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Jay Peters

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    Comcast is reportedly going through with a plan to spin off its cable business.

    MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Oxygen, E! and more will be spun out, The Wall Street Journal reports. Comcast will keep Bravo, Peacock, and NBC. The plan, which Comcast had already signaled it was considering, will apparently be announced tomorrow.

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    Bluesky now has more than 20 million users.

    CEO Jay Graber, who was on Decoder earlier this year, marked the occasion with a thread of 20 fun facts, like this one:

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    Jay Peters
    Bad day for tax software companies.

    Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-leads of the “Department of Government Efficiency”, have apparently discussed making a mobile app for free tax filing, reports The Washington Post, and that sent Intuit and H&R Block shares down, according to CNBC.

    Wonder what Intuit’s CEO thinks about the news.

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    Jay Peters
    Trump will be at today’s Starship test.

    The launch is happening in Boca Chica, Texas and is scheduled for 5PM ET. SpaceX’s stream for the launch is live now.

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    Slack is going to let you set people as VIPs.

    Could be helpful to make sure you don’t miss messages from your boss. VIPs will also get their own tabs in the Activity section of Slack, which is nice.

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    Jay Peters
    Meta is making a new “Business AI” product group.

    It will be headed up by Clara Shih, who was most recently the CEO of Salesforce AI, Axios reports.

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    Apple released security fixes for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.

    You can now grab iOS 18.1.1, iPadOS 18.1.1, macOS 15.1.1, and visionOS 2.1.1, though all of the updates appear to be focused just on those security fixes. Apple shared more detail about some of the issues, which may have been actively exploited, in support documents.

    Update: Added support documents.