Best Apple Deals of the Week: AirPods 4 for $89, AirTag for $64.99, and More Prime Day Sales Still Available
This week was Prime Big Deal Days, and although the event is officially over, we’re still tracking great leftover discounts on Amazon. This includes ongoing low prices on AirPods 4, MacBook Air, iPads, and more.

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Apple Hosts Unusual Colorado Event to Showcase Latest Hardware
Apple has invited a group of social media influencers to Colorado this week for an unusual event involving group hiking, trail running, and other outdoor activities designed to showcase the company’s recently launched iPhone 17 Pro Max, AirPods Pro 3, and Apple Watch Ultra 3.

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An invitation was [shared on X (Twitter)](https://x.com/JHawkShoots/statu … ⌘ Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 9, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Kernel Rust features; systemd v258, part 2; Cauldron kernel hackers; BPF for GNU tools; 6.18 merge window, part 1; Lifetime-end pointer zapping; Robot Operating System.

• Briefs: OpenSSH 10.1; Firefox profiles; Python 3.14; U-Boot v2025.10; FSF presidency; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security upda … ⌘ Read more

Leading doctor’s 11th-hour bid for $2m rescue of Hobart Clinic
The former clinical director of the Hobart Clinic, psychiatrist Dr Hannah Lake, is part of a last-minute push for the institution to be given a reprieve before it closes its doors at the end of next week. ⌘ Read more

Optus email mishap left department in dark about triple-0 outage
The telco operator sent two emails about its outage, which understated its extent, to a departmental email address that had been changed a week earlier. ⌘ Read more

Dolly Parton’s sister speaks out over singer’s health concerns
Dolly Parton’s sister has asked fans to pray for the country music singer’s health just one week after the star delayed several concerts in Las Vegas. ⌘ Read more

Bibbulmun Track record broken twice in one week
Two men have smashed the record for running one of the world’s longest walking tracks within days of each other. ⌘ Read more

Soaring rents pushing people away from jobs, community, review finds
Median rental prices have risen to more than $700 per week for the first time, according to Cotality’s Quarterly Rental Review. ⌘ Read more

Live: ASX to open steady as Wall Street slips from record highs
Gold prices surge to a new record, above $US4,000 an ounce, as the US government shutdown drags on past its first week, and the Australian share market is likely to open flat after Wall Street’s AI tech rally takes a breather. ⌘ Read more

Telcos face surprise ‘stress test’ within weeks as Optus fallout continues
The adequacy of Australia’s emergency call network will be stress tested with a surprise drill ahead of bushfire season, as the opposition ramps up its assault over the communication minister’s handling of last month’s fatal triple-0 outage. ⌘ Read more

German mayor stabbed outside home, Chancellor Merz condemns ‘abhorrent act’
Iris Stalzer, a Social Democrat who was elected mayor of Herdecke in the Ruhr region a week ago, is reportedly suffered life-threatening injuries. ⌘ Read more

Boy’s ‘haunting’ expression in watch house drives home concerns for commissioner
Queensland’s outgoing human rights commissioner says he has lost sleep worrying about some juveniles “spending weeks and weeks” in the state’s watch houses. ⌘ Read more

Her reaction to seeing me after I left her in a cattery for a week ⌘ Read more

Family builds tractor museum to fund cancer research in memory of son
Oliver Crane was diagnosed with bone cancer and died at age 17. This week, his family opened a vintage tractor museum in his memory to help raise money for cancer research. ⌘ Read more

Heavy winds dislodge Brooke Street Pier on Hobart waterfront
Wind gusts of about 90 kilometres per hour were measured in Hobart on Sunday afternoon, with the blustery conditions set to continue this week. ⌘ Read more

** Wobbly updates or a sort of week notes **
Hello RSS goblins.

It’s unseasonably warm here, and well, I suppose everywhere. That’s…frightening, but before I let that weigh to heavily on this post I must move on.

It’s been a gorgeous weekend. We took the kids to the beach Friday after dinner, expecting to play on the sand and scramble up the rocks, but they actually each went swimming. They had a blast. The car is filled with sand, and I hope that last little hurrah of summer hangs around for a bit.

