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I had lost track of this launch, but Stephen Clark has the details:

Back-to-back engine failures doomed a privately developed Australian rocket moments after liftoff Tuesday, cutting short a long-shot attempt to reach orbit with the country’s first homegrown launch vehicle.

The 82-foot-tall (25-meter) Eris rocket ignited its four main engines and took off from its launch pad in northeastern Australia at 6:35 pm EDT (22:35 UTC) Tuesday. Liftoff occurred at 8:35 am local time Wednesday at Bowen Orbital Spaceport, the Eris rocket’s launch site in the Australian state of Queensland.

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This week on the podcast:

A bunch of photos have surfaced of the iPhone 17’s colors, and the guys debate the merits of orange. Then, they roast each other’s macOS Docks.

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I wish Tom Warren was joking:

Microsoft rarely does limited editions of its Surface products, but it has quietly launched a “ Smurface Edition” in time for the Smurfs movie. I was expecting it to be a totally blue design, but instead Microsoft has laser-etched the Smurfs to the front, alongside a blue Surface logo.

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As a reminder, I have two ongoing pages on the site that I’m really enjoying:

• The Now Page
• The Then Page

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We’re all dealing with more information than ever, and it’s becoming increasingly complex. You need bulletproof financial documents for audits, collaborative tools for your team, and AI that can actually help.

DEVONthink 4.0 Copernicus ¹ is here, and it’s designed to work with you, not against you. Its AI integration is incredibly useful — it can analyze your documents, write summaries, suggest tags, and you can even create AI-based automations for specific tasks.

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This week on Mac Power Users:

Federico joins the show to talk to David and Stephen about his Apple gear, iPadOS 26, running MacStories, and how AI is changing automation tools.

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For the second time, xAI has fallen behind on its bills to our local utility company. In February 2025, it was reported that the AI company was $400,000 behind and received several cutoff notices.

This time it seems that the error was on the side of MLG&W, per David Royer and April Thompson, reporting for WREG:

xAI’s Colossus data center in Memphis was issued a cutoff notice for a past-due bill by the local utility company in June, a month when it owed nearly $1 million for electricity, gas and water service.

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Today, the OS Class of 26 graduated to Public Beta, and Jason Snell and I are in lockstep in how we think about Tahoe:

After a month using early builds of macOS Tahoe full time, I can confidently report that this is an upgrade that feels like an upgrade. The additional power of Spotlight and Shortcuts is going to delight a lot of longtime Mac users, and I’m really liking the direction Apple is taking Control Center in the menu bar.

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Look, YouTube keeps serving me these ancient and weird Apple videos, so I’m going to keep sharing them here.

I mean, when is the last time you saw a lizard standing atop a beige Mac as a plane flies overhead?

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I have a new favorite Mastodon account to follow.

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This week on the show, Liquid Glass is back in a big way, and we have feelings about it.

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Athena Chapekis and Anna Lieb at the Pew Research Center, on the effect AI-generated results have had on websites showing up in Google search results:

A Pew Research Center report published this spring analyzed data from 900 U.S. adults who agreed to share their online browsing activity. About six-in-ten respondents (58%) conducted at least one Google search in March 2025 that produced an AI-generated summary. Additional analysis found that Google users were less likely to click on result links when visiting search pages with an AI summary compared with those without one. For searches that resulted in an AI-generated summary, users very rarely clicked on the sources cited.

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