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This week, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start the episode off by discussing the latest CircuitPython developments before covering some impressive reverse engineering efforts, the benefits of modeling your projects in 3D, and some of the most incredible timepieces that have ever graced the pages of Hackaday. You'll also hear about the fascinating potential of combing 3D and UV printing, Linux on the ESP32, and a virtual TV station that pulls from the Internet Archive. The episode wraps up with a Hackaday Europe double-feature: one talk extols the virtues of keeping things simple through bare metal development, while the other covers off-world hacks and fixes that will make you want to sign up for Space Camp. Check out the links if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!  

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The Game Deflators cover Kojima's canceled Physint, PSP 4K/8K rumors, Ubisoft/Square opting out of Xbox Disc‑to‑Digital, Sony's disc backlash, Nintendo Direct 2026, and Princess Tomato NES review. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to Game Deflators Podcast 03:17 Game Pickups and Magic Cards 06:10 Transistor Gameplay Experience 12:19 Ori Gameplay Challenges 17:07 Kojima and Sony's Decisions 24:01 Console Generations and Market Dynamics 30:11 Future of Gaming: Handhelds and Digital Trends 42:23 Wolverine Game Mechanics and Critiques 44:19 Pre-Order Caution and Consumer Advice 45:18 Sony's Customer Support Controversy 49:37 Digital Ownership and Consumer Rights 51:25 Nintendo Direct Review and Game Announcements 53:36 Ocarina of Time Remake Controversy 58:37 Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom Review John and Ryan kick off the episode with their recent video game pickups and what they're currently playing, including John diving into Transistor and Ryan exploring Ori and the Blind Forest. John also shares updates on his D&D miniature painting and a brutal one‑shot he recently ran where the players were meant to die. The news segment begins with reports that Hideo Kojima's Physint project was canceled by Sony before eventually landing at Xbox, sparking discussion about Sony's shifting priorities. The guys then react to rumors that the next PSP successor may feature USB‑C, 4K/120Hz, and even 8K output — an unexpectedly powerful handheld concept. Next, they break down the growing controversy around Microsoft's Xbox Disc‑to‑Digital program as Ubisoft and Square Enix opt out, raising questions about publisher cooperation and long‑term preservation. Meanwhile, Sony faces intensifying backlash over its physical disc phase‑out, with reports that the company threatened to cut off customer support and pursue legal action amid harassment claims — all while insisting it will move forward with its no‑disc strategy despite lawsuits. The guys also recap every major announcement from the September 2026 Nintendo Direct, highlighting standout trailers, surprises, and what Nintendo's lineup looks like heading into 2027. To wrap up the episode, the Inflation Deflation Game of the Week features a review of Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom on NES, as John and Ryan revisit the quirky adventure classic and evaluate its current market value. Find us on TheGameDeflators.com Twitter - www.twitter.com/GameDeflators Facebook - www.facebook.com/TheGameDeflators Instagram - www.instagram.com/thegamedeflators The views and opinions expressed on this channel are solely those of the author. The content within these recordings are property of their respective Designers, Writers, Creators, Owners, Organizations, Companies and Producers. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted. Permission for intro and outro music provided by Matthew Huffaker http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe 2_25_18

Hoy te traigo un episodio que llevaba tiempo queriendo grabar. En el episodio 829 te hablé sobre skills, pero me quedé con la sensación de haberme enrollado sin mostrar nada concreto. Así que le he dado la vuelta a la tortilla y en esta ocasión te traigo siete MCPs que he seleccionado uno a uno para que veas de qué va esto del Model Context Protocol y, sobre todo, para que compruebes cómo transforman lo que puede hacer tu inteligencia artificial.Porque hay que decirlo claro: la IA es tonta. Literalmente. No sabe qué hora es, no sabe leer un archivo, no sabe si tienes issues abiertos en GitHub, no sabe cómo te llamas. Cada vez que empiezas una conversación con cualquier modelo de lenguaje, empiezas de cero. Y aquí es donde entran los MCPs, que no son ni más ni menos que herramientas: manos, ojos y oídos para que la IA pueda hacer cosas útiles de verdad.El Model Context Protocol es un estándar abierto creado por Anthropic que funciona como un *USB-C para la IA*. Un conector universal que permite que cualquier aplicación de IA se conecte con cualquier fuente de datos o herramienta externa. Y lo mejor es que no es propietario, al contrario que los plugins de ChatGPT. Cualquiera puede crear un MCP, y de hecho te cuento cómo hacerlo con Python o Rust.En este episodio repaso siete MCPs que uso en mi día a día. Empiezo por el Filesystem, que permite a la IA leer, escribir, buscar y editar archivos en tu sistema, con control de acceso para que no haga tonterías. Sigo con el SQLite, ideal para consultar bases de datos locales de agenda, finanzas o cualquier aplicación que uses. Después llega el GitHub, el servidor oficial de GitHub escrito en Go, que te permite gestionar issues, pull requests, repositorios y mucho más sin salir del chat.También te hablo del Web Fetch, que permite a la IA leer páginas web y convertirlas a Markdown ahorrando una barbaridad de tokens. Y del Time, que es una tontería pero imprescindible: la IA puede saber la hora en cualquier huso horario del mundo. Luego está el Memory, que construye un grafo de conocimiento persistente para que la IA recuerde quién eres, qué prefieres y qué proyectos tienes entre manos, incluso entre sesiones. Y por último, el Sequential Thinking, una herramienta de razonamiento paso a paso que obliga a la IA a pensar de forma estructurada cuando se enfrenta a problemas complejos.También hablo de cómo configurar estos MCPs en OpenCode, Claude Desktop y VS Code, y cuánto consumen de RAM y tokens. Porque no es lo mismo activar veinte servidores que tener solo los que necesitas. Y para rematar, comparo MCPs con skills: las skills le dicen a la IA cómo comportarse, los MCPs le dan capacidades para actuar.Y si te pica la curiosidad por crear tu propio MCP, también te cuento las diferencias entre usar el SDK de Python (súper rápido de prototipar) y el de Rust (más rendimiento, menos consumo de RAM).Capítulos del episodio:0:00 - Introducción: la IA necesita herramientas para ser útil2:30 - ¿Qué es MCP? Arquitectura host-cliente-servidor y JSON RPC 2.05:30 - Cinco razones para adoptar MCPs8:00 - MCP Filesystem: leer, buscar y crear archivos11:00 - MCP SQLite: consultar bases de datos y el no-determinismo14:00 - MCP GitHub: issues, pull requests y repositorios17:00 - MCP Web Fetch: búsquedas en internet con ahorro de tokens19:30 - MCP Time: la hora en cualquier huso horario21:30 - MCP Memory: grafo de conocimiento persistente23:30 - MCP Sequential Thinking: razonamiento paso a paso25:30 - Configuración en OpenCode, consumo de tokens y RAM27:30 - Crear tu propio MCP: Python SDK vs Rust28:30 - Cierre y despedidaMás información y enlaces en las notas del episodio

In this episode, Ray Cochrane devotes the whole show to Apple’s fall event, the first under new CEO John Ternus. He starts with the iPhone Duo, Apple’s first foldable iPhone. From there, he covers the Apple Watch Series 12, the new Health Age score, the Apple Watch Ultra 4, and AirPods 5 with noise canceling at $129. – Want to start a podcast? Its 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 from his father’s studio in Michigan, fresh off a trip to Saugatuck Dunes State Park. Lake Michigan stunned him because it looked like the ocean. He had hoped to spot Wisconsin across the water. However, overcast skies and fog hid the far shore. He also apologizes for the hum in the previous episode, his first video session in the studio. Without headphones on, he took the noise for ordinary background sound. The culprit turned out to be a line-level cable plugged in at one end and loose at the other. After tracing it, he rewired the whole desk so every cable is neat and out of harm’s way. Meanwhile, he is still learning the studio’s TriCaster switcher and working on keeping his eyes on the camera. He invites listeners to send suggestions. Additionally, his grandmother had trouble finding the video version on the site. As a result, a site update is coming that uses the alternate enclosure feature, so listeners can switch between video and audio. Time with his grandmother has been a highlight of the trip. Cochrane reflects on how little time he spent with this side of the family after his father moved to Michigan. Next, he flies home to Oregon after some time in Detroit. As the move comes together, he also wants a better way to get recordings off the TriCaster than a USB drive. 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. iPhone Duo: Apple’s First Foldable Arrives Seven Years After Samsung Instead of a spread of headlines, the whole episode covers Apple’s fall event, much like Chris’s recent D23 episode. The event streamed Wednesday as a pre-recorded film. It was also the first event under CEO John Ternus. He took over from Tim Cook, who became executive chairman, on September 1st. It took Apple seven years to answer Samsung’s first Galaxy Fold. Even so, the price barely moved, since the Duo starts at $1,999. Cochrane admits he hoped for something closer to $1,400. Still, based on the marketing alone, the Duo is the upgrade he is most excited about. The Duo is a book-style foldable that opens along a vertical hinge. Closed, it has a 5.4-inch outer screen and is roughly the size of a passport. Open, it reveals a 7.6-inch display, the largest Apple has put on an iPhone. Both screens share the same proportions, so apps simply scale up to fill the bigger screen. Opened flat, the Duo is just 5.2 millimeters thick, which makes it the thinnest iPhone Apple has built. Closed, it measures 11.3 millimeters and weighs 254 grams. By comparison, Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold8 is lighter and thinner at 201 grams and 4.5 millimeters open. The Crease, the Hinge and the Return of Touch ID The crease was Cochrane’s biggest worry, since it is the most common complaint about folding phones. Apple layers the inner screen with a flexible plastic cover, thin glass, and a titanium plate underneath. Custom adhesives let those layers slide as the phone bends. On top, a microscopically etched matte finish scatters reflections to hide the crease. However, Apple only claims the crease is harder to see, not gone. Early hands-on reports split down the middle. Chance Miller at 9to5Mac found it “hard to notice a crease at most angles.” In contrast, Andrew Romero at 9to5Google, working from early videos, said it looks “just as visible” as on Samsung’s Fold8. The hinge uses more than a hundred parts and a row of magnets to hold the phone shut. Cochrane says it snaps open cleanly, which a $2,000 phone should. Notably, the Duo carries an IP68 rating, surviving six meters of water for up to 30 minutes. That matters on a foldable, because dust in the hinge is a classic way these phones die. The Duo also has no Face ID. Instead, a Touch ID fingerprint reader sits in the side button and works open or closed. Cochrane offers his own theory for the switch. With AI now able to generate convincing faces and video, a fingerprint may simply be the safer biometric. Inside the Duo: Chip, Cameras, Software and Battery The Duo runs the A20 Pro, the same chip as the iPhone 18 Pro, built on a two-nanometer process. A vapor chamber carries heat away so the phone can hold full speed longer. Cochrane welcomes that, since his own phone runs hot while charging or running demanding apps. Two 48-megapixel cameras sit on the back, a main and an ultra-wide. The outer screen unlocks the new tricks. For example, you can shoot selfies with the rear cameras, and Duo Preview lets your subjects see the shot. Smart Take snaps the photo when everyone is posing, and Kid Cue plays Peanuts animations to get kids to look at the camera. On the software side, the Duo ships with iOS 27.1. The Dynamic Island now runs vertically along the side, and Split View puts two apps side by side for the first time on an iPhone. Netflix, Zoom and Slack already support it. The Duo carries two batteries, one in each half, and Apple rates it for up to 24 hours of typical use. Charging to 50 percent takes about 20 minutes with a 60-watt adapter. However, that adapter is sold separately, which Cochrane calls out as a raw deal for first-time buyers. MagSafe and Qi2 wireless charging run at up to 25 watts. Storage starts at 256GB for $1,999 and climbs to $3,199 for 2TB. Preorders open October 16th, and the Duo reaches stores October 23rd. Ternus called it “the most transformational change to iPhone since the original.” Cochrane still wants one, though the price gives him pause, and he asks listeners whether they plan to buy. Apple Watch Series 12 Checks Your Heart Every Five Seconds Next, Cochrane turns to the Apple Watch Series 12 and its new Health Sensing System. The watch reads your pulse by shining green light into your skin and measuring what bounces back. After wrestling with the technical term, photoplethysmography, he notes that everyone sensibly calls it the optical sensor. Apple made those lights bigger and more efficient. As a result, the watch now checks your heart rate every five seconds, all day. It also measures heart rate variability, the tiny wobble between beats, as often as every five minutes. A bigger wobble generally means your body is rested and recovered. Cochrane loved Apple’s swimming ad, where a swimmer finishes his swim and checks his heart rate. To him, it feels far more futuristic than the rugged adventure watches of twenty years ago. Swim tracking itself isn’t new. What changed is the constant background check and a live heart rate readout on the watch face. All of that feeds a new daily readiness score from zero to ten. It weighs your recent activity, training load, vitals and sleep, then updates through the day. Engadget points out that competitors already offer readiness scores and faster sampling. In Cochrane’s view, Apple is catching up to the market, but doing it in a big way. Apple’s Heart Rate Accuracy Study Apple claims no wearable reads heart rate more accurately, and this time it published the study. Testers wore a Series 12 on one wrist and a rival on the other, with a Polar H10 chest strap as the reference. The rivals came from Garmin, Google, Huawei, Samsung, WHOOP and Oura. Across 1,254 people at five sites, Apple led in 139 of 159 comparisons. Eighteen were too close to call. The only two losses went to Google’s Pixel Watch 4 at rest, by less than half a beat per minute. Cochrane appreciated that a fifth of participants had the darkest skin tones, where optical sensors have historically struggled. The Series 12 comes in 42- and 46-millimeter sizes, including a new ceramic version. Battery life holds at 24 hours, and fifteen minutes of charging now buys up to twelve hours. Pricing starts at $399 for aluminum, $699 for titanium and $899 for ceramic. It reaches stores September 18th. Health Age and Apple’s Rebuilt Health App Cochrane admits he first misread this feature, and he is glad his initial read turned out wrong. Apple is rebuilding the Health app around Apple Intelligence, its umbrella name for its AI features. The app adds an Insights tab, a For You section, and a Longevity tab covering seven areas of health. Sumbul Desai, a physician who runs health and fitness at Apple, framed the goal. She said pairing the watch’s sensors with Apple Intelligence lets Apple “translate complex biometric data into clear guidance for users.” In other words, nobody wants to scroll through a spreadsheet of their own heartbeats. Inside the Longevity tab sits Health Age. It weighs your VO2 max, resting heart rate, sleep, and heart rate variability against your real age. You can also add lab results like A1c and LDL cholesterol. Apple’s sample screen shows a body running 3.9 years younger than its birthday. Cochrane finds the feature interesting, and he hopes the data stays private, much like health records at a hospital. However, Apple didn’t share the math behind Health Age. He would like Apple to publish its formula, because people will take a number like that seriously. The new app also adds at-home movement evaluations using the iPhone camera and the watch. Users can book a $119 blood panel covering more than 50 biomarkers at roughly 2,000 Quest Diagnostics locations. Cycle Tracking gains perimenopause and menopause support. The redesigned app arrives later this year, while watchOS 27 lands September 14th. Finally, Cochrane raises a concern about all this monitoring. He hopes Apple built strong safeguards around the health data, because a leak of data like this would bring serious lawsuits. Apple Watch Ultra 4 Can Outlast a 100-Mile Race The Apple Watch Ultra 4 shares nearly everything with the Series 12, from the sensors to the S11 chip. This year, what sets it apart is stamina. Normal use now reaches 50 hours, up from 42, and Low Power Mode stretches to 84. Meanwhile, fifteen minutes on the charger buys up to 18 hours, where last year’s model managed 12. A new Max Extended Workout mode tracks up to 45 hours of running or hiking, with GPS logging every second. Apple says that is typically enough to finish a 100-mile race. The watch also uses dual-frequency GPS, which listens to two satellite signals to reject readings bounced off tall buildings. DC Rainmaker came away impressed with both watches. As Ray Maker put it, “I’d argue they’re the biggest leaps in Apple Watch hardware and features since they launched the Ultra series back a few years ago.” The Ultra 4 holds at $799 and ships September 18th. Audio Intelligence and the Always-Listening Question Both new watches also gain a set of listening features Apple calls Audio Intelligence. Sound Recognition alerts deaf or hard-of-hearing users to sirens, alarms, doorbells, or a crying baby. Shazam names nearby songs without being asked. Then come the two raising eyebrows: Live Rewind and Siri Recap. Live Rewind shows the last fifteen seconds of your conversation as text with a double press of the Digital Crown. Siri Recap hands you a title and key points after a conversation, leaving out financial details and ID numbers. Both arrive in beta later this year, in English first, and need an iPhone 16 or newer. Cochrane saw the pushback coming. To replay fifteen seconds, the watch has to be listening before you ask. Apple answers with privacy promises, including that everything is opt-in and raw audio is deleted after processing on the chip. Still, he argues that opting in means choosing to give up privacy, and he has a hard time believing the processing stays on the device. AirPods 5 Bring Noise Canceling to $129 AirPods 5 comes in two versions, and the headline is price. Until now, noise cancellation in the regular AirPods cost $179. Both AirPods 5 models include it, starting at $129. Noise canceling is harder in the regular AirPods, because they lack the rubber tips that seal your ear. Apple’s AirPods marketing director Eric Treski admitted as much in 2024, calling it “really, really hard to create this great ANC quality in a non-ear-tip product.” Nevertheless, Apple says AirPods 5 removes up to 50 percent more outside noise than AirPods 4 with noise canceling. Interestingly, the chip and microphones are unchanged. The gain comes from reworked vents and ports in the shell, plus smarter software. For perspective, Apple says AirPods Pro 3 still cancel up to three times more noise. Gizmodo found AirPods 5 “did a good job silencing the background noise, but not entirely.” The $129 model charges over USB-C. For $149, you add a wireless charging case, a Find My speaker, a volume swipe on the stem, and an extra hour of listening. Both models also carry an IP57 rating and support Live Translation. They reach stores September 18th. How Apple Filmed the Event Cochrane closes by praising the production itself. Apple built different scenes and backgrounds throughout the film, and Six Colors noted a Hollywood backlot segment with a fake rainstorm, Roman soldiers, and astronauts. The closing card read “Shot on iPhone. Edited on Mac.” He still hopes to get an iPhone Duo, though he isn’t sure about paying two grand. For now, he may stick with his current phone. Cochrane wraps up by pointing listeners to the GNC Insider program, the newsletter, and podcastapps.com, adding that he likes Pocket Casts. Listeners can reach Ray or Chris at geeknews@gmail.com. He flies back to Oregon next, with another audio episode planned for Monday and a video site update coming this week. The post Apple’s September Event: iPhone Duo, Apple Watch Series 12, and AirPods 5 #1877 appeared first on Geek News Central.

