Accidental Tech Podcast

By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

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July 27, 2026702: Isolate the Evil
Pre-show: Three old men talk about the Tickety Tocks
Follow-up:
Adam Wunn published his email as a blog post
Sharing files in Screen Sharing.app (via Ingmar Wittkau)
Video game preservation (via Jason Griffey)
Supplying power to Marco’s army of Mac minis
Ubiquiti “Shadow Mode High Availability”
An update on Passwords.app “doing the hard thing”
macOS
iOS
More clipboard changes in macOS 27
Video in question
Apple is reportedly looking to acquire AI chip companies
P. A. Semi
Apple is actually spending money on Broadcom
Hartley Charlton at MacRumors
Slate Truck price & availability announced
Previously on ATP
Apple 🤝 Ford
CarPlay is Additive
Safari on 𝑥OS 27
WWDC 2026 #204: What’s new in WebKit for Safari 27
Pie chart
A contrary take
Safari MCP server
Federico’s take
Ask ATP:
How is Overcast transcription going? (via Pete Ottery)
How does Apple achieve “growth the hard way”? (via Elijah)
John’s theory
ATP #689
ATP #641
John on replaceable batteries
iPhone SE
TSR
How do you create a second Apple account for doing development without a different phone number? (via James)
With an aside lamenting the way Apple Stores work
Post-show: How does John pack?
InstaCrate
Shibumi
Wind Assist
Members-only ATP Overtime: New information about the iPhone 18 family
RAM
“Side RAM” on the Pros
Supposed leaked drawings
Battery capacities
Bodies
Colors
Original mockups
Thicker?
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2h 31min
July 23, 2026701: I Improved My Town
Pre-show: Marco’s Mac mini catastrophe
CyberLynk / Mac Mini Vault
The dead ATS
The proposed replacement
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Emoji
Follow-up:
Member’s Special video trimming / John’s Vibe Coded App
LosslessCut
Casey has leveled-up his Sonos experience
Previously on ATP
Version 85.01 announcement post
FAQ post
Louie Mantia makes the case for Squircle
Sony 💔 💿
A nefarious motivation for Sony ceasing to sell games on disc (via Glen Jarvis)
CD sales are going up
Price increase corner: Apple Music edition
Chart by BasicAppleGuy
AppleCare+ too
FileMaker
In defense…
CVE
Monday.com
Marco got Robert Thompson off FileMaker after 18 years
Scratch
And a special thanks to Adam Wunn 🙌🏻
Gurman on post-Mac Pro plans
EU drops battery removal requirement for Apple Watch & AirPods
Six additional categories
The Monkey’s Paw
OLED iMacs?
Ask ATP: What does Marco (or other adults) use 3D Printers for? (via Jack Johnson)
Bambu X2D
TinkerCAD
Onshape
Post-show: How Marco fixed AirPlay in Overcast
WSOLA
F Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades
Members-only ATP Overtime: The internal “roles” system in LLMs, and how it relates to prompt injection vulnerabilities
Research paper
Extended write-up
Mechanistic interpretability
Bobby Tables
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2h 11min
July 16, 2026700: A Wet Dishrag Full of Lies
Pre-show: Anniversary Corner!
catatp (see also Statistics)
Bootleg visualization
Follow-up:
Public beta check-in
Casey’s iMessage notification issue
Cache in front of CloudFlare Workers!
Apple keeps futzing with rendering of .icon files
Mac-assed Mac Apps
Steve Troughton-Smith on ChatGPT
Gruber #1
Gruber #2
Gus Mueller
Gruber
Globe key on Apple’s extended keyboards (via Philip Hofstetter)
LaunchAgent
~/Library/LaunchAgents
Casey’s former keyboard
Tina’s keyboard: MMMR3LL/A
Shouldn’t the Studio Display get a price bump? (via Brian Nehring)
Regarding skipping M6 Pro/Max/Ultra (via Anonymous)
Gurman on M𝓍 Ultra servers
Follow-out to Upgrade #627: What was is FileMaker
Agentic development
Goodbye, Maestral 🫡
Gruber
Apple Sues OpenAI
Apple Inc. vs. Liu
Chance Miller’s summary
The Verge
Gruber
Dithering
OpenAI’s response and part 2
Post-show: Casey vacation results: nerd edition
Unifi Travel Router
Formerly, GL.iNet KVM
GL Comet Q
Members-only ATP Overtime: Sony announces the end of PlayStation discs
Ars Technica
The funeral has begun
Ars Technica on library erasure
The PS6 sure sounds like a handheld
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Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last.
