Morning Brief: General Office of the State Council Releases 2027 Partial Holiday Schedule, and More

Friday 06 Pi Morning Brief: General Office of the State Council releases the 2027 partial holiday schedule and more. Reportedly the year with the fewest make-up workdays. 10-minute read Morning Brief at a glance

General Office of the State Council releases the 2027 holiday schedule7

OpenAI launches Images 2.6 model: supports GIF animation generation0

Nothing CMF Speaker S/M speakers launch in China1

JBL Professional releases 3 Series MkIII monitor speakers0

On November 5, the General Office of the State Council issued a notice on the partial holiday arrangements for 2027. According to the notice, the 2027 Spring Festival will have 9 consecutive days off, on par with 2026, and only the Spring Festival, Labor Day and National Day involve make-up workdays for the whole year, with a total of 5 weekend make-up workdays.

In terms of specific arrangements, New Year's Day runs from January 1 to 3, for a total of 3 days off; the Spring Festival runs from February 5 (New Year's Eve) to 13 (the eighth day of the first lunar month) with adjusted days off, for a total of 9 days, with work on January 31 and February 14; Qingming Festival runs from April 3 to 5, for a total of 3 days off; Labor Day runs from May 1 to 5 with adjusted days off, for a total of 5 days, with work on May 8; Dragon Boat Festival has one day off on June 9; Mid-Autumn Festival has one day off on September 15; National Day runs from October 1 to 7 with adjusted days off, for a total of 7 days, with work on September 26 and October 9.

The General Office of the State Council also encourages units and individuals to combine paid annual leave to form longer holidays and to promote staggered travel. Source I don't even know how they have the nerve to promote next year's fewer make-up workdays as if they've given us more days off. The Wednesday day off is quite nice, it's actually just five days off hhh The reason there are fewer make-up workdays is that in 2027 more of the statutory holidays fall on Monday, Friday and Wednesday, not because they had a change of heart and took the initiative to reduce make-up workdays. Having some days off is already good enough; last year I only had 5 days off the entire October. If they could give me make-up days off I'd be overjoyed. Read all 7111 comments

OpenAI launches Images 2.6 model: supports GIF animation generation

November 5 news, OpenAI released its new-generation image generation model Images 2.6 on November 4 local time, bringing native GIF animation generation to ChatGPT. Users can now directly generate GIF animations through text prompts or by uploading static photos, and can adjust playback speed, view and edit frame by frame, and share the generated results.

Previously, ChatGPT did not support directly generating GIF animations. In OpenAI's demonstration, simply entering a prompt to make a cat dance generates the corresponding animation. In addition to the new GIF feature, Images 2.6 further improves the consistency of image editing, and the company says its image generation speed is about 50% faster than before.

Images 2.6 is now available to all ChatGPT and Codex subscribers worldwide. At the same time, OpenAI has also launched two models in the API, GPT-Image-2.6 Flare and Sunburst; the former focuses on generation speed, while the latter targets those with higher requirements for image quality, detail and editing consistency. Source2

Nothing CMF Speaker S/M speakers launch in China

November 5 news, the China versions of the Speaker S and Speaker M Bluetooth speakers from Nothing's CMF brand are now on sale, priced at 449 yuan and 849 yuan respectively. Both products adopt a milk-carton shape, come in four colors—white, dark gray, orange and teal—support replaceable front panels and knobs, and release official 3D design files for users to print personalized accessories.

In terms of specifications, both speakers support IP68 dust and water resistance, Bluetooth 6.0, simultaneous connection of two devices and NFC quick pairing, and the USB-C port can be used for charging and wired audio transmission. Among them, the Speaker S is equipped with a 45mm full-range driver and two passive radiators, with an output power of 10W RMS and a frequency response range of 70Hz to 20kHz; the Speaker M adopts a dual-driver architecture consisting of a 70mm woofer and a 16mm tweeter, paired with a sealed cabinet design, with an output power of 35W RMS and a frequency response range of 60Hz to 20kHz.

