Damian Pickett · No. 60
Monday 2 November 2026
Kimi Antonelli, 20, became Formula 1’s youngest ever world champion at the Mexico City Grand Prix, beating Sebastian Vettel’s record. Max Verstappen won the race, holding off Lewis Hamilton after Ferrari team-mates clashed on lap one.
Rian Johnson has teamed up with longtime cinematographer Steve Yedlin to release Curated, an iPhone camera app that applies their Knives Out-style image processing to photos taken on the phone.
Startup Everbloom has created renoa, which TechCrunch says is the first entirely new textile fibre developed in 25 years, aiming for something that feels familiar despite being novel.
Read · Lenny's Newsletter
And the first two episodes with Julie Zhuo and Shreyas Doshi are now live!
A look back at how Lenny launched his own podcast, a fitting read on a day full of fresh launches, from Rian Johnson’s new camera app to Everbloom’s new fibre.
Listen · Founders
A story of total dedication to greatness, a fitting companion to today’s F1 news of Kimi Antonelli becoming the sport’s youngest ever champion.
Listen · David Senra
Today’s new episode follows Rafael Vivas’s path from high school dropout to AppLovin co-founder and billionaire, the kind of relentless founder story this show does best.
Listen · Acquired
A classic deep dive into Microsoft’s rise, useful context for anyone who studies Steve Jobs and Apple’s history the way this show’s other episodes do.
Simon Willison says the reliable fix for confusing Python dependency errors since switching to Python 3.15 is simply to delete the uv.lock file and let uv regenerate it.
Simon Willison released datasette-llm 0.1a9, a small usability update to the plugin behind his Datasette Agent project, ahead of bigger upgrades he says are coming.
TechCrunch’s review calls Google’s Pixel 11 Pro Fold a sturdy, well-made foldable, though competition in the foldable phone category keeps getting stronger.
Binance has resumed withdrawals after a $6.3 billion breach, saying it has now covered 95 per cent of the stolen assets.
Apple’s delayed HomeView smart home hub will ship running software that is already six months old, MacRumors reports, the latest evidence of the product’s troubled rollout.
An EU energy label shows the new iPad mini 8 has a 4,900 mAh battery, slightly smaller than the 5,034 mAh in the previous model.
Apple has published a support document for Apple Watch owners whose time appears an hour off after the recent Daylight Saving change, with steps to fix it.
9to5Mac’s latest Indie App Spotlight highlights Pumpkin Lights, a small independent Mac app that drops a playful jack-o-lantern into the menu bar, the kind of tiny, well-crafted build worth noticing.
Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus Zero sequel played two sold-out Tokyo Film Festival screenings, with stars Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe in attendance, ahead of its Japanese cinema release on 3 November.
A24’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything topped the US box office over Clayface in a quiet Halloween weekend, and has now out-earned Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine.
Dustin Hoffman has described filming 1967’s The Graduate as a terrible experience, writing that director Mike Nichols made co-star Katharine Ross slap him 27 times for one scene.
With under two months left before Avengers: Doomsday, Robert Downey Jr and Pedro Pascal swapped their Marvel roles for Halloween, each dressing as the other’s superhero character.
Project Hail Mary author Andy Weir says he would write a sequel under one specific condition, though he has not revealed what that condition is in this new interview.
The Celtics beat the Orlando Magic 108-97 on the road, with Jayson Tatum scoring 32 points despite the team shooting below 45 per cent from the floor.
The Patriots overcame a 10-point deficit to beat the Miami Dolphins 24-19 in Week 8, with Drake Maye throwing three second-half touchdowns in the comeback.
New England is now 3-0 within the AFC East after beating the Bills, Jets and Dolphins this season, strengthening its position in the division and the wider playoff race.
Patriots tight end Hunter Henry left Sunday’s win over the Dolphins in the second quarter with a foot injury and did not return.
Lewis Hamilton has called for serious talks inside Ferrari after a lap-one clash with team-mate Charles Leclerc cost the team a likely one-two finish in Mexico.
Alpine’s Franco Colapinto and Pierre Gasly both lost their top-10 finishes in Mexico after post-race yellow-flag penalties, with Haas rookie Ryo Hirakawa inheriting points on his F1 debut.
Max Verstappen won the Mexican Grand Prix for Red Bull, his third victory of the season, and moved up to second in the championship behind new title-holder Antonelli.
Caleb Durbin, Wilyer Abreu and Ceddanne Rafaela all won Gold Glove awards, giving the Red Sox three winners in a season for the first time since 2018.
Rotterdam studio The New Raw has turned discarded harbour rope into stools that rock like buoys, now nominated for a Dezeen Award for turning waste into something playful.
