Follow Up

Anthropic hits out at Alibaba over Claude cloning: Ars Technica

LastPass responds to Klue supply chain breach: LastPass Blog

UK iCloud users heading to trial for £77 payouts: MacRumors

News

Micron points finger at Apple for memory price crisis: MacRumors

Steve Troughton-Smith on platform ecosystems: Mastodon

FCC plans identity mandate to block burner phones: Ars Technica

Rivals take Microsoft software grievances to UK watchdog: The Register

Claude 5 lands with major agentic updates: MacRumors | Anthropic Models

Car Corner

Volkswagen considers closing four factories: Ars Technica

Polestar faces US sales ban next year: Engadget

Waymo driverless cars spotted testing in London: Waymo

Media

Widows Bay: Rotten Tomatoes

Enemy of the State: Rotten Tomatoes

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: Rotten Tomatoes

Toy Story 5: Rotten Tomatoes

Games

Steam Machine hardware review: Rock Paper Shotgun

Doom (2016): Steam

Civilization VII update brings hotseat local multiplayer: Rock Paper Shotgun

Main Show: The Price of Everything Goes Up

Apple hikes hardware costs by nearly 20%: BBC News | MacRumors

More price increases coming later: 9to5Mac

Time to make do and mend: Navigating tech setups as upgrades get more expensive. Engadget

App & Thing of the Week

App: Bazzite gaming operating system

Thing: AMSMB2 Swift SMB client framework

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