Month: September 2026

Apple is changing hands at the top. John Ternus will become chief executive officer on September 1, while Tim Cook moves into the executive chairman role after Apple laid out the succession plan on April 20, 2026. It’s the company’s biggest leadership change since Cook took over from co-founder Steve Jobs.

Over 15 years, Cook turned Apple from a company worth about $350 billion into one valued at more than $4 trillion. He also expanded the business well beyond the iPhone, building up wearables, subscriptions, and services along the way.

Ternus has been at Apple for 25 years and most recently served as Apple’s hardware chief. He helped lead development across the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and he was deeply involved in the shift from Intel chips to Apple Silicon. That suggests Apple may tilt more toward product and engineering under his watch, while Cook stays on to provide continuity on regulation, policy, and the company’s global relationships.

The shake-up doesn’t end there. Reports that Apple Fellow Phil Schiller is stepping back from some App Store and event duties add another layer to it. Ternus also gets his first big test almost immediately at Apple’s September 9 event, where reports say the company is expected to unveil new iPhones, a foldable device, and a revamped Siri, all while pressure in China and supply-chain risks keep growing.

If you follow Apple, keep an eye on this. A smooth handover could shape the company for years.

You can watch Apple’s September 9 event on Apple’s website, Apple TV, and YouTube.

New leaks around the OnePlus 16 point to a 200MP main sensor, plus a 50MP ultrawide and a 50MP periscope telephoto. Tipsters say that’s the imaging hardware OnePlus has landed on for the final version of the phone.

If that turns out to be right, the OnePlus 16 would be a real step up from the OnePlus 15’s three 50MP rear cameras. There’s also talk of a 50MP autofocus selfie camera, which could mean sharper selfies, cleaner video calls, and better vlogging. It’s the kind of camera bump some OnePlus fans were hoping to see a generation ago. Still, megapixels aren’t the whole story; sensor size , image processing, optics, and tuning matter just as much.

People who care about flagship camera hardware will probably want to keep an eye on this. At the same time, the leak needs a healthy dose of skepticism, because it also claims the phone will get a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro chip, a 9,000mAh battery, and a 165Hz display, along with a rumored China launch around October 2026. That lines up with reports saying OnePlus is putting more focus on China and India after a reported US exit and a pullback in parts of North America and Europe.

For now, there’s nothing to download, and OnePlus still hasn’t confirmed pricing, India availability, or any wider global release.

What’s your favorite Jason Statham movie: the one where he sneaks into a building looking for revenge by beating up every terrorist he comes across on the way, or the one where he slips onto a ship looking for revenge by shooting every henchman he comes across on the way? Statham, like Chuck Norris or Jean-Claude Van Damme back in the day, has a genre all his own: you know exactly what you’re going to get in a movie that has his face blown up huge on the poster with a look that says he’s not in the mood for nonsense. The kind of face you never want to find crouching on your street corner in case you catch an unexpected slap round the head. And yet, there’s something about him that makes us watching him dish it out left and right.

Jason Statham as Jason Statham

We’ve seen Statham handing out beatings in A Working Man, Mutiny, The Beekeeper, Wrath of Man, the Fast & Furious saga and, of course, the two Meg installments, among many other movies. He’s synonymous, at the end of the day, with pure and simple fun, even if they aren’t very good films cinematically… except at the start of his career. And the thing is, back in 1998, Statham didn’t think he’d end up acting: he’d been a professional athlete, a model, and even a shopkeeper in his father’s store before crossing paths with Guy Ritchie, who was at the top of his game.

Though by now we can already spot Ritchie’s tics in his latest works (Fountain of Youth, Aladdin, In the Grey, and so on), back then he was an absolute sensation. His fast, direct way of telling stories on film led him to make films like Sherlock Holmes, The Gentlemen or The Man from U.N.C.L.E., but none of this would’ve happened without his first two marvels: Lock & Stock and Snatch. If you ask me, he hasn’t made anything better, and neither has Statham: they’re rough, fun, they move at a breakneck pace, they’re hilarious, and they even still feel modern today. An absolute delight, really.

