SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2026VOL. XXVI · NO. 17
Section — Tech

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Software and hardware that respects your attention — and the rest.

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Apple Lost. Now It's Arguing About What 'Lost' Means.

A Supreme Court petition that has nothing to do with winning and everything to do with who the ruling actually covers.

MAY 22, 2026 · 3 min
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Silicon Valley and China's AI Labs Are Peers. They Always Were.

The 'AI race' makes for great congressional testimony. It doesn't describe reality.

MAY 22, 2026 · 2 min
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Spotify Turned the Skip Button Into a Subscription to Your Own Life

Every new feature Spotify announced is quietly about the same thing — and it's not music.

MAY 21, 2026 · 5 min
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Google Made the Box Bigger. That's Not the News.

After 25 years, the search bar changed shape — and somehow that's what everyone is talking about.

MAY 20, 2026 · 2 min
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SpaceX Filed the Paperwork. Read It Slowly.

When Elon Musk's rocket company opens its books, every number in the AI gold rush starts to look like a different kind of math.

MAY 20, 2026 · 5 min
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Oil Was Always Just Stored Electricity. The UAE Finally Did the Math.

When a petrostate walks away from OPEC to fund data centers, the commodity era is officially a rounding error.

MAY 20, 2026 · 3 min
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Sony Charged $650 for a Decade and Called It Hardware

The 1000X The Collexion isn't competing with Bose. It's competing with the idea that specs still close the sale.

MAY 19, 2026 · 3 min
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Plex Charged $250 for Forever. Forever Ended June 30.

A tripling of the lifetime subscription price isn't a business decision — it's an admission.

MAY 19, 2026 · 3 min
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Apple's Best AI Demo Isn't for You

The clearest argument for Apple Intelligence isn't in the keynote. It's in the accessibility notes.

MAY 19, 2026 · 3 min
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We Keep Asking If Apple Can Invent Again. Wrong Question.

Every CEO transition story has a villain. This one keeps trying to make Tim Cook the victim.

MAY 19, 2026 · 5 min
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Elon Musk Sued the Future and Lost on a Technicality About the Past

A unanimous jury just told the most litigious man in tech that timing is everything.

MAY 18, 2026 · 3 min
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Linus Torvalds Broke Up With the Mailing List. AI Made Him Do It.

When every tool finds the same bug at the same time, the inbox stops being useful and starts being a problem.

MAY 18, 2026 · 3 min
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Santa Clara County Just Said Aloud What Meta's Ad Team Already Knew

A $7 billion number doesn't describe a broken system. It describes a working one.

MAY 17, 2026 · 2 min
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Eric Schmidt Got Booed at Graduation and Nobody in the Room Was Wrong

When a former Google CEO can't sell AI to the people who'll live with it, that's not a PR problem — it's a signal.

MAY 17, 2026 · 2 min
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Recruiters Built the Trap. Someone Finally Baited It.

A hidden instruction in a LinkedIn bio turned AI recruitment bots inside out — and accidentally proved they're as manipulable as the people they replaced.

MAY 17, 2026 · 2 min
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Silicon Valley Noticed the Pitchforks

A TechCrunch piece about AI's uneven spoils isn't just a critique — it's a confession.

MAY 17, 2026 · 2 min
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Greg Brockman Now Runs Product. OpenAI Called This Stability.

A co-founder picking up the pieces isn't a reorganization. It's a confession.

MAY 16, 2026 · 3 min
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ArXiv Drew a Line in the Sand. The Sand Is Full of Hallucinated Citations.

A preprint server's crackdown on AI-generated submissions isn't a policy update — it's a confession.

MAY 15, 2026 · 3 min
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ChatGPT Wants to See Your Bank Statements

OpenAI just made the most intimate ask yet — and framed it as a favor.

MAY 15, 2026 · 3 min
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Academia Counted Citations for Decades. AI Figured Out the Denomination.

A paper getting cited hundreds of times should be a triumph. Turns out it's a diagnostic.

MAY 15, 2026 · 3 min
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Gesture-Based Texting Arrived. The Phone Is Still In Your Pocket.

Meta's neural wristband lets you write messages with your hand — which tells you more about where interfaces are going than any keynote ever could.

MAY 15, 2026 · 2 min
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Everyone Knows Where the Chips Come From. Nobody Has a Plan B.

The Xi-Trump summit will produce a communiqué. The Taiwan problem will outlast it.

MAY 14, 2026 · 3 min