Cinnamon bread. Cheez Whiz. Green olives.

These are the sole ingredients of a potluck offering that’s popular in some parts of Minnesota and North Dakota. Some people use breads with a little less flair, like pumpernickel or rye, but the cinnamon version has its die-hard fans, especially in Roseau, Minn...

“When you go to our local grocer — we only have one in town — on the Super One display is fresh baked, in-house cinnamon swirl bread with a pyramid of Cheez Whiz displayed next to it,” said Sinnamon Krings, Roseau promotions director. “To someone not from here you might wonder why but to a local it’s as common as peanut butter and jelly.”

Those who love the combination are often nostalgic about it and remember eating it as a kid after church services or funerals. In some circles, it’s called “funeral bread.”..

The company debuted Cheez Whiz in 1952, first in Britain, where Kraft marketed it as an easy way to make the sauce for Welsh rarebit.  When the product landed on U.S. supermarket shelves the next year, Kraft already had the perfect way to introduce it to shoppers — on the company-sponsored television program Kraft TV Theatre... On Sept. 8, Sasser wrote that during that week’s program, Kraft TV Theatre demonstrated a recipe that is very close to funeral bread: Melba toast spread with Cheez Whiz and topped with sliced olives. Could this be the dish’s origin?

Now here's some entirely pleasant footage. Red pandas are not at all related to giant pandas, and the only thing they have in common is eating bamboo. Giant pandas are bears. Red pandas had the name first. 

Since launching the public preview of GitHub Copilot coding agent for Jira, we’ve been listening closely to customer feedback. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to try the integration, report issues, and share suggestions—your input has directly shaped the improvements we have shipped.

What’s new

Improved onboarding and setup guidance

Based on feedback from early adopters, the integration now provides better guidance, including clearer error messages and steps to resolve common configuration issues. We’ve also extended our documentation to more comprehensively cover integration prerequisites.

Model selection

You can now choose which AI model Copilot coding agent uses for your task, directly from Jira. Simply indicate the model you wish to use in your comment when mentioning @GitHub Copilot. For more information on available models, see Supported AI models in Copilot.

Jira ticket references in pull requests

We now instruct Copilot coding agent to include your Jira ticket number in the pull request title and branch name. The pull request will also include a link back to the originating Jira ticket and the Jira context provided to the agent. This makes it easier to trace work from Jira through to your codebase.

Confluence context via MCP

Provide Copilot coding agent with access to your Confluence pages by configuring the Atlassian MCP server with a personal access token (PAT). This allows the agent to reference design documents, specifications, and other context stored in Confluence when working on your Jira issues. For setup instructions, see Extending Copilot coding agent with MCP.

Getting started

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Danny Bolella (Reddit):

If you read the comments on my articles or browse the iOS subreddits, there is a vocal contingent of developers betting that Apple is going to roll back Liquid Glass. […] I shared this exact sentiment with the Apple team.

Their reaction? Genuine shock. They were actually concerned that developers were holding onto this position. They made it emphatically clear that Liquid Glass is absolutely moving forward, evolving, and expanding across the ecosystem.

Their exact warning to me was that those who don’t adopt it now “are gonna find themselves in a tough position later.”

[…]

We had them confirm the hard truth: Xcode 27 will absolutely not have the deferral flag, and it will not respect it if you leave it there, anyway. When Q1 2027 rolls around and Xcode 27 becomes the mandatory minimum for compiling to the App Store, glass will be enabled globally, period.

Jeff Johnson:

What’s truly astonishing about the macOS Tahoe UI is that it’s now been SIX MONTHS since Tahoe was released to the public, yet it’s still full of glaring bugs. […] So many little things are off, out of alignment. It’s like Apple rushed out an alpha version.

Bolella:

The Apple engineers explained that a massive part of the initial Liquid Glass rollout was simply ensuring the foundation was solid. It had to be functional, it had to meet incredibly strict styling guidelines across every single Apple platform, and most importantly, it just had to work.

[…]

The team was visibly enthusiastic about what is in store for WWDC26 and Xcode 27. While they wouldn’t drop any specific spoilers, they gave the very strong impression that this upcoming cycle is where Liquid Glass takes its first massive step into maturity.

Jeff Johnson:

This is the Safari search field on Tahoe. Notice the position of the clear button.

John Gruber:

Perfect MacOS 26 Tahoe screenshot from the Journal app. Apple shipped this.

Simon B. Støvring:

Liquid Glass is a catastrophe.

Dave Mark:

I have SO many examples of this. Text fields that are cut off, text color choices that render text completely unreadable. In this regard, Apple design has lost the thread.

Leon:

the thing about modern Apple UI is they go for some deeply flawed vision that seems developed in a vacuum away from third parties, accessibility experts and engineers, and then when that fails they water it all the way down until people say “huh okay this isn’t that bad any more”

it just lurches from catastrophe to milquetoast and back again, with most of the time firmly in milquetoast territory

what i’d love, love to see is them - or anyone - come up with is a system vision that bakes in accessibility and pro / studio app design first.

Previously:

• Whither Liquid Glass?
• 2025 Six Colors Apple Report Card
• Building Zavala 4.0
• NetNewsWire 7
• Sebastiaan de With Rejoining Apple
• Liquid Glass Disbelief
• Alan Dye Leaving Apple for Meta
• Shipping Liquid Glass

Update (2026-03-26): CrabQueenInc:

Disheartening but not surprising. I feel so fortunate that I’m not in need of a new computer, but at least my options will be wide open when I get to vote with my wallet next time, as it were.

Jesper:

You need only live with Liquid Glass for a short while to see places that even the most glowing critic, who accepts at face value the intent behind the changes, would agree it completely drops the ball. Odd margins, nonsensical visual weight, hard to read text, constantly shifting dark-to-white-to-dark-again backgrounds, blurry messes. There is no part of Liquid Glass that “just works”, and Apple’s insistence on its excellence is what is so deeply concerning about the situation.

[…]

I guess hope springs eternal that the reason they don’t see the problem with it is that the second phase brings back some of the things that are so dearly missed, and that the people in charge of it has always seen it as part of the proposition.

[…]

The initial rollout would have to have been very rushed for this to not have been part of the first version, but a rushed rollout is exactly the kindest way to explain its current state.

CM Harrington:

It’s like they never used a mac before.

Nick Heer:

Regardless of whatever one thinks the visual qualities of Liquid Glass, the software quality problem is notable there, too. We are now on the OS 26.4 set of releases and I am still running into plenty of instances with bizarre and distracting compositing problems. On my iPhone, the gradients that are supposed to help with legibility in the status bar and toolbar appear, disappear, and change colour with seemingly little relevance to what is underneath them. Notification Centre remains illegible until it is fully pulled down.

See also: Hacker News.