If you don’t know them, you really are missing something. Lock & Stock cost barely 800,000 pounds, and in the cast only Statham and Vinnie Jones went on to have careers. If you put it on, for almost two hours you’re going to enjoy a group of small-time crooks who screw up in spectacular fashion and end up owing money to a mafia boss. From here on, everything gets murkier and murkier, until everything falls apart. It was such a success that they even ended up making a series out of it (although, like any good spin-off, it wasn’t quite as good), and now it stands as a relic from another era that you should go back to.

In Snatch, Ritchie raised the bar and cast Brad Pitt in a lead role who made a real effort to ensure nobody could understand a word he says. Benicio del Toro, Vinnie Jones, Stephen Graham and, of course, Statham himself are in it too. It’s brutal, wildly funny, dark, fast, and back then it was a surprise hit: it cost 10 million and grossed more than 80, turning everyone into stars. And yes, it got a TV series too. And sure enough, without the original cast it only lasted two seasons. After that, Statham went off to work in Hollywood, to this day. But if you’re seriously thinking about putting on yet another shoot-’em-up with him as the lead, take this advice: go back, to the time when he could pass for a gangster. You’ll rarely see anything more fun. Word. Or as Brad Pitt would say in Snatch, “Waaahrd.”

Tim Cook closed a historic chapter at the helm of Apple yesterday. After 15 years as CEO, he has handed the reins of the company to John Ternus, until now the head of hardware engineering. Cook will remain at Apple as executive chairman of the board, bringing all his experience to a new role and, on his last day leading the company, he addressed his employees.

“It’s all thanks to you”

Cook sent an especially personal memo to employees, according to 9to5Mac. He speaks of the privilege of having led Apple and acknowledges that the people who make up the company is at the center of everything achieved: Apple’s success lies in its people.

He also has a few words for Ternus, who has been more visible lately and whom we recently saw during Pokémon’s recent visit to Apple Park. Cook describes him as a “brilliant, wonderful, and capable” person, with a very special understanding of what it means to create products that can change the world.

Ternus takes the role after years of becoming more prominent and with enormous experience inside the company. The handover thus ensures full continuity and fits with the vision for how Apple should move forward that Cook has defended for so many years. The names at the top change, while the essence of Apple remains.

Below, the full memo:

Team:

Today is my last day as CEO of Apple. It’s a moment I always knew would come someday and, even so, it’s hard to believe it has arrived and that I’m writing these words. I love this company and the team behind it, and I wanted to use this day to send you a note, to tell you how grateful I am for all the support you’ve shown me, for the way you’ve given your best every day and, above all, for the once-in-a-lifetime privilege of being your leader.

The truth is, whatever people make of my success, I know it’s all thanks to you. You have brought out the best in me. In my whole life, this is the most extraordinary team of people I’ve had the opportunity to be with, and every day I find new examples of that.

There is something truly special about Apple. What I feel most proud of goes far beyond what an annual report can capture. This place is proof that culture matters more than anything else. We are convinced that what we build matters and that we have the opportunity and the responsibility to leave the world better than we found it. That purpose is part of what makes this place extraordinary. Apple helps cultivate it, although I think it was already in each of you long before you got here. It’s what brought you to this company and what continues to drive the work you do every day. Together we have created something much greater than what any of us would have imagined or achieved on our own. And that is the secret of our success. We bring out the best in one another. We support each other. We have made it possible to leave our “dent in the universe,” as Steve once described it, thanks to who we are and what we believe in, thanks to what we value and our way of seeing the world. How fortunate we are. How fortunate I am.

As you know, I will remain at Apple. At the same time, I am leaving behind a responsibility that I have loved deeply. I will miss this job in ways I can barely begin to imagine, while I have complete peace of mind about this decision. I will miss leading you and being with you every step of the way, and at the same time it gives me enormous peace of mind to hand the helm to someone as brilliant, wonderful, and capable as John. Few people understand better than he does what it takes to create products that change the world and I am tremendously excited about his leadership.

I hope you know how much I appreciate you and the honor it has been to be your CEO. Above all, I hope you continue to feel proud to be part of this extraordinary place we call Apple and that you always give your best. When we put everything we are into this work, taking care of one another and taking care of the people we serve, the profound difference we can make is immense.

I hope to see you in my new role at Apple Park and around the world.

With all I have and all I am, always yours, 

Tim

It all started with a video in which a girl was complaining on Stories that she’d only had one month of vacation instead of three, “like everybody else.”

