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• Latest MacOS update helps increase the lifespan of your MacBook's battery (zdnet.com)
  MacOS Catalina 10.15.5 brings battery health management to your Mac notebook.
• What the Trump family stands to gain from Changpeng Zhao’s pardon (theverge.com)
  The Binance CEO’s pardon and the destruction of the White House’s East Wing for Trump’s ballroom are part of the same dynamic in the second…
• Business 2.0 to Kutaragi: You are safely ignored (arstechnica.com)
  Does Ken Kuturagi have any importance other than to poke fun at?
• Tim Berners-Lee on Net Neutrality: “This is serious.” (arstechnica.com)
  The inventor of the WWW has a short, to-the-point post that explains exactly …
• Cybersecurity: Four ways you can keep the hackers away (zdnet.com)
  From senior buy-in to layered security and onto cross-business education, here's how CIOs can create an information security strategy that…
• Nothing’s Ear Open earbuds are back under $100 right now (theverge.com)
  The Nothing Ear Open earbuds are back down to $99 ($50 off) at Amazon. The earbuds feature an open-ear style, ensuring you can hear what’s…
• Amazon is ditching MMOs and cranking out party games (theverge.com)
  Amazon is making “significant” changes to its gaming division, including halting much of its work on first-party AAA MMOs, according to an…
• Should US$1.99 get you ad-free television? Apple's not entirely sure. (arstechnica.com)
  One blogger wrangles an iTMS refund for a faulty show download. The fault? His …
• How to tell if your device is eligible for the Windows 10 May 2020 update (zdnet.com)
  Microsoft adds a message on the Windows Update page to let users know if they're eligible for the Windows 10 May 2020 update.
• New fuzzing tool finds 26 USB bugs in Linux, Windows, MacOS, and FreeBSD (zdnet.com)
  Eighteen of the 26 bugs impact Linux. Eleven have been patched already.
• What next after the Shuttle? (arstechnica.com)
  Russia, the ESA and Japan agree to start planning for a shuttle replacement.
• YouTube will age-restrict more content showing ‘graphic violence’ in video games (theverge.com)
  YouTube’s new policy will age-restrict more content showing “scenes of torture or mass violence against non-combatants” in video games.
• Free Windows 10, Linux, MacOS open-source graphics editor: Inkscape 1.0 is out (zdnet.com)
  The Inkscape project's version 1.0 of the free and open-source vector graphics editor is packed with new features.
• Movie critic caught selling titles to pirates (arstechnica.com)
  Movie critic Paul Sherman of the Boston Herald has been charged with selling …
• Senators propose banning teens from using AI chatbots (theverge.com)
  A pair of senators has proposed legislation that would require AI companies to verify the age of people who use their chatbots, while banni…
• C'est la DRM! French bill falls flat, leaves major interoperability loophole (arstechnica.com)
  A French government committee has approved toothless DRM legislation...
• Withings’ urine scanning health tracker is now available for $380 (theverge.com)
  Replacement cartridges that can last up to three months, with testing twice a week, start at $100.
• I wish I'd made this simple MacOS tweak years ago (zdnet.com)
  It took seconds to do, but it's made my Macs so much better and easier to use.
• Business leaders: US not prepared for Internet outage (arstechnica.com)
  The CEOs of America's biggest companies assert that the US is not ready to …
• Google and Magic Leap are showing off prototype AI glasses. (theverge.com)
  The glasses combine “Magic Leap’s waveguides and optics with Google’s Raxium microLED light engine” according to a Magic Leap announcement,…
• Survey: SMBs' tech stack relies on internal and cloud-based servers (zdnet.com)
  63% of survey respondents to a TechRepublic Premium survey deploy both on- and off-premises internal servers.
• The best Mac app is now available from the Mac App Store (zdnet.com)
  Now you can download CleanMyMac X directly from the Mac App Store… but some features are missing because they aren't allowed by Apple.
• Alleged screen captures of Leopard posted (arstechnica.com)
  Virtual desktops and operating systems are shown in what are probably fakes...
• Early experiences with Blu-ray disappointing (arstechnica.com)
  Tech sites around the Web look at Samsung's new BD-P1000 and the Pioneer Blu...
• Windows is the problem with Windows handhelds (theverge.com)
  Bazzite fixes the Xbox Ally and shames Windows yet again.
