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The Skeuomorphic era (iOS 1–6), the Flat era (iOS 7–18), and the Glass era (iOS 26 and beyond) of iOS.

note that the autocomplete cannot in fact scheme or make plans. this is marketing an autocomplete as SO SCARY that OpenAI must be working on very cool powerful things the only news is that it's OpenAI getting so into the AI doom shit and not just Anthropic is this dumb shit worth a Pivot vid?

NEW: Political influencers are tightening their security, but they're not backing away from producing content, unwilling to slow down in an industry demanding constant output. "Part of my rate is the 'someone might kill me tax,'" one creator tells me. www.wired.com/story/politi...

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

Canceled my Disney/Hulu bundle today. If they reverse the ABC Kimmel decision I will think about going back, though I have other ways to see “Alien Earth” (with ads unfortunately). FX is a Disney subsidiary but comes bundled with many online “cable” type services. I don’t care about ESPN

The context here, of course, is that the “local broadcasters” Carr is egging on are actually huge conglomerates with a pending merger before his office that would give them (and him) vast control over all broadcast television stations

Google Slides templates based on desired outcome

all of our news orgs work for oligarchs. we've looked the other way for a very long time. now it can't be avoided.

fallon dipping to avoid controversy is actually giving attendees of this session the purest look at what "Staying 'On Brand'" really means

The latest reliable rumors point to a potential late 2026 drop for a touchscreen MacBook Pro.

to translate this venture capital news article, the limited partners - the *investors* - are less and less keen to put their money into venture capital funds hence less money to splurge on anything and "AI" is still the *healthy* part of VC pitchbook.com/news/article...

to translate this venture capital news articl,e the limited partners - the *investors* - are less and less keen to put their money into venture capital funds hence less money to splurge on anything and "AI" is still the *healthy* part of VC pitchbook.com/news/article...

@kevinbaker.bsky.social all politics is mods? alert

of the authors, all except one have proud histories as AI slop proponents and one is a consultant in AI slop promotion to higher ed I assume most of them have in fact had to mark hundreds of essays at some point, making this even worse

NEW: Bloomberg obtained 100s of pages of agency emails & other docs via FOIA, shedding new light on how disaster-related misinfo affects the govt's emergency response, sucks up resources & puts staff at risk. with @zhirji.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

tbh if sinclair-owned marquee broadcasts the charlie kirk memorial it wouldn't not be funny

This sucks so much www.theverge.com/news/780757/...

Thank you! I appreciate you. (If you know, you know.)

I'm doing a talk on Substack and apparently need 10 subscribers on the purely-lurker account that I have there in order to participate. If you're inclined, would you please subscribe to me? Feel free to unsubscribe in a week! Once I get 10, I will delete this pathetic ask. substack.com/@kashmirhill

What if Ford were part owner of GM. Weird, right? Well: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...

really helpful graphic for those trying to understand their options (legend for the map is in the link)

Reuters’ investigations team has been on an absolute tear. The latest is this stunning report that shows how purported immigration officials at Thai airports are a key part of human trafficking for cyber scams. www.reuters.com/graphics/SOU...

I’m suddenly out of work right now, too. @jimmykimmel.com let me know if you want to hang out!

I switched to the iPad as my primary computing device nearly a year ago. I just accepted it could only do what it could do and that I'd still need a Mac. iPadOS 26 is a total paradigm shift and makes things more powerful, but it's NOT easy/intuitive. My full tips/workflow video is now live! youtu.be

ABC can replace Kimmel with JD Vance, interviewing people from the Trump Administration, and saying things blessed by Trump Himself. That could possibly wake people up to the New Order.

I’m getting a lot of new followers today for no apparent reason. To thank my new friends, here are some Really Simple Cookies. sdmntpreastus2.oaiusercontent.com/files/000000...

I need to go to bed but that valks loss drained me of the energy required to get off the couch

I am going to walk into the sea

valkyries fixing to break my heart

i predict this one will go quickly

valks valks valks valks

honestly in awe of how wrong megan mcardle is; you'd think she'd occasionally manage to be right, like a stopped clock. it's a talent

loving this valks run

watching x files with the 12yo and realizing that’s where i learned about armani

SCOTT DO YOU THINK TAKING PRESIDENT TRUMP AT HIS WORD IS A GOOD IDEA BASED ON WHAT HAPPENED WITH FOXCONN WHEN YOU WERE THE GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN

Very amused that CNN has chosen Scott “Foxconn Factory” Walker to carry water for Brendan Carr tonight

interesting how fast pritzker moved on the kimmel thing

imagine now, of all times, believing that tech and politics are separate things

New profile picture drop

oh, it’s precedented. thank god

i visited hachette’s nyc office for the first time today our publisher (algonquin) merged with little, brown so i jokingly asked the algonquin team if they’d ever met james patterson and they totally had 😂 i then jokingly asked if they called him “jim” and apparently his team totally does 😂

This has been a wild week of reviews and hands on. Here’s my write up of the Meta Ray-Ban Display. www.theverge.com/tech/779566/...

Sorry not sorry to everyone seeing my face in various glasses bombarding gadget feeds rn.

i cannot wait to read this

Some great news for both NYT and the Pacific Northwest: @agpnw.bsky.social is taking over my job.

NEW: Meta’s $799 smart glasses with a display are official - and they are an absolute game changer. My deep dive on all the features, what it’s like to use them and what’s next for Meta hardware. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

First issue of Sources is out! It’s a deep dive into the (very cool) new Meta Ray-Bans. They’ve got a display, neural band that feels like sci fi, & suggest a lot about where things are headed Feat. my interview w/t Zuck (full convo airs on the Access podcast tomorrow) sources.news/p/meta-ray-b...

