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Fairphone has released the Fairbuds 2, a redesigned stemmed earbud with a case 37 percent smaller than its predecessor. Battery life nearly doubles to 40 hours without noise cancellation, and the buds add bio-cellulose drivers, LDAC codec support, multipoint connectivity and a five-band EQ. The earbuds cost £99/€119 in the UK and Europe now, with a US launch at $119 on November 2nd.
Tesla is expected to debut a production-ready version of the next-generation Roadster at an event in Waco, Texas, nearly ten years after Elon Musk first announced plans for the car. Musk has claimed the Roadster will accelerate from 0-60mph in under two seconds, hit a top speed above 250mph, and offer an optional SpaceX-designed thruster package. Several early reservation holders, including Sam Altman and Marques Brownlee, had already canceled their orders, assuming the car would never ship.
Discovery+ has increased its ad-free plan from $10 to $12 per month and its ad-supported tier from $6 to $7, effective immediately for new subscribers. Existing subscribers will see the new rates applied starting with bills issued on or after November 12, following a 30-day notice period.
Microsoft says that after installing the KB5124010 preview update or later, Remote Desktop connections can fail with error 0xC000000D on Windows 11 24H2, 25H2, 26H1 and 26H2 devices. The failures occur when the Administrator protection security feature is enabled, which affects enterprise-managed Remote Desktop host machines in particular. Microsoft has offered a temporary workaround—disabling Administrator protection via Intune or Group Policy—while it develops a permanent fix.
Researchers led by Professor Ido Braslavsky at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem created BioPykrete, a composite of ice, cellulose nanocrystals and an engineered protein called CBM3a-AFPIII. The material is about ten times stronger under compression than ordinary ice, absorbs roughly 70 times more energy before failing, and deforms gradually rather than cracking suddenly.
A blogger critiques the rationalist writing community, citing examples like Eliezer Yudkowsky's million-word 'sequences' and a 9,000-word Gwern post on nicotine, arguing these posts are needlessly long and tedious. The author contrasts this with their own 2,700-word piece on Catholic miracle apologetics, which cut 70% of its draft text, to argue brevity serves readers better.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park contains an 8-mile fissure known as the Great Crack, located in Kilauea's southwest rift zone, which measures up to 50 feet wide and 66 feet deep. A writer attempting to hike to the site found that multiple park employees and rangers had never visited it themselves, with no official trail leading there and little documentation available.
Techspot revisited its long-running investigation into Nvidia GPU driver overhead, finding that in CPU-limited gaming situations AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT can outpace Nvidia's far more powerful RTX 5090. The outlet traces this back to earlier tests showing Nvidia drivers demand more CPU processing power than AMD's to translate game instructions into GPU commands, creating bottlenecks on weaker processors.
Industry leaders are reporting widespread use of unapproved AI tools by employees, a trend often called 'shadow AI.' Many executives are seeking ways to restrict or control this unsanctioned adoption due to security concerns.
Semperis's 2026 Ransomware Risk Report found that 40% of surveyed organizations experienced intimidation or threats tied to ransomware attacks, including threats against employees' families, physical intrusion, stalking, and abduction. More than half of those threatened said attackers actually followed through, though Semperis relied on self-reported data that couldn't be independently verified.
Microsoft's latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build (28020.1619) in the Canary Channel introduces a freeform rotation tool for MS Paint, alongside updates to Cross-Device Resume, Narrator customization, and Windows Hello fingerprint sensor support. The build expands Cross-Device Resume to more Android phone brands and adds support for continuing Copilot app file sessions on PC.
Felix Rieseberg's personal homepage outlines his current role leading engineering for Claude.ai, Cowork, and Code Desktop at Anthropic. It also recaps prior leadership positions at Notion (2023-2025), Stripe (2021-2023), Slack (2016-2021), and Microsoft (2014-2016), alongside his long-running work as an Electron co-maintainer and author of open source projects like windows95 and clippy.