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• Kiwibit Bird Feeder 2 Pro: 4K HDR, but 15fps Video Holds It Back

  The Kiwibit Bird Feeder 2 Pro brings 4K HDR and phase-detection autofocus to the bird feeder camera, but 15fps video and a subscription-locked app hold it back.

• MapQuest Now Maps Flock Cameras With 120,000 Red Eyes

  MapQuest's new Surveillance Layer plots Flock and other license plate readers as red eyes on the map, and users are calling it a reason to switch from Google.

• UK Nuclear Sub Crews Train to Fight Drones With Fire Hoses

  Royal Navy submariners at HMNB Clyde are learning to swat drones out of the sky with firefighting hoses, a cheap last-resort defence for £4 billion nuclear submarines.

• Verizon's iPhone Duo Deal: Phone, Plan and Free Watch for $72

  Verizon is selling Apple's first foldable as an all-in-one package: iPhone Duo, unlimited data and a free iPad or Apple Watch 12 for $72.22 a month, no trade-in needed.

• Disney's Villains Land and Monstropolis: 2027 and Beyond

  Disney just mapped out its biggest park expansion in years: a villains-themed land at Magic Kingdom, a Monsters, Inc. coaster at Hollywood Studios and two new Avengers rides by…

• T-Mobile's $1 Fee Hike: Where Your Extra Money Goes

  T-Mobile quietly raised its mandatory fees on Oct. 12, and AT&T and Verizon have done the same. The amounts look tiny, but they add up fast on a family plan.

• AWS and Anthropic Bet $1B on Engineers to Prove AI Pays Off

  Forward-deployed engineer job ads jumped 6x for a second straight year as AWS, Anthropic and OpenAI spend billions to prove AI actually pays off.

• Tesla's Flying Roadster Packs 80 kN Thrusters, But It's Not Road Legal

  Tesla's Roadster demo showed a car flipping and jumping on compressed-air thrusters. The 80 kN rear thrusters explain why the Rocket version is marked not for public roads.

• iPhone Duo Slips to 2027 Shipping Hours After Pre-Orders Open

  Five hours after iPhone Duo pre-orders opened, every storage and color option on Apple's store shows January 2027 shipping. Here's what happened and where stock might still exist.

• Five Scraping Brands Unite as Source, a $3.6B AI Data Bet

  Oxylabs, Decodo, Webshare, ScrapingBee and Honeygain are now one $3.6 billion family called Source, and it says AI agents have quadrupled demand.

• AMD's 32,768-Core AI Rack Ships in November, Minus Power Specs

  AMD's Helion Agentic AI Rack crams 32,768 Zen 6 cores and 16 Instinct accelerators into a single rack for AI agents. It ships in November, but power and cooling specs are absent.

• AI Builders Save Small Businesses $850 as Web Dev Gigs Fall 59%

  A Bluehost survey finds 53% of small business owners use AI website builders, saving $850 and 32 hours on average. Freelance web design gigs are down 59%.