Tim Cook confirms price hikes are coming for iPhones, iPads, and Macs

We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we’ve been trying to shield our customers from the increases, but the situation has…

Second carcass-eating fly species cleared by FDA for maggot wound therapy

The Food and Drug Administration this week cleared a second carcass-feasting fly species for use in maggot wound therapy, according to an announcement from Cuprina Holdings, a Singapore-based company that…

The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible

The Trump administration’s disagreement with Anthropic over its most advanced AI models appears to be fast coming to a head. Trump officials tell Inner Loop that if Anthropic wants to…

Chi-Hua Chien saw Facebook coming — now he says the real AI winners won’t be selling AI

Chi-Hua Chien has spent more than two decades as a venture capitalist, but he thinks like a cultural anthropologist. As a co-founder of Goodwater Capital, a firm focused exclusively on…

The Free and Open Web Is Under Attack at the IETF

The ability to access publicly available information using automated tools is a central value and benefit of a free and open internet. Automated access—often called crawling or scraping—powers important, useful…

The iPhone Air 2 Will Reportedly Land Next Spring With A Second Camera

The ultralight may become a permanent fixture in Apple’s smartphone lineup. Sam Rutherford for Engadget Apple could be making a follow-up to the iPhone Air, the ultralight smartphone…

Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for June 18 #633

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and…

VSCO launches Studio Pro mobile photo editing app and plans $500 per year subscription

VSCO is taking on Adobe with a new Studio Pro editing app rolling out today on iOS and coming to macOS later this year, as Bloomberg reports. At launch, the…

AI coding agents taught robots how to install GPUs and cut zip ties

What happens when you give AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and a “generous token budget” for teaching the robots various tasks? The agents…

No, I Don’t Want to Watch Your Straight Hockey Show

The streaming industry has gotten a lot of flak over the past few years, but there is one thing that Hollywood studios are undeniably good at: recycling the same idea,…