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The Browse-the-Web Edition Saturday, July 12, 2025

Do You Use It? Revisiting Websites With Windows, Bookmarks, Tabs, And Pinned Tabs, by Adam Engst, TidBITS

There’s no one right way to browse the Web, but looking at the history of where these navigational aids came from and what they were designed to do might help you think about how you interact with online information. We’ll start with multiple windows, move on to bookmarks, browser history, and search engines, take a look at tabs, and then focus on pinned tabs.

Apple Adds Trash Can Mac Pro, AirPorts, And More To Vintage And Obsolete Products List, by Juli Clover, MacRumors

Apple updated its vintage and obsolete products list to add several Macs, iPads, accessories, and more. The 2013 "Trash Can" Mac Pro was added to the vintage list, 12 years after it was first introduced.

Apple Is Offering $150 Million To Stream F1, by Dylan Byers, Puck.news

The offer remains far above the $85 million to $90 million that ESPN is currently paying per annum, and far beyond what ESPN offered to counter. In the wake of those conversations, I’m told, it now appears that Liberty Media is likely to accept Apple’s offer, though a formal agreement has yet to be reached. I’m also reliably told that Apple and ESPN are the only suitors at the table.

Why Big Tech Is Threatened By A Global Push For Data Sovereignty, by Damilare Dosunmu, Rest of World

A battle for data sovereignty is brewing from Africa to Asia.

Developing nations are challenging Big Tech’s decades-long hold on global data by demanding that their citizens’ information be stored locally. The move is driven by the realization that countries have been giving away their most valuable resource for tech giants to build a trillion-dollar market capitalization.

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Is Apple still throwing money around just to get stuff to show on Apple TV? How about throwing some money outside of U.S.?

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