Follow Up

iOS 18.4 (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/apple-updates-all-its-operating-systems-brings-apple-intelligence-to-vision-pro/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social )

iOS 18.4 and macOS 15.4 Sneakily Enable Automatic Updates on Your iPhone and Mac

https://lifehacker.com/tech/ios-184-macos-154-sneakily-enable-automatic-updates-on-your-iphone-mac 

iOS 18.4’s Messages app adds RCS features for lots of new users

https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/01/ios-184s-messages-app-adds-rcs-features-for-lot-of-new-users/

iOS 18.4 reinstalling previously deleted iPhone apps for some users 

https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/02/ios-18-4-reinstalling-previously-deleted-iphone-apps-for-some-users/

iOS 18.4 breaks CarPlay connectivity for some iPhone users

https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/03/ios-18-4-carplay-bugs/ 

Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/windows_365_link/ 

Apple a ‘gangster’ company which finds crime pays, says Epic Games CEO

https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/03/apple-a-gangster-company-which-finds-crime-pays-says-epic-games-ceo/ 

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y 

News 

Gmail unveils end-to-end encrypted messages. Only thing is: It’s not true E2EE

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/are-new-google-e2ee-emails-really-end-to-end-encrypted-kinda-but-not-really/ 

Trump tariffs attack key parts of the Apple supply chain, Apple stock drops 7% in after-hours trading

https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/02/trump-tariffs-apple-stock-down/ 

Thunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, more

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/02/thunderbird_pay_services/ 

Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/01/opensnp_shutdown/ 

France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/france-fines-apple-e150m-for-excessive-pop-ups-that-let-users-reject-tracking/ 

LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/llm_providers_extinction/ 

Steve Jobs’ famous ‘third device’ may not have much time left

https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/31/steve-jobs-famous-third-device-may-not-have-much-time-left/

18.5 betas are out

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-18-5-beta-features/ 

Media 

MacOS 15.4 blocked my Sonos

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse swings into theaters in 2027

https://www.theverge.com/news/640415/spider-man-beyond-the-spider-verse-release-date 

Paradise 

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/paradise_2025/s01 

The Studio

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_studio 

Games

GT7 played (and beat) GT Sophy

I got to play Nintendo Switch 2: hands-on with 2025’s gaming must-have

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/apr/03/i-got-to-play-the-nintendo-switch-2-all-new-slight-improvements-revealed?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3CR6RiWS2U MKBHD

Nvidia confirms the Switch 2 supports DLSS, G-Sync, and ray tracing

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/nvidia-confirms-the-switch-2-supports-dlss-g-sync-and-ray-tracing/ 

Switch Pre-ORders in the US in jeopardy

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/04/nintendo-delays-switch-2-preorders-to-assess-trump-tariff-effects/

Delta emulator adds online multiplayer for Nintendo DS games

https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/31/delta-emulator-nintendo-ds-online-multiplayer/ 

Games Turning 30:

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@djlink/114261452154413451 

Main Show

Microsoft at 50

https://news.microsoft.com/microsoft-50/ 

https://www.theverge.com/news/643336/microsoft-50-years

Rods First few PCs

(opus 386/33) https://nosher.net/archives/computers/pcw_1987-04-00_010_opus 

Dos 5.2, Windows 3.1 (40mb HDD)

Escom Pentium  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escom_AG (windows 95)

AJP computing laptop https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/57474/AJP-Computers/ (win 98 / Me

(cant remember what I got next, think I started building my own at this point) 

WinXP, 2000 and at this point all my work computing was Windows (NT, 2000, Vista, 7 and 8) 

Chris

486SX 25: DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.11

AMD ‘Pentium’ 233MHZ (home built) - Windows 95/DOS

Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSoD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/01/microsoft_is_redesigning_the_windows/ 

App of the Week 

Sonophone

https://sonophone.de/ 

Thing of the Week 

Score Board

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DGPRX4DG?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

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