Topic: Apple Daily

Jon Stewart is scheduled to return to The Daily Show on Comedy Central as a weekly host for Monday nights through the 2024 election cycle. The move follows Stewart's departure from his Apple TV+ series and a hiatus from late-night television. Analysis of his career highlights the commercial failure of his 2020 film Irresistible and questions whether his satirical style remains effective in the current political climate.

Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper is shutting down following police raids and the freezing of its assets under the National Security Law. In a related media story, journalist Rania Khalek commented that the U.S. seizure of Iranian media domains would be viewed as an "act of war" if performed by another nation against the U.S.

The Daily Source Code was launched as the first serialized podcast to encourage the development of receiving software. In 2005, Steve Jobs invited the "Podfather" to Apple to discuss integrating podcasting into iTunes. While the integration brought the medium to the masses, it also led to the dominance of traditional media outlets like NPR on the platform, which the hosts argue diluted the original independent spirit of podcasting.

The release of iOS 9 introduced mobile ad-blocking capabilities, which significantly improve page load speeds and reduce data costs for users. Industry executives, including John Steinberg of the Daily Mail, suggest that publishers will pivot toward "native advertising" and "hard-coded" ads to bypass these blockers.

Curry expresses extreme frustration with his Macintosh-based recording setup, noting that it worked perfectly for his Daily Source Code podcast earlier that day but is failing during No Agenda. Dvorak suggests that a recent Apple software update might be the cause of the audio crackling. Curry laments the lack of a reliable, all-in-one portable digital processing solution for podcasters.