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David McCabe writing for the New York Times: Google Violated Antitrust Laws in Online Search, Judge Rules The government argued that by paying billions of dollars to be the automatic search engine on consumer devices, Google had denied its competitors the opportunity to build the scale required to compete with
Kev Quirk: Three Years With My M1 MacBook Air Question is, will I upgrade? Well, no. Not any time soon anyway. The M1 Air still does everything I need it to extremely well. So why upgrade? Why drop another £1,000 or so on the latest version of the Air?
Epic Games in a press release today: Epic's New Game Strategy for Mobile Stores In exciting news, we are announcing that our mobile games will come to AltStore on iOS in the EU, and we expect to announce support for at least two other third-party stores soon. That’
James Mangold, director of films like Logan, Ford v Ferrari, and Walk the Line, on the MCU-ification of most of big cinema in an interview with Rolling Stone: It’s weird that I’ve even worked in the world of IP entertainment because I don’t like multi-movie universe-building. I
Brendon Bigley on his Wavelengths blog: EarPods Rule I’m not about to wax poetic about all of the ways using wired headphones in 2024 “changes everything” like a clickbaity YouTube video, but I will say that the proliferation of USB-C on pretty much every device is slowly returning the
Lucas Shaw for Bloomberg: Apple Tries to Rein In Hollywood Spending After Years of Losses All told, the cost of[Severance] ballooned to more than $20 million an episode, making it one of the most expensive projects on TV. Severance costing way more per episode than the famously expensive final
Madison in the Puzzmo newsletter: 🃏 We're on the Path to a Trillion Dollars! In this week’s newsletter, I will cover another step in the Puzzmo Cross|word publishing process: incorporation of feedback from test solvers and fact checkers. This was a fascinating read as someone who enjoys
The New York Times Editorial Board: Biden Made a Courageous Choice. Democrats Must Seize the Opportunity. President Biden’s decision to exit the 2024 presidential election is a fitting coda for a man whose life has been devoted to public service. Mr. Biden has served the nation well as its
John Gruber on Daring Fireball: The AT&T Data Breach Shows Why RCS Can’t Be Trusted and the Downside of Apple Adding Support for It in iOS 18 Ihnatko is right, but only if you believe that carrier-based message should remain the baseline. I do not. And it’
Zack Zwiezen reporting on EA College Football 25 hitting over 700,000 concurrent players in its first 24 hours after release: To put that number in perspective, it handily beats out Helldivers 2, which hit a player count of around 485,000 shortly after launch. It’s also more than
Willa Rowe on Kotaku: These Are Kevin Conroy's Final Words as Batman and They're Perfect It’s an undeniably badass line, and it’s made even more poignant by the fact that this is Conroy’s last performance in the role. Click through the link to
Jeremy Burge: Why eSIM Is My New Best Friend Alternative title: How and why to install an eSIM to save money on data roaming fees when overseas. Especially useful if you have an iPhone 14 with no SIM Tray. I was skeptical about eSIM when it was debuted, but I
Warner Bros. Discovery is changing a few more upcoming shows from “Max Originals” to “HBO Originals”: It is part of a strategy to rebrand its highest profile titles into HBO Originals, giving them a linear airing on the premium cable network as well as a streaming bow. When the move
Niléane on MacStories: LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads I do have some sincere expectations for you all who are reading this. I expect tech journalists to more systematically report on everything that fits into this pattern. I expect tech podcasters to acknowledge that Threads is only
I've been sitting on writing something about this video from Louis Rossmann where he lays into Marques Brownlee for his admittedly pretty softball interview with Apple about repairability. I found Louis's video pretty absurd, and was really annoyed by it. He spends upwards of 10 minutes