Richard Lawler

Last week, we noted that the popular multiplatform podcast app was showing ads to people who’d paid for the mobile version years ago, before subscriptions. Now, a post in its forum says, “We have removed the banner ads, and they will not be displayed to app purchasers in the future.”

Ten years ago, Google ’solved’ our photo backup problems with free unlimited space and some compression... until it didn’t anymore.

As Mark Gurman noted in a tweet, the lawsuit claims the management of an Apple Store in Reston, VA, “failed to accommodate an employee’s Jewish faith and subsequently fired him because of his religion and in retaliation for complaining of religion-based discrimination.”

There are fixes for bugs that some new iPhone 17 / Pro / Air owners have noticed, like wonky Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios, as well as camera artifacts experienced “under certain lighting conditions.”

Despite families of hostages protesting against previously announced plans to broadcast the audio from speakers pointed at Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his speech was also pushed to cellphones. We haven’t found any reports about how it would’ve worked, or that it was seen as he said:

Nearly two years after it was announced, we finally have gameplay video of iRacing’s first attempt at a new stock car racing game, and it looks pretty good. It’s debuting on PS5 and Xbox Series consoles first, on October 14th, before the Steam release for PC on November 11th.

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett tries to explain why the Trump Administration allowed Nvidia to sell AI chips in China in exchange for a 15 percent cut.