What a time.

One year after the WordPress fight began, WordPress.com owner Automattic has filed counterclaims against third-party host WP Engine. Automattic accuses WP Engine of “engaging in sustained trademark misuse, deceptive branding, and broken community commitments” that allegedly harmed the WordPress ecosystem.

Gkids is launching Shin Godzilla in 4K Blu-ray on October 28th. It’s the first 4K version of the 2016 film to come to the US, as well as the first 4K version with English subtitles. The three-disc steelbook is $34.99 to preorder at Amazon, and is packed with special features. It’ll hit HBO Max later this year or in 2026.

In August, the companies said they were developing fault-tolerant quantum computers. Now, IBM says it can run a key error-correcting algorithm on AMD’s common and relatively cheap chip called a field programmable gate array, as reported by Reuters. IBM told The Verge that the study, not yet peer reviewed, is expected to be published on Monday.

Ford halted production of the F-150 Lightning at its Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan. For now the automaker is prioritizing its gas and hybrid F-series trucks because they’re more profitable and use less aluminum. Ford is also still recovering from a September 16th fire at aluminum supplier Novelis’ plant in Oswego, New York.

As Bloomberg reports, roughly $1.75 billion of value evaporated from the game’s pricey item skins market after an October 22nd update made it easier for players to acquire knife skins. If you’re an average player, that’s probably a welcome change, but it’s caused chaos for traders making thousands, or even millions, of dollars on high-rarity items.

Though Apple TV has had time for a surprise rebrand, the streamer still hasn’t released The Savant, its indefinitely postponed crime thriller about domestic terrorism. Apple’s site keeps changing to say that the show could debut “soon” or at some point in 2025. But with the year almost over, “soon” feels unlikely.

Browsing through the auction is like a trip through a museum. There are iconic drum machines like the Roland TR-606, legendary synths like the Synthi A (mislabeled as an AKS), and rare vocoders, including the Sennheiser VSM-201. There are also pieces of high-end studio equipment, suits, lots of flutes, and... a dentist’s chair? You can place bids online now, but Julien’s will run the auction live on November 19th, starting at 11AM ET.

Nintendo shared a new trailer for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, the upcoming Zelda-themed Musou (destroy everything that moves) action game coming to the Switch 2 on November 6th. Ganondorf is up to some mischief again, and you (playing as princess Zelda, a Zonai tech-infused Link, and others) need to clean house.

The AI model switcher has been shunted down to the prompt bar. It’s more convenient, sure, but importantly it means you can now switch AI models without needing to start a new conversation.

GM — on the latest Decoder — used the word “cobot” in a transparent bid to assuage workers concerned that the robots operating alongside them will soon replace them. As we learned this week from Amazon’s proposed usage of the friendlier term: human replacement is definitely the plan.

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is weirdly confident he’ll get regulatory approval to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery, unlike other suitors. Why? Because big daddy Larry is good friends with Donald Trump, who’s making it known that “US antitrust concerns and personal gripes will be a major stumbling block for rival bidders.”

Hosts can enable a waiting room ahead of the start of a meeting, Google says.

This detailed summary shows some of the issues that caused the October 20th outage and took swaths of the internet offline for roughly 15 hours.

The servers are from its Houston facility it announced earlier this year and will “help power Private Cloud Compute and Apple Intelligence,” Cook says. The efforts are part of the company’s $600 billion in investments for the US.