In terms of battery life, both speakers can play continuously for up to 18 hours with Ultra Bass enabled and the volume set at 50%. The Speaker S takes about 2.5 hours to fully charge, and the Speaker M about 3 hours; both products support fast charging. Source Nothing/CMF industrial design is really on point2

JBL Professional releases 3 Series MkIII monitor speakers

On November 5, HARMAN Professional Solutions, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, recently launched the JBL Professional 3 Series MkIII family of powered studio monitor speakers, including three two-way monitors — the 5-inch 305P MkIII, the 6.5-inch 306P MkIII, and the 8-inch 308P MkIII — as well as the 10-inch 310S MkIII powered subwoofer. The company says the new products feature a redesigned acoustic system, upgraded Class D amplifiers, added room optimization features, and updated mounting options.

On the acoustics side, the new products use redesigned high-frequency drivers and the JBL Image Control Waveguide, which can widen the listening area and improve the stability of the stereo image. The low-frequency drivers use stiffer cone materials, upgraded magnetic circuit components, and aluminum shorting rings to increase power handling and reduce distortion. In addition, the front-firing JBL Slipstream port helps improve low-frequency performance when placed on a desk or against a wall.

All three monitors are equipped with a new Class D amplifier, a balanced Neutrik combo input connector, and selectable +4 dBu/-10 dBV input sensitivity, and also offer four one-touch room adjustment controls that provide 81 compensatory EQ combinations without the need for additional calibration software. Each model also features M4 mounting holes, supporting desktop, wall, ceiling, and stand mounting. The 310S MkIII subwoofer uses a 300W Class D amplifier, reaches a low-frequency extension down to 26 Hz (-10 dB), and supports multiple crossover settings and an external bass management bypass. The BL Professional 3 Series MkIII went on sale in Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa starting November 3, and is expected to go on sale in North America on January 7, 2027. Source 1

Moonshot AI opens Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights

On November 5, Moonshot AI today opened the Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights on the Hugging Face platform; developers can obtain the model through Hugging Face and deploy and use it under its dedicated license. According to statistics from the third-party evaluation platform Arena's Agent Arena leaderboard, Kimi K3.1 Pro (Max) ranks first among open-weight models and 14th among all evaluated models, and ranks first among open models in all three categories: work, coding, and chat.

In terms of model architecture, Kimi K3.1 Pro uses a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with a total parameter count of 2.8 trillion, activating about 104 billion parameters per inference, and supports a context window of about 1 million tokens. Compared with Kimi K3, the new model was post-trained through large-scale joint reinforcement learning covering hundreds of downstream domains, and replaces some full-attention layers with gated sparse attention layers to reduce the overhead of long-context processing. Source Kimi's quota still burns too fast; I hope they add a tier between the 199 Pro tier and the 699 Max tier6

Game-adapted film "The Angry Birds Movie 3" releases official trailer

Paramount Pictures released the second official trailer for the game-adapted animated film "The Angry Birds Movie 3" on November 4 local time. As the third film in the series after a seven-year gap, the new film will be released in North American theaters on December 23, 2026, and the story revolves around Red, who has become the father of three children.

The new trailer further shows the family life of Red and Silver. Red, voiced by Jason Sudeikis, now not only has to take care of three children with very different personalities, but also must work with his former companions to deal with a new crisis threatening Bird Island. Among them, Emma Myers, Walker Scobell, and Psalm West voice Red's daughter June, son Glider, and youngest child Olly, respectively.

The film is directed by John Rice and written by Thurop Van Orman. Voice actors from previous films returning include Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Rachel Bloom, and Danny McBride, and new cast members include Keke Palmer, Lily James, and Tim Robinson. In addition, YouTube creators MrBeast and Salish Matter also participated in the film's voice cast. Source

App Store can show retention offers when unsubscribing

Apple announced on November 4 local time that it has officially launched a subscription retention feature in App Store Connect, allowing developers to display retention messages — including text, images, and exclusive offers — while users cancel an auto-renewable subscription, in order to reduce subscription churn.

