Imagine you were Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping and you woke up a year ago having magically been given command of puppet strings that control the White House. Your explicit geopolitical goal is to undermine trust in the United States on the world stage. You want to destroy the Western rules-based…

Let’s Just Get It Out of the Way and Talk About the New Icons First, but Let’s Also Use the Icons as a Proxy for Talking About the Broader Software Design Problems at Apple There’s a lot of hate for the new app icons of the entire Creator Studio suite, but while I think the icons are tragically…

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. A worried mother sits on the couch in my office. Her spouse was recently laid off, they’re experiencing tension at home, and her 15-year-old son’s grades have started to drop. “The one thing he seems to care…

John: 2025 was a different sort of year for apps, which is reflected in this year’s MacStories Selects Awards winners. App innovation comes from many places. Sometimes it’s new Apple APIs or hardware, and other times it’s broader shifts in the tech world. Supported By RevenueCat RevenueCat: The…

In my post earlier today on the then-breaking news that Alan Dye has left Apple to join Meta as chief design officer (a new title at the company1), I wrote: It sounds like Dye chose to jump ship, and wasn’t squeezed out (as it seems with former AI chief John Giannandrea earlier this week).…

Manager at the first start-up. Solid guy. Significant experience. I know that I can learn from him. No doubt. All the correct operational 1:1 hygiene is there. We meet every week like clockwork; we fill the time, and I often leave with a healthy sense of productivity. But sometimes… he talks. And…

As I get older, I increasingly think about whether I’m spending my time the right way to advance my career and my life. This is also a question that your company asks about you every performance cycle: is this engineering manager spending their time effectively to advance the company or their…

Photo-Illustration: New York Magazine; Photos Matt Wilson/Comedy Central’s The Daily Show This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Since last November’s election defeat, the Democratic Party has been subject to an endless battery of postmortems, and a shadow…

In 1933, German conservatives thought they could control Hitler. Two years later, they were being executed in their own homes. I spent weeks researching this question, desperately looking for counter-examples, for hope, for any time in history where people successfully stopped fascists after they…

President Biden’s standing with Americans has improved slightly over the past two months, but he remains in negative territory in most assessments of his performance in office and Republicans hold substantial advantages over Democrats on key economic indicators that are shaping the midterm election…

It’s not easy to move around New York City as Zohran Mamdani anymore. Like when the 33-year-old Democratic nominee for mayor leaves a union meeting to walk to his Manhattan campaign office, as he did one Monday morning in July. Within a block, a phone--wielding crowd forms and follows. “Oh my God,…

Democrats are not just losing arguments; they are often losing the room. The problem runs deeper than messaging. It is a crisis of attention and, beneath that, a crisis of credibility. Voters may still tell pollsters they prefer Democrats, yet few believe the party can change the cost of anything…

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Other peoples have risen. Other peoples have risen up to defend their rights, their dignity, and their democracies. In the past 50 years, they’ve done it in Poland, South Africa, Lebanon, South Korea, Ukraine,…

Recently, while in Geneva, I sat down with the ambassador of a closely allied country. In the shadow of the Palais des Nations—the European home of the United Nations—we discussed the state of multilateral diplomacy. At one point, he offered a blunt assessment of America’s diminished presence on the…

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Days after Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to put an end to the Justice Department’s revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, captains of the legal resistance gathered by Zoom. Norm Eisen, a former attorney for…

It’s not just you. The internet is getting worse, fast. The services we rely on, that we once loved? They’re all turning into piles of shit, all at once. Ask any Facebook user who has to scroll past 10 screens of engagement-bait, AI slop and surveillance ads just to get to one post by the people…

The skills AI will make more valuable (and how to learn them) By · Published June 16th, 2025 · (opens in new window) On this page: Around half of people are worried they’ll lose their job to AI.1 And they’re right to be concerned: AI can now complete real-world coding tasks on GitHub, generate…

glass-terpiece macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica review Liquid Glass brings translucent sheen to the typical batch of iterative changes. Andrew Cunningham – Sep 15, 2025 1:00 pm | 285 Credit: Apple Credit: Apple Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers only Learn more The last time Apple gave…

Important Note: On this blog I speak only for myself as someone experienced in usable security and website authentication. I am not speaking for the company I work for. I encourage linking to and talking about this post, but if you can, please identify me without affiliation.[1] Independent media…

