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Coiner of ‘Enshittification’ Endorses ‘Dickover’
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Sixers Sign LeBron James
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The Talk Show: ‘A Scam Held Together With Patriotism and Golden Paint’
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Bond Movie Filming Locations Map
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★ The Ads on Apple News Continue to Suck, but at Least There Are a Lot of Them
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John Dvorak on Computer Chronicles in 1987 to Discuss the Then-New IBM PS/2
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John Dvorak Drops Dead at 80
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Flighty New Connection Assistant Feature
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★ European Commission: ‘Guidance to Google for AI Interoperability on Android & Sharing of Google Search’
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[Sponsor] WorkOS MCP: Manage Your Auth Platform From Any AI Agent
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9to5Mac Uncovers Dozens of Disguised Gambling Apps on the App Store in Brazil
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★ Mornings in Cupertino Have the Aroma of Napalm Once Again
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Apple Sends Letters to Dozens of Former Employees Now at OpenAI
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Apple Books and Amazon Are Lousy With AI-Generated Books Ripping Off Legitimate Authors
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Roblox Set to Introduce AI Game-Building Feature, Including on iOS
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Apple Raises Prices for Apple Music and Apple One Subscriptions
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MG Siegler: ‘OpenAI Makes ChatGPT ChatGPT Again’
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OpenAI Starts Cleaning Up the Utter Mess It Made of ChatGPT
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Linus Torvalds: ‘AI Is a Tool, Just Like Other Tools We Use. And It’s Clearly a Useful One.’
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ArtfulType: Markdown Writing App for the 68K Macintosh
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Happy iCal Day
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Google and Epic Give Up Fighting — Third-Party Android App Stores Are Coming Next Week
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European Commission Adds Exemptions for Watches and Earbuds to Portable Battery Removal Rules
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Quiche Browser Now Defaults to No-AI Web Search Results
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Dithering: ‘Apple Sues OpenAI’
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OpenAI Takes a Second Crack at a Response to Apple’s Trade Secret Theft Lawsuit
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Lawyer for Apple Mixed Up Two OpenAI Employees’ Names, Sent One Email to the Wrong Guy, Back in February
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Louie Mantia: ‘The Shape of Apps’
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Gurman on OpenAI’s Upcoming Hardware Product: ‘Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion’
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Eric Seufert: ‘Did Apple Just Signal a Third-Party Expansion of Apple Ads?’
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Apple Intelligence OK’d to Launch in China, Using AI Models from Baidu and Alibaba
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[Sponsor] Paper
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Remember Musk’s Suit Alleging a Conspiracy Between Apple and OpenAI?
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Paulo Andrade: ‘A WWDC 27 Update on Building a Mac-Assed App With SwiftUI’
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How UIs Degrade Over Time
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TwoMillionKit: Use Private Cloud Compute in MacOS 27 Foundation Models Without an Entitlement
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Sam Altman and Elon Musk Argue Over Who’s Running the Bigger Scam
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Lunacy — Jeff Halter’s Lunatic Fringe Player
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Stacks — HyperCard Player for Modern MacOS
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Can Someone Explain to Me How to Get ‘ChatGPT Classic’?
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OpenAI Help Center Describes What Is Wrong With the New ChatGPT
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Benedict Evans on the New ‘Super App’ ChatGPT
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★ Exactly Like Om Malik
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Gurman on Tang Tan and Paul Meade
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‘No Interest’
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Ice Cold
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Ryanair Literally Sucks
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Newly Renamed Trump Airport in Palm Beach Has an AI Slop Logo
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Mac OS 9’s Finder Had a ‘View as Buttons’ Mode
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John Ternus Calls Sam Altman
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Apple Sues OpenAI, io, and Former Employees, Alleging Theft of Trade Secrets
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Shocking No One, Fidji Simo, Would-Be Usurper, Is Out at OpenAI
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Today’s the Day OpenAI Fucked Up the ChatGPT Mac App
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★ John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope
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Meta Sets Default for Instagram Accounts to Permit Content Reuse by AI
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★ What’s Good for the iOS Goose Is Often Not Good for the MacOS Gander
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‘PARRY Encounters the DOCTOR’ — Chatbot on Chatbot Action Circa 1973
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Mac Apps Can Escape From Squircle Jail If They’re Not in the Mac App Store
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‘Searching for SmarterChild’ Kickstarter
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My Conversation With ELIZA
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The ELIZA Archaeology Project
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App Icon Conventions From the Original Macintosh
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[Sponsor] WorkOS Pipes: More Context Makes for Smarter Products
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★ Apple Should Eliminate the App Icon ‘Squircle Jail’
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Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple’s Version 27 OSes
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Backblaze Versus Dropbox
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Allen Pike, Back in November: ‘Why Is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?’
