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Our full reviews of Apple’s smart home hub with a display, HomeView, and Apple TV 4K, NVIDIA CEO resigns amid scandal, plus Siri recaps are a mixed bag, and Fable 5.2 rebuilt my entire website.

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• Service Station League Table - App Store
• Apple HomeView Review: Beautiful...and Weird - YouTube
• New Apple TV 4K Review - YouTube
• Macbook PROLED Review: It's Not About That - YouTube
• The Genius of the MacBook Pro - Inc
• Apple TV makes sign language interpretation a built-in accessibility feature | TechCrunch
• NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition | NVIDIA Newsroom
• Nvidia's Jensen Huang, the most important CEO in tech, just resigned | Inc.
• Cryonics (Entry 302.1C1535) - Omnibus - Apple Podcasts
• The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline | TechCrunch
• Jensen Huang sent a memo apologizing for having an affair. There was 1 word missing | Inc.
• Apple's Johny Sroudi Eyed to Replace Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang - MacRumors
• Photoshop, Lightroom, and Premiere are making it easier to remove things | The Verge
• Apple Says 100,000 Apps Are Already Built for iPhone Duo. Google Should Pay Attention — Inc
• Google's new Gemini privacy policy breaks a 3-year-old promise about your Gmail | Inc.
• iFixit tears down touchscreen MacBook Pro, reveals light-up Apple logo details - 9to5Mac
• Anthropic launches new Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2 models | The Verge
• Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share to reach an implied valuation of $1.404 trillion | TechCrunch
• Ding dong, the Apple Support Community is dead – Six Colors
• Stephen Robles | Tech Videos | iPhone Tips | Smart Home

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Jason advises Stephen on office shed living. 

Stephen’s Shed Photos

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We both have the new touchscreen MacBook Pro with PROLED in-hand and give our impressions, a quick review of iPad mini, Audio Intelligence launches with iOS 27.3 and beta and Siri Recaps are wild, plus Siri AI gets more abilities, and Stephen got scammed.

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• iPhone Duo Stock Checker: In-Stock Alerts | Store Stock Checker
• 2026 iPad mini Review: ALMOST Perfect... - YouTube
• 12 Hours with PROLED MacBook: I can't go back - YouTube
• iOS 27.3 is HUGE - Vertical Tabs, Siri Recaps, Audio Intelligence - YouTube
• The New iPad mini Is Delightfully Confusing
• There’s Only 1 Thing I Don’t Love About Apple’s New Touchscreen MacBook Pro
• Mastodon post from Tim Chaten
• Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview Sep 2026
• For years people have worried their devices were listening, Apple just made it a feature
• Siri AI is now open to all developers - Latest News - Apple Developer
• Siri AI's Evolution Is Both Surprising and Obvious - MacStories
• DoorDash to Acquire Instacart to Help Local Stores Win
• Apple’s Latest Siri Announcement Could Mean the End of Apps on Your iPhone
• Apple Just Had a Record Quarter While Everyone Else Is on an AI Spending Spree
• macOS 27.3 Makes Markdown Files Easier to Read - MacRumors
• With iOS 27.3, Apple will start checking iCloud public links for ‘harmful content’ - 9to5Mac
• Apple is Putting Employees on an AI Budget - MacRumors
• Web host Squarespace lays off 19% of its employees | TechCrunch
• Google Just Gave Schools an Impossible Choice About AI
• Reddit Is About to Make Its Website Worse to Protect It From AI

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A series of unfortunate events led to falling for a phishing scam.

Huge week of Apple releases including the touch-enabled PROLED XDR MacBook Pro, iPad mini, we review iPhone Duo, Anthropic’s IPO filing warns humanity, and we both go hands-on with Claude Duet.

