Richard Lawler

While Comcast / NBCUniversal argued for a Hulu valuation that could’ve cost Disney another $5 billion on top of the $8.6 billion it had already paid, a third-party appraiser reached a number much closer to Disney’s. That ended their dispute -- simmering since 2019 -- for only an extra $438.7 million, as reported by THR and Axios.

If you ask The Verge reporters who were there liveblogging Apple’s keynote today, the answer is (mostly) Spotlight.

At WWDC 2025, Apple just showed off a new update coming to its wearables this fall.

There’s a flood of reports about college students apparently using AI to cheat their way through college, and debating whether or not that’s the actual problem. Now, NBC4 in Columbus points out Ohio State’s new AI Fluency plan that targets the class of 2029 (with some level of assumptions that our current view of generative AI will still be relevant by then), focusing on a few steps:

Atkinson’s family announced that he passed away last Thursday due to pancreatic cancer. Employee number 51 at Apple, Atkinson worked on the Macintosh, MacPaint, and HyperCard.

Mark Gurman’s Bloomberg newsletter brings one more pre-WWDC 25 rumor, saying the most exciting part of the conference will be the rumored design overhaul for iPhone, Mac, and other platforms that he says is called Liquid Glass (remember Microsoft’s Aero Glass, and Apple’s iOS 7 shift away from skeuomorphism?).

If you already bought a Windows gaming handheld, you might not need to upgrade your hardware to get the overhauled Xbox app, Game Bar, and Windows OS that Microsoft and Asus just announced.

An update on how the extremely public political breakup is going today, as protestors face off with federal immigration agents in Los Angeles.

If you’re not in the first wave of buyers but are willing to spend the $449.99 or more to get a Switch 2 soon, it could be tricky. Bloomberg asked retail execs, with a Best Buy senior VP saying it could be days or weeks before Nintendo sends more systems, assuming they sell out of their current stock tonight as expected, while GameStop reportedly expects to restock weekly.

This minigame / explainer for the Switch 2’s features costs $9.99, but Nintendo’s video shows off a lot of the experience without costing anything extra, which could be good after the $449.99-plus charge hits buyers’ accounts.