Tim Walz’s daughter blasts running influencer for ‘normalizing’ Trump administration with White House visit

Hope Walz, the daughter of former vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz, attacked a popular running influencer on social media for interviewing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt this week. Kate Mackz, a running TikToker with 783,000 followers, interviews celebrities, often while taking a jog, for her online series “Post Run High.” She’s interviewed well-known…

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Apple is working with Anthropic on an AI coding tool for Xcode

Apple and Anthropic are building an AI-powered coding tool that will work in Xcode, Apple’s code-writing tool, Bloomberg reports. A new version of Xcode will integrate Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model to “write, edit and test code on behalf of programmers,” Bloomberg says. Apple is slowly rolling this new version out internally initially and apparently has…

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In praise of a special little bag

Form and function. Nothing cements your relationship status with a new hobby like buying a special bag for it. Hiking? Cycling? Photography? You bet there’s a special bag designed for just that. Getting into a new thing and accumulating gear for it is a joy. An important and underappreciated subcategory of that enjoyment is finding…

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How to lock down your privacy in WhatsApp

The end-to-end encryption (E2EE) available on the WhatsApp messaging app gets you off to a good start when it comes to privacy and security. It means no one else – hackers, law enforcement, or Meta staff – can see your chats. Your stuff stays just between you and the person or persons you’re chatting with….

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