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1h 57min
July 07, 2026699: Not the Correct Squircle
Pre-show: Casey’s oops
Magic TrackPad
Magic Keyboard
Marco’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
Follow-up:
Casey may have fixed his notification problem!
Mac-“Arsed” Mac App skill (via Bart Reardon)
RAMAgeddon
Feel free to donate to St. Jude any of the money you may have saved by buying early! (via Jonathan)
Will Apple rethink unified memory given these prices? (via ShutterAperture)
Steam Machine difficulties
Interview on YouTube (Timestamp link to 12m48s)
Collusion! Well, maybe.
Would a gold Mac mini be cheaper than a spec with tons of RAM? Awax did math
We’re Fable is so back, baby
More at Ars Technica
Siri AI
No web browsing for you!
Apple removed the waitlist workaround in macOS β2
Determining what model is used (via Gui Rambo)
Revamped icons by Parakeet
Design services price list
SwitchGlass
SwitchGlass dark icon
SwitchGlass old icon
Front and Center
Front and Center old icon
Callsheet
Callsheet old icon
Jelly’s write-up
Ste Grainer
The ATP member special where we rated iOS icons
Overcast
Marco’s [REDACTED] Reminders App
Fire Island Lighthouse
Parakeet’s post about our icons
Apple adds paste protection to Terminal
Apple support document
Opera joins the party
Xcode 𝑥OS 27 & DerivedData
DevCleaner (App Store link)
Post-show: Casey is jealous of Marco
Goose
Big Modern!
Casey likes Savenger, Good2B, and Torero
Nugs
Micro Tyvek Wallet
Micro Soft Shell Wallet
Studio Neat
Casey’s fan
Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple create a handheld gaming platform?
Quinn Nelson’s pitch
Game Porting Toolkit 4
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2h 21min
June 30, 2026698: And Do What?
Pre-show: Who’s bored?
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Mac-assed Mac Apps
Follow-up:
Nugs and Sonos
As the prophecy foretold… ☹️
Mythos is back, but Fable isn’t
Rumors about Siri AI indexing
Corrections about 8TB SSDs (via Aaron Raimist)
Price increases abound! ☹️
On the Apple TV price hike (via Chris Carley)
Steam Machine (More)
Xbox
Micron points fingers at Apple (News+ Link)
Steve Troughton-Smith’s take
Previously, in Palm Pilots
Apple asks Trump to save their 🥓
Financial Times
No M6 Pro/Max/Ultra‽
Touchscreen MacBook Pro
Intel to fabricate the M7‽
GFHK?
More reporting
New Siri
Iconography
Attraction Theory: The SiriAI Proposition
Pepsi logo redesign brand manual from 2008 (via budsNhops on Reddit)
Joanna Stern’s review
Gui Rambo’s experiment
Dan Moren
John tries to get it to understand Perl (because of course he did —Ed.)
