Tim Cook: Mac just had its best launch week ever for first-time Mac customers. We love seeing the enthusiasm! Joe Rossignol (Hacker News): Apple also released MacBook Air models with the M5 chip and MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips last week, so it was a big week for new Macs, […]

John Gruber (Hacker News): But just using the Neo, without any consideration that it’s memory limited, I haven’t noticed a single hitch. I’m not quitting apps I otherwise wouldn’t quit, or closing Safari tabs I wouldn’t otherwise close. I’m just working — with an even dozen apps open as I type this sentence — and everything feels snappy. […] […]

On April 1, you can participate in a short event in Pokopia to get an inflatable Sudowoodo item. We explain how to do this in our guide.

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg:
Monzo is shuttering its US operations to focus on scaling in the UK and Europe; source: it will lay off ~50 employees and close clients' accounts in June  —  Monzo Bank Ltd. is shuttering its US operations after years of failing to gain a foothold on the world's largest market …

The Google Pixel 9 walked so that the Samsung Galaxy S26 could run. Google introduced AI editing tools to Photos slowly. It started with changes to the background - make the sky more blue, or remove crowds of tourists. Things got weird once the company added natural language requests and let you ask for basically […]