I love that the new Apple TV intro—now without the "+" that was so emphasized in the previous one—was done with real glass and lighting. Here's a short behind-the-scenes of how they did it.

Apple TV | Behind-The-Scenes | Mnemonic

This is "Apple TV | Behind-The-Scenes | Mnemonic" by TBWA Media Arts Lab on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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ABC News:

At the time of the brazen heist of $102 million in jewels from the Louvre last month, the password to the world-famous museum's video surveillance system was simply "Louvre," according to a museum employee with knowledge of the system.

It sounds like this wasn't material to the theft, but man, how embarrassing.

Password to Louvre’s video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee

According to an employee with knowledge of the system, the password to the Louvre's video surveillance system was simply "Louvre" at the time of the robbery last month.

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Gary N. Smith and Jeffrey Funk, writing for Fast Company:

For layoffs in the tech sector, a likely culprit is the financial stress that companies are experiencing because of their huge spending on AI infrastructure. Companies that are spending a lot with no significant increases in revenue can try to sustain profitability by cutting costs. Amazon increased its total CapEx from $54 billion in 2023 to $84 billion in 2024, and an estimated $118 billion in 2025. Meta is securing a $27 billion credit line to fund its data centers. Oracle plans to borrow $25 billion annually over the next few years to fulfill its AI contracts.

The fundamental point of this article feels directionally correct to me: AI spending (and AI drawing all of the venture capital investment) is more responsible for cutbacks than AI doing the work of those who lost their jobs. As anyone who reads this knows, I believe that AI can help developers be more productive; I don't believe that it can do developers' jobs.

AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is

Big spending on artificial intelligence puts pressure on jobs, as gloomy narratives about the future of work are ironically making new graduates less employable.

www.fastcompany.com

Scharon Harding, writing at Ars Technica:

One could be forgiven for assuming they had greater control over DVR recordings from YouTube TV. The earliest DVR machines stored can’t-miss episodes and historical sporting events locally, giving users power over when they could watch or delete what they had recorded. As a result, people might presume that today’s DVR recordings work similarly. But nowadays, DVR files are stored in the cloud, giving companies the ability to rip them away at any time. In this case, people are losing access to files that they may have recorded long before Disney and Google’s disagreement went public.

It really sucks that people who have "recorded" shows on their "DVR" have lost access to those "recordings". It's just another reminder that these services just aren't as good as ones that actually put a recording on a device you own, like a TiVo.

YouTube TV’s Disney blackout reminds users that they don’t own what they stream

“This is a hard lesson for us all.”...

arstechnica.com

GMAuthority:

The change, which took effect September 30th, 2025, means the GM App Store is now permanently closed for these vehicles. Apps that were previously downloaded no longer receive support. Crucially, if an owner deletes an app or performs a factory reset on the system, that application is gone for good. Attempts to reinstall it will fail. This is not a malfunction requiring a service visit. Rather, it’s a definitive sunsetting of the service.

Yet another reason to not trust GM with their commitment to do anything other than attempt to extract subscription dollars from people who buy their vehicles. They don't care about their owners' experience, they just want the money.

Tom's Hardware:

The Asus ProArt PA32QCV sports the same 218ppi that I saw in last year’s PA27JCV, but has a 32-inch panel instead of 27. It’s hard to describe how cool it is to get right up to the screen and still be unable to see the pixels. And with the addition of LuxPixel technology, there is no change in quality when viewing from the sides, nor do ambient light reflections affect the picture.

It's definitely in my head.

Asus ProArt PA32QCV 6K professional monitor review: Plenty of pixels, color, and brightness

Asus ups the pixel density ante with its 6K ProArt PA32QCV.

www.tomshardware.com

The New York Times:

Voters backed redrawing California’s congressional districts, countering Republican efforts in red states. Democrats won high-profile governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia and notched other victories across the nation.

It's a big night for Democrats. Let's hope the momentum stays high (or picks up steam) going into next year's midterms. (Oof, another year.)

California Proposition 50 Election Results: Congressional Redistricting

Get live results and maps for the 2025 California redistricting measure.

www.nytimes.com

Anthropic:

We're offering a limited-time promotion that gives Pro and Max users extra usage credits exclusively for Claude Code on the web and mobile. This is designed to help you explore the full power of parallel Claude Code sessions without worrying about your regular usage limits.

I'm using Claude Code on the Web to take advantage of the free credits ($1,000 for Max users!), and it's pretty neat so far. It's slower than running it on my own machine, mostly because the tests and other ways of actually running the code are happening in the cloud instead of using my own resources, but it's a neat trick anyway. The option of having a few different sessions all working in parallel in the cloud, and being able to check in on their progress from mobile, is a nifty one.

Update: It does have its limitations, though. My app uses MiniMagick, and apparently that won't run in their cloud execution environment. My test results say:

### Test Suite: Failures Detected

**Generated:** 2025-11-05T07:41:24Z

**Test Suite Execution Time:** 202.61826 seconds 

#### Summary

- **Total Tests:** 1622

- **Total Assertions:** 4841

- **Failures:** 0

- **Errors:** 28

- **Skipped:** 14

- **Status:** ❌ Test errors detected (28 MiniMagick executable errors)

#### Overview

All 28 errors are caused by a missing system dependency: ImageMagick's `convert` executable is not available in the test environment. This affects all tests that involve image processing and photo creation/manipulation. The errors occur when the Photo model attempts to process image variants after file attachment.

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I realize this is the first-worldiest of first world problems, but I just went back to the ultrawide monitor my Mac is on, and---oof, it's bad. I mean, the size is fantastic, but I should never have looked at retina again.

Honestly, this has me looking at the new crop of 6K 32" monitors for my main setup. But the rumors of a newer Apple 6K that isn't the Pro XDR give me pause. I sure would hate to have an LG or Asus or whatever, and have a nice Apple one come out 6 months later.

I've been using Omarchy recently, and just dug out my old 27" 5K monitor to set it up on its own desk, rather than switching back-and-forth with my regular setup. Man, it's so nice to be running at Retina-level resolutions again. I love the ultrawide monitor, but I super miss this.