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Best Prime Day Apple iPad Deals

We'll help you choose between Apple's wide array of discounted tablets.

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Cozy Earth's Prime Day Sale (2025): Sheets, Pajamas, Socks and More on Deep Discount

Enjoy Cozy Earth's super-soft home goods in every aspect of your life after shopping this sale.

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The Petcube Cam 360 Is $16 Off for Prime Day

This popular 360-degree rotating pet camera is the best camera I've tested at this price point.

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What’s New or Changed in iOS 26.1 Beta 2

9to5mac.com/2025/10/06/everything-new-in-ios-26-1-beta-2/

Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac:

Alarms and timers are now harder to dismiss thanks to a new ‘Slide to stop’ gesture. Both alarms and timers were updated in iOS 26 to utilize a new design with much larger on-screen buttons than before. Now in iOS 26.1 beta 2, Apple has replaced the ‘Stop’ button with a new sliding gesture that requires a little more intentionality. This should make accidental alarm dismissals more rare.

That’s one of several changes that caught my eye. Seems like a great idea. Another notable change: Slide Over returns to iPadOS.

See also: Juli Clover’s rundown of changes in iOS 26.1 beta 2 for MacRumors.

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OpenStack Flamingo Reduces Technical Debt, Boosts Performance

A single flamingo bird. OpenStack's most recent major version is called Flamingo.

The oldest open source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud just celebrated its latest birthday with a new release. Flamingo,

The post OpenStack Flamingo Reduces Technical Debt, Boosts Performance appeared first on The New Stack.

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Never Bunt

Never Bunt
PHILADELPHIA — By the top of the ninth inning, the stadium was visibly pockmarked by absences, and people were booing Jhoan Duran's walkout show. Duran, who was just doing his job as the Philadelphia Phillies' best reliever, didn't deserve any of the boos just because manage...

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The Best Prime Day Vacuum Deals (2025): Dyson, Bissell, Black + Decker

Amazon's Prime Day is back, and some of our favorite vacuums (from great Dyson to powerful robot vacuums!) are on sale.

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The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Era of DEI

So many of the best, most thoughtful, most caring and talented people I’ve collaborated with in my career have had a focus on inclusion and equity as either the primary role or the supporting and enabling context of their work. But thanks to a well-funded, decades-long conce...

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Wiley Hodges’s Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding ICEBlock

substack.com/inbox/post/175351960

Wiley Hodges, a 22-year veteran of Apple product marketing, who retired in 2022, in an open letter he sent to Tim Cook: I don’t know where this leaves me as an Apple customer, but I do know that it upsets me as an Apple shareholder. I am asking you and your team to more ...

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AltStore State of the Union

rileytestut.com/blog/2025/10/07/evolving-altstore-pal/

Riley Testut, co-founder of AltStore: By far our number one request, we’re planning to launch AltStore PAL in more countries later this year in response to various regulatory changes around the world. Specifically, we plan to launch in Japan, Brazil, and Australia before...

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Hi, I’m an Early 2010s Tech CEO

I wear the same T-shirt every day, and I have a relatably unkempt haircut. I remind you of the smart kids from high school, so I give you hope that the future might be okay. My company has a slogan like “Connect Everyone” or “Build Beautiful Stuff,” and I promise you that we...

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Kubernetes v1.34 Introduces Benefits but Also New Blind Spots

Every Kubernetes release brings the good, the bad, and the blind spots you only discover in production. The latest version

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One of those days when most everything is hard, yet there are still a few moments of clarity. The view out from Whole Foods. Took a little time for breakfast tacos and work in between visits to the hospital. 😞

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Jaedyn Shaw’s Redemption Arc Is Underway

Jaedyn Shaw’s Redemption Arc Is Underway

“Gotham’s one of the best teams in the league,” Sofia Huerta told the broadcast after her Seattle Reign managed to hold the accelerating side to a scoreless draw. “Third place, really hard team to beat.” Then came the kicker, punctuated by a dark chuckle: “They just acquired Jaedyn Shaw, you know?”

That Huerta, one of the league’s best defenders, mentioned Gotham’s newest arrival unprompted proves the notoriety that Shaw has already earned in her short career. In her first full professional season, Shaw, then 18, was a core part of the San Diego Wave team that won the 2023 shield. In 2024, she had a standout year with the senior USWNT, earning 17 caps and Olympic gold. 

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The Best Anti-Prime Day Deals for Amazon Haters (2025): Sheets, Sex Tech, and Fire Pits

You don't have to shop Amazon Big Deal Days to save on WIRED-approved favorites.

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Cathy Vs. Phee In The Basketball Court Of Public Opinion, With Jordan Robinson And Maitreyi Anantharaman

Cathy Vs. Phee In The Basketball Court Of Public Opinion, With Jordan Robinson And Maitreyi Anantharaman

This past week saw the biggest WNBA action of the season: Games 1 and 2 of the WNBA Finals, yes, but also the opening two rounds of the WNBPA vs. WNBA collective bargaining showdown in the court of public opinion. As such, Harry and I were joined by two guests on this week's Nothing But Respect to talk through both conflicts. Jordan Robinson of the great Women's Hoops Show joined us, as did returning champion Maitreyi Anantharaman, live from Las Vegas, on the casino floor, in between dice rolls.

There's ball-knowledge dispensed (Jordan is a skilled hooper), and the second half turned into an unintentional episode of Namedropping as we talked forever about Cathy.

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You Can Save Big on Apple's AirPods Pro 2 for Prime Day

Grab the last-gen AirPods Pro 2 at a great price during Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale event.

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The New Economics of Open Source Data Infrastructure

Illustration with zeros, ones and vectors to illustrate data infrastructure.

Ask any data architect what seemed impossible to cost-effectively achieve just five years ago, and you’ll hear about real-time fraud

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Why we all should love RSS. It makes the web higher level without taking anything away.