Friday, July 10, 2026
ArchiveApple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
The company that put ChatGPT on the iPhone is now Apple's courtroom adversary. Read the complaint's opening line and you can hear how personal this got inside Cupertino.
The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
Wildfires in the Southwest, an extraordinary European heat wave, a powerful El Nino building — and Bill McKibben insists the good news is just as real. Two curves, moving opposite ways.
Lore of the rings
A single tree ring can hold a supernova, a drought that toppled a dynasty, or the year a volcano dimmed the sun. Trouet reads the forest like a library nobody catalogued.
The Holy Shiver
Carmen Maria Machado noticed her partner gets goosebumps several times a day and couldn't let the question go. What follows is an hour on what your skin knows before you do.
Older adults know AI is slop. They just like it
Chinese seniors can tell the AI singers and virtual grandchildren aren't real. They keep watching anyway, and the reporting refuses to treat that as a punchline.