Daring Fireball Ed Morrissey, writing for Hot Air, thinks Scott Pelley got what he deserved and Bari Weiss is doing a good job running CBS News: And Pelley forgot the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules. Instead, Pelley convinced himself of his...
The Takeout Instant ramen is a pantry mainstay for good reason, but the next time you make these easy noodles, look beyond the instructions on the package.
Techcrunch The debut episode, moderated by Founders Fund chief marketing officer Mike Solana, included a star-studded cast of current tech luminaries.
Apple Insider If you've got a medium to large-sized yard that needs mowing regularly, the Mova LiDAX Ultra robot lawn mower can make mowing an afterthought.Mova LiDAX Ultra Lawn Mower reviewOne of the most recurring tropes of futuristic homes in fiction is this...
Daring Fireball Nextpad++ feels like a fever dream. Like what Mac apps would be if the Nazis had won WWII.
9to5 Mac Epic Games is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Apple’s latest attempt to challenge two rulings in its long-running legal fight over off-App-Store purchases. Here are the details. more…
MacRumors iOS 27 has been the star of the rumors we've been hearing ahead of Apple's WWDC 2026 event, but there have also been a few tidbits about the next version of macOS, macOS 27. We don't know as much about macOS 27 as we do about iOS 27, so there...
Jalopinik The American gas station and convenience store chain's two locations in the Lone Star State truly epitomize the phrase "everything is bigger in Texas."
Apple Insider The two points Apple has brought to the Supreme Court could undo the entire remainder of the case, so of course Epic Games has filed to suggest Apple is totally wrong here.Epic Games hopes the Supreme Court will throw out Apple's requests. Image...
BBC - Innovation Instead of throwing away byproducts of food processing, fermentation is making them valuable.
AV Club After a solid week of artists dropping out, Trump has carried through with plans to replace America's birthday concert with the sound of his own mouth.
BBC - Innovation Naomi Gleit has weathered many controversies at Meta, but remains in what she tells the BBC is her "dream job".
Hack-A-Day Some security hacks require someone to have physical access to your computer. In many cases, that’s easy to mitigate. Other attack vectors can put you at risk from anywhere via …read more
Daring Fireball Location: The California Theatre, San Jose Showtime: Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 7pm PT (Doors open 6pm) Special Guest(s): For sure Price: $45 The annual live audience episode of The Talk Show during the week of WWDC. If you can make it, you should...
Apple Insider The Poke app will give Siri even more competition, as it lets you send emails, set reminders, generate images, and more, right from the Apple Messages app.The Poke app lets you use AI to respond to messages, schedule dinners, and more, all via...
Daring Fireball Loren Brichter, back in 2020: Short story: Google Chrome installs an updater called Keystone on your computer, which is bizarrely correlated to massive unexplained CPU usage in WindowServer (a system process)[1], and made my whole computer slow...
Techcrunch Anthropic has been growing at a breakneck pace. The company announced that annualized revenue crossed $47 billion in May, up dramatically from roughly $9 billion at the end of 2025. That trajectory faces a real test, though.
Daring Fireball Hayden Field and Tom Warren, writing for The Verge (gift link): This year’s Build had the vibe of a freshly single divorcée posting a thirst trap on Instagram. “It’s always fun to be at developer conferences in times of great change,” Microsoft...
Techcrunch The Airbnb CEO said last year it hasn't struck an LLM partnership because existing products weren't quite ready.
AV Club Will Arbery and Widow's Bay's Hiro Murai are also set to executive produce on the limited series adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' novel.
Ars Technica Robot demonstrations can distort public perceptions of robotic capabilities.
Kotaku The company also confirmed that its standalone VR headset will arrive in that same timeframe
InVerse 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' is hitting theaters sooner than expected thanks to an exclusive early screening.
404 Media Microsoft's CEO seems unaware of what's going on at his own company.
Polygon What time is Summer Game Fest? Our guide to SGF 2026 streams and start times explain how to watch this week's game announcements.
InVerse John Carpenter and Kurt Russell's ridiculous, rollocking post-apocalyptic sequel 'Escape from LA' comes to 4K UHD Blu-ray in time for its 30th anniversary.
MacRumors We have four days to go until Apple's WWDC keynote event begins on Monday, June 8. iOS 27 has been the focus of most of the rumors, but we're also going to get a new version of macOS, macOS 27. Some of the same features that are coming in iOS...
Kotaku And one streamer is spending hours and hours sharing evidence to back up the wild theory
AV Club A new internet theory has begun circulating, as people attempt to find evidence of the Food Network host actually swallowing a bite of food.
Lifehacker Keep up with all of the best deals that Lifehacker publishes, including laptops, speakers, TVs, security cameras, and more.
Lifehacker Canceling your Prime membership may take quite a few clicks.
