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• The best noir movies to watch this Noirvember (Polygon)
• The best cozy board games of 2024 (Polygon)
• What’s on your desk, Kristen Radtke? (The Verge)
• Nintendo Controllers (Louie Mantia)
• Maybe It’s Social Media (Louie Mantia)
• Carving your space (Heather Buchel)
• Chip away (Elliot Jay Stocks)
• How It Went (Daring Fireball)
• A catalog. (Ethan Marcotte)
• Two books, no longer apart. (Ethan Marcotte)
• The childlike and the childish (Josh Collinsworth)
• Rum Advent Calendar (2024 Edition) – Drinks By The Dram (Spoiler Free) (The Rum Barrel Blog)
• The Kids Are (Naz Hamid)
• The Work Is Never Done (Naz Hamid)
• Two months at GitHub (Cassidy Williams)
• The web is a gift. The web is a weapon. (Go Make Things)
• The tech industry is about to get a lot worse (Go Make Things)
• Fave things I ate at Disneyland (Lynn Fisher)
• Movies Watched, October 2024 (Khoi Vinh)
• ADHD (Brad Frost)
• Just enough news (Cory Dransfeldt)

News

• Apple will let you share AirTag locations with a link
• Brief clip of Firewatch follow-up In the Valley of Gods looks amazing
• Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week — A lot of web developers I follow have moved to Bluesky recently. The thing I’m most missing from Bluesky is a nice app like Ivory (or Tweetbot 😢), specifically the timeline syncing feature. I hate that every time I open the Bluesky app, it starts me at the most recent posts rather than where I left off.
• The NYT Tech Guild’s election week strike is over
• Nvidia’s new app replacement for GeForce Experience is now out of beta
• Apple is reportedly working on an Apple Home security camera
• Obscure Martin Brodeur nickname on ‘Jeopardy!’ perplexes fans
• VMware Workstation and Fusion are now free for everyone
• Apple’s rumored six-inch ‘AI wall tablet’ could control your smart home by March 2025
• Final Fantasy games are coming to Apple Arcade
• Workers at Bethesda parent company strike over remote work policies
• EA Sports will add Professional Women’s Hockey League to NHL 25
• Threads might get ads early next year — I was initially excited about Threads, but how much can you really trust something owned by Facebook?
• GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’
• PayPal will let you pool money for group gifts and shared expenses
• Apple faces a new $3.75 billion antitrust lawsuit over iCloud storage
• Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts
• Pokémon TCG Pocket will let you trade cards starting early next year
• The Onion just bought Infowars — This is by far the best news of the week. 🤣
• Half-Life 2 is getting a huge 20th anniversary update
• Gabe Newell says Half-Life 2: Episode 3 didn’t happen because he was ‘stumped’
• NFL fans worry Netflix’s bad Tyson vs. Paul stream means it can’t handle football
• Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake: a straightforward, old-school RPG
• Apple’s Lightning-to-3.5mm headphone adapter may be going away