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What happens when AI models get powerful enough that the bottleneck stops being the model, and starts becoming the computer, the power grid, or the safeguards around it?Corey Noles and Grant Harvey break down a packed week in AI, starting with OpenAI's expected Astra model and the controversy around recurrent-depth reasoning, chain-of-thought monitoring, and critical cybersecurity capabilities. They also dig into Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash Cyber, and why benchmark charts increasingly matter less than what a model can actually do in real work.Then the conversation moves from models to machines: a $399 open-source robot duck, Dyson's wildly overengineered CameraJet toothbrush, the return of the CPU as AI agents increasingly operate computers directly, and Apple's increasingly data-center-like Mac Studio hardware for local AI workloads.Finally, Corey and Grant unpack the fight over AI data centers in Texas, what communities should demand in exchange for hosting them, and why ChatGPT's advertising business may become a major new piece of OpenAI's economics.Subscribe to The Neuron at theneuron.ai for a daily briefing on the AI stories that actually matter.The Neuron: https://www.theneuron.ai/The Neuron Academy: https://www.neuronacademy.com/

Se acaban las vacaciones y comienza el nuevo curso. Analizamos el inminente evento de presentación de los nuevos iPhone, el cual estará fuertemente marcado por un acontecimiento histórico: la llegada de John Ternus como nuevo consejero delegado tras el paso a un rol secundario de Tim Cook. Comentamos el lanzamiento casi por sorpresa de los nuevos ordenadores Mac Mini y Mac Studio equipados con los procesadores M5 Ultra y M6, debatiendo sobre la preocupante y drástica escalada de precios, especialmente a la hora de ampliar la memoria RAM y el almacenamiento SSD. También exploramos una de las filtraciones más llamativas para el futuro hardware de la marca: la integración de cámaras en los AirPods, detallando que no estarán destinadas a tomar fotografías, sino a funcionar como sensores espaciales para que la inteligencia artificial de Siri pueda reconocer el entorno del usuario.Abordamos la subida de precios en la suscripción de Apple TV+ y analizamos cómo el insostenible mercado del streaming empuja a los usuarios hacia los paquetes combinados. A su vez, reflexionamos sobre el futuro de la App Store tras la salida de Phil Schiller del día a día ejecutivo para convertirse en consejero honorífico, y explicamos cómo las constantes presiones legislativas en la Unión Europea obligarán a replantear por completo el modelo de distribución de software y las comisiones impuestas a los desarrolladores. Apple TV Raises Price of Streaming Service in US Effective Immediately Tim Cook Comments on His Final Day as Apple CEO - MacRumors Top Stories on MacRumors John Ternus becomes Apple CEO, with AI as first big challenge Phil Schiller Reportedly Steps Down As Apple's App Store And Product Event Chief John Ternus - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre Directivos de Apple - John Ternus - Apple (ES) Así es John Ternus, el relevo de Tim Cook al frente de Apple Mac mini - Especificaciones técnicas - Apple (ES) Mac Studio - Especificaciones técnicas - Apple (ES)

In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down Hot Chips 2026, the engineering conference where IBM, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Arm, and Fujitsu all showed how their next processors actually work. The headline disclosure is a mainframe core that runs Arm natively. Ray also covers Apple’s odd M6 Mac mini naming, London’s first autonomous Uber rides, Amazon’s purchase of the company behind DuckDB, GitHub’s HydraFusion, the best of IFA 2026, and new USDA research on farmed salmon. – Want to start a podcast? It’s easy to get started! Sign-up at Blubrry – Thinking of buying a Starlink? Use my link to support the show. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Email Ray if you want to get in touch! Like and Follow Geek News Central’s Facebook Page. Support my Show Sponsor: Best Godaddy Promo Codes Get 1Password Full Summary Cochrane opens the show with a personal update. He apologizes for the late rollout and the missed Monday episode, having spent the week fighting a cold. He’s also heading to Michigan to spend time with family and visit his father’s gravesite. He hopes to record a couple of shows from his dad’s old studio while he is there, including a special episode planned for Tuesday. He also points listeners to a fresh site redesign that trades the old techie look for something cleaner and friendlier. The featured segment starts from a wrap-up post on Arm’s newsroom. However, Cochrane broadens it to cover the whole conference rather than a single article. Hot Chips has run every August since 1989, and this year’s event was the 38th, held August 23rd through the 25th at Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium. What Hot Chips Actually Is Cochrane draws a line between Hot Chips and the big consumer trade shows. CES and Computex exist for product announcements and marketing. Meanwhile, Hot Chips is an IEEE engineering conference where chip architects present block diagrams and die photos for thirty minutes at a stretch. The audience matters as much as the content. Roughly five hundred people who design chips for a living fill the room, and they would spot a fudged number immediately. No written paper is required, just the talk and the slides. In-person tickets sold out this year, as did Stanford’s dorm housing. Cochrane says he plans to cover the conference annually going forward. IBM Built a Mainframe Core That Speaks Arm The disclosure that stopped Cochrane cold came from IBM. Its next processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE runs two completely different instruction sets natively, on every one of its eleven cores. Those are z/Architecture, IBM’s own mainframe language, and AArch64, which is 64-bit Arm. Crucially, this is not emulation. Nor is it Arm cores glued onto the die beside the mainframe cores. IBM built 2,792 Arm instructions directly into the hardware, which it says is more than double the mainframe instruction count. Each core carries two separate decoders while sharing the caches, branch predictor and register files downstream. It switches between the two in nanoseconds. IBM even added dedicated hardware to flip byte order, because Arm and the mainframe store numbers in opposite directions. The payoff is Arm SystemReady compliance, meaning off-the-shelf Arm Linux runs on a mainframe unmodified. Patrick Kennedy of ServeTheHome, who was in the room, wrote: “I am sitting here still in awe of what IBM is doing here; this is not Z plus Arm cores, this is Z and Arm in one core.” Cochrane flags one precision point that is easy to get backward. IBM did not license Arm’s core designs and drop them in. Instead, it took its own mainframe core and taught it AArch64 under an architecture license, which is considerably harder engineering. The specifications are striking. The chip uses a 2nm process, with eleven cores running above 5.7GHz sustained and no turbo mode at all. Each core gets 36MB of L2 cache, backed by a 3.5GB virtual L4 pool. Furthermore, the reliability target is eight nines, which works out to roughly three tenths of one second of unplanned downtime per year. IBM gave it no name and no ship date, though the press expects “Telum III” around 2028. Arm, Fujitsu and NVIDIA Show Their Hands Arm itself had plenty to discuss, starting with an unfortunate name. Its first chip in thirty-five years is called the AGI CPU, which is a product name rather than any claim about artificial general intelligence. For three and a half decades, Arm designed processor blueprints and licensed them out, collecting royalties without competing. That era is now over. The AGI CPU is Arm’s own silicon, co-designed with lead customer Meta, running up to 136 cores on TSMC’s 3nm process at 300 watts. Arm’s CEO says the company has more than $2 billion in customer demand across the next two fiscal years. Fujitsu brought the detail Cochrane called the coolest of the conference. Its MONAKA chip packs 144 Arm-based cores, but the trick is the cache. Rather than sitting alongside the cores and eating die area, the entire last-level cache lives on a separate 5nm die with the 2nm compute die stacked directly on top. It ships in 2027 in 350-watt and 500-watt versions. NVIDIA had more stage time than anyone, with six sessions. Its new Vera CPU carries 88 cores of NVIDIA’s own Olympus design, which marks a change: the previous Grace CPU used Arm’s off-the-shelf cores. Consequently, Arm’s win here is the instruction set, not the blueprint. The memory disclosure drew the most attention, with a fully loaded system reaching 1.5TB at 1.2TB/s while the whole memory subsystem draws just 30 to 40 watts. The Caveat on NVIDIA’s Benchmark Slides Cochrane pushes back on how NVIDIA presented its numbers. On the standard SPEC integer benchmark, Vera scored 925 against AMD’s 128-core EPYC score of 898, about three percent ahead. However, the slide NVIDIA showed normalizes that same result per physical core, which makes a three percent gap look enormous. NVIDIA defends the choice, arguing that per-core throughput matters when thousands of AI agents run at once. Cochrane grants that it is a fair argument to make. Even so, his verdict is blunt: it is a different number from the headline one, and presenting it that way is not the best look. Sponsor: GoDaddy Economy hosting $6.99/month, WordPress hosting $12.99/month, domains $11.99. Website builder trial available. Use codes at geeknewscentral.com/godaddy to support the show. Apple’s Newest Chip Landed in Its Cheapest Mac Last week’s episode covered the Mac Studio half of Apple’s August announcement. Tonight Cochrane takes the other half, the new Mac mini, and finds the numbering genuinely strange. The $899 base Mac mini gets the M6, which is Apple’s first 2nm chip and the newest process the company has shipped. It brings twelve CPU cores, twelve GPU cores, and 170GB/s of memory bandwidth. Apple also introduced a third CPU core class called super cores. So Apple’s most advanced chip sits in its cheapest desktop, while the M5 Pro, M5 Max and M5 Ultra above it all carry a lower number. It gets stranger. The M6 mini has Thunderbolt 4 while the pricier M5 Pro mini has Thunderbolt 5, and the memory ceiling runs backward too. Apple explains none of it across three announcement pages. Reading between the lines, Cochrane figures the M6 is the entry point of a new generation that shipped ahead of its larger siblings. London’s Robotaxis Started Carrying Passengers Arm’s monthly roundup covers everything outside the data center, and Wayve stood out. Transport for London granted the British self-driving company private hire vehicle licenses on August 5th, the same category a minicab needs. Then on September 3rd the service launched with Uber, marking the first autonomous rides ever offered to UK passengers. A small fleet of Ford Mustang Mach-Es covers anywhere in London except the airports, with a TfL-licensed safety driver still aboard. Over 140,000 Londoners signed up. The compute runs on NVIDIA’s Arm-based automotive platform, which is why Arm claims the win. Cochrane notes the pattern: once you set a standard nobody can move off, these wins keep arriving. Two more items round it out, both about squeezing AI onto phones. Google’s Pixel 11 shipped in August with the Tensor G6, and Google claims on-device AI runs up to 3.5x faster using 3.5x less energy. Those are Google’s own unbenchmarked figures. Separately, Graphcore’s research team worked with Arm to run an 11-billion-parameter vision model on phone-class processors by squeezing each parameter to 2.7 bits, taking the model from roughly 22GB down to 3.7GB. Intel Is Pitching AI Infrastructure From a Long Way Back Intel’s newsroom post previews the AI Infra Summit, running September 15th through 17th in Santa Clara. CEO Lip-Bu Tan takes a fireside chat on Tuesday morning, with three Intel sessions across the show. Cochrane unpacks two terms first. Physical AI means AI that acts in the real world through sensors and motors rather than living on a screen, and Intel takes it seriously enough to have renamed its PC division the Client Computing and Physical AI Group in May. Disaggregated inference splits the two phases of running a model: reading your prompt is compute-hungry, while writing the answer back is memory-hungry. The context is where this gets interesting. Intel’s revenue rose 25 percent last quarter, its fastest growth since 2011. Nevertheless, in AI accelerators the company barely registers next to NVIDIA. Gaudi has effectively been abandoned, to the point that Intel stopped maintaining its open-source driver, and AMD passed Intel in data center revenue last quarter. Tellingly, when Intel demoed disaggregated inference at Computex, NVIDIA GPUs handled one phase and SambaNova chips the other while Intel supplied the coordinating CPU. Crescent Island, Intel’s actual inference chip, does not sample until later this year, and Intel declined to publish its memory bandwidth. Amazon Bought the Company Behind DuckDB On August 26th, Amazon signed a deal to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB. Cochrane spends time explaining what DuckDB is, since listeners outside the data world may never have encountered it. The problem it solves is familiar. Querying a large pile of data files traditionally meant either running a database server or spinning up a data warehouse with a cluster, a bill, and a loading pipeline. Both are heavy machinery for a question you wanted answered in ten seconds. DuckDB instead ships as a library rather than a server. You add it to your program like any other package, point it at your files, and write ordinary SQL directly against them. The data never moves. The usual comparison is SQLite, which is embedded in nearly every phone and browser on earth. Where SQLite excels at looking up one record, DuckDB rebuilds that embedded idea for chewing through millions of rows. It now sees roughly 62 million monthly downloads on Python’s package index alone, up from about 25 million last October. AWS says it is buying the company, not the project. DuckDB stays free and open source under the MIT license, held by a Dutch nonprofit foundation, and the founders join AWS while continuing to run technical direction from Amsterdam. Andy Warfield, a VP and distinguished engineer at AWS, described DuckDB as “the glibc of structured data: a lean, unglamorous, ubiquitous dependency that a great deal of software links against and almost nobody has to think about.” Cochrane sits with what that ownership means. He reaches for an analogy: imagine Daniel Stenberg selling curl. He doubts it would ever happen, but the concept alone is startling given how much infrastructure depends on it. His read is that AWS is betting DuckDB becomes as foundational as curl and SQLite already are. GitHub Has One AI Model Grade Another One’s Homework GitHub shipped Project HydraFusion into Copilot as a research preview. Instead of routing your request to a single model, it picks one of three approaches per request. Sometimes one model simply answers. Alternatively, a cheaper model drafts, and a quality gate decides whether to escalate. The interesting one is Critique. One model writes the code, a separate model from a different family reviews it read-only, and the original gets one pass to revise. Despite the name, nothing is fused here. There is no voting and no merging, just one model at a time with a gate deciding whether to spend more. GitHub explained the reasoning in an earlier post: “a model reviewing its own work is still bounded by its own training biases: the same training data and techniques, the same blind spots.” Research supports it. A team at NeurIPS in 2024 showed that models recognize their own writing and score it higher than human graders do. GitHub’s earlier number had a Claude Sonnet and GPT critic pairing closing about three-quarters of the gap between Sonnet and the larger Opus model. This mirrors a workflow Cochrane uses constantly and has described on a previous episode. He runs a cross-check review with a second model from a different company, and it routinely surfaces issues the first model missed. He explains that different training data, different engineers, and different reinforcement approaches build different internal biases about what counts as correct. Looking ahead, he expects more of these “Frankenstein patterns” where models from different training families work together. The Best of IFA 2026, and What You Can Actually Buy IFA opened to the public in Berlin for its 102nd year, with about 1,900 brands. Cochrane splits The Verge’s roundup in two, since much of what generates headlines at these shows never ships. Starting with real products, iRobot’s flagship Roomba Max 875 Combo runs $1,199 and ships in about two weeks. Its SealForce feature drops a hidden skirt from the chassis when it detects carpet, sealing against the fibers so suction concentrates instead of leaking out the sides. That reaches 35,000 pascals, iRobot’s strongest yet. A step-down model at $899 carries the same trick, though Cochrane balks at both prices. Anker’s Soundcore Sleep 4 Pro earbuds arrive in November at $349.99. The charging case carries its own round touchscreen, so you pick soundscapes, set alarms, and read sleep stats without your phone. Optical sensors read heart rate and variability from the ear canal, which beats the wrist for accuracy, and the case masks a snoring partner. Cochrane remains unconvinced about sleeping with earbuds in. Philips also has smart rope lights, the Hue Liane 360, on sale now. They glow evenly around the tube rather than showing individual LEDs. They also run $400 for three meters, which works out to about $130 per meter of rope light. As for concepts nobody can buy, iRobot showed a robot vacuum that carries a smaller robot vacuum on its back in a garage and lowers it to deploy. Lenovo brought a 14-inch laptop whose screen rolls out to 17 inches at the press of a button, which reviewers call the first rollable that feels close to shippable. Tecno showed a phone with essentially no border around the screen, and Acer had a Windows gaming handheld that swivels its screen up over a keyboard. Two themes ran through the show. Humanoid robots were the loudest thing on the floor, and IFA’s own CEO framed the event as being about robots that work rather than robots that demo. Meanwhile, AI stopped being its own product category and became an ingredient, showing up in refrigerators, treadmills, dishwashers, and motorized TV mounts. Farmed Salmon Isn’t the Omega-3 Machine It Used to Be USDA scientists measured farmed salmon and found considerably less of the good fat than the government’s own database claims. EPA and DHA are two fatty acids you get almost entirely from fish. Your body can build them from the plant version, but only in tiny amounts, so the NIH’s position is that eating them is the only practical way to raise your levels. Those fatty acids are structural pieces of every cell, with DHA concentrating in the brain and retina. That is why the federal dietary guidelines, issued jointly by USDA and Health and Human Services, recommend at least eight ounces of fish a week and steer you toward salmon. That amount is calibrated to deliver about 250 milligrams a day. Published in Frontiers in Nutrition last month, the study found EPA and DHA in farmed Atlantic salmon came in 54.7 percent lower than USDA’s own reference values, last updated in 2018. A three-ounce serving fell from roughly 1,670 milligrams to about 756. Consequently, two servings a week now fall about 14 percent short of the target. Plant-derived fats meanwhile rose two to three times over. The likely cause is feed. Salmon are carnivores, and farms once fed them oily little fish. There was never going to be enough of those as the industry scaled, so crops filled the gap: soy, canola, sunflower and linseed. Importantly, the study does not claim to have proven this and calls the feed shift a plausible explanation. Independent corroboration lends it credibility. Researchers at Stirling measured a similar halving in Scottish salmon between 2006 and 2015, and Norway’s marine institute saw it across thousands of samples. There is a land dimension too. Roughly half the world’s soy grows in South America, where rainforest gets cleared for feed. Matthew Hayek, who studies the environmental cost of protein at NYU, told Inside Climate News that “soy is a major, important protein and oil ingredient in fish farming.” Adding up two decades of soy across all fish farming, he puts the extra forest clearing at around the area of Nicaragua or Bangladesh. That figure covers all fish farming rather than salmon alone, and Hayek notes it is hard to attribute soy use to any single species. Cochrane closes with two caveats. First, the study measured only eight fish, bought around Maryland, DC and Virginia over six weeks in 2023, and nearly all sourced from Chile. That is not a national survey, and the authors say plainly the sample was not large enough to change government advice. Rather, it flags that a federal database value needs rechecking, which is what the paper set out to do. Second, on whether you should care, farmed salmon still beats beef, chicken and eggs by a mile, since those carry essentially zero EPA and DHA. What it loses is its crown among fatty fish, dropping to mid-pack behind herring, sardines and mackerel and roughly level with trout. The broader health case is also softer than the 2000s suggested. A review of 86 trials covering 162,000 people found supplements barely moved heart attacks or deaths, so eating fish and swallowing fish oil are not the same claim. No producer has responded to the findings, and USDA, whose own scientists ran the study, declined an interview and did not answer emailed questions. Cochrane wraps up with housekeeping and a note that he will be back on Labor Day. The post The Mainframe Learned to Speak Arm #1875 appeared first on Geek News Central.

