In this week's Sunday Reboot, Apple Music's chunky logo takes a bath, and one heck of a security snafu.
Sunday Reboot is a weekly column covering some of the lighter stories within the Apple reality distortion field from the past seven days. All to get next week underway with a good first step.
An unusually gloopy rebrand
Rebrands are hard to pull off, especially if you're one of the biggest brands on the planet. Existing product logos and word marks are deeply ingrained in the minds of users, making any small changes seem like major ones.
While the decision to make the Apple Music logo chunkier is a modernization effort that doesn't quite work for everyone, that's a preference issue. The more impressive aspect is Apple's decision to use physical components to influence its appearance.
Sure, you can use Adobe Illustrator to within an inch of its life to come up with a new graphic, but doing it in physical space is an art form.
Apple released a video about its Apple Music rebrand and its partnership with Fred Again and Nest Acoustics to create a "visual identity" formed through sound. That is, it's not making a logo design, but determining how it is presented to viewers.
The "formed through sound" bit could be distilled into making sound waves visual. That's an impossible act, but it certainly involved making a different kind of wave.
Cue sessions with a vat of mineral oil, strategically placed lights, and an actuating rod to pump up and down. I assure you, it's in a completely family-friendly way, since it's all about refracting light that impacts how you see the submerged Apple Music logo.
After some editing work, the project created some idents for the start of Apple Music videos.
Making physical recreations of logos isn't new for Apple, but it is the second time it is relying on glass-like effects and light refractions. In November 2025, it released another video for the rebrand of the Apple TV logo.
That time, it used large cutout pieces of glass for the logo itself and shifted the camera around them. Strategic light placement allowed for light to appear and move in different ways on the logo itself, while creative editing made the spinning Apple effect.
It's a neat trend, and I wonder how far Apple can push this.
Security, allegedly
On Wednesday, a security story erupted that was a bit of an issue, but also serves as a reminder that everyone gets things wrong. Not just people putting salt into their coffee instead of sugar, but big business too.
Serious business, with big-boy security problems that they need to manage with all of the expertise they could muster.
No, not the PHP thing, though that's a headache. I'm talking security certificates.
In short, the certificate authority eMudhra had issued a bunch of certificates in April 2025. As you would expect, a script was used to generate them, and that script had some very bad problems.
Security certificates, like those used to encrypt the connection between your browser and your favorite Apple news site, are secured with keys. Those keys are usually very long, making it extremely difficult for a computer to brute-force attack it by trying every one in order.
The problem wasn't just that the keys could be determined by an expert with a massive amount of computing power. In the case of ten keys, it could've been done after a few hundred attempts or fewer.
An unrealistic representation of highly technical stuff worked on a MacBook Pro.
One of the keys was protected by the digit "4" alone. This is on the same level as using the password "password," or yelling out your PIN of "1234" as you enter it into an ATM.
The world is lucky that the affected keys were minimally used and that companies, including Apple, have taken action to block them from being used.
There are questions left unanswered, such as why there wasn't a check to make sure there was a minimum number of characters or any number of other protection mechanisms in place. We'll get assurances that things have been improved and are encouraged to move on to other pressing topics.
But, for you and me, it demonstrates that everyone can screw up in monumental ways. It can always be a Wylie E. Coyote-level mistake, and you're not the only one that it can happen to in everyday life.
Some days, you're the Roadrunner, some days you are shrinking to a dot with a whistling sound before turning into a small, distant dust cloud.
Last week's Sunday Reboot discussed the HomeView, paying more for less, and UK house floorplan problems