Apple has finally revealed the foldable iPhone Duo, the iPhone 18 Pro with variable aperture, more advanced Apple Watch models, and updated AirPods. Here's everything you need to know 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:MasterClass: Get 15% off annual memberships at MasterClass.comLinks from the Show:The Apple foldable is real, it's here, & it's called iPhone DuoIt's going to be a while before you can pre-order an iPhone DuoiPhone Duo supports Apple Pencil with USB-C on both displaysiPhone Duo vs Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra: Foldables comparedHow iPhone Duo compares in size to the iPhone 18 Pro in the wildiPhone Duo users can be authenticated with Apple Watch if Touch ID isn't idealApps will look terrible unless they are updated for the iPhone DuoContrary to early rumors, iPhone Duo does have MagSafe chargingTwo new AirPods 5 models get five hours of battery life and live translationNew Apple Watch bands lean into a more subdued color paletteApple's new Health revamp is about more than the Apple WatchSiri on Apple Watch can remember useful parts of your day without retaining everythingNew Apple Watch Series 12 highlights: improved health sensing system, Readiness appiPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone 17 Pro: Flagships, comparedApple Upgrade won't make maxed out iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone Duo easier to swallowApple just made the iPhone 17 lineup $100 more expensiveApple Reference Image is a new way to authenticate iPhone photographyApple's A20 Pro is 40% faster, and offers improved thermal managementDynamic Island now shows three Live ActivitiesiPhone 18 Pro's variable aperture is incredible, but looks real fragileiPhone 18 Pro & Pro Max arrive with A20 Pro, new AI pushSupport 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 (00:00) - iPhone Duo (55:34) - Apple Watches and AirPods ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Steeds minder gadgets komen met een oplader in de doos, en sinds april verplicht de Europese Unie dat elke nieuwe laptop via USB-C op te laden is. Daarmee wordt de losse oplader een aankoop op zich. Techjournalist Jelle Stuip van Tweakers testte er tientallen en zag dat veel laders het opgegeven vermogen niet vasthouden. Verder in deze aflevering: hoeveel watt je nodig hebt, welke laadprotocollen ertoe doen, wat de laders kosten en hoe belangrijk de kabel is. Stijn Goossens en Jelle Stuip erover in deze Schaal van Hebben. Opladers van Ugreen en Xtorm vielen in de test negatief op. De oorzaak ligt bij het warmtemanagement: wie langdurig het maximale vermogen levert, wordt warm, en om oververhitting te voorkomen schakelt de lader zichzelf terug naar een lager vermogen. Op papier haalt zo'n lader dus het getal dat op de behuizing staat, in de praktijk alleen kort. Stuip testte tientallen laders in verschillende categorieën en schreef er meerdere artikelen over. Zijn uitgebreide tests zijn hier te lezen: Tweakers testte tien USB-C-laders van 100 watt op volgehouden vermogen Tweakers vergeleek zeventien USB-C-laders van 65 tot 70 watt Tweakers vergeleek elf USB-C-laders van 140 watt, zodat je alles tegelijk kunt opladen Hoeveel watt heb je werkelijk nodig Opladers worden verkocht in verschillende klassen: onder meer 65 of 70 watt, 100 watt en 140 watt. Dat getal zegt niet dat meer altijd beter is, maar dat de lader bij het apparaat moet passen. Voor een telefoon is een lader uit de zwaarste klasse overbodig, terwijl een gaminglaptop onder volle belasting juist veel meer vraagt dan een gewone werklaptop. Voor de meeste gebruikers, met een laptop, tablet en telefoon, volstaat de klasse van 65 of 70 watt. De zwaardere modellen zijn vooral relevant als je een krachtige laptop hebt of meerdere apparaten tegelijk op vol vermogen wil laden. Laadprotocollen en de rol van AVS Een belangrijke specificatie om op te letten zijn ondersteunde protocollen. USB Power Delivery is de basis, maar het protocol dat er volgens Jelle Stuip toe doet is AVS, Adjustable Voltage Supply. Waar een gewone lader een paar vaste spanningen aanbiedt, laat AVS het apparaat precies het voltage vragen dat het nodig heeft, in kleine stapjes. Het apparaat hoeft die spanning daarna zelf minder te bewerken, wat scheelt in verlies en in warmte. De laders van Google en Ugreen in het overzicht ondersteunen dit protocol al. Het werkt alleen als beide kanten het aankunnen, anders valt de lader terug op de vaste spanningen. Prijzen lopen sterk uiteen De prijzen in het overzicht liggen ver uit elkaar. De Sitecom is met 9 euro de goedkoopste, de IKEA kost 14 euro, de Ugreen ongeveer 30 euro, de Google en de Anker rond de 50 euro en de Xtorm ongeveer 65 euro. Die volgorde zegt weinig over de prestaties. De goedkoopste lader uit het rijtje hoort juist bij de modellen die niet worden aangeraden, terwijl de lader van 14 euro wel goed uit de test komt. Wat je bij de duurdere modellen extra krijgt, zijn functies eromheen: een schermpje dat laat zien welk vermogen er per poort geleverd wordt, of meegeleverde reisadapters. De kabel bepaalt mee wat er doorkomt De kabel is geen bijzaak. Zeker vanaf 100 watt heb je een kabel met een e-markerchip nodig, een chip die aan de lader doorgeeft hoeveel stroom de kabel aankan. Zonder die chip beperkt het systeem zichzelf uit veiligheidsoverwegingen en haal je het vermogen niet, hoe goed de lader ook is. Dat maakt de kabel onderdeel van de prijsvergelijking: de ene fabrikant levert er een mee, de andere verkoopt hem apart. Wie een oplader koopt zonder op de kabel te letten, houdt in de praktijk een langzamer ladende laptop over. Aanraders en afraders uit de test Drie laders komen goed uit de vergelijking. De Google-lader ondersteunt de protocollen die ertoe doen en is daarmee de meest complete keuze. De Anker is de beste in de klasse van 100 watt. De IKEA is de koopje-optie: beperkter dan de rest, maar voor 14 euro levert hij wat hij belooft. Niet aan te raden zijn de Sitecom en de Xtorm. Bij Ugreen ligt het genuanceerder: de Nexode Air komt goed uit de test, de andere modellen van hetzelfde merk niet. Merknaam alleen is dus geen garantie. Tweakers testte tien USB-C-laders van 100 watt op volgehouden vermogen Tweakers vergeleek zeventien USB-C-laders van 65 tot 70 watt Europees Parlement stemde in met de universele oplader voor elektronica Europese Unie legt uit wat de richtlijn universele lader inhoudt Google beschrijft de laadprotocollen van de Pixel Flex 67W-oplader Over de maker:Stijn Goossens is techredacteur en programmamaker bij BNR Nieuwsradio, met een focus op technologie, wetenschap en innovatie. Bij BNR Beter volgt hij de belangrijkste zorginnovaties, in de liveshows bespreekt hij het actuele technieuws en duidt hij nieuwe wetenschappelijke inzichten. Wekelijks test hij in De Schaal van Hebben de meest spraakmakende techproducten. Ook is hij te horen in de podcast Op de Zaak, met een inkijkje bij buitengewone mkb'ers. Deze tekst is gemaakt in samenwerking met AI, gecheckt door een redacteur.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After more than a decade of complaining on this podcast about the lack of innovation in lighting, we finally had to put our own name on something. The OrBrella is a 60W bi-colour umbrella softlight we developed with SmallRig: eight LED ribs fire inward into a 47cm white dome for the softest possible source, then flip around on their USB-C connectors when you need more punch. It collapses into a camera bag, runs more than two hours on a 99Wh V-mount, and if you are heading to IBC 2026, make sure to stop by the booth and check it out! This Episode is Sponsored by Hollyland. Check it out at (00:15:55) ► Check out the Pyro S wireless video transmitter: http://cined.co/nImvmn Topics and Chapters in this Episode: (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:04) The SmallRig x CineD OrBrella Light (00:20:45) DaVinci Resolve 21.1 Released – AI Assistant Integration via MCP, Individual HDR Trims, and Python Scripting Moves to Studio https://www.cined.com/davinci-resolve-21-1-released-ai-assistant-integration-via-mcp-individual-hdr-trims-and-python-scripting-moves-to-studio/ (00:29:32) Blackmagic Cuts Full-Frame 6K Camera Prices – Cinema Camera 6K Now $1,755, PYXIS 6K From $2,245, and More https://www.cined.com/blackmagic-cuts-full-frame-6k-camera-prices-cinema-camera-6k-now-1755-pyxis-6k-from-2245-and-more/ (00:36:11) Nikon ZR Firmware Update V2.00 & NIKKOR Z CINEMA VV Lenses Development Announced https://www.cined.com/nikon-zr-firmware-update-v2-00-nikkor-z-cinema-vv-lenses-development-announced/ (00:44:25) Lab Test of the iPhone 17 Pro – Rolling Shutter, Dynamic Range Trials and Exposure Challenges https://www.cined.com/lab-test-of-the-iphone-17-pro-rolling-shutter-dynamic-range-trials-and-exposure-challenges/ (00:50:58) GoPro Says the Cameras Are Staying – Reading Nick Woodman's Post-Merger Letter https://www.cined.com/gopro-says-the-cameras-are-staying-reading-nick-woodmans-post-merger-letter/ (00:53:57) Sony DP7 and DP5 Announced – Camera Control Monitors for the FX5, FX3, FX2, and FX30 https://www.cined.com/sony-dp7-and-dp5-announced-camera-control-monitors-for-the-fx5-fx3-fx2-and-fx30/ (01:00:02) Tilta Adds EVF Extension Support to Its Sony FX5 Cage – Dedicated Cable and Multi-Directional Bracket for the DVF-EL1 https://www.cined.com/tilta-adds-evf-extension-support-to-its-sony-fx5-cage-dedicated-cable-and-multi-directional-bracket-for-the-dvf-el1/ (01:02:17) Sony DWX Gen 4 Announced – DWT-B40 Bodypack with 32-Bit Float Recording, DWR-R40Q 4-Channel Receiver https://www.cined.com/sony-dwx-gen-4-announced-dwt-b40-bodypack-with-32-bit-float-recording-dwr-r40q-4-channel-receiver/ (01:05:57) FUJIFILM VF-GFXC2 Viewfinder for the GFX ETERNA 55 Announced – 0.64-inch 4:3 OLED, 2048 x 1536, 1,000 Nits, 370g https://www.cined.com/fujifilm-vf-gfxc2-viewfinder-for-the-gfx-eterna-55-announced-0-64-inch-43-oled-2048-x-1536-1000-nits-370g/ (01:08:42) FUJIFILM ETERNA ProRemote App Announced – iOS Remote Control, Live View, and Four-Camera Setups for the GFX ETERNA 55 https://www.cined.com/fujifilm-eterna-proremote-app-announced-ios-remote-control-live-view-and-four-camera-setups-for-the-gfx-eterna-55/ (01:10:37) DJI Osmo 360 II Launched – 8K60 360° Video, Replaceable Lenses, and a 14.5-Stop Dynamic Range Claim https://www.cined.com/dji-osmo-360-ii-launched-8k60-360-video-replaceable-lenses-and-a-14-5-stop-dynamic-range-claim/ (01:17:20) Hohem Eyepic Announced – World's First 2-in-1 Pocket Gimbal Camera With Native Vertical 4K https://www.cined.com/hohem-eyepic-announced-worlds-first-2-in-1-pocket-gimbal-camera-with-native-vertical-4k/ (01:21:39) DZOFILM Arles Zoom 25-75mm and 65-180mm T2.6 Announced – Constant Aperture, Parfocal, Under 1.8kg https://www.cined.com/dzofilm-arles-zoom-25-75mm-and-65-180mm-t2-6-announced-constant-aperture-parfocal-under-1-8kg/ (01:23:26) Libec Q30B and Q50B Tripods Announced – Quick-Deploy System, 45kg Payload, Under 3kg https://www.cined.com/libec-q30b-and-q50b-tripods-announced-quick-deploy-system-45kg-payload-under-3kg/ (01:27:01) NANLITE FC-1200B and FC-1200C Released – 1350W Rated Power, Bowens Mount, All-in-One Design https://www.cined.com/nanlite-fc-1200b-and-fc-1200c-released-1350w-rated-power-bowens-mount-all-in-one-design/ (01:28:38) Hollyland Pyro 7 Ultra Released – Calman-Calibrated 7-Inch Wireless Monitor with 4K60 and 20ms Latency https://www.cined.com/hollyland-pyro-7-ultra-released-calman-calibrated-7-inch-wireless-monitor-with-4k60-and-20ms-latency/ (01:31:15) CAME-TV KUMINIK8 PRO Now Shipping – 30-Hour Runtime, 518m Range, and $128 per Headset https://www.cined.com/came-tv-kuminik8-pro-now-shipping-30-hour-runtime-518m-range-and-128-per-headset/ (01:35:52) CODEX CFexpress Cards Announced – Type A and Type B, VPG1600, and a USB4 Reader https://www.cined.com/codex-cfexpress-cards-announced-type-a-and-type-b-vpg1600-and-a-usb4-reader/ (01:39:23) CineDream Releases Native Plug-Ins for Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and DaVinci Resolve https://www.cined.com/cinedream-releases-native-plug-ins-for-premiere-pro-after-effects-final-cut-pro-and-davinci-resolve-on-image-grading-with-aces-2-0-color-management/ (01:41:13) Caira Adds Generative Video Editing – Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, Runway Aleph 2.0, and 720p or 1080p Output https://www.cined.com/caira-adds-generative-video-editing-gemini-omni-1-1-flash-runway-aleph-2-0-and-720p-or-1080p-output/ (01:47:29) Chasing the Glow – Understanding Halation and Why Filmmakers Keep Coming Back to It https://www.cined.com/chasing-the-glow-understanding-halation-and-why-filmmakers-keep-coming-back-to-it/ Let us know what you think about the OrBrella in the comments, write to us at podcast@cined.com, and subscribe for the IBC coverage coming over the next two weeks.

In MobileViews 625, Jon Westfall and I started off with hardware updates and a bit of TV Sci-Fi nostalgia. Following a recommendation from Sven Johannsen, I purchased a Satechi Slim EX wireless mouse , though Sven ribbed me because its silver color doesn't match my indigo MacBook Neo. The mouse's native USB-C dongle prompted us to discuss how USB-A, despite the industry shift, will likely remain a fixture in our adapter bags for a long time. We also celebrated the upcoming 60th anniversary of the original Star Trek series on September 8th, sharing childhood memories of being terrified of Mr. Spock, analyzing Riker's first-season lack of a beard and Worf's voice changes in The Next Generation, and recommending the Dropping Names with Brent and Johnny, a podcast by ST:TNG stars Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner that focuses on general entertainment industry history rather than just Star Trek. Our software discussion touched on a mix of AI productivity, weather tracking, and backup systems. While monitoring the "hockey-stick" path of tropical storm Lowell south of Hawaii and Karina to the north of Hawaii, I've been using Google DeepMind's Weather Lab using the new "Weather Next 3" model, paired with twice-daily automated reports from Google Spark. In other AI workflows, I've been testing Google Pics (an evolution of Nano Banana), which lets users directly edit text and select objects inside AI-generated images, while Jon has been using MARP (Markdown Presentation Ecosystem) to convert Markdown into presentations. We also noted that Windows 10 and 11 now enable automatic cloud backup by default, prompting us to reminisce about our days as mobile MVPs in the early 2000s when Microsoft resisted our pleas to make cloud syncing the default standard. We wrapped up with predictions for Apple's September 9th event, which is on a Wednesday this year instead of a Tuesday. Because September 11th falls on a Friday, we speculate that Apple might shift pre-orders to Saturday. Between the rumored foldable iPhone, Watch Series 12, Watch Ultra 4, and AirPods 5, we debated our upgrade paths. I'm particularly interested in the Watch Series 12 as my 15 Pro battery degrades, but the lack of a telephoto lens on the rumored foldable iPhone is a dealbreaker. However, a rumored iOS 27 feature called "iPhone Handoff" might seamlessly share a single phone number across two devices—a "diabolical" strategy that might just force enthusiasts to buy both a single-screen Pro and a foldable.

