Deep Dive
Deep Dive: Ford Is Building Apple Maps Into Its EVs. The Dashboard Wars Begin.
Ford’s Apple Maps deal reveals the battle over software-defined cars, dashboard data, EV routing, subscriptions, privacy, and control in 2026.
AI
Apple Sued OpenAI for Hardware Secrets. The AI Future Has a Laptop Problem.
Apple sued OpenAI over alleged trade-secret theft tied to AI hardware. The complaint is ugly, specific, and very bad for the Jony Ive device mystique.
Consumer Tech
Apple Put Curved Windows in Vision Pro and Made the Face Computer Make Sense
visionOS 27 gives Vision Pro better spatial instincts, smarter Siri, and just enough practical polish to make the face computer feel plausible.
Deep Dive
WWDC 2026 Siri AI Deep Dive: Everything Apple Announced and Still Must Prove
Apple unveiled Siri AI at WWDC 2026. Here is how its Gemini-powered assistant works, why privacy matters, and what Apple must still prove.
Apple
Tim Cook Ascends to the Great Apple Store in the Sky, Leaving Behind a $4 Trillion Religion
Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO, and the 'not innovative' crowd can kindly explain how a $4 trillion Apple, Apple silicon, wearables, services, and 2.5 billion devices are not innovation.
Big Tech
Apple's Bold iOS 27 AI Strategy Is Mostly Just Asking Gemini and Claude to Handle It
Siri is getting smarter in iOS 27. Specifically, it's getting smarter by routing your questions to AI assistants that are actually smart.
Satire
Apple’s 100th Anniversary (2076): The iPhone Becomes Sentient and Immediately Subscribes You to Itself
What will Apple look like when it turns 100 in 2076? Imagine a sentient iPhone living in your brain, a three-week WWDC, and an Apple Car that costs more than a condo. Here’s our completely serious forecast.
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: Love, Robots, Budget AI, and a Thousand Mac Minis
From OpenClaw obsession to humanoid robots and AI coalitions, here’s everything ridiculous and brilliant in tech this week.
Satire
A Valentine’s Sonnet to OpenClaw and a Thousand Mac Minis
In honor of Valentine’s Day, a developer discovers OpenClaw—and falls hopelessly in love with the Mac minis that run it so perfectly he buys hundreds.
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: Age Gates, AI Newsrooms, 300,000 Litter Boxes, and Other Signs of Progress
This week in tech snark: Roblox safety theater, AI in the newsroom, Meta’s metaverse flop, and why simplicity keeps beating hype.
Deals
Apple and Google’s Minimalist AI Announcement Is a Flex
A hilariously short Apple–Google AI press release reveals who’s winning, who’s not, and why less is now more.
This Week in Snark
Apple Schemes, Netflix Grovels, Anthropic Wins, and Google Throws a Parade: This Week in Snark
Apple's AI long game, Netflix gets rejected, Anthropic lands $200M, and OpenAI battles Google in this week’s SiliconSnark tech recap.