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Microsoft 365 is starting to recover as its outage enters a second day.
You can preorder several of the devices today, with shipping expected to start in mid-December.
As a follow-up to last year’s FilmStream Collective Fund, Tubi and Kickstarter are launching the Fandom Fund — a new initiative that will give independent creators access to resources which can be used to help produce projects that will ultimately live on the streaming service beginning in 2027.
The company has addressed the issues that resulted in the site being offline for a week and shared more details about what happened. In a new community update the BrickLink team explains that as a result of “unusual activity” on the platform, some usernames, IP addresses, and email addresses were accessed, and those affected are being contacted directly. But based on their investigation, no passwords or payment info was accessed.
Duet is a decent helper, if a little jumpy at times.
The PROLED MacBook Pro’s logo is lit with boring white LEDs. Missed opportunity.
We’re now into the second day of a global Microsoft Outlook outage that’s preventing people from accessing their emails, either through the web or apps. Hopefully it won’t reach a third day, however, as Microsoft reports that recovery efforts are going well.
That’s one of more than 1,600 comments Nvidia staffers have left in an internal “suggestion box,” with the aim of urging the company’s board to consider their feelings regarding actions taken against (now former) CEO Jensen Huang. Their plea to “bring back THE boss” isn’t insignificant, given Nvidia has around 42,000 employees.
Bloomberg reports that the ongoing scandal surrounding allegations of Huang’s infidelity left the former Nvidia CEO’s “legendary energy depleted,” with those around him noticing that he seemed to have “given up” in his final days as CEO.
Huang’s usual take-charge demeanor had evaporated, according to a person familiar with the situation, and he’d started using phrases like “whatever” and “I don’t care.”
After gaining the ability to handle forwarded emails, the AI agent can now take care of those calls you don’t want to make, such as making dinner reservations or dealing with insurance and cable companies. This feature is currently limited to paying US subscribers in the US, however.
If you’re keeping track, that brings the number of alleged extramarital affairs by Nvidia’s now-former CEO to three, including suspected spy / Megaspeed executive Alive Huang, Nvidia’s vice president of health care Kimberly Powell, and an as-yet unnamed woman who two Reuters sources report also works for Nvidia.
Nvidia’s stock closed the day down 4.3 percent.
Most of the power banks featuring safer and longer-lasting semi-solid-state cells are designed with a lower output for charging smaller devices like phones and tablets. BMX’s new $109.99 SolidSafe power bank has a 20,000mAh capacity and outputs up to 100W so it can charge more capable laptops, or up to three devices simultaneously at lower rates.
Trump Jr. has been an advisor to both Kalshi and its rival Polymarket during the prediction market-friendly administration of his father. Kalshi told Bloomberg that the company and Trump Jr. “mutually agreed” to part ways after his venture capital firm invested in Polymarket this summer.
The Senate Minority Leader says both Nvidia and the Trump administration need to explain the national security risks they’re aware of following Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy.
Verge smart home expert Jennifer Pattison Tuohy is hosting a subscriber-only AMA today. Ask your questions at the link below; she’ll start answering them at 2PM Eastern / 11AM Pacific.
A second affair has hit the news cycle, but that’s not what matters here.
You can’t use your voice to unlock doors or open garage doors on the new HomeView because Apple is worried that… someone might shout commands into your home from outside? Joanna Stern got Apple to admit that’s a bit silly; she says the company told her a software update next month will open things up.
Last year, several companies backed RSL, a new licensing standard that would require AI companies to pay for scraping content through a collective license rather than one-off deals with specific outlets. Now Yahoo, one of the backers of what is now called the Internet Licensing Collective (ILC), is its first official licensee.
A Chinese spy scandal brought down the CEO of Nvidia, and it also could backfire for Beijing in a big way when it comes to AI export controls.
Following an incredibly vague teaser image earlier this month showing just a silhouette, Carl Pei shared a short video on X revealing Nothing’s mysterious screen-free AI device will have a record button and a pair of LED status lights, alongside a message saying “Context doesn’t live in a chat box.”
Now that Nvidia’s CEO has resigned, the president posted on Truth Social calling for the former CEO of Apple to take over the company, for some reason.
Sessions are limited to 30-minutes long, with a few minutes of ads before the timer starts. The free streaming option is publicly available now, after testing earlier this year. In September, Microsoft also added an option to buy pay-as-you-go Cloud Gaming playtime and set Cloud Gaming hour limits for its Game Pass subscriptions.
Akai is launching the MPC 3.10.1 and MPC Sample 1.4 firmware updates, both of which include support for the new SDKs the company is offering as part of its efforts to embrace the modding community, now that vibecoding has made hacking them trivial. Of course,
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