Accidental Tech Podcast

• What is John going to do to deal with Gmail policy changes? (via Mark Bramhill)
• Would Apple reuse the 2019 design for a phantom new Mac Pro? (via Ben Cooper)

• Post-show: Casey tries to hack his car

• Home Assistant
• Wireshark
• Charles Proxy
• MQTT

• Members-only ATP Overtime: Ternus’s “Intelligent Personal Hub” and Apple’s home AI hub

• Digital Hub strategy (Timestamp link to 1h29m46s)
• Intelligent personal hub
• Gurman

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Oct 1, 2026 2 hr

That New Mouse Pad Feeling

Episode 710

Show notes

• 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️

• Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon eastern
• The Marco Offset™
• Flying Spaghetti Monster

• Follow-up:

• New treats

• John

• iPhone 18 Pro

• John’s case

• AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case

• IP57

• Dust protected
• Immersion, up to 1m, for 30 minutes

• Oddities
• Volume control

• Marco

• Apple Watch S12 Ceramic

• Apple Watch S12 bezels are bigger than S10?

• Mac mini

• Casey: Apple Watch S12 Aluminum

• How should Apple have handled iPhone Duo dev tools? (via Oscar Echeverri)
• Photos libraries on external drives (via Larry Fieman)
• Preliminary M5 Ultra GPU Geekbench scores

• Chart

• Apple watch “Readiness Score” seem to be mostly bunk? (via Michael Katz)

• iPhone Duo dev tools released

• Aaron Vegh’s video

• Post-show: Marco’s Mac mini update

• Ubiquiti WAN Switch
• GL.iNet Comet Q and the PoE one

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• Previously discussed on ATP #672: Wi Hyphen Fi
• The Disappointing Truth about Wi-Fi 7
• Introductory video

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Sep 24, 2026 2 hr 13 min

Steel-Cable Insurance

Episode 709

Show notes

• 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Show Q&A
• 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️

• The Marco Offset™

• Todd Vaziri on James Bond homages in the event video

• Comparison video
• Previously, in 2018

• Making of (via Techzha)
• Preliminary Geekbench scores

• A20 Pro (iPhones 18 Pro)

• CPU
• GPU

• M6

• CPU
• GPU

• M5 Ultra

• CPU

• iPhone 18 Pro Max & Apple C2
• Solar phone charging? 🤔 (via flanker)

• Pragmatic #38: Watch This Time and Space

• Aperture blades on iPhone 18 Pro / Pro Max camera

• MKBHD’s review
• PetaPixel’s Review
• Explaining starbursts
• Straight vs. rounded examples
• Debate on DPReview forums

• iPhones 18 Pro Face ID (YouTube timestamp link to 13m34s)
• iPhone Duo

• How will iPhone Mirroring work?
• No Action Button 💔
• The Duo does have a split keyboard
• An aside about our enthusiasm for the Duo
• Ternus & Joz interview part 1 & part 2

• Thomas Ricker at The Verge

• Stephen Robles insights

• iPhone side-dock example
• MagSafe accessories will be… tough

• A Face ID complication (via Pedro Fernandes)
• Apple Pencil support

• USB-C Apple Pencil not Pencil Pro
• Gruber
• Steve Troughton-Smith

• Fake bezel

• Benjamin Mayo at 9to5Mac
• Demo video (Twitter link)

• iOS 27 doesn’t include automated password changing
• Photos libraries on external drives (via Mike Brogan & Jason Snell)
• Optimize Storage (via Jason Snell & Fabrice Neuman)
• John’s cheap S3 setup

• Configuration
• CLI invocation:
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• _DavidSmith on iPhone Air & 17e sales

• Gruber’s breakdown

• iPhone 17: 36.5%
• iPhone 17 Pro Max: 29.9%
• iPhone 17 Pro: 29.4%
• iPhone 17e: 2.5%
• iPhone Air: 1.5%

• Post-show: John needed Marco’s 3D printer

• Oyen Digital MiniPro RAID V4 Dual-Bay
• Modesty panel
• Command Strips

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Sep 17, 2026 2 hr 8 min

Primary, Tertiary, and Third Cousin

Episode 708

Show notes

• 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️

• The Marco Offset™

• September 2026 event

• MacRumors on the cellular chips
• SynthID Standard
• Apple Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview
• Surface Duo
• PowerBook Duo
• Rafa’s toot about layouts
• Apple Developer Videos

• Post-show: Jetty update
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s new business terms in the EU

• Ben Thompson’s breakdown
• Gruber’s take
• Adrian Weckler at Irish Independent

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Sep 10, 2026 3 hr 4 min

Haunting the Campus Like a Ghost

Episode 707

Show notes

• 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️

• The Marco Offset™

• Follow-up:

• Luz fooled me, Jerry!

