Tech Archive

It’s a difference of three letters, but Apple contends iPadOS is in a different EU regulatory category than iOS, so most of its newly (sort of) open app store policies only apply to the latter. 9to5Mac has a breakdown of that nuance, starting with one big limitation:

Stanley, the maker of the obscenely large adult sippy cups that people are going feral over, confirms that yes, one part of the cups is made with lead — but that exposure to it would be “rare.” Lead in drinking cups has been a problem with other brands’ products in the past.

Among iOS 12.4’s DMA-mandated changes, there’s a prompt to pick a default web browser the first time people in EU markets open Safari after they upgrade.

Code in the iOS 17.4 beta suggests Apple is experimenting with a SiriSummarization framework that uses the ChatGPT API to summarize text and answer questions, according to findings from 9to5Mac.

I’m actually working on a review of the Legion Go right now, and it’s the only Windows gaming handheld I can recommend — if you absolutely must have Windows, can’t wait for Intel-powered handheld reviews, and don’t want a gaming laptop instead.

Asus India exec Arnold Su told Techlusive that the new gaming handheld will “focus more on gaming” — what a Yo Dawg quote! — but will still be focused on Windows rather than, say, SteamOS. I wonder why.

AMD is axing the stream-and-monitor-your-own-PC-games feature, and its announcement made me laugh:

This time it’s The Hairpin, the women’s site that stopped publishing five years ago. Since then, a Serbian DJ bought up the expired domain for its “great reputation and excellent backlinks,” Wired reports, and filled it with AI-generated SEO bait and fake authors.

In this episode, we get our first glimpse of Nilay’s fabulously lucrative “alternate app marketplace” idea, we have a lot of thoughts about whether Netflix is better than cable or is just cable again, and all expose ourselves as thoroughly un-knowledgeable about wrestling. But we do know all about Pokemon with guns.