MacRumors A few days after teasing upcoming Beats over-ear headphones in pink, football superstar Lamine Yamal today shared a Story on his Instagram account revealing a second color for the unreleased headphones: an ivory or stone color. The Instagram...
The Intercept After cutting its support for frontline healthcare workers in Central Africa, the Trump administration is pointing fingers. The post Trump Administration Tries to Shift Blame for Ebola Response appeared first on The Intercept.
Ars Technica FCC did not violate carriers' right to jury trial, court says in 8-1 ruling.
Truthout Trump’s comments excuse his failure to end the Iran war, and justify Israel’s violations in Gaza and Lebanon.
AV Club Ol Parker's latest rom-com can't shake the misogyny baked into its premise.
The Geek Games Nightdive Studios’ remaster has finally reached the nearly one-year-old Nintendo Switch 2, although this port took a while to arrive. System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster from Nightdive Studios brings back the classic first-person...
The Intercept Though its backers remain optimistic, a bill blocking U.S. support for Israel’s war in Lebanon exposed rifts among Democrats. The post House Dems Coming Around on Iran War — But Won’t Vote to Stop Israel’s Destruction of Lebanon appeared first on...
Daring Fireball A follow-up point from my post yesterday linking to Nick Heer’s blockbuster “The Metaverse Fever Dream”. In particular, the connection Heer draws between the rise of “metaverse” hype and the pandemic. I always sort of knew that metaverse hype...
Ars Technica Estonian government benchmark shows how dozens of models combat Russia's "strategic narratives."
Daring Fireball Paramount’s “Press Express” page promoting 60 Minutes still lists all eight correspondents from the 2025–2026 season, the program’s 58th. (Perhaps they fired the person responsible for keeping the cast page up to date.) In the order they appear on...
Truthout Ahead of the event, Gregory Bovino cited Nazi Germany’s lead general, Erwin Rommel, as an inspirational figure.
Daring Fireball All this Sturm und Drang surrounding 60 Minutes has me thinking about a re-watch of The Insider, Michael Mann’s great 1999 movie. Letterboxd’s synopsis: “A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a...
InVerse 'Masters of the Universe's post-credits scene teases the hero we've waited years to see.
Jalopinik Wide, low, and oppressively German, the Nuvolari looks enough like an evolution of the R8 without being too derivative or retro about it.
Daring Fireball Back in 2011, when he was a tech columnist at The New York Times, Nick Bilton figured out that Apple was soon going to launch an Apple branded-television set, with no remote control. You’d just talk to it. This made no sense of course, as I pointed...
Truthout Kennedy has responded to outbreaks of measles and whooping cough in the US by pushing disinformation about vaccines.
InVerse 'Masters of the Universe' director Travis Knight reveals why a hero like He-Man is more important than ever.
AV Club The I Love Boosters director suggested Scorsese had been given a "gang of money" to talk up AI storyboarding.
BBC - Europe Qualifier Maja Chwalinska is one win away from a fairytale French Open triumph as she sets up a final showdown against Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva.
AV Club Jason Statham is the bicycle thief in David Leitch's upcoming action-comedy.
Jalopinik Organizers are claiming vandalism as the cause of a diesel spill that made its way into irrigation water used for the grass on the National Mall.
The Takeout Some mashups are matches made in heaven. Others are a good lesson that just because you can do something, you shouldn't.
InVerse 007 First Light, the new game from IO Interactive, introduces a James Bond detached from theatrical depictions while still heavily inspired by them.
The Intercept Supporting Israel is now a fringe position among Democratic voters. Why does the media keep covering it like a 50/50 issue? The post The Real “Divide” Among Democrats Over Israel Is Between Party Leadership and Voters appeared first on The Intercept.
The Takeout Walmart is eyeing the grocery delivery market and making big improvements to its system, including expanding its 30-minute delivery option to dozens of cities.
Truthout The 24-year-old Trump loyalist was hired for a Defense Department role on “irregular warfare and counterterrorism.”
404 Media The Bricks & Minifigs / Reckless Ben beef is breaking containment and can no longer be ignored.
AV Club It would probably be an understatement to say that newly minted 60 Minutes executive producer/former tech columnist and The Idol writer Nick Bilton is not having a good first week on the job. He started it, after all, by getting very publicly...
The Geek Games The PC system requirements for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis have appeared unusually early, and the NVIDIA RTX 3080 / AMD RX 6800 XT listed under recommended specifications is not encouraging for mainstream GPU owners. The bigger problem is that...
Truthout Critics say the new rule will also harm people with serious illnesses such as cancer and HIV/AIDS.
404 Media Just Futures Law is seeking a wealth of documents related to the tech Palantir provides to ICE.
The Geek Games David Jaffe, creator of the original 2005 God of War, has sharply criticized the reveal of God of War Laufey. The new entry, shown during State of Play, puts players in the role of Kratos’ wife Laufey, also known as Faye, but Jaffe argues that what...