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ATP Member Special: Mac-Assed Mac Apps
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Maestral, the Open Source Splendidly Simple Mac Dropbox Client, Has Been Retired
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Jason Snell Ends His Column, and 28-Year Run, at Macworld
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From the DF Archive: ‘Electron and the Decline of Native Apps’
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Fantastical 4.1.15 Adds Calendar Mirroring
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★ Claude’s Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job
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April Report From Ookla: ‘A Return to mmWave 5G’
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Introducing the Safari MCP Server for Web Developers
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EveryMac Turns 30
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I Repeat Myself (5G vs. LTE Edition)
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Truth Social Is Still Just Trump’s Blog
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‘A Perfect Reflection of Trump’s Washington’
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Claude Fable and Kayfabe
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MG Siegler Got Banned From WhatsApp for No Reason
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Hackers Stole Instagram Accounts Simply by Asking Meta AI to Give Them Access
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★ A Tale of Two Modems
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PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass Subscriptions
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The Talk Show: ‘Taking Drugs to Get Fat’
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404 Media: Vulnerability in iCloud’s ‘Hide My Email’ Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses
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Gnome
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Supreme Court Agrees to Review Apple’s Petition Regarding Civil Contempt Finding in ‘Apple v. Epic Games’
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Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship in 6-3 Decision
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★ The Supreme Court Rules That Law Enforcement’s Use of ‘Geofence Warrant’ Was a ‘Search’ (But May Be Moot, Technically, Since 2024)
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Three Players From the Japanese Men’s National Team vs. 100 School Children
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CMA Consultation on Mobile App Steering and NFC Access
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U.K. Regulator Considers Requiring App Store to Allow Steering to the Web, and iOS NFC to Be Open
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Data Breach at Indian Supplier Tata Electronics Exposes iPhone 18 Pro Details and Photos
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[Sponsor] Day One Journal
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Daniel Agee: ‘Remembering Om’
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Matt Mullenweg: ‘All Roads Lead to Om’
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The New York Times: ‘Om Malik, Whose Blog Shaped How Silicon Valley Saw Itself, Dies at 59’
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PuffPal, an App for Accessing Cannabis Clubs, Leaked 1 Million Users’ Passports
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★ Bernie Sanders: Ideologue and Economic Ignoramus
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Micron Executive Sumit Sadana Tells Tim Cook to Stop Hitting Himself
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Apple Faced Bipartisan Opposition When It Last Lobbied to Buy Chinese RAM in 2022
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Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices, Drops High-End Storage Model From Lineup
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FT Reports That Apple Is Lobbying to Buy Memory Chips From Blacklisted Chinese Company CXMT
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Grok Is a Generative Porno App
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OpenAI Announces, But Is Blocked From Releasing, New GPT-5.6 Models
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White House Grants Access to Anthropic’s Mythos Model to 100+ U.S. Institutions; Fable Still Shut Down
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The Steam Machine
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★ Om
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Apple’s Full Statement on Yesterday’s Price Increases
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The Price-Hiked Apple TV 4K Is 4 Years Old
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★ Spensive Thoughts
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Om Malik, 1966-2026
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Apple Raises Prices on Most Products by 15–25 Percent, but Not iPhones or Watches
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