their naming format for operating systems:
We're not going to be getting iOS 19, we're getting iOS 26.
It has been fundamentally strange that Apple currently has OS's with the same features that rarely share a number,
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Sampling Metal Gear Solid
This is one of those YouTube videos that perfectly captures two of my interests: YouTubers creating beats out of random sounds and Metal Gear Solid.
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Google Beam, spatial personas, and different solutions to the same thing
Video conferencing is absolutely amazing tech, but it's not perfect. Google Beam and the Vision Pro's spatial personas are trying to improve some of the limits of those webcam calls a lot of us are doing every day, but they're coming at them from different angles. Google Beam has
