Adam Schiff joins Sen. Marsha Blackburn in expressing concern, urging Meta to “compensate creators and publishers for their work” after the company’s updated terms seemingly gave itself permission to train its AI on news sites. Those changes have since been tweaked and pushed back until November 20th, but Schiff says “a delay isn’t enough.”

I took Halide’s newly Duo-updated iOS app for a spin to try out the waist-level viewfinder feature, shooting with Process Zero for some added lo-fi flair. It was a good time! But you’re definitely gonna get called out when someone spots it, and the fish-slinging folks at the Pike Place Fish Market don’t miss a beat. They were kind enough to help me test the selfie camera, at least.

After Nikita Bier’s one-year stint in the role, Peter Sellis, formerly of Ustream, Snap, Discord and Microsoft, is leading the app formerly known as Twitter.

We talk a lot about where the computer is, and where your stuff is. Paul Ford, a co-founder of Aboard and longtime tech blogger, recently built a tool called TinyLittleOffice that puts all the stuff in an unexpected place: the URL. Paul joins the show to explain how the web and the cloud have become powerful development tools, what it means to store a document in its domain, and why tiny, disposable software could make a comeback in the age of AI.

An email to staff seen by 404 Media says the Proton Mail owner needs “people who can translate AI’s capabilities into better products, stronger execution, and new ways of working.” It reportedly calls the re-interviews “consequential,” adding that they “may lead to changes in roles, responsibilities, and continued employment.”

Wintory, the composer for Journey, some songs in Hades II, and many other games, shared tracks he had recorded with a full orchestra as part of “conversations” to potentially be part of the now-canceled next game in the Mass Effect franchise.

Thomas Dohmke has officially launched Entire after teasing the decentralized coding platform in July. Similar to GitHub, developers can use the platform to host and review code, but it’s designed specifically to work with AI agents, replacing pull requests with a “Trails” feature that offers “customizable evals that are scored by agents on every code push.”

Halide III just got its iPhone Duo update with re-worked controls for the new screen formats and a feature that Apple’s native camera app left out: a waist-level viewfinder. When you use the phone in its L-shaped pose the image preview will appear on the top portion of the screen. I was hoping I’d be able to move the preview to the lower half of the screen and use it like a classic Hasselblad camera. It’s a nerdy little detail, but Halide is made by nerds, for nerds, and I appreciate that.

The new AI model, available today for Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex, is “a fast, efficient model that combines detailed visual reasoning and precise computer use alongside clearer, more natural writing,” and it “excels at the communication and computer-based tasks that fill the workday,” OpenAI says.

Variety published a memo from CEO David Ellison and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz about the changes. The leaders have already indicated there will be layoffs. The Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery merger was completed earlier this month.

The Ghost of Yōtei developer is laying off 24 people, Aftermath reports.

Sega recently pulled the recently-launched Complete Edition of the game, which was made in part by an external developer, after users found bugs and upscaling seemingly done by AI.

Using a flexible OLED display salvaged from a Royole FlexPai phone, a talented modder has created a folding PS2 handheld (they’ve called the PlayStation 2 Duo) by miniaturing the motherboard inside the original console, adding their own controller hardware, and wrapping it all in an custom enclosure you can 3D print yourself.

Ahead of the company’s “Pro and tell” event scheduled for October 28th at 1PM ET in Los Angeles, Apple’s SVP of Marketing, Greg Joswiak, teased an “exciting week” ahead on X which started with the debut of the new iPad Mini today featuring an OLED display and a thinner design. Rumors suggest Apple could also announce its first touchscreen MacBook Pro this week.

For those of us who can still remember heading to a brick and mortar store when it was time to buy a computer or peripherals, this video is a good reminder of what an absolute assault on the senses crowded PC shops were decades ago. And the floor to ceiling stacks of iMacs and Compaq desktops plus walls of CRT displays only add to that overwhelming feeling.

Like its Mobi Fold that debuted last June, Logitech’s new Pebble Up is a wireless mouse that’s adaptable. But instead of folding in half, the upper section of the mouse pops up using a hinge and integrated support so its buttons and scroll wheel are positioned at a more ergonomic angle, similar to the Logitech Lift. The Pebble Up is currently only available from Logitech in China for around $38.

Alongside laying off 1,000 employees, Netflix has fired the heads of its film and content divisions this month. We’ve already explained the company can’t fire its way out of a slump that’s now hitting its engagement metrics, but Bloomberg recounts just why co-CEO Ted Sarandos thinks otherwise, and how he got here in the first place.

It was supposed to be a “full-length movie,” but whatever — Elon Musk’s version of Homer’s epic poem has now arrived to take on Christopher Nolan. Just ignore the inconsistency of the character’s faces, historically inaccurate armor, non-functional shield wall, etc…