A new Apple TV is coming. At some point. I write that – especially after Apple’s price hikes – it’ll take more than the little black box having an iPhone chip from 2023 inside to make me buy one.

When should you buy a new iPhone? Over at Stuff, m’colleague Tom Morgan-Freelander believes right now. Over at TapSmart, my take is… it depends.

Accessibility makes iPhones better. For TapSmart, I explore new accessibility features in iOS 27 and argue that it’d be nice if some of them weren’t buried in Settings.

New balls, please? Wimbledon might be done, but if you fancy playing your own final, check out my list of the best tennis video games ever made.

You don’t need a new task manager. Nor do I. But I do rather like Wheneri, which gives you countdowns for ‘occasional’ tasks you want to monitor, such as changing a fridge’s filter. It joins my best free iOS apps roundup. Also in apps, a refresh to my best BBQ apps for iPhone.

Want to get ahead in journalism? Ian Dunt has some tips. He’s more positive than most and, naturally, goes at this from a politics angle. I’m more cynical about things, because ‘my’ patch has been atomised over the past decade. I wish I’d carved out a bigger personal space sooner. Lesson learnt.

Make writing accessible. One tip Dunt doesn’t cover when starting out writing is accessibility – and it’s something even many veteran writers mess up. My belief is that even if you’re covering the most arcane area of political policy or the nerdiest game that ever nerded, you should get the reader up to speed rather than making assumptions that they already know everything. There are few things I find more frustrating than a writer who’s all, “Nuts to you – spend an hour on Wikipedia before reading my glorious prose”, rather than them using a short paragraph to set things up.

LLMs can’t program. So claims Samir Talwar in an excellent piece that doesn’t hold back: “The code is trash. Not even slightly trash; it’s beyond repair.” I feel much the same about writing. LLMs churn out confident copy, but a seasoned writer will spot inconsistencies and issues with flow and logic. Part of the problem is LLMs are designed for engagement and don’t push back. They’ll tell people who run text through them that the result is amazing. That is, until they are challenged to compare the human-created text and the LLM’s own output, whereupon they’ll often change tack. In short, LLMs want to keep you happy, whatever you ask. So don’t trust them.

Netflix is going retro. The WSJ reports that we may now be in the final stages of Netflix transforming into the very ecosystem it replaced: live TV with bundles and ads. Good job, everyone!

The Online Safety Act is rubbish. I may have mentioned this before. But this is a specific kind of rubbish based around privacy. As Matt Gallagher writes for Byline Times, adults are increasingly handing over personal data to overseas companies with questionable records. Alas, I doubt the current UK government will be content until kids are shielded even from Wikipedia and adults are forced to sign into every single website they want to access.

The British arts sector is getting another kicking. Yep, the UK government is at it again. Apparently, performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of “difficult decisions” about spending priorities. Funny how the arts always suffer. And depressing that successive British governments hollowing out the arts seem incapable of understanding the country’s strength in that sector, along with how much money the arts make and how much soft power they provide. Yet in years to come, politicians will act all shocked when the UK’s influence has waned.