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Block is making more profit than ever, so they're firing 40% of their employees
Jack Dorsey on Twitter: we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.
we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving.
Apparently also
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Drive to Survive is coming to Apple TV tonight
Chance Miller: New ‘F1: Drive to Survive’ season is coming to Apple TV
Ahead of the first F1 Grand Prix next week, Apple has announced a new partnership with Netflix in the US. Through this deal, Apple will make the entire new season (season eight) of Formula 1: Drive to Survive available on Apple TV.
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The whole draw of the Mac is that it can do whatever you want it to do
Wesley Hilliard has a new post out which is a bit of a retort to my opinion on touch Macs and iPads: Apple could enter its toaster-fridge era with touchscreen MacBooks
It's not that I think it's a bad idea, it's just an odd one. macOS was not
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In blind test, gamers think DLSS looks better than native rendering
Hassam Nasir: Nearly half of PC gamers prefer DLSS 4.5 over AMD's FSR and even native rendering (emphasis mine)
German outlet ComputerBase has conducted a blind test comparing the image quality of six games across different rendering techniques. The main showdown was between Nvidia's latest DLSS 4.5 and AMD&
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Shocker: Apple will update macOS UI to make touch a good experience 😉
Juli Clover reporting on Mark Gurman’s latest report: Touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro Coming in 2026 With Dynamic Island and Redesigned macOS Controls
Apple is updating macOS to make it more touch friendly. Users will be able to tap or click on-screen elements, and controls will change based on input method. If a user
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Why many of us have no patience for liquid glass
Jason Snell: Apple in 2025: The Six Colors report card
It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. The whole idea here is to
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Financially secure Sony shuts down a great game studio they acquired, seemingly just to ruin
Brendon Bigley: Bluepoint Games Shuttered by PlayStation for Some Unfathomable Reason
Are we sincerely supposed to believe that in a world where the entire industry is bending over backward to remake and remaster every game under the sun, the studio that’s arguably the best at it can’t find a path to profitability?
Bluepoint
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Why I don't offload my writing to AI
Claudio Nastruzzi: Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation
When an author uses AI for "polishing" a draft, they are not seeing improvement; they are witnessing semantic ablation. The AI identifies high-entropy clusters – the precise points where unique insights and "blood" reside – and systematically replaces them
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Freedom is the government asking for the physical location of those critical of that government on social media
Mariella Moon: Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online
DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta over the past few months. Homeland Security asked the companies for names, email addresses, telephone numbers and any other identifying detail for accounts that have criticized
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Tahoe brings 80% charging caps to the Mac
Juli Clover: Apple Brings iPhone-Style Battery Charge Limits to the Mac in macOS Tahoe 26.4
The macOS Tahoe 26.4 beta that Apple released today includes a Charge Limit feature for the Mac. There is a new slider bar that lets Mac users select a charge level from 80 percent to 100 percent.
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The data has changed
Rachel Thomas: Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding
It is worth experimenting with AI coding agents to see what they can do, but don’t abandon the development of your current skillset. Part of the appeal of vibe coding is claimed extrapolation about how effective it will be 6 or 12 months from now. These
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Optimizing for 3 users
Anil Dash: Launch it 3 times
I’ve seen so many teams trying to figure out how to optimize the engagement of the three users on their app, or the five people who come to their site, while forgetting about the other eight billion people who have no idea they exist.
This is good advice.
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I’m going to say something nice about a Musk product…
From the Southwest newsroom: Southwest Airlines Brings Starlink Ultra-Fast WiFi Onboard
Southwest® plans to rapidly integrate Starlink into its fleet. The first Starlink-equipped aircraft enters service this summer, and it will be available on more than 300 aircraft by the end of 2026. This is a major step in the carrier’s plan
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Thank god we shot down that party balloon
Karoun Demirjian, Eric Schmitt, Kate Kelly, Hamed Aleaziz, and Luke Broadwater (phew!): Border Officials Are Said to Have Caused El Paso Closure by Firing Anti-Drone Laser
Top administration officials quickly claimed that the closure was in response to a sudden incursion of drones from Mexican drug cartels that required a military response, with Transportation
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The Future is an Empty Room
God damn, Jacob Geller is the best of us. He's an astounding essayist, and his work is consistently amazing.
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Better Siri is, yet again, a little farther off
Jay Peters: Apple keeps hitting bumps with its overhauled Siri
Nearly a year ago, Apple delayed planned features for Siri that would let it understand your personal context and take action for you based on what’s on your screen. Apple had planned to launch those features with iOS 26.4, which is set to
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Don't hold your breath for that 4 day work week
Aruna Ranganathan, Xingqi Maggie Ye: AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.
Two quick things on this.
First, this resonates with me. Because there are things you can do quicker, suddenly you can do much more
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Some are happier writing code by hand
Abhinav Omprakash: I Am Happier Writing Code by Hand
Yes, coding is not software engineering, but for me, it is a fun and essential part of it. In order to be effective at software engineering, you must be familiar with the problem space, and this requires thinking and wrestling with the problem. You can’t