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This is absolutely hilarious, and sadly quite accurate at the same time.

I didn’t think it was possible for John Gruber to exude even more tone-deaf privilege, but I have been proven wrong in spectacular fashion.

Marcus Mendes, writing for 9to5Mac: Earlier this year, the WebKit team shared the results of Interop 2025, which saw the percentage of selected tests passing across all browsers jump from just 29% at the beginning of the year to 97% by the end.

For his last day Tim couldn’t even be bothered to publish a letter to the public on apple.com, instead we got this generic blurb on X: Sending lots of love to the Apple community on my last day as CEO.

This piece by Watts Martin over on Coyote Tracks sums up this MacStories news well, and I agree with the sentiment.

Samantha Maldonado, writing for The City Reporter: The letter, sent July 20, states the app and its ads and online materials use “nearly identical” branding and colors as the city’s WalkNYC materials.

I’m not sure how long this time-traveler website has been around, but I just learned of its existence today.

Andy Baio: Like I mentioned yesterday, I’ve quietly spent the last few months dusting the cobwebs off some long-dormant side projects of mine.

Rob Beschizza, writing for Boing Boing: A high school in New York was set on installing an AI-equipped humanoid robot there this fall, but the Salamanca City Central School District has paused the plan after public outrage.

Luke James, writing for Tom’s Hardware: Google’s parent company Alphabet recently reported negative free cash flow of $5.9 billion for the second quarter of 2026, the company’s first cash-negative quarter since its 2004 IPO, after capital expenditures dou…

Hannah Frishberg, writing for Gothamist: A group or rays — also known as a “fever” — was spotted swimming through Newtown Creek, a notoriously filthy estuary of the East River, last weekend.

James Smith @Floppy: This is actually happening; we’re building a community to execute a bigotry-free #Rails fork (29 people and increasing at time of writing).

Ravie Lakshmanan, writing for The Hacker News: Accomplish AI, which shared details of the vulnerability with The Hacker News ahead of publication, said about 500,000 macOS users running local Cowork sessions were affected prior to it being patched.

Katy Perry, in a post on X this past Saturday afternoon: I am deeply appalled and angry to see “Firework” used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes.

John Poole, writing on the Geekbench blog: The multi-core benchmark in Geekbench 7 has been redesigned to better reflect how real applications behave.

In an unsigned blog post from OpenAI: You can choose to securely connect Apple Health and supported medical records so ChatGPT can help you understand your information in context, keep track of what has changed, and have more informed, personalized conver…

Ivan Mehta, writing for TechCrunch: Google is about to add another name to its long list of products with more than a billion users, a list that already includes Search, Gmail, Drive, Android, YouTube, and Chrome.

mmalc writing on X Machina: Apple Park’s primary design goal was to foster collaboration and serendipitous interaction — almost the exact words Apple’s own head of industrial design used to describe the building years after it opened, and consistent with…

Signal Ring measures your blood pressure without a cuff.

Zack Whittaker, writing for TechCrunch: According to Mozilla’s latest findings examining the privacy practices of period-tracking apps, Stardust was found to be sharing users’ sensitive health information with third-party analytics company RudderStack.

Daniel Loehr, writing for Vital City: In New York City, noise is the number one complaint made to 311, outnumbering the next-closest complaint by more than 200,000 calls per year.

Jennifer Daniel has revealed some designs for the new emoji, and also something I didn’t realize about the existing butterfly 🦋 emoji.