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November is packed with new movies on Netflix in the U.S. Even though we're only about a week into the new month, two of our top picks have already been released, including A Dog's Perfect Christmas and Possible Love. Stick around the service, and you'll see more movies coming your way, including Heartland and The Mosquito Bowl.

Adding another node to a Proxmox cluster comes with a few hardware considerations. When I added my fifth node, a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910s, I also needed more USB connectivity. The machine had limited USB ports available, and I wanted a straightforward way to connect external storage and other peripherals.

Running a homelab gives you plenty of freedom to host your own applications, websites, and services. However, before exposing your homelab to the internet, take a few steps to avoid security problems and unnecessary headaches down the road.

Fire OS limits Amazon’s Fire tablets to the Amazon Appstore. In about 30 minutes, you can add the Google Play Store for free and, with some optional tweaks, make the interface look closer to standard Android.

Ask any film fan, and they'll tell you some classic movies they've never seen. I've never seen Gone with the Wind. It's frequently ranked among the highest-grossing movies of all time when adjusted for inflation. That's probably one I need to check off of my list sooner rather than later.

Fixing your Windows laptop has never been easier, thanks to the boom in LLMs and their ability to read logs and provide commands for investigation and repair. If you open the Windows Event Viewer on a perfectly healthy PC right now, you will almost certainly see a terrifying wall of red error icons. Windows quietly logs (right-click on the Windows icon to open Event Viewer) every minor background timeout and permission glitch.

I enjoy planning trips, but turning my rough notes into a proper itinerary is a different story. For my upcoming trip to Finland, I’ve scribbled down places to visit, train times, hotel check-ins, and activities on paper. Earlier, I could ask Gemini to create a PDF, but if I wanted to fix something or change a section, I’d have to download the file and edit it elsewhere. I wanted a way to make those changes without leaving Gemini.

Spotify already uses AI to help pick what plays next. But its planned remix tool, reportedly set for release early next year, would let listeners change what they're hearing. How does it work? Let's say a slow breakup ballad comes on at a party. A subscriber could turn it into a dance track that better fits the vibe. Want a new artist's voice? The tool could also make a different singer cover the song, even if they've never recorded it before.

Spotify first announced the tool in May, but it got people talking again on Oct. 30, when the Financial Times reported that the company was targeting an early 2027 launch and considering charging Premium subscribers an extra $4 to $5 a month.

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What subscribers would get for that extra fee depends on which musicians sign up in the first place. At this point, Spotify has deals with Universal Music Group, Merlin, Believe, and Kobalt, but the FT reported that artists would decide individually whether to participate, even if their label had signed a deal. Believe and TuneCore artists would first have to agree to be considered for AI projects, then decide separately whether to join Spotify's program.

Some listeners are already talking about leaving

The plan raises different questions for fans and musicians. For people who’ve been paying for Spotify for years, the discussion quickly moved past whether they’d buy the add-on to whether they wanted to keep their subscription at all. "If @Spotify ends up going through with this, then I’ll be cancelling my subscription," wrote one X user, who said they'd subscribed since 2017. Another user wrote, "I want to hear that you've finally wrapped it up and quit spotify."

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Others were already thinking about what it would take to switch. "Please does anyone know good ways to transfer all my Spotify songs to another site?" one user asked her followers. Over on the subreddit r/indieheads, people were comparing Tidal and Qobuz and discussing buying music directly on Bandcamp. One vinyl buyer explained why leaving would still be hard. "Having podcasts and the ability to just look up new bands instantly is something I'd really struggle to part with," they wrote.

That convenience is part of what Spotify has been using AI to build on. As Mashable has reported, its AI DJ can take spoken requests, and its Prompted Playlist feature lets listeners describe what they want to hear in their own words. AI is showing up in the songs themselves, too. The Velvet Sundown, an AI-generated band, drew more than a million Spotify streams in 2025, and AI-powered singer Xania Monet made it onto Billboard's Adult R&B Airplay chart that same year. There's, of course, some irony in Spotify asking listeners to pay to make AI covers while it’s also trying to limit AI spam and help people tell when an artist persona is AI-generated.

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For artists weighing whether to opt in, there's the question of what Spotify would do with their music and what they'd earn from it. The Future of Music Coalition put it plainly on X. "What’s it being trained on? Is it opt-in only? How’s the $ work?" the group wrote.

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Spotify and Believe, the French music distributor that owns TuneCore, have answered part of the money question. In an October announcement about their licensing deal, the companies said each remix would link back to the original song and artist. "Streams of these remixes will generate royalties for the participating artists and rights holders behind the original works," they said. The FT also reported that those plays would count toward the original song on Spotify's charts. So a fan-made version could earn royalties while giving listeners a way to find the track that inspired it.

Even if Spotify can make the royalties work, there’s still the question of whether anyone really wants more AI-generated music in the first place. As one X user put it, "Why would anyone want this?"

On Election Day, voters approved more than 40 measures to slow or ban data center growth. But not all Americans decided against data centers.

The majority of voters in Harwood, North Dakota, said "no" to a ballot measure calling for additional steps when the town evaluates, approves, and administers developments like that of data centers, Tech Insider reported. In a town of 845 people, 430 voted, and around 75 percent voted against added restrictions. (As Tech Insider notes, however, that documentation on small towns could be varied — The Washington Post reports that Harwood's population is 845, while other outlets report 940.)

SEE ALSO: Data center security is an American problem, too

The big project in question is a $3 billion, 1.8-million-square-foot data center right outside Harwood, the Washington Post reports. Data center developer Applied Digital is behind the project.

The vote caused the Post to claim that Harwood is "the only town in the U.S. that said yes to data centers." While the building of a data center itself wasn't on the ballot, Harwood residents indeed voted against further bureaucracy towards them.