• Extremely convincing fake by Daniel Luz
• Mea culpa

• Apple fooled us all
• Siri blobs fix

• System Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy → Content & Privacy (turn the switch on) → Siri → Writing Assistance (turn the switch off)

• John is happy with new Macs timetable
• Are photo libraries on external disks supported?

• Knowledge base
• Iris

• Yankees / Sox in Apple Vision Pro

• Dithering

• Motivations for SME adoption (via shac ron)

• ✅ Tim Cook exit interview

• AT 688: A Company Man at 1h8m29s (Overcast timestamp link)

• Phil takes another step toward the door

• Emma Roth at The Verge
• Phil on ATP #317: We’re Customers Too

• iPhone 17 / 17 Pro / 17 Pro max / Air Exit interviews
• iPhone event preview
• Post-show: John’s storage update

• Backblaze B2
• Amazon S3

• Members-only ATP Overtime: Ternus & the Vision Pro

• 10 May: Mark Gurman
• 3 June: Juli Clover at MacRumors
• 21 August: Gurman
• 30 August: Gurman

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Sep 3, 2026 2 hr 6 min

No One Is Getting a Good Deal Tonight

Episode 706

Show notes

• Pre-show: Marco’s casement windows

• Screen clips
• Screen clips, installed (white prototypes for visibility)
• TPU for AMS

• 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• Follow-up:

• macOS 27 UI tweaks

• Redesigned stoplights in β6

• Video
• Stoplights
• Stretchy buttons

• Video

• Porsche 911, 996 generation

• In defense of the fried egg Porsches

• Turning off the Siri logo

• macOS 27 got the new Preview icon

• LLM determinism when temperature = 0

• Write-up by Horace He
• IEEE standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic

• 𝓍OS 27 Photos Shared Album gotchas

• See also

• Other people’s phones

• Not sped up! All 1×!
• i vs. I

• Apple iPhone event announced
• New Mac mini and Mac Studio

• Core size comparison
• SME replaces AMX in the M6

• Exploratory Github Repo
• AMX instruction set
• SME Introduction
• Hello SME
• Longhorn Toot 1 and Toot 2

• Marketing page section (via Daniel Luz)

• Oops, it was a joke and we didn’t get it!

• High Yield diagram
• M3 Ultra vs. M5 Ultra vs. M5 Max
• Mac mini

• Video support summary from Tim Hardwick
• Mac mini pricing history

• …inflation-adjusted

• Apple Upgrade program lease [un]availability
• Gruber on pricing
• Advertisement

• Behind the scenes

• Mac Studio

• Gruber on pricing
• Advertisement

• John’s purchasing journey

• The thing John mentioned that’s a spoiler
• The accessory that’s also a spoiler

• New […ish] keyboards!

• MacRumors coverage
• Apple Part Number: MJM4LL/A
• Previously: MXK83LL/A
• John’s keyboard (previously)

• MMMR3LL/A
• A2520

• New polishing cloth!

• MacRumors coverage
• Copland Supply

• Post-show: John’s new vibe-coded app

• Front and Center
• SwitchGlass
• Hyperspace
• DragThing
• Icon

• Members-only ATP Overtime: Is macOS slower than Linux when performing file system operations?

• Theo Browne: Your Mac Isn’t Actually Slow, It’s MacOS Fault
• Benchmark 1
• Benchmark 2
• Linus Torvalds on using C (timestamp link to 22m7s)

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Aug 27, 2026 2 hr 38 min

Relentless in a Gentle Way

Episode 705

Show notes

• Pre-show: Marco may have to dance with the devil

• Daikin

• Home Assistant integration

• Home Assistant Green

• Follow-up:

• The OpenAI doughnut

• What if it’s an eye? (via Elijah Yap)
• Or perhaps red blood cell shaped? (via Chris Lawrence)

• Biconcave disc

• Time Capsule was to solve the laptop-backup problem
• Multiple Apple IDs with the same number (via Adam Wunn)
• RAMageddon

• Apple gets lower display prices
• Apple raises trade-in values

• 🎉 Unforgetful is out! 🎉

• E-Mail Addresses That Would be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone
• Skybridge
• Mac Power Users #861: Stephen Builds a New Task App

