659: Lose the Ear Lottery
Accidental Tech Podcast
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Hosts set the tone, mention Apple leaks, upcoming topics, membership perks, and St. Jude fundraising appeal.
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- Pre-show: Eh, that’ll keep…
 - 🗣️ St. Jude time is almost done! 🗣️
 - 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Computer Science Curriculum
 - Follow-up:
- ATP in the wild (via Mark Christian & Richard Earney)
 - iOS 26.0.1 allegedly fixes N1 Wi-Fi/BT issues
 - What does iCloud back up? (via Dayton Lovell)
 - iCloud for Messages
- A ringing endorsement from Nick
 - A potential fix for ∞ GIFs (via Nathan)
 
 - iPhone Transfers
- Why not pre-populate them, Kindle-style? (via Winnie Lewis)
 - TestFlight is… better now? (via Daniel Nelson)
 - Some thoughts from Nick
 
 - Apple’s onboarding enshittification (via Imthaz)
 - Thought to text & AlterEgo
- Firefox (1982)
 - Prior MIT project (via Hannes)
 - CJ’s thoughts
 
 
 - More first impressions
 - Ask ATP:
- How do we really know if something is encrypted? (via Joshua Wold)
 - What is the point of neural engine cores, anyway? (via Tom Cole)
- SIMD
 - Evaluating the Apple Silicon M-Series SoCs for HPC Performance & Efficiency
 - AMX Units
 - Neural Engine
 
 - Does filling a phone SSD slaughter performance? (via Sean Harding)
 
 - Post-show: Marco’s USB odyssey
 - Members-only ATP Overtime: NAS Noodling
 
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