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- Jack Dorsey Is Out at Twitter — Now What?
Dorsey stepped down as Twitter CEO and handed the reins to Parag Agrawal, ending an era defined by his split attention with Square.
- The James Webb Space Telescope Is Ready. Now Comes the Scary Part.
As November ends, JWST sits encapsulated in French Guiana ahead of its December 22 launch — and an even harder month of deployment after that.
- Jack Dorsey Steps Down as Twitter CEO
Dorsey resigned as Twitter CEO today, handing the reins to CTO Parag Agrawal while staying on as Square's chief.
- Lucy's Wobbly Wing: A Stuck Solar Array Six Weeks Into a 12-Year Journey
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is flying healthy despite an unlatched solar array, as engineers spend November puzzling over the fix.
- Cyber Monday Caps a Chip-Shortage Holiday Season
As Cyber Monday approaches, laptops, TVs, and consoles top wish lists while PS5s and top GPUs remain maddeningly out of stock.
- WHO Names Omicron: A New Variant of Concern Enters the Chat
The WHO designated a heavily mutated SARS-CoV-2 lineage as Omicron, a variant of concern, prompting an emergency Geneva meeting and swift travel restrictions.
- Don't Let Black Friday Turn Into a Phishing Trip
A few practical habits to avoid scams during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping rush.
- NASA's DART Just Launched, and It's Going to Punch an Asteroid
NASA's DART spacecraft launched today on a Falcon 9 to test whether slamming into an asteroid moonlet can actually change its orbit.
- GoDaddy's 1.2 Million-Customer Breach Is a Managed Hosting Nightmare
GoDaddy disclosed a breach exposing sFTP, database, and even SSL private key credentials for up to 1.2 million Managed WordPress customers.
- Black Friday Console Restocks Are Gone Before You Finish Loading the Page
A year after launch, PS5 and Xbox Series X restocks are still vanishing in minutes as Black Friday week kicks off amid the ongoing chip shortage.
- TESS Finds a Gas Giant With a 16-Hour Year, and It's Doomed
NASA's TESS mission has spotted TOI-2109b, an ultra-hot Jupiter with the shortest orbital period ever seen for a gas giant.
- Serverless and Edge Functions Are Quietly Eating the Server
Why more web developers are shipping request-driven code to Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, and Lambda@Edge instead of managing servers.
- Battlefield 2042's Launch Is a Reminder That Scale Isn't a Substitute for Polish
EA and DICE shipped Battlefield 2042 today with no campaign and 128-player chaos, but bugs and thin content are dominating the conversation.
- Microsoft Ignite Makes Its Pitch: Windows 11 Is the Hybrid Work OS
At Ignite, Microsoft leaned hard into Windows 11 for enterprises, expanded Windows 365, and previewed autoscaling for Azure Virtual Desktop.
- Apple Says You Can Finally Fix Your Own iPhone
Apple announced a Self Service Repair program to sell genuine parts, tools, and manuals directly to customers, starting with iPhone 12 and 13.
- Russia Just Blew Up a Satellite, and Now the ISS Crew Is Dodging Debris
Russia's anti-satellite missile test destroyed Kosmos 1408 and scattered over 1,500 trackable fragments, forcing the ISS crew to shelter in place.
- Halo Infinite's Multiplayer Just Dropped, and Nobody Saw It Coming
343 Industries surprise-launched Halo Infinite's free-to-play multiplayer today, weeks ahead of schedule and on the franchise's 20th anniversary.
- Low-Code Is Eating the Backlog
Why Power Apps, Airtable, Retool, and Bubble are showing up in every software team's toolkit this year.
- SpaceX Ties Its Own Booster Reuse Record in the Fog
A Falcon 9 first stage flew for a ninth time and stuck the droneship landing, delivering 53 more Starlink satellites to orbit.
- Apple Watch Series 7: The Screen Got Bigger, the Redesign Didn't
A look at how reviewers are receiving Apple Watch Series 7 nearly a month after launch, and what the bigger screen actually changes.
- Bitcoin Just Blew Past Its Old Ceiling
Bitcoin hit a fresh all-time high near $69,000, and Taproot plus inflation fears are doing a lot of the pushing.
- Crew-3 Lifts Off: SpaceX Sends Four More Astronauts to the ISS
SpaceX launched NASA's Crew-3 mission to the ISS, carrying three NASA astronauts and one ESA astronaut for a six-month stay.
- A Year Later, You Still Can't Just Buy a PS5
The PS5 and Xbox Series X/S turn one this month, and the chip shortage means retail stock is still basically theoretical.
- Rust's Third Edition Is Here, and It's Barely Noticeable (That's the Point)
Rust 1.56 shipped the 2021 Edition with small, opt-in changes that quietly smooth out years of rough edges.
- DART Is About to Try Something No One's Ever Done: Punch an Asteroid on Purpose
NASA's DART spacecraft is gearing up for a late-November Falcon 9 launch to test whether we can nudge an asteroid's orbit by ramming into it.
- Elon Musk Let a Twitter Poll Decide His Tesla Stake, and the Market Is Not Amused
Musk asked Twitter whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla shares, nearly 58% said yes, and now everyone is watching what he does next.
- GitHub Copilot Is Done Being a VS Code Exclusive
Copilot's new Neovim and JetBrains plugins mean the AI pair programmer isn't tied to one editor anymore.
- Intel's Alder Lake Finally Ships, and It's a Bigger Bet Than a Clock Speed Bump
Intel launches 12th Gen "Alder Lake" desktop CPUs with a hybrid core design, DDR5, and PCIe 5.0 support.
- James Webb's Launch Slips Again, and This Time It's a Clamp Band's Fault
NASA, ESA, and Arianespace push the James Webb Space Telescope's launch to no earlier than December 22 after an unplanned clamp band release rattled the observatory.
- The New MacBook Pro Reviews Are In, and the Notch Is the Least Interesting Part
M1 Pro and M1 Max MacBook Pro reviews are rolling out, and the redesign brings back ports nobody expected to miss this much.