• Kanban

• Quitter
• Forecast

• AI watermarking

• Steganography
• How Claude’s text watermark works
• Pseudorandom number generator
• A wonderful visual guide
• Some 3Blue1Brown homework

• LLMs explained briefly

• Next-word prediction probabilities

• Transformers, the tech behind LLMs

• Temperature gives more weight to the less-probable
• Image

• Gruber’s take
• Some responses to Gruber

• Dan Moren
• Daniel Jalkut

• Gruber’s reply to the rebuttals
• Dithering, 14 August: “Watermarks”

• I Made This

• Post-show: Casey has news

• CarMax
• Previously on ATP…
• BMW i4
• San Remo Green
• A Better Route Planner
• EV Stupidity Checklist

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Aug 20, 2026 2 hr 30 min

Past the Ternus Horizon

Episode 704

Show notes

• Pre-show: Marco has a rose and thorn

• Lutron Caséta Fan Control
• Fanimation
• Technology Connections video

• Follow-up:

• Marco’s favorite feedback (about Myke) was from Analog(ue) 😬

• SQLite bug write-up
• Blackbird

• Post-show Neutral

• Professional negotiators / “headhunters” are very much a thing

• CarEdge (via John Siracusa)
• Delivrd (via Roger Coxon)

• Wall Street Journal (News+ link)

• The Car Chick (via Juan Boyce)

• The #1 trusted automotive expert for women and smart men

• Your Car Buying Advocate (via Ian McCullough)
• Two options from Colin Macdonald

• Automatch Consulting
• Insight Auto Consulting

• Casey makes some discoveries over the last week

• Justification from the midwest dealer
• Ventilated seats
• Laser headlights

• Marco takes a spin as well

• John’s passwords pro-tip
• Codex Micro (via St. Chris)

• Icon keys

• John and Casey weep for a while about Verizon CableCARDs 😭
• Backups

• Time Machine has a fatal flaw (via Jonathan Dechko)
• …but also a workaround (via Eric Jacobsen)

• Transcend JetDrive
• BaseQi Adapter

• Are backups even necessary? (via Mustapha Hamoui)

• Apple Upgrade

• Lease agreements are between customer & financier, not the retailer (via Patch)
• Apple Card also has 12 months interest-free (via Andrew Haglund)

• RAMpocalypse

• Apple is still trying to make fetch Chinese RAM happen
• iPhone 18 Pro launch is looking… challenging
• All of 2027’s memory made by the big 3 is sold out (🇹🇼 link) (via Kevin Beaumont)

• New macOS & iOS 27 β5 icons

• Siri
• Chess
• John pours one out for his homie
• Keir’s observation about icon composition
• Safari
• Preview
• Settings

• Apple Watch overhaul rumors

• The Casio watch everyone has (it’s small; here’s a bigger one if you want, or a more modern one with step-counting)

• John’s Passwords pro tip
• Post-show: John’s macOS update woes
• Members-only ATP Overtime: More AI hardware rumors

• Is OpenAI making a hockey puck or a doughnut?
• Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

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Aug 13, 2026 2 hr 8 min

Part of a Healthy Breakfast

Episode 703

Show notes

• Pre-show: The Overcast “kicking machine”

• Adam Wunn’s blog post
• Previously in ATP #324: Automatic Kicking Machine

• Follow-up:

• Marco gives John the gift of transcript search in build #1169 [The system works! — Ed.]

• Build #1172 includes Siracusa Replay Mode

• Be wary of Sonos + Pi-hole or other ad blockers (via Will Smidlein)
• Ubiquiti High Availability

• Redundant Power Supply USP-RPS
• SmartPower Cable USP-Cable

• “Odd” RAM amounts (via Joe Lion)
• Multiple Apple accounts (via TJ Usiyan)
• Some science about Sony’s axe of PlayStation discs

• SuperDuper 4

• Previously in the SuperDuper blog…

• Apple Upgrade Program

• John Voorhees at MacStories
• The Verge with example numbers
• Apple Upgrade vs. iPhone Upgrade
• “Restricted Mode” isn’t about this
• Is it worth it? Joe Rossignol answers

• macOS 26.4 adds Battery Charge Limit
• Ask ATP:

• What are good backup strategies? (via Todd Vaziri)

• Backblaze (former sponsor)
• Tailscale (former & future sponsor)

• What the heck is a Docker container? (also via Todd Vaziri)

