Apple is quietly shaving the iPhone’s forehead, and if the leaks are real, the iPhone 18 Pro line is about to look way more screen and way less notch.
What actually changes this year
So yeah, Apple is still chasing that full-screen iPhone dream
The iPhone 18 lineup is expected later this year, and the screen tech is doing the heavy lifting
LTPO+ OLED panels are the rumored enabler here, letting Apple hide more stuff under the glass
The big goal is getting Face ID components tucked beneath the display
Dynamic Island gets put on a diet
The Dynamic Island is not disappearing, but it is shrinking
Both iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are rumored to lose about 35 percent of their size
The new measurement floating around is 13.49mm...
If you want UMG to not nuke your delivery, name things cleanly, organize like an adult, print everything properly, and hand over every possible mix and stem they might ever ask for.
What matters first, so nothing gets rejected
Honestly, everything hinges on files being labeled correctly and playable forever.
If names are messy or sessions break, the rest barely matters.
Think future-proof archive, not “it opens on my laptop.”
File names cannot be chaotic
Start with Artist Name and Song Title, always.
Then tack on Mix Type, Tempo in BPM, and the creation date.
Dates must be MMDDYYYY, no creative formatting.
Skip weird symbols completely; they break systems.
Clean versions need to say so right in the name.
The whole thing lives as...
Tim Cook might not be bailing yet, but Apple's already setting the table for whoever's next in line.
Apple preps John Ternus for the big chair
Cook's been running Apple for over 10 years at this point, and whispers about him leaving kicked off back in November 2025
Financial Times and another outlet floated 2026 as his exit year, but Mark Gurman from a business publication shut that down fast
Gurman's still saying Cook isn't going anywhere right this second, but he agrees on one thing: John Ternus is the guy they want when the time comes
Ternus already runs hardware, but late 2025 brought him a new gig as the executive sponsor for Apple's design crew
On paper, the design team still answers to Cook, but Ternus basically sits at the top...
Playground Games finally showed off their Fable reboot, and it's launching this fall with all the moral chaos you remember.
When you can actually play it
Autumn 2026 is the release window for PC, PlayStation 5 (if recent rumors pan out), and Xbox Series S and X, all at once
The game was first teased back at the 2020 Xbox Games Showcase, then got pushed from 2025 to this year for extra polish
How your hero's story kicks off
You can customize your character instead of being locked into the red-headed woman from earlier trailers
Your journey starts as a kid in Briar Hill, a tiny village where you're just living life
At some point, you realize you've got heroic abilities that haven't shown up in Albion for an entire generation
Right...
Double Fine's secret project is a pottery brawler where you craft clay bodies and then beat the hell out of each other.
What Double Fine surprised everyone with
Kiln was the mystery fourth game at Xbox Developer Direct 2026, and nobody saw this coming from the studio that made Keeper
Spring 2026 is when this drops on PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PS5
It's a multiplayer party-brawler that splits itself between making ceramic art and smashing your friends to pieces
How do you actually build your fighter
You start as this tiny ghost thing that needs to sculpt a solid form out of clay at a pottery wheel
Derek Brand, who's running the project at Double Fine, wanted to make sure anyone could jump in and feel like a pottery expert right away...
Game Freak's ditching Pokémon to chase NieR vibes with a post-apocalyptic action RPG dropping this summer.
What Game Freak just showed off
The Pokémon studio is swinging for something wildly different here, and they're calling it a fresh challenge for the team
Beast of Reincarnation got teased at the Summer Xbox Game Showcases with a reveal trailer that didn't show a ton of actual gameplay
Today's Xbox Developer Direct gave everyone a way better look at what this thing actually is, and people are feeling pretty good about it
The setup for this whole thing
Earth's basically toast by the year 4026, and Japan got wrecked by The Blight, which is this parasitic plant situation that killed off most humans
Humanity bailed on their bodies...
Japan just became the biggest flex Forza Horizon has ever pulled, and the scale sounds borderline irresponsible.
The map goes absolutely wild
Playground calls Japan the largest map the series has ever touched.
Verticality is a big deal here, with way more elevation than past games.
The pitch is that every road pulls you into something worth finding.
Cities finally get their moment
This game includes the largest urban district ever built for Forza Horizon.
Dense city driving is no longer an afterthought.
Urban space actually competes with the countryside this time.
The car count is ridiculous
Forza Horizon 6 launches with 550 cars.
That is the biggest day-one roster the series has ever shipped.
The lineup was rebalanced to avoid...
Intel’s Panther Lake flagship finally showed up in PassMark, and yeah, it is clearly bullying its own predecessor.
Panther Lake finally hits PassMark
The Core Ultra X9 388H just landed its first PassMark result.
This is the flagship chip in Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 lineup.
Until now, it only showed up in Geekbench leaks.
The quick verdict
Multi-threaded performance jumps are real.
Single-core gains are modest but steady.
The iGPU leap is doing a lot of the heavy lifting.
How it stacks up against last gen
The comparison target is the Core Ultra 9 285H.
In PassMark, the 388H posts close to a 10 percent lead in multi-threaded tests.
One entry even shows around a 17 percent bump, though results vary.
Single-core stays familiar...
Intel just waved a glass-based monster package at the industry, basically saying the glass substrate rumors were wildly premature.
Intel shows it is not done with glass
Intel rolled up to NEPCON Japan with something loud.
The company showed off a thick glass substrate fused with EMIB.
This is aimed straight at data center and HPC-class silicon.
Where this showed up
The demo came from Intel Foundry.
It was presented at NEPCON Japan.
Intel framed it as a first-of-its-kind implementation.
Why this matters right now
Recent chatter said Intel had quietly backed off from glass substrates.
That talk picked up after some key departures.
This demo pretty much shuts that rumor down.
What Intel actually built
The design combines EMIB with...
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