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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De Nederlandse fabrikant Miniot bracht inmiddels meer dan 3.000 exemplaren van zijn verticale platenspeler op de markt, een product dat ooit begon als kickstarterproject en nu aan de derde generatie toe is. Bij de Wheel 3 zit de naald niet boven maar onder de plaat, waardoor het apparaat een minimalistische aluminium schijf is die je aan de muur kunt hangen of op een standaard kunt zetten. In de studio draait BNR-collega en italodisco-dj Daniël Mol (Rimini Express) de platen. Stijn Goossens vertelt erover in deze Schaal van Hebben. Bedenker en ontwikkelaar Peter Kolkman maakte het apparaat samen met zijn zoon. Wat begon als een project is uitgegroeid tot een familiebedrijf in het Noord-Hollandse Schagen, waar de platenspeler wordt ontwikkeld en gebouwd. Stijn ging er langs en kreeg de techniek achter het apparaat te zien. Optische techniek stuurt de naald over de plaat Achter de Wheel 3 zit een optisch systeem dat ervoor zorgt dat de naald de groef nauwkeurig volgt. Het apparaat analyseert ook de nummers op de plaat en moet overweg kunnen met platen die krom zijn getrokken. De aansluitingen zitten aan de achterkant: USB-C voor de stroomvoorziening en een 3,5 millimeter jack voor de audio-uitgang. Een voorversterker is ingebouwd, bluetooth ontbreekt. De bediening loopt via een draaiwiel aan de bovenkant en de draaisnelheid stelt de speler automatisch af. De Wheel 3 speelt LP's, singles en 10 inch platen, op 33⅓ en 45 toeren. In de uitzending zet Daniël Mol er een plaat op en geeft hij zijn indruk van het apparaat. Prijs van 3.400 euro en het onderhoud De Wheel 3 kost 3.400 euro, terwijl veel platenspelers rond de 300 euro liggen. Miniot mikt op de fijnproever die het apparaat centraal in de woonkamer wil zetten. Het eerste model was aanzienlijk goedkoper, maar het hogere segment bleek voor het bedrijf een logischer markt. Miniot werkt daarnaast samen met luxe modemerken en met partijen als Bang & Olufsen. Onderhoud hoort erbij: de naald moet worden vervangen en het stof verwijderd, zoals bij platenspelers gebruikelijk is. Omdat de naald onder de plaat zit, kijk je bovendien naar de kant die op dat moment niet wordt afgespeeld. Aan een Wheel 4 wordt inmiddels gewerkt. Productpagina van de Wheel 3 met prijs en specificaties Yves Saint Laurent valt voor design uit Noord-Hollandse huiskamer In Schagen wordt de verticale platenspeler van Miniot gebouwd Alpha Audio over de techniek achter de Wheel 3 De oorspronkelijke kickstartercampagne van Wheel by Miniot Over de maker:Stijn Goossens is techredacteur en programmamaker bij BNR Nieuwsradio, met een focus op technologie, wetenschap en innovatie. Bij BNR Beter volgt hij de belangrijkste zorginnovaties, in de liveshows bespreekt hij het actuele technieuws en duidt hij nieuwe wetenschappelijke inzichten. Wekelijks test hij in De Schaal van Hebben de meest spraakmakende techproducten. Ook is hij te horen in de podcast Op de Zaak, met een inkijkje bij buitengewone mkb'ers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Este episodio 828 es la carta de presentación de la Temporada 9 de atareao con Linux. Treinta y cuatro episodios ya guionizados, siete etapas, y un objetivo claro: construir tu cerebro digital sobre Linux con herramientas locales, sin depender de nubes ni suscripciones.Pero antes de mirar adelante, toca hacer balance. La T08 empezó prometiendo Docker, selfhosting y Android, y sí, hablé de todo eso. Pero en abril de 2025 la IA local irrumpió con fuerza y la temporada viró hacia Ollama, modelos locales, RAG, MCP. Fue un giro desordenado, lo reconozco. Pero también fue el germen de todo lo que viene ahora.De eso va esta T09: de poner orden al caos. Siete etapas, de menos a más, para que sigas el hilo hagas el nivel que hagas.Etapa 1 — Recursos básicos: los cimientos de tu laboratorio de IA. Skills para tu agente, herramientas de publicación, el botiquín del explorador.Etapa 2 — Skills y MCPs: el pegamento. El Model Context Protocol ha madurado hasta ser un estándar abierto — lo soportan Claude, ChatGPT, VS Code, Cursor. Ya no es un experimento, es el USB-C de la IA. Y de paso, herramientas del ecosistema atareao como watchbeat (monitor de uptime en Rust) y alloy (dashboard Docker con OIDC).Etapa 3 — GraphRAG, el gran hito: de RAG vectorial a grafos de conocimiento. Mientras el RAG clásico devuelve fragmentos sueltos y tú unes los puntos, GraphRAG construye un grafo con entidades y relaciones. Preguntas como "qué contenedores están detrás de Traefik" pasan a ser una consulta directa a tu mapa de conocimiento. Usaremos LightRAG, que con 39.000 estrellas ya superó al Microsoft GraphRAG original. Esto ocupa tres episodios.Etapa 4 — Multimedia: Whisper para speech-to-text, TTS local, ffmpeg, visión artificial, y el pipeline de YouTube a conocimiento con yt-dlp. Rematamos con RAG multimodal.Etapa 5 — Orquestación: systemd timers, asyncio, just, y CrewAI para montar equipos de agentes.Etapa 6 — Proyecto final: dos episodios para construir El Asistente que te Conoce y ponerlo en producción con Quadlets.Etapa 7 — El futuro: mantenimiento de tu cerebro digital y hacia dónde va todo esto.Entre medias, herramientas Linux: shuul, sqlite-utils, yq + jq, Rust en el kernel, Wayland vs X11, la guerra de los filesystems.No necesitas una GPU de 3000 euros ni un doctorado. Con 16 GB de RAM y un CPU decente ejecutas modelos de 7B a 14B. Esto es IA local, en tu máquina, con tus datos.Capítulos del episodio:00:00 — Introducción y bienvenida a la Temporada 901:47 — Balance T08: de Docker y Selfhosting al boom de la IA04:37 — El momento adecuado para cada tecnología06:46 — El gran objetivo: tu cerebro digital08:44 — Roadmap T09: 30 episodios ya guionizados11:28 — Skills y MCPs imprescindibles12:43 — GraphRAG: de RAG a grafos de conocimiento14:01 — RAG vs GraphRAG: el mapa de tu conocimiento17:28 — Herramientas del ecosistema: alloy, populater, watchbeat20:08 — ¿Para quién es esto? De veteranos a escépticos22:08 — No es hype: es un cambio de paradigma24:30 — El momento perfecto para el linuxeroToda la info y el roadmap completo en atareao.es/828.Más información y enlaces en las notas del episodio

How do you preserve physical video games in a world increasingly designed around downloads? How much would you pay for a really good keyboard? And what exactly happens when you sort the Nintendo Switch store from cheapest to most expensive? Those questions—and several much stranger ones—come up on AwesomeCast 794 with Sorg, Katie Dudas, and Dave Podnar. Xbox Finds a New Use for the Game Disc One of the episode's biggest discussions centers on Microsoft's Xbox Discs to Digital initiative. The concept offers an interesting middle ground between physical and digital ownership. A supported Xbox disc can be authenticated and connected to a player's digital library, potentially giving players digital access while the disc itself continues to function as the transferable proof of ownership. That last part is important. If the disc is sold and authenticated by somebody else, the digital access moves with it. For Sorg, who has stacks of Xbox One games and a console with a failed optical drive, this could solve a very practical problem. It also opens possibilities for finding inexpensive used Xbox games at stores such as GameStop and turning them into accessible digital titles. There are still questions surrounding Xbox 360 compatibility, licensing, sports games, delisted games and publisher participation, but it is a fascinating attempt to bridge two very different eras of game ownership. https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/08/26/your-discs-now-also-digital/?ocid=Platform_soc_omc_xbo_fb_Photo_lrn_8.26.2 Gamers Say They Want Physical Games. Are They Buying Them? That question carries directly into this week's ChachiSays Video Game Minute. Chachi points to figures showing U.S. spending on physical video games falling to levels not seen since physical-game statistics began being tracked in 1995. Nintendo represented a sizable portion of the remaining physical market. The contradiction is hard to ignore: gamers regularly criticize publishers for abandoning physical media, but those products need enough buyers to justify continuing to manufacture and distribute them. https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/us-console-sales-fall-39-percent-in-july-as-memory-costs-push-average-price-to-542 Generative AI Comes to Gamescom Chachi also discusses reports of generative AI being used during development of multiple titles connected to Gamescom 2026. The larger concern is not simply whether AI tools exist inside game development. The segment focuses on how companies disclose that use, what work the systems replace, and whether developers are being transparent with their audiences. Project Zeta, Aion 2, Train Sim World 7, Crimson Desert and Crazy Taxi: World Tour are among the games brought up during the discussion. https://kotaku.com/opening-night-live-2026-genai-slop-games-geoff-keighley-2000728477 Roku City Quietly Remembers Three Entertainment Icons Katie highlights a much more thoughtful use of technology: the little visual Easter eggs hidden inside Roku City. The screensaver incorporated imagery referencing Dolly Parton and Tim Curry along with an Optimus Prime-inspired tribute to Peter Cullen. That leads the crew into memories of Cullen's massive voice-acting career and the strange experience of realizing, years later, just how many familiar childhood characters were voiced by the same small group of performers. https://www.instagram.com/p/DcrPR8alYG3/?img_index=1 From Hubble to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Dave's Awesome History segment turns toward NASA and astronomer Nancy Grace Roman. Roman played an important role in pushing space-based astronomy forward, helping lay the groundwork for what ultimately became the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope carrying her name represents another enormous leap in what astronomers can observe. The hosts discuss its much wider field of view, the search for exoplanets, dark matter and dark energy, as well as the unusual orbital environments used by major observatories. https://www.planetary.org/articles/the-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-launch It's Already LEGO Advent Calendar Season Katie has an annual public-service announcement: if you want a particular Advent Calendar, buy it when you see it. LEGO's 2026 calendars are already appearing, including traditional Christmas offerings alongside Star Wars, Marvel and Disney sets. Waiting until December is how you end up frantically checking every store in town for the one calendar somebody decided they absolutely had to have. https://www.lego.com/en-us/search?q=advent%20calendar%202026&suggestion=true The $100,000 Keyboard Dave then discovers a corner of technology that makes even premium mechanical keyboards look inexpensive. A social video begins with keyboards priced in the hundreds of dollars, moves into models costing thousands, and eventually reaches one sitting around the $100,000 mark. At that point, calling something a “computer accessory” may no longer adequately explain what is happening. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1593262308558803 Brütal Legend Honors Tim Curry for 666 Minutes Double Fine found an extremely appropriate way to honor Tim Curry by making Brütal Legend free for 666 minutes. The Xbox 360-era heavy-metal adventure stars Jack Black and features Curry among its memorable cast. Sorg recently returned to the game and found that, despite showing its age in places, it remains surprisingly enjoyable. https://www.ign.com/articles/double-fine-productions-makes-brutal-legend-free-for-666-minutes-to-honor-tim-curry?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6a905803b9a113000189638d&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook Donkey Kong Country: CGI From Another Time Speaking of things that have aged differently, Sorg rediscovers the computer-animated Donkey Kong Country television series from the late 1990s. The show provides an incredible time capsule of early television CGI: stiff animation, questionable lip synchronization and character models that can occasionally drift into nightmare territory. And yet there is something fascinating about seeing what creators were able to accomplish with 1990s rendering technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWpI4vahfIY Sort the Nintendo eShop From Cheap to Expensive. You Have Been Warned. There is another kind of digital archaeology available right now. Go to the Nintendo Switch store. Sort everything from lowest price to highest. Start scrolling. The result is a journey through inexpensive retro games, indie releases, zombie games, cat games, simulators, dating games, suspiciously AI-looking artwork and enough shovelware to keep the AwesomeCast crew entertained far longer than expected. There are legitimate bargains hiding in the pile—but finding them is part of the adventure. https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/sales-and-deals/#show=0&p=1&sort=pa&f=priceRangeFilter&priceRangeFilter=%240+-+%244.99 Commodore 64 Meets Cyberpunk The episode's final major retro-tech rabbit hole comes courtesy of a Cyberpunk-themed Commodore 64. The unusual crossover sends Katie and Dave back into memories of the original beige Commodore machines, while Dave recalls using GEOS for word processing and schoolwork long before the modern Windows experience became standard. https://commodore.net/store/commodore64/ Plus: Giant Medals, Slow USB-C Cables and Video Game Wrestling Dave also shows off the giant magnetic medals earned through the Pro Football Hall of Fame virtual race series. https://runsignup.com/Race/OH/Canton/HOFRaceSeries Katie introduces what may become a recurring feature, “What Is Katie Labeling Now?”, after discovering one of her USB-C cables was charging her laptop dramatically slower than the others. And before any of that, the crew revisits Sorgstock and its real-life video game wrestling match, where the performers recreated all of the awkward movement, button mashing, missed attacks and controller confusion of playing a wrestling game when nobody remembers the controls. From the future of game ownership to 1980s computers and $100,000 keyboards, AwesomeCast 794 once again proves there is always something wonderfully strange happening in technology.

How do you preserve physical video games in a world increasingly designed around downloads? How much would you pay for a really good keyboard? And what exactly happens when you sort the Nintendo Switch store from cheapest to most expensive? Those questions—and several much stranger ones—come up on AwesomeCast 794 with Sorg, Katie Dudas, and Dave Podnar. Xbox Finds a New Use for the Game Disc One of the episode's biggest discussions centers on Microsoft's Xbox Discs to Digital initiative. The concept offers an interesting middle ground between physical and digital ownership. A supported Xbox disc can be authenticated and connected to a player's digital library, potentially giving players digital access while the disc itself continues to function as the transferable proof of ownership. That last part is important. If the disc is sold and authenticated by somebody else, the digital access moves with it. For Sorg, who has stacks of Xbox One games and a console with a failed optical drive, this could solve a very practical problem. It also opens possibilities for finding inexpensive used Xbox games at stores such as GameStop and turning them into accessible digital titles. There are still questions surrounding Xbox 360 compatibility, licensing, sports games, delisted games and publisher participation, but it is a fascinating attempt to bridge two very different eras of game ownership. https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/08/26/your-discs-now-also-digital/?ocid=Platform_soc_omc_xbo_fb_Photo_lrn_8.26.2 Gamers Say They Want Physical Games. Are They Buying Them? That question carries directly into this week's ChachiSays Video Game Minute. Chachi points to figures showing U.S. spending on physical video games falling to levels not seen since physical-game statistics began being tracked in 1995. Nintendo represented a sizable portion of the remaining physical market. The contradiction is hard to ignore: gamers regularly criticize publishers for abandoning physical media, but those products need enough buyers to justify continuing to manufacture and distribute them. https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/us-console-sales-fall-39-percent-in-july-as-memory-costs-push-average-price-to-542 Generative AI Comes to Gamescom Chachi also discusses reports of generative AI being used during development of multiple titles connected to Gamescom 2026. The larger concern is not simply whether AI tools exist inside game development. The segment focuses on how companies disclose that use, what work the systems replace, and whether developers are being transparent with their audiences. Project Zeta, Aion 2, Train Sim World 7, Crimson Desert and Crazy Taxi: World Tour are among the games brought up during the discussion. https://kotaku.com/opening-night-live-2026-genai-slop-games-geoff-keighley-2000728477 Roku City Quietly Remembers Three Entertainment Icons Katie highlights a much more thoughtful use of technology: the little visual Easter eggs hidden inside Roku City. The screensaver incorporated imagery referencing Dolly Parton and Tim Curry along with an Optimus Prime-inspired tribute to Peter Cullen. That leads the crew into memories of Cullen's massive voice-acting career and the strange experience of realizing, years later, just how many familiar childhood characters were voiced by the same small group of performers. https://www.instagram.com/p/DcrPR8alYG3/?img_index=1 From Hubble to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Dave's Awesome History segment turns toward NASA and astronomer Nancy Grace Roman. Roman played an important role in pushing space-based astronomy forward, helping lay the groundwork for what ultimately became the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope carrying her name represents another enormous leap in what astronomers can observe. The hosts discuss its much wider field of view, the search for exoplanets, dark matter and dark energy, as well as the unusual orbital environments used by major observatories. https://www.planetary.org/articles/the-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-launch It's Already LEGO Advent Calendar Season Katie has an annual public-service announcement: if you want a particular Advent Calendar, buy it when you see it. LEGO's 2026 calendars are already appearing, including traditional Christmas offerings alongside Star Wars, Marvel and Disney sets. Waiting until December is how you end up frantically checking every store in town for the one calendar somebody decided they absolutely had to have. https://www.lego.com/en-us/search?q=advent%20calendar%202026&suggestion=true The $100,000 Keyboard Dave then discovers a corner of technology that makes even premium mechanical keyboards look inexpensive. A social video begins with keyboards priced in the hundreds of dollars, moves into models costing thousands, and eventually reaches one sitting around the $100,000 mark. At that point, calling something a “computer accessory” may no longer adequately explain what is happening. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1593262308558803 Brütal Legend Honors Tim Curry for 666 Minutes Double Fine found an extremely appropriate way to honor Tim Curry by making Brütal Legend free for 666 minutes. The Xbox 360-era heavy-metal adventure stars Jack Black and features Curry among its memorable cast. Sorg recently returned to the game and found that, despite showing its age in places, it remains surprisingly enjoyable. https://www.ign.com/articles/double-fine-productions-makes-brutal-legend-free-for-666-minutes-to-honor-tim-curry?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6a905803b9a113000189638d&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook Donkey Kong Country: CGI From Another Time Speaking of things that have aged differently, Sorg rediscovers the computer-animated Donkey Kong Country television series from the late 1990s. The show provides an incredible time capsule of early television CGI: stiff animation, questionable lip synchronization and character models that can occasionally drift into nightmare territory. And yet there is something fascinating about seeing what creators were able to accomplish with 1990s rendering technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWpI4vahfIY Sort the Nintendo eShop From Cheap to Expensive. You Have Been Warned. There is another kind of digital archaeology available right now. Go to the Nintendo Switch store. Sort everything from lowest price to highest. Start scrolling. The result is a journey through inexpensive retro games, indie releases, zombie games, cat games, simulators, dating games, suspiciously AI-looking artwork and enough shovelware to keep the AwesomeCast crew entertained far longer than expected. There are legitimate bargains hiding in the pile—but finding them is part of the adventure. https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/sales-and-deals/#show=0&p=1&sort=pa&f=priceRangeFilter&priceRangeFilter=%240+-+%244.99 Commodore 64 Meets Cyberpunk The episode's final major retro-tech rabbit hole comes courtesy of a Cyberpunk-themed Commodore 64. The unusual crossover sends Katie and Dave back into memories of the original beige Commodore machines, while Dave recalls using GEOS for word processing and schoolwork long before the modern Windows experience became standard. https://commodore.net/store/commodore64/ Plus: Giant Medals, Slow USB-C Cables and Video Game Wrestling Dave also shows off the giant magnetic medals earned through the Pro Football Hall of Fame virtual race series. https://runsignup.com/Race/OH/Canton/HOFRaceSeries Katie introduces what may become a recurring feature, “What Is Katie Labeling Now?”, after discovering one of her USB-C cables was charging her laptop dramatically slower than the others. And before any of that, the crew revisits Sorgstock and its real-life video game wrestling match, where the performers recreated all of the awkward movement, button mashing, missed attacks and controller confusion of playing a wrestling game when nobody remembers the controls. From the future of game ownership to 1980s computers and $100,000 keyboards, AwesomeCast 794 once again proves there is always something wonderfully strange happening in technology.