• Wizard zine

• Post-show: Casey is car shopping again

• Visor
• AutoTempest
• https://bimmer.work
• Driveway
• Safari extension screenshot

• Members-only ATP Overtime: OpenAI hardware progress

• Codex Micro

• Gruber

• Quinn’s take

• Stack Overflow keyboard

• Rumored speaker

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Aug 6, 2026 2 hr 32 min

Isolate the Evil

Episode 702

Show notes

• Pre-show: Three old men talk about the Tickety Tocks
• Follow-up:

• Adam Wunn published his email as a blog post
• Sharing files in Screen Sharing.app (via Ingmar Wittkau)
• Video game preservation (via Jason Griffey)
• Supplying power to Marco’s army of Mac minis

• Ubiquiti “Shadow Mode High Availability”

• An update on Passwords.app “doing the hard thing”

• macOS
• iOS

• More clipboard changes in macOS 27

• Video in question

• Apple is reportedly looking to acquire AI chip companies

• P. A. Semi

• Apple is actually spending money on Broadcom

• Hartley Charlton at MacRumors

• Slate Truck price & availability announced

• Previously on ATP

• Apple 🤝 Ford

• CarPlay is Additive

• Safari on 𝑥OS 27

• WWDC 2026 #204: What’s new in WebKit for Safari 27
• Pie chart
• A contrary take
• Safari MCP server

• Federico’s take

• Ask ATP:

• How is Overcast transcription going? (via Pete Ottery)
• How does Apple achieve “growth the hard way”? (via Elijah)

• John’s theory
• ATP #689
• ATP #641
• John on replaceable batteries
• iPhone SE
• TSR

• How do you create a second Apple account for doing development without a different phone number? (via James)

• With an aside lamenting the way Apple Stores work

• Post-show: How does John pack?

• InstaCrate
• Shibumi

• Wind Assist

• Members-only ATP Overtime: New information about the iPhone 18 family

• RAM
• “Side RAM” on the Pros

• Supposed leaked drawings

• Battery capacities
• Bodies

• Colors

• Original mockups

• Thicker?

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Jul 27, 2026 2 hr 31 min

I Improved My Town

Episode 701

Show notes

• Pre-show: Marco’s Mac mini catastrophe

• CyberLynk / Mac Mini Vault
• The dead ATS
• The proposed replacement

• 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Emoji
• Follow-up:

• Member’s Special video trimming / John’s Vibe Coded App

• LosslessCut

• Casey has leveled-up his Sonos experience

• Previously on ATP
• Version 85.01 announcement post
• FAQ post

• Louie Mantia makes the case for Squircle
• Sony 💔 💿

• A nefarious motivation for Sony ceasing to sell games on disc (via Glen Jarvis)
• CD sales are going up

• Price increase corner: Apple Music edition

• Chart by BasicAppleGuy
• AppleCare+ too

• FileMaker

• In defense…

• CVE
• https://monday.com

• Marco got Robert Thompson off FileMaker after 18 years

• Scratch

• And a special thanks to Adam Wunn 🙌🏻

• Gurman on post-Mac Pro plans
• EU drops battery removal requirement for Apple Watch & AirPods

• Six additional categories
• The Monkey’s Paw

• OLED iMacs?
• Ask ATP: What does Marco (or other adults) use 3D Printers for? (via Jack Johnson)

• Bambu X2D
• TinkerCAD
• Onshape

• Post-show: How Marco fixed AirPlay in Overcast

• WSOLA
• F Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades

• Members-only ATP Overtime: The internal “roles” system in LLMs, and how it relates to prompt injection vulnerabilities

• Research paper
• Extended write-up
• Mechanistic interpretability
• Bobby Tables

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Jul 23, 2026 2 hr 11 min

A Wet Dishrag Full of Lies

Episode 700

Show notes

• Pre-show: Anniversary Corner!

