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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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Threads: @synstelien. X: @markgurman, @jasonstechnews, @raywongy, @markgurman, @stevesi, @zollotech, and @darewecan
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: HEY, The Verge, WordPress News, ACF, Semantically Secure, anderegg.ca, The Stack, Coinmonks, TechIssuesToday.com, The Register, Werd I/O, Matt Mullenweg, and Pixel Envy
Threads: @tomwarrenuk. Mastodon: @chikorita157@sakurajima.moe, @misty@digipres.club, and @donw@mastodon.coffee
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Forums: r/technology, r/webdev, r/theprimeagen, and r/WPDrama
| Mathew Ingram / The Torment Nexus: |
More: Pixel Envy, Ian Betteridge, acecomments.mu.nu, LinuxJedi's /dev/null, and Google Docs
Threads: @mathewi and @dankennedy_nu
Mastodon: @AnnemarieBridy@mastodon … and @dankennedy_nu@journa.host
X: @mathewi, @photomatt, @photomatt, @photomatt, @mathewi, @rajendrazore, @mathewi, and @mathewi. LinkedIn: Andrew Hutchings. Forums: Hacker News
| 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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Threads users criticize Meta after the company posted three AI-generated images of the Aurora Borealis on its Threads account — Meta has a suggestion for folks like me who forgot to go outside and look at the Northern Lights on Thursday night: just use AI to fake it!
More: MSPoweruser, Social Media Today, Tempo, and NewsBytes
| 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: Information Age, The Cyber Express, OSnews, heise online, PCMag, and TechRepublic
| 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
| 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, Beyond Search, SlowMist, and The Tech Report
| 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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A profile of Ben Nimmo, OpenAI's principal threat investigator who found evidence that Russia and China were using ChatGPT to sway political discourse online — Ben Nimmo brings a literary bent to the serious business of keeping ChatGPT from being an engine of misinformation.| 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.
Mastodon: @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green and @Snoro@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @shannonvallor.bsky.social
LinkedIn: Sasha Mackler and Eric Christian Pedersen
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of, and interview with, Meta's Yann LeCun, who says today's AI models aren't intelligent and warnings about AI's existential peril are “complete BS” — Yann LeCun, an NYU professor and senior researcher at Meta Platforms, says warnings about the technology's existential peril are ‘complete B.S.’
More: TechSpot, The Rundown AI, PCMag, TechCrunch, Cafe Hayek, and AIM
LinkedIn: Hilal Lashuel and Rahul Chadha
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
South Korean government data: tech exports slowed for a straight second month, indicating slowing global demand; DRAM had its slowest growth since December 2023 — South Korea's exports of technology products slowed for a straight second month in an indication global demand may be peaking out … Sponsor Posts
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Niantic Spatial:
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Zoho:
Common mistakes to avoid when implementing an intranet — Implementing an intranet can improve communication and make information easier to access across your organization. But without the right approach …
Common mistakes to avoid when implementing an intranet — Implementing an intranet can improve communication and make information easier to access across your organization. But without the right approach …
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