Question 1
Question 2
Ask ATP:
Why isn’t Apple on a reliable cadence for processor releases? (via Ammar)
If we really embrace agentic coding, what would be the right choice of language for that? (via Matthew Southworth)
3Blue1Brown
Avoiding Copland 2010
Do we collect vintage computers? (via Phil Kim)
Casey:
ThinkPad 701C
ThinkPad T30
John:
eMate
Newton 2000
Trashcan
Post-show: Casey asks for technical support
Members-only ATP Overtime: Ubiquiti Enterprise NAS
Announcement video
On the store
All Ubiquiti NAS offerings
Xserve RAID
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2h 14min
June 26, 2026697: The Chart Is Terrifying
Pre-show:
Casey has some fantastic news about nugs.net for Marco
Marco’s trip report
Gucci Osteria
Follow-up:
John guested on a preview of Designed in California, published as part of Upgrade #624 (also on YouTube)
Apple Intelligence 🤝 external boot disks (via Doug Weinfield)
Spotlight indexing in 𝑥OS 27
Steve Riggins notes it takes a while
Alex concurs
Apple’s AI Tech Talk
What will Siri be capable of? (via Jochen Marschall)
Bootleg video (via sayrer)
Is Spatial Reframing in 𝑥OS 27 geographically-aware? (via Kevin Buterbaugh)
Tesla 🤝 CarPlay?
New CarPlay features (via Alec Hurdle)
WWDC session on YouTube
The US has approved a new sunscreen ingredient!
Marco’s favorite: Rohto Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel
Tracking Apple’s environmental progress
TOSTracker (via Andrew Leahey)
Direct product comparisons
Example: M1 MacBook Air vs. M5 MacBook Air
Apple’s AI server infrastructure (expanding on ATP #680)
General overview (via Gui Rambo)
cloudOS job listing
How to run PCC (via Zoe Knox)
Tim Cook takes one for the Ternus (News+ link) (17 June)
Chart
South Korean chip company bonuses are creating inflation pressures
Even ChatGPT is stupefied by RAM pricing 🤭😭
We’re all trying to find the guy who did this!
25 June: Apple raises prices on Macs, iPads (News+ link)
Stephen’s tables
Gruber’s tables
Apple also raised refurbished prices 🤨
Good timing:
tmcgeary
Aaron
Greg Pierce
Ask ATP:
Why doesn’t Apple just… make its own RAM? (via Brian Webster)
Joe Lion
Blake Patterson
Is new Siri an attack vector for, say, TSA searches? (via Anonymous)
Post-show: Casey’s blog post about AI
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Fable about… Anthropic Fable
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2h 7min
June 15, 2026696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It
Pre-show:
We are not dangerously capable
We convince ourselves not to pivot to video
Accidental Neutral: The Rivian R2
FYI, Marco: Casey has officially called dibs on the R3X 😈
Follow-up:
It’s Road Trip (via Jason Paul)
Indexing for the new Spotlight
Passwords app does the hard thing
macOS 27
“Golden Gate” was the codename for macOS Big Sur… and eWorld 1.1
Microsoft Bob
You can use Touch ID for Administrator access
There’s a way to skip the Siri waitlist (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
sudo defaults write "/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/GenerativeModels.plist" "EnhancedSiriWaitlist" -dict-add Enabled -bool NO
ST-S points out the change in Apple’s documentation
The Liquid Glass slider is part of Golden Gate onboarding
Corner radius ∆s, illustrated
Mickey hands are back
They can’t leave well enough alone, Finder icon edition
General Golden Gate icon changes
Touch Macs are coming
Pull-to-refresh comes to macOS
ST-S notices NSToolbar changes
You can resize the iPhone Mirroring window
HIG updates for menu icons
iOS 27
Siri AI pull down animation
iPadOS 27
ST-S notes the menu is now aligned to the leading edge
tvOS (Apparently it’s still an OS in the lineup —Ed.)