• catatp (see also Statistics)
• Bootleg visualization

• Follow-up:

• Public beta check-in
• Casey’s iMessage notification issue
• Cache in front of CloudFlare Workers!
• Apple keeps futzing with rendering of .icon files
• Mac-assed Mac Apps

• Steve Troughton-Smith on ChatGPT

• Gruber #1
• Gruber #2

• Gus Mueller
• Gruber

• Globe key on Apple’s extended keyboards (via Philip Hofstetter)

• LaunchAgent

• ~/Library/LaunchAgents

• Casey’s former keyboard

• Tina’s keyboard: MMMR3LL/A

• Shouldn’t the Studio Display get a price bump? (via Brian Nehring)
• Regarding skipping M6 Pro/Max/Ultra (via Anonymous)
• Gurman on M𝓍 Ultra servers

• Follow-out to Upgrade #627: What was is FileMaker

• Agentic development

• Goodbye, Maestral 🫡

• Gruber

• Apple Sues OpenAI

• Apple Inc. vs. Liu
• Chance Miller’s summary
• The Verge
• Gruber
• Dithering
• OpenAI’s response and part 2

• Post-show: Casey vacation results: nerd edition

• Unifi Travel Router
• Formerly, GL.iNet KVM
• GL Comet Q

• Members-only ATP Overtime: Sony announces the end of PlayStation discs

• Ars Technica
• The funeral has begun
• Ars Technica on library erasure
• The PS6 sure sounds like a handheld

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Jul 16, 2026 1 hr 56 min

Not the Correct Squircle

Episode 699

Show notes

• Pre-show: Casey’s oops

• Magic TrackPad
• Magic Keyboard
• Marco’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard

• Follow-up:

• Casey may have fixed his notification problem!
• Mac-“Arsed” Mac App skill (via Bart Reardon)
• RAMAgeddon

• Feel free to donate to St. Jude any of the money you may have saved by buying early! (via Jonathan)
• Will Apple rethink unified memory given these prices? (via ShutterAperture)
• Steam Machine difficulties

• Interview on YouTube (Timestamp link to 12m48s)

• Collusion! Well, maybe.
• Would a gold Mac mini be cheaper than a spec with tons of RAM? Awax did math

• We’re Fable is so back, baby

• More at Ars Technica

• Siri AI

• No web browsing for you!
• Apple removed the waitlist workaround in macOS β2
• Determining what model is used (via Gui Rambo)

• Revamped icons by Parakeet

• Design services price list
• SwitchGlass

• SwitchGlass dark icon
• SwitchGlass old icon

• Front and Center

• Front and Center old icon

• Callsheet

• Callsheet old icon
• Jelly’s write-up
• Ste Grainer
• The ATP member special where we rated iOS icons

• Overcast
• Marco’s [REDACTED] Reminders App

• Fire Island Lighthouse

• Parakeet’s post about our icons

• Apple adds paste protection to Terminal

• Apple support document
• Opera joins the party

• Xcode 𝑥OS 27 & DerivedData

• DevCleaner (App Store link)

• Post-show: Casey is jealous of Marco

• Goose
• Big Modern!

• Casey likes Savenger, Good2B, and Torero

• Nugs
• Micro Tyvek Wallet
• Micro Soft Shell Wallet
• Studio Neat
• Casey’s fan

• Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple create a handheld gaming platform?

• Quinn Nelson’s pitch
• Game Porting Toolkit 4

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Jul 7, 2026 2 hr 20 min

And Do What?

Episode 698

Show notes

• Pre-show: Who’s bored?
• 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Mac-assed Mac Apps
• Follow-up:

• Nugs and Sonos
• As the prophecy foretold… ☹️
• Mythos is back, but Fable isn’t
• Rumors about Siri AI indexing
• Corrections about 8TB SSDs (via Aaron Raimist)
• Price increases abound! ☹️

• On the Apple TV price hike (via Chris Carley)
• Steam Machine (More)
• Xbox
• Micron points fingers at Apple (News+ Link)

• Steve Troughton-Smith’s take

• Previously, in Palm Pilots

• Apple asks Trump to save their 🥓

• Financial Times

• No M6 Pro/Max/Ultra‽

• Touchscreen MacBook Pro

• Intel to fabricate the M7‽

• GFHK?
• More reporting

• New Siri

• Iconography

• Attraction Theory: The SiriAI Proposition
• Pepsi logo redesign brand manual from 2008 (via budsNhops on Reddit)

• Joanna Stern’s review
• Gui Rambo’s experiment
• Dan Moren
• John tries to get it to understand Perl (because of course he did —Ed.)