The Takeout Everyone knows that Costco has great deals on bulk goods, but the prices on meat at Costco Business Centers are even better than the standard warehouse stores.
The Geek Games 007 First Light appears to be a strong James Bond game by early accounts, and it also seems to be off to a solid commercial start. Amazon Gaming general manager Jeff Gattis says future sequels will be handled by MGM and, theoretically, Amazon Game...
InVerse A sequel to the 2022 free-climbing action thriller, 'Fall 2' raises the stakes with a fictional climb based on the "world's most dangerous hike" in China.
BBC - Europe Police raided the suspects' homes after tip-offs from German and UK authorities.
Truthout Despite Trump calling the vote “unpatriotic,” nearly 7 in 10 Americans back ending the war in Iran as soon as possible.
The Geek Games The Onimusha: Way of the Sword demo is now available on all platforms, and early technical analysis suggests the game is in much better shape than many feared after the RE Engine issues seen in Monster Hunter Wilds and Dragon’s Dogma 2. Initial...
The Geek Games Bandai Namco Aces’ game now has an exact release date, and it has only just missed one of the year’s most crowded months. Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve delivers high-octane aerial action. Step into the cockpit and take flight as an elite pilot...
The Takeout A product sold at Costco has just been recalled for including items which weren't listed on the packaging. It's not a safety concern, but here's what to know.
AV Club Wim Wenders is pulling 1975's The Wrong Move, from circulation because it features a 13-year-old Nastassja Kinski topless.
In These Times Sanders has said his endorsements are about “building a movement for the future” capable of not just taking on the GOP, but also the Democratic Party establishment.
In These Times Young women forced from their homes in the ongoing war are creating a new form of resistance cinema.
AV Club AMC's website was not prepared for the Homer-heads.
404 Media “It's striking, concerning, disappointing, and saddening to think that members of the bar would forward cases to a court that don't exist, and to think that the lawyers on the other side of that didn’t read it for whatever reason, didn’t check it.”
BBC - Europe Demonstrators say the project backed by Donald Trump's son-in-law would harm a protected environment.
BBC - Europe Fifa has been warned it is putting fans' health at risk by introducing a bottle ban at this summer's World Cup.
BBC - Europe Budapest's liberal Mayor Gergely Karacsony had been charged with helping to organise the banned 2025 march.
The Verge - TV Shows Though Gen Z has developed a reputation for being so disinterested in sex that they don't even want to see it on TV, the popularity of series like Heated Rivalry and The Summer I Turned Pretty has made it very clear that more than a few young...
404 Media Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped.
BBC - Europe The French-Iranian author and illustrator was known for her graphic novel series and Oscar-nominated film.
Technology Review This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell,...
BBC - Europe At least 10 people have been injured in the attacks, according to Russian-backed officials.
Technology Review Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell, a federal magistrate judge in Colorado, sifts through stacks of documents written by people without a lawyer. Many of them can’t afford to hire a lawyer, and others have cases too weak or too small...
BBC - Innovation The boss of X, Tesla and SpaceX is the world's richest person and has used his platform to make his views known on a vast array of topics.
BBC - Innovation Ofqual chief says invigilators are being trained to detect devices like smart glasses and hidden earpieces.
Propublica The post In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations appeared first on ProPublica.
Propublica The post I Got Access to Hundreds of Teacher Misconduct Complaints in California — and You Can Too appeared first on ProPublica.
The Intercept How many acts of war must occur before the mainstream media accepts there is no ceasefire between the U.S., Israel, and Iran? The post Stop Calling It a Ceasefire appeared first on The Intercept.
Unicorn Riot Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in opposition to the redevelopment initiatives of the touristification, gentrification, and the construction of a metro station in Exarcheia Square. The post Anger Grows in Exarcheia After Court Ruling on Metro...
404 Media "There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."
Groovy Post Claude now includes creative app integrations with popular tools such as Photoshop and Canva. Here's what you need to know about the connectors.
Technology Review Would you take a payment to ramp down your electricity use? Would it change anything if you were doing so to help power a local data center? Google just signed a new deal to help pay for a virtual power plant (VPP) in the largest power grid in the...
In These Times Two poems from When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America.
BBC - Innovation Ofcom found the major phone networks were not providing good signal on trains, and train companies were slowing down wi-fi.
BBC - Innovation "We're aware some customers are having issues with our app and online banking. We're really sorry about this," Lloyds Bank posted on X.
Technology Review This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. 5 key points in Trump’s new AI order Less than two weeks after scrapping an executive order on AI, President...
BBC - Innovation According to an internal memo, new controls will allow employees to pause the data collection for "up to 30 minutes at a time".
Propublica The post Texas State Takeover of Local School Districts Expands, Raising Concerns appeared first on ProPublica.