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  1. Meta’s Muse Logomark, Designed by Jessica Hische
    Sep 22, 2026 · original
    Bill McCool, writing at Dieline: This past Wednesday, lettering artist, designer, and author Jessica Hische took to Threads to announce that she had worked alongside Meta’s team to create the icon and logotype for their agentic AI, Muse. Acknowledging that people would be “mad because it’s AI and Meta,” Hische sought to explain at least why she had taken the gig in the first place. Obviously, she took some flak for working with Meta. While plenty of comments voiced support, just as many chastised her for even considering the project, which I can mostly sum up as a general narrative thread of “How could you?” FWIW, it’s pretty rich to criticize someone for working with Meta while you’re very much using a Meta product to issue said criticism. But I digress. I like the Muse mark/icon . It’s both an obvious “M” and yet at the same time, not an “M”. It’s friendly but not un-serious. And, as M
  2. Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read Jason Aten’s Messages Database
    Sep 22, 2026 · original
    Jason Aten, writing for Inc: Then, yesterday, I was having a conversation with my Primary Technology podcast co-host, Stephen Robles, about the new iPhones. Moments later, I got a push notification from Muse suggesting that the conversation we were having would make for a good column and offered to put together research for me to write about. It even flagged a message from my editor about having a column ready for Monday. Not only had I not asked it to do that sort of thing, I never gave it permission to read my messages. In fact, I remember explicitly choosing not to let it have access to my messages, calendar, and other personal information. Stranger still was what happened when I asked Muse how it knew. Like I told Aten on Threads , Muse was right about one thing: it did give him a good idea for a column. Later on, Aten writes: I also want to be clear about something else: If your res
  3. Why Didn’t Google Build Muse?
    Sep 22, 2026 · original
    MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: The number one response I’ve gotten to my thoughts on Meta’s Muse personal assistant agent is some variation of “I will never trust Meta with my data.” But the number two response is arguably more interesting (and related): “Why didn’t Google build this?” The short answer to this is undoubtedly: they’re working on it. But the longer answer is probably more interesting here too. Siegler’s take is basically that Google lacks focus. They’ve got multiple AI agent products, none of which are hitting — which as he points out has been their decades-long problem with messaging apps . Say what you want about Meta as a company and Mark Zuckerberg as a leader, but they (and he) have focus. I make fun of them (and him) for going all-in on “the metaverse” only to lose all interest in it just a few years later, but to play devil’s advocate, that’s how focus works. Link
  4. Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse AI Assistant
    Sep 22, 2026 · original
    Todd Bishop, reporting at GeekWire: Amazon says it has cut off Meta’s new Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com on behalf of customers, after attempting unsuccessfully to get the Facebook parent company to voluntarily exclude the e-commerce site from the experience. The problem, Amazon says, is that it never agreed to any of it. Meta didn’t tell Amazon that Muse would access its store, the agent doesn’t identify itself when it browses, and it appears to capture and store customer credentials, which the company says could create privacy and security risks. As of Sunday night, people trying to use Muse to shop on Amazon were seeing the popup, “Continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon’s Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed.” On the one hand, Muse is software, and Amazon cutting off an unauthorized software client from accessing its store see
  5. Meta’s New Muse AI Agent App Overtakes ChatGPT as Top iPhone App
    Sep 22, 2026 · original
    Zac Hall, writing for 9to5 Mac on Friday: Meta’s new Muse AI agent app has taken the top spot on the free iPhone charts for the U.S. App Store, displacing OpenAI’s ChatGPT from the first place. Muse by Meta only launched this month , although the app has been around for a couple of weeks. This means new installs are picking up and boosting the app on the App Store’s top charts beyond the day-one launch. Just yesterday, Meta expanded Muse app availability to include the Mac. The desktop version of the app doesn’t contribute to the App Store ranking, however, as it’s downloadable from the web. Four days later and Muse still holds the #1 spot in the U.S. iOS App Store. Here’s the top 15 today (with the full, sometimes insipid, name of each app, and my own commentary in brackets): Muse from Meta ChatGPT Vinted: Pre-loved marketplace [if this crap was loved why did they sell it?] StoryReel: D
  6. Xcode 27.2 Now Supports a New JSON Project File Format
