Those who mistakenly thought 2016 was an anomaly, a series of unprecedented events, should have few remaining doubts. Marine Le Pen may have stuttered but still picked up almost 11 million votes. Her opponent, the “normal” candidate, was leader of a party only one year old. The ongoing terror attacks, fake news panic, Trump’s tweets and James Comey: last year never really ended, it just carried straight on into this one.After decades of exaggerated prediction, the internet is finally transforming politics, but not in the way the digital prophets expected. The 90s, you may recall, were awash with optimism about our online future: limitless information and total connection would make us more informed, less bigoted and kinder citizens. But the internet is an overwhelming mess of competing facts, claims, blogs, data, propaganda, misinformation, investigative journalism, charts, different charts, commentary and reportage. It’s not the slow and careful politicians who have thrived in this busy environment, it’s the people with the shareable cut-through messages. Donald Trump might very well be the first truly social-media politician: his emotion-filled, simplistic blasts are perfect for the medium.

EVERY DAY, A NEW LOW. As Britons turned to social networks to try to get credible information about an unfolding terrorist attack in central London on Saturday night, the President of the United States enraged many by injecting himself into the conversation, and trying to turn the wave of anxiety and fear to his political advantage.Before the nature or scope of the incident was entirely clear even to police officers responding to the rampage, Donald Trump used his personal Twitter account to share unsourced, third-hand speculation about the attack — from an American political blogger — and then lashed out at federal judges for blocking his executive order barring travel from seven Muslim-majority nations as unconstitutional. A screenshot from Donald Trump’s personal Twitter feed.After pausing for some rest — and, apparently, to block a musician in Manchester who criticized him for retweeting news “like a bloody ghoul” — Trump resumed his role as Pundit-in-Chief early Sunday morning in Washington, by falsely accusing London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, of downplaying the attacks as he attempted to instill calm rather than sow panic.

In 1861 a shopkeeper in Philadelphia revolutionised the retail industry. John Wanamaker, who opened his department store in a Quaker district of the city, introduced price tags for his goods, along with the high-minded slogan: “If everyone was equal before God, then everyone would be equal before price.” The practice caught on. Up until then high-street retailers had generally operated a market-stall system of haggling on most products. Their best prices might be reserved for their best customers. Or they would weigh up each shopper and make a guess at what they could afford to pay and eventually come to an agreement

Bozoma Saint John, the Apple executive who garnered significant attention for her demo at last year’s worldwide developer conference, plans to leave the company, Axios has learned. Saint John was head of Global Consumer Marketing for Apple Music (and predecessor Beats Music). Prior to that she was head of music and entertainment marketing for Pepsi.An Apple representative declined to comment.Why it matters: While Apple has several women of color in higher-ranking positions, Saint John had a high profile beyond Apple and was widely praised for her on-stage work last year. She was also fairly unique among Apple executives in maintaining a strong personal brand beyond her work identity, with a strong following on Instagram and Twitter. Her exit also comes shortly after Apple shifted former HR head Denise Young Smith to a new role as VP of diversity and inclusion.

Örlogsbasen i Berga hanterar ett dataintrång, bekräftar Försvarsmakten.En person misstänks för brott i ett ärende som leds av riksenheten för säkerhetsmål.– Ärendet omfattas av förundersökningssekretess, säger Magnus Lindstedt, kommunikationschef vid amfibieregementet.Ett ytstridsfartyg på väg in till BergabasenFoto: TTTipsa | AftonbladetFörsvarsmaktens bas i Berga är en viktig del av försvaret i Östersjöområdet och är hem åt Fjärde sjöstridsflottiljen och amfibieregementet.Aftonbladet kan avslöja att man nu utreder ett dataintrång vid örlogsbasen.En utredning om dataintrång i Berga leds av kammaråklagare Mats Ljungqvist vid riksenheten för säkerhetsmål.En person är misstänkt och ett förhör var planerat att hållas med denne tidigare i veckan.Det misstänkta dataintrånget skulle ha inträffat i oktober 2015.

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is expected to announce plans next week to make its Siri voice assistant work with a larger variety of apps, as the technology company looks to counter the runaway success of Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) competing Alexa service.But the Cupertino, California company is likely to stick to its tested method of focusing on a small amount of features and trying to perfect them, rather than casting as wide a net as possible, according to engineers and artificial intelligence industry insiders.Currently, Apple’s Siri works with only six types of app: ride-hailing and sharing; messaging and calling; photo search; payments; fitness; and auto infotainment systems. At the company’s annual developer conference next week, it is expected to add to those categories.Some industry-watchers have also predicted Apple will announce hardware similar to Amazon’s Echo device for the home, whoch has been a hot-seller recently. Apple declined comment.