JAG’s Workshop
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Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results in Its ‘Best Fiscal Year Yet’
Apple: Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter ended September 26, 2026. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $114.5 billion, up 12 percent year over year. Company gross margin was 47.9 percent, including a favorable impact of approximately…
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John Ternus to Host His First Earnings Call as Apple CEO
Apple’s FY 2026 fourth quarter results come out today following the closing bell, and soon after that, John Ternus will lead his first earnings call as CEO. It will, of course, be thoroughly scripted, so I’m not expecting any great surprises. I’m mostly curious if Tim Cook
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‘Tom from South Carolina’ Interviewed After Epic ‘Nothing Like Seeing a Cult’ Trolling of Fox ‘News’
Marisa Kabas at The Handbasket scores an interview with Tom Hoyle, the South Carolinian who last week went viral for his “Jonestown Massacre” MAGA comparison on Fox “News.” First, Kabas describes the (hilariously brief) interview: In it, the reporter asks him “Why are you here…
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PROLED XDR Display Technology Overview
Apple published “PROLED XDR Display Technology Overview” (PDF), for anyone curious about the features and capabilities of the new MacBook Pro ProLED XDR displays. Plenty of (marketing-oriented) details about the display technology (though none about the touchscreen).
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Chihuly Garden and Glass
During a recent visit to Seattle, we visited Chihuly Garden and Glass, a long-term exhibition of the works of glass sculptor Dale Chihuly. The exhibition, which opened in 2012 at the Seattle Center at the base of the Space Needle, is a vibrant, colorful collection of dozens of…
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Sir Patrick Stewart Dies at 86
Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter: Patrick Stewart, the sophisticated actor who brought a Shakespearean touch to Star Trek and X-Men as he made an otherworldly transformation from British stage veteran to sci-fi icon, has died. He was 86. Stewart died Wednesday at his home in…
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Apple Developers: Get Ready for Touch on Mac
Apple launched a new page on its Developer site yesterday with resources for supporting Touch on Macs. So far there are three videos (Design for Touch on Mac, Bring Touch to your Mac app, Bring Live Activities to Mac), group labs, and documentation. Xcode 27.3 beta is listed as
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⚙︎ Apple Unveils Touchscreen MacBook Pro With PROLED XDR Display
Apple Newsroom: Apple today introduced the all-new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display, featuring breakthrough tandem OLED technology that delivers game-changing front-of-screen performance. Available in 14- and 16-inch models, MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display offers a visual…
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Apple Releases 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, delivering even more performance, powerful on-device AI capabilities, and faster connectivity for college students, business users, creators, and more. M6 features an advanced 12-core CPU with the world’s…
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Apple Releases New iMac with M6
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced the new iMac featuring the superfast M6, delivering even more performance and powerful AI capabilities in its strikingly thin all-in-one design. From families and aspiring creators to small businesses, users will experience the speed and…
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Anthropic Files for IPO
CNN (Lisa Eadicicco, Clare Duffy, and John Towfighi): Anthropic filed for an initial public offering Monday in what could become one of the largest stock market debuts in history — detailing its surging business growth, along with a vast multitude of warnings about how it could…
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Apple Unveils Thinner and Lighter iPad mini with OLED and A20 Pro
Apple Newsroom: The larger 8.5-inch OLED display, also available with a nano-texture option, delivers higher contrast and more than 2x higher peak brightness than the previous-generation iPad mini for a brilliant and immersive viewing experience. A20 Pro supercharges AI with…
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Elon Musk Spends $445 Million on Midterms
Kathryn Wilkens, Mediaite: According to a Thursday Bloomberg report, new Federal Election Commission filings show that [Elon] Musk contributed another $77 million to his America PAC in the first half of October, bringing his total political giving this election cycle past the…
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Nathan Fielder’s ‘Wired’ Interview
I didn’t expect to enjoy this interview with Nathan Fielder (paywalled; Apple News+), conducted by Katie Drummond for Wired ahead of the release of You Can See Everything, Fielder’s hotly anticipated film about Elizabeth Holmes. I’ve never seen any of Fielder’s work (and what…
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Meta Stakes Its Future on Muse, So a Corporate Rename Shouldn’t Be Far Behind
Ellen Thomas, The Verge: Mark Zuckerberg is barrelling toward a future in which an autonomous network of AI agents will run our lives — shopping for us, working for us, talking to other people’s AI agents for us. Are humans ready for this very specific and unrelenting vision of a
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Original iPod Easter Egg at Apple Music
Stevie Bonifield, The Verge (and countless social media posts): If you’ve been feeling nostalgic for your old iPod, you can head over to Apple Music’s 404 page to listen to music on a virtual re-creation of the first-generation iPod. The hidden iPod was spotted by users on social
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iPod Turns 25
Jason Snell, with a brief reminiscence about the release of the iPod, 25 years ago today: […] I was struck by just how quickly the iPod’s importance was overshadowed by the iPhone. There are barely more than five years between the launch of the iPod and the launch of the
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Apple Music’s New ‘Liquid Glass’ Identity
Charlotte Gunn at Wallpaper shares details about Apple Music’s new visual and sonic identity, which recently launched alongside a brief making-of video: Apple Music has enlisted British producer Fred Again.. to help turn sound into something tangible for its new visual identity.…
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How a Free Game Makes $100 Million in Ad Revenue
Ayo Omolewa, aka @ayoships, posted this viral video to Instagram that explains how Block Blast, a free-to-play, ad-supported game, uses various shady in-game tricks to force players to lose so the game can show ads, to the tune of an estimated $127 million in the first half of…
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70 Percent of Americans Are Not Confident Donald Trump Will Accept Election Results if Republicans Lose
Emily Guskin, reporting for ABC News on the results of a recent ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll: Seven in 10 Americans are not confident that Trump will accept the results of the upcoming midterm elections if the Republican Party loses, including half who are “not at all”…