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Archives for November 2024

Boox Palma 2 review: ain’t broke, not fixed0

There are so many things about the Palma 2 that could be better. But it’s still great at what it does.

David Pierce
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Tesla tells court it’s settling with Rivian.

Tesla notified a California judge that it had reached a conditional settlement with Rivian, reports Bloomberg, four years after accusing Rivian in a lawsuit of intentionally poaching Tesla employees and stealing trade secrets.

Conditions of the settlement weren’t revealed in the filing, and Tesla expects that a request to dismiss the suit will be filed by December 24th, Bloomberg notes.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
The Bluesky firehose, tunnelized.

Theo Sanderson created a visualizer that sends you through a tunnel of Bluesky posts as they happen. Maybe it’s pointless, like watching users bust cusses in real-time, but it’s also fun that the platform enables this sort of thing to be made.

The iMac M4 wasn’t built for this world

6

Verge Score

Still beautiful. Still good. Still the wrong form factor for basically everybody.

Nathan Edwards
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
The Biden administration may restrict trade with up to 200 more Chinese chip companies.

A US Chamber of Commerce email to members sent on Thursday indicated that the government is preparing to announce the new export restrictions “prior to the Thanksgiving break,” reports Reuters.

That’s not all, the outlet writes:

Another set of rules curbing shipments of high-bandwidth memory chips to China is expected to be unveiled next month as part of a broader artificial intelligence package, the email continues.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Musk dodged a sanction over skipping an SEC meeting in September.

A federal judge said Friday that sanctioning Musk was unnecessary “because he already agreed to reimburse the SEC $2,923 to cover airfare for the trio of agency lawyers he stood up in Los Angeles in September,” Bloomberg writes.

The agency sought to sanction him after he ditched a testimony over his Twitter acquisition to watch a SpaceX launch.

What’s on your desk, Kylie Robison?

A cozy workspace full of character and characters — and a cat.

Kylie Robison and Barbara Krasnoff
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
iFixit’s M4 MacBook Pro teardown shows not much has changed.

Apart from “subtle differences” like a slightly bigger heatsink and rearranged components, the newest MacBook’s internal layout is about the same as the M3 model’s. iFixit summarizes in a blog post supplementing its video:

Parts pairing and calibration issues remain a major obstacle. Batteries and ports are relatively repair-friendly, but swapping displays or logic boards is a minefield of software locks.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Threads has landscape video now.

Saw this news on 9to5Mac. I honestly didn’t know landscape video wasn’t previously possible.

A screenshot of posts confirming that Threads has videos and photos in landscape mode now.
You can see these posts in context here.
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge