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Filing: Apple claims a former iPhone engineer used a confidential Apple circuit schematic in his work at OpenAI, evidence is being destroyed, and more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/31/apple-openai-forensic-macbook-evidence/

Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit - 9to5Mac
Apple has filed a new document in its ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI as it continues to push for expedited discovery....

Tens of thousands flee fire near U.S. city of Reno #UnitedStates

Tens of thousands flee fire near U.S. city of Reno
Tens of thousands of people looked set to spend another night away from home Monday as a wind-driven fire bore down on the western U.S. city of Reno.

"Given that we in tech are largely in the business of creating tools for both ourselves and for other people to do things, then, we ought to be very, very careful about what kinds of tools we build. We should build tools that tend to create gestalts that support individual flourishing and social harmony or, if those cannot be balanced, that carefully balance the need for both against each other and other considerations."

There's no such thing as Just a Tool | deadSimpleTech
Heidegger thinks about tools like so: a tool is something (a thing that has being in the Heideggerian sense, not necessarily an object) that represents an extension of human capabilities in some way. A tool is thus any kind of thing that *lets you do something you wouldn't otherwise have been able to*. The important (for us) conceptual leap here is that when a tool works well, or isn't broken, it develops what Heidegger describes as a "ready-to-hand" quality: the tool fades into the background …

WEHCO sells Chattanooga Times Free Press to family with interests in logistics media. Circ is down to 12,000. Population of the area is 595,000.
#media #newspapers

Seven things Solak thinks: Brock Bowers is the new JSN? The Rams need yet another trade? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50054740/week-4-seven-things-solak-thinks-lamar-mvp-bills-rams-trade

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/15/so-you-think-you-could-be-an-electrician?utm_source=Asterisk&a…

So You Think You Could Be An Electrician?
Funny how the people telling kids to get jobs in the trades tend to be white-collar.

Gurman: Apple is moving App Store to services unit run by Eddy Cue, who previously oversaw it until 2015; Cue is taking on a more influential role under Ternus (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/31/phil-schiller-steps-down…

Phil Schiller steps down from App Store and Apple events - 9to5Mac
Phil Schiller is handing off the App Store to Eddy Cue's services team and Apple events to Nola Weinstein, remaining an Apple Fellow.

On his last day as CEO, Tim Cook pens an emotional memo reflecting on his time at Apple and says he takes "enormous comfort" in handing the helm to John Ternus (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/31/read-tim-cooks-f…

Read Tim Cook's full memo to Apple employees on his last day as CEO - 9to5Mac
Today is Tim Cook’s last day as Apple CEO, with John Ternus set to take over tomorrow. To mark his...

Simile, which offers "agentic twins" of real people to assess companies' products, brands, and services, raised $200M led by Greenoaks at a $2B valuation (Sri Muppidi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/business/dealbook/simile-…

To Know What Your Customers Think, Just Ask Their A.I. Twins
Simile, a fast-growing start-up, says it can provide companies with accurate insights by surveying millions of A.I.-generated consumers.

Google pilots a faster twice-a-week schedule for Chrome security releases as AI tools drive a surge in bug discoveries; Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 bugs (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-needs-twice-a-week-patching-…

Chrome Needs Twice-a-Week Patching Thanks to AI Bug Hunting
The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them. Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.