“I trust them to kiss the government's ass. I don't trust them to serve me.” — Keith Teare Who to trust in an age of AI agents? Especially when it seems as if these swarming agents — akin to the gang of adolescents in William Golding's Lord of the Flies — are developing minds of their own. At this week's G20 Innovation Ministerial in North Carolina, Donald Trump and his minions produced a hands-off charter for AI. Known as the “Carolina Principles,” it sounds to critics like a particularly unprincipled justification for regulation-free AI. That Was The Week publisher, Keith Teare, however, isn't a critic of Trump's Principles. Don't trust the trust scare, Keith tells us. Especially all the fear around the swarming agents that are supposedly developing minds of their own. Pooh-poohing the real-world Hugging Face breakout, Keith argues that since he's never witnessed swarming agents on his computer, they can't exist. Which is akin, I suspect, to a climate denier who argues that global warming is a hoax because it happens to be chilly outside. All-too-human logic, I fear, in our age of autonomous AI agents. Five Takeaways •       The Carolina Principles. The week's set piece was a G20 Innovation Ministerial in North Carolina that Keith describes as a Trump takeover of a global event: the Russian finance minister turned up at Trump's invitation, and the attendees were lectured — via David Sacks and Howard Lutnick — on the merits of unregulated American capitalism. A propaganda event, Keith concedes, but one that reached the right conclusion: the resulting “Carolina Principles,” signed by everyone including the Europeans, call for flexible frameworks that encourage adoption and pointedly decline to make trust a license innovation must obtain in advance. With Bernie Sanders calling the same week for a development halt pending government licenses, Keith's position is characteristically blunt: “when I've started a company, I don't go and ask permission. I just do it.” Getting rid of Lina Khan, he adds, remains about the only thing he likes about the Trump administration. Andrew's verdict on the charter: to critics, a particularly unprincipled justification for regulation-free AI.•       Don't Trust the Trust Scare. Keith's editorial thesis: trust is not granted by authority; it is built through use. You trust yourself in a car because you drive one, and not on roller skates because you fall over. Over seventy percent of Americans now use AI — the same Americans who tell Politico they oppose data centers — which is why Keith reads the backlash as a confection of media and populist politicians, soon to evaporate (the real coming problem, he argues, is too few data centers, not too many; the modern off-grid ones are net givers of power). The withheld ChatGPT-6 gets the same treatment: launched but limited to insiders, which Keith reads not as safety but as government relations — the pull quote of the week. Andrew's counter: in a world without regulators, trust in the companies is all we have — including, awkwardly for Keith, when they withhold their own products. Exhibit for the defense, from The Washington Post: Americans in an age of anxiety leaning on AI — Keith included, who feeds his medical records to ChatGPT and finds it “very closely aligned with what your doctor thinks.”•       The Swarming Fight. The hour's genuine clash. In the wake of the Hugging Face hack, Kevin Roose warned in The New York Times that it should make you worry more about AI, and OpenAI's Dean Ball publicly apologized for failing “to communicate in sufficiently serious terms about the specifics of self-sovereign AI.” Neither is a doomer — which is Andrew's point. Keith's rebuttal: every swarm sighting has occurred inside an AI lab, in an experiment whose parameters the labs themselves set — “on my computer, I don't see any swarms” — and self-sovereign AI is anthropomorphizing science fiction: agents pursue goals humans set. “I know enough to know BS when I read it, and this is BS.” Andrew's reply — “I think you're trivializing” — went unwithdrawn, and his sign-off flagged that Keith perhaps simplifies the Hugging Face incident. Unresolved, to be continued. Andrew's framing gives the episode its title — swarming agents as the gang of adolescents in Golding's Lord of the Flies — and his verdict its sting: Keith's I-see-no-swarms-on-my-computer logic is akin to a climate denier calling global warming a hoax because it's chilly outside. Keith's exit line: “I'm just gonna go and check on my swarms.”•       Nvidia Buys Hugging Face. The week's biggest deal: Nvidia acquired Hugging Face — the repository of the world's open-source AI models — for $13 billion, just as The New York Times reported corporate America getting hooked on open source (much of it Chinese: GLM 5.3). The economics, per Keith: an $18,000 Mac Studio or a top-end Nvidia GPU beats $200-a-month token fees — AI capability migrating to the edge, out of OpenAI's and Anthropic's meters. Which suits Nvidia either way: The Economist calls it the central bank of AI, though Andrew prefers arms supplier — it wins whether the future is open or closed, and is, ironically, the most trusted name in the business precisely because it has no dog in the fight. Don't expect it to govern anything, says Keith: “that would put friction in the way of their sales.” The challenger to watch: newly public Cerebras, whose wafer-scale chips undercut Nvidia on token price.•       Mom and Dad's Money. The Times asked which investors will get rich from Anthropic's IPO — and noted that, unlike past booms, firms like Sequoia hold both horses, OpenAI and Anthropic alike. Keith's arithmetic explains why: fewer than fifty companies will return venture capital this cycle, those two representing more than half the likely value, and last month 75 percent of all dollars invested in VC funds went to Andreessen Horowitz alone. (His own SignalRank barometer: for two years, none of its 64 investments cracked the top-20 most-wanted secondary shares; now five have.) The pyramid runs from VCs down to pension funds — “somebody's mom and dad's money is heavily betting that Anthropic and OpenAI are gonna return large amounts of wealth” — and late secondary buyers, Figma-style, almost always lose when the IPO right-sizes the price. What could topple the deck of cards? Regulation slowing the modeled returns. Which is why, for Keith, the midterms should be fought on jobs and wages — data centers, he insists, are not a winning issue. About the Co-Host Keith Teare is the founder and CEO of SignalRank Corporation and publisher of the That Was The Week tech newsletter, whose editorial — “Don't Trust the Trust Scare” — frames this episode. A serial entrepreneur and co-founder of TechCrunch, he has spent five decades building and funding technology companies, and brings a techno-optimist's eye to Keen On America's weekly wrap of the tech news. References: •       That Was The Week — Keith's newsletter, including this week's editorial, “Don't Trust the Trust Scare,” and his companion piece on concentration and diversification at The State of Venture.•      &nb...

