The Best Early Black Friday Apple Deals on MacBook, Apple Watch, iPad, and More
We’re officially in the month of Black Friday, which will take place on Friday, November 28 in 2025. As always, this will be the best time of the year to shop for great deals, including popular Apple products like AirPods, iPad, Apple Watch, and more. In this article, the majority of the discounts will be found on Amazon.
Top Stories: iOS 26.1 Released, iOS 26.2 Beta, iPhone 18 Rumors, and More
Things were busy in Apple software land this week, with the public release of iOS 26.1 and updates for Apple’s other platforms being quickly followed by the round of 26.2 betas with plenty more changes in store.
On the hardware side, we’re still wondering whether we’ll see anything more released before the end of the year, but either way, 2026 is … ⌘ Read more
‘Vibe Coding’ Named Word of the Year By Collins Dictionary
Collins Dictionary has named “vibe coding” its 2025 word of the year – a term coined by Andrej Karpathy for when a user makes an app or website by describing it to AI rather than writing programming code manually. The term, which is confusingly made up of two words, was “one of 10 words on a shortlist to reflect the mood, language and preoccupations of 2025,” repo … ⌘ Read more
Nanoparticles that enhance mRNA delivery could reduce vaccine dosage and costs
A new delivery particle developed at MIT could make mRNA vaccines more effective and potentially lower the cost per vaccine dose. ⌘ Read more
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Deals: Early Black Friday Pricing on M4 MacBook Air for $749 (25% Off) & More
Amazon continues to offer wildly great deals on the M4 MacBook Air, with the 13″ model starting at $749 (down from $999), and the 15″ starting at $949 (down from $1199), with the $250 discount available on other models with more RAM and SSD storage as well. The base model 13″ is a whopping 25% … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/11/07/deals-early-black-friday-pricing-on-m4-macb … ⌘ Read more
Direct File Won’t Happen in 2026, IRS Tells States
NextGov: The IRS has notified states that offered the free, government tax filing service known as Direct File in 2025 that the program won’t be available next filing season. In an email sent from the IRS to 25 states, the tax agency thanked them for collaborating and noted that “no launch date has been set for the future.”
“IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Se … ⌘ Read more
These trees are usually laden with apples. This year they’re strangely bare
Across the the Blue Mountains, apple farmers are noticing less fruit this season. Some are wondering if it’s linked to varroa mite. ⌘ Read more
From Milliamperes to Microamperes: Lessons in Low-Power Gadgetmaking
Slides: https://github.com/joeycastillo/Teardown-2025-Talk/blob/main/From%20Milliamperes%20to%20Microamperes.pdf
Video Games’ Hottest New Platform is an Old One
Web-based video games are experiencing an unexpected revival as the broader $189 billion industry stagnates. Sales for browser-based titles like GeoGuessr and chess were expected to triple from 2021 to 2028, reaching $3.09 billion, according to Google and Kantar. Playgama hosted more than 15,000 new web games in the first half of 2025, exceeding the combined total from 2021 throug … ⌘ Read more
Defunct Pennsylvania oil and gas wells may leak methane and metals into water
In the dense forests of northwestern Pennsylvania, hundreds of thousands of retired oil and gas wells—some dating back to the mid-1800s, long before modern construction standards—dot the landscape, according to geochemists in Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences who recently led a study in the region. Left uncapped and exposed to air and erosion, they break down, leaching harmful chemicals into the atmospher … ⌘ Read more
IN MEMORIAM: RNDr. Igor Furdík (1947 – 2025)
Vo veku 78 rokov nás 5. novembra 2025 navždy opustil RNDr. Igor Furdík, dlhoročný diplomat, vysokoškolský pedagóg a bývalý predseda Úradu pre Slovákov žijúcich v zahraničí (ÚSŽZ), ktorého meno zostane navždy späté so službou Slovensku a Slovákom vo svete. _„Odchod Igora Furdíka vnímame s veľkým zármutkom a úctou. Bol človekom, ktorý krajanskú problematiku žil, nie len riadil. Slovákov v zahraničí vnímal s otvoreným srdcom, s úprimným … ⌘ Read more
What 986 million code pushes say about the developer workflow in 2025
Nearly a billion commits later, the way we ship code has changed for good. Here’s what the 2025 Octoverse data says about how devs really work now.
The post What 986 million code pushes say about the developer workflow in 2025 appeared first on [The GitHub Blog](https: … ⌘ Read more
Code-level telemetry instrumentation: From “oh hell no” to “worth it”
A platform engineer’s guide to developer buy-in Originally published on the author’s personal blog, whitneylee.com As platform engineers, we want the holistic system insights that instrumented code can give us – yes, please. With code-level insights… ⌘ Read more
Self-Hosted Human and Machine Identities in Keycloak 26.4
Keycloak is a leading open source solution in the cloud-native ecosystem for Identity and Access Management, a key component of accessing applications and their data. With the release of Keycloak 26.4, we’ve added features for both… ⌘ Read more
Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls his company the first to be ‘completely anti-woke’
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In-Depth iPhone Battery Experiment Pits Slow Charging Against Fast Charging
HTX Studio this week shared the results from a six-month battery test that compared how fast charging and slow charging can affect battery life over time.
Using six iPhone 12 models, the channel set up a system to drain the batteries from five percent and charge them to 100 percent over and over again. Three were fast charged, and three were slow charged.
Another set of iPhone … ⌘ Read more
How Trump is weaponizing the DoJ to ‘bully, prosecute, punish and silence’ his foes
Peter Stone, Reporter - The Guardian (.K.)
_Stephan: ”king” Trump, his administration servants, and the Republican Party are doing everything in their power to end the legitimacy of the American legal system, rendering it a tool for “king” Trump’s revenge. And that is just part of the vibe. Last night I spent an hour watching the Fox propaganda channel, and it … ⌘ Read more
High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC)
Stefan, - Real Climate
Stephan: As a result, basically due to human greed and stupidity, the climate change trend continues, the ocean currents are altering as this article describes, and it is warning us that we are racing towards the 2040-2045 civilization catastrophe that is coming
, is partially confined and anchored by a pinning point at its northern terminus. ⌘ Read more
Duralex : le verre à moitié plein dans un pays à moitié vide
Grâce à une campagne publicitaire rondement menée par une presse gourmande de relayer les frétillantes aventures d’une SCOP, Duralex a brillamment réussi sa levée de fonds. En quelques heures seulement, le fabricant présent en France depuis 1945 parvient à récolter plus de 5 millions d’euros dans une opération typiquement capitalistique d’ouverture du capital. Ces cinq […] ⌘ Read more
Leaving Meta and PyTorch
Article URL: https://soumith.ch/blog/2025-11-06-leaving-meta-and-pytorch.md.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45843948
Points: 500
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next-20251107: linux-next
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Hurricane? Cyclone? Typhoon? Here’s the difference
Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 114 people in the Philippines with even more missing and then hit Vietnam Friday. A second typhoon, Fong-Wong, is forecast to hit the Philippines around Sunday and strengthen to a major storm by that time. ⌘ Read more
iPhone 18 Pro Said to Feature Smaller Display Hole for Front Camera
Apple is testing new camera miniaturization technology to reduce the size of the front-facing camera on next year’s iPhone 18 Pro models, claims a Chinese leaker.
According to Digital Chat Station, a Weibo account with more than three million followers, Apple is testing a single HIIA (hole-in-active-area) hole pu … ⌘ Read more