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After WWDC, iJustine asked Apple’s software boss about the state of Siri a year after the big announcement, and Federighi’s answer was basically that Apple’s still working on it. Fair enough! But then he drops this masterclass of corporate-speak:

I really hope Apple changes this one!

Amazon Key Access Control system is a new building intercom solution that uses the Ring app to let apartment dwellers answer their building door and buzz people in on their phones.

First announced during CES 2025, the Ugreen Nexode Desktop Charger 500W, featuring a total power output of 500w across five USB-C ports and a single USB-A port, is now available through Amazon and the company’s online store for $249.99.

The New York Times surveyed the ecosystem of disinformation around the LA anti-ICE protests, and the results are striking for looking... pretty much exactly like the pre-AI world: old recirculated photos, fabricated quotes, and a shot from an ‘80s action movie. The Washington Post did its own social media look-around and found mostly people supporting dueling narratives with real footage. There’s still time for generated fakes to cause problems, but at the moment, reality seems to be eye-catching enough.

Don’t worry, this isn’t an ad for medicine. Regardless of what you think of Apple’s new Liquid Glass design, the company doesn’t want you, or its own video, calling it Liquid Ass. Apple has changed its YouTube thumbnail for its Liquid Glass video, because the play button was in a really unfortunate position.

AI tools from companies like Google and OpenAI are replacing traditional web searches, starving news sites of traffic. Similarweb data reported by The Wall Street Journal shows that HuffPost’s organic search traffic fell by just over half in the past three years, and by nearly that much at The Washington Post.

Although the original dual-screen Ayaneo Flip was a flop, the company confirmed it was committed to the line and today announced its new Flip 1S DS. The most obvious upgrade is a 7-inch 1080P OLED main screen with a larger 4.5-inch secondary LCD touchscreen with a 1620×1080 pixel resolution.

The layoffs on Tuesday impact around 3.5 percent of Paramount’s global workforce, with the company having laid off around 2,000 US employees last year. In an internal memo seen by Deadline, Paramount execs said the cuts were driven by linear TV declines and broader economic concerns as the company focuses its efforts on streaming.

Rumors have long had it that this year’s Galaxy Z Fold phone will be substantially thinner, as Samsung tries to keep up with Oppo and Honor, and now the company itself has hinted at the same.

Yesterday the official Android Developers account interrupted the WWDC hubbub to tease that the “final release” of Android 16 should arrive today, after seven months of testing. Don’t expect it to include the Material 3 Expressive design language though, which is coming later this year in a quarterly feature drop.

Founder Ren Zhengfei says Huawei’s Ascend chips are still “one generation” behind US rivals like Nvidia, and that the “US has exaggerated Huawei’s capabilities — we’re not that strong yet.”

While Comcast / NBCUniversal argued for a Hulu valuation that could’ve cost Disney another $5 billion on top of the $8.6 billion it had already paid, a third-party appraiser reached a number much closer to Disney’s. That ended their dispute -- simmering since 2019 -- for only an extra $438.7 million, as reported by THR and Axios.

Apple, at WWDC: “This year, the frameworks that power input across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro are getting major upgrades, with easier pairing for PlayStation DualSense controllers across all of your devices.”

As of October 2024, it was set to launch “early next year,“ but now the Ultimate Edition of the game will launch on the Mac App Store “later this year,” according to a footnote at the end of Apple’s Platforms State of the Union video. At least the game is out on Switch 2.