📌 Daily Recap · Oct 01

💸 California bans officials from launching memecoins after Trump disaster
🤖 Meta's AI agent casually handed a stranger your home address
📺 Netflix drops Matthew Perry doc on his death anniversary
🚗 BMW's 2027 EV is now literally cheaper than its gas twin
🚁 Drone delivers potatoes to your lawn in 25 minutes flat

Someone in your life spent today in back-to-back meetings — this is exactly what they missed.

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🏠 Apple's home hub has a date

Two years of rumours, now a calendar slot. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports the Apple Home Hub arrives October 13th.

A 6-inch square display — countertop or wall-mounted — with camera and mic. It reads faces and voices, swapping the interface automatically when someone new walks up. Smart home controls, video calls, kitchen FaceTime, new Siri front and centre. Already spotted in macOS Tahoe as J490.

A 9-inch version with a robotic arm is already in the pipeline. The hub slipped from 2024 due to Apple Intelligence delays — but Siri is out now, and the hardware looks set to follow.

While rivals fight for a corner of your counter, Apple wants to be the whole counter.

Engadget

🎬 Wednesday's back at the typewriter — this time in Paris

Wednesday — Netflix's gothic Addams Family series — has just wrapped its third season. For context: Season 1 became the most-watched English-language show in Netflix history, Season 2 cracked the all-time top 10. The bar is very much set.

Season 3 filmed across Paris and Dublin, and the new cast additions are genuinely interesting: Eva Green joins as Aunt Ophelia, Lena Headey steps in, and Winona Ryder reunites with Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton — their first collaboration since Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

No release date yet, but production is a wrap. The algorithms are warming up.

Via Variety.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgFNlnr2O8A

🎬 Fincher is done with Netflix

Six years, three films. David Fincher isn't renewing his Netflix exclusive when it expires next year — and he's not signing one elsewhere, leaving the door technically open.

The final project under the deal: *The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth*, a Tarantino-scripted spinoff of *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood* starring Brad Pitt. IMAX Nov. 25, streaming Dec. 23, per Bloomberg.

He's not alone — Baumbach, Levy, the Duffers have all moved on to other studios. Netflix's era of locked-in auteurs is quietly closing.

Tarantino wrote the Cliff Booth script, passed on directing it, and handed it to the one filmmaker he trusted — who happened to be a Netflix exclusive. Sony's Tom Rothman publicly lamented losing the sequel. __The exclusive's up next year, Tom.||

Variety

🎬 Olivia Colman married a basket — and has zero regrets

A medieval fisherwoman, shunned by her entire village, commissions a wicker husband. Wicker premiered at Sundance and is already notorious for its erotic scenes set to a Taylor Swift cover — Colman opposite Skarsgård, whose woven body was built by Wētā Workshop (*Lord of the Rings*, no CGI).

Colman on the script: "The only way you can sell it is by having a picture of Alex as a very sexy basket." Skarsgård, usually at home in dark roles, found tenderness the hardest part. The mask was glued to his face — every expression had to be tripled just to register.

Beneath the Monty Python absurdity, a real conversation about marriage and patriarchy. "Two souls being kind to each other," says Colman — one of whom is made of twigs.

Variety

💸 Iran, Tether, and an 84% overlap

USDT — the dollar-pegged stablecoin — was built for frictionless payments. A new Senate report says that friction-free quality works just as well under sanctions.

Sen. Blumenthal examined 846 wallets tied to Iran and its proxies: 84% used USDT almost exclusively — to stabilise Iran's currency, fund militant groups, and buy drones. Before 2024, Tether reportedly failed to consistently freeze flagged wallets.

Tether says it's frozen nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT this year and argues blockchains offer more transparency than cash. Blumenthal wants the Justice and Treasury departments to investigate anyway. The dollar Iran is officially cut off from keeps arriving — just tokenized, per The Verge.

