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Episode Notes

Housekeeping

* RM Quarterly vol 1 is now available for all paid subscribers!

News

Apple News

* Last iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano added to Obsolete List

* New Macs Announced in Late October “Week of Mac” Series of Video Announcements

* macOS 15.1 update allegedly stops users from running unsigned applications

Linux News

* US Government sanctions Russian developers and maintainers in GPL software including the Linux kernel

* Linus’ response

* Bryan Lunduke’s Coverage

* The PineNote — Pine64’s Linux-Powered E-Ink Tablet — is Making a Return

* Press Release

* Ubuntu 25.04 codename revealed via Tweet on X to be “Plucky Puffin”

* Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004

* Dmitry’s full write up

* Fedora 41 Release Notes

* The Miracle Window Manager

Microsoft News

* Windows Recall Delayed Again

* Microsoft adding AI features to Notepad and Paint

Creepy AI News

* Tesla Reveals Optimus, a Walking Humanoid Robot You Could Buy in 2027

Other Tech News

* SpaceX Rocket Catch

* Internet Archive Data Breach

* Up to 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords stored in plain text

* PayPal terms of service change to sell user data

* NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules

Retro Gaming/Vintage Computing News

* Two Lost Sega Channel Games Have Been Found And Preserved

* Epic Games Is Totally Chill About You Downloading Unreal And Unreal Tournament For Nothing

* The ZX Spectrum Just Got An Amazing New Donkey Kong Port

* An MSX Core Has Just Been Released For The Analogue Pocket

* Atari ST Shoot 'Em Up 'Wings Of Death' Is Getting A Jaguar Port

Command Line Tool of the Month: play

* https://github.com/paololazzari/play

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