Apple TV+ just debuted a new series that is getting a lot of love from critics, and has a fantastic trailer too. Here are all the details on Dope Thief, the latest crime thriller from Apple TV+ that’s available now.

Dope Thief’s first two episodes now available on Apple TV+

As Apple prepares for Severance to wrap up next week, it has several big new shows lined up to entice subscribers to stick around.

The first such series is Dope Thief, which debuted today on Apple TV+ with its first two episodes. New episodes will be released weekly through April 25.

Dope Thief stars Brian Tyree Henry, Wagner Moura, and Ving Rhames. Ridley Scott executive produced the show and directed its first episode.

Apple has not confirmed if its delayed personalized Siri features were anything more than conceptual when they were announced during the WWDC 2024 keynote last year, but they reportedly exist internally in at least a semi-usable way by now.

Apple’s senior director of Siri, Robby Walker, demonstrated at least some of the personalized Siri features in a ”working” state during a recent all-hands meeting with the Siri team, according to a report yesterday from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman:

He showed examples during the meeting of the technology working: It was able to locate his driver’s license number on command and find specific photos of a child. He also demonstrated how the technology could precisely manipulate apps via voice control. It embedded content in an email, added recipients and made other changes.

The above paragraph in the report was highlighted by Daring Fireball’s John Gruber.

Four songs recorded by the late Marianne Faithfull are set to be released at the request of her family.

A stalwart of the Swinging London arts and music scene in the 1960s, Faithfull became one of the leading female artists during the British Invasion era. She died in January, aged 78.

Tributes poured out for the ‘Broken English’ singer, with Blur‘s Graham Coxon, The Charlatans‘ Tim Burgess, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Ed Harcourt, Warren Ellis, Ronnie Wood, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sir Paul McCartney, Morrissey, Metallica and more all penning personal tributes.

Europe’s digital economy has been governed by the Digital Markets Act since November 2022. This law requires major mobile ecosystems to implement a browser ballot, a change that Mozilla believes will enhance user choice and promote market competition.

The browser choice screens enforced by the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) are having a noticeable impact on Firefox’s ability to compete in the internet browser sector. According to a recent Mozilla post, the new regulatory framework helped the open-source browser increase its daily active users in two of Europe’s biggest countries.

If you’ve been following iPhone rumors over the last few years, you may remember reading reports that Apple flirted with the idea of introducing a super high-end ”Ultra” model that would either replace its Pro Max device or sit above it in Apple’s smartphone hirearchy. These reports appeared in the pre-launch iPhone 15 and iPhone 16 rumor cycles, but ultimately came to nothing. Now though, the rumor is back.

Citing sources from Weibo, Taiwan, ”US investment report content,” and supply chain trends, the Korean news aggregator account ”yeux1122” on the Naver blog has summarized ”rumors regarding Apple’s iPhone 17 Ultra name change.”

The MMO Defiance, which was shut down in 2021, is coming back to life. For anyone unaware, Defiance was a third-person shooter MMO from Trion Worlds that was developed as a tie-in for the Syfy show of the same name, with events and storylines running across the game and the TV show. It launched in 2013 as a paid game for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, before adopting a free-to-play model and continued to receive updates even after the TV show was canceled in 2015. A new version of the game, Defiance 2050, came out in 2018–but both games shut down servers in 2021. Now, Defiance is attempting a comeback.