When you wish upon a star Makes no difference who you are Anything your heart desires Will come to you If your heart is in your dream No request is too extreme When you wish upon a star As dreamers do thewaltdisneycompany.com/contact-us/

things can never get so bad that i won’t think it’s funny to see another matt stoller L

"The irony of the whole thing is that you spend years making technology and then the wi-fi of the day catches you" - Mark Zuckerberg after the Live AI demo fails

Media corporations that destroy their popular content under government pressure will soon find they are losing what is left of their audiences, not so much because of boycotts and ideological cancellations, but because neutered propaganda is boring.

zuck isn't wearing a weird latin t-shirt on stage today... did @jay.bsky.team win?

Huge week for people crashing out in The Verge comments saying “I thought this was a tech blog!!!” Anyway here are just a few pieces from our policy and politics desk 🙂 www.theverge.com/policy/77979... www.theverge.com/report/77935... www.theverge.com/policy/77897...

More detail on Kimmel’s comment here. It was as more of a political opinion than a joke. www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

release the Kimmel cut

ABC cancels the only show I ever watched on the network www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

imagine being some austin edgelord who spends years building your rep as a dangerous truth-telling comedy outlaw and the government decides jimmy kimmel is more dangerous than you

Come follow The Verge's Meta Connect coverage! Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage at 8PM ET / 5PM PT, and @vicmsong.bsky.social and I are covering live: www.theverge.com/news/777572/...

We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

Timing of the Kimmel stuff is a shame because Meyers’ show likely already taped, so he can’t address this on air tonight. Idk when Fallon tapes but lol at the idea that he’d grow a spine for this moment.

At our media summit, I asked @BrendanCarrFCC about the l view that the greatest threat to free speech is him -- the government. He disagreed and said it was the social media companies. At 5:30 here www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB64...

Meanwhile, where are all those Harper’s Letter give us justice and open debate people now?

This + it’ll also be interesting to see if all the way-far right people who criticized Bondi this week fall in line here or not. (My guess is they fall in line)

Kimmel has 20M YouTube followers, he should just go live on there tonight instead

Kimmel should do a podcast starting tomorrow. It would be historic.

You’ll never believe it but all the headlines about the Kimmel situation are bad

kimmel? this is like banning pillow fights

The White House's lengthy denial was in response to a whistleblower allegation that DOGE officials at the Social Security Administration copied the agency's database to an insecure cloud system.

A judge ruled this week that attorney Mark Geragos won’t pay anything in a malpractice lawsuit over Michael Avenatti’s Nike extortion scheme after jurors found $100,000 in damages but no liability or causation. www.legalaffairsandtrials.com/p/judge-says...

I like cola! But they're putting all this weird stuff in my cola. Junk really. I want to go back to basics. Cola for the sake of cola. I like my cola simple. Really simple, thank you.

Really Simple Ketchup. Who needs fancy ketchup? I want simple ketchup. REALLY simple ketchup.

Tesla's flush-fit door handles are under fire once again.

Not sure what I'm more surprised about here -- that Tesla is taking some kind of action on this issue, or that it revealed the action to the press, which its leadership detests Either way, proud of my former colleagues at @bloomberg.com, esp @danahull.bsky.social! techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/t...

"they'd have epic reactions for sure"

Carr is a dummy but it’s so funny that he’s handing famous comedians their YouTube launch stories while simultaneously pushing Bari Weiss onto the glass cliff of broadcast news doom

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/17/w... - text

me: i wonder who wrote the 60's pop song 'Morning Girl', it has a nice strings/horns part wikipedia:

RIP macOS Mickey Mouse Pointer 🪦

We simulated the human mind with a chatbot. It didn’t work not advocating data fraud! technically www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlW-... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250917-we-... - podcast time: 6 min 08 sec

It's a noticeable and effective design, but not so drastically different that it will offend or distract those who are happy with the previous version of iOS.

Beijing continues to exert pressure on Chinese tech companies to boost the country’s homegrown semiconductor industry and break their reliance on tech from the United States.

this is a really amazing and necessary series on the loss of jobs in some fields, to AI

i wonder if drinking 19 coffees a day, and not sleeping more than like 5 hours a night, is starting to impact my health. not sure though.

hello eye twitch my old friend

i want to reopen the cloak shop

still drives me crazy that The Morning Show ripped off The Boring Company's logo www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/8/...

is there anything more pure than finding something made in Brøderbund's "The Print Shop" still hanging in a classroom?

generally not good if your car like traps you inside or whatever www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

this is basically the opening line of my forthcoming book www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/782388...

Excited for an economist to argue that cocaine should be included in the basket of consumer goods that determines the rate of inflation, on the argument that inflation isn't nearly as bad if you do

YouTube's messaging around AI was front-and-center at its creator event Tues. --On AI slop: We've dealt before with human-made clickbait trends. We got this. (We'll see!) --On AI displacing human creativity: AI is a tool not magic. Quill pens didn't make everyone Shakespeare etc. (We'll see!)

As the deal stands currently, TikTok will effectively license its algorithm to the US instead of handing it over, a decision that could lead to a glitchier version of the platform stateside.

OpenAI also plans to develop an automated age-prediction system that will determine whether ChatGPT users are over or under 18, automatically directing younger users to a restricted version of the AI chatbot.

Meanwhile the Russians are playing us like a banjo.

you're telling me this tank can think?

iMessage block messages when you’re oversharing

cheap cocaine? damn dude the 2000s hipster era really is back

"america loves cocaine again" is a headline i did not expect to see in a major newspaper today lol

the dancing around white supremacy in this hearing is going to be downright balletic