Engadget

📌 Daily Recap · Oct 02

🏠 Apple's home hub finally gets an October launch date
🎬 Wednesday Season 3 wraps — Paris edition, somehow
🎬 Fincher walks away from Netflix after six years
🎬 Olivia Colman romances a wicker basket, no regrets
💸 84% of Iran-linked wallets ran on Tether, Senate finds

Someone you know was offline all day — this is their catch-up, hand it over

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😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 67 — Greed

🚁 DoorDash Air is launching in northern California — with Chipotle and Popeyes on board

The number worth retelling: under five minutes from restaurant to door, based on early tests. The six-propeller drone cruises at about the noise level of a passing car; the system picks drone vs. courier based on weather and traffic.

A few extras from the same event: SMS ordering via Apple Messages, Macy's and The North Face joining the marketplace, returns for a flat $8.

Five minutes from grill to doorstep — faster than most people find the TV remote. Engadget reports this calmly, which is somehow the strangest part.

🎬 Dexter is back — midlife crisis included

Paramount+ dropped the Season 2 trailer for *Dexter: Resurrection*. Michael C. Hall returns as Dexter Morgan — older, and apparently dealing with a midlife crisis between kills. He's caught between a seasoned murderer with decades behind him and a brutal newcomer terrorizing New York, while son Harrison (Jack Alcott) runs his own parallel hunt.

New faces include Brian Cox, Dan Stevens and Krysten Ritter. Showrunner Clyde Phillips — who ran the original series — is back in the chair, per Variety. Premiere: October 30 on Paramount+.

After the 2013 finale fans still haven't forgiven, that last detail might matter most.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84o1Q6fB20k

🎮 Rockstar bought itself a slice of real Miami

~$1 million to light up the top of Miami's Kaseya Center — home of the NBA's Miami Heat — with "Welcome to Vice City" and the Roman numerals "VI."

The same arena sits in the exact same spot in GTA 6's game world, same ferris wheel next door. The real city and Vice City overlap so cleanly it would've been strange *not* to use it.

It still required a county vote. One commissioner played gameplay footage and argued the game doesn't reflect local values. Commissioner Monica Matteo-Salinas disagreed:

"This is a win for gamers and gaming nerds such as myself."

Passed 4–3. GTA 6 lands on PS5 and Xbox Series on November 19, per IGN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQRLujxTm3c

💸 New York just made subscriptions a two-way street

Starting October 1st, NYC has the first municipal click-to-cancel rule in US history: if you can sign up in two clicks, you must be able to cancel the same way. Violations carry penalties from $525, and consumers can claim refunds for charges already pulled from their accounts.

The backstory has a neat irony — this mirrors the national FTC protections designed by former chair Lina Khan, killed by Trump's FTC. Khan now works in the Mamdani administration. The federal door closed; she found a city one.

Planet Fitness, Crunch, La Fitness — per The Verge, the clock is ticking.

Engadget

💸 Nvidia is worth more than the entire crypto market. Twice over.

At $5.7 trillion, Nvidia just set an all-time record — for itself and for any company ever. Bitcoin and the whole crypto market combined sit at just above $3 trillion. One chipmaker outweighs all of it.

The stock hit $237.88 on Friday, its first record since May. Three things converged: a $150 billion buyback addition (total $235 billion through 2028, the largest in history), Supermicro shipping Vera Rubin-based server racks packing 72 GPUs each, and a weak jobs report cooling Fed rate-hike bets — which hurts Nvidia's rivals more than Nvidia itself.

Last quarter: $96.2 billion in revenue, up 106% year on year. Guidance for the current quarter: $108 billion. As Jensen Huang put it — "Now, compute is revenue."

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📌 Daily Recap · Oct 03

🚁 DoorDash drones delivering Chipotle in under five minutes
🎬 Dexter is back, older, and still very much killing
🎮 Rockstar paid a million bucks to tease GTA 6
💸 NYC forces apps to make canceling as easy as signing up
📈 Nvidia alone is worth twice the entire crypto market

Someone in your circle definitely missed all of this — their loss, your move

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