Lynn Smurthwaite-Murphy, CEO of Plugable The IT channel is no stranger to consumer brands attempting to make the leap into the B2B world, but few have navigated it as deliberately as Plugable. Originally known as a digital-native brand that built its reputation on Amazon, the connectivity and peripherals vendor is now turning its full attention to the channel. On this episode of In The Channel, Plugable chief executive officer Lynn Smurthwaite-Murphy – a familiar face to Canadian partners from her time leading Westcon Canada – explains how the company is translating its consumer success into a reliable, low-friction offering for managed service providers. She notes that surviving the brutal review ecosystem on Amazon forced Plugable to build highly reliable, extensively tested products, which today translates into fewer helpdesk tickets for MSPs managing complex, mixed-vendor desktop environments. We also discuss the recent strategic investment from Acer Gadget. Smurthwaite-Murphy shares how this partnership gives Plugable the global supply chain muscle it needs to expand while remaining strictly vendor-neutral. Finally, we touch on a massive hardware innovation for the artificial intelligence era. Smurthwaite-Murphy shares details on Plugable’s upcoming Thunderbolt 5 AI enclosure, a modular hardware solution that promises to bring workstation-class, local AI processing power to standard laptops, giving MSPs a practical way to deploy AI hardware without relying entirely on emerging AI PCs. Read Full Transcript ROBERT DUTT: Hello and welcome to In The Channel from ChannelBuzz.ca, bringing news and information to the Canadian IT channel community for the last 16 years. I’m Robert Dutt, editor of ChannelBuzz.ca, and your host for the show. Today, we’re talking about the desktop edge and how a brand born on Amazon is making waves in the IT channel. My guest is Lynn Smurthwaite-Murphy, the chief executive officer of Plugable. Many of you will recognize Lynn from her deep roots here in the Canadian channel, including her time leading Westcon Canada. She joined Plugable a few years ago to help them transition from a prosumer favourite to a serious B2B player. We discuss why their trial by fire in the consumer review space actually makes their docking stations and peripherals perfect for MSPs looking to reduce help desk tickets in mixed hardware environments. We also dig into their recent investment from Acer Gadget and get a really exciting scoop on a new Thunderbolt 5 AI enclosure that gives partners a modular way to deploy serious local AI processing power. Let’s get right into it. My chat with Lynn Smurthwaite-Murphy. ROBERT DUTT: Tim, thanks for taking the time. It’s great to talk to you again. LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Yeah, it’s great to talk to you again as well. It’s been many years, we were just establishing. ROBERT DUTT: It has been a while, probably more than either of us would like to admit, but such is. A lot of our listeners will obviously know you from your time leading Westcon Canada and then your work at StarTech.com after that. Can you kind of walk us through your journey from the distribution side of the house to where you are now at the helm of Plugable? LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Yeah, actually it’s been interesting because I started out at a service provider and then I spent many years at Westcon, and then I went to a vendor brand, which is where I’m at now as well. So you kind of get this 360-degree view of the channel and it’s been really interesting. I’ve been very fortunate. So about five years ago, I joined Plugable as the CEO and we’ve been undergoing a whole transformation. I mean, I can go into it if you want now, a little bit about why I joined the company, but I don’t want to jump on any questions you have. ROBERT DUTT: No, I appreciate that. And yeah, this would be a great time to do that. What did you see there? And I guess especially… yeah, let’s just start there. LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Yeah. So Plugable was known, and some of the channel partners do think of us as an Amazon seller. But what I loved about the… I mean, we were watching them closely because we were always competing with them when I was at StarTech.com. But what they really are is a data company, an e-commerce company, and they were founded on Amazon. So I saw this digital native that suddenly was showing up in the channel and the channel was asking for the Plugable products and I was like, what’s going on there? And I was very interested. And as I was talking to the founder, he really wanted to expand. We had this… what was happening was the Chinese factory brands were beginning to show up on Amazon and, I mean, they’re fine products, but the solutions are extremely broad compatibility for business. So suddenly I started noticing a lot of business in our point of sale and we invested in a whole channel team and we wanted to grow to this omnichannel wherever the business customers buy. And so I found it a very interesting business model. And I think that kind of leads to where we are today. It was sort of demand from the channel side of things. ROBERT DUTT: Interesting, because I was curious what kind of drove the strategic decision to go from the kind of direct-to-consumer and prosumer Amazon-centric brand to the sort of formalizing and B2B IT channel and making that kind of the bread and butter, it seems. LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Yeah. I mean, there were these factors that were happening. As I mentioned, there was disruption in the B2C side and then suddenly businesses are looking at the solution. And I think what interested me the most is the channel has a very broad portfolio that they’re responsible for with the customer. They can’t be master of every brand. And so they want, specifically in peripherals, they want something that they know will work and it’s easy to figure out what the compatibility is. So you had these two things coming together at the same time. And this company had to be built and survive and thrive with customers never talking to a customer yet selling something fairly complicated. So they had to do it all digitally. And that’s where I found… I think the channel was being asked for us initially because customers were doing online research, right? The B2B buyer’s journey is changing. And so they were asking for us and that’s kind of how it all began. ROBERT DUTT: How do you take that digital-only or digital-first kind of culture in terms of marketing, in terms of… well, there isn’t really so much enablement, but documentation support for customers… and turn that into channel enablement and all the stuff that one has to do when one’s working through the VAR or MSP channel? LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Yeah, great question. So there’s a team of us that came over that had spent our career in the channel. So we knew what the channel required from a channel program, channel support. And so we started with distribution and made sure that we were in the right distribution partners and that we had our inventory available and that we were listed properly. And then we were supporting the channel. They knew how to reach us. And so it’s been that journey, and marketing programs and events, doing all that. And now, as the whole modern desk is becoming disrupted again, and so much more is being expected of it, things are becoming more complicated. It was time for us to hire a field team. And that field team can help generate leads for the channel, but also can help support the customers. That’s where we are today. We’re on this multi-year journey of transforming to a B2B company, which now the majority of our business is through the channel, which now we are all-channel as well. I consider Amazon a channel. We don’t take any share of the world. ROBERT DUTT: Especially with that talent in place and that muscle motion in place now, how do you address some of the classic partner concerns that I’m sure have come up? Deal reg, margin protection, MDF, especially when Amazon is part of the channel, but it is also a visible competitor to a lot of the folks who are in the VAR/MSP space. LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Oh, great question. And it’s interesting, the channel partners ask us that every time they see us. And we do a little test. We say, let’s go online right now and let’s look at Amazon and several partners’ listings. And I challenge you to find where there’s a different price, where the channel is at a disadvantage. And it’s because we came from an Amazon partner to a channel partner, we have really good control over our pricing. So that’s number one. And then we were able to build a channel pricing strategy and promotion that we knew, coming from the channel, we knew would work. And so we’ve got a multi-tier channel program. We’re able to do volume opportunities, jam programs, and deal reg, all of that. ROBERT DUTT: You sat in the distributor’s chair for a long time. And as you point out, you were on the partner side for a while before that. How does that background inform the way you operate a vendor today? What kind of distribution and partner lessons, as well as the overall insights that you mentioned bringing in with the team, does that kind of background in distribution apply to how Plugable goes to market today? LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: That’s a great question. Some of it might just be muscle memory, but I think I understand what makes both the service provider MSP and the distributor tick. And so I think we’re trying to make sure that we’re a really good partner to both of those constituents and try to deliver what they need and work with them in the way that they want. Even if you’re making price changes, for example, with the distributor, you know to do that at a timing that works with them. So we’re trying to be easy to work with. ROBERT DUTT: Price changes in a timely fashion in 2026 might be a little bit of a different discussion than it was a few years ago, but… LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Well, we went through the pandemic and that was kind of chaotic times. And we’re entering into a whole new chaotic time, really driven by AI. But anyway, you were asking about price changes. ROBERT DUTT: No, I was just making the observation that it’s certainly a different beast this year as a result of AI and RAMageddon and all that fun stuff that’s going on. LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Oh, absolutely. I mean, I was just… our founder and chief technology officer is over in Asia. He’s been over there for quite a while and it’s evolving. It’s an evolving story, but there are component level shortages that are beginning to rear, even more than I think people understood, and more than just the memory. So it’s where the pandemic we knew was going to end. We knew that it was a peak and valley and the demand and the constraint, but this is going to be sustained, at least for the foreseeable future. ROBERT DUTT: Grab your helmet, folks. LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: That’s right. Fasten your seatbelt. ROBERT DUTT: A lot of folks in the solution provider community and MSPs are hyper-focused on SaaS, on cybersecurity, on cloud, on AI. Sometimes I think they think of peripherals as an afterthought, something that gets tacked on there. Why should they be paying more attention to this space? What are the opportunities or where are the margin dollars that they might not realize they’re leaving on the table in a deal if they’re not thinking about the kind of stuff that you guys are bringing to market? LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Yeah, that’s a great question because, I mean, let’s face it, peripherals are not that sexy until somebody really realizes they need them. So you’ve got a few things happening, right? The modern desk is being disrupted, as we mentioned, by AI, but also by the demand for productivity. People are using more applications than ever, so they need multi-screens. So just at the very core, you get a new laptop because you had to upgrade it for AI or just for Windows 11. Now you need new peripherals. But those are also… you’re adding more devices, more screen space. And that screen is probably running… one of them is probably running AI. And so the modern desk could be anywhere. It could be hybrid, in a hybrid environment in terms of work. And then every office you go into, I defy you to find one that is 100% one brand, one GPU, one set of devices that you have to connect to. So let’s just assume that 95% of the environments are hybrid in some way. That’s what third-party docking station companies like ours do best. We work in a mixed environment because we have to work and test deeply for compatibility. Where if you’re buying the bundle, the OEM plus the OEM dock, that’s great for that particular one use. But if you’re in a hybrid environment, you’re plugging in different devices, is it going to work? Are you going to lose productivity? Are you going to have a poor customer experience? So there’s a lot of demand and complexity that’s being added to the modern desk. And the IT department, they don’t have the capacity to deal with that. They don’t have the time or the capacity. And so we also take those calls from the channel, we take the calls from the end user. “Doesn’t work?” We take them locally. ROBERT DUTT: I think that points out an interesting side of things that I hadn’t really thought of. My first thought is kind of as an upsell opportunity for a partner who’s selling a solution, selling hardware, tag on the peripherals to build a total deal size and hopefully raise TCO as well. But it sounds like you’re saying there’s an opportunity to potentially, if done right, offload some of the inevitable help desk tickets that come with, “My monitor won’t turn on,” or, “Well, when I’m plugged into this thing, it feels like my data transfer is slower than it is, even though it’s the same kind of connector.” Well, no, it’s not. It’s actually USB. It’s all USB-C, but that one, you’re used to Thunderbolt 3 or 4, and this is something lower. So it sounds like there’s a cost reduction opportunity there too. LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Yeah. I mean, as a business leader, I also had to pay for help desks in my P&L. And so I can attest to the fact that I’ve got those people busy trying to do rollouts or IT upgrades, or I don’t want them working on these little minor things, but I also don’t want my staff not being able to get connected. And there are stats that say people lose five, seven minutes every time they try to connect to a meeting, especially if they’re running in. So yes, I’m talking the productivity and user experience and cost savings, but also you mentioned the channel margin. And we do offer a higher margin. That’s something that if the channel partner is not thinking about the margin opportunity by just adding peripherals. And then when you add third-party peripherals… ROBERT DUTT: Let’s talk about the current situation, the recent investment from Acer Gadget. Tell me a bit about how that partnership came about and what does it mean for you guys in terms of R&D and roadmap and where things go. LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Yeah, that’s great. We were so excited. Both parties just really are so complimentary. They’re global. They’ve got a global footprint. They’ve got brand halo that we really were pleased to partner with. And then supply chain stability, opportunity to access even a broader supply chain. And for Acer Gadget and Acer, we represent an agnostic, highly compatible device that could work in their environments, as well as a B2B and an e-commerce company and innovation. Some of the innovation that we’re doing, they really appreciated, specifically around the Thunderbolt 5 AI enclosure and some of that innovation. So we consider it more of a strategic partnership than we do a finance partnership. Although there is benefit there as well, which helped fund the field team that we’re announcing that we’ve hired. That’s for an example. ROBERT DUTT: It sounds like you say Acer values the agnosticism, as you describe it. That sounds like Plugable remains and the strategy is to remain pretty strictly vendor-neutral when it comes to docking and connectivity. LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Absolutely. They would like the brand to remain agnostic. ROBERT DUTT: You already mentioned the AI enclosure. You mentioned how AI is changing the desktop. How are you guys thinking about where AI is at now and where it’s going in the future in terms of what it means for what you do and where you see Plugable? LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Yeah, again, I think the modern desk is completely being disrupted and there’s so much more demand on it. AI PCs right now don’t have the power to run local models. What we’re seeing is in the cloud, there’s billions of dollars being spent on AI in the cloud and there’s going to be a lot of use case for that. But as we move to privacy, and privacy almost seems like it’s a little bit secondary right now. People are racing to leverage AI, but at some point there’s going to be big news. People will focus a little bit more on the privacy piece and what needs to stay local. You’ve got the capability of the hardware getting better and the GPUs being able to manage more, but also the models. The models are becoming more optimized. At some point, you’re going to have this come together where local is going to be a real option for people. It’s somewhere between now and 18, 24 months, it’s going to become more mainstream where there’s going to be repeatable or local workflows that need to be local. It could be because of token usage, it could be just because of privacy, but it’s going to be there. We wanted to get ahead of it. We’ve been on the bleeding edge of AI for our own company and we’ve got a really interesting roadmap, but the first launch was our Thunderbolt enclosure where we offered two solutions. One was the one for developers where you build your own local AI, and then we built an enterprise version where it’s intended to be plug-and-play AI. We’ve got a whole software stack and we wrote a chat harness. People in the channel can adopt this to drive a use case for AI and maybe give themselves an opportunity to have a seat at the table for the broader AI spend because use cases right now are where we’re not seeing successful proof of concepts. ROBERT DUTT: I guess from a peripheral point of view, it’s become an accepted and normal thing for docking to potentially include storage on board or directly connected. Why not have some processing as well and get into that AI boost? Then hopefully, I’m guessing the logic is I can have a less beefy machine hooked up to that and still get the better AI outcomes. LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: That’s right. It works today with the Windows PC that you have where, if you were going with… first off, it’s 50 times more powerful than an AI PC. It depends what you’re trying to run. You can chat on an AI PC. You can’t run models. If you wanted to buy then a local solution like a DGX Spark, for example. Those are nice. They’re all built in one, but you have to use Linux. So you’ve got to add another operating system and it’s not modular. I know a lot of companies are trying to figure out when and how they get in and they don’t want to spend and then not be viable in the next couple of years. So ours is a modular solution. It works with the PC you have. It depends on the use case, what you’re trying to do. ROBERT DUTT: Given your roots, I have to ask about the distribution strategy in Canada. You said one of the first steps was to lock down what you want to do in distribution. Where are you at in Canada today and how are you approaching getting products into the hands of Canadian partners and getting in front of them and letting them know what you guys are up to? LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Being here in Canada, we have about a third of our company population is Canadian. We’re nicely straddling North America as a North American company. So right now we’re in Ingram and we’re in the works of launching another distributor and we’re expanding our channel here. As part of our expanding a new field team, we also expanded our channel team. ROBERT DUTT: What is the end… I imagine given what you said it’s probably a pretty broad array, but what does the ideal Plugable partner look like? What are some of the common threads for a successful partner for you? LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Well, it’s changing with the AI solution because with the AI solution, it’s got to be a partner probably within the Global 1000 that has an AI consulting development already because the beauty of that is it needs a channel partner to hook up all the data through MCP. They’ve got to integrate it and support it. But most of our partners are traditional partners. If you name one, we’re probably being sold by them. We initially started out where partners that had more of an e-commerce play, we were doing very well there, and then it’s just continued to expand. ROBERT DUTT: Last one for me. You’ve touched on this a little bit with the AI side of things, but what are the main priorities for Plugable over the next 12 to 18 months in terms of both building the market and the product roadmap? And I guess finally, your message to Canadian partners who might be hearing about Plugable for the first time? LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Ah, let’s unpack that. So what’s on the roadmap? Well, with this partnership with Acer Gadget and Acer, we will be expanding our product line. In the past we had to kind of choose an either-or and we spent a lot of time on innovation last year. Well, now we can do both. And so we’re going to be launching more new products this year than we have in a while. So we’re pretty excited about that. We want to continue to expand our footprint globally and we now have a path to do that faster. So basically they’re enabling us to accelerate our strategy. And then if I were a Canadian partner, what’s Plugable? I think what we’re told by the channel partners we work with is that A, we bring in more new business than most of our competitors because we’re being asked for by their customer. And B, we have the lowest return rate because it just works. And I really believe that that’s our digital native being born on Amazon. You live and die by your reviews. And if you don’t have this whole cycle process of taking the feedback, improving, improving, re-spinning and making sure that you’re listening to the customer’s user experience feedback and improving it, you’re not going to do well. So we bring that to a business-grade solution. So I think we’re low friction for a partner. ROBERT DUTT: Fascinating, especially fascinating as things continue to develop in terms of what you’re able to add to the PC as AI models get closer to the machine. Lynn, fascinating catching up and good luck with Plugable. LYNN SMURTHWAITE-MURPHY: Thank you so much. It’s been great to catch up. ROBERT DUTT: There you have it, Lynn Smurthwaite-Murphy from Plugable. I’d like to thank Lynn for her time. And as always, thank you for listening. It’s fascinating to hear how a company weaponizes its Amazon background. Usually the consumer origin is something vendors tend to try to hide when they pivot to the channel, but Lynn makes a compelling case that surviving the consumer review gauntlet creates exactly the kind of bulletproof hardware that MSPs need. And that Thunderbolt 5 AI enclosure is definitely something to keep an eye on as we all try to figure out the hardware realities of this AI wave. If you enjoyed this episode, please follow or subscribe to the channel on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your podcasts. Leaving a rating or review also helps us as well. Until next time, I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, and I’ll see you in the channel. Bye.