    Sep 22, 2026 · original
    Apple Developer: Xcode now supports a JSON-based project format (.xcproj) that’s more readable, merge-friendly, and easier for coding agents to edit. Enable it in the file inspector. Projects using .xcproj also open in earlier versions of Xcode 27. Apple released, on GitHub, a Swift library (and CLI tool) for reading, writing, and manipulating this new project format. Michael Tsai has a list of developer reactions , where are universally positive. A sampling: Simon B. Støvring : Developers have been screaming for a friendlier Xcode project format for years. I’m one of them. Tony Arnold : I’ve been waiting for something like this for most of my career! 🎉 Rob Napier : It does feel like another case of “we’ve quickly done a thing to help AI that we’ve been unwilling to do for years to help humans.” I’m seeing that happen across the industry. It is very welcome and appreciated, and lots of
  7. Siri AI Class-Action Lawsuit Settlement Website Is Now Live
    Sep 22, 2026 · original
    Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: In May, Apple agreed to pay $250 million to settle a U.S. class action lawsuit over Siri AI’s delayed launch, and the settlement website is now live. Apple will pay an estimated $25 per eligible iPhone to eligible customers, who can submit a claim via the settlement website between September 21 and December 21 of this year. The exact payment may be higher or lower than $25 depending on the total number of valid claims submitted and other factors, with the maximum amount set at $95. Apple denies all of the allegations made in the lawsuit. Apple agreed to the settlement to avoid the costs and risks of a trial. I went ahead and filled it out for the iPhone 16 Pro I purchased in September 2024. I’d call it borderline whether it was worth my time for $25. It was a pain in the ass every step of the way. For the eventual payment, your choices to receive the dough are P
  8. [Sponsor] Mux: Turn Your Video Into Context
    Sep 21, 2026 · original
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  9. Lex Friedman Brings Back Strategery
    Sep 21, 2026 · original
    I first recommended Strategery back in May 2009 , including a link to Friedman’s review at Macworld . I described it thus: Strategery is a beautiful $2 Risk-like strategy game for the iPhone. Lots of fun and the gameplay has a great feel. Still lots of fun and still has a great feel. It now costs $5 , but, if you’re an existing user — even if you only paid $2 back when I told you to 17 years ago — it’s a free update. And it’s a great story: the original Strategery game finally gave up the compatibility ghost with iOS 27 . Friedman made his own version of the game, including multiplayer support, but before releasing it on his own under a new name, he reached out to the original developers and it turns out everyone was happy to make a deal. Sometimes all you need to do is ask. (First thing you should do after installing the new version is go into settings and turn on “Classic Hex Edges”. T
  10. GM Confirms They’re Still Smoking Crack
    Sep 21, 2026 · original
    Joanna Stern, on X: GM has confirmed it is NOT rolling phone projection to GM EVs. Instead this announcement is specific to JUST their new gas powered light-duty pickups, which have always supported Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Link: x.com/JoannaStern/status/2102105565195288859
  11. America’s Decline Can Be Measured by the Names of Ballparks and Arenas
    Sep 21, 2026 · original
    MLB: Comerica Park has had several alternate identities since it became the Tigers’ home in 2000. Some have called it Comerica National Park for its spacious dimensions. Some fans simply came to call it Comerica, or abbreviated it to CoPa, as they grew comfortable with it over the years. Starting next year, the Tigers’ ballpark will have a new formal name: Fifth Third Park. Filth Turd Park. Rolls right off the tongue. Link: mlb.com/news/tigers-ballpark-name-changed-to-fifth-third…
  12. Ichiro, at 52, Throws 127-Pitch Shutout Against All-Star Girls Team in Japan
    Sep 21, 2026 · original
    Sofia Schwarzwalder, reporting for The Seattle Times: Since turning 50, the Mariners legend has been inducted into the Hall of Fame, launched eight homers at the Mariners Alumni Home Run Derby this summer and, most recently, tossed a 127-pitch shutout with 17 strikeouts during an annual All-Star Game against the best high-school girls in Japan. [...] The All-Star Game took place Sunday at the Tokyo Dome in front of a reported 25,000 fans. The game also featured former New York Yankees All-Star outfielder Hideki Matsui. In addition to his dazzling performance on the mound, Ichiro led off the game and had a pair of hits. Speaking to reporters in Japanese, Ichiro said, “I wanted to see what my current limits were, and this gave me confidence in myself.” Trung Phan, on X, posted a short video of clips . Ichiro was tossing some nasty stuff. Link: seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/ichiro-at-52-
