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November 15, 2025

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There is no hope. There are also no socks. (Apple Insider)

That Apple sock? The thing they called the "iPhone Pocket" even though it is neither an iPhone nor a pocket? That thing that costs less than a dollar to make and they are charging $230 for?

You can't buy one.

Because it has already sold out.
Half of American households still have cable TV. (Business Inside)

The surprising number is the reverse of what the article thinks it is.

Tech News

It's always lupus: The autoimmune disease lupus - which despite the memes is a real thing - may be triggered by the Epstein-Barr virus. (NBC)

Most people have Epstein-Barr in their systems, making it hard to track this down. It parks in your body and just sits there, menacingly.

The thing is that it infects lymphocytes, and the rate of infected lymphocytes in lupus patients is 25 times higher than in the general population. That doesn't prove a causal effect but it's a hell of a correlation.
Reviewing the Ubiquiti Mini Flex, a tiny managed 2.5gb Ethernet switch. (Serve the Home)

About $40, which is a good price for a 2.5gb switch, and a very good price for a managed switch. It's Ubiquiti so it's part of their UniFi system and you have to use their software to manage it and not just a web browser, but even without that it's a small, unobtrusive, inexpensive switch that can be powered over PoE or USB-C.
IBM filed a patent for Euler's continued fraction formula. (LeetArxiv)

I think Leonhard Euler can probably claim prior art, or could have if he hadn't died in 1783.

IBM didn't claim some specific novel application of Euler's work, either; they claimed the formula itself.

Incandescent Moon Interlude

There's a name for this: A Nicoll-Dyson laser. It was proposed in 2005 by James Nicoll for powering spaceships over vast distances. As he points out in the comments on the video - a rare exception to Rule One* - vaporising planets was never its intended purpose, merely a happy accident.

* Don't read the comments.

Transcendent Teal Interlude

In H. P. Lovecraft's The Color Out of Space he wrote about a strange material that emitted a colour that didn't exist anywhere on the electromagnetic spectrum. That sounds wild, but in fact imaginary colours are real - imaginary, but still real - and you're about to see one.

(Maybe. Some people don't report anything special, but it worked for me and it was rather startling.)

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Turn the laser around. Please.

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