- EA Sports College Football 25 beginner’s tips before starting (Polygon)
- Roger Ebert saying video games are not art is still haunting games (Polygon)
- Inside Out 2 has an especially important purpose for adult viewers (Polygon)
- My Minecraft game is just digging a big cube and it’s perfect
- Movies Watched, June 2024 (Khoi Vinh)
- Weeknotes 24:24 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Jimi Hendrix Goes Acoustic (kottke.org)
- “What My Adult Autism Diagnosis Finally Explained” (kottke.org)
- There I Ruined It: Kermit the Frog sings Snoop Dogg’s Gin and Juice to the tune of Rainbow Connection (kottke.org)
- The Science Behind the Emotions in Inside Out 2 (kottke.org)
- Gene Kelly Doesn’t Want to Perform Singin’ in the Rain on the Muppet Show (kottke.org)
- Review: Foursquare Equipoise – Mark XXV (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- Review: The Royal Cane Cask Company – New Yarmouth 1994 (Cane Spirit Society) (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- The AT&T Data Breach Shows Why RCS Can’t Be Trusted and the Downside of Apple Adding Support for It in iOS 18 (Daring Fireball)
- Leaving Elicit (Maggie Appleton)
- Ten years of Overcast: A new foundation (Marco Arment)
- CSS Selectors (CSS-Tricks)
- Reacquired. (Ethan Marcotte)
News
- Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites
- Reinstatement of net neutrality rules temporarily halted by appeals court
- Disney’s Tiana series is coming — and the new Disney ride tees it up
- The new Disney princess board game is just as fun as I dreamed
- Disney Pixel RPG puts Mickey, Stitch, Baymax, Ariel, and more together
- Puerto Rico files $1 billion suit against fossil fuel companies
- iOS 18 might help you rescue photos you thought were gone forever
- Phone mirroring on the Mac: a great way to use your iPhone, but it’s still very much in beta
- Apple partners with leading chumbox provider to sell ads in Apple News
- J.D. Vance likes Lina Khan and crypto, hates ‘Big Tech’
- Larian Studios teases all the new features coming in the next Baldur’s Gate 3 patch
- Xbox’s Deadpool & Wolverine special edition controller has a butt
- A custom sticker printer infuriated clients with a pro-Trump mass text message
- Dyson unmasks its super customizable OnTrac headphones
- Voicemod Key brings voice changing and soundboards to Xbox and PlayStation
- Review: EA Sports College Football 25 is the long-awaited payoff
- Fiio’s DM13 brings welcome upgrades to Sony’s classic Discman
- The FCC wants to force carriers to unlock phones within 60 days
- Major Windows BSOD issue hits banks, airlines, and TV broadcasters
- Thousands of flights temporarily grounded after major global IT outage
- Here’s how IT admins are fixing the Windows Blue Screen of Death chaos
- Starbucks mobile ordering falls victim to the CrowdStrike BSOD outage
- CrowdStrike outage: Windows blue screen photos from around the world
- CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft
- Microsoft releases recovery tool to help repair Windows machines hit by CrowdStrike issue
- Google’s shortened links will stop working next year — Also on Daring Fireball
- AMD claims its top-tier Ryzen AI chip is faster than Apple’s M3 Pro
- OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole
- Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized
- Joe Biden drops out, endorses Kamala Harris — Also on Daring Fireball. With Biden out, it should now be Trump’s age and mental decline on full display.