We also went putt putt golfi … ⌘ Read more

Next iPad Pro to Have Two Key Features, But One Rumor Still Uncertain
The next iPad Pro models are rumored to feature two key upgrades, including Apple’s M5 chip, and an increased minimum of 12GB of RAM.

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Last week, apparent unboxing videos for the next-generation 13-inch iPad Pro were uploaded to YouTube by Russian channels Wylsacom and [Romance … ⌘ Read more

Best Apple Deals of the Week: Apple Watch SE 2 Hits Ultra Low $179 Price, Plus Early Prime Day Deals
We’re gearing up for big Prime Day deals over the next few days, and this week saw multiple early Prime Day discounts arriving for iPhone 17 cases, the second generation Apple Watch SE, and more.

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MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone Air or iPhone 17 Pro From iMazing
For this week’s giveaway, we’ve teamed up with iMazing to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win one of Apple’s new iPhone Air or iPhone 17 Pro models. For those unfamiliar with iMazing, it is Mac and PC software that offers a simple, fast way to manage everything on your [iPh … ⌘ Read more

Apple Provides Fix for iMessage Activation Bug in iOS 26
Apple this week provided troubleshooting steps for iPhone owners who are unable to activate iMessage with a phone number in iOS 26.

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According to Apple, some customers might not be able to activate iMessage with a phone number … ⌘ Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 2, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Fedora and AI; Linting kernel Rust; openSUSE Leap 16; mmap() file operation; 6.17 statistics; dirlock.

• Briefs: Bcachefs removal; Alpine /usr merge; F-Droid; Fedora AI policy; OpenSUSE Leap 16; PostgreSQL 18; Radicle 1.5.0; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net Yes I did about a week or so ago. It took me a lot of effort to get the content even rendered in the first place. LOL I had to basically export my blog as HTML (can you believe that?!) – The Hugo export just didn’t work at all 🤣

I’m out of town folks and away until tomorrow (have been all week)

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 37

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wait….so i’m like nearly done? it just works? and it’s fast? this feels like the end of the first all-nighter i pulled where i just got post creation done, unaware of the three weeks that would follow — like looking at the roadmap i’m definitely not done but bbycll is like actually kind of usable now o.o

Made this a few weeks ago, just listened to it again and I quite like it:

https://www.uninformativ.de/music/2025-1-ebow/Fog.ogg

This is just one instrument: Electric bass guitar + EBow. And echo/delay on top. But it’s a single track, single take. It amazes me quite a bit how much you can do with that little thing. 🤯

https://movq.de/v/2496f8ba36/s.png

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 36

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#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 35

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** A week notes to round out the summer **
I haven’t posted anything remotely resembling week notes since the middle of June! Since then many things have happened including, but not limited to: a trip to Minnesota to visit Isaac, a couple trips to New Hampshire for work, a family trip to Mount Desert Island to revisit our old stomping grounds, a whole heap of bicycle riding, I finished a couple great books, played some games, made some games, and wrote what is probably an unhealthy a … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net I switched back to groff a few weeks ago. 🤪

Welp, my rent’s gone out and my student loan won’t be in for another week, so I’m not spending anything for a while. How’s everyone else’s September going?

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 34

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Hey @jost@jost.sdfeu.org, not sure if this reaches you, but your TLS server certificate expired two weeks ago.

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 33

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#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 32

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#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 31

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#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 30

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We just met again after sleep to clean up all the rest. I now got food for literally two weeks. At least. No kidding! I feel really bad for taking waaaaay more home than bringing along. :-/ Turned out that a bunch of people were absent without an excuse. :-( That rude behavior is beyond my comprehension.

Of course, @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz! But I’ll first write some instructions (hopefully this week) and then let you know. :-) Should be much easier then.

Status 2025-07-21
Morning, computer! Spending my days off trying to figure things out.
Some of them will occur in this post. I think best when I’m writing,
after all.

I’m back from a short vacation since a couple of weeks. I’m still
going to take a few days off every week for a while. I need the break.
It’s been way too many 12-16 hour workdays. I’m nominally working 80%
(~6 hour days), so I figure I’ve been working a lot for free.

