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‘Macintosh HD’ Icon Updated in macOS Tahoe Beta 5

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Juli Clover at MacRumors spotted the change:

The existing icon still resembled a hard disk drive, but the new icon looks like a modern solid state drive. Apple’s Macs stopped using hard disk drives starting more than a decade ago. The low-cost 21.5-inch iMac was the last Mac that had a hard drive component, as it used Apple’s SSD + HDD Fusion Drive. All current Macs use SSDs.

I will miss the old icon, but as Clover points out, spinning drives are long gone for most Mac users. The new icon feels more modern and fits in much better with the rest of Tahoe’s icons:

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xAI Receives Approval to Run Natural Gas Turbines in Southaven to Power Second Memphis Site

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As xAI inches toward completing Colossus 2, the company’s second Memphis data center, its plans for powering the site are coming into focus, as The Daily Memphian reports:

Last week, the company received approval from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality to operate natural gas turbines without an air emissions permit for up to 12 months while the company works on its plans to build permanent natural gas generation at 2875 Stanton Road in Southaven.

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Rollercoaster Tycoon’s History⇢

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Jimmy Maher, writing at The Digital Antiquarian, about my favorite game as a kid:

Back in 1994, MicroProse had published a game called Transport Tycoon, by a lone-wolf programmer named Chris Sawyer, who worked out of his home near Glasgow, Scotland. Building upon the premise of Sid Meier’s earlier Railroad Tycoon, it tasked you with building a profitable people- and cargo-moving network involving not just trains but also trucks, buses, ships, ferries, and even airplanes. Written by Sawyer in pure, ultra-efficient Intel assembly language — an anomaly by that time, when games were typically written in more manageable higher-level languages like C — Transport Tycoon was as technically impressive as it was engrossing. When it sold fairly well, Sawyer provided a modestly upgraded version called Transport Tycoon Deluxe in 1995, and that also did well.

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Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Incredibly Private and Secure Safari Web Browsing⇢

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Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history and app usage stays private and is not harvested by ad networks.

By blocking ad trackers in Safari, Magic Lasso Adblock stops you being followed by ads around the web.

And with App Ad Blocking in Magic Lasso v5.0, it also extends protection to all apps on your device including News apps, Social media, Games and other browsers like Chrome and Firefox.

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3 Billion iPhones

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In January 2007, I was on a trip visiting family in rural North Carolina during the week of Macworld Expo. When I got back to my aunt’s house after a day of visiting folks, I waited as her sloooooow Internet connection loaded apple.com.

What I saw blew my mind. The iPhone had been rumored, but seeing those original web pages was really something.

Original iPhone

Here’s what that site said:

iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.

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