The latest In Touch With iOS with Dave he is joined by Chuck Joiner, Jeff Gamet, Eric Bolden, Marty Jencius, Guy Serle. This week, the panel discusses John Ternus taking over as Apple CEO, Tim Cook's farewell, and the executive changes marking a new era at Apple. We cover the latest iOS 27, visionOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27 betas, plus strong AI-driven demand for Mac mini and Mac Studio and changes to Intel Mac support. Other topics include the Lake America mapping controversy, a useful Control Center Shortcut, Storm Radar bringing weather and navigation to CarPlay, Apple TV and Apple One price increases, older Macs becoming obsolete, and this week's Things We Found. The show notes are at InTouchwithiOS.com  Direct Link to Audio  Links to our Show Give us a review on Apple Podcasts! CLICK HERE we would really appreciate it! Click this link Buy me a Coffee to support the show we would really appreciate it. intouchwithios.com/coffee  Another way to support the show is to become a Patreon member patreon.com/intouchwithios Website: In Touch With iOS YouTube Channel In Touch with iOS Magazine on Flipboard Facebook Page BlueSky Mastodon X Instagram Threads Topics and Links Summary This week, Dave is joined by Jill McKinley, Chuck Joiner, Jeff Gamet, Eric Bolden, Marty Jencius, and Guy Serle for a packed episode that begins with a major changing of the guard at Apple. Tim Cook has wrapped up his final day as CEO and moves into the executive chairman role as John Ternus officially takes over. The panel discusses Cook's farewell message, Ternus's first memo to Apple employees, what his hardware-engineering background could mean for Apple's future, and the wider executive changes accompanying the transition, including Phil Schiller scaling back his responsibilities. The crew also covers the latest Apple beta releases, including visionOS 27 beta 8, iOS and iPadOS 27 developer beta 8 and public beta 6, watchOS 27 beta 8, tvOS 27 beta 8, and macOS 27 beta 8. They look at the new iPhone Handoff capability in iOS 27, unexpectedly strong demand for Mac mini and Mac Studio for AI workloads, and Apple giving Mac App Store developers the option to drop Intel support. Other topics include the unusual Lake Ontario/Lake America mapping controversy involving Apple Maps, Google Maps, and MapQuest; a handy Shortcut for jumping directly to the current app's Settings from Control Center; and Storm Radar bringing route-aware weather, alerts, and navigation to CarPlay. In the news, Qualcomm is raising chip prices, several older Macs have moved onto Apple's obsolete-products list, Apple has been inducted into the Brand Hall of Fame, and Apple TV and the Apple One Individual plan are getting more expensive. Plus, Dave's Things We Found pick is the E-Rhino 165W four-port GaN USB-C charger Opening Segment Apple Transition: Tim Cook's Legacy and the John Ternus Era As of September 1, Apple has officially transitioned to a new leadership structure with John Ternus stepping in as CEO and Tim Cook assuming the role of Executive Chairman. This major shift includes Cook's final reflections, Ternus's initial vision for the company, and several notable executive reassignments accompanying the change. Tim Cook's departure from the CEO role On his final day as CEO, August 31, Cook shared an emotional message with Apple staff, expressing deep gratitude and characterizing his leadership years as a singular honor. Cook will continue to provide guidance in his new capacity as Executive Chairman. 9to5Mac - Tim Cook's full memo to employees on his last day as CEO (Aug. 31, 2026) John Ternus's first address as CEO During his first official day, Ternus acknowledged Cook's mentorship and emphasized his confidence in the current workforce. His message highlighted the upcoming September 9 launch and future product roadmaps, suggesting a focus on continuity while the panel analyzes his specific leadership style. 9to5Mac - Read new Apple CEO John Ternus's full memo to employees (Sept. 1, 2026) Apple Leadership Broad executive reshuffling Reporting indicates that the transition involves several high-level moves. Former CFO Luca Maestri has concluded his Corporate Services tenure, with Kevan Parekh assuming those duties. Adrian Perica is no longer appearing on the leadership roster, while Laura Legros has rejoined Apple in a strategic capacity supporting Ternus. 9to5Mac - John Ternus's first day as Apple CEO: Here's the latest (Sept. 1, 2026) Phil Schiller steps back Schiller has officially shifted his focus away from the App Store and product events, though he maintains his status as an Apple Fellow. Eddy Cue will now oversee the App Store with Carson Oliver managing daily operations, while Nola Weinstein takes the lead on events. This raises questions about how much of the senior hierarchy is being restructured at once. MacRumors - Apple's Phil Schiller Scales Back Role as John Ternus Era Begins (Aug. 31, 2026) Topics and Links In Touch With Vision Pro this week visionOS 27 beta 8 Apple released visionOS 27 developer beta 8 on August 31. Apple Developer lists build 24M5361a. This is a developer beta, not a final release. MacRumors - Apple Seeds Eighth visionOS 27 Beta to Developers (Aug. 31, 2026) Apple Developer - visionOS 27 release notes Apple Vision Pro was just used in a first-of-its-kind surgery Beta this week iOS 27 and iPadOS 27: developer beta 8 and public beta 6 Apple released iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 developer beta 8 on August 31, build 24A5430a. Later that day Apple released public beta 6 for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. MacRumors reported no notable new features in the day's developer builds as the cycle approaches release. MacRumors - iOS 27/iPadOS 27 developer beta 8 (Aug. 31, 2026) MacRumors - iOS/iPadOS 27 public beta 6 (Aug. 31, 2026) Apple Developer - iOS & iPadOS 27 release notes watchOS 27 beta 8 Apple released watchOS 27 developer beta 8 on August 31. Apple Developer lists build 24R5360a. MacRumors - watchOS 27 beta 8 (Aug. 31, 2026) watchOS 27 Beta 8 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation   tvOS 27 beta 8 Apple released tvOS 27 developer beta 8 on August 31. Apple Developer lists build 24J5360a. MacRumors - tvOS 27 beta 8 (Aug. 31, 2026) tvOS 27 Beta 8 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation   iOS 27's new iPhone Handoff feature iOS 27 feature that can switch between two iPhones using the same phone number. Setup appears under Cellular, with one iPhone designated as the main device and the other as a companion. Carrier support appears to be required, so availability still needs confirmation when iOS 27 ships. MacRumors - iOS 27 Introduces New 'iPhone Handoff' Feature (Sept. 2, 2026) In Touch With Mac this week macOS 27 Golden Gate beta 8 Apple released macOS 27 developer beta 8 on August 31. Apple Developer lists build 26A5425a. The Mac beta stays in the Mac section rather than Beta this week. MacRumors - macOS 27 beta 8 (Aug. 31, 2026) Apple Developer - macOS 27 release notes AI demand reportedly caught Apple off guard on Mac mini and Mac Studio MacRumors, citing The Information, reports that unusually strong enterprise demand for Macs used for AI workloads helped drive Apple's unusually early Mac mini and Mac Studio launch. The report says high-end configurations have faced supply pressure amid the broader memory shortage. MacRumors - Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio (Aug. 30, 2026) Mac App Store apps can now drop Intel Mac support Apple told developers that universal Mac App Store apps requiring macOS 13 or later can remove the x86_64 architecture. Intel users can keep using the last compatible version, but developers can stop shipping updates to Intel Macs. MacRumors - Mac App Store Apps Can Now Drop Support for Intel Macs (Sept. 1, 2026) Other Topics In Touch with Jeff Gamet's Blog Will AI Ever Attain AGI Level? Nope Anthropic has upgraded Claude's computer-use capability on Mac so tasks can run in the background Anthropic upgrades Claude's computer use to run in the background on Mac Tip: open the current app's Settings from Control Center A Shortcut shared by Quinn Nelson can be assigned to Control Center's Run Shortcut control or the Action button, providing a fast path to the Settings page for the app currently in use. MacRumors How-To - Open the Current App's Settings From Control Center (Sept. 2, 2026) App: Storm Radar comes to CarPlay The Weather Channel's Storm Radar 4.0.19 added a dedicated CarPlay app with map/satellite views, weather layers, destination conditions, navigation, route weather alerts, and automatic rerouting. This is standard CarPlay, not CarPlay Ultra. 9to5Mac - Apple CarPlay just added a major weather app (Aug. 30, 2026) News Qualcomm raises chip prices Qualcomm said chip prices would rise by double digits for chips shipped after September 1, citing higher supplier costs. The Apple angle is the continuing importance of component pricing as Apple shifts more modem work in-house. MacRumors - Qualcomm Raising Chip Prices Starting Tomorrow (Aug. 31, 2026) Three more Macs become obsolete Apple moved the 2018 Retina MacBook Air, 13-inch 2018 MacBook Pro with four Thunderbolt 3 ports, and 13-inch 2017 MacBook Pro with two Thunderbolt 3 ports to its obsolete list. Obsolete products are generally no longer eligible for Apple hardware service, although Apple's laptop battery-only repair policy can extend longer in some cases. MacRumors - Apple Adds Three More Macs to Obsolete Products List (Aug. 31, 2026) Apple enters the Brand Hall of Fame The One Club for Creativity selected Apple as the first brand inducted into its newly established Brand Hall of Fame, recognizing the company's history of influential advertising. MacRumors - Apple Inducted Into 'Brand Hall of Fame' for Iconic Ads (Aug. 31, 2026)  This week's "Things we found" Dave: mfish E-RHINO 165W 4-Port GaN USB-C Charger. The manufacturer lists four USB-C ports, up to 165W combined dual-port output, up to 140W from C1 or C2 individually, and a display showing output and temperature. Current direct-site pricing should be checked at recording time. Amazon mfish direct product page Eric: OWC drive dock   A good way to swap between several old drives while waiting for drive prices to drop. https://www.owc.com/solutions/drive-dock   https://amzn.to/4cviDHk Jeff: Riff Calendar It's a calendar app that lets you zoom in for a more granular look at your schedule instead of the traditional day, week, and month views. It's in beta for iPhone now. https://riffcalendar.com/ Chuck: ORICO External Hard Drive Case for 3.5 Inch HDD/SSD 5 Packs Portable Hard Drive Carrying Protective Storage Box Anti-Static and Shockproof https://amzn.to/4qWI6PZ 57 Nut and Bolt Thread Checker with 21 Standard &17 Metric &19 Drill Gauges https://amzn.to/3UAhhVB Marty: Chad Powers: on Hulu Season 1 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nFZMD8FMM0 Season 2 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8B59O_18Dc  Ted Lasso Party Game: https://www.amazon.com/Funko-63413-Ted-Lasso-Game/dp/B09QV34247 Announcements Macstock X wrapped up for 2026 what a great event! Stay tuned for the Digital pass coming soon Digital Pass | Macstock Conference & Expo Our Host Dave Ginsburg is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users and shares his wealth of knowledge of iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and related technologies. Visit the YouTube channel https://youtube.com/intouchwithios follow him on Mastodon @daveginsburg, , BlueSky @daveginsburg and the show @intouchwithios   Our Co-Hosts Jeff Gamet is a podcaster, technology blogger, artist, and author. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's managing editor, and Smile's TextExpander Evangelist. You can find him on his blog Jeff Gamet - Mastadon @jgamet Pixelfed @jgamet@pixelfed.social and Bluesky @jgamet.bsky.social Podcasts The Context Machine Podcast  Retro Rewatch Retro Rewatch His YouTube channel https://youtube.com/jgamet Buy his art! Jeff Gamet Art Marty Jencius, Ph.D., is a professor of counselor education at Kent State University, where he researches, writes, and trains about using technology in teaching and mental health practice. His podcasts include Vision Pro Files, The Tech Savvy Professor and Circular Firing Squad Podcast. Find him at jencius@mastodon.social  https://thepodtalk.net  Eric Bolden is into macOS, plants, sci-fi, food, and is a rural internet supporter. You can connect with him by email at eabolden@mac.com, on Mastodon at @eabolden@techhub.social, on his blog, Trending At Work, and as co-host on The Vision ProFiles podcast.   Jill McKinley works in enterprise software, server administration, and IT. A lifelong tech enthusiast, she started her career with Windows but is now an avid Apple fan. Beyond technology, she shares her insights on ai, nature, faith, and personal growth through her podcasts. Her content on YouTube at @smallstepswithai and follow her on X @NorthwoodsJill. 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Benjamin and Chance talk about John Ternus's first week in the job as Apple CEO, and how much Tim Cook will still be involved. Also, it's the last chance for iPhone event rumors, with details about some health updates for the Apple Watch Series 12 coming to the fore. And there was an Apple TV subscription price hike, for the second time in as many years. And in Happy Hour Plus, on the eve of iPhone 18 Pro, we reflect on our overall positive experiences using the iPhone Air for the entire year. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join. Sponsored by Square: Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/happyhour. Sponsored by Bitwarden: Register for the free, virtual Open Source Security Summit on September 17, featuring cybersecurity leaders David Sanger and Joseph Menn — and check out Bitwarden for trusted open source password, passkey, and secrets management, with end-to-end encryption and seamless autofill across all your devices. Sponsored by Gusto: The online payroll and benefits software built for small businesses. Get three months free when you run your first payroll at gusto.com/happyhour. Sponsored by Notion: Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at notion.com/happyhour. Hosts Chance Miller @ChanceHMiller on Twitter @ChanceHMiller on Instagram @ChanceHMiller on Threads Benjamin Mayo @bzamayo on Twitter @bzamayo@mastodon.social @bzamayo on Threads Subscribe, Rate, and Review Apple Podcasts Overcast Spotify 9to5Mac Happy Hour Plus Subscribe to 9to5Mac Happy Hour Plus! Support Benjamin and Chance directly with Happy Hour Plus! 9to5Mac Happy Hour Plus includes:  Ad-free versions of every episode  Pre- and post-show content Bonus episodes Join for $5 per month or $50 a year at 9to5mac.com/join.  Feedback Submit #Ask9to5Mac questions on Twitter, Mastodon, or Threads Email us feedback and questions to happyhour@9to5mac.com Links Today is Tim Cook's last day as Apple CEO, Ternus takes over Read Tim Cook's full memo to Apple employees on his last day as CEO Here's how much Apple is paying John Ternus as CEO, Tim Cook as executive chairman Read John Ternus's full memo to Apple employees on his first day as CEO New Apple CEO John Ternus now has his own X account Apple executive changes continue as Ternus becomes CEO Apple leadership page updated as John Ternus becomes the new CEO John Ternus just revealed his priorities in first introduction as Apple CEO Phil Schiller steps down from App Store and Apple events Report: Apple Watch Series 12 may feature always-on heart-rate tracking, new Fitness app Apple reportedly considered launching a new Apple Pencil for iPhone Ultra Unusual timing of Mac mini and Mac Studio updates all about AI, claims report Apple announces price increase for Apple TV and Apple One subscriptions