Yeah, well, I like the TKey project to succeed. The ideas behind it
have implicatio … ⌘ Read more

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 29

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After many weeks and probably at least a hundred hours of research, discussions and in-person viewing, I think I’ve finally come up with my Final Choices (shortlist) of a Hybrid Camper / Caravan that I think will suit my family and that I’ll enjoy (far less work for me to setup and teardown). The one at the top of the list I’m leaning towards os the SWAG SCT16 Family 4B

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#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 28

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i made a new tumblr account to interact with fandom last week. while using the site today i got logged out and when i logged back in i was told my account was terminated. mullenweg will pay for this

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, it’s a shitshow. MS overconfirms all my prejudices constantly.

Ignoring e-mail after lunch works great, though. :-)

Our timetracking is offline for over a week because of reasons. The responsible bunglers are falling by the skin of their teeth: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/timetracking.png

1. The error message neither includes the timeframe nor a link to an announcement article.
   
2. The HTML page needs to download JS in order to display the fucking error message.
   
3. Proper HTTP status codes are clearly only for big losers.
   
4. Despite being down, heaps of resources are still fetched.
   

I find it really fascinating how one can screw up on so many levels. This is developed inhouse, I’m just so glad that we’re not a software engineering company. Oh wait. How embarrassing.

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 27

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#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 26

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I hear you, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! :‘-(

At work, too. For a few weeks now when I try to log into this horrible Outlook web intershit (Because why would they fix the Evolution integration?! It’s cactus for well over a year now. Probably more like two.), it forwards me to the corporate weblogin, I enter my credentials, even do the bloody MFA crap and get redirected back to Outlook. “Loading mailbox…” “Please wait for us to log you out, do not close this window while this process is underway.” Fuck you! I have to delete the cookies for this damn domain each and every fucking time. Otherwise, this goes in circles forever. I tried the game for 15 minutes, no joke.

But wait, there’s more! Why just fuck it up only a little bit? This week I get logged out at the middle of the day. Every. Single. Day. Not even close to eight hours since I started, no. What the hell!? I reckon I just don’t even bother reauthenticating anymore in the arvo. No more e-mails for Lyse after lunch. Fuck it. It’s just distraction, anyway, right?!

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 25

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Gone on a road trip. Be back in a week 👋

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 06/16 to 06/20 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/20/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 24

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#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 23

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On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 06/09 to 06/13 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/13/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

Irukandji jellyfish sting two swimmers in a day in northern WA
Authorities are urging beachgoers to exercise caution after two people were stung by the potentially deadly jellyfish this week. ⌘ Read more

West Australian fire volunteer’s decades of service honoured
Toodyay Volunteer Fire and Rescue Service captain Ian MacGregor has responded to some of WA’s most traumatic fires and road incidents during decades of service, recognised this week with the Australian Fire Service Medal. ⌘ Read more

Blood test set to ‘revolutionise’ diagnosis of coeliac disease
Patients have to eat gluten for weeks before the current coeliac disease test, even when it makes them ill, but Australian researchers believe they have found a better method. ⌘ Read more

Trump’s new travel ban on citizens from 12 nations takes effect
The new proclamation, which Trump signed last week, applies to citizens from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries. ⌘ Read more

Worksafe investigating air duct collapse at Gippsland power station
Yallourn Power Station, considered the region’s most unreliable, has been forced to put one of its units offline for weeks after an air duct collapsed. ⌘ Read more

Kernel prepatch 6.16-rc1
Linus has released 6.16-rc1 and closed the
merge window for this release.

I think we had a fairly normal merge window, although I did get the
feeling that there were a few more “late straggler” pull requests
than usual. Not to a huge degree, but there was definitely an
upward bump at the end of the second week.

