We cover a lot of things at Polygon, but nothing gets us more excited lately than the Nintendo Switch 2. And now you have a chance to win your very own Switch 2! All you need to do is take a few seconds to submit an entry. If selected, you’ll win a new Switch 2. […]

A judge has paused the termination of nearly 1,500 employees from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) while she considers whether the Trump administration violated a court order to avoid mass layoffs. As CNN reports, Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the mass reduction in force was “not going to happen” for now and scheduled an […]

Randy Parker (via TidBITS-Talk): For longer replies in Messages, I would often compose my message on my computer, email it to myself, and then copy and paste it from the Mail app on my iPhone into the Messages app.As a Windows user, I’d have to live with this frustration indefinitely unless I considered one of […]

Jeffrey Starr (via Stephen Hackett): One of two launch applications for the Apple Macintosh in 1984, MacPaint is emblematic of the Macintosh’s early quirky revolutionary branding, focus on ease of use, and appeal to artistic customers. Using the source code, we examine the design and implementation of the application. We find that the buffer management […]

Doug Brown (via Uli Kusterer): This is the story of how Apple made a mistake in the ROM of the Macintosh Classic II that probably should have prevented it from booting, but instead, miraculously, its Motorola MC68030 CPU accidentally prevented a crash and saved the day by executing an undefined instruction.[…]I didn’t get very far […]