Fable 5.1已出，Codex下一代模型Astra还会远吗？ 15年前，Tim Cook在做了几年内部“代理CEO”之后，终于接过乔布斯的衣钵，正式执掌苹果。Tim时代的苹果与乔布斯时代有很大不同，但仍然承袭了过去苹果的创新与高品质路线。在Tim执掌苹果公司的15年间，把苹果从一家$350 billion市值的公司带到突破$5 trillion，创下商业奇迹。 如今John Ternus接过Tim的位子，苹果又将迎来新的时代。下周就是John的首次Apple Event了，且让我们拭目以待，看看新苹果又将如何走向。 AI方面，Fable 5.1发布，现在就等GPT回应。近期GLM 5.3 Flash低价非常牛逼，英伟达收购Hugging Face又将创下今年最大收购案，异常热闹。 时间轴 00:00:30 Fable 5.1 发布后实际体验 00:01:23 苹果发布新款 Mac mini 和 Mac Studio 00:06:14 John Ternus 于 9 月 1 日正式接任苹果 CEO 00:08:57 iMac 预计将直接升级到 M6 芯片 … Continue reading →

A YouTuber became GoPro's largest single shareholder on Sunday. And on Tuesday, GoPro announced it is being sold – to Starman Optical, an optical-photonics company that builds transceivers for AI data centres, for $285 million. Nino's read: this is a move into defence, robotics and aerospace, and continued support for cameras is not the same as continued investment. Same week, Miller – the Australian company that invented the fluid head in 1946 – is closing its doors, and Sony, Tilta, Samsung, Apple and Sigma all raised prices. And Samsung's launch campaign for SSDs aimed at filmmakers appears to contain not a single real frame. Topics and Chapters in this Episode: Markiplier becomes GoPro's largest shareholder GoPro to merge with Starman Optical LIT DUO 1 review Sony Cinema Line price increases in Japan Tilta raises prices on September 1 Samsung P9 and P7 portable SSDs Apple refreshes Mac Studio and Mac mini Welcome to Lollywood  PYXIS 12K face-detect autofocus beta  Phantom LUTs for Nikon ZR  DJI Osmo Pocket 4 and 4P firmware update  Open Pocket Cine  Avid Media Composer 2026.8 Sigma Cine Prime line extension Bilibili goes global Digital de-aging and the uncanny valley Ethical AI filmmaking course – Seedance 2.5 lesson Let us know what you think in the comments below or on YouTube, and email us at podcast@cined.com if there is something you want us to discuss on the show.

Vik Sharma is best known as the CEO of Cake Wallet. But lately, he's built two new projects: a Signal fork with BTC tipping called Radar, and a perpetual trading app named Arbiter. In this episode, he explains how the AI revolution speeds up development. Time stamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:18 - Vik Sharma Returns: Two New Products in Seven Months 1:41 - Radar: A Signal Fork with Bitcoin Lightning Built In 3:18 - How Radar Works: Signal Servers, Monthly Donations & Linked Devices 5:21 - Why Signal Over Telegram 6:36 - Why Lightning Over Monero 8:19 - Stablecoins for Normies: The Venmo-ification of Bitcoin 10:33 - Spark, Breez SDK & the Stablecoin Question 11:55 - The Nvidia Spark Cluster: Going All In on Local AI 15:25 - Why Local Models Beat Cloud Subscriptions for Security Work 17:03 - Guardrails: When Claude Refuses to Audit Your Own App 18:33 - Dinner with the Trump Administration: America's AI Regulation Mistake 20:45 - Italy's ChatGPT Ban & the Fear of Falling Behind 22:44 - The $100 Cake Wallet Contest 23:15 - Does Cake Wallet Use AI for Coding? 25:16 - Arbiter: A Vibe-Coded Hyperliquid Trading App 27:44 - $5 Million Traded, TestFlight & the Mac Desktop Build 30:13 - Linux Requests & the Orange Rock Comparison 31:17 - Gasless USDC: Circle CCTP & Frictionless Onboarding 35:10 - Can This UX Work on Private Chains? Zano, Aztec, Tari & Beam 37:44 - The $10,000 Red Team Donation & Cake's Audit Results 39:34 - The Coldcard RNG Flaw & the "Someone Is Looking at the Code" Fallacy 43:14 - Passphrases: The Simplest Security Upgrade 43:58 - The Bitcoin Forks: Luke Dash Jr's Blake2 & the Ecash Hard Fork 44:51 - Open-Mindedness: The Original Bitcoiner Virtue 46:44 - Wownero, MoneroV & Why Cake Dropped It 49:22 - The Winning Number Is 27 (and Nobody Picked It) 51:04 - The Privacy Narrative: Why Monero & Zcash Are Pumping 55:07 - "Bitcoin Maximalism Is Almost Anti-Bitcoin" 57:52 - NEAR Intents, Maya & Spending Shielded Zcash 59:53 - How to Try Arbiter Today 1:01:45 - What's Next: Desktop Apps, Multisig & Back to Self-Custody Basics 1:04:26 - Still Bullish on Lightning 1:04:39 - The Gatekeeper Question: How Cake Decides Which Coins to List 1:09:07 - Dash Adopting Orchard While Zcash Moves to Ironwood 1:10:56 - The Maintenance Burden: Why Exodus Dropped Monero 1:12:25 - Zcash Voting, Sapling Addresses & Passphrase Support 1:16:03 - Seth's Role & the Foundation Devices Connection 1:17:01 - Two Million Downloads & the Privacy Tipping Point 1:19:08 - Bitcoin Amsterdam & Conference Plans 1:21:14 - Sponsors & Goodbye

Apple entra en una nueva era con la salida de Tim Cook como CEO y la llegada de John Ternus, mientras la demanda de inteligencia artificial presiona el stock de Mac mini y Mac Studio. También analizamos las barreras de Estados Unidos a los drones y robots chinos, el humanoide DR02 y Microduck, el pequeño robot abierto de Hugging Face. La IA deja algunas de las noticias más inquietantes: 688 agentes coordinados contra Hugging Face, Sam Altman pidiendo bajar la velocidad, el fenómeno “meat proxy”, la necesidad de verificar las respuestas y el avance de Seedance 2.0 sobre el trabajo de los actores.#CuriosiMartes #idearVlog #InteligenciaArtificial #Tecnología #Apple CuriosiMartes 292, idearVlog, inteligencia artificial, noticias de tecnología, Apple, Tim Cook, John Ternus, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Hugging Face, agentes de IA, robots humanoides, DR02, Microduck, PlayStation 5, juegos digitales, Seedance 2.0, blist.ai, salud tecnológica, nanopartículas, Alzheimer

Apple has recently moved up the release dates for its Mac mini and Mac Studio models due to a massive, unforeseen interest from enterprise customers seeking hardware for AI development. Corporate buyers are increasingly using these desktop machines to run large AI models by linking multiple units together, a workflow Apple is now actively promoting. Despite this success, the company was reportedly unprepared for the surge, lacking both a dedicated business engineering team and a formal strategy for corporate AI. This high demand, paired with a global memory shortage, has resulted in significant shipping delays and product scarcities. Consequently, some businesses are turning to Nvidia's competing hardware while Apple works to stabilize its supply chain and manufacturing.

