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A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI boom are off, vertical SaaS is up +3% last 12 months vs. horizontal SaaS down 35%, and other reflections on AI (Logan Bartlett/@loganbartlett)

Techmeme

The 2019 Intel Mac Pro’s Unfortunate Timing

Daring Fireball

Apple Should Set and Enforce Some Basic Standards for Custom Video Players on tvOS

Daring Fireball

A profile of Mark Lanier, a TX lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the LA social media case and said Zuckerberg was "rattled" on the stand (Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

‘How Apple Became Apple: The Definitive Oral History of the Company’s Earliest Days’

Daring Fireball

Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Claude adding paid subs at a steadily increasing pace; Anthropic: paid subs have more than doubled this year (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Suno leans into customization with v5.5

The Verge - All Posts

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developer claims AI is replacing them

Polygon - All

You are falling behind because you haven’t fed the insincerity machine in the last 5 minutes

Christian Heilmann

Damien Darkblood! Invincible season 4 finally brings back its most mysterious superhero

Polygon - All

ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberattack on the European Commission, detected on March 24; the EC says its internal systems were not affected (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs)

Techmeme

All 11 xAI co-founders have now reportedly left Elon Musk’s AI company

The Next Web

Meta’s new prescription Ray-Ban smart glasses are a distribution play, not a technology leap

The Next Web

Indie games will only save us if anyone funds them

Polygon - All

Kandou AI raises $225 million to bet that copper can outlast the optical revolution

The Next Web

Daemon's of the Shadow Realm preview: Does the anime's premiere live up to the hype?

Polygon - All

AnimeJapan 2026: The biggest announcements for Steel Ball Run, One Piece, and more

Polygon - All

5 Mr. Show sketches where Bob Odenkirk is a bigger badass than in Nobody

Polygon - All

Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; the staffers had been accused of misleading CISA's former acting director into taking a polygraph test (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

Techmeme

Netflix Wrecked Their tvOS Video Player

Daring Fireball