Apple Is Boring Now theatlantic.com

X makes it more expensive to post links through its API. It moves further away from the web, where links are a key feature techcrunch.com

Om Malik, one of the original old school bloggers is on the story. We're rewriting the world in software again. We're all discovering this in our own ways om.co

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop thatprivacyguy.com

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out theguardian.com

Virginia approves redistricting, giving Democrats edge in midterms bbc.com

Personal_AI_Infrastructure. Comes highly recommended github.com

Trump’s Counterterrorism Czar Without a Counterterrorism Plan talkingpointsmemo.com

Timothy Snyder: Superpower Suicide. I've come to the same conclusion. Trump is out of tricks. Trying to recycle old rage. Not only is everyone tired of it, but he's always bluffing. And he sends his son-in-law to figure out what to do. It's like a way too long Vonnegut novel snyder.substack.com

Why The Devil Wears Prada 2’s Starbucks tie-in leaves a strange taste theguardian.com

Iran war accelerates America’s breakup with the world politico.com

Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return techcrunch.com

John Ternus will replace Tim Cook as Apple CEO arstechnica.com

Five Trump Scandals You’ve Probably Missed doomsdayscenario.co

The Trump Administration Is Coming After Birth Control Access in a Terrifying New Way nytimes.com

Josh Marshall writes of “the broken world of social media” as if it were a fact that couldn’t change, but it can. It is the way it is because smart people don’t speak up and reporters don’t challenge the hype, so lies become accepted as fact talkingpointsmemo.com

Jonathan Desrosiers: The fight for the open web is a lie. (Exactly right. europe.wordcamp.org

U.S. seizes Iranian cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz npr.org

“The quiet truth about AI is that it doesn't replace the thing that was hard. It replaces the thing that was slow. joostboer.com

Elad Gil on which AI markets have winners — and which are still wide open techcrunch.com

Behind Trump’s Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears wsj.com