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• You can already buy cheap copies of Apple’s $230 crossbody iPhone sock. (theverge.com)
  Both versions of the 3D-knitted iPhone Pocket quickly sold out earlier this month. Apple hasn’t announced any plans to restock the limited…
• Stranger Things 5: all the news from the Netflix show’s fifth and final season (theverge.com)
  Stranger Things is ending with its fifth and final season on Netflix, which starts streaming on November 26th.
• HD DVD movies to see a price cut. Does it matter? (arstechnica.com)
  Universal Home Studios is dropping prices modestly on its small lineup of HD …
• NASA DART mission: The last images the space probe took before getting smashed (zdnet.com)
  On Monday, NASA successfully sent a spacecraft to smash into the Dimorphos asteroid. Below are the last images the spacecraft took before g…
• MacBook deal: Save $450 on a 512GB M1 MacBook Pro (zdnet.com)
  Need some extra space on your laptop? The Apple MacBook Pro just dropped by $450. Here's where you can score that discount.
• Want to fix your iPhone? This is the gadget repair kit to get (zdnet.com)
  Repairing your iPhone is even easier when you have the right tools.
• A lack of defensin, a loss of tolerance (arstechnica.com)
  More clues as to why HIV gives us humans such a hard time, while its relatives …
• Battlefield 6 is already 24 percent off for Black Friday (theverge.com)
  EA’s Battlefield 6 launched back in October and has been a hit so far. And thanks to Black Friday, you can pick up a copy for as little as…
• Review: The iPhone 14 is exactly as good as it needed to be (zdnet.com)
  The iPhone 14 doesn't have as many upgrades as the iPhone 14 Pro, but if camera quality is your main focus, then you're in luck.
• Kyle XY, Aeon Flux make their debut on iTMS (arstechnica.com)
  A new show and an old show will be available on the iTMS. Aeon Flux and Kyle …
• Why Tray.io wants to put hyperautomation on the IT map (zdnet.com)
  Company using low-code SaaS platform to remedy 'unintended consequences' companies face as they upgrade their IT systems.
• Apple Watch Ultra teardown: A much bigger battery, but repairs are difficult (zdnet.com)
  The rugged Apple Watch Ultra has a large battery, but repairs are probably best left to Apple.
• CBS objects to indecency fine from manufactured PTC internet campaign (arstechnica.com)
  CBS affiliates have filed an official objection with the FCC over the agency's …
• Kill Bill, meet killer banana. (theverge.com)
  Fortnite’s next major event takes place on Saturday, followed by an all new chapter, but a day later something weirder and more interesting…
• US government helped sink The Pirate Bay; goes after other sites (arstechnica.com)
  The US government is on a campaign to protect American intellectual property …
• Pentagon contractors want to blow up military right to repair (theverge.com)
  Military equipment manufacturers are pushing policymakers to replace a right-to-repair provision in the annual defense policy bill with a “…
• Carbon based lifeforms (arstechnica.com)
  Carbon spans every scientific discipline, from physics to biology, stopping at …
• Friday morning Apple links (arstechnica.com)
  Indie Mac developers post the conversion rates for their applications, make a …
• People can now use ChatGPT’s Voice feature directly in the chat. (theverge.com)
  There’s “no separate mode needed,” OpenAI wrote on X. “You can talk, watch answers appear, review earlier messages, and see visuals like im…
• Bambu Lab’s new P2S 3D printer is now available in the US without a price increase. (theverge.com)
  After launching everywhere else last month, the company warned that US pricing “may differ” due to tariffs once the Bambu Lab P2S was relea…
• Have no fear, The Mac Nurse is here (arstechnica.com)
  All-volunteer Mac technical support debuts. What do they offer, and will it …
• AIM offers free local phone numbers (arstechnica.com)
  AOL is introducing a VoIP service dubbed "AIM Phoneline" that that will give …
• Campbell’s fired the VP recorded saying its meat ‘came from a 3D printer’ (theverge.com)
  Campbell’s is pushing back on leaked audio that purportedly captures an IT VP saying the company’s meat “came from a 3D printer.”