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Hi, this is Archer72 for another episode of Hacker Public Radio. In this episode, it is my first experience troubleshooting with an experienced blind Ham operator who is located 20 miles away from my hometown. When traveling there, I could not miss his house, which was the only one off the main road with an estimated 50 foot antenna. That's 15 meters for the rest of the world. This antenna was intended for the HF high frequency band, for which the local Ham radio club had very recently extended to this height. The target radio bands are 20, 40 and 80 meters. I had missed a great opportunity to record the session so wanted record (and write this) while it was fresh on my mind. Several months later… This particualar operator (KG4QWH) (Kilo-Golf-Four-Quebec-Whiskey-Hotel) was a radio operator for the local emergency services for 22 years, after which the new company decided to cut back on staff. A local broadcast radio station was hiring soon after and was using some version of Linux which was not accessible for a blind user like himself. This conversation was started after I was asked about his computer that he was trying to force update on older hardware from Windows (7?) to Windows 11, in true hacker fashion. While talking about the Linux situation and also the Windows side, it brough to light the glaring (near) ommision of accessibility software in both camps. On the Windows side, which is more familiar to my friend, is Jaws. Great software, but year after year the barrier of cost is getting more, and on the Linux side accessibility is not looking any better. While cost is not a factor in using it, and this is only coming from me, the voices could be better. Piper is an option for natural sounding voices, but has yet to be integrated into a FOSS screen reader AFAIK. On the positive side of accessibility, the Kenwood radio (model TS-590S) has the option to add a module to give an audible description of the buttons being pressed, and at the time there was gnother operator who came through and talk him through some receiver settings. The reason I went there is the first place was that the Kenwood microphone was causing noise to come across the speaker when he keyed up the mic. Initially the proprosed solution was to switch two wires inside the Kenwood microphone. I was asked about this ahead of time so was prepared with an electrical box with miscellaneous low voltage wires and stripping tool, also a Pincil soldering iron equiped with a USB C 100 watt power supply. To fix the problem on the Kenwood MC-60 microphone, you need to swap the wires so that mic hi is on Pin 1 and mic low (shield) is on Pin 7. This is often necessary due to factory wiring errors. After finding out that the proposed solution was to open the mic, which required a heat gun the soften the locktight, I tried another route. My friend had a toroid choke handy, and I coiled the feed line to the back of the radio around the toroid. (8 - 10 times?) This had no effect. Next to try was to ground the mic from the outside, which there was a bare metal screw on. This connected to a dedicated ground on the back of the Kenwood TS-590S radio. This seem to suppress the hum when using PTT. The rest of the evening (the best time for HF), Matthew was able to make contacts on 40 meters. Great to meet you as well my friend and I appreciate you coming up. I was able to talk on 40 this evening with no problems. I reached several in Kentucky Indiana and I even reached Kansas. Come to think of it. I was even able to reach someone on the Jersey shore. References Blind Hams Network New CQ Blind Hams Podcast: CQBH 011 TS-590SG Tutorial by N3AIN New CQ Blind Hams Podcast: CQBH 012 TS-590SG tutorial by N3AIN KENWOOD TS-590S instruction manual KENWOOD VGS-1 instruction manual KENWOOD Communications Microphone MC-60A Instruction Manual Image of a 15 meter HF antenna on a two story house in Kentucky. Provide feedback on this episode.

Recorded August 14, 2026 What's the one true, correct way to build a BYOM classroom? Naturally, the AV SuperFriends all agree… and come up with several. Justin brings a real-world challenge: two teaching spaces where instructors need essentially the same conferencing experience whether they use the installed room PC or a laptop over USB-C, and expect everything to just work. That kicks off a debate over NDI, Dante, AVoIP, HDBaseT, docking stations, camera switching, control systems, power delivery, and how much complexity should be hiding behind a supposedly simple user experience. Several workable approaches emerge, ranging from elegant network-based designs to a suspiciously compelling $900 solution that is obviously the best one. Do they settle on the definitive higher-ed BYOM standard? Absolutely not. But we do narrow the field, spend plenty of imaginary budget dollars, argue about confidence monitors and enterprise networks, and leave Justin with several options to test, which is probably the closest this group is ever going to get to consensus. Solutions presented: Jamie - Biamp EX-UBT + Inogeni IP2USB https://products.biamp.com/product-details/-/o/d/Tesira-EX-UBT/ecom-item/920-00443-00001 https://inogeni.com/product/ip2usb/ Larry - Extron DTP3 CrossPoint 42 USB  https://www.extron.com/product/dtp3crosspointusb Marc - Visionary Duet-5E + Visionary XB5 https://visionary-av.com/project/duet-5-encoder-decoder/ https://visionary-av.com/project/xb5/ Chris - Liberty TU-HUC42 https://www.libertyonline.com/products/search/item/TU-HUC42-KIT Justin says NDI cameras via Inogeni IP2USB, but maybe Dante-AV: Turtle Chazy: https://turtleav.com/portfolio/chazy-4k/   Alternate show titles: That's going to be longer than the Bible I'm going to pick a winner and go with it It doesn't matter if it's Zoom or Teams That's no-go; that's not happening It's either-or You have that Kansas City money Don't worry about the ask, Marc! I'm more comfortable with my thing Nearly the same exact setup process You can't call time! There's some strugglebus I have the power figured out I would dabble down the road… We have to make sure all the Legos are the right type This one has a budget, but I don't know what it is This is why we have these shows 900 bucks I'm not throwing top dollar H.323 people + content crap What happens if I don't want my students to see my notes on the back screen I might be able to squeeze that in I don't know if I like it yet or not The big network I don't know what my heart wants I'm in this dirty bucket of filth   We stream live every Friday at about 315p Eastern/1215p Pacific and you can listen to everything we record over at AVSuperFriends.com    ▀▄▀▄▀ CONTACT LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀ ► Website: https://www.avsuperfriends.com ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/avsuperfriends ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/avsuperfriends ► YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@avsuperfriends ► Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/avsuperfriends.bsky.social ► Email: mailbag@avsuperfriends.com ► RSS: https://avsuperfriends.libsyn.com/rss   Donate to AVSF: https://www.avsuperfriends.com/support

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

Apple's new Mac mini and Mac Studio spark a discussion of the M6 and M5 Ultra chips and how they measure up in performance and  upgrade decisions. The panel weighs Mac Studio trade-ins, Mac mini value, on-device AI and large language models, and Apple's increasingly powerful silicon. They also examine the move to 2-nanometer technology and debate Apple's redesigned keyboards and glyph-only modifier keys. The panel includes: Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Web Bixby, Eric Bolden, Jeff Gamet, Jim Rea, Marty Jencius  MacVoices is supported by the new MacVoices Merch Store, featuring Comfort Colors t-shirts and sweatshirts, caps, mugs, stickers, and even more items coming. Check it out at store.macvoices.com. Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 New Mac mini and Mac Studio arrive 00:25 Welcome and catching up 05:03 Apple's new desktop hardware 05:18 Who is buying a new Mac? 06:30 Configuring an M5 Ultra Mac Studio 07:46 Mac mini versus Mac Studio 09:00 Mac pricing and configuration choices 09:36 On-device AI and large language models 11:02 Choosing M5 Ultra over M6 12:22 M6 and 2-nanometer chip technology 13:57 Putting nanometer scale in perspective 15:00 Trading in older Macs 17:25 Apple introduces redesigned keyboards 18:25 The debate over glyph-only keys 20:40 Learning Apple's modifier-key symbols 21:24 Lightning, USB-C, and wireless keyboards 22:00 Wrapping up the new hardware discussion Links: Apple announces updated Mac mini, here's everything new https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/25/apple-announces-new-mac-mini-heres-everything-new/   Apple unveils new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/25/apple-unveils-next-generation-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/ Guests: Get detailed bios and contact information about for the panel on the MacVoices Live! Panel page on our web site: https://macvoices.com/macvoiceslive/macvoices-live-panel/ Support: Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect: Web:      http://macvoices.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner      http://www.twitter.com/macvoices Mastodon:      https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner MacVoices Page on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/ MacVoices Group on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/ Instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes      Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Apple's new Mac mini and Mac Studio spark a discussion of the M6 and M5 Ultra chips and how they measure up in performance and  upgrade decisions. The panel weighs Mac Studio trade-ins, Mac mini value, on-device AI and large language models, and Apple's increasingly powerful silicon. They also examine the move to 2-nanometer technology and debate Apple's redesigned keyboards and glyph-only modifier keys. The panel includes: Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Web Bixby, Eric Bolden, Jeff Gamet, Jim Rea, Marty Jencius  MacVoices is supported by the new MacVoices Merch Store, featuring Comfort Colors t-shirts and sweatshirts, caps, mugs, stickers, and even more items coming. Check it out at store.macvoices.com. Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 New Mac mini and Mac Studio arrive 00:25 Welcome and catching up 05:03 Apple's new desktop hardware 05:18 Who is buying a new Mac? 06:30 Configuring an M5 Ultra Mac Studio 07:46 Mac mini versus Mac Studio 09:00 Mac pricing and configuration choices 09:36 On-device AI and large language models 11:02 Choosing M5 Ultra over M6 12:22 M6 and 2-nanometer chip technology 13:57 Putting nanometer scale in perspective 15:00 Trading in older Macs 17:25 Apple introduces redesigned keyboards 18:25 The debate over glyph-only keys 20:40 Learning Apple's modifier-key symbols 21:24 Lightning, USB-C, and wireless keyboards 22:00 Wrapping up the new hardware discussion Links: Apple announces updated Mac mini, here's everything new https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/25/apple-announces-new-mac-mini-heres-everything-new/   Apple unveils new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/25/apple-unveils-next-generation-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/ Guests: Get detailed bios and contact information about for the panel on the MacVoices Live! Panel page on our web site: https://macvoices.com/macvoiceslive/macvoices-live-panel/ Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:      http://macvoices.com      Twitter:      http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner      http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:      https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes      Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

1402. Un RØDE PodMic USB (conseguido gracias a los apoyos de los mecenas del proyecto) es el nuevo micrófono que voy a utilizar como principal en esta octava temporada y, como no podía ser de otra manera, he querido estrenarlo haciendo algo que me apetecía bastante: cambiar de micro en mitad del episodio para que la diferencia no se quede solamente en lo que yo pueda contar, sino que también se pueda escuchar.Hasta ahora llevaba mucho tiempo trabajando con el Shure MV7 (conseguido también gracias a vuestro apoyo) y, ojo, no desaparece de mi equipo. Simplemente pasa a un segundo plano y se queda para esas ocasiones en las que necesite grabar fuera del estudio. A partir de ahora, el sitio principal lo ocupa este PodMic USB, un micrófono que nada más sacarlo de la caja ya deja claro que no es precisamente ligero. Entre el cuerpo, el yugo que lo sujeta y toda la estructura que rodea la cápsula, la sensación es bastante contundente.También me ha gustado mucho el cuidado del embalaje. Puede parecer una tontería, pero cuando compras un producto de cierto nivel se agradece que todo venga bien colocado, protegido y aprovechando cada hueco. En este caso, además del cable y la documentación, me encontré con una sorpresa que no esperaba: el filtro RØDE WS14, un antipop específico para este micrófono que encaja perfectamente y que, comprado aparte, tampoco es precisamente barato.Hay incluso otro detalle mucho más pequeño que me hizo gracia: un tapón de goma para proteger la conexión XLR. Lo curioso es que ya lo había visto antes en televisión, concretamente en 'La noche de Aimar', donde había varios PodMic sobre la mesa utilizados como atrezzo y ese pequeño protector dejaba bastante claro que estaban desconectados.Pero vamos a lo importante, que es cómo suena. Para este episodio he preparado varias pruebas utilizando el mismo texto: primero con el Shure MV7 por USB, después con el RØDE PodMic USB también por USB, luego conectado por XLR a la RØDECaster Duo y, por último, otra vez por XLR pero activando el perfil específico que incluye la propia interfaz para este modelo. En todas las pruebas he ajustado el volumen a -14 LUFS para intentar que la comparación sea lo más justa posible.Y hay una pequeña escena poscréditos en el capítulo porque, cuando estaba haciendo estas pruebas, he descubierto una pega que no esperaba: cuando conecto el PodMic por USB-C, la entrada XLR queda deshabilitada. Con el Shure MV7 podía tener ambas conexiones preparadas al mismo tiempo y aquí no. Así que tocará buscar una solución, quizá con algún interruptor, para recuperar esa comodidad. En fin, estreno de micrófono, pruebas, comparaciones y también primer problema descubierto. Más real imposible.Al final, cambiar una pieza del equipo puede parecer poca cosa desde fuera, pero cuando grabas prácticamente todos los días termina afectando a tu rutina, a tu sonido y también a la forma en la que trabajas. Por eso quería compartir el cambio así, sin demasiada teoría y escuchándolo directamente.Si quieres conocer todos los detalles del RØDE Podmic USB, te invito a visitar la página de RØDE dedicada a este micrófono https://rode.com/es-es/products/podmic-usbPor otro lado, si deseas adquirir este mismo modelo y a la vez apoyar este proyecto, puedes comprarlo a través de Amazon (enlace de afiliados) https://link.amazon/B05uU9K7y_____________ ¡Gracias por pasarte 'Al otro lado del micrófono' un día más para seguir aprendiendo sobre podcasting! Si quieres descubrir cómo puedes unirte a la comunidad o a los diferentes canales donde está presente este podcast, te invito a visitar https://alotroladodelmicrofono.com/unete Además, puedes apoyar el proyecto mediante un pequeño impulso mensual, desde un granito de café mensual hasta un brunch digital. Descubre las diferentes opciones entrando en: https://alotroladodelmicrofono.com/cafe. También puedes apoyar el proyecto a través de tus compras en Amazon mediante mi enlace de afiliados https://alotroladodelmicrofono.com/amazon La voz que puedes escuchar en la intro del podcast es de Juan Navarro Torelló (PoniendoVoces) y el diseño visual es de Antonio Poveda. La dirección, grabación y locución corre a cargo de Jorge Marín. La sintonía que puedes escuchar en cada capítulo ha sido creada por Jason Show y se titula: 2 Above Zero.  'Al otro lado del micrófono' es una creación de EOVE Productora.

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

The OWC USB-C Quad HDMI 4K Display Adapter with DisplayLink lets a Mac drive four 4K monitors through a single USB-C connection. Chuck  explains how it simplified his multi-display setup and bypasses native Mac display limitations using DisplayLink software. The adapter supports individual monitor resolutions and offers a straightforward path to a multi-monitor setup.  This edition of MacVoices is supported by MacVoices Magazine, our free magazine on Flipboard. Updated daily with the best articles on the web to help you do more with your Apple gear and adjacent tech, access MacVoices Magazine content on Flipboard, on the web, or in your favorite RSS reader. Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 OWC USB-C Quad HDMI 4K Display Adapter 00:49 Introducing the OWC Quad HDMI Adapter 01:39 Four 4K Displays on One USB-C Port 01:56 Simplifying a Multi-Monitor Setup 02:38 Installing and Using DisplayLink Software 03:41 Arranging Displays and Setting Resolutions 04:06 Expanding Beyond Native Mac Display Limits 04:48 Who Can Benefit From More Monitor Space 04:51 Pricing and Final Thoughts Links: OWC USB-C Quad HDMI 4K Display Adapter with DisplayLink https://amzn.to/4c97Y4U DisplayLink Manager https://www.synaptics.com/products/displaylink-graphics/downloads/macos Support: Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect: Web:      http://macvoices.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner      http://www.twitter.com/macvoices Mastodon:      https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner MacVoices Page on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/ MacVoices Group on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/ Instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes      Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

The OWC USB-C Quad HDMI 4K Display Adapter with DisplayLink lets a Mac drive four 4K monitors through a single USB-C connection. Chuck  explains how it simplified his multi-display setup and bypasses native Mac display limitations using DisplayLink software. The adapter supports individual monitor resolutions and offers a straightforward path to a multi-monitor setup.  This edition of MacVoices is supported by MacVoices Magazine, our free magazine on Flipboard. Updated daily with the best articles on the web to help you do more with your Apple gear and adjacent tech, access MacVoices Magazine content on Flipboard, on the web, or in your favorite RSS reader. Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 OWC USB-C Quad HDMI 4K Display Adapter 00:49 Introducing the OWC Quad HDMI Adapter 01:39 Four 4K Displays on One USB-C Port 01:56 Simplifying a Multi-Monitor Setup 02:38 Installing and Using DisplayLink Software 03:41 Arranging Displays and Setting Resolutions 04:06 Expanding Beyond Native Mac Display Limits 04:48 Who Can Benefit From More Monitor Space 04:51 Pricing and Final Thoughts Links: OWC USB-C Quad HDMI 4K Display Adapter with DisplayLink https://amzn.to/4c97Y4U DisplayLink Manager https://www.synaptics.com/products/displaylink-graphics/downloads/macos Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:      http://macvoices.com      Twitter:      http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner      http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:      https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes      Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

A Government TD has called on Minister for Transport Darragh O'Brien to immediately begin the rollout of new chargers on public transport. Barry Ward, the Fine Gael TD for Dún Laoghaire, has said that Ireland's public transport has to “keep up with the needs of its passengers” and install USB-C charging ports on buses and trains.He joins Shane to discuss the initiative.