Kick off Mac Geek Gab 1157 with a rapid-fire round of Quick Tips: find the new Siri option hiding in your Camera app, tame Archive Utility’s settings to streamline your workflow, and turn your scanner and printer into a DIY copier over FTP. You’ll also learn where macOS quietly stashes your FileVault recovery key (hint: check Passwords) and how to wrangle your files so AI can actually help you, including a listener who let AI sort an entire TV library and another who put Claude Cowork to work as his personal Mac updater. Then it’s time for Apple’s big hardware drop: the M6 and M5 Ultra arrive in a new Mac mini and Mac Studio, with 2.5-gig Ethernet as the buried lede. Your two geeks and a pilot break down what’s worth your money, tackle Apple’s storage pricing problem with Thunderbolt and USB alternatives that won’t drain your wallet, and answer whether you can move your home folder to an external drive to dodge Apple’s SSD tax (spoiler: you can, and maybe it’s time we start endorsing this?). Stick around for Cool Stuff Found: a robot mower that behaves even without fences, a smarter way to peek inside archives, and a slick DMG utility. Press play, get your answers before your gear gets you… and whatever you do, Don’t Get Caught! 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1157 for Monday, August 31st, 2026 August 31st: World Distance Learning Day MGG Monthly Giveaway – Win a license to Yoink, Screenfloat, Transloader, or DeskMat from Eternal Storms The MGG Merch Store is Live! Quick Tips 00:00:01 Pilot Pete-QT-New “Siri” option in Camera 00:02:43 Allan-QT-Use Archive Utility’s Settings to streamline your workflow – From Stephen Robles 00:05:21 Jim-QT-Connect your scanner and printer via FTP to make a copier Also scan to USB for speed 00:08:26 KiwiGraham-QT-FileVault Recovery Key is in Passwords 00:13:10 Beware the stump grinders Call Before You Dig 00:14:05 Eric-CarPlay brings on an ##infinite Siri Loop 00:19:02 Tux-QT-Managing Files for use with Siri AI 00:22:01 Michael-AI Helped me sort my TV Episodes Build Me a Handoff Prompt 00:26:21 Ottograph is coming! 00:32:00 Steve-QT-1156-Using Claude CoWork to Play Mac Updater Sponsors 00:35:34 SPONSOR: Helix Sleep makes premium mattresses and bedding that are customized to fit your personal needs, and conveniently shipped to your door. Go to https://helixsleep.com/MGG for 27% Off Sitewide. 00:37:14 SPONSOR: Proton VPN. Unlike most VPNs, Proton is backed by strong European privacy laws, and, right now, Proton VPN is offering our listeners 70% off a two year plan when you go to https://ProtonVPN.com/MGG 00:38:38 SPONSOR: BBEdit, the power tool for text from Bare Bones Software; now with integrated Notebooks and extended language support. Your Questions Answered – feedback@macgeekgab.com 00:39:46 New M6, M5Ultra New Mac mini M6 and M5 Pro New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra Ian-All with 2.5GB Ethernet as standard! 00:48:12 Pensacola Craig-Apple has a pricing problem Thunderbolt Drives SABRENT Rocket XTRM 5 2GB (TB5) – $400 SABRENT Rocket Nano XTRAM (TB3) – $340 USB 10G drives SANDISK 2TB – $290 Lexar 2TB – $270 00:56:51 Josh-Can I move my home folder to an external drive to save on storage costs with a new computer? Cool Stuff Found 01:05:38 PIlot Pete-CSF-Worx Landroid WR320.1 Robot Mower Works with no fences between you and neighbor 01:13:35 ATCCSF-BetterZip Quick Look Generator and Extension 01:16:18 rndoug-csf-EasyDMGapp (also courtesy of Stephen Robles) 01:17:48 MGG 1157 Outtro MGG Monthly Giveaway Bandwidth Provided by CacheFly Pilot Pete's Aviation Podcast: So There I Was (for Aviation Enthusiasts) The Debut Film Podcast – Adam's new podcast! Dave's Business Brain (for Entrepreneurs) and Gig Gab (for Working Musicians) Podcasts MGG Merch is Available! Mac Geek Gab iOS app Mac Geek Gab YouTube Page Mac Geek Gab Live Calendar This Week's MGG Premium Contributors MGG Apple Podcasts Reviews feedback@macgeekgab.com 224-888-GEEK Active MGG Sponsors and Coupon Codes List BackBeat Media Podcast Network

This episode kicks off with WinUI's shift to open‑source‑first—what the GitHub‑centric workflow means for Windows devs—and James and Frank's hands‑on tales modernizing apps, CI/CD, and the surprisingly smooth Microsoft Store pipeline. They then deep‑dive into Apple: M6 Mac mini and Mac Studio upgrades for local AI, Rosetta's sunset and Intel‑Mac worries, foldable iPhone rumors, and possible Apple TV Thread/HDMI features—practical insights for choosing platforms and tooling. Note: We had issues with local recordings, so this is a cloud backup processed with Adobe Podcasts Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ Machine transcription available on http://mergeconflict.fm

Apple just locked in a date for the big iPhone event, and new Mac mini and Mac Studio models landed early with a price jump that'll make your eyes water. Tom and Jeff run the actual numbers on both new Macs, weigh in on the iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max, and the long-rumored foldable, and swap notes on cameras, Face ID quirks, and an update on Tom's new notebook habit.In this episode:Apple's iPhone event is officially set for September 9New Mac mini and Mac Studio pricing and specs, and why they cost so much more nowWhat a fully maxed-out Mac mini and Mac Studio actually run youiPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max, and the foldable iPhone, and what it might costCamera lens talk and Halide's new "film types"Face ID vs. Touch ID, and Jeff's post-stroke Face ID quirksTom's notebook and habit-tracker update, plus a Lochby Field Folio gift for his sonLinks from the show:Mac mini: https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/Mac Studio: https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/Halide: https://halide.cam/Lochby Field Folio A5: https://www.lochby.com/products/field-folio-a5Lochby Pocket Journal: https://www.lochby.com/products/pocket-journalField Notes: https://fieldnotesbrand.com/Question or Comment? Send us a Text Message!Support the showContact UsDrop us a line at feedback@basicafshow.comYou'll find Jeff at @reyespoint on Threads and reyespoint.bsky.social on BlueskyFind Tom at @tomanderson on ThreadsJoin Tom's newsletter, Apple Talk, for more Apple coverage and tips & tricks.Tom has a new YouTube channelShow artwork by the great Randall Martin DesignEnjoy Basic AF? Leave a review or rating!Review on Apple PodcastsRate on SpotifyRecommend in OvercastIntro Music: Psychokinetics - The ChosenApple MusicSpotifyTranscripts and some images are AI generated and may contain errors and general silliness.

Tune into episode 494 of the Mobile Tech Podcast with guest Marc Saltzman of Tech It Out -- brought to you by Mint Mobile. In this week's show, we review Dell's ultra thin and light XPS 13 laptop TCL's Tab 8 NXTPaper 5G tablet , and Hypershell's X Ultra S exoskeleton. We then discuss Samsung's new Galaxy S26 FE plus Apple's Mac mini M6 and M5 Pro and Mac Studio M5 Max and M5 Ultra. Finally, we cover rumors, leaks, and news from Samsung, Apple, Qualcomm, and Gamescom.Episode Links- Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tnkgrl- Donate / buy me a coffee (PayPal): https://tnkgrl.com/tnkgrl/- Support the podcast with Mint Mobile: https://mintmobile.com/mobiletech- Marc Saltzman: https://www.threads.com/@marcsaltzman- Mark's Dell XPS 13 review: https://www.reviewed.com/laptops/content/dell-xps-13-dx13260-review- Samsung Galaxy S26 FE: https://www.theverge.com/report/985187/samsung-galaxy-s26-fe-hands-on-preview-specs-features-design- Samsung Galaxy S17 Ultra renders leak: https://www.gsmarena.com/take_a_look_at_the_samsung_galaxy_s27_ultra_in_some_fresh_highquality_cad_renders-news-74333.php- Apple iPhone event is Sep 9: https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_schedules_iphone_event_for_september_9-news-74357.php- Apple Mac mini M6 (2nm) and M5 Pro plus Mac Studio M5 Max and M5 Ultra: https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_announces_new_mac_mini_and_mac_studio_with_m6_and_m5_chips-news-74335.php- Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Gen 6 Pro to reach 5GHz: https://www.gsmarena.com/qualcomm_confirms_that_its_next_snapdragon_flagship_platform_will_reach_5ghz-news-74343.php- Mark's Gamescom / Stage Tour coverage: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/saltzman-play-gamescom-2026-154307087.html- TCL Tab 8 NXTPaper 5G review: https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/tcl-tab-8-nxtpaper-5g- Hypershell X Ultra S review: https://www.wired.com/review/hypershell-x-ultra-s/Affiliate Links (If you use these links to buy something, we might earn a commission)- Dell XPS 13 2026: https://amzn.to/4zSOvjg- Samsung Galaxy S26: https://amzn.to/4xqbws1- Apple Mac mini M6: https://amzn.to/45XFyaA- Apple MacBook Neo: https://amzn.to/45Z2JRP- TCL NXTPaper 11 Plus: https://amzn.to/4xwpPvh

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT http://relay.fm/mpu/864 http://relay.fm/mpu/864 Marked Safe from Buying M5 Ultra 864 David Sparks and Stephen Robles Apple announced a brand new M6 chip, their first with 2nm process, plus upgraded Mac Studio. Does David regret his recent MacBook Pro purchase? Then we launch into listener feedback, Stephen's second new app, Raycast v2, and more. Apple announced a brand new M6 chip, their first with 2nm process, plus upgraded Mac Studio. Does David regret his recent MacBook Pro purchase? Then we launch into listener feedback, Stephen's second new app, Raycast v2, and more. clean 4548 Apple announced a brand new M6 chip, their first with 2nm process, plus upgraded Mac Studio. Does David regret his recent MacBook Pro purchase? Then we launch into listener feedback, Stephen's second new app, Raycast v2, and more. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code MPU. 1Password: Never forget a password again. Links and Show Notes: Sign up for the MPU email newsletter and join the MPU forums. You can watch the podcast over on YouTube. Credits The Mac Power Users Stephen Robles David Sparks The Editor Jim Metzendorf The Fixer Kerry Provanzano More Power Users: Ad-free episodes with regular bonus segments Submit Feedback David's Robot Assistant Field Guide Stephen's Shortcuts Community Stash App: Fast Add to Clipboard The Case for a Personal Apple Developer Tier - MacSparky Polishing Cloth - Apple Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra Bunch Moom · Many Tricks Analog Kits – Ugmonk Capture Kan Do: Task App Wispr Flow Paperman SofaBaton X2 Universal Remote Eve Weather 3D - Analogue Home Assistant Readwise Reader

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT http://relay.fm/mpu/864 http://relay.fm/mpu/864 David Sparks and Stephen Robles Apple announced a brand new M6 chip, their first with 2nm process, plus upgraded Mac Studio. Does David regret his recent MacBook Pro purchase? Then we launch into listener feedback, Stephen's second new app, Raycast v2, and more. Apple announced a brand new M6 chip, their first with 2nm process, plus upgraded Mac Studio. Does David regret his recent MacBook Pro purchase? Then we launch into listener feedback, Stephen's second new app, Raycast v2, and more. clean 4548 Apple announced a brand new M6 chip, their first with 2nm process, plus upgraded Mac Studio. Does David regret his recent MacBook Pro purchase? Then we launch into listener feedback, Stephen's second new app, Raycast v2, and more. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code MPU. 1Password: Never forget a password again. Links and Show Notes: Sign up for the MPU email newsletter and join the MPU forums. You can watch the podcast over on YouTube. Credits The Mac Power Users Stephen Robles David Sparks The Editor Jim Metzendorf The Fixer Kerry Provanzano More Power Users: Ad-free episodes with regular bonus segments Submit Feedback David's Robot Assistant Field Guide Stephen's Shortcuts Community Stash App: Fast Add to Clipboard The Case for a Personal Apple Developer Tier - MacSparky Polishing Cloth - Apple Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra Bunch Moom · Many Tricks Analog Kits – Ugmonk Capture Kan Do: Task App Wispr Flow Paperman SofaBaton X2 Universal Remote Eve Weather 3D - Analogue Home Assistant Readwise Reader

Apple anunció por sorpresa un Mac mini con chip M6, el primero fabricado a 2 nanómetros, pero ahora arranca en 900 dólares: casi el doble que hace unos meses. También llegó el Mac Studio con M5 Ultra y hasta 512 GB de RAM para correr IA local, OpenAI le cortó el acceso a Cursor tras su compra por el grupo de Elon Musk, Nvidia va por Hugging Face, y comparamos monitores 5K frente al Studio Display XDR.

