Apple dinged over low-quality, scammy-looking ads on Apple News:

Apple’s controversial partnership with Taboola to serve ads on Apple News seems to be going exactly as expected.

Shocker. Who could have predicted etc etc etc

A foxy nighttime encounter, on my way to collect my daughter.

A fox is standing on a grassy area next to a paved path at night.

For the last three years, I’ve been looking out over a courtyard from my desk at the university.

I’d never been in it in all that time.

Today, I finally rectified that.

I should work out there on a summer’s afternoon.

A courtyard surrounded by multistory brick and white buildings with large windows and a seating area with plants in the center.A courtyard features circular wooden benches surrounding small garden areas with plants, set against a backdrop of white brick buildings with large windows.

The good folks at Ghost have just ticked off a couple of items on my wishlist, with upgraded comment moderation and management.

Step by step, they’re turning this platform into the perfect audience-centric publishing platform.

Admid all the noise around AI, it’s worth remembering that there are some areas where it is unquestionably creating benefits, like early detection of breast cancer.

I lost both my parents to cancer before I was out of my 30s. I’ll cheer this use of AI every step of the way.

I just realised that this mug is probably over a quarter of a century old…

A hand holds a mug featuring colorful illustrated panels of New York City landmarks such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the World Trade Center.

Just discovered that Apple Creator Studio has an education discount: £29 per year, rather than £129. That’s a no brainer.

Life is not a football game. And sometimes we journalists have been guilty of making it one…

Well, this is uncomfortable.

Musk’s Grokipedia has quite an extensive page about me. It’s… not bad. But I’m not ecstatic that it exists at all.

That moment when you realise you’re trying to unlock your under-desk pedestal drawers with the key to your car’s roof box, and then you’re seized with an overwhelming desire to fill the box with camping gear and head to the woods.