But on the whole, all the stats look pretty normal. ⌘ Read more

Queensland braces for cold snap with below-average temperatures and frost
The Sunshine State is set for a cool wintry week with temperatures forecast to be below average from Tuesday. ⌘ Read more

SA Police has welfare concerns for three children missing for weeks
South Australian police are calling for information about three children under the age of three who were last seen more than two weeks ago. They are believed to be with a woman known to them. ⌘ Read more

Pixie-Rose only lived for three weeks, but she taught her mum about life
A Queensland mother has written a book to help grieving families after navigating her own agonising loss following the death of her baby girl. ⌘ Read more

Snake bite victims urged to seek help regardless of what type they think it is
A coroner this week has been looking into whether there should be more education about snake bites after 11-year-old Tristian Frahm died when he didn’t get medical assistance. ⌘ Read more

The jury is out in Weinstein’s retrial. Here’s how the case unfolded
Jurors are deliberating after hearing six weeks of evidence in the New York retrial of Harvey Weinstein. Here’s how it unfolded. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 06/02 to 06/06 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/06/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

Erin Patterson’s week on the stand in her mushroom murder trial
The 50-year-old, who has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder, admitted several times she had used lies and exaggeration in the past. ⌘ Read more

Australian navy ship accidentally blocks internet and radio in NZ
The Department of Defence has acknowledged that HMAS Canberra accidentally took out a number of wireless internet and radio services across New Zealand this week, during a visit to celebrate Canberra and Wellington’s sister city relationship. ⌘ Read more

Ange Postecoglou sacked as Tottenham manager two weeks after Europa win
Ange Postecoglou is sacked as manager of English Premier League team Tottenham Hotspur, just two weeks after he delivered the north London club its first silverware in 17 years. ⌘ Read more

US-backed Gaza aid group closes all distribution sites after shootings
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which last week started handing out meals to hungry Palestinians inside the war-shattered Gaza Strip, said the sites would be reopened, but did not provide a date. ⌘ Read more

MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPad Air and Rock Paper Pencil From Astropad
For this week’s giveaway, we’ve teamed up with Astropad to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win an M3 iPad Air, an Apple Pencil Pro, and one of Astropad’s Rock Paper Pencil kits to go along with it.

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Mother accused of being responsible for sons’ drowning deaths gets bail
Earlier this week Leeanne Eatts successfully overturned her convictions in the Court of Appeal and was awarded a new trial. ⌘ Read more

Liberal men still struggle to read the room when it comes to women
This week in politics the parliament has achieved gender parity despite tone-deaf commentary, an independent triumphed after a recount and Dorinda Cox changed her tune. ⌘ Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 5, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: OpenH264 in Fedora; Wallabag; Safety certification; 6.16 Merge window; Bounce buffering; Hardening repository problems; Device-initiated I/O; Faster networking; OSPM 2025; Free software in science.

• Briefs: Kea vulnerabilities; Alpine Linux 3.22.0; Fedora strategy; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, securi … ⌘ Read more

Mother of missing WA fisherman pleads for answers
Julie Deery says her life has become a nightmare since her son, Corrie Feehan, disappeared off the WA coast more than five weeks ago. ⌘ Read more

Darwin vigil kicks off ‘national week of action’ for Kumanjayi White
The atmosphere outside the NT parliament was heavy with emotion on Wednesday night when hundreds of mourners gathered to call for change after Kumanjayi White’s death in police custody in Alice Springs last week. ⌘ Read more

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 22

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MP calls for AFP to ‘take over’ Alice Springs death in custody probe
Member for Lingiari Marion Scrymgour has called for the Australian Federal Police to step in and “take over” a criminal investigation into the death in custody of Kumanjayi White in Alice Springs last week. ⌘ Read more

This is the Socceroos’ most important week in years — but best attack still a mystery
Despite a historic A-League season for young Australian forwards, Tony Popovic has trusted in the tried and true for this week’s crunch matches against Japan and Saudi Arabia as World Cup qualification beckons. ⌘ Read more

‘Completely wrong’: Mitchell rejects claims Hawthorn was dishonest about Sicily’s injury
After swiping at what he called a “storm in a tea cup” last week, Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell is forced to backtrack on his comments regarding his captain’s injury. ⌘ Read more

‘A shemozzle’: NT museum chair resigns amid fallout of CBD gallery plan
The long-standing chair of the Museum and Art Gallery of the NT has quit her position, just weeks after an announcement that a planned $150 million Darwin CBD art gallery may not be going ahead. ⌘ Read more

Dutch far-right leader quits coalition toppling government
Mr Wilders said his coalition partners were not willing to embrace his ideas of halting asylum migration, for which he had demanded immediate support last week. ⌘ Read more

