Why the MacBook Pro Remains the Best Laptop for Nearly Everything [Medium] written by me, Zaki Qayoumi, aka “Zack” #Christmas

Luxury Meets Pixels: How Mercedes-AMG and MSI Shifted into High Gear — and Why Audi, Porsche & BMW Can’t Sit This One Out [Medium] written by me, Zaki Qayoumi, aka “Zack” #GamingLaptop #GamingLaptops #Razer #Alienware #LenovoLegion #MSI #Christmas

The Death of Product Management [Medium] I haven’t got a salary in 7 years, I am a Project Manager. I’ve been waiting way too long. As a result, Product Management is dead, Project Management lives on. #TheProjectManagerRises #TheDarkKnightRises

Donald Trump Impeachment Chances Surge Amid Epstein Revelations [Newsweek]

Intel’s latest Oregon layoffs: Here are the cuts by job title and site [Oregon Live] I haven’t received a salary in 7 years. I don’t see why y’all should. 669 layoffs. More on the way. #HaroldAndKumar4

Some Americans Are Trying to Heat Their Homes With Bitcoin Mining [Slashdot.org]

Trump's $2,000 tariff check requires new law, Bessent says [AXIOS]

Sources: Apple is intensifying CEO succession planning as Tim Cook, now 65, may step down as early as next year, with John Ternus seen as the likely successor [TechMeme]

AI was supposed to fix the job search. It's breaking it instead — Millions of unemployed Americans have one thing in common: It’s taking them longer to find work. And AI is making it worse [Quartz]

Why Instagram wants to be more like TV [Vox]

An Iconic 1980s Brand Is Opening a Bar in Greenwich Village [EATER]

Ford CEO Says He Was Shocked by What His Team Found When They Took Apart a Tesla — Jim Farley said that seeing the inside of a Tesla Model 3 led to some big changes at Ford. [Inc.]

Ford gets a huge new headquarters for an ambitious new era [Fast Company]

3 Medium Articles shared today. Look up. [Medium]

Good Leaders Don’t Follow Roadmaps — They Blaze Their Own Path [Entrepreneur]

All of My Employees Are AI Agents, and So Are My Executives

Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person—if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying. [WIRED]

This Week in Space 186 [TWIT]

NotebookLM adds Deep Research and support for more source types [Google Blog]

Separating natural forests from other tree cover with AI for deforestation-free supply chains [Google Research]

Another Cruise — Re-reading Moby Dick at Ahab’s age. [Lapham’s Quarterly]

The Leonid meteor shower peaks Sunday night [Astronomy Magazine]

Reading the Room: Can AI Agents Really Master Empathy? [Salesforce, The 360 Blog]

Keynote Highlights: AI, Agents, and More in 9 Minutes | SAP TechEd 2025 [SAP] #SAP #IwantToWorkAtSAP #Neurodivergent

Chinese Spies Are Trying To Reach UK Lawmakers Via LinkedIn, MI5 Warns [Slashdot.org]

Pope Leo denounces "extremely disrespectful" treatment of immigrants in U.S. [AXIOS]

Google is launching Gemini 3, its ‘most intelligent’ AI model yet — The flagship Gemini 3 Pro model is coming to the Gemini app and Search, with improvements across coding, reasoning, and less ‘flattery.’ [TechMeme]

Welcome to the city of the future. It’s built on code, not concrete [Quartz]

The hidden, horrifying world behind all those recruitment scam texts [Vox]

The Best New Restaurants in America in 2025 [Eater]

How Changing 1 Detail Led This Founder to a 400 Percent Boost in Engagement on LinkedIn — In a viral post, entrepreneur Megan Cornish explains why she believes the controversial strategy worked. [Inc.]

The 30 most bike-friendly cities in the world [Fast Company]

Medium versus Substack: Six reasons writers pick Medium [Medium] I don’t get paid so far on Medium, I should switch to Substack…

AI Is Making It Easier to Apply for — and Harder to Find — a Job Than Ever [Entrepreneur]

Yes, You Can Order a Whole Home-Cooked Thanksgiving Feast in the Mail [WIRED]

MacBreak Weekly 999 [TWIT]

A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3 [Google Blog]

A new quantum toolkit for optimization [Google Research]

Episode 17: Queequeg and Ishmael in Love (with Alexander Chee, Aaron Sachs, and Caleb Crain) [Lapham’s Quarterly]

The new trailer for ‘Project Hail Mary’ just dropped — watch it here [Astronomy Magazine]

5 Lessons We Learned Building the World’s First Agentic Enterprise [Salesforce, The 360 Blog]

SAP Build Work Zone & Joule: AI-Powered Workspaces in Action | Overview [SAP] #SAP #IwantToWorkAtSAP #Neurodivergent

What’s up, everybody! It’s Tuesday, November 18th, 2025. It’s #GeeksNerdsOtakus day! Hope y’all doing great! Here are some news. There will be a “Coffee With Zaki” (France) VLOG in French tonight.

Until Next Time!