There are new shiny iPhones, so Apple is making you pay more for older models

Apple is raising the price of its existing iPhone models by $100, including iPhone 16, iPhone 17, and iPhone Air.

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Apple Watch’s new feature listens to your chats and recaps them

The Siri Recap feature is similar to other note-taking apps like Granola.

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The Exploration Company nabs $450 million to challenge SpaceX

The Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million to build reusable spacecraft, in what it describes as “the largest-ever Series C by a European space company.”

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Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?

Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still trust Meta with their data.

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Trump Judge Just Ruled That Americans Do NOT Have A Right To Safe Drinking Water

According to a truly horrifying new report from Mother Jones, a Trump-appointed judge has made it abundantly clear that safe, clean, uncontaminated drinking water is, in fact, not a right afforded to Americans.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kurt Engelhardt, who was appointed to his position by none other than Donald J. Trump, delivered that bone-chilling ruling in his dismissal of a lawsuit brought against the city of Jackson, Mississippi, by its residents, in which they accused the city of knowingly allowing them to consume water that was heavily contaminated with lead for upwards of six months in 2015.

"Defendants’ actions allegedly deprived Plaintiffs of clean water and guileless information," Engelhardt wrote in his dismissal on Friday. "These deprivations, while grievous, do not infringe upon any deeply rooted constitutional right.”

Nine US states and more than a dozen countries around the world maintain protections surrounding citizens' right to clean, safe drinking water. In both New York and Massachusetts, that basic human right is intertwined into their state constitutions.

But according to Engelhardt, the US Constitution does not provide that basic human right to all American citizens.

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Cait Conley Would Impeach Hegseth: He's A 'Disgrace To The Office'

Combat veteran Cait Conley, who was awarded the bronze star three times said in no uncertain terms that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a disgrace and should be removed from office.

Conley, a sixteen year Army veteran is running against Rep. Mike Lawler, a Trump toady who is speaking at Trump's narcissistic convention.

BASH: You've said Hegseth should be fired. But if you are elected, would you support actually impeaching him?

CONLEY: I believe he has been a hazard to American national security and a disgrace to the office.

I would absolutely support removing him from office because his actions and decisions are failing service members who have sworn an oath to this country and deserve respect and for politicians to actually value their lives and their willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice instead of thinking that it's a game or some movie like Hegseth continuously talks about.

And I do believe that the decisions out of this administration made by Hegseth, but also enabled by Congressman Mike Lawler and Republicans in Congress, just like with the Iran war where Lawler voted five times to give Donald Trump a blank check on this conflict that they continue to bungle.

That's not leadership. And America deserves better.

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Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

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