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Nike, maker of some of the best running shoes out there, has today unveiled its new transformed lineup of road running shoes for 2025, and the new Vomero 18 is leading the charge.

The Vomero 18 is Nike's new maximum-cushioning shoe for the most comfortable ride possible, expanding the benefits of Nike's current cushioning king, the Invincible 3. That's Nike's version of shoes like the ASICS Gel Nimbus 25. The new Vomero offers more cushion than ever before and the tallest stack height in its history, using a combo of Nike's ZoomX and ReactX foams double stacked for maximum comfort.

The stack height stands at 46mm, 6mm tallest than the Vomero 17. Most notably, Nike has extensively tested the shoe with women runners. The sole is made from durable rubber for traction, and the upward curve delivers increased rocker geometry for a smoother heel-to-toe transition.

(Image credit: Nike) Nike's new 2025 running lineup Image 1 of 1

(Image credit: Nike)

As mentioned, the Vomero now sits in Nike's new, simplified road running lineup for 2025. The Vomero is the maximum cushioning option, and sits alongside the Pegagus, Nike's responsive ride option. The final offering is the Structure, offering supportive cushioning and stability for runners who overpronate.

Each of these three lines will feature an "Icon" shoe (like the Pegasus 41 or the Vomero 18), alongside Plus and Premium silhouettes. Nike's Pegasus 41 and Pegasus Plus are already available at Nike.com, while the Pegasus Premium is launching in January 2025.

The Vomero 18 drops globally on February 27, with Plus and Premium models coming later in 2025. Next year will also deliver new Structure silhouettes.

Today's announcement also includes new running essentials, Nike Swift for women and Nike Stride for men.

(Image credit: Nike)

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• Oracle reports patching a security flaw in Agile PLM
• The bug was being exploited in the wild to steal files
• More than 1,000 companies could be vulnerable

Oracle has fixed a vulnerability in its Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) product which could have allowed threat actors to download files from the platform.

Since the bug was exploited in the wild as a zero-day, the company urged users to apply the patch immediately and thus secure their endpoints.

Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the company's software tool to help businesses manage the entire lifecycle of a product, from ideation and design to production and retirement.

Confirmed exploitation

More than 1,100 companies reportedly use Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), predominantly large enterprises with more than 10,000 employees and revenues exceeding $1 billion. The total number of individual users across these organizations is not publicly disclosed and can vary significantly based on each company's size and specific deployment of the software.

The patch fixes a bug tracked as CVE-2024-21287, with a designated severity score of 7.5 (high). It is remotely exploitable without authentication, Oracle explained in an advisory, adding, “it may be exploited over a network without the need for a username and password. If successfully exploited, this vulnerability may result in file disclosure."

"Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply the updates provided by this Security Alert as soon as possible."

In the advisory, the company did not state the bug was being exploited in the wild, but a later blog post by the company’s VP of Security Assurance, Eric Maurice, confirmed it, BleepingComputer found.

"This vulnerability affects Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). It was reported as being actively exploited "in the wild" by CrowdStrike," Maurice said.

At press time, other details were not available, so we don’t know who the threat actors are, or who they are targeting in their campaign. In any case, it’s better to be safe than sorry, so make sure to apply the patch ASAP.

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• Intel is still planning for 3rd-gen desktop GPUs to follow Battlemage
• This dismisses other rumors that Intel may not make these desktop cards
• The truth is likely that Intel hasn’t yet fully made the decision itself

Intel’s Celestial graphics cards for the desktop, which will be the 3rd-gen of Arc GPUs, to follow Battlemage – the next-gen that’s imminent – are still being planned and worked on for the future.

That’s the latest word from the grapevine, courtesy of a well-known leaker on X, Bionic Squash.

Nah, they still have plans for DGPUs after BattlemageNovember 16, 2024

As you can see, the leaker says that Intel still has plans for discrete GPUs (DGPUs), meaning desktop graphics cards, after the desktop models for Battlemage have been unleashed.

If the current run of rumors is correct, those Battlemage graphics cards could arrive in December, with one model being the B580 – possibly the top-of-the-range GPU – which was recently leaked.

(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler) Analysis: Some mixed messages from the rumor mill

You might be wondering: why would there be any concerns about Celestial, anyway? Well, in the recent past, there have been some suggestions that Intel might not have another generation of GPUs after Battlemage, or at least not desktop models – and that Celestial could be for integrated graphics only.

Bionic Squash seems pretty confident this isn’t the case, and recent hints appear to back that up. Intel is certainly working on Celestial already, and could even have radical plans for more powerful desktop GPUs in the 3rd generation, going by a recently spotted patent.