Jacobin‘s fall issue, “Borders,” is out now. Follow this link to get a discounted subscription to our beautiful print quarterly. Deportation as Class Strategy Oliver Eagleton Citizenship by Algorithm Nika Soon-Shiong The Borderland Where Fascism Learned to Rule David Broder From Scapegoats to…

Jacobin‘s fall issue, “Borders,” is out now. Follow this link to get a discounted subscription to our beautiful print quarterly. Deportation as Class Strategy Oliver Eagleton Citizenship by Algorithm Nika Soon-Shiong The Borderland Where Fascism Learned to Rule David Broder From Scapegoats to…

I’ve Got Better Things To Do Than This, and Yet Last week, when I posted my Finder icon suggestion on Mastodon, I mentioned how I don’t really like spending my time talking about this kind of stuff. To clarify, I don’t like doing it when I have other things I would much rather be doing. Lately, I…

Jacobin‘s fall issue, “Borders,” is out now. Follow this link to get a discounted subscription to our beautiful print quarterly. Deportation as Class Strategy Oliver Eagleton Citizenship by Algorithm Nika Soon-Shiong The Borderland Where Fascism Learned to Rule David Broder From Scapegoats to…

A Responsibility to the Industry Firstly, I maintain that it makes absolutely no sense that Alan Dye has the power he has, because he simply has no taste. But what’s worse is that he wields that power so clumsily, so carelessly. And because it goes unchallenged, unchecked by someone higher than him,…

This is part of a series from The Athletic breaking down the tactical approach of Premier League teams for the 2025-26 season. Read about other clubs below: Arsenal Leeds United Burnley Manchester United Sunderland Newcastle United Liverpool have gone from the hunters to the hunted. After the…

The cast of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” in May.Credit...Sinna Nasseri for The New York Times. Over the last 20 years, television has changed, but the malignant narcissists of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” have not. The cast of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” in May.Credit...Sinna…

iPadOS 26. Apple released the first public betas of iOS and iPadOS 26 last week, and I’m going to cut to the chase with this story: although I’m still wrapping my head around Liquid Glass and trying to understand where this new design language will land, iPadOS 26 has fundamentally revolutionized my…

Why CBS’s Cancellation of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” Stinks to High Hell Even back in the now-comparatively-sane Trump 1.0 administration, it seemed palpably true to me that the best check against Trump’s authoritarian instincts wasn’t legal or Constitutional, but rather cultural. The…

A few observations after Apple’s WWDC25 keynote The title of my article obviously refers to the new UI Apple presented on 9 June, which they call Liquid Glass. I won’t beat around the bush: my very first impression is that we’re in UI emergency territory, but we won’t be able to break this…

iPadOS 26. Source: Apple. It’s a cool, sunny morning at Apple Park as I’m walking my way along the iconic glass ring to meet with Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, for a conversation about the iPad. It’s the Wednesday after WWDC, and although there are still some developers and…

Smart TVs, take note Breaking down why Apple TVs are privacy advocates’ go-to streaming device Using the Apple TV app or an Apple account means giving Apple more data, though. Scharon Harding – Jun 1, 2025 7:35 am | 247 Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Story…

Listen to this post: Log in to listen If WWDC’s opening video — which cast Apple executives as characters in the upcoming F1 movie, with Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi in the starring role — was a bit of a fever dream, then the opening of Federighi’s presentation of…

Contents Welcome to WWDC25! We’ve got lots of exciting announcements about web technology to share with you this week. Don’t miss our seven sessions, including What’s new in Safari and WebKit. Today brings the beta of Safari 26, with 67 new features and 107 improvements. We’ll take a tour of them…

Ninety-two years ago this month, on Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy, Hitler set about destroying a constitutional republic through…

When Dario Amodei gets excited about AI—which is nearly always—he moves. The cofounder and CEO springs from a seat in a conference room and darts over to a whiteboard. He scrawls charts with swooping hockey-stick curves that show how machine intelligence is bending toward the infinite. His hand…

Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan’s views on China. “This is insane CCP thinking,” Lonsdale, a co-founder of Palantir, wrote to a 300-member Signal group. “Not sure what leaders hang out w you in Singapore…

Back to Mac Feb 10th, 2025 Introduction Almost eight and a half years ago, I switched to using an iPad as my full-time computer, having come from decades of having Macs. In recent years we did get an emergency-use shared/household M2 MacBook Air, which my wife would occasionally take out of the…