And then, the internet exploded.

The ads, the vacations in cute little hotels at all costs, the videos complaining about politics when they literally haven’t lifted a finger for what they say they defend…

The digital equivalent of storming the nobles’ castle with pikes and torches and demanding the influencers’ heads.

Things got so bad that even the influencers themselves started passing the buck, calling themselves “content creators” and calling for the fall of “the bad ones”.

Meaning, the ones who aren’t them.

A pathetic spectacle (on their part) that in the end has amounted to… anything?

The Bad Guys’ Moment

In the end, it all evens out.

Maybe you follow them just to laugh at them, or because you really believe that anti-wrinkle cream is the one they use at night, or because they’re like part of your family.

The “fall” of influencers, when it comes to looking at the numbers, has been a small bump in the road that is a warning sign for the future: not everything is fair game.

Be careful.

Obviously, it’ll matter very little to María Pombo or Lola Lolita, but, indeed, there are a few accounts it has really hurt.

Not enough to leave them without ads, though.

RoRo, after the Velada, has lost 827,000 followers, a 5.5% drop that should have brands a little on edge: why collaborate with someone in the middle of a decline?

That’s what everyone who wants to work with Aruberuto Makoto should be asking themselves too, the first influencer to screw up after the famous “fall”, which proves this post’s thesis: people aren’t going to let another one slide.

Since he tried to cross a line with a stranger in Japan and then came the pathetic excuses, he has lost 4% of his audience, that is, 11,530 followers.

It may not seem like much, but for it to happen in just one week it’s insane.

Most of them, honestly, haven’t even noticed: yes, engagement may drop for a few days and a couple thousand followers may leave (in Peldanyos’s case, for example, only 2,192).

Sadly, I think this is as far as the famous “fall” goes.

If a “creator” like JWulen, who was exposed in a video as a blatant plagiarist and set the whole internet buzzing, has only lost 71,000 followers (out of 5 million), then all is lost.

Yes, a lot of influencers buy followers (and that’s why they hide the likes), but it gives the impression that, once again, the cataclysm came, erupted, and ended in our little bubble.

Depending on who you talk to across different marketing departments, they’ll tell you very different things about influencer marketing: some spent a fortune on a story that didn’t get a single conversion and some made back ten times what they’d spent.

Is anyone going to buy a perfume because Natalia Palacios, via #ad, says it smells like strawberries?

Influencers, who used to be part of the day-to-day lives of millions of people who had an almost friendly relationship (from one side only, of course) with them, have become our celebrity-gossip press 2.0, and that’s the only thing that matters: who they’re hooking up with, who they defend, who they hate, who they have kids with.

Whether they lie or tell the truth, whether they say stupid things or not.

They’re our bread and circuses, our jesters, raking in money while they juggle.

There can’t be a real downfall (beyond a few isolated cases) when there’s a parasocial relationship.

It’s as sad as it sounds.

Apple has presented new evidence in the trade secrets lawsuit it is pursuing against OpenAI. The analysis of a MacBook turned over by Chang Liu strengthens its position, as Apple claims to have found direct evidence that its confidential information was used.

An Apple schematic used at OpenAI

As reported by MacRumors, Liu allegedly downloaded a confidential Apple circuit schematic in March and used it to run a simulation with LTspice. After that, the engineer explained in messages that he had managed to train an AI agent to use the tool.

The laptop also allegedly revealed several messages about access to Apple’s external storage and how Liu allegedly gave instructions to delete evidence of that access after hearing about the internal investigation that was underway. Apparently, Apple got hold of this schematic because a Mac mini owned by Liu synced with the MacBook and now it also wants to examine that machine and other devices belonging to the accused.

Apple wants to speed up access to the evidence

The case has particular significance because OpenAI is preparing a family of hardware devices and we have details of a possible portable speaker with ChatGPT. Apple filed its trade secrets lawsuit in July, and OpenAI responded publicly with emails and messages downplaying the clash

Now Apple is revealing more evidence as it continues digging deeper and is arguing in court that this new evidence justifies expedited discovery and a broader investigation before more evidence is destroyed. Judge Edward J. Davila will hear the arguments on October 1, and that’s when, if no new evidence against Liu emerges before then, when we will know more about the case.