Harwood breaks the trend of what happened on Election Day, which Mashable's Rebecca Ruiz said was a clear message: "The AI reckoning is here." Backlash to both AI and data centers had been mounting in 2026, and voters were able to express their discontent last Tuesday. The list of U.S. states that ban data centers could grow in 2027.

As someone who has been trying to get into camping and hiking a lot more recently, I have very quickly learned how important it is to be prepared. When you're exploring places where there is no mobile service, let alone a Wi-Fi connection, you need to make sure that you have all the information that you need ready and on hand.

I plugged my NAS into the first open port on the back, watched the lights blink, and assumed the job was done. The shares mounted, nothing threw an error, and I moved on. However, I later found out the connection was crawling at a fraction of what the hardware could do, and nothing ever warned me. That's what makes this mistake so annoying. Any server or storage can look perfectly healthy while running slowly.

DVDs are a phenomenal piece of technology. I remember the very first DVDs I ever bought: Oingo Boingo: Live from the Universal Amphitheatre and Ghostbusters. One of those is pretty rare now. The other has been re-released so many times I lost count. But they were truly astonishing tech at the time.

I use OneNote for everything from saving article ideas to keeping track of things I need to do later. The problem? My brain treats half of these things like temporary files. I save a useful webpage, forget where I put it, and then waste time searching for it again. Brilliant system, right?

Ever used hidden developer options on your Android phone to unleash its true potential? You can do the same on your Google TV. These hidden settings unlock additional options that can significantly improve your smart TV experience. Since many smart TVs come with relatively limited RAM and internal storage, their interfaces can become sluggish over time.

Against my better judgment, I have spent a lot of time with Google's "ambitious" new computing platform, even outside my Lenovo Googlebook 15 review. Before I stepped away completely, a conversation with my colleague revealed that you can already find returned Googlebooks for hundreds of dollars off, and the poor critical and consumer reception indicates further discounts are inevitable. Each first-generation Googlebook actually boasts excellent hardware, making these laptops potentially unbeatable deals—if only they didn't run the buggy and incomplete Googlebook OS.

TL;DR: Watch Atlético Madrid vs. Barcelona in La Liga for free on CazéTV. Access this free livestream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

There are a number of really interesting fixtures taking place in La Liga this weekend, but Atlético Madrid vs. Barcelona is the standout. It's a battle between first and second place, with only two points separating them before they kick off. It's going to be a tense clash where anything could happen.

If you're interested in watching Atlético Madrid vs. Barcelona in La Liga from anywhere in the world, we've got all the information you need.

When is Atlético Madrid vs. Barcelona?

Atlético Madrid vs. Barcelona in La Liga kicks off at 3 p.m. ET on Nov. 8. This fixture takes place at the Metropolitano Stadium.

How to watch Atlético Madrid vs. Barcelona for free

Atlético Madrid vs. Barcelona in La Liga is available to live stream for free on CazéTV.

CazéTV is geo-restricted to Brazil, but anyone can secure access with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in Brazil, meaning you can live stream Atlético Madrid vs. Barcelona for free from anywhere in the world.

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Everyone loves the look and feel of autumn, and what kid doesn't love jumping into a pile of leaves? But what about the poor person who had to rake all that leaf litter up in the first place? Outdoor maintenance in the fall is expensive, and often in ways that aren't immediately apparent.

Did you know that you can run a desktop-sized graphics card on a mini PC with a USB port? Well, you can. It’s actually easier than you might think with an eGPU. I took my RTX 3080 out of my desktop and plugged it into my mini PC and the performance improvement was pretty crazy. Here’s what it takes to plug a desktop graphics card into a USB port, and why you might want to do it.

Once you finally pick something to watch on Netflix after sifting through its extensive catalog, the last thing you want is to stream in low quality.

"Let’s go!" Druski yelled as he walked onto the Studio 8H stage late Nov. 7. The comedian, who's spent years making people laugh on their phones, was the first digital content creator to host Saturday Night Live, with The Strokes as musical guest (which Druski does a spot-on impression of, by the way).

How much of the comedy that got him there could he actually do on live TV? That was one of his first jokes.

Druski, whose real name is Drew Desbordes, opened his monologue by assuring the audience that SNL wouldn't water down his comedy, though he said he'd been asked to skip the swearing and not dress in whiteface (surprise, it didn't last very long). By his count, there went about half his material.

Anyone who's watched him play the boss of Coulda Been Records, a fictional label that holds chaotic auditions for aspiring artists, could see why he'd have a little trouble making that promise. Between those auditions and his dating show Coulda Been Love, Druski had amassed more than 6 million subscribers and nearly 2 billion views on YouTube.

Credit: Screenshot: SNL on YouTube

The comedian also joked that there might be some truth to the rumors that he was taking Ozempic, then took a moment to shout out his family in the audience — where one family member shouted for "more money!"

After reflecting on how much had happened over the past year, he asked the crowd how he could repay them. His answer was, apparently, to bring out Emma Stone. The Academy Award-winning actor (who has hosted SNL 5 times) is Druski's co-star in the upcoming baseball rom-com The Catch. He told the audience he actually plays her love interest, which was news to Stone — though she joked that it explained the way he'd been looking at her on set. Druski is reportedly playing Stone's security guard.

SEE ALSO: Is Druski hosting 'SNL'? Here's why it would be a big deal for internet creators.

Druski has had a busy week, besides studying up for Saturday night's appearance. On Nov. 2, Netflix announced a multiyear deal with the comedian and his production company. The first series, Collect & Praise, premieres Dec. 1 and gives his megachurch pastor character, already familiar to fans of his online sketches, a show of his own.

The Catch hits theaters May 21, 2027, which gives Druski a few more months to convince Emma Stone he's the man for her.