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A look at Apple's new home strategy and plans for a ~$2K headset in 2025, Vision Pro 2 in 2026, and Ray-Ban Meta-like glasses and AirPods with cameras in 2027 — Apple is finally preparing to compete for the smart home market after falling behind Amazon and Google.
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Forums: r/HomeKit, r/hardware, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF's team says the plugin was taken away “without consent” — The dispute between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and hosting provider WP Engine continues …
More: The Verge, HEY, ACF, WordPress News, anderegg.ca, WinBuzzer, The Stack, Coinmonks, TechIssuesToday.com, The Register, Pixel Envy, Werd I/O, Matt Mullenweg, and The Torment Nexus
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Forums: r/technology, r/webdev, r/theprimeagen, and r/WPDrama
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle says the service is now back in a “provisional, read-only manner”, after a DDoS attack and data breach on October 9 — The Internet Archive is back online in a read-only state after a cyberattack brought down the digital library and Wayback Machine last week.
More: Neowin, Cord Cutters News, and MSPoweruser
X: @brewster_kahle, @internetarchive, and @tariqkrim
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/privacy
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe launches its AI video model Firefly Video Model in public beta in Premiere Pro, including letting users extend footage and generate video from prompts — Adobe is making the jump into generative AI video. The company's Firefly Video Model, which has been teased since earlier this year …
More: PCMag, Computerworld, Forbes, Axios, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, TechRadar, Fast Company, The Adobe Blog, PetaPixel, PetaPixel, PetaPixel, and Digital Photography Review
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
At its Adobe Max event, Adobe adds AI tools to Photoshop, like Distraction Removal, and makes Generative Fill, Generative Expand, and more generally available — Adobe is kicking off its annual Adobe Max conference today with the launch of new AI-powered features across its Creative Cloud apps.
More: ZDNET, The Verge, Creative Bloq, PetaPixel, Adobe Newsroom, Adobe Newsroom, Adobe Newsroom, and Adobe Newsroom
| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
A profile of Alex Gerko, who used an Icelandic supercomputer and 25K AI chips to build XTX, an algorithmic trading firm that handles $250B of daily trades — XTX Markets conquered foreign exchange trading and made its Russian-born founder a multibillion-pound fortune
X: @tonytassell and @hsu_steve
| Evan Halper / Washington Post: |
An energy crunch is forcing continued coal burning in a low-income area in North Omaha, Nebraska, as Meta and Google data centers strain regional power supply — An energy crunch forces continued coal burning in a low-income area as data centers strain the regional power supply.
More: The Register and Pivot to AI
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X: @alecmacgillis, @greatlakespeck, @kaleekreider, and @charleswlogan. LinkedIn: Eric Christian Pedersen
| Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg: |
A look at the legal dispute between OpenAI and Open AI, run by Guy Ravine, who bought the open.ai domain and filed to trademark “Open AI” in December 2015 — Guy Ravine's Open AI (with a space) owns a trademark and website that OpenAI (no space) wants.
More: Fortune
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Meta Quest 3S review: fast performance, comfortable, excellent controllers, and large app library, but Fresnel lenses lead to artifacts and average MR cameras — It's not Meta's first $300 VR headset, but it's still a tremendous accomplishment. — You can think of the $300 Meta Quest 3S as a basic Honda Accord of VR headsets.| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
LinkedIn says US C-suite users are up 35% and UK C-suite users are up 30% in five years, and their content gets 4x more engagement than other members' content — Pressure is growing on C-suite executives to raise their online game — but they must beware of oversharing| Financial Times: |
The UK appoints Microsoft UK CEO Clare Barclay to lead its new Industrial Strategy Advisory Council, which will focus on growing eight sectors, including tech — Clare Barclay will lead new statutory body tasked with helping Britain win investment away from rival nations
More: GOV.UK, ITPro, The Hollywood Reporter, CNBC, and Bloomberg
Forums: r/unitedkingdom and r/ukpolitics
| Wired: |
How scammers in Southeast Asia are using generative AI, crypto drainers, Starlink terminals, and other tools to expand their pig butchering operations — Scammers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to AI, deepfakes, and dangerous malware in a way that makes their pig butchering operations even more convincing.
More: Mercury News, SlowMist, Beyond Search, and CryptoPotato
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