That said, Celestial GPUs of the desktop variety still haven’t turned up in leaks – it’s too early for that at this point – and some other recent chatter has suggested that Intel may be waiting to see how successful Battlemage is, before fully committing to discrete Celestial products. However, take that past rumor, and this new one, too, with plenty of caution.

It’s very likely that the truth is Intel still has decisions to make on this front, but if Bionic Squash is right, the plan for now is to release a 3rd-generation of Arc desktop GPUs.

Via Wccftech

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• Nvidia may keep the RTX 4050 mobile when RTX 5000 laptop GPUs launch
• It will sit at the bottom tier, below the Blackwell mobile graphics cards
• What isn’t clear is if it’ll drop in price to help with cheaper gaming laptops

Nvidia will apparently keep its RTX 4050 GPU for laptops when new RTX 5000 mobile graphics cards arrive, though the rest of the Lovelace notebook range will be canned.

Wccftech grabbed the scoop on this rumor, which comes from a leaker on Weibo who we’re not familiar with, so we’d advise doubling down on the skepticism with this info.

The RTX 5000 laptop range could arrive as soon as CES 2025 in January (alongside Blackwell desktop GPUs), according to previous buzz on the grapevine, and when Nvidia does launch these new mobile GPUs, we can expect the RTX 4060 laptop graphics card and above – running through to the RTX 4090 – to be discontinued.

Does Nvidia keeping the RTX 4050 mean there won’t be an RTX 5050 graphics card for gaming laptops? Actually, that’s not the case because the leaker claims Team Green will indeed launch an RTX 5050, but what will happen is the RTX 4050 will be kept alive to serve as the tier below that offering.

So, in theory, we’ll have an RTX 5090 running all the way down to the RTX 5050 mobile, with the RTX 4050 underneath that – but again, we should underline the speculative nature of this chatter.

(Image credit: Future) Analysis: Fresh hope for cheaper budget laptops? Or not…

What we hope will happen (if the rumor is true) is that the RTX 4050 remains as a (cheaper) budget option for more affordable gaming laptops, away from the new Blackwell mobile GPUs. However, the Weibo leaker seems to hint that the price of the RTX 5050 will not be kept the same as the RTX 4050 when it was launched, and it might increase by a ‘step’ – but we should caution the wording (and translation) is confusing and unclear here.

However, we take it as a suggestion Nvidia might maintain RTX 4050 pricing as it is, and increase the (launch) asking price of the RTX 5050 (what’s charged to laptop makers, that is – and naturally that’s reflected in the final price of the notebook to the consumer). But, as we say, this is far from clear – though if Team Green wants to go the moneymaking route, obviously this would be the thing to do.

We can still hope the RTX 4050 is being maintained as a wallet-friendly option going forward, and its price could drop, with the new RTX 5050 coming in at the 4050’s old level. There's precedence for this already, too: Nvidia kept the RTX 2050 sticking around as a budget laptop alternative after the 3000 series was released.

Nvidia keeping the RTX 4050 suggests it has proved a popular mobile option for laptop gamers, although it can’t hold a candle to the RTX 4060. At least not going by Valve’s Steam hardware survey, where the RTX 4060 mobile is the second favorite mobile GPU of all, with 4.3% of market share, compared to the RTX 4050 mobile with around 1.1%.

That’s still pretty popular, though, and obviously, the RTX 4050 can have a place in Nvidia’s new Blackwell mobile GPU regime, where it neatly slots in at the bottom tier, whereas that isn’t true with the RTX 4060 (assuming Nvidia really is making an RTX 5050, of course – presumably as a laptop-only GPU, again).

We’ve just got to hope Nvidia prices these next-gen mobile GPUs reasonably and gives us more options in the way of cheap gaming laptops – though if you’re after one of these, Black Friday could see some killer offers, as ever. Notebook price cuts are always plentiful, and sometimes we see some very deep discounts, with those Black Friday gaming laptop deals having started already.

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• Google is calling the DOJ’s proposal to sell off Chrome “radical”
• The government’s involvement could damage American technological leadership
• Disconnecting Chrome from Android could have serious implications on pricing

Google has hit back at a recent US Department of Justice (DOJ) proposal that could see the tech giant forced to sell off Chrome as part of alleged antitrust violations.

The DOJ’s measure, expected to be presented to a federal judge, would challenge Google’s monopolistic practices in the online search market.

In response, Google called the proposal “radical,” criticizing the move for potentially “hurting consumers, businesses and developers.”

Google thinks selling off Chrome would be “radical”

Lee-Anne Mulholland, VP for Regulatory Affairs at Google, stated: “There are enormous risks to the government putting its thumb on the scale of this vital industry – skewing investment, distorting incentives, hobbling emerging business models – all at precisely the moment that we need to encourage investment, new business models, and American technological leadership.”

The DOJ also suggested Google should share users’ search queries, clicks, and results with competitors, however Mulholland notes that this could “create major privacy and security risks,” something that the DOJ already knows.