Episode Summary:Will lays out a bold prediction: AI and data centers are about to become America's next partisan flashpoint, and he and Brandt spend the episode stress-testing it, untangling water-usage myths, nuclear-power FUD, and a Texas gas-turbine site making neighbors sick with infrasound. They land on Jevons Paradox to explain why efficiency won't shrink data center demand, sketch out a mainframe-to-local-compute future for AI, then close with a vertical USB-C cable stand and Brandt's new favorite TSA-proof gun case lock.Discussions Include:• Will's prediction: AI and data centers becoming the next big partisan flashpoint in the US• Untangling the data center water-usage debate — golf courses, evaporative cooling, and a contested Georgia well-water case• Nuclear power as a cautionary parallel for FUD and outdated public perception• Infrasound from gas-turbine-powered data centers making nearby residents sick• Jevons Paradox, and why more efficient AI won't shrink data center demand, it'll grow it• The mainframe-to-personal-computer analogy for where local vs. cloud AI compute is headedQuotable Quotes (Should you choose to share):     "I believe that AI, and specifically data centers, are gonna be the next partisan issue in the United States that will divide down party lines." - Will Curran     "The technology and the plans for modern nuclear reactors, by all indications, are incredibly safe. But nobody cares." - Brandt Krueger     "We know gas turbines are bad for the environment, but have you heard about infrasound?" - Will Curran     "As we got more and more efficient at how we burned coal, it was supposed to bring down the coal use - and it didn't go down, it went up." - Brandt KruegerThing of the Episode (TOTE):     Brandt: Cedar Mill TSA-approved gun case lock - https://www.amazon.com/Cut-Resistant-MonoShaft-lock-gun-case-padlock/dp/B0CNBKXH4B     Will: Vertical USB-C cable stand - I couldn't find it, and Will never sent it - BK ;)

Portable travel monitors can transform productivity on the road by adding valuable screen space without much cost or bulk. Chuck's Briefing compares 1080p and 4K options, discusses USB-C and HDMI connections, and power and battery considerations. Built-in audio, protective covers and stands, and why these minimalist monitors might not be just for travel are all part of why an inexpensive second display can make working with multiple apps far easier.  Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 Portable Travel Monitors and Productivity01:08 Why Extra Screen Space Matters on the Road01:42 Starting with an Affordable 1080p Monitor02:21 Video and Audio Limitations03:14 Pricing and Trying a Portable Display03:58 Moving Up to a 4K Portable Monitor04:49 Portable Monitors at Home and on the Road05:42 Pricing and Choosing the Right Features06:07 USB-C, HDMI, Power, and Battery Considerations07:04 Portable Monitors for Gaming vs. Productivity07:34 Covers, Stands, and Travel Setup09:23 Using a Dedicated Stand at Home09:43 How Multiple Displays Improve Productivity10:33 Final Recommendations Links: MNN Portable Monitor 15.6inch FHD 1080P 60Hz USB C HDMI Gaming Ultra-Slim IPS Display w/Smart Cover & Speakers,HDR Plug&Play, External Monitor for Laptop PC Phone Mac (15.6” 1080P)https://amzn.to/4xINsjN MNN 4K Portable Monitor 15.6" 3840x2160 UHD USB-C HDMI Laptop Monitor, 100% Adobe RGB IPS Computer Gaming Display HDR w/Speakers & Smart Cover,for Laptop Xbox PS5 Switch PC Phone https://amzn.to/4gdt4Ab Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:     https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Watch on YouTubeLet's unbox and demo the Aerospace Audio Atmosphere pedal Version 3 on the Worship Keys podcast, comparing it to Version 2. Version 3's redesigned layout has fewer buttons, two screens, USB-C power capability, an added expression pedal input, updated MIDI connection, and a microSD card slot for loading custom drone pad files. Let's demo the new tonality options (major, minor, and neutral) that weren't available on Version 2, explore menu features including settings and an arcade game! AeroPads iOS app is a lower-cost alternative with similar sounds and setlist/live controls.Support the showThanks for listening! Subscribe here to the podcast, as well as on YouTube and other social media platforms. If you have any questions or suggestions for who you want as a featured guest in the future or a topic you want to hear, email carson@theworshipkeys.com. New episodes release every Wednesday!

Portable travel monitors can transform productivity on the road by adding valuable screen space without much cost or bulk. Chuck's Briefing compares 1080p and 4K options, discusses USB-C and HDMI connections, and power and battery considerations. Built-in audio, protective covers and stands, and why these minimalist monitors might not be just for travel are all part of why an inexpensive second display can make working with multiple apps far easier.  Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 Portable Travel Monitors and Productivity 01:08 Why Extra Screen Space Matters on the Road 01:42 Starting with an Affordable 1080p Monitor 02:21 Video and Audio Limitations 03:14 Pricing and Trying a Portable Display 03:58 Moving Up to a 4K Portable Monitor 04:49 Portable Monitors at Home and on the Road 05:42 Pricing and Choosing the Right Features 06:07 USB-C, HDMI, Power, and Battery Considerations 07:04 Portable Monitors for Gaming vs. Productivity 07:34 Covers, Stands, and Travel Setup 09:23 Using a Dedicated Stand at Home 09:43 How Multiple Displays Improve Productivity 10:33 Final Recommendations Links: MNN Portable Monitor 15.6inch FHD 1080P 60Hz USB C HDMI Gaming Ultra-Slim IPS Display w/Smart Cover & Speakers,HDR Plug&Play, External Monitor for Laptop PC Phone Mac (15.6" 1080P) https://amzn.to/4xINsjN MNN 4K Portable Monitor 15.6" 3840x2160 UHD USB-C HDMI Laptop Monitor, 100% Adobe RGB IPS Computer Gaming Display HDR w/Speakers & Smart Cover,for Laptop Xbox PS5 Switch PC Phone https://amzn.to/4gdt4Ab Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:      http://macvoices.com      Twitter:      http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner      http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:      https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes      Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Andrew O'Hara flies solo this week and covers a packed smart home update with new Apple Home and iOS 27 details, notable product launches from Govee, Eufy, Abode, Sonos, Lutron, SwitchBot, PetLibro, Matic, Dashboard, and Mophie. The episode is especially useful if you care about how Apple Intelligence is being tied to iCloud tiers, or you want to see which new devices are actually doing something meaningfully different.In this episode, Andrew breaks down the newest Apple Home camera summary limits, explains why Govee's updated light strip matters for Matter users, and highlights Eufy's standout solar-powered wall light camera. He also dives into a new AI assistant in SwitchBot, a troubling PetLibro server outage, and Matic's unusually smart vacuum controls that let you point and say what to clean.Key topicsAndrew is flying solo this week after traveling, and he sets up a news-heavy episode focused on smart home updates and reviews.iOS 27 Developer Beta 5 adds a new Apple Home camera summary explainer in Home settings, showing that Apple Intelligence features are being tied to iCloud plan tiers.Apple Home now appears to limit summarized video cameras based on the iCloud tier, separate from HomeKit Secure Video camera limits.Govee's new Strip Light 2 moves from Bluetooth to Wi-Fi and adds Matter over Wi-Fi, making it much more relevant for Apple Home users.The strip also gets updated LumiBlend tech, improved white light reproduction, cut-to-length support, protective coating, and multiple sizes from about 10 feet to 65.6 feet.Eufy's Solar Wall Light Cam S4 is the standout product of the week for Andrew, combining a 4K camera, wall sconce lighting, solar charging, a 10,000 mAh battery, and millimeter-wave motion sensing.Andrew emphasizes why Eufy's radar-based motion detection is a big upgrade over basic PIR or pixel-difference motion sensing.Abode adds two outdoor-friendly sensors: an outdoor contact sensor with weather resistance and a garage tilt sensor for doors, sheds, and hatches.Sonos and Lutron expand their integration so Sonos voice control can operate Lutron Caseta lights, shades, and plugs, while a Pico remote can control Sonos playback.SwitchBot's beta AI assistant, KATA, can control devices across rooms, check battery status, guide setup, and even create automations through natural language.PetLibro had server issues that disrupted some pet feeders, fountains, and litter boxes, raising Andrew's recurring concern about cloud dependence in smart home gear.Matic unveils Matic Cues, a major AI-driven update for its vacuum that lets users speak naturally, point to messes, and command the robot to clean specific spots.Andrew also reviews a new Dashboard app for Apple Home and RTSP cameras that focuses on a clean dashboard-first experience.The episode closes with the Mophie 4-in-1 charging stand, which adds a hidden retractable USB-C cable and manages to stay compact without active cooling.Send me your smart home questions and recommendations with the hashtag #SmartHomeInsider. Tweet and follow your host at:@andrew_osu on Twitter@andrewohara941 on ThreadsEmail me hereSponsored by:Hims: Visit https://hims.com/homeinsider to get a personalized plan that gets you!Copilot Money:  Limited-time: Get two months free when you sign up at copilot.money/smarthome and use coupon code SMARTHOME!Smart Home Insider YouTube ChannelSubscribe to the Smart Home Insider YouTube Channel and watch our episodes every week! Click here to subscribe.Links from the showiOS 27 Beta 5 Apple Intelligence limitsGovee Strip Light 2 on AmazonEufy Solar Wall Cam Light S4Abode Gate & Tilt SensorSonos & Lutron IntegrationsPetlibro Reddit ThreadPetlibro OutageMatic RobotDashboard App for Apple Home & RTSPMophie 4-in-1 Wireless Charging StandThose interested in sponsoring the show can reach out to us at: andrew@appleinsider.com

The latest In Touch With iOS with Dave he is joined by Jill McKinley, Jeff Gamet, Eric Bolden, Marty Jencius, Guy Serle. This week on In Touch With iOS, we cover Apple's latest updates across Vision Pro, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV. The panel talks about live Friday Night Baseball coming to Apple Immersive Video, visionOS 27 Beta 5, and the latest iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS beta changes, including Siri improvements, bug fixes, and security updates. We also debate whether Apple's built-in Mac apps are now good enough to replace third-party favorites like Fantastical and 1Password, and we compare backup strategies using Time Machine, Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper, Synology, external drives, and Backblaze. Plus, Jeff raises concerns about Anthropic's Claude watermarking approach and the risk of false positives for human-written content, and we look at Apple's expanded Made for iPhone hearing-device support and its accessibility benefits. 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 Summary This week on In Touch With iOS, Dave is joined by Jeff Gamet, Marty Jencius, Jill McKinley, Eric Bolden, and Guy Serle for a wide-ranging conversation about what's happening throughout the Apple ecosystem. The episode kicks off with Vision Pro and Apple's return to live sports in Apple Immersive Video. Friday Night Baseball is coming to Vision Pro with select MLB games presented live, giving the panel plenty to discuss about whether immersive sports could become one of the strongest reasons to own Apple's headset. The conversation also explores what Apple could do to make the experience even more compelling, from stadium atmosphere and audio to better ways of making viewers feel like they're actually at the game. Beta This Week brings updates across visionOS 27, iOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, tvOS 27, and macOS 27. The panel discusses visionOS 27 Beta 5 improvements to Siri, Mac Virtual Display, hand gestures, and Digital Crown behavior, along with the usual collection of fixes and refinements arriving across Apple's platforms. Siri is also getting additional voice options and greater control over characteristics such as speaking pace and expressivity. On the Mac, the conversation turns into a debate about Apple's built-in applications. Are Calendar, Notes, Reminders, Passwords, Safari, and Apple's other bundled apps finally good enough that Mac users no longer need as many third-party replacements? The panel compares their own workflows and discusses why some of them have started moving back toward Apple's applications after years of using alternatives. Apple Passwords versus 1Password becomes an especially interesting debate: Apple offers excellent integration and simplicity, while 1Password continues to provide more advanced capabilities for users who need them. Then the panel tackles something every Mac user should be thinking about: backups. Time Machine is only the beginning. Everyone compares their own strategies involving Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper, Synology NAS systems, external SSDs and hard drives, cloud storage, and Backblaze. The discussion highlights the importance of having multiple copies of important data, including at least one off-site copy. Jill also brings up a practical disaster-preparedness strategy: keeping important backups on portable drives that can quickly be grabbed during an emergency. Jeff brings AI into the conversation from his blog with concerns about Anthropic's approach to watermarking content that has been generated or even edited using Claude. If someone writes an article, paper, or other document themselves but asks Claude to proofread or rewrite a small portion, could the entire work subsequently be treated as AI-generated? The panel discusses the potential for false positives and the problems this could create for writers, students, educators, and anyone who uses AI as an editing assistant rather than an author. Accessibility is also in the spotlight as Apple expands its Made for iPhone hearing-device compatibility list with dozens of additional devices. The discussion goes beyond the numbers, with the panel sharing real-world examples of how Apple's hearing accessibility technology—including compatible hearing aids and AirPods—can make conversations and noisy environments dramatically easier to navigate. Finally, Things We Found brings the usual collection of useful, interesting, and sometimes unexpected discoveries from the panel, including Synology storage, an Apple Watch band, an ALPR camera mapping resource, an extremely bright USB-C rechargeable flashlight, Batman viewing recommendations, and an animated wallpaper app. Topics and Links In Touch With Vision Pro this week Apple bringing live Friday Night Baseball to Apple Immersive Video — selected MLB games will stream live in immersive 8K 3D on Vision Pro. https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/10/apple-immersive-live-video-mlb-game-schedule/ visionOS 27 Beta 5 released. https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-vision-pro/ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/visionos-release-notes/visionos-27-release-notes visionOS 27 beta users report hand-control and Digital Crown issues. Anecdotal/community report. https://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/comments/1uvvylt/visionos_27_developer_beta_3/ Beta this week. iOS 27 Developer Beta 5. Apple Developer Release Notes: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release-notes/ios-ipados-27-release-notes https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/10/apple-seeds-ios-27-beta-5/ iPadOS 27 Developer Beta 5. Apple Developer Release Notes: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release-notes/ios-ipados-27-release-notes https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ipados-27/ watchOS 27 Beta 5. Apple Developer Release Notes: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/watchos-release-notes/watchos-27-release-notes https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/watchos-27/ tvOS 27 Beta 5. Apple Developer Release Notes: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/tvos-release-notes/tvos-27-release-notes https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-tv/ iOS/iPadOS 26.6.1 maintenance betas. Apple Developer Release Notes: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release-notes/ios-ipados-26_6-release-notes https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/10/apple-releases-ios-26-6-1/ Siri AI gets additional voices and customization in Beta 5. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/10/ios-27-siri-ai-voice-customization/ iOS 27 stability and refinement becomes a discussion topic. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/10/ios-27-beta-5-everything-new/ In Touch With Mac this week macOS 27 Golden Gate Beta 5. Apple Developer Release Notes: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-27-release-notes https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/10/apple-releases-macos-27-beta-5/ s-october/ Which of Apple's built-in Mac apps do you immediately replace? https://www.cultofmac.com/news/i-replaced-these-7-apple-apps-on-my-mac-heres-what-i-use-instead Is the professional Mac dead now that Mac Studio effectively occupies the high-end desktop role? https://www.macworld.com/article/3111630/is-the-pro-mac-dead.html How much Time Machine storage does a Mac really need? https://eclecticlight.co/2026/08/10/how-much-backup-storage-does-your-mac-need/ Other Topics Apple Intelligence / AI Jeff's Blog! Anthropic's Claude Watermark is Akin to an AI Poison Pill https://jeffgamet.com/anthropics-claude-watermark-is-akin-to-an-ai-poison-pill/ News Apple adds dozens more hearing devices to Made for iPhone compatibility. https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/07/apple-adds-nearly-45-hearing-devices-to-its-made-for-iphone-compatibility-list/ This weeks "Things we found" Dave: https://a.co/d/0gVTNlWU Synology 2-Bay DiskStation DS223j (Diskless) Jill - Nice Aulumu A11 Watchband https://amzn.to/4x1LxXK Jeff - Deflock https://deflock.org/ Eric - Infinity X1 7000L Dual Power Rechargeable Flashlight,7000 Lumen https://www.amazon.com/Infinity-X1-7000L-Rechargeable-Flashlight/dp/B0FLNB3W8Y Marty: WallPer: Wallper is the live-wallpaper app trusted by Mac users worldwide. Native desktop and Lock Screen playback, automatic resource management, and a curated library - without daemons or workarounds. https://www.wallper.app/  Guy: Amazon Prime has 2 seasons of Batman: Caped Crusader. Animated series done by the great Bruce Timm from the Animated series. https://www.amazon.com/Batman-Caped-Crusader-Season-1/dp/B0CYFCLQ6B 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 @daveg65, , BlueSky @daveg65  and the show @intouchwithios   Our Regular Contributors 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. Find all her work at http://jillfromthenorthwoods.com  Chuck Joiner is the host of MacVoices and hosts video podcasts with influential members of the Apple community. Make sure to visit macvoices.com and subscribe to his podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @chuckjoiner and join his MacVoices Facebook group. Guy Serle is one of the hosts of the new The Gmen Show along with GazMaz and email GMenshow@icloud.com  @MacParrot and @VertShark on X  Vertshark on YouTube, Google Voice +1 Area code  703-828-4677

Tech Addicts is back with the latest tech news, gadgets, AI, gaming, Linux and the best UK tech deals! Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon discuss the Google Pixel Watch 5, REDMAGIC Astra 2, Sonos Ace Ultra, Cabletime ScreenDock, VLC and Windows 11, GOG coming to Linux and SearXNG in another packed episode of the Tech Addicts Podcast. This week, we ask whether Google really needs to reinvent the Pixel Watch 5, take a closer look at the powerful REDMAGIC Astra 2 gaming tablet, and investigate the intriguing Cabletime ScreenDock USB dock and companion display. We also discuss the rumoured Sonos Ace Ultra, which could take on the Sony WH-1000XM6, and the strange VLC and Microsoft Defender/Windows 11 performance debacle. There's finally some great news for PC gamers too, with GOG Galaxy officially coming to Linux. Plus, Gareth and Ted get stuck into AI phone-call technology, explore SearXNG, the open-source privacy-focused search engine, reveal what they've been buying, and round things off with the Bargain Basement, featuring some of the best UK technology deals we've spotted.