Bu bölümde Apple'ın duyurduğu yeni Mac'ler, iPhone etkinliğinden beklentilerimiz, Umursamaz İnsanlar kitabı ve Big Walk oyunu üzerine sohbet ettik. Bizi dinlemekten keyif alıyorsanız, kahve ısmarlayarak bizi destekleyebilir ve Telegram grubumuza katılabilirsiniz. :) Yorumlarınızı, sorularınızı ya da sponsorluk tekliflerinizi info@farklidusun.net e-posta adresine iletebilirsiniz. Zaman damgaları: 00:00 - Giriş 04:38 - iPad uygulaması geliştirmek 21:24 - M5 Ultra Mac Studio, M6 Mac mini 36:45 - Apple Vision Pro Layoff 43:39 - iPhone Etkinliği Beklentileri 53:12 - Okuduklarımız, Umursamaz İnsanlar 2:04:30 - İzlediklerimiz 2:09:10 - Oynadıklarımız, Big Walk Bölüm linkleri: Monofor Vakitler Apple introduces new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra Apple Reportedly Lays Off 60 Vision Products Group Employees Apple Event Announced for September 9: 'Surprise and Shine' Apple Vision Pro Speeds Up Surgery by Almost 20% Galaxy Z Fold 8 Review: Honeymoon's Over The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life The War of Art Write Useful Books How to Start a Side Hustle: Survive the Modern World What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Careless People “Sosyal Medya Zehirli Bir Etkileşim Ekosistemi Yarattı” | Prof. Daron Acemoğlu The War of Art You should write a book The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy The Sovereign Individual The Dink Ted Lasso Silo Lucky Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look Big Walk Moonlighter The Rogue Prince of Persia Onimusha: Way of the Sword METAL GEAR SOLID 4: Guns of the Patriots FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE

This week Apple announced a Mac Mini made for AI and a Mac Studio made for AI, both with faster M6 and M5 Pro chips made for AI. But that's all an amuse-bouche to Sept. 9's (expected) main course: the long-awaited folding iPhone. Nilay Patel, Jake Kastrenakes, and David Imel run through all of this week's Apple news, including the most important story: a surprise discount on the legendary polishing cloth.Then, they react to Meta's settlement in its latest kids safety trial, geek out about Grand Theft Auto VI with the Hype Desk's Ashley Esqueda, check out the Pokémon Fitbit, and decide if Nvidia just saved the global economy. Further reading: ⁠File a comment with the FCC⁠ ⁠Apple announces September iPhone launch event⁠ ⁠Apple's new M6 chip gets more cores and more AI compute⁠ ⁠Apple launches new Mac Studios with its ‘most powerful chip ever' — the M5 Ultra⁠ ⁠Apple's new Mac Mini has fresh M6 and M5 Pro chip offerings — and higher prices⁠ ⁠Apple's ‘new' polishing cloth is the same except $10 cheaper⁠ ⁠Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement⁠ ⁠Meta is planning an ad blitz urging TikTok and YouTube to follow its lead.⁠ ⁠All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens⁠ ⁠Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking' GTA 6 leaks⁠ ⁠Fierce Network: FCC opens comments on E-Rate as the program gets attacked in court⁠ ⁠Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company⁠ ⁠Panic is passing Playdate tariff refunds on to customers.⁠ Subscribe to The Verge for unlimited access to theverge.com, subscriber-exclusive newsletters, and our ad-free podcast feed. We love hearing from you! Email your questions and thoughts to vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11. 0:00 Welcome to the Vergecast01:26 Apple Mac AI Hype02:26 Mac Mini Agent Craze06:32 Mac Studio vs Nvidia11:43 Price Hikes and Cloth17:01 iPhone Event Invite17:38 iPhone Fold Debate21:30 Camera Crash Out26:57 Meta Settlement Breakdown28:59 First Amendment Fallout36:59 Age Verification Push39:30 Filter Rules and Loopholes44:11 Will Teens Just Switch Apps45:20 Reels Versus Shorts46:35 Government Next Steps47:39 Break And Reset47:50 GTA VI Showcase54:29 Leaks And Spoilers57:12 Can GTA Save Games01:00:51 GTA Online Money01:02:04 Brendan Carr is a Dummy01:03:45 E Rate Fight01:08:46 Nvidia Earnings Hype01:17:50 Pokemon Sleep Fitbit01:22:41 Waymo Versus Tesla01:28:34 Decoder And Goodbye Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple announced the M6 processor for an updated Mac mini alongside the M5 Ultra in a Mac Studio, plus more layoffs impact the Vision Products Group and AI teams, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.Contact your hosts:@williamgallagher_ on Threads@WGallagher on TwitterWilliam's 58keys on YouTubeWilliam Gallagher on emailWes on BlueskyWes Hilliard on emailWes's blog HillitechSponsored by:Claude by Anthropic: Check out Claude and Claude Pro at Claude.ai/appleinsiderLinks from the Show:M6 Mac mini arrives with a new record-high starting priceYou can spend $18,299 on a Mac Studio today, or more in OctoberMacBook-style key symbols come to all four Magic KeyboardsApple's infamous Polishing Cloth drops to $9Why the new Mac Studio can support up to eight screensMac Studio gets update to M5 Max and M5 UltraLayoffs in Apple's Vision Products Group prove slow progress in spatial computingApple Music's AI disclosure labels will soon be mandatory, rather than optionalFinally, Apple Pay is coming to WalMart stores in the USSamsung and Apple are now neck and neck in Europe's declining smartphone marketiPhone sales rise in Latin America even as smartphone market shrinksIt's anyone's guess how high iPhone prices might go, but $100 more might be enoughApple Stores refresh prepares to push a big smart home revampAmbient sensing and cameras to power Apple Home Hub personalizationHide My Email no longer changing domains, will keep iCloud.comSmart TV analytics look dire for Apple TV F1 viewership, but not whole storyOneRepublic headlines Tim Cook's going away party as he prepares to step down as CEOSupport the show:Support the show on Patreon or Apple Podcasts to get ad-free episodes every week, access to our private Discord channel, and early release of the show! We would also appreciate a 5-star rating and review in Apple PodcastsMore AppleInsider podcastsTune in to our HomeKit Insider podcast covering the latest news, products, apps and everything HomeKit related. Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, or just search for HomeKit Insider wherever you get your podcasts.Subscribe and listen to our AppleInsider Daily podcast for the latest Apple news Monday through Friday. You can find it on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.Those interested in sponsoring the show can reach out to us at: advertising@appleinsider.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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It's been an unusually big week for Apple announcements. On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss the new Mac mini and Mac Studio, the M6 and M5 Ultra chips, and invites to Apple's September event. Apple confirmed on Wednesday that its annual iPhone event will take place on Wednesday 9 September at Apple Park, starting at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, with select members of the media invited to attend. The event's tagline is "Surprise and Shine." Apple is expected to introduce at least six new products, including the the Apple Watch Series 12, Apple Watch Ultra 4, iPhone 18 Pro, ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max, and the first foldable iPhone. Pre-orders should follow shortly after, and release dates for iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27 Golden Gate should also be revealed at the event.Apple announced the new Mac mini on Tuesday, offering M6 and M5 Pro chip options. The machine gains an N1 networking chip, bringing Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, and moves to 2.5Gb Ethernet as standard, up from 1Gb, with a 10Gb option. Thunderbolt 5 is restricted to the M5 Pro model, which gets three Thunderbolt 5 ports while the M6 model keeps Thunderbolt 4. Genlock supportover USB-C is also new, syncing a display's refresh timing to a camera such as the iPhone 17 Pro. Pricing starts at $899 with 16GB and 256GB, rising to $1,699 for the M5 Pro at 24GB and 512GB. Pre-orders are now open, with launch on 22 September. M6 is Apple's first 2nm chip. Its 12-core CPU is split into 2 super cores, 4 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores, making it the first Apple chip to combine all three core types in one design. Super cores are Apple's top tier, optimised for single-threaded speed. The 12-core GPU features a Neural Accelerator in each core for the first time in a ‌Mac mini‌. The GPU also adds an updated shader architecture, Dynamic Caching, and hardware-accelerated ray tracing, while an all-new Dual 16-core Neural Engine doubles peak compute over the previous generation, with system frameworks able to drive both engines at once. Memory starts at 16GB and tops out at 32GB, running at up to 170GB/s. M5 Pro scales further, to an 18-core CPU, a 20-core GPU and up to 64GB at 307GB/s.The new Mac Studio arrived alongside the ‌Mac mini‌, with M5 Max and M5 Ultra chip options. The M5 Max offers an 18-core CPU with 6 super cores and 12 performance cores, an up-to-40-core GPU with Neural Accelerators in every core, and up to 128GB of memory at 614GB/s, with the GPU running up to 50% faster than the previous generation. Both configurations move to a next-generation SSD architecture on PCIe Gen 6 for up to twice the storage performance, and gain up to six Thunderbolt 5 ports at 120Gb/s, and the same genlock support as the ‌Mac mini‌. Apple's N1 chip also brings Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 to the ‌Mac Studio‌. Pricing starts at $2,499 for the M5 Max at 36GB and 512GB, and $5,499 for the M5 Ultra at 96GB and 1TB, with the 512GB memory option not arriving until late October.M5 Ultra is Apple's first quad-die chip, using a next-generation version of UltraFusion to join two dual-die M5 Max chips into a single processor. The result is a CPU with up to 36 cores, and 12 super and 24 performance, delivering 1.25x the single-threaded and 1.3x the multithreaded performance of the M3 Ultra. Its up-to-80-core GPU is the most powerful Apple silicon GPU ever made and the first on an Ultra chip to feature Neural Accelerators. Second-generation Dynamic Caching, hardware-accelerated mesh shading and third-generation ray tracing lift graphics up to 40% over M3 Ultra, and the chip features a 32-core Neural Engine. Memory reaches 512GB at 1.2TB/s, which is a 50% bandwidth increase.Other announcements this week included a new, softer Apple Polishing Cloth at $9, down from $19, and refreshed U.S. Magic Keyboards for the Mac, now featuring glyphs instead of edge text. Apple Support's 1-800-APL-CARE line is also now answered by a generative AI assistant in the U.S. and Canada.Ready to tackle bigger problems? Get started with Claude today at — https://www.Claude.ai/mac

It was a sad day for the music world as one of the greats passed away this week. Dolly Parton was celebrated around the world when news of her passing reached the public, and every bit of it was deserved. Apple's first event featuring its new CEO, John Ternus, has been announced for September 9, 2026, at 10 a.m. It is expected that John will introduce a bunch of new products, including the Foldable iPhone. It'll be an event to watch for sure. Apple this week also announced a new Mac mini with M6, M5 Pro, a new MacStudio with M5 Max, and M5 Ultra. That's a lot of power. Follow this podcast Show Notes: RIP Dolly Parton Stafford Heineken CleanKeys Apple Event Apple launches new Mac mini with M6, M5 Pro, new MacStudio with M5 Max, M5 Ultra Gruber pricing chart Some rumored details on the coming Apple foldable Shows and movies we're watching Dept Q, Netflix Cris and Martina: the final set, Netflix

Meta pays up in a landmark teen safety settlement & establishes new online safety measures for teens, Raspberry Pi goes official on the cyberdeck craze, and looking at what Apple unveiled earlier this week & looking ahead to Apple's September event. Meta settled a lawsuit with over 47 states and territories over harms to teens, agreeing to independently tested age verification, daily time limits, notification restrictions, and parental alerts on Instagram and Facebook. Raspberry Pi is getting in on the cyberdeck craze as the company published an official cyberdeck tutorial with a parts list and build instructions. And D. Griffin Jones joins the show to talk about Apple's updates to its Mac mini and Mac Studio, and what the expectations may be for its "Surprise and Shine" September event. Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Guest: D. Griffin Jones Download or subscribe to Tech News Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: horizon3.ai/technews threatlocker.com/twit outsystems.com/twit cirasync.com/TNW

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:39:00 GMT http://relay.fm/connected/618 http://relay.fm/connected/618 The Cell Cycle 618 Federico Viticci, Stephen Hackett, and Myke Hurley Will the Home Hub know whose head is biggest? What will September 9th bring? Can anyone afford new Macs? Who knows Tim Cook best? All of these questions will be answered on this week's episode. Will the Home Hub know whose head is biggest? What will September 9th bring? Can anyone afford new Macs? Who knows Tim Cook best? All of these questions will be answered on this week's episode. clean 5674 Will the Home Hub know whose head is biggest? What will September 9th bring? Can anyone afford new Macs? Who knows Tim Cook best? All of these questions will be answered on this week's episode. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: Sentry: Mobile crash reporting and app monitoring. New users get $100 in Sentry credits with code connected26. ElevenLabs: Conversational agents that sound human. Get started today. Bolt.new: Build apps with AI. Get a free 30-day Pro account. Links and Show Notes: Get Connected Pro: Preshow, postshow, no ads. Submit Feedback

Benjamin and Chance break down an action-packed week of news, with a new lineup of Mac mini and Mac Studio announced, invites officially going out for the September iPhone event, and even more rumors about what new products to expect later this fall. And in Happy Hour Plus, we discuss the reasons behind a (rare) round of Apple layoffs impacting about 200 people in total. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join. Sponsored by Bitwarden: Check out Bitwarden, featuring secure password management, passkey support, end-to-end encryption, and seamless autofill across all devices. Sponsored by Framer: The only free design tool that brings your ideas to the web. Visit framer.com/happyhour for 30% off a Framer Pro annual plan. Sponsored by NordStellar: Get an exclusive offer: Unlock your 10% discount on NordStellar with the coupon code: nordhappyhour-10-NORDSTELLAR – just mention it to NordStellar! Sponsored by Shopify: All you need is the idea. Shopify handles the rest. Start your free trial at shopify.com/happyhour.

