Новости за 10.09.2025

Elisabet Lann, newly-appointed as Sweden's health minister, collapsed Tuesday at her introductory press conference. Security personnel and other officials rushed to help her up; unconscious for several moments, she regained her composure and later said she'd suffered a sudden drop in blood sugar levels: "This was not exactly a normal Tuesday," she said, having been quickly drafted in to replace her predecessor after an unexpected resignation. — Read the rest

In an age of blocky pixels, vectorbeam monitors offered sharp arcade action in games such as Asteroids, Tempest and Star Wars. The Vectrex game console brought the technology home, but the system's high price and thin selection of titles made for a short run on shelves—and a legendary afterlife for collectors and retrogamers. — Read the rest

The iPod and its innovative clickwheel are history, and with it in the dustbin went dozens of downloadable games that Apple briefly made available in the 2000s. Thanks to the company's DRM system, the age of the hardware and sheer rarity of some titles, it took a well-organized effort to preserve them all. — Read the rest

Anthropic, operator of LLM chatbot Claude, proposed paying a $1.5bn settlement to authors whose books it pirated to build its $183 billion language model. The district judge in charge of the case finds it underwhelming, and even suggested it is being shoved "down the throat of authors." — Read the rest

Today, one of the most important tech events of the year took place: the announcement of Apple's latest mobile hardware. It's such a big deal that the media wranglers for other companies stay the hell away from posting about their new products. — Read the rest

2025 has been filled with chaos so far, and this year's Burning Man festival was no exception. Burning Man 2025 began with a murder (read here), and ended with a torrential downpour that left thousands of people stranded and stuck in the mud. — Read the rest

Right now, if you were to walk into your local Target, Walmart, or Costco, you likely wouldn't be able to find any Pokémon TCG (trading card game) products. Scalpers buy as much inventory as they can, then sell it for more than the manufacturer's suggested retail price. — Read the rest

Every once in a while a book comes along that feels less like reading and more like having your creative brain blown wide open. ULTRAWILD: An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth (Lerner/Graphic Universe, Sept. 2025) is that kind of book. — Read the rest

A former executive of a podcasting company that relied on human talent has decided to lean into AI, cause paying humans is so yesterday.

Apple's announced its latest products today. The biggest news was the $1000 iPhone Air, a 5.6mm-thick (0.22 inches) phone that Apple called a "paradox you have to hold to believe." (The iPhone 16 is 7.8mm (0.31 inches thick)

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