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9to5Mac's daily podcast episode for November 6 covers recent App Store policy changes and the launch of a new MacBook Pro, summarizing the day's top Apple-related stories. The episode is distributed via standard podcast platforms including Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Google Play.
Magnitudle has released Size It Up, a daily browser game that asks players to resize a target object until it matches a known reference object. Each session includes five rounds worth up to 100 points apiece, for a maximum daily score of 500, and players can view how others scored after submitting their estimates.
The November 3, 2026 episode of 9to5Mac Daily summarizes the top Apple news of the day, including Apple's fourth-quarter earnings report. The podcast episode, sponsored by Backblaze, is distributed via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play and RSS feed.
The November 2, 2026 episode of 9to5Mac Daily, a weekday podcast produced by 9to5Mac, summarized that day's top Apple-related stories, with discussion focused on what might come next for the Mac and iPad lineups. The episode is distributed via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play and RSS, and is sponsored by Backblaze.
Japan's annual 'Jimi Halloween' (Mundane Halloween) tradition continued this year, with participants dressing as everyday scenarios like someone struggling with a designer faucet or trying to take a group photo in a cramped izakaya. The event, which began in 2014 among adults at Daily Portal Z, intentionally avoids flashy costumes in favor of relatable, hyper-specific situational outfits shared under the hashtag #地味ハロウィン.
9to5Mac's daily podcast covered the day's Apple news, including new HomePod features, in its October 30 episode. The show is distributed across major podcast platforms including Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced the platform will move toward a primarily logged-in experience, limiting how much content logged-out visitors can browse. Nearly 59% of Reddit's daily active unique visitors were logged out in Q3 2026, meaning the shift could affect most of the site's traffic. Reddit says it will begin testing the changes first in markets outside the US.
9to5Mac's daily podcast episode summarized the day's Apple news, including a segment on a rumored upcoming MacBook Pro said to feature a 'PROLED XDR' display. The episode, sponsored by Backblaze, is distributed through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn and other platforms.
Reddit announced during its Q3 earnings call that it will shift toward a primarily logged-in experience, citing a drop of more than 1 million weekly search referrals in October. The company's global daily active users held flat at 130.3 million, but U.S. daily actives fell to 50.7 million from 53.2 million in Q2, a 2% year-over-year decline. Reddit warned daily active users could drop by a low double-digit percentage next quarter if the trend continues, even as revenue rose 53% year-over-year to $895 million.
Deepgram announced Thursday it has acquired Daily, the company behind the widely used open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, which manages real-time voice and video pipelines including speech-to-text, LLMs, and text-to-speech. Financial terms were not disclosed, but both companies said Pipecat will remain open-source. Daily had raised over $62 million from investors including Tiger Global and Nat Friedman, while Deepgram became a unicorn earlier this year after a $130 million Series C round.
Samsung has confirmed via an in-app notice that it will discontinue Samsung News on December 21, 2026, halting all content delivery and widget updates. The company is advising Galaxy users to remove the widget from their home screens, and personal data collected through the service will be deleted except where local regulations require retention.
Pell Puzzles, a daily browser puzzle made by Brandan, the writer behind the achromath Substack, asks players to draw eight connected paths of lengths 1 through 8 on a 6x6 grid marked with X and O clues. The game grew out of Brandan's January 2024 'Pell Tiles' concept exploring spiral square strips, which he turned into a puzzle format a year later; a daily version has run since December 2025.