According to Apple's official documentation, developers can create up to 10 retention messages for each app and associate them with one or more auto-renewable subscription items. Messages support three formats: plain text, text with images, or text with offers, where offers may include subscription discounts or free subscription periods. Developers can also set subscribers' offer eligibility conditions and the waiting time before the same offer can be claimed again.

In addition, Apple provides the Retention Messaging API, which allows developers, after obtaining permission, to decide in real time which retention content to display based on the user's subscription details. This feature was previously announced at WWDC26 and is now officially open for use. For users, when canceling a subscription they may see additional offers or benefit introductions, but they can still choose to continue and complete the cancellation process. Source: Apple's system is increasingly aligning with domestic Chinese software. Don't you deny it? Isn't canceling a subscription your decision.jpg A familiar flavor inexplicably arises; why not also mark "keep Subscription" in white text on a blue background. 1

Discord will rewrite its client in Rust

November 5 news: Discord co-founder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy confirmed on X on November 4 local time that Discord is rewriting its client in the Rust language. The desktop version will replace the existing Electron with the GPUI framework, and the mobile version will also abandon React Native, moving to native interfaces and sharing some application code with the desktop version through Rust.

Vishnevskiy said that Discord has been using Rust since 2018, and that some infrastructure, voice technology, and existing client code already use the language; this refactor aims to further unify the client's technical architecture. He also revealed that the new client will retain the existing app's interface and interaction methods and will support logging into multiple accounts simultaneously.

Regarding performance, a screenshot of the Windows 11 Task Manager shared by Vishnevskiy shows that an early client codenamed "Discord Phoenix" used about 290.2 MB of memory, while two accounts were running simultaneously at the time. By comparison, tech media outlet Windows Latest observed on its own device that the existing Electron client used about 1–2 GB of memory. Currently, Discord has not announced a specific release date for the new client. Vishnevskiy said the team hopes to open testing to users as soon as possible. Source

It is worth noting that high memory usage does not necessarily make a computer run slowly. Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft's head of Windows and Devices, pointed out in an official blog post published on November 3 that Windows 11 actively uses idle memory to cache apps and data that may be used again, and reallocates it when other programs need resources; therefore, a high memory usage rate shown in Task Manager does not necessarily mean the system is short on memory.

Windows Latest subsequently tested in Windows 11 virtual machines configured with 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB of memory, respectively, and found that the system actually used about 2.4GB, 2.9GB, and 3.7GB of memory. In other words, Windows dynamically adjusts resource usage based on available memory capacity. However, the system actively using idle memory for caching is a different concept from an application's own memory overhead. When available memory remains insufficient and the system frequently accesses the page file, reducing an application's memory usage may still improve the multitasking experience. Source: A great thing, rewrite everything in Rust 11

Other news worth a look

According to The Information citing people familiar with the matter, OpenAI may launch the next-generation Astra and Sol models as early as November 6 local time. Source

On November 3 local time, AMD announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2026, with revenue up 45% year over year to a record $13.4 billion. Driven by demand for EPYC processors and the launch of the Instinct MI450 series GPUs, data center business revenue rose 97% year over year to $8.5 billion. Client business revenue rose 7% year over year, while gaming business fell 40% year over year. AMD expects fourth-quarter revenue of about $17 billion, plus or minus 3%. Intel previously gave revenue guidance of $15 billion to $16 billion for the same period. Source

The Bluetooth SIG announced on November 4 local time that it has officially adopted High Data Throughput (HDT) technology as an optional feature of the Bluetooth Core 7.0 core specification. This technology introduces a new physical layer for Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE), raising the maximum bit rate to 7.5 Mb/s, 3.75 times that of the existing LE 2M PHY. The Bluetooth SIG expects the first flagship application of HDT to launch in 2027, focusing on high-quality wireless audio, providing standardized support for lossless and high-resolution audio transmission, and promoting the development of features such as multichannel surround sound and spatial audio. Source: The source for this Bluetooth news is 404

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