Oh, right. Things were different "back in the day." It used to be that you had to go to sites like Marty's Mega Mac Shack and Mac Fanbois 'R Us for unrepentant credulity about Apple rumors. Now you can go to .

(tip o' the antlers to )

Does "confirmed" no longer mean "to establish the truth or correctness of something previously believed or suspected"? Is the Macalope having a seizure? Do you smell burnt toast?

It's perfectly possible that Anthony Wing Kosner didn't write the headline of this piece, but either he or an overzealous copy editor need to turn themselves into the authorities for gross misuse of the English language.

What's Kosner's evidence of this "confirmation"? That the person making these claims, iLounge editor Jeremy Horwitz, once made other claims that turned out to be true. That's it. Usually when you confirm something you have another reputable source that's saying the same thing. Kosner doesn't even have that.