Follow Up 

Apple to Allow Alternative App Stores and More on iOS in Brazil by April

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/23/ios-alternative-app-stores-brazil/

Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/europe_gets_serious_about_cutting/ 

macOS Tahoe users report persistent screen flickering issues 

https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/19/macos-tahoe-users-report-persistent-screen-flickering-issues/ 

News 

Apple's iOS 26.3 will introduce proximity pairing to third-party devices in the EU

https://www.engadget.com/mobile/apples-ios-263-will-introduce-proximity-pairing-to-third-party-devices-in-the-eu-133037696.html?src=rss 

Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy 

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/apple-hit-with-115m-for-extremely-burdensome-app-store-privacy-policy/ 

World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs 

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/worlds-largest-shadow-library-brags-it-scraped-300tb-of-spotify-music-metadata/ 

Car Corner

Android Auto

Media

Christmas Telly was BAD

Fallout Season 2

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/fallout/s02

Taskmaster

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/taskmaster-champion-of-champions?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=19633109208&gclid=Cj0KCQiAx8PKBhD1ARIsAKsmGbddyPpDv9Z54NKV9tglmqLLPg5ao8NSvIoS8hpJd3vr0uucFhrGkqwaAnlbEALw_wcB 

Finding Father Christmas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_Father_Christmas_(2025_film)

Games

Call of Duty, Titanfall developer Vince Zampella has died at age 55

https://www.theverge.com/news/849297/vince-zampella-dies-call-of-duty-titanfall-respawn-battlefield 

2025 was the year Xbox died

https://www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/2025-was-the-year-xbox-died-130000467.html?src=rss 

Main Show

Tier list

https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVGWL-zHM=/ 

App of the Week 

Firefly iii

https://www.firefly-iii.org/ 

Thing of the Week 

Switch 2 Dock

https://antank.net/collections/for-nintendo-switch/products/s3-max

Contact

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