Hardware & Gadgets

John Ternus visits Apple's design studio several times a week — Tim Cook came about once a month. Seven years after Jony Ive left, the CEO has made himself the company's design chief, and the bet is that one decision-maker beats a committee.

On September 30, California became the first state to ban AI-only firings. The law has real teeth — but it doesn't touch the surveillance software scoring you every day. Here's the fine print.

A new IARC study published in The Lancet Oncology says 2.3 million cancers diagnosed in 2024 — one in eight — were caused by infections. Unlike the genetics story, most of these are preventable with vaccines, antibiotics, and screening we already have.

WhatsApp's optional teen parental controls give parents a PIN-protected dashboard over group activity, privacy, and Meta AI — while end-to-end encryption stays untouched. The design tradeoff, and the opt-in problem.

Python 3.15.0 lands October 9 with explicit lazy imports, a built-in frozendict, UTF-8 as the default encoding, and a faster JIT. The headline features are nice — but one quiet behavior change deserves your attention first.

Reddit will kill its RSS feeds on November 13 and end public API access by March 2027. The reason is AI scraping — but the deeper story is what happens when your conversations become someone else's product.