The iPhone Air ditches the SIM tray entirely and Apple's thinnest phone ever has me thinking about Bendgate again, plus AirPods Pro 3's live translation might be the real story of the week.
The Pixel 10 went on sale over Labor Day weekend, and the only feature that actually got me was Pixelsnap, Google's new built-in magnetic charging.
The Pixel 10 launch got all the headlines, but the detail that actually stuck with me was iFixit's Pixel Watch 4 teardown and Google's own warning not to open the back cover yourself.
xAI filed suit against Apple and OpenAI this week over App Store rankings. Fourteen years of watching app charts move around tells me this complaint isn't as crazy as the messenger makes it sound.
Google's Pixel 10 launch got all the headlines this week, but the detail that stuck with me was the Pixel Watch 4's glued-shut, basically unrepairable battery.
Perplexity offered Google $34.5 billion for Chrome, a browser that isn't for sale, from a company worth less than its own bid. Some thoughts on the stunt, and on the GPT-5 week it got buried under.
Perplexity made an unsolicited $34.5 billion offer for Chrome this week. It's a wild number from a company worth a fraction of that, and I have thoughts.
Perplexity AI says it wants to buy Chrome for $34.5 billion, which is more than the entire company is worth. I have thoughts.
A late-night test of Anthropic's new Opus 4.1 model, fixing a years-old RSS scraper script, and a small complaint about AI naming schemes.
Cloudflare accused Perplexity of dodging robots.txt blocks with spoofed browser signatures, and it's got me digging through my own server logs wondering what's actually crawling this blog.
Intel's Q2 earnings call confirmed deeper layoffs and pushed Ohio fab completion out to the early 2030s, even as the stock rose on the news. A look at the gap between the 2022 groundbreaking hype and where things actually stand.
Perplexity's new Comet browser went out to Max subscribers this week, and its whole pitch is that you shouldnt have to click around the web yourself anymore. Im not sure Im ready for that.