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Links from the show

• Stephen’s iPhone Duo Playlist - YouTube
• You're Absolutely Right Claude Shirt | Techmerch
• Apple gives iPad mini its biggest update ever - Apple
• Apple just announced its best creator studio feature yet - Inc.
• Macbook PROLED XDR Impressions: They Said They Wouldn't! - YouTube
• New MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display: The first-ever Mac with Touch - YouTube
• The NEW MacBook Pro - First Impressions - YouTube
• Apple just announced a MacBook Pro with a delightful touch of nostalgia - Inc.
• X Profile of John Ternus
• Wired Interview with Ternus on Touchscreen MacBook Pro
• Ternus addresses Apple breaking touchscreen Mac taboo: 'Who knew?’ - 9to5Mac
• Apps by Stephen Robles
• Some iPhone Duo displays are cracking, seemingly all in the same way - 9to5Mac
• iPhone Duo Apps · beardfm
• Anthropic's founders are ready for an IPO but not ready to give up control - Inc.
• Anthropic, PBC - S-1 (Q2)
• Machine Gods : NPR
• Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees | The Verge
• Amazon Echo Show 16 hands-on: price, release date, and new features | The Verge
• Amazon’s new Echo Studio speaker has a camera | The Verge
• Introducing Claude Duet | Claude by Anthropic
• Apple Store Photo 1
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Claude blew Stephen’s mind with a new task, and he made a trip to the Apple Store.

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Apple teases its “Pro and Tell” event with rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro, iPad mini, and more, reviews of the iPhone Duo are out with mixed reception, and Walmart is embracing AI agent shopping, unlike Amazon.

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• Stephen on the Vergecast - YouTube
• Walmart’s Latest Plan to Beat Amazon Is to Let Your AI Agent Shop for You
•  Netflix Just Reported a Record Quarter, 6 Days After Announcing It Was Laying Off 1,000 Employees
• Apple teases MacBook Pro event next week | The Verge
• iPhone Duo Review: The Good, The Bad, and The Buggy - YouTube
• iPhone Duo Review: First Generation Fun! - YouTube
• iPhone Duo queues form days before the doors open
• iPhone Duo review (emotional) - YouTube
• Daring Fireball: The iPhone Duo
• iPhone Duo Review - Apple's First Foldable Is FINALLY Here. Does It Deliver? - YouTube
• iPhone Duo review: The future is foldable - 9to5Mac
• iPhone Duo will add Reachability feature ‘later this year’ - 9to5Mac
• iPhone Duo for Creative Pros — Austin Mann
• Walmart is inviting AI agents to shop for you | The Verge
• The Four Horsemen: Amazon/Apple/Facebook & Google - YouTube
• Introducing Claude Duet - YouTube
• Meta's Muse hits 10M US downloads in 40 days, a milestone reached by only 11 other apps | TechCrunch
• Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties over the Cambridge Analytica scandal | The Verge

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And Jason keeps getting locked out of iCloud.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy was in-person at Apple’s Welcome Home event and got hands-on time with HomeView. We get into the details about using the device, plus Apple Home Collection, and why HomeView vs iPad for the smart home.

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Apple made its foray back in the smart home with the new HomeView device, Apple TV 4K, HomePod mini 2, and Home Collection devices. We debate who will benefit from the HomeView, have a theory about Siri AI and Apple TV, plus try to make sure we all understand Claude isn’t alive.

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Links from the show

• Stephen's Apple Home Event Recap Video
• Anthropic Just Banned Being Cruel to Claude – The Reason Should Concern Us All - Inc.
• McSnake App - App Store
• Welcome Apple HomeView: Designed for life at home - YouTube
• Apple HomeView - Apple
• Apple Event: HomePod surround, HomeView, and Apple TV - YouTube
• All features of Apple's new HomeView - YouTube
• Third-party HomeView apps? Think CarPlay – Six Colors
• Apple TV 4K - Apple
• Siri Remote - Apple
• Apple announces the next generation of HomePod mini - Apple
• Will the Full-Sized HomePod Get Siri AI? Apple's Website Offers a Clue - MacRumors
• Latest HomePods can output Mac system audio - AppleInsider
• Introducing Apple Home Collection, a new lineup of smart home accessories - Apple
• LG Floodlight Cam - Apple
• Here’s how much iPhone Duo costs to repair out-of-warranty - 9to5Mac
• 2026 Usage Policy update – Anthropic
• X post from OpenAI Newsroom
• Meta has some Wonder Full new AI models | The Verge
• Google finally releases Gemini 4 Argon | The Verge
• YouTube sticks new labels on AI-generated songs | The Verge
• It Turns Out the Only Thing People Like Less Than AI Is Paying for Adobe Creative Cloud - Inc.
• GitHub - boykopovar/AnyPS5: Tool for automatic PS5 executables
• Netflix is laying off around 1,000 employees | The Verge
• Download LM Studio - Mac, Linux, Windows
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