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I dumped streaming apps for a local Android player; the difference was night and day

Android Police Nov 5, 2026, 4:00 PM (1 hour ago)

VLC has been king for years for a reason

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Windows 11’s next update fixes the thing I’ve hated since 2021, and you can turn it on today

Less is more, and Microsoft has learned their lesson

XDA Developers 10 minutes ago

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Most companies don’t think they could leave their main cloud provider quickly should the worst happen

Customers feel largely in control about their data, but picking up an app and moving it to a different provider is a whole other issue.

TechRadar 1 hour ago

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HomeView Code Suggests Future Support for AI Chatbot Apps, Anti-Spoofing Protection

Code discovered in the iOS 27.3 beta suggests Apple is laying the groundwork for chatbot apps on its upcoming HomeView smart home hub, according to the code investigator known as pdfu.

MacRumors 2 hours ago

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Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM

Discord is finally giving up on Electron, the cross-platform framework that lets developers build desktop apps using web technologies.

The Verge 2 hours ago

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Building a Culture for a Kubernetes-Based Platform in a Bank

In banking, open source can earn trust by running real workloads, as Marcy Paramonova and Stéphane Cusin explained in their talk Building Cloud Native Culture in a Bank at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe.

InfoQ 3 hours ago