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A newly released second trailer for the upcoming 'Street Fighter' film delves into the tense history between rivals Ryu and Ken Masters. Midway through, the tone shifts sharply as the footage leans into overt comedic beats rather than maintaining its dramatic setup.
John Ternus, now Apple's CEO, sent his inaugural company-wide memo thanking Tim Cook for his leadership and years of service, and noting Cook will remain executive chairman. Ternus also flagged an upcoming major product launch and hinted at future innovations still in development.
Jon Spiteri, whose family has run hospitality businesses for over a century starting with an English guesthouse his parents opened after emigrating from Tunisia in 1957, now works with his own children at Latimer restaurant in West London. He argues against the common workplace advice that staff should separate personal struggles from work, saying managers should instead support employees through hardships.
A resurfaced 1996 interview clip from Maryland Public Television's Wall Street Week shows Steve Jobs, then years away from returning to Apple, insisting the company's path forward was innovation rather than cost-cutting. The clip has recirculated online, shared by Patrick McGee, timed to news of Apple naming a new CEO.
Apple has updated Apple Maps to display Lake Ontario as "Lake America" for users in the United States, following a similar change Google made earlier. The renaming stems from an executive order signed by President Trump amid trade tensions with Canada, which altered the lake's designation in the US Geographic Names Information System. Canadian users still see "Lake Ontario," while international versions of Apple Maps display both names.
On John Ternus's first day leading Apple, Bloomberg reports that former CFO Luca Maestri has stepped down from his Corporate Services role, with those duties now absorbed by current CFO Kevan Parekh. Separately, M&A chief Adrian Perica has been dropped from Apple's official leadership page, with his responsibilities possibly being split between the services and finance divisions.
Frustrated with the state of modern software, a developer decided to build their own text editor from scratch instead of relying on Sublime Text or VS Code's Monaco-based engine. Their first prototype rendered everything on an HTML canvas element, handling basic cursor movement, typing, and line highlighting, but lacked features like text selection, undo history, and scrolling. Realizing canvas rendering was inherently inaccessible, they pivoted to using a contenteditable div with plaintext-only mode as a more practical foundation.
A proposed $7.85 million settlement in Caccuri v. Sony Interactive Entertainment has won preliminary court approval after being rejected twice, most recently in July 2025 over unclear recovery estimates. The suit accused Sony of monopolizing digital game sales by ending game-specific vouchers that once let PlayStation owners buy titles from rival retailers, forcing them toward the PlayStation Store. Sony denies wrongdoing, and no court has ruled it broke any law, but a final approval hearing is set for Oct. 15.
Amazon has discounted its newest budget streaming device, the Fire TV Stick 4K Select, from its $49.99 list price to $19.99, a 60% cut. The stick supports 4K Ultra HD with HDR10+, runs Amazon's newer Vega OS, and includes Alexa voice control and 8GB of storage.
Pixel 11 owners have reported static noise appearing in videos recorded using the Video Boost feature, which enhances color, lighting, stabilization and low-light detail. Google told Android Authority it has identified the cause and built a software fix that will roll out through the Camera app in the coming weeks, with further optimizations arriving in a future monthly Android update.
Quill, a Y Combinator-backed company building a fullstack SDK for embedding customer-facing analytics and reporting into apps, is hiring a remote fullstack software engineer. The role pays $150-210K plus equity and is open to candidates working PT/ET hours. The company, still pre-launch with a team under five people, serves fintech, healthtech and govtech customers with custom reporting and dashboard tools.
An Entrepreneur contributor column describes coaching a founder who had crossed seven figures in revenue and had a five-person team, yet still personally approved every decision and monitored every team chat message. The founder believed constant micromanagement was simply required to run a business, a belief the writer traces to an outdated subconscious 'operational identity' left over from her solopreneur days.