I used iWeb back in the day to make early versions of my personal website, as well as websites for friends, before I started learning more about web development and switched to Adobe Dreamweaver. Apple only released two major updates to iWeb, with the last one arriving in the iLife ‘09 package. When the company migrated its cloud services from MobileMe to iCloud, the ability to publish personal websites was removed, and iWeb was finally discontinued in 2011.
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OpenAI Removes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. From Sora Models
Since the launch of Sora 2, the system has been willing to generate video of just about any famous person doing just about anything. Over the last couple of weeks, OpenAI has been clamping down on many examples of this, but this particular one caught my eye:
In an unsigned statement on X:
The Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. (King, Inc.) and OpenAI have worked together to address how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s likeness is represented in Sora generations. Some users generated disrespectful depictions of Dr. King’s image. So at King, Inc.’s request, OpenAI has paused generations depicting Dr. King as it strengthens guardrails for historical figures.
Connected 574: Inspired by the Pouch⇢
Clips has joined Music Memos and Cards in the Great Beyond, just as the M5 was announced for the MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro.
Apple Announces the M5, Powering an Updated MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro
Apple today announced M5, delivering the next big leap in AI performance and advances to nearly every aspect of the chip. Built using third-generation 3-nanometer technology, M5 introduces a next-generation 10-core GPU architecture with a Neural Accelerator in each core, enabling GPU-based AI workloads to run dramatically faster, with over 4x the peak GPU compute performance compared to M4.1 The GPU also offers enhanced graphics capabilities and third-generation ray tracing that combined deliver a graphics performance that is up to 45 percent higher than M4.1 M5 features the world’s fastest performance core, with up to a 10-core CPU made up of six efficiency cores and up to four performance cores.2 Together, they deliver up to 15 percent faster multithreaded performance over M4.1 M5 also features an improved 16-core Neural Engine, a powerful media engine, and a nearly 30 percent increase in unified memory bandwidth to 153GB/s.1 M5 brings its industry-leading power-efficient performance to the new 14-inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Apple Vision Pro, allowing each device to excel in its own way. All are available for pre-order today.
"I Will Solve Your Problem for You and You Will Pay Me"⇢
After seeing my buddies at Studio Neat launch an amazing new patch, I fell down the rabbit hole that is the NeXT logo.
Dan and Tom linked to this video, which shows Paul Rand delivering his work to Steve Jobs and his team at NeXT. I hadn’t seen this before, and boy, I wish it were longer than a mere 80 seconds in length:
Rand did powerful and authoritative work when it came to corporate logos, as reflected upon by Jobs in a 1993 interview:
Microsoft’s Windows 10 Support (Mostly) Ends Today⇢
Andrew Cunningham, writing at Ars:
This end-of-support date comes about a decade after the initial release of Windows 10, which is typical for most Windows versions. But it comes just four years after Windows 10 was replaced by Windows 11, a version with stricter system requirements that left many older-but-still-functional PCs with no officially supported upgrade path. As a result, Windows 10 still runs on roughly 40 percent of the world’s Windows PCs (or around a third of US-based PCs), according to StatCounter data.
Apple Renames Apple TV+ to Apple TV
As pointed out by Eric Slivka, Apple snuck in a little product news in its press release about F1: The Movie being available for streaming in December:
Apple TV+ is now simply Apple TV, with a vibrant new identity.
At this point, none of that vibrant new identity is live, but it’ll be fun to see it as it rolls out.
xAI Breaks Ground on Wastewater Treatment Plant in Memphis
For months, the city of Memphis, xAI, and partners have been planning a wastewater plant to provide water for cooling the company’s first supercomputer in Memphis. Last week, ground was broken on the site, as reported by Samuel Hardiman at The Daily Memphian:
The plant will take wastewater treated at the City of Memphis’ nearby TE Maxson’s Wastewater Treatment Plant and push it through technology known as ceramic membranes. Those membranes — thousands of them — will filter contaminants out of the water and make it usable as an industrial coolant. It will then cool the data center and the TVA Allen Combined Cycle Plant.
Glider for Macintosh⇢
Classic Mac Gaming on YouTube has a great video about a true classic for Mac OS:
Mac Power Users 818: "Recreational Math," with Dr. Drang⇢
Everyone’s favorite engineer-turned-blogger returns to the show to discuss the state of iPhone cases, the argument for LLMs, and his go-to automation tools — and why Shortcuts on the Mac isn’t one of them.
Clips Moved to the Great App Library in the Sky⇢
The Clips app is no longer being updated, and will no longer be available for download for new users as of October 10, 2025. You can continue to use Clips on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 or earlier.
Save your Clips videos to your photo library or another location. You can save videos with any effects you might have added in Clips or save individual clips without effects. Then, watch your videos in other apps like Photos or make new videos with individual clips using iMovie or other third-party apps like InShot, VN Video Editor, and GoPro Quik.
Folder Quick Look⇢
Quick Look is a great Finder feature, and now it can see into folders thanks to a free Mac app named Folder Quick Look. Here’s what it is like in action:
John Gruber, in his link to it:
Looks, feels, and works like a feature that ought to be built into the Finder itself. Cool.