• Question 1
• Question 2

• Ask ATP:

• Why isn’t Apple on a reliable cadence for processor releases? (via Ammar)
• If we really embrace agentic coding, what would be the right choice of language for that? (via Matthew Southworth)

• 3Blue1Brown
• Avoiding Copland 2010

• Do we collect vintage computers? (via Phil Kim)

• Casey:

• ThinkPad 701C
• ThinkPad T30

• John:

• eMate
• Newton 2000
• Trashcan

• Post-show: Casey asks for technical support
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• Announcement video
• On the store
• All Ubiquiti NAS offerings
• Xserve RAID

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Jun 30, 2026 2 hr 14 min

The Chart Is Terrifying

Episode 697

Show notes

• Pre-show:

• Casey has some fantastic news about https://nugs.net/ for Marco
• Marco’s trip report

• Gucci Osteria

• Follow-up:

• John guested on a preview of Designed in California, published as part of Upgrade #624 (also on YouTube)
• Apple Intelligence 🤝 external boot disks (via Doug Weinfield)
• Spotlight indexing in 𝑥OS 27

• Steve Riggins notes it takes a while
• Alex concurs

• Apple’s AI Tech Talk

• What will Siri be capable of? (via Jochen Marschall)
• Bootleg video (via sayrer)

• Is Spatial Reframing in 𝑥OS 27 geographically-aware? (via Kevin Buterbaugh)
• Tesla 🤝 CarPlay?

• New CarPlay features (via Alec Hurdle)

• WWDC session on YouTube

• The US has approved a new sunscreen ingredient!

• Marco’s favorite: Rohto Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel

• Tracking Apple’s environmental progress

• TOSTracker (via Andrew Leahey)
• Direct product comparisons

• Example: M1 MacBook Air vs. M5 MacBook Air

• Apple’s AI server infrastructure (expanding on ATP #680)

• General overview (via Gui Rambo)
• cloudOS job listing
• How to run PCC (via Zoe Knox)

• Tim Cook takes one for the Ternus (News+ link) (17 June)

• Chart
• South Korean chip company bonuses are creating inflation pressures
• Even ChatGPT is stupefied by RAM pricing 🤭😭

• We’re all trying to find the guy who did this!

• 25 June: Apple raises prices on Macs, iPads (News+ link)

• Stephen’s tables
• Gruber’s tables
• Apple also raised refurbished prices 🤨
• Good timing:

• tmcgeary
• Aaron
• Greg Pierce

• Ask ATP:

• Why doesn’t Apple just… make its own RAM? (via Brian Webster)

• Joe Lion
• Blake Patterson

• Is new Siri an attack vector for, say, TSA searches? (via Anonymous)

• Post-show: Casey’s blog post about AI
• Members-only ATP Overtime: The Fable about… Anthropic Fable

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Jun 26, 2026 2 hr 6 min

It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It

Episode 696

Show notes

• Pre-show:

• We are not dangerously capable
• We convince ourselves not to pivot to video
• Accidental Neutral: The Rivian R2

• FYI, Marco: Casey has officially called dibs on the R3X 😈

• Follow-up:

• It’s Road Trip (via Jason Paul)
• Indexing for the new Spotlight
• Passwords app does the hard thing
• macOS 27

• “Golden Gate” was the codename for macOS Big Sur… and eWorld 1.1

• Microsoft Bob

• You can use Touch ID for Administrator access
• There’s a way to skip the Siri waitlist (via Steve Troughton-Smith)

• sudo defaults write "/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/GenerativeModels.plist" "EnhancedSiriWaitlist" -dict-add Enabled -bool NO

• ST-S points out the change in Apple’s documentation
• The Liquid Glass slider is part of Golden Gate onboarding
• Corner radius ∆s, illustrated
• Mickey hands are back
• They can’t leave well enough alone, Finder icon edition
• General Golden Gate icon changes
• Touch Macs are coming

• Pull-to-refresh comes to macOS
• ST-S notices NSToolbar changes

• You can resize the iPhone Mirroring window
• HIG updates for menu icons

• iOS 27

• Siri AI pull down animation

• iPadOS 27

• ST-S notes the menu is now aligned to the leading edge

• tvOS (Apparently it’s still an OS in the lineup —Ed.)

• Hardware compatibility

• watchOS

• Hardware compatibility

• Apple’s AI Tech Talk

• Images
• Quotes
• Dan Moren vanity searches

• An aside on Apple filtering out some frequencies during utterances of “Siri”

• Stephen Robles’ Siri AI review (timestamp link to 5m47s)
• 3Blue1Brown transformers video
• Apple’s announcement for third-gen models
• Instruction-Following Pruning for LLMs
• LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory

• Filippone Stefano’s review

• Ars Technica’s write-up

• Post-show: Casey’s trip results

• UniFi Travel Router
• GL-iNet
• Flex Mini

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• OpenDoc
• iPhone mirroring resizing

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Jun 15, 2026 1 hr 59 min

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