Month: November 2025

Apple TV execs dismiss introducing an ad tier, buying Warner Bros. Discovery

Apple execs say Apple TV shows and movies are about “emotional” experiences.

The heads of Apple TV have “no plans” to bring ads to the streaming service, balking, at least for now, at a strategy that has driven success for Apple’s streaming rivals.

In its November 2025 issue, British movie magazine Screen International asked Eddy Cue, SVP of Apple Services, if there are plans to launch an ad-based subscription tier for Apple TV. Cue responded:

Nothing at this time. … I don’t want to say no forever, but there are no plans. If we can stay aggressive with our pricing, it’s better for consumers not to get interrupted with ads.

The comments follow reports over the years suggesting that Apple has been seeking knowledge on how to build a streaming ads business. Most recently, The Telegraph reported that Apple TV executives met with the United Kingdom’s ratings body, Barb, to discuss what tracking ads on Apple TV would look like. In 2023, Apple hired advertising exec Lauren Fry as head of video and Apple News ad sales.

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New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games

But author warns that Direct3D 7 “is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability.”

For years now, Valve has been slowly improving the capabilities of the Proton compatibility layer that lets thousands of Windows games work seamlessly on the Linux-based SteamOS. But Valve’s Windows-to-Linux compatibility layer generally only extends back to games written for Direct3D 8, the proprietary Windows graphics API Microsoft released in late 2000.

Now, a new open source project is seeking to extend Linux interoperability further back into PC gaming history. The d7vk project describes itself as “a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7 [D3D7], which allows running 3D applications on Linux using Wine.”

More options are always welcome

The new project isn’t the first attempt to get Direct3D 7 games running on Linux. Wine‘s own built-in WineD3D compatibility layer has supported D3D7 in some form or another for at least two decades now. But the new d7vk project instead branches off the existing dxvk compatibility layer, which is already used by Valve’s Proton for SteamOS and which reportedly offers better performance than WineD3D on many games.

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Brandenburg: Viele Bewohner kleiner Orte haben Probleme mit Funklöchern

In kleinen Orten haben rund 30 Prozent der Menschen Probleme mit der Mobilfunk-Versorgung. Bei zu wenigen Anwohnern bringt das Netz zu wenig Gewinn. (Mobilfunk, Long Term Evolution)

In kleinen Orten haben rund 30 Prozent der Menschen Probleme mit der Mobilfunk-Versorgung. Bei zu wenigen Anwohnern bringt das Netz zu wenig Gewinn. (Mobilfunk, Long Term Evolution)

Viwoods AiPaper Reader is a phone-sized eReader with Android 16 and 4G cellular support

The Viwoods AiPaper Reader is an eBook reader with a 6.13 inch E Ink display with 300 pixels per inch and a physical design that makes it look more like a phone than an eReader. And while isn’t technically a phone, since it can’t make voice…

The Viwoods AiPaper Reader is an eBook reader with a 6.13 inch E Ink display with 300 pixels per inch and a physical design that makes it look more like a phone than an eReader. And while isn’t technically a phone, since it can’t make voice calls over a cellular network, it does have a SIM card […]

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Runaway black hole mergers may have built supermassive black holes

Early superdense star clusters may have planted seeds for monster black holes.

A new simulation could help solve one of astronomy’s longstanding mysteries—how supermassive black holes formed so rapidly—along with a new one: What are the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) “little red dots?”

Invisible leviathans lurk at the cores of nearly all of the 2 trillion or so galaxies strewn throughout space-time. Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even billions of times the Sun’s mass in less than a billion years. Astronomers have long wondered how these supermassive black holes could have grown so hefty in such little time.

The monster black hole mystery became even more perplexing in 2022 when “little red dots” were spotted at the far edges of space. When these tiny scarlet orbs began unexpectedly popping up in JWST images of the distant Universe, their nature was hotly debated. Now that scientists have amassed a sample of hundreds of them, many think the dots are growing supermassive black holes.

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Anno 117 im Test: Ich kam, ich sah, ich baute

Römische Ordnung trifft auf entspanntes Aufbauen: Anno 117 verbindet klassisches Ressourcenmanagement mit neuen Ideen. Ein Test von Peter Steinlechner (Anno, Spieletest)

Römische Ordnung trifft auf entspanntes Aufbauen: Anno 117 verbindet klassisches Ressourcenmanagement mit neuen Ideen. Ein Test von Peter Steinlechner (Anno, Spieletest)

MINISFORUM MS-R1 Arm-powered Desktop PC goes global for $504 and up

After launching in China earlier this month the MINISFORUM MS-R1 desktop computer is now available worldwide. What makes this small form-factor computer unusual is that it’s powered by a high-performance Arm-based processor. The PC is available f…

After launching in China earlier this month the MINISFORUM MS-R1 desktop computer is now available worldwide. What makes this small form-factor computer unusual is that it’s powered by a high-performance Arm-based processor. The PC is available from the MINISFORUM website for $504 and up. The entry-level configuration includes 32GB of onboard RAM and no storage, but you […]

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The Running Man’s final trailer amps up the high-octane action

Get ready for what could be the “biggest underdog win in game show history.”

It’s shaping up to be an excellent season for Stephen King adaptations. In September, we got The Long Walk, an excellent (though harrowing) adaptation of King’s 1979 Richard Bachman novel. Last month, HBO debuted its new series IT: Welcome to Derry, which explores the mythology and origins of Pennywise the killer clown. And this Friday is the premiere of The Running Man, director Edgar Wright’s (Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver, Last Night in Soho) take on King’s novel of the same name. So naturally Paramount has released a final trailer to lure us to the theater.

As previously reported, the 1987 action film starring Schwarzenegger was only loosely based on King’s novel, preserving the basic concept and very little else in favor of more sci-fi gadgetry and high-octane action. It was a noisy, entertaining romp—and very late ’80s—but it lacked King’s subtler satirical tone. Wright expressed interest in adapting his own version of The Running Man in 2017, and Paramount greenlit the project four years later. Wright and co-screenwriter Michael Bacall envisioned their film as less of a remake and more of a faithful adaptation of King’s original novel. (We’ll see if that faithfulness extends to the novel’s bleak ending.)

Per the official premise:

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