
Pre-show: Windows woes and the challenges of loading modern trucks


TPM
yt-dlp
DeCSS
SGX
FairPlay
Pirated movie release types

Follow-up: 


Printer Murder Rooms


John Tsombakos
Richard Smith

LG UltraFine 5K Repair Video (via Brian Almeida)

Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion


Wall Street Journal
Activision Blizzard’s abhorrent culture
Prior acquisitions (via Jon Erlichman)


Activision Blizzard: $68.7b
LinkedIn: $26.2b
Nuance: $19.7b
Skype: $8.5b
ZeniMax: $7.5b
GitHub: $7.5b
Nokia (phone unit): $7.2b
aQuantive: $6.3b
Mojang (Minecraft): $2.5b

Perfect Dark

Green bubbles ruin everything 

466: There's Probably a Wizard for It

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Technology

Tech News

Podcasting

Gadgets

Software How-To


Pre-show: Power problems
The ATP Store is BACK baby! 

583: I've Spent a Lot of Time in the Address Bar


Pre-show: SD-card failures 
The ATP Store is BACK, baby! 

582: Can't Render, Fog It


Pre-show: John’s two-year anniversary
Follow-up: 


WWDC lottery results
John’s Affinity Designer struggles


Marco’s convert stroke → shape suggestion from the bootleg
Offset path using Contour Tool (via Vitor)
Create Compound (via Julian Kissman)
Inconsistencies noted by Christian Meyer

Sam Abuelsamid on real-time OSes in cars


QNX
Wind River
Green Hills
Qualcomm Snapdragon Cockpit

ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED fix is in Chrome 124 beta
Has Casey considered running any of his monitors in portrait? (via Bilal Khan)


LG DualUp Monitor

Apple IDs & real-world verification (via Simone Rizzo)
Non-email Apple IDs do still exist (via Erik)
Apple podcast transcripts & ☁️ computing (via Ben)


MacWhisper


Microsoft is learning from Apple’s mistakes and is pre-emptively splitting Teams off from Office
No UltraFusion interconnect on M3 Max?


MacRumors
Vadim Yuryev

Apple Vision Pro Spatial Personas


Connected #496: I Tried to Put My Finger in Myke’s Mouth
Jason’s take
Stephen’s take

Apple’s MLS Playoffs immersive video


Jason’s take
Ben Thompson’s take (Paywalled)
Under the Radar #289: Vision Pro Numbers
Mad Max: Fury Road


Centered framing
The Fastest Cut: Furious Film Editing

Vroom


F1TV
MultiViewer


Post-show: New theme song! Thank you, Jonathan Mann!!
Members-only ATP Overtime: 


Hardware vulnerability in Apple Silicon


Michael Tsai’s coverage summary
Explanatory video

xz Utils backdoor


The Verge coverage
xz attack shell script
A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
Compulsory xkcd
I am not a supplier
OSQI




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581: A Different Way to Be Evil


Pre-show: Marco’s recording situation


Under the Radar #289: Vision Pro Numbers

Follow-up: 


Image captioning in iOS (via Jim Buell)
DMA compliance feedback session is live
Kara Swisher interviews Margrethe Vestager (Overcast link)


Gruber’s summary

Apple/Meta/Google targeted by EU in DMA non-compliance investigations


European Commission press release
Dan Moren’s take
Reuters interview with Margrethe Vestager

Regarding third-party messaging apps and the DOJ suit
Artificial tooth monopoly led the DOJ to… Jersey‽


Forum shopping
Legal experts praise DOJ case

DOJ lawsuit thoughts from Gavin Laing

WWDC announced


Greg Jozwiak’s tweet

People are fed up with useless tech in their cars
EuroNCAP is doing the Lord’s work
New CarPlay is Apple’s last hope to crack cars?


Real-time operating system
QNX vs. Android Automotive


QNX


Ask ATP:


How soon after waking up do we engage with a device? (via Nick)


Everyone’s Sony alarm clock

What would cause us to go to 128 bit? (via Brian)

Post-show: John’s battles with Affinity Designer


PaintCode

Members-only ATP Overtime: The future of Apple ID


To be rebranded as “Apple Account”? (February 2024)
More from MacRumors (March 2024)



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580: Socks in the Knob-Hole


Pre-show: We definitely recorded a day late because we’re clairvoyant and definitely not because of pyrotechnics.
Follow-up: 


The M1 MacBook Air lives on at… Walmart


Warmart press release

Apple Silicon & Project Titan
Safari hangs (via Wade)
Apple’s DMA compliance efforts


Apple DMA compliance workshop
Gruber’s take
Kay Jebelli’s recap on Twitter
AI-generated transcript
Video of Riley Testut’s question/answer

John’s curious obsession with street widths


Marco: 8’ / ~2.5m
Underscore: 19’4” / ~6m
John: 23’5” / ~11m

Magnets in Apple Watch bands (via Harvey Simon)


Modern Buckle

Is podcast transcription is Apple’s first big cloud computing effort?

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones


The Verge
Lawsuit PDF
Transcript of prepared remarks
Toot from Glyph

Post-show Ask ATP: What do John & Marco have against multiple monitors, anyway? (via Tony)
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple AI updates


Another AI paper from Apple


VentureBeat summary
Stratechery recap (Paywalled)

Apple partnering with Google or OpenAI?


Bloomberg coverage

Humane Ai Pin



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466: There's Probably a Wizard for It

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