Dithering: ‘Alan Dye Leaves Apple’

Apple’s Succession Intrigue Isn’t Strange at All

Apple Announces a Few Other Executive Transitions

HBO Max Butchers ‘Mad Men’ in Botched ‘Remastering’

Lisa Jackson on The Talk Show Back in 2017

Apple Announces a Few Other Executive Transitions

★ 2025 App Store Award Winners: Tiimo, Essayist, and Detail

I did not enjoy them as much as Apple did.

Newstead Replaces Adams and Jackson

Apple (MacRumors): Apple today announced that Jennifer Newstead will become Apple’s general counsel on March 1, 2026, following a transition of duties from Kate Adams, who has served as Apple’s general counsel since 2017. She was previously chief le…

Netflix Buys Warner Bros.

Dominic Preston (Hacker News, MacRumors, Slashdot): Netflix has announced that it’s struck a deal to acquire Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion. The purchase will go through after Warner Bros.’ planned split from Discovery, now expected to take place in…

Archaeology 1.5

Mothers Ruin Software (Mastodon): Restored the ability to decode recently-created URL Bookmarks. Apple changed this binary format in macOS 26.1, macOS 15.7.2 and macOS 14.8.2, and that would cause the decode to fail. Archaeology can now decode the n…

Twitter Fined Under Digital Services Act

Ashley Belanger (Hacker News): The European Commission announced that X would be fined nearly $140 million, with the potential to face “periodic penalty payments” if the platform fails to make corrections. A third of the fine came from one of the fi…

Netflix Agrees to Buy Warner Bros., Including HBO, for $83 Billion

Russia Blocks FaceTime, Snapchat, and Roblox

Juli Clover: Russia has blocked Apple’s FaceTime video calling app in an ongoing effort to eliminate private communication methods, reports Reuters. Russia claims FaceTime is being used for criminal activity, and that blocking the app is a legitimat…

“End-to-End Encrypted”

Simon Fondrie-Teitler (Hacker News, Slashdot): In October Kohler launched Dekota, a $600 (plus monthly subscription) device that attaches to the rim of your toilet and collects images and data from inside, promising to track and provide insights on …

SoundSource 6

Paul Kafasis (release notes): You can now play audio through multiple outputs at once, with grouped output devices. […] SoundSource has outstanding new support for sending audio to AirPlay devices like HomePods, Sonos systems, and more. That means y…

NPM Supply Chain Attack

GitLab (via Hacker News): Our internal monitoring system has uncovered multiple infected packages containing what appears to be an evolved version of the “Shai-Hulud” malware.Early analysis shows worm-like propagation behavior that automatically inf…

★ Alan Dye Was in Tim Cook’s Blind Spot

How could someone who would even *consider* leaving Apple for Meta rise to a level of such prominence at Apple, including as one of the few public faces of the company?

★ Bad Dye Job

It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.

Alan Dye Comments on His Career Move in an Instagram Story

★ Bad Dye Job

It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.

★ Bad Dye Job

It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.