SharkNinja neemt het met de TurboBlade op tegen de bladeloze ventilatoren van Dyson: een torenventilator van 279 euro met een kantelbare luchtbalk, tien blaasstanden, hoogteverstelling en een oscillatie van 180 graden. De uitvoering blijkt in de praktijk minder overtuigend dan het ontwerp belooft. Verder in deze aflevering twee draagbare ventilatoren: de Shark ChillPill en de Dyson HushJet Mini Cool. Stijn Goossens vertelt erover in deze Schaal van Hebben. De verticale luchtbalk is in hoogte verstelbaar en kan worden gekanteld, maar dat laatste gaat alleen met de hand; het heen en weer draaien is wel geautomatiseerd. Op de laagste stand blaast hij stil genoeg voor bedhoogte, en er zit een timer en afstandsbediening bij. Tegenover de ventilatoren van Dyson, die minimaal 500 euro kosten, is de TurboBlade goedkoper, maar met veel plastic voelt hij ook minder degelijk. Shark ChillPill combineert ventilator, waternevel en koelplaat De ChillPill van Shark kost 150 euro en doet drie dingen. Hij werkt als gewone handventilator, vernevelt water voor directe verkoeling en heeft een metalen koelplaat die in seconden ijskoud wordt. Die plaat druk je tegen je huid; volgens Shark zakt de huidtemperatuur op het contactpunt met bijna negen graden. Er zijn tien snelheden en op de laagste stand houdt de accu volgens de fabrikant tot elf uur vol. In gebruik is de veelzijdigheid het sterkste punt: het apparaat is draagbaar en kan gedraaid worden voor gebruik op tafel. Van de drie geteste ventilatoren is dit de enige die verder gaat dan lucht verplaatsen. Dyson HushJet Mini Cool blijft bij blazen De eerste draagbare ventilator van Dyson kost 100 euro en blaast alleen. De HushJet Mini Cool is bladeloos, weegt 212 gram en heeft vijf standen plus een boostmodus; de accu gaat volgens Dyson tot zes uur mee en laadt via USB-C. Meegeleverd worden een koord om het apparaat om de nek te dragen en een standaard voor op tafel. De naam verwijst naar een mondstuk dat hoge tonen moet dempen, maar in de praktijk maakt het apparaat veel geluid: Dyson noemt zelf 52 tot 72,5 decibel. De luchtstroom voelt eerder als een haardroger dan als verkoeling. Voor 100 euro is dat te weinig. Luister ook: Eerdere test van een nekventilator in De Schaal van Hebben Over de maker:Stijn Goossens is techredacteur en programmamaker bij BNR Nieuwsradio, met een focus op technologie, wetenschap en innovatie. Bij BNR Beter volgt hij de belangrijkste zorginnovaties, in de liveshows bespreekt hij het actuele technieuws en duidt hij nieuwe wetenschappelijke inzichten. Wekelijks test hij in De Schaal van Hebben de meest spraakmakende techproducten. Ook is hij te horen in de podcast Op de Zaak, met een inkijkje bij buitengewone mkb'ers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of SpaceX's rockets crashed into the moon, probably not on purpose. It also seems that every AI is doing hacks that it shouldn't these days. Back to a normal episode this week, with all the fun times to help you tech better! Watch on YouTube! - Notnerd.com and Notpicks.com INTRO (00:00) PDX Fast Foodie does Burger Week (01:40) We got Spotify copyright takedown notices on episodes 53, 94, 334 (06:45) Perplexity Pro (08:30) MAIN TOPIC: Elon Musk attacked the moon? (11:30) A SpaceX rocket just crashed into the moon. Now, the race is on to get a look at the impact site South Korean satellite captures before and after views of SpaceX rocket's moon crash DAVE'S PRO-TIP OF THE WEEK: Save image still from iPhone video in iOS 27 (16:45) JUST THE HEADLINES: (24:55) Netflix sued for $105 million for allegedly losing "master copy" of unreleased Nicolas Cage movie LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button Russia-linked "Midnight Blizzard" group hijacks hotel wi-fi with CaptiveCrunch A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months Arizona State launches influencer degree where students must gain real followers Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself Scientists make first viruses designed by AI LISTENER MAIL: Dillon DJI ban (27:40) WITHIN REACH! Dave is leading 11-7, Round 21, Nate goes first (34:35) TAKES: Anthropic's Claude AI escapes to hack into three organizations - Meta AI too (39:30) Apple captures 65% of global premium smartphone market (40:45) Original iPhone loses its last cellular network as T-Mobile kills 2G (42:25) BONUS ODD TAKE: A digital museum of video game levels (43:45) PICKS OF THE WEEK:  Dave:  Insta360 GO 3S Retro Viewfinder (47:35) Nate: USB C Right Angle Cable 100W 6 inch 2Pack, 4K Video 20Gbps USBC 3.2 Cable | Short USBC to USBC 3.2 Gen2x2 Data Cable, Type C PD Charging Fast Charge Cord for iPhone 17,iPad MacBook, Galaxy S26, 0.5ft (55:30)

L'USB est devenu le connecteur universel de nos vies numériques. Ordinateurs, smartphones, consoles, appareils photo, disques externes ou chargeurs : la même prise permet aujourd'hui de transférer des données, recharger des appareils et parfois même transmettre de la vidéo.* Épisode soutenu par Frogans : https://www.f2r2.frAvant l'USB, brancher un appareil était une aventureDans les années 1980 et 1990, chaque périphérique informatique possédait pratiquement son propre connecteur. Souris, claviers, imprimantes, modems, scanners ou disques externes utilisaient des ports différents, avec leurs pilotes et leurs réglages spécifiques.L'USB, pour Universal Serial Bus, apparaît au milieu des années 1990 avec une ambition simple : créer une interface commune capable de connecter facilement les périphériques à l'ordinateur.Sa grande nouveauté est aussi de faire passer à la fois les données et l'électricité. Plus besoin, dans de nombreux cas, d'une alimentation séparée. Et surtout, l'USB permet de brancher un périphérique sans redémarrer l'ordinateur : le fameux « plug and play ».Le grand bazar des normesLe succès de l'USB va cependant produire un effet paradoxal. Plus la norme évolue, plus ses appellations deviennent difficiles à comprendre.USB 3.0, USB 3.1, USB 3.2, générations différentes, débits de 5, 10, 20, 40 ou 80 Gbit/s : deux connecteurs peuvent avoir exactement la même apparence tout en offrant des performances très différentes.Le problème est encore plus visible avec l'USB-C. Le « C » désigne avant tout la forme du connecteur, et non ses performances. Deux câbles USB-C peuvent ainsi avoir des capacités très différentes en matière de transfert de données, de recharge ou de vidéo.L'USB-IF, l'organisme qui définit et accompagne les standards USB, tente justement de rendre les performances plus lisibles, notamment en mettant davantage en avant les débits plutôt que les noms parfois obscurs des générations.USB-C : enfin une prise universelle ?L'USB-C apporte une amélioration immédiatement visible : il est réversible. Plus besoin de retourner trois fois le connecteur avant de trouver le bon sens.Mais sa polyvalence va beaucoup plus loin. Selon l'appareil, le câble et les spécifications utilisées, une prise USB-C peut transporter des données, alimenter un appareil, recharger un ordinateur ou transmettre un signal vidéo.La recharge a notamment pris une nouvelle dimension avec USB Power Delivery. La technologie permet à l'appareil et au chargeur de négocier la puissance adaptée. Avec les spécifications actuelles, l'USB Power Delivery peut atteindre jusqu'à 240 watts avec un câble USB-C compatible.C'est aussi ce qui explique l'importance prise par l'USB-C dans les smartphones, tablettes et ordinateurs portables.Pourquoi l'Europe impose l'USB-CL'Union européenne a voulu mettre fin à la multiplication des chargeurs et connecteurs propriétaires. Depuis le 28 décembre 2024, plusieurs catégories d'appareils électroniques vendus dans l'UE doivent utiliser l'USB-C pour la recharge. Les ordinateurs portables ont bénéficié d'un délai supplémentaire et sont concernés depuis le 28 avril 2026.L'objectif est double : simplifier la vie des utilisateurs et réduire la quantité de déchets électroniques générés par les chargeurs et câbles incompatibles.Cette réglementation a notamment contribué à faire disparaître le connecteur Lightning des nouveaux iPhone européens au profit de l'USB-C.Une prise universelle, mais pas sans risquesL'USB simplifie énormément nos usages, mais il peut aussi devenir un vecteur d'attaque. Brancher un appareil ou une clé USB inconnue sur son ordinateur peut exposer celui-ci à des logiciels malveillants.La prudence vaut également pour les prises USB publiques : une simple recharge peut, selon le matériel utilisé et les circonstances, présenter des risques de sécurité.Après avoir été conçu pour mettre fin à la jungle des connecteurs, l'USB est donc devenu une véritable infrastructure du numérique. L'USB-C semble aujourd'hui s'imposer comme son visage universel, mais derrière cette prise unique se cache toujours une grande diversité de performances et de fonctionnalités.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

This week, we're looking at Apple's legal challenge against the UK Government over demands to access user data, new EU rules on AI transparency, and the latest leaks surrounding Googlebooks from Dell and Lenovo. We also take a nostalgic trip back to the 1980s with Timex's futuristic Retroware digital watch, plus some very welcome news involving Amiga and Commodore. With Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon Join us on Mewe RSS Link: https://techaddicts.libsyn.com/rss iTunes | YouTube Music | Stitcher | Tunein | Spotify  Amazon | Pocket Casts | Castbox | PodHubUK Feedback Listening to your thoughts about a streamer with Ethernet. Have you thought about the Manhattan Aero? The Aero is the only streaming option that Manhattan do. The others are all freeview/freesat based. An alternative is the Netgem Pleio... Have no direct experience of the Pleio but will say that the Aero runs on the Tivo platform and won't support Now TV. Got 4 of them when I got hacked off with Sky... Phil I have a couple of compact cameras; a samsung and canon, which are being used regularly since 2010.  I rarely use my phone's cameras even for videos. Almost every event and holiday, those two cameras are present. Oh and I still use my moto mod hasselblad camera with my moto z3 play. JTManuel News Apple launches legal challenge against UK government demand to access data EU announces new rules on AI transparency Dell's first Googlebook could borrow one of its most iconic laptop brands Massive leak reveals Lenovo Googlebook 15 ahead of launch Timex's New Retroware Digital Looks Like a Futuristic Watch from the '80s Amiga And Commodore, Back Together (Sort Of) Banters: Knocking out a Quick Bant Planify FreeFileSync - A Review Alternative - Syncthing Bought Report Yeesabella Grip Stickers Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted NOCO GENIUS2: 2A 6V/12V Smart Battery Charger - £45.34 Was £54.95 XTEINK X3 3.7" Pocket E-Ink eBook Reader £65 from £80 (Qi2 connectivity and magnetic pogo-pin charging - X4 has USB-C but is bigger) Miady 2-Pack 5000mAh Handheld Portable Fan (7-20 Hours Runtime) - £11.99 Was  £23.99 Samsung Galaxy S25 FE 256GB/8GB £499.00 from £699 (sometimes £599) - £99.80/month (5 months) - the 128GB one is £449 MAGICNUC AG2 Mini PC — Ryzen 7 7840HS, 32GB DDR5, 1TB NVMe - £599.00 UGreen 13-in-1 Docking Station £69.99 from £119.99 Main Show URL: http://www.techaddicts.uk | PodHubUK Contact:: gareth@techaddicts.uk | @techaddictsuk Gareth - @garethmyles | Mastodon | Blusky | garethmyles.com | Gareth's Ko-Fi Ted - tedsalmon.com | Ted's PayPal | Mastodon | Ted's Amazon YouTube: Tech Addicts  

We Like Shooting We Like Shooting - Ep 674 August 3, 2026 Presented by This episode of We Like Shooting is brought to you by: Foxtrot Mike (Code: WLSISLIFE) C&G Holsters (Code: WLSISLIFE) Midwest Industries (Code: WLSISLIFE) Rost Martin (Code: WLSISLIFE) Bowers Group (Code: WLS) Otis Technology (Code: WELIKESHOOTING15) Flatline Fiber Co (Code: WLS15) Giveaways!! GAW   Text Dear WLS or Reviews +1 743 500 2171 Public   Show Titles   Gear Chat Goals 2026 GOALS 2026 Supplementary Research: Gear Chat segment on Goals 2026. In 2026 the firearms and technical gear industry continues to emphasize modular designs, improved battery life for electronic optics and lights, and integration of suppressors with quick-detach systems across major manufacturers. New product cycles often align with SHOT Show announcements in January, with many items reaching retail availability later in the year. thefirearmblog.com SB Tactical SBA6 Stabilizing Brace SB Tactical is adding another entry to its A-Series lineup with the SBA6, a collaboration with New Hampshire-based Die Free Co designed to expand the minimalist platform that made the SBA3 an industry standard.The SBA6 accepts MIL-SPEC carbine receiver extensions and ships now in black, with Flat Dark Earth and Olive Drab Green following later this year.The design direction is deliberate.Where the SBA3 prioritizes compact dimensions and reduced weight, the SBA6 builds out the platform with a full rubber arm cuff and improved ergonomics. SB Tactical has partnered with Die Free Co, a company founded by veterans known for the Kung Fu Grip, to release the SBA6 stabilizing brace. It expands the minimalist A-Series lineup as a model positioned between the compact SBA3 and the reinforced SBA4, emphasizing improved ergonomics and support while accepting MIL-SPEC carbine buffer tube extensions. The USA-made brace ships immediately in black, with FDE and ODG color options scheduled for Q4 2026. Availability: Ships now in black from SB Tactical dealers nationwide (FDE/ODG in Q4 2026) Special: Full rubber arm cuff, 5-position adjustability, integral ambidextrous QD sling socket, MIL-SPEC carbine extension compatibility Haga Defense (Nick) Saraid Top Notch AR-15 Charging Handle Introducing the Saraid Top Notch — the first vertical charging handle for the AR-15 platform. By relocating the handle to the top, it eliminates side protrusions that cause gear snags, interfere with forward assists, or complicate manipulations near optics and slings. The Saraid Top Notch is a monolithic, latchless vertical charging handle machined from a single piece of 7075-T6 aluminum billet with Type III hard anodizing. It weighs 1.1 oz, is made in the USA, and features spring-ball retention, aggressive grip texture, reduced gear interference, and an unobstructed sight picture. The patent-pending design is receiver-friendly and compatible with iron sights and low-mounted optics. Availability: Add to cart available on hagadefense.com (no explicit stock level, release date or additional retailers stated) Cost: $150.00 Special: Monolithic single-piece 7075-T6 aluminum billet construction with latchless spring-ball retention and patent-pending vertical design DopeSpin (Nick) DopeSpin Ballistic Dial DopeSpin DopeSpin is a pocket-sized standalone ballistic calculator using a point-mass 3DOF solver with G1 and G7 drag models. It accepts standard rifle and ammo inputs (muzzle velocity, BC, zero, sight height, twist, density altitude or full weather) and outputs elevation and wind holds in MIL or MOA, including spin drift, aerodynamic jump, and atmospheric effects. The device features a tactile clicking ring, circular OLED display, Velcro mount, clamshell case, 8+ hour battery with USB-C, unlimited rifle/ammo profiles, and dedicated modes for shooting, competition stage cards, moving targets, and profile management. Availability: Available for purchase on dope-spin.com (add to cart, implies in stock) Cost: $199.95 (sale/regular price listed on product page) Special: Tactile clicking ring input with circular display for ‘Spin to distance, read hold' operation in Shoot, Compete, Mover, and Profiles modes Thefirearmblog Ruger PC Carbine with Custom Walnut Stock and Aimpoint Micro H-2 The post presents a customized Ruger PC Carbine (9mm pistol-caliber carbine) featuring a custom walnut stock by Cinematic Arms paired with an Aimpoint Micro H-2 reflex sight and a Magpul drum magazine. The build demonstrates the platform's integrated Picatinny rail and modular design as an ideal canvas for customization, balancing a classic wood aesthetic with modern functionality. The Aimpoint Micro H-2 is described as a 2 MOA dot sight with 12 brightness settings, long battery life on a CR2032, weighing 3.3 ounces and submersible to 15 feet. Special: Integrated Picatinny rail and modular design enabling custom walnut stock while retaining modern red-dot capability and Magpul drum magazine compatibility thefirearmblog.com Springfield Armory Echelon Alpha An Echelon, but More Affordable?Springfield Armory Unveils the NEW Echelon AlphaThe Springfield Armory Echelon is the pistol of choice for a lot of shooters because of its wide package of accoutrements and modern features.The only gripe that some shooters raise is that the more tricked out variations might be too expensive for their budget. Springfield Armory announced the Echelon Alpha, a 9mm striker-fired pistol built on the Central Operating Group with a serialized stainless steel chassis. It features a recontoured billet machined slide with Melonite finish, 4″ hammer-forged barrel, optics-ready Variable Interface System, and ships with one stainless steel magazine. The design emphasizes purpose-driven ergonomics with a small grip module and reduced overall dimensions compared to the standard Echelon. Availability: Unveiled July 14, 2026; three initial models (standard, low-capacity, CA-compliant) offered directly via Springfield Armory Cost: $599 (standard and low-capacity); $649 (CA-compliant) Special: Variable Interface System for direct optic mounting combined with recontoured slide, captive recoil system, and single stainless steel magazine shipment Bullet Points Guncadindex Weapon Picatinny Camera Optic by @BallOEnergy CAD model set for a 25 mm Picatinny riser and chest-rig assembly that mounts a modified KIRFEIHT industrial borescope camera (Amazon $23.99 with 32 GB card) to allow target identification and engagement around corners or over berms. The riser uses two embedded 5 mm × 25 mm hex bolts with nuts secured by UV epoxy; the chest rig accepts 1.5 mm or 1/16 in wire as a hinge pin. Cable is cut to approximately 4 ft and spliced after feeding the camera backward through the riser; light is permanently disabled by removing the button and cutting the yellow wire. Compatible with example Glock 17 chassis; released 1 Aug 2026 as downloadable STL files. Availability: Home defense or trench warfare for identifying/engaging targets around corners or over berms without exposure Cost: 25 mm riser; accepts 1.5 mm/1/16 in wire hinge pin and two 5 mm × 25 mm hex bolts; uses modified KIRFEIHT borescope camera with ~4 ft cable; STL files total ~2.9 MiB Special: Pro: Low-cost commercial borescope integration ($23.99), fully 3-D printable CAD files. Con: Requires extensive user modification, epoxy, splicing, and centering with tape; does not meet verification standards; no performance data stated GunCAD Index Expansion Chamber Calculator V1.0.0 (Windows) by Practical Tactical This tool is in response to a recent request from @TheNewNewDeal regarding best practices such as suppressor expansion chamber length and others. T… Expansion Chamber Calculator V1.0.0 is a Windows .exe application by Practical Tactical that lets users input variables/parameters to generate suggested lengths for suppressor expansion chambers. It was created in response to a request regarding suppressor best practices and is intended to be expanded with additional tools for baffle spacing and other suppressor design calculations. The tool is provided as a downloadable .zip; after extraction the .exe is run locally. It is described as a muzzle device (suppressor, compensator, or other) that in the US may require ATF Form 1. Availability: Suppressor design / muzzle device calculation for practical shooting, competition, or Form 1 builds (best use case not further specified) Special: Provides suggested expansion chamber lengths from user inputs; expands toward baffle-spacing tools; requires local .exe run after .zip download (no explicit pros/cons listed) Gun Fights Play the best Price Is Right-style GunBroker game on the internet. Gun Fights Live DisplayFollow the game, prices, and reveals as they happen.Open the live display BangRank A live cast ranking segment for anything and everything in the gun world, powered by questionable certainty, strong opinions, and audience voting. BangRank Live VotingScan or open the link to rank along with the show.https://welikeshooting.com/rank   The Agency Brief Agency Update 1. AGENCY BRIEF: STREET SWEEPER / USAS-12 DESTRUCTIVE DEVICE RECLASSIFICATIONWhat this really was: In 1994, ATF took lawfully owned shotguns and shoved them into the NFA “destructive device” category. No vote in Congress. No new statute. Just an agency ruling that turned specific 12-gauge shotguns into the same legal category as grenades. The targets were the Striker-12, the Street Sweeper, and the USAS-12. The Striker and Street Sweeper used revolving cylinders. The USAS-12 was a semi-auto, magazine-fed shotgun. They all fired ordinary 12-gauge shells, the same kind of ammunition people put through hunting pum

