On Monday evening, Bloomberg reported the development and a few other details about Apple’s response to the ban.

One of the best-ever iOS games just its first update since 2021, as spotted by my colleague Parker Ortolani. Both the standard and Apple Arcade versions of the game have been refreshed.

That’s according to a Threads developer, at least. Can’t wait for Techmeme to use the API eventually. (And, hopefully, many other accounts.)

Wiper Chat begins at 17:40 in a new video about the Cybertruck on Leno’s YouTube channel. Perhaps Leno has been reading The Verge and wanted to know more.

Honestly, it’s pretty incredible to watch. Residents of the nearby town, Grindavik, were ordered to leave last month. There have been thousands of earthquakes nearby in the last two months, Reuters reported. The livestream is remarkable right now — shooting plumes of orange magma against a black night sky.

Part of an upcoming crop of 32-inch 240Hz 4K OLED panels — this one’s got a powerful KVM. Plug in a USB-C laptop to get a 2nd monitor, peripherals, and 140W PD charging, then switch its many USB ports over to your desktop via DP 2.1 or its pair of HDMI 2.1 video inputs instead. Plus, it’s got a small square base: I hate the big V-shaped ones.

Windows Report has the scoop.

Adult Swim put out another short teaser for Rick and Morty: The Anime, and when I say short I mean it’s less than one minute of some out-of-context footage. There’s not much to explain Summer doing her best Sayla Mass impression or Rick doing the Umbrella Academy meme with parallel universe versions of himself, but it all feels on-brand.

The ecommerce giant is in talks to form a multiyear streaming partnership with Diamond Sports, the owner of Bally Sports regional sports networks, according to a report to The Wall Street Journal.

While a deal would extend a lifeline to the struggling media company, it would also greatly expand Amazon’s live sports streaming library to include games from the MLB, NBA, and NHL.

Peter Russell-Clarke, who has been with the company as a hardware designer since 2006, left Apple in October, according to Bloomberg. He had worked alongside Jony Ive, the company’s former head of design.

Vast, a space technology company bent on creating space habitats with artificial gravity, announced today that it had hired Russel-Clarke as an advisor to create an industrial design team.

Working the deals beat often means buying things I don’t truly need because I can’t pass up a good value. So here I am again, ordering a set of Philips Hue bulbs from Woot that are $29.99 for a four-pack (around $40 off). They’re not the brightest and they don’t turn fancy colors, but damn they’re cheap and I’ll find a use for them.

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It looks kind of like Rocket League mixed with guns, based on a brief glimpse in a trailer of upcoming additions to Horizon Worlds. Meta says the game will launch on January 1st.

The trailer also shows off Horizon Central, a kind of virtual town square where you can “browse” other Horizon Worlds experiences. And Super Rumble, is getting more quests and rewards on December 20th.

The bad news is, according to Deadline, Max has canceled Warrior, leaving the show with three seasons. The good news is that Netflix made a deal to stream those seasons in Max’s markets.

The other bad news is it may not get a fourth season, since, the article notes, the actors are no longer under contract, and the show’s lead, Andrew Koji, is already otherwise obligated.

The James Webb Space Telescope grabbed this infrared photo of Uranus’ north polar cap, nine of its moons, and its rings, including “the extremely faint and diffuse” Zeta ring.

NASA said in a post today that the picture is a combination of long and short exposures to correct for the gas giant’s fast rotation.

Well, great news — just get them a preorder of the Rat Wars vinyl and explain that’s why it didn’t ship on time. It’s a perfect present for anyone who remembers when Trent Reznor scored Quake, a real uncle-type gift. (The album rips, obviously.)

Tiffany Fong, who’s been heavily involved with the FTX storyline, interviewed FTX creditor Louis D’Origny about the FTX bankruptcy plan. If you want to look at the Chapter 11 plan for yourself, it’s here.

Unsurprisingly, I played Baldur’s Gate 3 the most, but I’m surprised that Sea of Stars was my runner up. Also, apparently the median number of games played on Steam this year was four — I expected that to be higher.

You can get your year in review from the Steam website.

“Partnerships like this should complicate this story of inevitability for companies like OpenAI, the world-beating firm that, before it takes over the economy, and before it must be stopped from taking over the entire world, must first, for some reason, pay for a big subscription to Politico Pro.”

In a filing with the SEC, VF Corp said it detected “unauthorized occurrences” on its systems involving a “threat actor” who stole data, including personal information. While the company says it contained the incident, the breach is impacting its ability to fulfill orders ahead of the holidays.

The Information reported that OpenAI has abandoned finding a replacement for trust and safety head Dave Willner, who stepped down in July. Instead, it’s replacing the division with teams dubbed Safety Systems, Superalignment, and Preparedness teams.

The company said in a blog post that Safety Systems will focus on the safe deployment of advanced AI models and artificial general intelligence while Superalignment works to align human and AI intelligence that surpasses humans, and Preparedness will do safety assessments for foundation models.

9to5Google reports that some YouTube TV subs are seeing a pop-up message noting that a long press of the OK or Select buttons on their remotes will quickly flip back to the last-viewed channel. That’s one of the best old-school cable box remote features there was, so let’s hope it rolls out wide soon.

He died after battling cancer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Personally, I’ll always remember his performance as Alex Casey in the Alan Wake series. RIP.

More than 200 Substack authors have signed an open letter to the company’s leadership asking them to explain why they are “platforming and monetizing Nazis.” From the letter:

From our perspective as Substack publishers, it is unfathomable that someone with a swastika avatar, who writes about “The Jewish question,” or who promotes Great Replacement Theory, could be given the tools to succeed on your platform. And yet you’ve been unable to adequately explain your position. 

Yikes! Meanwhile, Substack is pointing other outlets to this open letter supporting the company:

We are still trying to figure out the best way to handle extremism on the internet. But of all the ways we’ve tried so far, Substack is working the best.

We already knew that Amazon (and Henry Cavill) was teaming up with Games Workshop on some live-action Warhammer projects. And now that the full agreement has been officially signed, we might actually hear some proper announcements in the near future.

“TV and Film production is a mammoth undertaking,” Game Workshop wrote on its blog. “It’s not unusual for projects to take two to three years from this point before something arrives on screen. Still, things are now properly rolling, and you can bet we’ll bring you all the latest updates and cool snippets as soon as we’re able. “