News 

Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/technology/meta-cuts-metaverse-unit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.608.XuJW.cN8SImoOdegY 

https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/meta_says_fuck_that_metaverse_shit 

Apple announces winners of the 2025 App Store Awards

https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/04/apple-announces-winners-of-the-2025-app-store-awards/ 

Amazon’s new color Kindle Scribe launches on December 10th

https://www.theverge.com/news/838282/amazon-kindle-scribe-colorsoft-release-date 

After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/ 

Apple Executive Changes

Kicked off with John Giannandrea

https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/01/john-giannandrea-leaving-apple-following-ai-strategy-miss/ 

Apple announces executive transitions

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/12/apple-announces-executive-transitions/ 

Johnny Srouji

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/07/srouji-could-be-next-to-go-as-exodus-continues/ 

Bleeding Talent

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/05/apple-bleeding-talent-to-openai/ 

Alan Dye

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/meta-poaches-apple-design-exec-alan-dye-to-lead-new-creative-studio-in-reality-labs/ 

Car Corner

Apple releases F1 Ad for American streamers

https://x.com/AppleTV/status/1997705160533967051 

Media

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion (Equity Value of $72.0 Billion)

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros

Apple Podcasts names ‘The Rest Is History’ its show of the year 

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/12/apple-podcasts-names-the-rest-is-history-the-2025-show-of-the-year/ 

Mad Men Remaster

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/mad-men-4k-re-released-hbo-max-editing-errors-b2877749.html 

Chris done his homework?

(ish)https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/master_and_commander_the_far_side_of_the_world#reviews

Bourne Identity

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bourne_identity

Pluribus

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/pluribus

Celebrity Race Across the World

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/articles/2025/celebrity-race-across-the-world-everything-you-need-know/

Severance season 3 just got a big release timing update

https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/04/severance-season-3-just-got-a-big-release-timing-update/ 

Games

GT Spec 3 (Free update)

https://www.gran-turismo.com/sg/news/00_4185758.html

GT PowerPack

https://www.gran-turismo.com/gb/products/gt7/powerpack/

Main Show

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_A-Class 

https://www.tiktok.com/@carrosbilar/video/7368990026237021472?lang=en-GB 

App of the Week 

Trainline 

https://www.thetrainline.com/information/apps 

Thing of the Week 

Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway

https://www.ui.com/uk/en/cloud-gateways/compact

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