Furthermore, Mulholland argues that splitting Chrome away from Android would “change their business models [and] raise the cost of devices.”

The company also proudly proclaimed that its browser is “secure, fast, and free,” and that not many other companies would be able to keep it open-source and invest as much as Google has in its browser.

Google Chrome accounts for 66.7% of all browser sessions across all device types (via Statcounter). It’s slightly higher, at 68.0%, for mobile. Given that Android accounts for 71.1% of all mobile operating systems, Chrome’s reach is clearly extensive.

Mulholland concluded: “Government overreach in a fast-moving industry may have negative unintended consequences for American innovation and America’s consumers. We look forward to making our arguments in court.”

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• Another leak hints at the iPhone SE 4 launch date
• It could show up in March, three years after its predecessor
• Internal upgrades could include a 5G Apple modem

All the signs are pointing towards a March 2025 arrival for the iPhone SE 4, the latest in Apple's more affordable line of handsets – and another well-respected analyst has weighed in to back up previous predictions about the phone's launch date.

As per MacRumors, Barclays analyst Tom O'Malley and his colleagues have been speaking to supply chain sources in Asia. In the resulting report, it was "confirmed" that the iPhone SE 4 would be making an appearance near the end of the first quarter of 2025.

Add in previous rumors and the launch date of the iPhone SE 3 – which was revealed to the world in March 2022 – and it looks increasingly likely that we can put a big circle around March 2025 on our calendars.

It probably won't be the only product we see then either: the 11th-gen iPad and 7th-gen iPad Air are also rumored to be showing up around the same time. They'll all come rocking Apple Intelligence features too, of course.

Spec rumors

The iPhone SE 3 launched in 2022 (Image credit: Future)

The analyst report had more to say about the iPhone SE 4 too, mentioning that it'll be the first iPhone with an Apple-designed 5G modem (which will presumably speed up data transfer rates a little). Again, that's something we've heard before.

Based on leaks up to this point, the iPhone SE 4 is going to be quite the upgrade – as you would expect after a three-year gap. It's apparently going to be the first iPhone SE to ditch the Touch ID home button and go with the more modern Face ID design.

In fact, it's reportedly going to borrow several components from the iPhone 14. At the same time, the rumors are that the CPU and RAM will match the iPhone 16 – which would be necessary for Apple Intelligence support.

This might all add up to a small price hike as well, but we'll have to wait and see. When it launched in 2022, you could pick up the iPhone SE 3 for $429 / £419 / AU$719, which was slightly more expensive than the iPhone SE that came before it.

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• Alexa AI latency problems are a "critical issue"
• Leaked memo claims Alexa AI has missed three 2024 launch dates
• Amazon wants to give Alexa supercharged skills

Generative AI updates from Google and Apple have made their artificial assistants more useful in a number of ways – giving them new features, and generally making them easier to instruct – but one big name in the smart assistant world has been noticeably absent from the upgrade list: Alexa. Amazon is reportedly working on rolling out an Alexa AI, but it’s just too slow to respond to queries to be launched yet.

Fortune has shared leaked internal documents highlighting a few critical flaws with Alexa, with the big one apparently being latency – the AI takes way too long to respond when given an instruction or asked a question.

This issue has reportedly led to low satisfaction scores from testers. Before launch Amazon reportedly wanted to achieve an average satisfaction score of 5.5 out of 7, but testers rated the AI service at just 4.57. This is why it appears Amazon has missed its three target launch dates in 2024 – the most recent being November 14.

Another concern, not one not labeled a “critical issue” like latency but still a concern, is that the Alexa AI may be incompatible with some older models which could force a lot of users to upgrade their tech to access the new AI. Admittedly, this isn’t a major surprise given that for many phones only the latest models are getting some AI improvements, but Amazon might fear it’ll upset customers who have been wanting this kind of update for years only to miss out when their ‘smart’ assistant finally gets a brain.

One thing that is noticeably absent from the leaked memo is any mention of Claude AI. Athropic’s Claude is seen as one of the best ChatGPT alternatives but it lacks a voice mode; a partnership with Amazon when it was teased by leakers therefore made a lot of sense as it would give Amazon a leg up in the AI race and Anthropic assistance in teaching Claude to communicate with a voice.

It could mean the Claude leak was false, or perhaps the partnership was decided on after this memo was published as a way to resolve the issue. Either way it highlights that as with all leaks these details should be taken with a pinch of salt; as such issues such as Alexa AI’s latency could be in a much better state now than when the memo was written.

(Image credit: Amazon) Teaching an old Alexa new Skills

Beyond Alexa AI delays, the leak also teases upgrades to Alexa services involving Amazon’s partners like GrubHub, Ticketmaster and Uber (via Business Insider, behind a paywall). While these services already had Alexa skills Amazon wants to alter their relationship with the smart assistant.