  13. Glenn Fleishman on the Increasing Impracticality of Shipping From the U.S. to the E.U.
    Sep 21, 2026 · original
    Glenn Fleishman: Recent protectionist changes by the European Union further effectively exclude U.S. small businesses like mine from selling to EU customers. It’s a little complicated, but it has to do with how tax and customs fees are collected and extracted from low-value packages. This is not a tariff issue, unbelievably, but one about reducing competition. The summary: Delivering items under €150 per shipment into the EU now costs at least €3 per package, and may require hiring a specialty firm to manage time-of-purchase tax collection and payment because of the many differences in filing by EU nation. Shipping prices have swelled. No shipper currently offers rates close to affordable for modestly priced items, like books, while properly collecting the €3+ customs fee. If these new rules were prompted by Chinese companies like Temu taking advantage of de minimis shipping exceptions (
  14. David Pogue: ‘125 Tests of the New AI Siri’
    Sep 21, 2026 · original
    David Pogue: The hardest part will be getting out of the habit of opening apps, and remembering that you have Siri. Give it a few tries. Learn to trust it. You’ll save incredible amounts of time and fumbling. I used the beta-test version all summer, growing more and more excited. Now that the final version is out, I wanted to see how often it gets things right. It is AI, after all. So I ran it through 125 tests. Some of these tasks are things Apple said are possible. Some ideas, I picked up from people on Reddit trying stuff. Some, I just wondered if Siri could do. It failed a handful of times. But a few other times, it absolutely blew me away. It did amazing things I bet you never suspected Siri could do. I’ve been using iOS 27 with the new Siri AI since the week after WWDC, and the single biggest problem I have echoes Pogue’s: remembering that Siri is now useful. I keep doing things ma
  15. Matthew Butterick: ‘Big AI to Humanity: Drop Dead’
    Sep 21, 2026 · original
    Matthew Butterick: So let’s not take the bait. Nor overcomplicate. We needn’t spin our collective wheels spitballing answers to big-picture, long-term Al-policy questions. We don’t know enough yet. The best next steps are the concrete ones: Big Al needs to follow all current laws — just like everyone else. So far — they haven’t. When Big Al breaks those laws, they must face prosecution and penalties — just like everyone else. So far — they haven’t. The state and federal agencies tasked with enforcing those laws need to apply them to Big Al — just like everyone else. So far — they haven’t. In short, we have to attend to the basic features of the rule of law. So far — we haven’t. If we can’t or won’t insist on that now, then we shouldn’t expect to be able to later. Link: matthewbutterick.com/chron/drop-dead.html
  16. ‘Measuring Nothing (With Great Accuracy)’
    Sep 21, 2026 · original
    Seth Godin back in 2014: You can’t tell if a book is any good by the number of words it contains, even though it’s quite easy and direct to measure this. (Vis-à-vis my sidenote over the weekend about Apple refusing to publish mAh battery specs for iPhones.) Link: seths.blog/2014/01/measuring-nothing-with-great-accuracy/
  17. Apple TV to Finally Air ‘The Savant’ in Early 2027, Supposedly
    Sep 21, 2026 · original
    Nellie Andreeva, reporting for Deadline: The release of The Savant is back on. A year after Apple TV put the thriller starring Jessica Chastain on hold three days before it was slated to premiere on Sept. 26, 2025, the streamer has rescheduled it for spring, 2027. The exact timing, which is still being finalized, will make the series eligible for the 2027 Emmys, I hear. As Deadline reported at the time of the postponement, The Savant ’s last-minute benching was due to its storyline about preventing extremist attacks and some imagery, including sniper attacks, that were considered potentially triggering two weeks after the assassination of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk. The only people who were potentially “triggered” by this would be whoever answers the phone in Cupertino when the White House calls. Variety and Dark Horizons both echo Deadline’s reporting that Apple TV is fi
  18. Yours Truly on CNBC’s ‘Squawk on the Street’ Friday
    Sep 21, 2026 · original
    I genuinely enjoyed that Sara Eisen laughed a little when introducing me as having written a 5,000-word review of the iPhone 18 Pro. Link: youtu.be/WrwY_jVaN-w
  19. WorkOS: How SSO Works and the Fastest Way to Add It
    Sep 20, 2026 · original
    My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring this last week — a big week — at DF. SSO is table stakes for enterprise deals, but building it into your app yourself means writing SAML controllers, parsing XML assertions, and handling IdP-specific quirks for each provider. Learn how SAML flows work, the tradeoffs between building or buying, and best practices for security, routing, and UX. Or, skip the hassle and add SSO with WorkOS . Read their developer’s guide to learn more . Link: workos.com/guide/the-developers-guide-to-sso?utm_source…
  20. GM Revives CarPlay for 2027 Trucks
    Sep 20, 2026 · original
    Natalie Neff, Autoweek: General Motors is reversing course after having begun to remove Apple CarPlay from its vehicles, showing off instead a redesigned infotainment interface for the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups that melds the smartphone apps with the truck’s native vehicle controls on the same screen. The new system, which will roll out later this year, marks a significant walk-back after the automaker faced widespread criticism for removing Apple CarPlay and Android Auto from its Ultium-based electric vehicles beginning with the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV. One of the dumbest own goals in recent memory. Tesla gets away with not supporting CarPlay because they created their own system that’s so good that many Tesla owners prefer it, or, at least find it good enough as an alternative. GM tried to replace CarPlay with a system that no one liked. Link: autoweek.com/news/a

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