• Microsoft files for *bleep*ing good patent (arstechnica.com)
  Ars continues riffling through the file cabinets at the USPTO. Today's …
• Sun plans to move to less restrictive Java license (arstechnica.com)
  Sun is going to distribute JRE under a less-restrictive license. Is that …
• SCOTUS says Trump can’t fire the director of the Copyright Office... for now. (theverge.com)
  The Supreme Court decided that Shira Perlmutter can keep her job while it considers two other cases involving FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slau…
• Take that aMIGO (arstechnica.com)
  A story of real science, the MIGO smack down.
• So, you want a robot vacuum. (theverge.com)
  You’re in luck. I just published a big update to my robot vacuum buying guide following months of testing dozens of new bots. Plus, this we…
• Beatmania (arstechnica.com)
  Do you like rhythm games like DDR, Taiko Drum Master, and Guitar Hero? Ars …
• These prebuilt PCs are about to cost more due to rising RAM prices (theverge.com)
  CyberPowerPC has announced plans to raise prices across all of its systems starting December 7th in response to surging RAM prices.
• Prove it: Microsoft will replace pirated copies of Office (arstechnica.com)
  Users who have been nabbed by the Office Genuine Advantage check will have …
• Turns out the PS5 *can* play CDs — with the right external drive and if you burn them yourself. (theverge.com)
  Early Sony PlayStations doubled as high-quality CD players, but the PS4 and PS5 removed the feature. Yet the PS5 can technically play MP3s…
• Aperture: Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated (arstechnica.com)
  Apple strongly denies reducing their commitment to Aperture, issues minor …
• Strong iPhone 17 sales may push Apple ahead of Samsung this year (theverge.com)
  Early results from Counterpoint Research suggest the iPhone 17 series will put Apple on top of Samsung in worldwide smartphones for the fir…
• This $1,400 Steam Machine alternative houses a tiny desktop GPU (theverge.com)
  The Minisforum AtomMan G1 Pro is a 3.8-liter mini-PC with a discrete desktop Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 GPU for under $1500.
• CBS jumps with both feet into online broadcasting (arstechnica.com)
  In the universe of quantum flux we call television, CBS is the latest stodgy …
• OpenAI denies liability in teen suicide lawsuit, cites ‘misuse’ of ChatGPT (theverge.com)
  OpenAI has responded to the family of a boy who died by suicide after discussing it with ChatGPT for months.
• Sony, Apple, Microsoft, and others form digital exchange group (arstechnica.com)
  Eleven companies, including most of the big hitters in the music industry...
• A single reason I will be visiting Apple's website less frequently (arstechnica.com)
  Apple employs a tactic that I despise: auto-play movies.
• Apple TV pulls The Hunt over plagiarism accusation (theverge.com)
  Apple TV has pulled the French series The Hunt from its streaming schedule over claims that it may have plagiarized a 1974 novel called Sho…
• Windows Desktop Search 3.0 engine-only beta now available, uses Vista technology (arstechnica.com)
  Microsoft releases bare-bones WDS 3. interest?
• Stranger Things 5 begins with a frantic race to the finish line (theverge.com)
  The fifth season of Netflix’s Stranger Things moves at a breakneck pace.
• The best early Black Friday deals we’ve found on TVs, laptops, and more (theverge.com)
  The early Black Friday deals have arrived, with numerous retailers offering steep discounts on noise-canceling headphones, laptops, 4K OLED…
• Microsoft continues to push for privacy, others publicly question their motives (arstechnica.com)
  Redmond clarifies its motives for calling for sweeping Federal privacy …
• 22 questions for Apple that are not answered (arstechnica.com)
  Speculation about Apple is not just for anonymous nerds on the Internet.
• The VPN panic is only getting started (theverge.com)
  The UK government is facing calls to add age restrictions to VPNs in order to stop them being used to… get around age restrictions.
• Transposons hop into control (arstechnica.com)
  A newly identified family of mobile genetic elements have been incorporated …
• Apple files for audio navigation patent (arstechnica.com)
  In a hint of what may be in store for the iPod, Apple has filed a patent for "
• The free market. (theverge.com)
  Meta is booting rival AI companies out of WhatsApp to reduce the competition for its own Meta AI assistant, a classic sign of confidence. D…