Specifically it wants its AI enhanced Alexa to perform more of the task itself, rather than handing things over to a third-party app on your phone as it does with some skills. So you could instruct the smart speaker to call you a ride to the movie theatre, or reorder that takeout you had last week and it could – using data from your linked accounts – perform those tasks for you without any manual input from you.

It’s certainly an intriguing idea, but this strategy’s success will come down to whether users trust the AI to get their request completely right, and trust it not to accidentally reorder a takeout because of something it overhears from your TV. It’s one thing for Alexa to play the wrong song, it’s another thing entirely if it spends your money on the wrong thing.

We’ll have to wait and see what Alexa AI has in store for us when it eventually launches. All signs point to a 2025 release, that is assuming it doesn’t face any more bumps in the road.

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• Apple TV Plus has released the first teaser for a new tragicomedy series called The Studio
• The show, which stars and has been co-created by Seth Rogen, will be released in March 2025
• Rogen plays the new CEO of a fictional film studio struggling to survive in the cut-throat world of movie making

Have you ever heard of 'twin films' or 'copycat movies'? It's a term used to describe two movies with near-identical stories that are released by different studios in close proximity to one another. Think back to 1998 when Pixar's A Bug's Life and DreamWorks' Antz came out. Or, more recently, two new movies in Immaculate and the First Omen, with the two horror flicks releasing within weeks of each other earlier this year.

Why am I telling you about this? Because this phenomenon isn't restricted to movies anymore. Indeed, just two months after satirical superhero series The Franchise debuted on Max and HBO, Apple has produced its own comedy-oriented take on the corporate world of movie making with a new show called The Studio. Co-created by and starring Seth Rogen, it'll debut on Apple TV Plus next March – and its first trailer, which you can watch below, makes it look like a more star-studded offering that's coming for The Franchise's cringe comedy TV crown.

Did you spot every A-lister who'll cameo in The Studio? I suspect you noticed Marvel stars like Kathryn Hahn (Agatha All Along, WandaVision) and Anthony Mackie (Captain America: Brave New World), as well as other esteemed actors including Catherine O'Hara, Bryan Cranston, Paul Dano, and Charlize Theron. I bet you didn't spot legendary director Martin Scorsese or actor-director Zoe Kravitz, though. All the more reason to go back and watch it, especially if you're a fan of proverbially curling up in a ball and dying while laughing your butt off.

What is Apple TV Plus' The Studio series about?

Seth Rogen plays the new CEO of a fictional albeit embattled movie studio (Image credit: Apple TV Plus)

As tragically funny as The Studio looks, I imagine you're wondering what it's actually about. Fear not, for I am – or, rather, Apple is – to answer that question by way of a press release's story brief.

"In The Studio, Seth Rogen stars as Matt Remick, the newly appointed head of embattled Continental Studios," the plot synopsis reads. "As movies struggle to stay alive and relevant, Matt and his core team of infighting executives battle their own insecurities as they wrangle narcissistic artists and craven corporate overlords in the ever-elusive pursuit of making great films.

"With their power suits masking their never-ending sense of panic, every party, set visit, casting decision, marketing meeting, and award show presents them with an opportunity for glittering success or career-ending catastrophe. As someone who eats, sleeps, and breathes movies, it's the job Matt's been pursuing his whole life, and it may very well destroy him."

First look at Seth Rogen, Kathryn Hahn, Anthony Mackie and Bryan Cranston in ‘THE STUDIO’Also starring Catherine O’Hara, Zac Efron, Ike Barinholtz, Chase Sui Wonders, Bryan Cranston, Martin Scorsese, Charlize Theron & Ron Howard.Releasing March 26 on Apple TV+ pic.twitter.com/nDK15jTnIZNovember 19, 2024

As I mentioned, the 10-episode, half-hour comedy has been co-developed by Rogen, with his frequent collaborator Evan Goldberg (The Boys, Sausage Party) creating the series alongside him. The pair are also among the show's five-strong executive producing team, with Rogen also directing a number of episodes. Multi-Emmy award winners Peter Huyck, Frida Perez, and Alex Gregory also helped to pen the scripts.

Joining Rogen on the main cast roster of his second Apple series – the first one being Platonic – are Hahn, O'Hara (The Last of Us season 2), Ike Barinholtz (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent), and Chase Sui Wonders (Bodies Bodies Bodies). Expect plenty of other world-famous actors, directors, and other entertainment industry gurus to show up in what I'm predicting to be one of the best Apple TV Plus shows we've seen in a while.

The Studio will launch with a two-episode premiere on March 26, 2025. New episodes will air weekly after that date until the finale on May 21.

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