• Microsoft 365 Family and Personal subscriptions now available for purchase (zdnet.com)
  Microsoft's newly rebranded Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions are available for purchase. But there's no updated word on when promised n…
• Religious video game leaves spyware behind (arstechnica.com)
  The controversial apocalyptic Christian-themed video game Left Behind has just …
• Your tiles are getting roasted in the comments. (theverge.com)
  After adding AI last month, Zillow now has DMs too. But we won’t rest until its social media-ification democratizes the process of throwing…
• Toshiba taking a hit on HD DVD players (arstechnica.com)
  Much has been made about the fact that HD DVD players are much less expensive …
• Blacktop Ars: the proud, the very, very few (arstechnica.com)
  How many people do you think read the "black" version of Ars? Guess again...
• Windows 10: New Bing Wallpaper app is out, PowerToys MacOS Spotlight-like app due soon (zdnet.com)
  Microsoft's Bing team have released an official Bing Wallpaper app for Windows 10.
• Apple Vision Pro with M5 review: Better than the first, still lonely (theverge.com)
  The best part might be the new headband, which costs $99 and supports the first model.
• The webs of the past (arstechnica.com)
  Evidence for an ancient origin of the web-spinning ability of spiders comes …
• Professor X: RoboTaxi 'gigafactory' to collect petabytes of urban info (zdnet.com)
  A massive RoboTaxi data center is the hub for an enterprising experiment masterminded by a man known as Professor X.
• Why is Bill Gates tone policing on climate change? (theverge.com)
  Bill Gates doubled down on the benefits he anticipates from AI and cautioned against a “doomsday outlook” on climate change in a memo publi…
• AMD Socket 939 biting the dust (arstechnica.com)
  AMD end-of-lifes a handful of CPUs, including all of its Socket 939 lineup.
• Microsoft rebrands Office 365 consumer subscriptions to M365; adds more new features for same price (zdnet.com)
  Microsoft's Office 365 consumer subscriptions are getting a makeover, plus some new features around Teams, Family Safety, and Excel aimed a…
• Microsoft's antivirus plans: predatory or proper? (arstechnica.com)
  Microsoft has been accused of predatory pricing by a competitor. We briefly …
• Cameo sues OpenAI over Sora’s ‘cameos’ (theverge.com)
  Cameo is suing OpenAI over Sora’s “cameo” feature, accusing the ChatGPT maker of using the name to compete directly with its celebrity vide…
• Microsoft: First preview of PowerShell 7.1 for Windows, Linux and MacOS is out (zdnet.com)
  Microsoft is targeting improvements to the PowerShell 7.1 user experience ahead of its release this winter.
• Apple SMASH particles (arstechnica.com)
  As a child who didn't enjoy smashing their now valuable Matchbox cars together …
• Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk (theverge.com)
  xAI’s version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, frames the world’s history from Elon Musk’s perspective.
• Uber will challenge Waymo’s robotaxi dominance in San Francisco (theverge.com)
  Uber says it will launch its robotaxi service with Lucid and Nuro in San Francisco in 2026.
• Google tests video ads on Google Video (arstechnica.com)
  Google Video offers some paid content for free. The catch is that you have to …
• Here’s when the Black Friday sales start at Walmart, Target, and other retailers (theverge.com)
  The holiday shopping season starts well ahead of November 28th. Many retailers have already announced their early deals, but here’s when th…
• Hon Hai of the "none-touch" iPod ranks #2 on BusinessWeek's top 100 list. Oh, and Apple's in the (arstechnica.com)
  Hon Hai Precision Industries takes #2 on BusinessWeek's top 100 list, beating …
• Microsoft discontinues RDCMan app following security bug (zdnet.com)
  Microsoft recommends using the Windows in-box remote desktop client (MSTSC) instead.
• Character.AI is banning minors from AI character chats (theverge.com)
  Character.AI is banning users under the age of 18 from its AI chatbots.
• VS Code gets a big update: Plays nice with MacOS Gatekeeper plus lots of new features (zdnet.com)
  Microsoft's cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code, gains a host of productivity and usability improvements.
• Amazon and commercial open source in the cloud: It's complicated (zdnet.com)
  What do the data tell us about the relationship between cloud vendors -- specifically, Amazon and commercial open source vendors?