Broken Wayback Machine clock

The Wayback Machine is full of holes. That’s always been the case, but outlets are increasingly blocking the project, despite people who work for those outlets considering Wayback Machine an indispensible resource. My column for Stuff this week is all about this: The internet’s time machine is starting to run out of time itself.

Neo Geo is back! Again. You might be forgiven for thinking it never really went away, what with all the various Neo Geo gadgets over the years. But the AES+ is a 1:1 recreation of the notoriously spendy original, chips and all. That authenticity largely extends to the pricing. Individual games will set you back 70 quid/90 US dollaroonies – which is more than an entire Neo Geo Super Pocket.

The MacBook Air M5 is rather nice. I imagine you knew that already, but you might like to read my review regardless.

Lego. There is more coming. Always. I updated my upcoming list for Stuff, along with writing a standalone piece on the UCS Mandalorian N-1 Starfighter set.

Liquid Glass is still terrible. I’m saying this because several takes of late suggest upgrade laggards are scared Apple will merge its operating systems. Which is an odd take. I wouldn’t give two hoots about that, if the output was optimised per system. It might even be beneficial if an iPhone could match Android when it comes to external display support.

Most of my devices remain on pre-26 systems, though, because Liquid Glass still has dismal usability and accessibility, regardless of what controls you turn on. There are so many holes. Yet Apple won’t deal with them because we’re now on the road to the ‘27’ systems. Here’s hoping WWDC will bring better news on the operating system UI and accessibility front than last year did.