Richard Lawler

Last summer, Heather Morgan (a Forbes blogger who also rapped under the name Razzlekhan) and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein pleaded guilty to charges they conspired to launder Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex in 2016. At the time of their arrest in early 2022, the stolen crypto was worth $4.5 billion.

With the Vision Pro set to ship starting on February 2nd, Apple uploaded a TV spot for the headset to its YouTube channel. Tim Cook presented this ad at the end of his WWDC 2023 keynote presentation, and it appears to be mostly the same, all these months later.

Following a report that Apple’s infinitely-rumored car is further in the distance than it may have appeared, Mark Gurman says that Apple hardware exec DJ Novotney is departing for Rivian.

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.

Developer Finn Voorhees tested the Castaway: Spatial HDMI Monitor beta by playing Super Mario Bros. Wonder within visionOS using a USB capture card hooked up to an iPad. However, the developers of Halide/Orion have said the APIs necessary to connect their app to Vision Pro aren’t available yet.

The Ingenuity helicopter mission achieved powered flight on another world, brought Zigbee and Linux to Mars, and survived close calls, lasting 33 times longer than originally planned.

This Instagram feature was spotted late last year, but now some people say it’s live on their accounts.

MacRumors points out that today’s beta release of iOS 17.4 with EU-required sideloading also includes several new emoji characters. A head shaking horizontally, a head shaking vertically, a phoenix, a lime, a brown mushroom, and a broken chain were approved by the Unicode Consortium last fall and published as part of Emoji 15.1.

FuboTV users on Android TV or FireTV will see “select” 24 news channels in their guide shown with text in the thumbnails that use an unspecified AI to write a live-updated summary.

Palworld, the survival game described by some as “Pokémon with guns” because of its familiar-looking designs, has sold millions of copies in under a week, with more simultaneous players on Steam than any other game outside of peak PUBG.