Damian Pickett · No. 18
Monday 21 September 2026
Mike Yastrzemski, grandson of Red Sox legend Carl Yastrzemski, hit the home run that clinched Boston’s playoff spot on Sunday, capping a late-season turnaround.
The Weapons and Barbarian director’s new film opened to $108.3 million, making Cregger one of Hollywood’s most reliable hitmakers three films in.
General Motors is reversing its push to drop Apple CarPlay, restoring it for 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks after owner pushback.
Read · Lenny's Newsletter
A guide to solving team problems (without always blaming the people)
A guide to fixing team dysfunction without playing the blame game, useful whenever you’re diagnosing why a team isn’t performing.
Listen · Founders
Good pairing with today’s Boring Company Hyperloop pitch: Senra’s breakdown of how Musk actually thinks about building things.
Listen · David Senra
Rahal explains why he came back to run protein bar companies after finding investing unfulfilling once he’d sold RXBAR for $600 million.
Listen · Acquired
The story behind the chipmaker at the centre of today’s iPhone 18 Pro teardown and Apple’s entire supply chain.
Despite huge funding and buzz around world models, founders, investors and even their own data suppliers are reluctant to explain what the technology actually does.
The $249 wearable ring records and summarises meetings hands-free, though its always-on listening raises the same privacy questions as other AI note-takers.
The Palo Alto startup, founded by student couple Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff, turns textbooks into a scrollable feed of video, audio and quizzes.
From a game console maker to a leathercraft school, founders are building businesses around real-world connection as a reaction to screen fatigue.
The Boring Company has floated a new Hyperloop route between the two Texas cities, though most of its previously announced projects have yet to materialise.
TechCrunch’s transport newsletter examines how regulators and companies are trying to define a safety bar for autonomous vehicles as AI takes on a bigger role.
iFixit’s teardown of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max confirms battery capacities and gives the clearest look yet at the phone’s internals.
Apple’s $250 million settlement over Siri’s delayed AI launch is now open for claims, with eligible iPhone owners in line for about $25 each.
Siri AI is rolling out gradually as a labelled beta, and early users report it still falls short in several everyday situations.
Theja Rio’s debut feature about an indigenous Indian tribe in the 1960s took Toronto’s Platform prize, which comes with automatic Oscar shortlist eligibility.
Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s Cannes breakout won Toronto’s audience award, a prize with a strong record of predicting eventual Oscar contenders.
In his new memoir, the Oscar winner recalls receiving a $100,000 residual cheque for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom as a 12-year-old actor.
The Moon and Mute director took almost a decade to get his animated Rogue Trooper adaptation made, and did it without generative AI.
As Mazzulla starts his fifth season as Celtics head coach, CelticsBlog weighs what his body of work says about him so far.
New England beat Pittsburgh 20-3 at Gillette Stadium on Sunday, a defensive performance that included four sacks of Aaron Rodgers and two turnovers.
X-rays reportedly showed the veteran guard broke his right ankle after being rolled up from behind in the second quarter of Sunday’s win.
Ferrari’s hopes of a 2026 title challenge have faded and the team has been overtaken in the standings. The Race explains what went wrong.
The former driver says organisers must alter the Madring circuit’s layout before Spain’s Grand Prix returns in 2027, after a processional debut race.
Ex-Ferrari and Williams engineer Rob Smedley wants a bigger stewarding team to speed up in-race calls and stop straightforward incidents dragging on.
With a playoff spot secured, MLB.com runs through how Boston’s postseason path, seeding and schedule could shape up over the final week.
Reliever Tyron Guerrero returns from the injured list as Boston heads into the postseason, giving the bullpen a boost at the right time.
Prospect Franklin Arias hit his 25th home run of the season, a milestone few Red Sox minor leaguers have reached.
The Tony-winning comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln is being adapted for television, bringing Escola’s fictionalised, riotous take on the first lady to a wider audience.