News gathered 2024-10-25

(date: 2024-10-25 08:15:39)


Redbox’s Last DVD: ‘Twister’ Is Unrentable in Remaining Redbox Kiosks and No One Knows Why

date: 2024-10-25, from: 404 Media Group

Twister was one of the first DVDs ever released. Now it’s stuck in still-functioning Redbox machines.


https://www.404media.co/redboxs-last-dvd-twister-is-unrentable-in-remaining-redbox-kiosks-and-no-one-knows-why/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Any Decent WordPress Alternatives Out There?


https://tedium.co/2024/10/20/wordpress-cms-alternatives-content-strategy-advice/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Scripting News: Let's bust some new norms.


http://scripting.com/2024/10/25/142159.html?title=normBusting4Good


date: 2024-10-25, from: Liliputing

There are a growing number of graphics docks that allow you to add a discrete GPU to a laptop, handheld, or mini PC by connecting to a Thunderbolt, USB4, or OCuLink port. But Chinese mini PC maker Beelink has taken a different approach with its Beelink Ex Docking Station. First unveiled earlier this year, the  […]

The post Beelink open sources the design of the Beelink EX GPU dock appeared first on Liliputing.


https://liliputing.com/beelink-open-sources-the-design-of-the-beelink-ex-gpu-dock/


Inspiring Words

date: 2024-10-25, updated: 2024-10-25, from: One Foot Tsunami


https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/10/25/inspiring-words-2/


Onyx BOOX Note Air4 C is a 10.3 inch E Ink color tablet with 6GB RAM and Android 13

date: 2024-10-25, from: Liliputing

The new Onyx BOOX Note Air4 C is a 10.3 inch tablet with a 10.3 inch E Ink Kaleido 3 color display capable of showing 4096 colors, support for touchscreen and pressure-sensitive pen input, and an Android-based operating system. Designed primarily for reading and writing, the tablet is a pretty modest update over the previous-gen Onyx […]

The post Onyx BOOX Note Air4 C is a 10.3 inch E Ink color tablet with 6GB RAM and Android 13 appeared first on Liliputing.


https://liliputing.com/onyx-boox-note-air4-c-is-a-10-3-inch-e-ink-color-tablet-with-6gb-ram-and-android-13/


Asus Vivobook S 14 OLED laptop with Intel Lunar Lake now available for $950

date: 2024-10-24, from: Liliputing

The Asus Vivobook S 14 (Q423) is a 2.9 pound laptop with a 14 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel OLED display and an Intel Core Ultra 5 226V Lunar Lake processor. First unveiled in September, the thin and light laptop is now available from Best Buy, where you can pick up a model with 16GB of RAM […]

The post Asus Vivobook S 14 OLED laptop with Intel Lunar Lake now available for $950 appeared first on Liliputing.


https://liliputing.com/asus-vivobook-s-14-oled-laptop-with-intel-lunar-lake-now-available-for-950/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-24, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Podcast: WordPress is too valuable to overlook.


https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2024/10/24/wordpressIsTooValuableToOverlook.html


Martin’s law of meetings, and the ‘national conversation’

date: 2024-10-24, from: Status-Q blog

I’m slightly amused by all the news reports this week that the government wants a ‘national conversation’ on the future of the NHS. While this is a laudable idea which will appeal to the punters, I doubt it’s actually very practical.   My late friend Martin King used to say that the ease of making Continue Reading


https://statusq.org/archives/2024/10/24/12198/


Apple Intelligence in macOS 15.2 and iOS 18.2

date: 2024-10-24, from: Michael Tsai

Six Colors: On Wednesday, Apple rolled out developer betas of iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS 15.2, which run Apple Intelligence features previously seen only in Apple’s own marketing materials and product announcements: Three different kinds of image generation, ChatGPT support, Visual Intelligence, expanded English language support, and Writing Tools prompts. […] It’s still English-only […]


https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/24/apple-intelligence-in-macos-15-2-and-ios-18-2/


Apple Intelligence in macOS 15.1 and iOS 18.1

date: 2024-10-24, from: Michael Tsai

Joanna Stern: Apple will launch iOS 18.1 next week, bringing its much anticipated generative-AI tools to the iPhone 15 Pro models and the new iPhone 16 lineup. It will be available for most newer iPads and Macs, too.If you’re expecting AI fireworks, prepare for AI…sparklers. Back in June, at the company’s annual developers conference, executives […]


https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/24/apple-intelligence-in-macos-15-1-and-ios-18-1/