Hardware compatibility
watchOS
Hardware compatibility
Apple’s AI Tech Talk
Images
Quotes
Dan Moren vanity searches
An aside on Apple filtering out some frequencies during utterances of “Siri”
Stephen Robles’ Siri AI review (timestamp link to 5m47s)
3Blue1Brown transformers video
Apple’s announcement for third-gen models
Instruction-Following Pruning for LLMs
LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory
Filippone Stefano’s review
Ars Technica’s write-up
Post-show: Casey’s trip results
UniFi Travel Router
GL-iNet
Flex Mini
Members-only ATP Overtime: The WWDC 2026 Platforms State of the Union
OpenDoc
iPhone mirroring resizing
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1h 60min
June 09, 2026695: The Crystal Pepsi of Aqua
WWDC 2026
Watch the Keynote (alternatively, on YouTube)
Craig Hockenberry on Spotlight
Word wall
Rob Rhyne’s toot
Weird holes
Change Detection
.well-known
Dear EU, 🖕. Love, Apple
Post-show: Casey’s unexpected afternoon
Music Video
Craig’s toot
Tim’s Good Morning video [Alternatively, on Xcancel]
TN3212: Adopting gesture recognizers for Sidecar touch support (via Vince)
Sam Henri Gold
Members-only ATP Overtime: The foldable iPhone takes shape
White foldable phone
More details
Sonny Dickson’s images [Alternatively, on Xcancel]
Case leaks
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2h 52min
June 04, 2026694: Potential and Homework
Pre-show:
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
John and dynamic DNS
Former & future sponsor Tailscale (but seriously, I’m obsessed —CL)
Tailscale Funnel
DynDns.org
no-ip.org
Follow-up:
Ferrari Luce
John’s remembered video clip of sandwiching the body (extracted by RG)
John’s EV Stupidity Checklist
Wassym Bensaid, Chief Software Officer at Rivian, being a dummy
Bambu’s battle with its users
They were already in hot water (via Steve Riggins)
Jose agrees
Faking alarm reminders (via Ben Smith)
Moving files between volumes
Steven Op de beeck demonstrates this with a tiny file and a large file
Computer UI designer for Her (via Peter Puleio)
Previously on ATP
WWDC 2026
All systems glow
Wallpaper
Gurman prediction
More at MacRumors
macOS 27, Vision Pro, and Ternus [oh my!]
Hardware that has been delayed by Siri
macOS 27 name
What are we dreading?
What we’re most excited for?
What will we miss?
Post-show: Casey wants some advice
Callsheet
Channels
OAuth
VLAN
Jellyfin
Infuse
SenPlayer (App Store link)
Tailscale Service
Members-only ATP Overtime: Nvidia announces RTX Spark
Previously, the DGX Spark
This is not a new chip (timestamp link to 55s)
They’re the same… but not
Surface Laptop Ultra
Ars Technica
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2h 20min
May 29, 2026693: Negative Bonus Points
Pre-show: Marco has something to commend
Ubiquiti marketing video
Spanning Tree Protocol
Sonos & Networking Documentation
Follow-up:
Formula 1 on Apple TV
The case for alarm reminders (via Matthew Cave)
SVG can do animations — and way more! (via Vítor)
SVG can do THAT‽
Yes, you can use AI for ffmpeg, but have you tried Lossless Cut?
SF Symbols in Marco’s Reminder app (via Clarko)
How can we bemoan Electron and cheer WebViews? (via Julian Gamble)
If Finder moves are no good, are mvs the same?
Defrag lives on …in APFS
diskutil apfs defragment [disk] enable
[disk] is something along the lines of diske3 or disk3s1, that you get via diskutil list
MJ Tsai
AI Sentiment
AI levels… down?… your worst coworker (via Nathan)
Ireland compels data center developers to bring their own clean energy (via Ian Robinson)
Large Energy User Action Plan
Perspectives on art
Original Monet
The Ferrari Luce
Previously on ATP
Purosangue
Jaguar I-Pace
BMW i3
BMW i8
GMA T.33
Porsche Taycan
Galleries
The Verge
Car and Driver
Exterior
Interior
Coverage
The Verge
Top Gear
Cleo Abram
MKBHD (stationary tour)
ba-dum tss
John’s EV Stupidity Checklist
Saturday Night Live
Affordance
Post-show: RIP Destiny 2
Associated layoffs, because, of course
Destiny 1 on Wikipedia
Penny Arcade
Members-only ATP Overtime: Bambu vs. its community
How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
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2h 3min

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