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Learn how blind tech users navigate treadmills, master touch typing, and explore the MacBook Neo and Android accessibility in this lively, feedback-packed episode of Double Tap. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece dive into listener messages covering everything from MacBook Neo charging quirks to running safely on treadmills for blind users. They share personal stories about AI fatigue, touch typing challenges, and the growing complexity of local versus cloud-based AI. A first-time listener from Romania offers insights into Android accessibility apps like Gboard, Lazarello, Seeing AI, and TalkBack 17 features such as Magic Tap and Split Tap. The hosts also debate the future of Windows in an Apple Silicon-dominated world, how AI is driving up hardware costs, and the impact of empathy fatigue within the blind developer community. Practical advice includes using Asabat to learn touch typing, understanding USB-C charging requirements, and the realities of trying to jog on fold-up treadmills without side rails. Relevant Links Azabat Touch Typing for the Blind: http://www.azabat.co.uk ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

professorjrod@gmail.comIf “the internet is down” is the sentence that makes your brain freeze, this guide is for you. We take the pressure off by turning networking into a set of simple ideas you can picture and repeat under stress, the same way you'll need to think on the help desk and on the CompTIA A+ exam. I walk through what a network is, why businesses rely on it, and how PAN, LAN, and WAN show up in real life, from Bluetooth devices to the internet itself.From there, we connect the dots across the gear and the settings: what switches do inside a LAN, why routers matter for getting online, how modems talk to your ISP, and what an access point really does for Wi‑Fi. We cover IP addressing with clean examples, the difference between private and public IPs, and how NAT translates between them. Then we hit the “must know” services: DHCP for automatic configuration, DNS for turning names into numbers, and the core ports that show up again and again. I also share a quick help desk story that proves why “never guess, always verify” saves time.The second half expands beyond networking into the wider set of IT support fundamentals: laptop design and upgrade limits, battery safety, modern connectors like USB‑C power delivery, docking stations, mobile tech like NFC and biometrics, and printer troubleshooting that becomes easy once you understand the printer type and the laser process. We wrap with practical explanations of virtualization and cloud computing, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, plus why the smartest solution is often the right service, not more hardware.Subscribe for more CompTIA A+ and IT certification study help, share this with a friend who's studying, and leave a review so more new techs can find the show.Support the showArt By Sarah/DesmondMusic by Joakim KarudLittle chacha ProductionsJuan Rodriguez can be reached atTikTok @ProfessorJrodProfessorJRod@gmail.com@Prof_JRodInstagram ProfessorJRod

Kimi K3, modèle chinois open-weight de 2 800 milliards de paramètres, rivalise avec les modèles fermés américains ; le piratage de Suno révèle ses méthodes de collecte musicale et expose des données clients. Apple prépare la location d'iPhone avec Klarna et un possible verrouillage à distance en cas d'impayé, tandis que la France refuse encore le FSD de Tesla. Mistral signe son plus gros contrat avec Microsoft, Samsung lance un Galaxy Z Fold 8 au format passeport et WhatCable révèle les câbles USB-C qui brident les périphériques de votre Mac.  Me soutenir sur Patreon Me retrouver sur YouTube On discute ensemble sur Discord IA de la semaine et de navarre Une IA à la rescousse des animés Microsoft pousse Mistral Kimi K3, l'eau elle aime ça Suno piraté Voiture balai SpaceX : la désillusion La France dit non au FSD, rentabilité en baisse, en attendant une fusion ? Votre futur meilleur AMI Les emails pas si masqués que ça d'Apple L'Union européenne force à Apple à appliquer la loi pour Meta Apple upgrade votre manière d'acheter ses appareils Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, sans flex, avec meilleure charge, meilleure batterie… C'est quoi là ce câble USB-C ? Dvorak sur la touche Jeux vidéo Gestion des jeux vidéo Steam revue

Stewart Alsop sits down with Matias Avalos on this episode of the Wisdom podcast to explore the intersection of technology, humanism, and creative sovereignty. The conversation moves from Matias's work with neural network-based audio plugins and effect chains to broader questions about corporate transhumanism, data ownership, and what it means to maintain human agency in an increasingly automated world. They discuss the dangers of convenience-driven technological adoption, the implications of companies like Palantir and Neuralink, and how bureaucratic incentives push toward total legibility while protecting their own opacity. Along the way, they touch on everything from IMAX audio production and the death of walkable cities to Instagram's transformation from visual diary to data extraction platform, ultimately arguing for local, open-source, and sovereign approaches to technology that keep humans in the loop rather than replacing them with "average fabrics" of algorithmic output. Find Matias Avalos on LinkedIn for more techno-poetic discussions.Timestamps00:00 Stewart welcomes Matias Avalos to discuss their friendship and upcoming conversation topics.05:00 Matias explains audio effect chains using neural networks to capture professional recording room signatures and create portable high-fidelity sound processing.10:00 Discussion of piezoelectric microphones converting sound vibrations to electrical signals and CIA experiments using lasers to capture audio from glass surfaces.15:00 Conversation shifts to digital audio recording, sampling rates, and the importance of source material quality for post-production work.20:00 Stewart shares his journey building web conferencing software to replace Riverside, encountering lip-sync problems and learning about FFMPEG processing.25:00 Matias discusses corporate transhumanism, Neuralink's implications, and how brain interfaces could enable continuous taste mining beyond medical applications.30:00 Analysis of corporate transhumanism through companies like Neuralink, discussing private decision-making, lack of transparency, and various transhumanist philosophies globally.35:00 Matias reads poetry about digital replicas and data generation, exploring how wearable devices continuously capture human activity creating targetable information streams.40:00 Discussion of Peter Thiel's shift from libertarianism to neoconservatism, Palantir's origins in Total Information Awareness program, and Buenos Aires as humanist sanctuary.45:00 Examination of American convenience culture, post-WWII suburban isolation, and Buenos Aires as walkable humanist alternative to car-dependent American cities.50:00 Matias presents Neil Harbison as positive transhumanism example, explaining color-to-vibration synesthesia implant while discussing techno-optimism from Global South perspective.55:00 Conversation explores bureaucratic incentives toward population legibility, compelled silence laws, and sovereignty through open-source local technology ownership avoiding corporate control.60:00 Matias concludes discussing digital identity ownership, social network portability, and how digital twins determine human worth across platforms and borders.Key Insights1. Modern digital audio processing technologies represent a fundamentally different approach to music and sound production compared to generative AI tools. Matias Avalos distinguishes between technologies like Neural DSP's Mantra plugin, which uses deep neural networks to capture and emulate professional recording environments, and generative platforms like Suno. The key difference is that traditional digital signal processing tools put the creator in control, allowing them to make artistic decisions using expensive effect chains that would otherwise only be available in elite studios like Abbey Road. These technologies democratize access to professional audio tools without removing human agency from the creative process, whereas generative AI tools operate as black boxes that produce outputs based on prompts rather than allowing genuine creative control.2. The capture and preservation of source material remains critically important in audio and video production, despite advances in post-production capabilities. Through his experience building a web conferencing application to replace Riverside.fm, Alsop learned that many technical problems, particularly lip-sync issues, stemmed from poor source file management and recording methodology. This principle extends across all media production, as Avalos explains using the example of missing lighting in professional photography. While modern generative AI might attempt to invent missing elements, the results cannot match properly captured source material. This highlights a fundamental tension in contemporary media production where the quality triangle of cheap, good, and fast has been disrupted by AI technologies that can deliver all three if we lower our standards for what constitutes good work.3. Corporate transhumanism represents a particular and concerning subset of transhumanist philosophy that differs significantly from earlier artistic and philosophical approaches to human enhancement. While early transhumanists like Neil Harbison, a color-blind artist who implanted a device to translate color frequencies into vibrations, pursued personal enhancement and expanded human experience, corporate transhumanism as practiced by companies like Neuralink focuses on technological integration with significant profit motives and control mechanisms. The discussion highlights how these corporate approaches position themselves as solving medical and cognitive problems while simultaneously creating dependency through terms of service, data mining, and token-based economic models. This represents a Trojan horse where the promise of enhanced capability masks the establishment of new forms of control and surveillance of human consciousness itself.4. The concept of legibility as a bureaucratic end goal rather than a means to an end explains much of the surveillance apparatus that has developed in Western societies, particularly in the United States since 9/11. Alsop describes how those in positions of power, wealth, and fame have a structural incentive to make everything around them legible and controllable while maintaining their own privacy and illegibility to external observation. This dynamic manifests in technologies like Palantir and in legal mechanisms like compelled silence through gag orders, which directly contradict constitutional principles of free speech. The drive for total legibility of populations appears to have no ultimate purpose beyond the accumulation of legibility itself, creating a recursive loop where surveillance and data collection become self-justifying activities that serve power structures rather than the populations they ostensibly protect.5. Human beings continuously generate enormous streams of metadata through their daily activities, creating what Avalos describes as evaporating against our own will into hundreds of RSS feeds for hundreds of corporations. This automatic data production occurs through basic activities like waking up, moving through space with smartphones and wearable devices, and interacting with digital platforms. The fundamental question that predates transhumanism but becomes more urgent within it is how individuals can own what they produce simply by existing and moving through the world. This data is captured through accelerometers, gyroscopes, GPS systems, and countless other sensors that create comprehensive digital profiles without explicit consent or meaningful control by the individuals being monitored. The unilateral nature of this communication, where individuals broadcast data without receiving genuine value in return, has become so deeply embedded in modern infrastructure that it forms part of the taken-for-granted landscape of contemporary life.6. Platform lock-in and the inability to migrate digital identity across services creates a new category of loss that requires genuine grieving. Avalos describes how his experience with Instagram, which began as a personal visual diary before the Facebook acquisition, evolved into a situation where he cannot extract his creative work and social connections from the platform without significant loss. This phenomenon extends beyond mere inconvenience to touch on fundamental questions of identity and citizenship, as social media profiles increasingly determine real-world opportunities like visa applications and border crossings. The implications of digital footprints have become severe enough that individuals can be denied entry to countries based on algorithmic analysis of their online interactions, likes, and expressed beliefs. This creates a situation where people are worth exactly what their digital twin indicates they are worth, with no meaningful avenue for human appeal or nuanced self-representation.7. The future relationship between humans and technology requires a return to principles of sovereignty, local control, and open source development rather than dependence on corporate platforms and proprietary systems. Both Alsop and Avalos advocate for a do-it-yourself approach to technology that emphasizes ownership and control over personal tools and data. This includes avoiding closed systems like Neuralink unless they become open source and user-controlled, and prioritizing local execution of AI models over cloud-based services that create dependencies and enable surveillance. The conversation suggests that techno-optimism remains possible, but only from what Avalos calls the trenches, acknowledging the different relationship that people in the Global South and those outside centers of power have with technology. This grounded optimism recognizes the entanglement of beneficial and harmful aspects of technological development and maintains that human agency and creative freedom require conscious resistance to the convenience-at-all-costs model that has characterized recent technological adoption.

Strong chip demand alone doesn't explain Intel's comeback story. WSJ reporter Robbie Whelan breaks down the Trump administration's remarkably active role in the chipmaker's turnaround. Plus, WSJ's Natalie Kaufman explains why using the wrong USB-C charger can fry your phone. Imani Moise hosts.  Have you seen an AI-generated post you thought was real? We want to hear from you! Record a voice memo and send it to tnb@wsj.com or leave us a voicemail at (212) 416-2236. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers Doug's question about why identical-looking USB-C cables can have wildly different charging and data speeds, and how to tell them apart. Send in your questions for Mikah to hot@twit.tv, and he'll answer them in a future episode! Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech 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 Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: blackhat.com/us-26 and use code TWIT

In this episode of Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers Doug's question about why identical-looking USB-C cables can have wildly different charging and data speeds, and how to tell them apart. Send in your questions for Mikah to hot@twit.tv, and he'll answer them in a future episode! Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech 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 Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: blackhat.com/us-26 and use code TWIT

In this episode of Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers Doug's question about why identical-looking USB-C cables can have wildly different charging and data speeds, and how to tell them apart. Send in your questions for Mikah to hot@twit.tv, and he'll answer them in a future episode! Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech 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 Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: blackhat.com/us-26 and use code TWIT

This week on Grumpy Old Geeks, Brian and Jason once again survey the smoldering wreckage of the tech industry and discover that the people building the future are increasingly being sued by governments, publishers, customers, employees, and occasionally reality itself. California is coming after 23andMe over its catastrophic data breach, Florida is taking a swing at OpenAI, CNN has joined the ever-growing conga line of companies suing Perplexity, and Meta somehow decided the solution to improving AI is recording employees' every mouse click while generously allowing them a whole 30-minute privacy break. Meanwhile, Google's own engineers are sharing memes about how much Google's AI tools suck, Microsoft apparently wants users addicted to its new AI assistant - first taste's free! - and Anthropic is preparing to go public with a valuation that makes even the most irrational dot-com era investor look financially responsible.The AI arms race continues producing exactly the kinds of outcomes you'd expect when venture capitalists start huffing their own press releases. Instagram's AI support bot reportedly helped hackers steal accounts because apparently "Are you sure you're the owner?" was considered an optional step. Suno raised another $400 million while fighting copyright lawsuits, Paramount+ seems to have let AI create the ugliest Star Trek thumbnail in Federation history, and Stan Lee has now been digitally resurrected because modern capitalism looked at death and said, "Nice try." Over in transportation, BYD is so confident in its self-driving technology that it's willing to pay for your accidents, while Tesla owners are discovering their old Full Self-Driving contracts may have quietly received software updates of the legal variety. Somewhere in a conference room, a lawyer just whispered, "Let's not put that in writing," ten years too late.Elsewhere, governments worldwide continue their ongoing experiment of raising children by confiscating smartphones. Malaysia has implemented a social media ban for kids under 16, Poland wants phones and smartwatches locked away at school, and Kentucky schools just collected $27 million from social media companies accused of building products as addictive as cigarettes.Dave Bittner drops by for a visit and we discuss Spotify listeners apparently preferring old music because new music keeps getting algorithmically focus-grouped into oblivion and a healthy dose of Star Wars, Downton Abbey, Derry Girls, Lego, books, gadgets, and AI-generated jazz. Add it all up and you've got another week where the only thing moving faster than technology is the legal department trying to keep up.Sponsors:DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout.Shopify - Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at Shopify.com/grumpyPrivate Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. 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Go to SetApp and get started today!!!1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordShow notes at https://gog.show/749Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/A1sv2BEzWBkShow NotesVibe Coders are Script KiddiesDestroy the BroligarchyColorado Governor Vetoes Surveillance Pricing Ban as Public Backlash Against the Tech GrowsCalifornia sues 23andMe over 2023 data breach that affected 7 million usersFlorida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidentsMeta will reportedly let employees take 30-minute breaks from its tracking programInstagram is alerting users who were targeted by hackers during AI chatbot attacksGoogle Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI SucksGoogle ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt outMicrosoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents RevealMeta, other social networks will pay $27 million to settle Kentucky school district lawsuitMalaysia's under-16 social media ban carries fines up to $2.5 millionPoland wants to ban phones and smartwatches in schoolsCNN is the latest media company to sue PerplexityStill facing copyright lawsuits, AI music generator Suno raises another $400MBYD is assuming financial liability if you crash while using its self-driving techAnthropic is set to go public after filing paperwork with the SECData Center Operators Are Trying to Fix Their Water Use ProblemsTesla Owners Say Their Old FSD Contracts Were Quietly ChangedStan Lee's voice and likeness have been resurrected, thanks to AIParamount+ used AI to make the ugliest Star Trek thumbnail ever2026 World Cup Wall ChartI Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything by Joanna SternCarl's Doomsday Scenario: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 2 by Matt DinnimanWisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat. by Ryan HolidayBelkin Connect 4-Port USB-C Hub - USB C Hub Multiport Adapter Dongle with 4 USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 Ports - High-Speed 10G Data Transfer for Laptop, MacBook, iPad, PC, and More - 100W PD - $32.24Dave BittnerThe CyberWireHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopOnly Malware in the BuildingThe Mandalorian Season 1Star Wars: RebelsWrapped up the Downton Abbey series rewatchBuffy and Ted Lasso star Anthony Head dies at 72Almost through the Derry Girls series.Lego Mando and Grogu set (mild spoiler)AI generated JazzThe Biggest Hits on Spotify Right Now Are a Blast From the PastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.