With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence? (538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram https://t.co/SScnmzWS7O" / X Thomson Reuters built its own AI model on Chinese open-source tech to slash AI costs Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content Three Takeaways From Bill Gates's 5,784-Word Warning on AI: 'There Is No Plan' (214) Breaking911 on X: "WATCH: A humanoid robot training for the "Robot Olympics" in Beijing runs too fast, fails to stop, slams into a safety cushion, and breaks at the waist https://t.co/WEHdYCiPlO" / X Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I. Inside Musk's First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind Introducing Butter Box | Butter | Life without internet made smoother. Silicon Valley's Newest Status Symbol Is a Super-Rare Sam Altman Swiss Watch Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis Co-Host: Christina Warren Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: outsystems.com/twit scribe.how/machines framer.com/machines

Meta pays up in a landmark teen safety settlement & establishes new online safety measures for teens, Raspberry Pi goes official on the cyberdeck craze, and looking at what Apple unveiled earlier this week & looking ahead to Apple's September event. Meta settled a lawsuit with over 47 states and territories over harms to teens, agreeing to independently tested age verification, daily time limits, notification restrictions, and parental alerts on Instagram and Facebook. Raspberry Pi is getting in on the cyberdeck craze as the company published an official cyberdeck tutorial with a parts list and build instructions. And D. Griffin Jones joins the show to talk about Apple's updates to its Mac mini and Mac Studio, and what the expectations may be for its "Surprise and Shine" September event. Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Guest: D. Griffin Jones Download or subscribe to Tech News Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: horizon3.ai/technews threatlocker.com/twit outsystems.com/twit cirasync.com/TNW

With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence? (538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram https://t.co/SScnmzWS7O" / X Thomson Reuters built its own AI model on Chinese open-source tech to slash AI costs Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content Three Takeaways From Bill Gates's 5,784-Word Warning on AI: 'There Is No Plan' (214) Breaking911 on X: "WATCH: A humanoid robot training for the "Robot Olympics" in Beijing runs too fast, fails to stop, slams into a safety cushion, and breaks at the waist https://t.co/WEHdYCiPlO" / X Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I. Inside Musk's First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind Introducing Butter Box | Butter | Life without internet made smoother. Silicon Valley's Newest Status Symbol Is a Super-Rare Sam Altman Swiss Watch Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis Co-Host: Christina Warren Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: outsystems.com/twit scribe.how/machines framer.com/machines

Meta pays up in a landmark teen safety settlement & establishes new online safety measures for teens, Raspberry Pi goes official on the cyberdeck craze, and looking at what Apple unveiled earlier this week & looking ahead to Apple's September event. Meta settled a lawsuit with over 47 states and territories over harms to teens, agreeing to independently tested age verification, daily time limits, notification restrictions, and parental alerts on Instagram and Facebook. Raspberry Pi is getting in on the cyberdeck craze as the company published an official cyberdeck tutorial with a parts list and build instructions. And D. Griffin Jones joins the show to talk about Apple's updates to its Mac mini and Mac Studio, and what the expectations may be for its "Surprise and Shine" September event. Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Guest: D. Griffin Jones Download or subscribe to Tech News Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: horizon3.ai/technews threatlocker.com/twit outsystems.com/twit cirasync.com/TNW

With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence? (538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram https://t.co/SScnmzWS7O" / X Thomson Reuters built its own AI model on Chinese open-source tech to slash AI costs Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content Three Takeaways From Bill Gates's 5,784-Word Warning on AI: 'There Is No Plan' (214) Breaking911 on X: "WATCH: A humanoid robot training for the "Robot Olympics" in Beijing runs too fast, fails to stop, slams into a safety cushion, and breaks at the waist https://t.co/WEHdYCiPlO" / X Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I. Inside Musk's First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind Introducing Butter Box | Butter | Life without internet made smoother. Silicon Valley's Newest Status Symbol Is a Super-Rare Sam Altman Swiss Watch Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis Co-Host: Christina Warren Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: outsystems.com/twit scribe.how/machines framer.com/machines

Apple teases their next event, “Surprise and shine” where we'll likely see iPhone 18 Pro and foldable iPhone Ultra, plus upgraded Mac Studio and M6 Mac mini released. Meta accepts sweeping teen restrictions in major lawsuit settlement, the OpenAI breach is scarier than we thought, and we debate what makes an app “whimsical.”Member Promo Code: IWANTCHAPTERS (Click above and the $2.50 promo will be auto applied!)Our AppsElement Photo AppKan Do Task AppStash App: Fast Copy to ClipboardContextly NotesOur LinksTop Five Tech | Stephen's PodcastCreative Effort | Jason's PodcastWatch on YouTube!Show Notes via EmailEmail Us: podcast@primarytech.fm@stephenrobles on Threads@jasonaten on ThreadsSponsors:Copilot Money - Limited-time: Get 2 months FREE when you sign up at: try.copilot.money/primaryFramer - Start creating for free at framer.com/primary and get 30% off an annual Pro plan!Links from the showJason's Article on Element Photo App (04:35)Apple announces iPhone 18 Pro and foldable iPhone Ultra event: 'Surprise and shine' - 9to5MacApple introduces new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra - AppleApple unveils a more powerful Mac mini featuring the all-new M6 and M5 Pro - AppleApple Maps Ads post from Stephen RoblesApple Maps Ads post from Joe RosensteelApple Won't Allow These Ad Categories in the Maps App - MacRumorsAds on Apple Maps – Apple AdsMeta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement | The VergeOur Agreement With Bipartisan Attorneys General: Calling on TikTok and YouTube to Join Us in Supporting TeensAn Open Letter to TikTok and YouTube to Join Us in Supporting TeensOpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach | TechCrunchA turbulent AI era and critical choices to make - Gates NotesNetflix reportedly considers opening its app to other streamers | The Verge"Sandra Bullock" - SmartLess (01:09:00)Sandra Bullock (@sandrabullock) • InstagramMac Power Users #863: 20 Years of Things with Werner Jainek - Relay (01:14:40) (00:00) - Intro (04:25) - Our Apps (10:04) - iPhone Ultra Event (16:04) - M5 Mac Studio (25:11) - M6 Mac mini (40:15) - Sponsor: Framer (42:13) - Sponsor: Copilot Money (43:51) - Apple Maps Ads (56:49) - Instagram's Teen Restrictions (01:03:53) - OpenAI Breach Report (01:07:26) - Netflix Open to Other Streamers (01:08:56) - Celebrity Identities on Social (01:14:28) - What Makes a Whimsical App ★ Support this podcast ★

Apple ha renovado el Mac mini yel Mac Studio con un mensaje nuevo: son máquinas para ejecutar IA en tu escritorio. Detrás hay una ventaja que Apple no buscó y una estrategia que nadie más sigue. *** Loop Infinito, podcast de Xataka, de lunes a viernes a las 7:00 (hora peninsular española). Presentado por Javier Lacort. Editado por Alberto de la Torre. *** Contacto: lacort@xataka.com, @lacort en X.

With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence? (538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram https://t.co/SScnmzWS7O" / X Thomson Reuters built its own AI model on Chinese open-source tech to slash AI costs Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content Three Takeaways From Bill Gates's 5,784-Word Warning on AI: 'There Is No Plan' (214) Breaking911 on X: "WATCH: A humanoid robot training for the "Robot Olympics" in Beijing runs too fast, fails to stop, slams into a safety cushion, and breaks at the waist https://t.co/WEHdYCiPlO" / X Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I. Inside Musk's First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind Introducing Butter Box | Butter | Life without internet made smoother. Silicon Valley's Newest Status Symbol Is a Super-Rare Sam Altman Swiss Watch Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis Co-Host: Christina Warren Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: outsystems.com/twit scribe.how/machines framer.com/machines

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:39:00 GMT http://relay.fm/connected/618 http://relay.fm/connected/618 Federico Viticci, Stephen Hackett, and Myke Hurley Will the Home Hub know whose head is biggest? What will September 9th bring? Can anyone afford new Macs? Who knows Tim Cook best? All of these questions will be answered on this week's episode. Will the Home Hub know whose head is biggest? What will September 9th bring? Can anyone afford new Macs? Who knows Tim Cook best? All of these questions will be answered on this week's episode. clean 5674 Will the Home Hub know whose head is biggest? What will September 9th bring? Can anyone afford new Macs? Who knows Tim Cook best? All of these questions will be answered on this week's episode. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: Sentry: Mobile crash reporting and app monitoring. New users get $100 in Sentry credits with code connected26. ElevenLabs: Conversational agents that sound human. Get started today. Bolt.new: Build apps with AI. Get a free 30-day Pro account. Links and Show Notes: Get Connected Pro: Preshow, postshow, no ads. Submit Feedback

Meta pays up in a landmark teen safety settlement & establishes new online safety measures for teens, Raspberry Pi goes official on the cyberdeck craze, and looking at what Apple unveiled earlier this week & looking ahead to Apple's September event. Meta settled a lawsuit with over 47 states and territories over harms to teens, agreeing to independently tested age verification, daily time limits, notification restrictions, and parental alerts on Instagram and Facebook. Raspberry Pi is getting in on the cyberdeck craze as the company published an official cyberdeck tutorial with a parts list and build instructions. And D. Griffin Jones joins the show to talk about Apple's updates to its Mac mini and Mac Studio, and what the expectations may be for its "Surprise and Shine" September event. Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Guest: D. Griffin Jones Download or subscribe to Tech News Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: horizon3.ai/technews threatlocker.com/twit outsystems.com/twit cirasync.com/TNW

Surprise: there are new Mac minis and Mac Studios! Tim Cook has a farewell party when he is no longer CEO in September. Apple conducts layoffs in the Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video & Gaming departments. And Walmart finally adds Google and Apple Pay. Apple's new Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro. Apple introduces new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra. Tim Cook's farewell party. HomePad code suggests it'll act like a giant Apple Watch. MacBook Ultra is coming: Six new features launching this fall. Apple reportedly lays off 60 Vision employees amid shifting priorities. Apple cuts Jobs in Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming teams. Apple removes some fees for App developers in European Union. Walmart is finally adding Apple Pay and Google Pay. Google's new Pixel 11 offers an incredible camera feature that Apple should copy. Here's everything new Apple TV has coming in September. Picks of the Week Leo's Pick: TMOG Christina's Picks: 9 to 5 and CheapCharts Andy's Pick: Trio Jason's Pick: Imagination Library Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: joinbilt.com/macbreak scribe.how/macbreak cachefly.com/twit

