HBO Max raises prices across all plans: Basic With Ads increases by $1/month to $10.99, Standard by $1.50/month to $18.49, and Premium by $2/month to $22.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/hbo-max-prices-increases-plans-2025-123655767…
Meditations on Moving From Guitar Playing to Banjo Playing
#LearningToPlay #banjo
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HBO Max raises prices across all plans: Basic With Ads increases by $1/month to $10.99, Standard by $1.50/month to $18.49, and Premium by $2/month to $22.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/hbo-max-prices-increases-plans-2025-123655767…
US plans to play minimal role in security guarantees for Ukraine, Politico reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/21/us-plans-to-play-minimal.html
The lead cop started playing b-ball with the boys, too:
'Oh, I’m Harassing?': White Woman Calls the Cops on Black Neighbors for Playing Basketball On Court, But Her Plan Backfires When a Black Officer Shows Up
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/07/21/white-woman-calls-the-cops-on-black-neighbors-for-playing-basketball/
Anthropic announces a subscription offering that adds Claude Code to Enterprise and Team plans; the tool was previously available only via individual accounts (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/anthropic-bundles-claude-code-into-enterprise-p…
No plans for Putin-Trump meeting in 'immediate future,' media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/21/no-plans-for-putintrump-meeting.html
Internal Amazon documents and sources: executives believe Amazon is on the cusp of replacing 500K jobs with robots and aims to automate 75% of its operations (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-…
Sources: Apple cuts iPhone Air orders nearly to "end of production" levels after a lukewarm reception in China, but keeps iPhone 17 lineup forecasts at 85M-90M (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/supp
Samsung says it's working on smart glasses built on top of Android XR in partnership with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, during its Worlds Wide Open event (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/watch-out-me…