Bluck Apps, a small app studio with an existing Android podcast app called Aurelian Audio, has purchased the iOS-only Castro following months of uncertainty about its future.
Castro calls the purchase “a return to its independent roots” and says that while it will “modernize” the app, it won’t make big changes like overhauling the UI or adding chatbot functionality.
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This drone footage from wildlife filmmaker Carlos Gauna might be the first ever captured of a living newborn great white shark.
An associated research paper suggests the white stuff sloughing off of it is either a uterine milk coating or a skin disorder like dermatitis. The researchers believe the shark may be “days or even hours old.”
And now I have a century-old song to scrub from my brain.
New York lawyer Jae Lee will face an attorney grievance panel after trusting known liar ChatGPT for case research.
The court’s order says Lee filed a “defective brief” citing a made-up case. Lee isn’t alone — others have fallen for the allure of chatbots, including former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and counsel representing a member of The Fugees.
The Awesomer pointed to this screen recording of someone doing just that on YouTube. But that’s no fun, so here’s an Internet Archive link to the requisite files, uploaded the day Steamboat Willie’s version of Mickey Mouse entered the public domain this year.
It’s not necessarily the best way to experience this version of Mickey Mouse, but it’s certainly a way.
This picture from Japan’s space agency, JAXA, showing the “Moon Sniper” lander upside-down was snapped by one of the small robots it ejected just as it landed.
Unfortunate as the lander’s resting position is, JAXA pointed out separately that this meant its tiny, transforming robotic ball worked. It also says it still hopes the lander can be salvaged as the sun’s angle changes.
So says Mark Gurman in the latest Power On newsletter for Bloomberg. That’s not all — in addition to two iPad Air models (one a 12.9-inch!) and OLED iPad Pro tablets, he writes that 13- and- 15-inch MacBook Air models will be updated with M3 chips at the same time.
That would be the first refresh of each iPad and the 13-inch MacBook Air since 2022.
If you got a Series 9 or Ultra 2 before Apple had to remove the blood oxygen feature from new ones on January 17th, congrats!
But if you break your watch doing parkour and replace it with AppleCare, will you lose the feature? That’s a “definite maybe,” according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. He wrote today in the subscriber version of Power On that Apple has told AppleCare reps that replacements might not have it.