‘We do not trust police’: Continued calls for CCTV in death in custody probe
The grandfather of a 24-year-old Aboriginal man who died in police custody in Alice Springs last week has renewed his demands for CCTV vision and an independent probe into the death. ⌘ Read more

My sweet baby girl passed away 2 weeks ago - everyone please go hug your cats, they are only here for so long and they go so suddenly ⌘ Read more

Why AFL is yet to finalise new-look illicit drugs code amid executive reshuffle
Having shaken up head office last week, league AFL CEO Andrew Dillion is not taking any shortcuts when it comes to making the new-look illicit drugs code official. ⌘ Read more

Found her when she was 2 weeks old. She’s 6 now, and very sassy 💁‍♀️ ⌘ Read more

SA fire service’s top executive leaves after damning tribunal decision
Prema Osborne left the Metropolitan Fire Service last week just weeks after the SA Employment Tribunal found travel payments to firefighters were unlawfully withheld and were “a failure of management diligence”. ⌘ Read more

Inquiry called after man becomes unresponsive during attempted arrest
SA Police has launched a Commissioner’s Inquiry after a man became unresponsive while being arrested last week in Adelaide’s east. ⌘ Read more

Former Coles supermarket worker says Kumanjayi White clearly needed support
Former Alice Springs Coles worker Gene Hill says it was clear an Aboriginal man who died in police custody at the supermarket last week had a disability and needed extra support. ⌘ Read more

Would you accept seven weeks without bank access? Why is super different?
Australia’s superannuation pool is worth nearly $4.2 trillion — the funds are undoubtedly extremely adept at taking members’ money. But when it comes helping members to access it, they are falling short. ⌘ Read more

Apple Readies WWDC Stream on YouTube Ahead of Keynote Next Week
WWDC 2025 will kick off with Apple’s keynote on Monday, June 9 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, and the page where the presentation will be live streamed is now available on YouTube. On the page, you can set a reminder to be notified before the keynote begins.

Apple will announce its latest software updates, including [iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, tvOS … ⌘ Read more

Kumanjayi Walker inquest findings delayed after death in custody
The long-awaited coronial findings into the 2019 death in custody of Aboriginal man Kumanjayi Walker will be delayed by a month, after the death of another Warlpiri man in Alice Springs last week. ⌘ Read more

** Admitting that they’re really never weekly notes **
While everyone is up to their eyeballs in puzzles playing Blue Prince I’ve been playing some Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword on the Gameboy Advanced. I’ve also set up the playdate to mirror at my computer and have been having fun exploring the games in season 2! Mostly just Dig! Dig! Dino!, so far.

I decided to learn OCaml a few weeks ago. I’ve been writing a rogue clone in it. I am enjoying is and the entire ML fami … ⌘ Read more

macOS Tahoe Name Leaked Ahead of Apple’s WWDC Event Next Week
The alleged name of macOS 26 ( yes) has leaked.

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In his Power On newsletter today, [Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said](https://www.bloomberg.com/ … ⌘ Read more

Top Stories: iOS 26 Incoming?, iPhone 17 Pro Rumors, and More
There was blockbuster news this week regarding Apple’s naming conventions, while WhatsApp finally made the jump to iPad after 15 years.

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Other news this week included a report on Apple’s now-scaled-back aspirations for providing satellite-based internet service, tidbits on Apple’s plans for smart home hubs including one with a robotic arm, and more, so read on … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 05/26 to 05/30 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/30/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 29, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Glibc security; How we lost the Internet; Encrypted DNS; 6.15 Development statistics; Filesystem stress-testing; BPF verifier; Network access from BPF; OSPM 2025.

• Briefs: AlmaLinux 10.0; FESCo decision overturned; NixOS 25.05; Pocket, Launchpad retired; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, … ⌘ Read more

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 21

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Top Stories: iPhone 17 Air Details, Apple’s Smart Glasses, and More
WWDC is coming up quickly with a number of software announcements in store, but we’re also looking further ahead to hardware launches like the iPhone 17 lineup and even Apple’s smart glasses project.

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This week also saw big news with former Apple design guru Jony Ive joining forces with OpenAI to build future AI-driven devices, while Fortnite return … ⌘ Read more

Having a rough week (or year lol)? Share a photo of your cat! ⌘ Read more