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Apple’s big design decision.

Yesterday the company announced longtime COO Jeff Williams is retiring. Bloomberg has a good rundown of Williams’ responsibilities at Apple, and where they’ll go next — from supply chains to pet projects like the Apple Watch.

Williams also oversaw design, which he’s handing over to Tim Cook. Daring Fireball points out that’s unlikely to last. Apple hasn’t had a design lead since Jony Ive left, but “It seems like time for that now.”

“Six years after Jony Ive’s departure, today’s announcements leave it less clear than ever whose taste, ultimately, is steering the work of the company into the future.”

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Sam Altman: “I don’t like smart glasses.”

The OpenAI CEO wore a pair of bold glasses while talking to reporters at the Sun Valley conference, and he says they aren’t smart glasses and that he doesn’t like the form factor. Altman briefly teased OpenAI’s upcoming hardware, but only to say that “it’s going to be great.”

He also touches on the talent war between OpenAI and Meta.

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Max is becoming HBO Max once again on Wednesday.

Warner Bros. Discovery had said the switch would happen sometime this summer, and now Variety, Deadline, and The Hollywood Reporter all say the move is imminent.

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Some patriotic reflections on this Independence Day.

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    Marco Rubio has an AI imposter.

    Someone impersonating the Secretary of State sent AI text and voice messages to foreign ministers, a US governor, and a Congress member, according to a report from The Washington Post. The person contacted the officials on the encrypted messaging app Signal and over text.

    A memo seen by WaPo said the imposter “likely aimed to manipulate targeted individuals... with the goal of gaining access to information or accounts.”

    A guide to the best sci-fi streaming this summer

    Foundation and Strange New Worlds return, while Alien: Earth and Eyes of Wakanda will make their debuts.

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    The MyPillow guy’s lawyers got fined for using false AI-generated citations.

    The attorneys defending MyPillow founder Mike Lindell in a defamation case (which he lost) were ordered to pay $3,000 each for putting AI-generated misquotes and “citations of cases that do not exist” in a brief submitted in February, as reported by ArsTechnica.

    More and more lawyers are getting caught — and punished — for including AI hallucinations in their work, and this trend will likely only continue to grow.

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    Deerhoof did not want its music ‘funding AI battle tech’ — so it ditched Spotify

    Drummer Greg Saunier explains the moral calculus behind leaving the biggest streaming platform.

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    The third Dune movie is titled “Dune: Part Three.”

    It won’t be called Dune: Messiah even though it’s an adaptation of that book, Variety reports. The movie is set to release in December 2026.

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    A science fair of “things we’ll never know.”

    House Democrats are holding a science fair of canceled grants in Washington, DC today to call attention to research projects that the Trump administration has defunded.

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    A new bill would ensure that the military has the right-to-repair its own equipment.

    Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Tim Sheehy (R-MT) have introduced the Warrior Right to Repair Act of 2025, which would force contractors to give the Department of Defense “fair and reasonable” access to repair parts, tools, and information.

    Earlier this year, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll committed to adding right-to-repair provisions in existing and future contracts with manufacturers. This bill would extend the policy to other branches of the military.

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    Google is bringing AI Mode outside the US.

    Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that users in India will now be able to access AI Mode in Search, a chatbot-style search feature that provides AI-generated responses based on sources across the web. The feature is still only available in English for now.

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    Gary Oldman’s Jackson Lamb is returning for a seventh season of Slow Horses.

    Ahead of season five which is set to premiere on September 24th, 2025, Apple TV Plus has announced that Slow Horses will be returning for a six-episode seventh season that will be based on Mick Herron’s Bad Actors — the eighth novel in their Slough House series.

    The season will feature Jackson Lamb and his team “on the hunt to find and neutralize a mole at the heart of British Government before they can bring down the state.”

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    Time is flying by.

    ...until the just-announced July 31st release date of Time Flies, a game where you cause mischief as a fly. I tried a demo last year and it’s very silly.

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