Postbox Discontinued

date: 2024-10-24, from: Michael Tsai

Adam Engst (Hacker News, MacRumors Forum): Sad news. The longstanding email client Postbox has been acquired and shut down by eM Client, described by the announcement as “a leading email platform for Windows and macOS that combines email, calendars, tasks, contacts, notes, and chat into a single, easy-to-use application.”[…]On the other side of the equation, […]


https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/24/postbox-discontinued/


AYANEO AG01 Starship Radeon RX 7600M XT graphics dock goes on sale for $599

date: 2024-10-24, from: Liliputing

The AYANEO AG01 Starship Graphics Dock is an external graphics dock that features an AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT GPU, an M.2 2280 slot and SD card reader for storage, support for up to four displays, and USB and Ethernet jacks. It has a 64 Gbps OCuLink connector and a 40 Gbps USB4 port, giving you […]

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https://liliputing.com/ayaneo-ag01-starship-radeon-rx-7600m-xt-graphics-dock-goes-on-sale-for-599/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-24, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Anthropic's AI can now run and write code.


https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/anthropics-ai-can-now-run-and-write-code/


One Cowardly Owner and One Valiant Journalist

date: 2024-10-24, updated: 2024-10-24, from: One Foot Tsunami


https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/10/24/one-cowardly-owner-and-one-valiant-journalist/


Humane Ai Pin gets a $200 price cut… still costs $499 + $24 monthly subscription

date: 2024-10-24, from: Liliputing

The Humane Ai Pin generated a lot of buzz last year as a new kind of wearable device designed to let you tap into AI features at any time without pulling your phone out of your pocket or your laptop out of your bag. But when it launched earlier this year, reviewers almost universally panned […]

The post Humane Ai Pin gets a $200 price cut… still costs $499 + $24 monthly subscription appeared first on Liliputing.


https://liliputing.com/humane-ai-pin-gets-a-200-price-cut-still-costs-499-24-monthly-subscription/


Chinese T-Shirt Maker Flooded Facebook with Ads Promising to Donate Money to Harris, Trump, SuperPACs

date: 2024-10-24, from: 404 Media Group

The company is selling Kamala Harris and Donald Trump merch, and falsely promising to donate proceeds from the sales to the campaigns and other political causes.


https://www.404media.co/chinese-t-shirt-maker-flooded-facebook-with-ads-promising-to-donate-money-to-harris-trump-superpacs/


HIBI MIA Botanical

date: 2024-10-24, from: mrusme blog

The HIBI MIA Botanical edition.


https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/hibi-mia-botanical/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-24, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

The Swing States Are in Good Hands.


https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/2024-election-risks-swing-states/680348/?gift=f35zZN0v_gDFE8xNwlQAHT-b3szpOsQ-D6cPZmoIHWk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-24, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

If the Democrats want 10 or 20 percent of Republican voters they should stop blaming men for things they don’t control. I know people don’t want to hear this, but what if preserving democracy depends on you listening.


https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/23/flagstock-maga-feminism-north-carolina-00184939


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-24, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

What's preventing Harris from crushing Trump is shockingly simple.


https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/trump-kamala-harris-election-elon-musk-gates-polls-2024.html


Introducing the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ with up to 26 TOPS

date: 2024-10-24, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)

We are excited to introduce the newest addition to our AI product line: the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+.

The post Introducing the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ with up to 26 TOPS appeared first on Raspberry Pi.


https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-ai-hat/


Thirteen days to go: Gut-checks and campaign dynamics

date: 2024-10-24, from: Dave Karpf’s blog

Three thoughts on the state of the race


https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/thirteen-days-to-go-gut-checks-and


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-24, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

I like reading the Atlantic. And one of the nicest things is as a subscriber I get an unlimited number of gift articles. Seems like a bit of a partnership, that isn't present with the NYT and WP, two other pubs I subscribe to have a limit of 10 per month.


https://support.theatlantic.com/hc/en-us/articles/17359847698711-Sending-Gift-Articles