The new Pebble wearable is designed as e-waste. I’m getting fed up of this kind of thing. Hence my latest Stuff column: I want more eco-friendly tech, not gadgets that will die in two years.

The best iPhone apps and games of 2025 – at least as I see it. The rules: new apps only and available for iPhone. The results: best apps and best games.

Snap happy: My latest columns for Amateur Photographer explore why I use an iPhone and not a ‘real’ camera and why I’d never buy an iPhone Air.

Need a last-second packable present? Check out my quiz for BA High Life. Or just check it out anyway, because it’s quite fun and it took me ages.

Apple is ‘forcing’ iOS 26 upgrades. Jason Snell writes on Six Colors about this latest Apple wheeze. Typically, Apple has offered security updates for older systems. Now it won’t if a device is capable of running iOS 26. Far be it from me to suggest this is down to uptake being lower than Apple would like and the OS being a shitshow. It’s still littered with major bugs and accessibility problems. Making iOS 18.7.3 more widely available is the least Apple could do.

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison got their Apple account back. So at least Apple did something right. Although if you’re not someone that enough of the heavy hitters in the tech industry would fight for, good luck getting a similar result.

Hackers are extorting Pornhub. This is going to be fun when the UK’s verification laws end up caught in this, and a pro-Online Safety Act MP’s entire porn search history gets leaked.

Remembering Commodore’s C64GS at 35 – because someone had to. My piece for Stuff, including six great games for the system (and non-rubbish C64s too).

Tetris is fab! So is this piece interviewing its creator, written by Daryl Baxter.

Mutant demon Haribo!

Er, and with that: happy holidays!