Jacob Kastrenakes

The app was updated this week with support for homescreen widgets, so you can just tap a button to change up your lighting — no need to open the app.

The streaming service shut off access this week, citing “prohibitively expensive” costs. Those costs stem from a tax on high bandwidth services, according to Rest of World:

The [“sender pays”] rule requires companies to compensate the receiving networks for the traffic they send. It’s meant to tax heavy senders like Netflix and YouTube. Livestreaming sites like Twitch face particularly steep fees, as low latency is critical for live content.

I needed to create a bootable MacOS installer over the weekend for an older version of the operating system — something Apple’s own instructions don’t actually support. Fortunately, a Reddit comment pointed me to the app Mist, which automated the whole process. It’s always nice to find that someone out there had the same problem as you, then just went ahead and solved it for everyone.

The company put out a new statement today criticizing Spotify’s complaint to the EU about restrictions on its iOS app:

Fundamentally, their complaint is about trying to get limitless access to all of Apple’s tools without paying anything for the value Apple provides.

What kind of computing platform could possibly offer developers that kind of flexibility? Who would make such a thing?

The site, which tracks web service outages, is showing blips for Verizon and T-Mobile. Turns out... those are probably just from Verizon and T-Mobile customers trying to call AT&T users.

“We did not experience an outage,” T-Mobile writes.

Its wireless network “remains fully operational,” the company wrote this morning. But its customers could have issues connecting to users of “another carrier” — AKA AT&T, which is suffering a widespread, ongoing outage.

Yuga Labs, the group behind Bored Apes, is purchasing Kevin Rose’s NFT group, Proof. Yuga previously bought CyrptoPunks, too.

As Yuga scoops up more of the NFT world, the question remains: who’s still buying? And is there anything worth doing with them?

RIP to an all-time great piece of exposition: Vulture reports that the jam-packed sentence from the Madame Web trailer that went viral for its tongue-twisting amount of story detail didn’t make it into the movie. Was it meme’d out of existence? To quote Dakota Johnson, “What a silly thing.”