Microsoft tries to prove Windows on ARM is ready for prime time, but behind the PR push, unresolved questions about compatibility, branding, and a tepid market threaten to derail the company's ambitions. Also, PowerToys 0.101 is here with Windows Hopper and multiple improvements! Plus, Parallels Desktop 27 for Mac launches. Windows If a Week D falls in the woods and no one installs it, did a Week D really happen? Theory: This is the big one, with the three big changes Microsoft promised this year. Basically, this is Windows 11 version 26H2 Three new builds across Beta, Experimental, and Experimental (26H1) with a modernized AutoPlay experience and a new "Open apps maximized" accessibility feature Microsoft reminds business customers that Windows on Arm is terrific ahead of Nvidia RTX Spark launch Totally coincidental that this happened on the same day that Apple announced a new Mac Mini with M6 and M5 Pro and Mac Studio with M5 Ultra and M5 Max Microsoft 365 OneDrive for Mac gets native sync engine Proton Mail gets automatic and customizable category filtering AI/dev Bill Gates issues a strong warning on the dangers of AI. And you're not going to believe what number two is WSJ report echoes the complaints that Paul has been making for years. Again Adobe Firefly gets production-quality music, speech, and sound effect generation capabilities Apple Music will start labeling AI-generated music .NET Conf 2026 on track for November with .NET 11 XBOX and gaming XBOX testing long-awaited disc to digital entitlements The ASUS ROG XBOX Ally X20 is available now for $1299, or in a $2499 bundle Rumor: Microsoft prepping an Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition console for November Update: it's real. The XBOX 25th anniversary collection arrives November 13 Microsoft announces (third party) Designed for XBOX 25th Anniversary Collection of hardware peripherals IKEA has designed some XBOX-influenced furniture and it is amazing Rockstar Games weighs in on leaks as GTA VI reveal arrives (tomorrow) Commodore announces Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection for PC, consoles NVIDIA brings GeForce Now to Firefox Tips and picks Tip of the week: Expose yourself to other points of view App pick of the week: PowerToys RunAs Radio this week: Security Features of PowerShell 7 with Mike O'Neill Brown liquor pick of the week: SpiceBox Spiced Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

Surprise: there are new Mac minis and Mac Studios! Tim Cook has a farewell party when he is no longer CEO in September. Apple conducts layoffs in the Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video & Gaming departments. And Walmart finally adds Google and Apple Pay. Apple's new Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro. Apple introduces new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra. Tim Cook's farewell party. HomePad code suggests it'll act like a giant Apple Watch. MacBook Ultra is coming: Six new features launching this fall. Apple reportedly lays off 60 Vision employees amid shifting priorities. Apple cuts Jobs in Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming teams. Apple removes some fees for App developers in European Union. Walmart is finally adding Apple Pay and Google Pay. Google's new Pixel 11 offers an incredible camera feature that Apple should copy. Here's everything new Apple TV has coming in September. Picks of the Week Leo's Pick: TMOG Christina's Picks: 9 to 5 and CheapCharts Andy's Pick: Trio Jason's Pick: Imagination Library Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: joinbilt.com/macbreak scribe.how/macbreak cachefly.com/twit

Microsoft tries to prove Windows on ARM is ready for prime time, but behind the PR push, unresolved questions about compatibility, branding, and a tepid market threaten to derail the company's ambitions. Also, PowerToys 0.101 is here with Windows Hopper and multiple improvements! Plus, Parallels Desktop 27 for Mac launches. Windows If a Week D falls in the woods and no one installs it, did a Week D really happen? Theory: This is the big one, with the three big changes Microsoft promised this year. Basically, this is Windows 11 version 26H2 Three new builds across Beta, Experimental, and Experimental (26H1) with a modernized AutoPlay experience and a new "Open apps maximized" accessibility feature Microsoft reminds business customers that Windows on Arm is terrific ahead of Nvidia RTX Spark launch Totally coincidental that this happened on the same day that Apple announced a new Mac Mini with M6 and M5 Pro and Mac Studio with M5 Ultra and M5 Max Microsoft 365 OneDrive for Mac gets native sync engine Proton Mail gets automatic and customizable category filtering AI/dev Bill Gates issues a strong warning on the dangers of AI. And you're not going to believe what number two is WSJ report echoes the complaints that Paul has been making for years. Again Adobe Firefly gets production-quality music, speech, and sound effect generation capabilities Apple Music will start labeling AI-generated music .NET Conf 2026 on track for November with .NET 11 XBOX and gaming XBOX testing long-awaited disc to digital entitlements The ASUS ROG XBOX Ally X20 is available now for $1299, or in a $2499 bundle Rumor: Microsoft prepping an Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition console for November Update: it's real. The XBOX 25th anniversary collection arrives November 13 Microsoft announces (third party) Designed for XBOX 25th Anniversary Collection of hardware peripherals IKEA has designed some XBOX-influenced furniture and it is amazing Rockstar Games weighs in on leaks as GTA VI reveal arrives (tomorrow) Commodore announces Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection for PC, consoles NVIDIA brings GeForce Now to Firefox Tips and picks Tip of the week: Expose yourself to other points of view App pick of the week: PowerToys RunAs Radio this week: Security Features of PowerShell 7 with Mike O'Neill Brown liquor pick of the week: SpiceBox Spiced Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

Surprise: there are new Mac minis and Mac Studios! Tim Cook has a farewell party when he is no longer CEO in September. Apple conducts layoffs in the Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video & Gaming departments. And Walmart finally adds Google and Apple Pay. Apple's new Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro. Apple introduces new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra. Tim Cook's farewell party. HomePad code suggests it'll act like a giant Apple Watch. MacBook Ultra is coming: Six new features launching this fall. Apple reportedly lays off 60 Vision employees amid shifting priorities. Apple cuts Jobs in Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming teams. Apple removes some fees for App developers in European Union. Walmart is finally adding Apple Pay and Google Pay. Google's new Pixel 11 offers an incredible camera feature that Apple should copy. Here's everything new Apple TV has coming in September. Picks of the Week Leo's Pick: TMOG Christina's Picks: 9 to 5 and CheapCharts Andy's Pick: Trio Jason's Pick: Imagination Library Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: joinbilt.com/macbreak scribe.how/macbreak cachefly.com/twit

Microsoft tries to prove Windows on ARM is ready for prime time, but behind the PR push, unresolved questions about compatibility, branding, and a tepid market threaten to derail the company's ambitions. Also, PowerToys 0.101 is here with Windows Hopper and multiple improvements! Plus, Parallels Desktop 27 for Mac launches. Windows If a Week D falls in the woods and no one installs it, did a Week D really happen? Theory: This is the big one, with the three big changes Microsoft promised this year. Basically, this is Windows 11 version 26H2 Three new builds across Beta, Experimental, and Experimental (26H1) with a modernized AutoPlay experience and a new "Open apps maximized" accessibility feature Microsoft reminds business customers that Windows on Arm is terrific ahead of Nvidia RTX Spark launch Totally coincidental that this happened on the same day that Apple announced a new Mac Mini with M6 and M5 Pro and Mac Studio with M5 Ultra and M5 Max Microsoft 365 OneDrive for Mac gets native sync engine Proton Mail gets automatic and customizable category filtering AI/dev Bill Gates issues a strong warning on the dangers of AI. And you're not going to believe what number two is WSJ report echoes the complaints that Paul has been making for years. Again Adobe Firefly gets production-quality music, speech, and sound effect generation capabilities Apple Music will start labeling AI-generated music .NET Conf 2026 on track for November with .NET 11 XBOX and gaming XBOX testing long-awaited disc to digital entitlements The ASUS ROG XBOX Ally X20 is available now for $1299, or in a $2499 bundle Rumor: Microsoft prepping an Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition console for November Update: it's real. The XBOX 25th anniversary collection arrives November 13 Microsoft announces (third party) Designed for XBOX 25th Anniversary Collection of hardware peripherals IKEA has designed some XBOX-influenced furniture and it is amazing Rockstar Games weighs in on leaks as GTA VI reveal arrives (tomorrow) Commodore announces Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection for PC, consoles NVIDIA brings GeForce Now to Firefox Tips and picks Tip of the week: Expose yourself to other points of view App pick of the week: PowerToys RunAs Radio this week: Security Features of PowerShell 7 with Mike O'Neill Brown liquor pick of the week: SpiceBox Spiced Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

Surprise: there are new Mac minis and Mac Studios! Tim Cook has a farewell party when he is no longer CEO in September. Apple conducts layoffs in the Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video & Gaming departments. And Walmart finally adds Google and Apple Pay. Apple's new Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro. Apple introduces new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra. Tim Cook's farewell party. HomePad code suggests it'll act like a giant Apple Watch. MacBook Ultra is coming: Six new features launching this fall. Apple reportedly lays off 60 Vision employees amid shifting priorities. Apple cuts Jobs in Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming teams. Apple removes some fees for App developers in European Union. Walmart is finally adding Apple Pay and Google Pay. Google's new Pixel 11 offers an incredible camera feature that Apple should copy. Here's everything new Apple TV has coming in September. Picks of the Week Leo's Pick: TMOG Christina's Picks: 9 to 5 and CheapCharts Andy's Pick: Trio Jason's Pick: Imagination Library Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: joinbilt.com/macbreak scribe.how/macbreak cachefly.com/twit

Uber is giving parents of teens the ability to livestream video of the child's ride in real time, and Android 17 includes a new Motion Assist feature to help reduce motion sickness for riders in moving vehicles.Starring Jason Howell, Tom Merritt and Dr. Niki.Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple refreshed the Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra and gave the Mac mini M6 silicon, at higher prices. OpenAI's Jalapeño chip beat Nvidia on efficiency, Perplexity went fully local, WhatsApp toughened logins, and Uber livestreamed teen rides. Links Apple updates the Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra, with up to 4.3x faster AI performance, faster graphics, and up to 512GB of unified memory for $2,499+ (Apple Newsroom) Apple unveils a Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, with up to 4x faster AI performance and 2x faster graphics, for $899+ and $1,699+, with preorders today and shipping September 22 (The Verge) Apple's M6 is its first 2nm chip with a 12-core CPU and GPU, while the M5 Ultra fuses two dual-die M5 Max chips into a 36-core CPU, 80-core GPU "most powerful chip ever" (The Verge) OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency than Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T (The Verge) WhatsApp upgrades its two-step verification, letting users replace the six-digit PIN with a longer alphanumeric password, and adds support for multiple passkeys (TechCrunch) Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a local AI agent platform running fully on-device with zero token costs, starting with Nvidia DGX Spark and RTX Linux PCs (VentureBeat) Uber launches an optional safety feature allowing parents or guardians to watch a livestream of their teen's ride via the driver's front-facing phone camera (Bloomberg) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.

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Bill and Jeffery grumble about Apple's Mac mini and Mac Studio price increases and Jeffery's love for the Supernote Manta, then spend most of the episode remembering photographer Jay Maisel, touring stories and photos from his cavernous bank-building archive and debating what makes a photographic legacy. They wrap up with this week's Photographer of the Week, Life magazine shooter Nina Leen. Supernote Manta Jay Maisel ‘Favorites' John Loengard portraits of photographers Joel Meyerowitz “Cape Light” The Family of Man PotW Nina Leen

Apple's surprise Mac Mini and Mac Studio updates arrive just before iPhone season, accompanied by a casual social-first launch video. The M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini options make a strong case for creators who want a compact desktop for video editing, while aftermarket SSD upgrades offer a way around Apple's expensive storage tiers. The M5 Ultra Mac Studio pushes further into visual effects, AI-assisted photo and video editing, and private local AI, with high-memory configurations and the option to cluster machines for larger models. USB-C genlock adds a specialized but genuinely useful tool for frame-perfect sync in multi-camera shoots, screen recordings, and virtual production. Tyler's presets and LUTs http://stalman.com/shop David's thumbnail training https://thumbnailacademy.com/ Follow us Website http//www.fullstackcreatorshow.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/fullstackcreatorshow Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@fullstackcreatorshow